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Are Good Vehicles THERE is a local surveyor Being Smashed by 1 who has been in desperate Steam Roller? . . . straits during the war, having but one 2-tonner for all council work, including the collection of salvage. Recently he commented bitterly on the disposal of certain C.D. vans and lorries which he would have liked to acquire. He assures us that now the emergency is over, certain N.F.S. vehicles are being sent to a depot, and although in good running order, have been smashed up with the aid of a steam roller, after removal of the engines and, presumably, other parts, such as the -tyres. _If the vehicles be really in such good order as he states, it seems a somewhat over-drastic procedure, in view of the present acute shortage.
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Who Said the Scots. Lack a Sense of AN -Aberdeen customer re
cently obtained a licence to cently obtained a licence to acquire a new Commer 8-cwt.
van. The maker, after acknowledging his order and advising him of an eight deli'very date, received the following humorcns reply:—" I shall be pleased to book your order for a floral wreath for the grave of my old Commie. which, through age and a life-time of honest labour, is, sad to relate, almost passing out. The old van sighs deeper every day, and I can just hear her mu+tering, 'Oh, for my son to come home and take vet my. duties! ' I trust that our good eld friend will be here on the day of delivery to welcome her :mecessor." THE development of powder Interesting Progress with Powder Metallurgy Processes . . . metallurgy in America laSs been swift, and ferrous parts up to 100 lb. in weight have proved successful. Mostly only pressing and sintering are needed, machining or finishing operations being seldom necessary. Some products can be made 100 times faster than is possible by the older manufacturing methods. They can be porous or dense to requirements, self lubricating or dry. Gears as narrow as 116 in. arc made by the system. Porous parts, can be made suitable for filtering, venting, mixing, separating, metering, diffusing, flame-arresting, and other purposes, Porosity up to 50 per cent. is possible. Formation in briquetting presses may take only two to six seconds. Machine parts are made from powder particles of sizes from .001 to .002 in.; porous parts from .008 to .01 in. Gears
can be up to 24-tons tensile strength; they are briquetted at the rate of one per eight seconds. the pressures used being 15,000 and 100,000 lb. per sq. in. During a year 5,000,000 man-hours and 1,250,000 lb. of metal were saved by the use of powder metallurgy
BLACKPOOL has been experimenting with a bus 8 ft. wide, and Alderman C. E. Tatham, the chairman of the Transport Department. said recently that this extra width was an overdue improvement; he hoped that bureaucratic influence in London would not prevent it from making headway. Councillor W. F. Thacker, chairman of the Lancashire and Cheshire Area of the M.P.T.A., said a bus 8 ft. wide would be a boon in a town like Blackpool, where there is a. great demand for transport facilities.
More Strong Ca.ls for the Bus of 8-ft Width