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Precautions to Take NAANY times we have issued Failing Supply of AntiI warnings against the
freeze. danger of frost. Now -the
• MiniSter of War Transport calls attention to the fact that anti-freeze preparations are scarce, their nse being confined tnostly to essential vehicles. The existing supplies for civilian road transport are being allocated by the RegionatirTratis
port Commissioners. The requirements of civil defence, police and fire-fighting services concern the Ministry of Home Security. Operators are warned that certain mixtures on the market are not fully .effective, and may even do damage. The best safeguard is, of course, to drain radiators and, if necessary, cylinder jackets. 'Failing this, and if fuel be available, " safety " lamps can be used under the bonnet, as near the radiator as possible, or a sCriallconsumption electric immersion water heater • employed where current is available. Radiators should be wel covered while the vehicles are stationary, and partially birnked off when running.
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nF the various dopes which are added to petrol, .mainly with a view to increaMng the mileage obtained per gallon, not all are entirtly satisfactory. Some probably prove advantageous by modifying the characteristics of Pool fuel, so rendering it more suitable for use in highcompression engines by reducing the tendency to cause "pinking." Petrol itself has such a high calorific value that, in our view, this cannot be increased materially by the addition of any small
• quantity of dope less powerful than, say, nitroglycerine, which, incidentally, it would appear highly
inadvisable to employ. Much depends upon the engine temperament, on the principle that what is one man's meat is another man's poison, and only trial can afford the necessary. proof. Personally,. we 'have been unfortunate. ria two cases the addition of dopes caused the choking of jets. In one carburetter there was a gummy deposit, in another a hard, white crust was formed.
Not all Fuel Dopes Give Satisfactory Result
Motor Trade Leader r VERY thinking citizen I nd i cts Bureaucratic 1–A should read the pamphlet
Menace entitled " Beware Bureau cracy " just written by Lord Perry, the chairman of the Ford concern. The author's vies On that subject are already well known; he has expanded them in this latest Individualist Bookshop publication, and the case that he puts is, in our view, unanswerable. To quote his own words, his purpose is " . . . to show that the bureaucrats who should be the servants of the community have become its masters and dictators; that their methods of conducting the affairs of this country must lead to our national impoverishment and 'destruction, and to thfi loss of those freetoms and individual independence for which the citizen of this country thinks himself to he _fighting or suffering." The pamphlet costs 6d., and can be obtained through any bookseller. Reffectors Which THERE is one feature of the Might Prevent AcciI lighting equipment of dents at Crossings . lorries, and especially those
with trailers or semi-trailers, in the U.S.A., that, in our view, certainly makes for safety, and might be particularly useful here under black-out conditions.. A special type of reflector with plastic lens is employed, and this is fitted' at points on the sides of the vehicle and trailer. They pick up the light in a remarkable way and indicate anything crossing the line of traffic. To be useful here, they would have to be fitted low enough to catch the rays from masked head lamps, but would then be highly effective in preventing some of those serious collisions at crossings which add to the toll of the road. Of course, glass could be employed instead of plastic, although the latter is considered to be more effective and picks up light at 1,300 ft.