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Selected Information which is likely to be of Interest to Makers, Owners, and their Buyers.
Another Guildford Model.
From Drummond Bros. Ltd., we have received a cataloguc of its new-design universal grinding machine. This tool has been designed for use particularly in motor-repair shops, and it is capable of deal ing with a large variety of work. The machine will do flat grinding, parallel, taper, outside and internal grinding, and many other processes which are constantly required on motor work. It is fitted throughout with ball bearings, and is of the usual highstandard Drummond workmanship. Each grinder is supplied with all the incessary etceteras, such as spanners, centres, jaw chucks and a supply of Carborundum wheels: The price, f.o.b. London, is 250. It is interesting to note that the company recently supplied one of these machines to Princl Ranjitsinhji, the well-known cricketer, for use in his motor garage in India.
Good Enough for Battleships.
Silvertown Lubricants forwards an album, holding about four dozen interesting photographs, which illustrate different processes and operations of their business. The barges which bring the crude oil to the Minoco Wharf are the subject of the first picture and a photograph of H. M. battleship " King Edward VII.," which is supplied with this firm's oil, shows the final destination of some of the Silvertown lubricants. A coloured frontispiece gives a good idea of the extent of the refinery, and a foreword, by the managing director, on oil and their compositions is extremely interesting.
A New "Auto" Spanner
A g-in. spanner has reached these offices from Messrs. F. M. Frye and Co., together with a boxwood handle, fitted with a firmly-fixed nut, on which the quality of the spanner may be tested. The makers have produced a very ingenious tool by means of which a fresh hold of the nut can be obtained without lifting the spanner. When working in confined areas this improvement is of the greatest value, as also is the fact that the spanner grips the nut on five faces. The tool is well made, and is neatly designed. We are inclined to think, however, that the ordinary drop-forged spanner will still hold the field on account of its cheapness. For the machined nuts which are fitted on modern tools, this improved spanner will prove a time-saver, but where forged and bastard-size nuts are fitted the value of the device is likely to be somewhat. diminished.
A Good Lamp. A Word About Waterproof Paint,
One of our representatives called in upon Brown Bras. Ltd., the other day, and was particularly impressed with a heavy japanned tail lamp, of which the firm is selling a. large number. This article seems to he just the thing for the hard wear of commercialvehicle service, and has been des'gried with the special requirements of the heavy-vehicle user in mind ; it is riveted throughout, is fitted with largesize burners and wicks, and has a lens which is Calculated to concentraterays of the burner and throw them in justthe irection where they are most required. The "Accordion" flexible paint marketed by this firm is another speciality of interest. to the " heavy " user ; it is intended for the renovating, repairing and. waterproofing of covers and hoods of all kinds. These fittings are often scrapped on account of some fault which could be easily remedied with the assistance a one small boy, one small brush, and one small tin of " Accordion " flexible paint.
It would pay users of commercial motors to keep a tin of " Accordion " on an easily-accessible shell to which drivers could have resort immediately any small defect in the van-hood is notic3d.