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Petrol Delivery System Criticized

22nd April 1949, Page 8
22nd April 1949
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DROCEDURE for delivering white and red petrol was criticized by the defence in a prosecution against a Yorkshire garage proprietor at Skipton, last week. William Wiseman, proprietor of the Owd Bill Garage, Broughton Road, Skipton, denied that he had ever knowingly ,allowed red petrol to be placed in tanks reserved for private petrol, or supplied red petrol against coupons for• white petrol. Pleading "not guilty," he was fined £20 for supplying commercial, petrol into the tank of a private car, and a total of

£60 for having commercial petrol in three pumps not marked with the word "Commercial."

He was also ordered to pay £14 costs, and the magistrates "further ordered that over 1,000 gallons of spirit in the three pumps, which had been sealed since November, be confiscated. The presiding magistrate pointed out that defendant was automatically disqualified from selling motor spirit at the garage for 12 months.

Mr. R. M. Priestley, for the defence, remarked that red and white petrol was delivered by the same vehicle, which was divided into different compartments, the tank containing red petrol being indicated by a red clip fixed to the outlet. He thought this clip was not a sufficient safeguard.

Recalling that, at defendant's request, two further pumps were tested five days after the original discoveries, Mr. Priestley said it was a baffling mystery that one of these pumps reacted to the test for red petrol although white petrol was placed in the pump only two days before the test was made.

PAINT AND ITS USE TWO bibliographies, one dealing with / paint, varnish and lacquer technology, and the other with the technique of paint application, have been prepared by the Paints Division of I.C.I. Copies can be obtained free from the Librarian, I.C.I. Paints Division, Slough, Bucks. :VISIT. to the injectOr-tu a it ufnefu ring department of . Leyland :Motors, Ltd., is a revelation to the • tecimiciari and must be althosr startling to other strangers. There are. two resons for this observation. One is that the work on nearly every part of the injector.. has to be of extreme accuracy, and the ..other that it is habitually performed-by-girls, many quite, young.

These girls constitute almost a privileged class; this is not only . because their pay in the department is somewhat higher, but for ,the reason that they are proud to be in it, and there is an atmosphere of. sociability and co-operation which makes them very loath to leave.

There cannot be many factories where women work constantly on certain parts to an accuracy of within 0.0001 in., and where they gauge their work on special measuring devices which can show differences as small as 0.00001 in. They are.,-of course, assisted by machine setters

■ vtio are highly skilled men.


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