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Accurate Machines XTREME accuracy in
Which Require Care" machining often demands ful Nursing , , more attention than merely
putting a piece of metal into a highly complicated machine tool and expecting immediately goo& results. Some of these machines are so sensitive that they require a reasonably constant temperature if they are to give consistently good results, and usually it is necessary to run them over periods of anything from a few minutes to an hour or longer, thoroughly to circulate the lubricant—in other words—to warm them up to the job. Where plain bearings are employed, spindles must, as it were, float in them on a film of oil, and if the film be not present or at its proper consistency, the spindle, when under load, may take up a slightly eccentric position, whilst, of course, any breaking down of the film would cause rapid and excessive wear. With some tools, it has been the practice in the past to scrap the "first off" of any particular product, but naturally this, when metals are in short supply, must be treated as an extreme measure to be used only when all else fails.
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New Zealand Makes MEW ZEALAND is doing Good Use of Austin "its best to help Britain over Statistics its difficulties. In this connec tion, an agent in Wellington, has written to the Austin Motor Co., Ltd, complimenting it on its overseas publicity and saying that he is asking for similar matter from other British manufacturers. He has been appointed to the Emergency Production and Trade Aid for Britain Committee, which, amongst other things, will institute a national publicity campaign in which the Austin data should be of great value. The material, which was sent by the Austin Motor Export Corporation, announced that the company had exported its vehicles to the value of over £15,000,000 since the end of the war. Britain's food imports in that time have cost us about £1,000,000,000, and the weekly expenditure on rationed food per capita of our population is said to be I Is. bid. The Austin exports have therefore represented 25,000,000 weekly domestic rations, or sufficient to feed half the-families in Britain for nearly a month—no mean contribution from one company. • A FEW daysago a driver " reported to the Hull Police :that, at 12.30 a.m., he had noted on the outskirts of the city some animals with manes and tufted tail& For three hours the police hunted the area, but eventually it was found that a man had been exercising some Irish wolfhounds. It is not known whether any other driver reported seeing pink elephants!
Wild Anirrial,Scare Causes Police Hunt in Hull
MUCH good for members of our industry who have suffered misfortune has been done by the Motor and Cycle Trades Benevolent Fund. Its latest activity in this direction is the purchase of a freehold property at Sunninghill as a home for elderly people. It stands in grounds of 20 acres, and including three cottages in these, there will be accommodation for 25-30 people. It is hoped that the home will be available
Fine Home for the Elderly of the Industry
early next summer. Of 247 beneficiaries of the Fund in 1946, 181 were elderly persons of whom many are living under conditions of comparative neglect and for whom housing and shopping difficulties cannot be alleviated by mere financial assistance.
FOLLOWING the visit of a party of 44 Swedish operators to Britain, the I.R.T.E. received a telegram from Gothenburg which read: "After a wonderful crossing, sitting in summer sun, and deckchairs, we could not still believe that it had not all been a marvellous dream. Thanks for super-perfect arrangements and, above all, the warmth and depth of your friendship." It was signed " Bystrorn, Mellgren and S.L.F. Party." It is certainly satisfactory to know that even under Britain's austerity conditions this large number of friendly " invaders " could be so well satisfied.
Swedish Visitors Send Telegram Appreciating Trip