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OPERATORS would benefit
the community considerably if they encouraged all their drivers to take classes in first-aid. The lives of many injured people could be saved if, by even a slight knowledge of this subject, anyone on the scene of an accident could prevent severe hemorrhage by locating the points at which pressure or the application of a tourniquet would arrest bleeding. In fact, later on, it would not be too much to ask for 'every applicant for a driver's licence, to undertake a short course of tuition mainly applicable to accident cases.
First Aid
NEARLY 30,000 lorry owners in America are licensed by the International Commerce Commission, and freightage by motor vehicle is a business amounting to $2,000,000,000 per year, i.e., about 2500,000,000. Half of this is spent on vehicles', fuel and spare parts. Some annual cost figures for the large Class 1 tractor trailers may be of interest. They are as follow :— Engine service, 2100; transmission service, 2120; electrical service, 250; cooling system, 230; chassis service, 222; brake service, 216; body service, 211; running equipment, kl0; tyros and tubes, 2400. American Figures for Haulage Receipts and
Costs
Wear Caused to Tramer'FIE life of tramway rails way Rails and Roads I would not appear to be a
by Braking . . . matter of interest to / this journal. Yet there are certain factors which are worth recording. The experience of the Leeds City Transport Department shows that at busy stopping places the rails last for 31 years, whereas the average life on ordinary running stretches is 11 years. Thus, by revising stopping places, the concentrated wear can be spread over. Those responsible for roads have similar troubles with stopping places for buses, and in some instances, particularly on hills, stone setts or other durable materials have been employed. During war-time it might be possible to move the posts for a few bus lengths in either direction as road wear becomes apparent. American Methods UOW America is dealing Employed in Retriev" with its scrap is mentioned ing Scrap Metal in a journal, "Nickel Steel Topics." The Western Electric Co., which handles not only its own waste materials, but the non-ferrous scrap of the huge Bell system, claims that the fundamental secret is identification and segregation. Sorting must start at the scrap source—in the shop. One large steel producer has found that the careful salvage of scrap has permitted production of four times its tonnage of open-hearth ingots. The key to success in this connection was the appointment, in each plant, of scrap committees, made up of the leading men, including, in each case, the plant superintendent. They work on the principle that any piece of equipment not being used to-day will never be used and should be scrapped.