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Chief Constable THE Chief Constable of Invents a Simple Safety 1 North Riding, Lieut.-Col.
Game J C. Chaytor, has invented a
children's game to promote knowledge concerning road-safety signs and rules. It is played with dice and counters, and when made up in quantities copies of the layout (without, of course, the other accessories) will cost about one penny each. They are to be distributed through Road Safety Committees and schools in the area concerned.
How Goering's Car .INCE the beginning of Has Contributed to " March and until the middle Charities of July, Hermann Goering's bullet-proof car was exhibited in 17 centres and raised over £2,200, making a grand total of nearly £16,000, which has been devoted to various war charities. It may be remembered that this car, which was captured by the British Army, was handed over to a management committee of eight, including the Editor of this journal, which was under the chairmanship of the late J. H. Stirk. Mr. A. T. Robson, of Burn Transit, Ltd., was then elected to this position. The offer of the .car was made to the committee by the War Department while the members were guests of the Control Commission in Germany, and after viewing it in a huge dump of German vehicles. One of the members, Squadron Leader F. B. Low, R.A.F.V.R., acted as conductor of the party, whilst the transport officer who has been dealing with the movement of the vehicle from place to place is Captain J. F Thirlby. The car is the property of the War Office, and it may eventually form a permanent exhibit in some war museum, although a member of the motor industry once offered £5,000 for it.
"Much Binders" IFIEVOTEES of the radio Soon to Take a Short 1—• programme, "Much
Rest Binding in the Marsh," will be sorry to learn that the series will end on September 18, to give a rest to Richard Murdoch and his co-star, Kenneth Horne. Mr. Home's activities as sales and advertising director of the Triplex Safety Glass Co., Ltd., make, of course, first call on his time, and script conferences have to be held at lunch time and in the evenings, and the script has to be written at week-ends. He had never broadcast when he joined the R.A.F. at the outbreak of war and, on his release from the Service, rejected a stage offer of £300 a week to return to the Triplex company. This popular programme, it is understood, will be resumed about the end of November: How the Radiatdr is Mounted on Albion Vehicles . . . .
ONE of the most simple ‘-'ways of holding a radiator is that employed by Albion Motors, Ltd. The unit is mounted on two horizontal supporting bolts, rubber rings being positioned at each side of the lugs on the radiator, large nuts completing the fixing. Thus, immediately the water connections are removed the radiator can be slipped off in a matter of moments.
Free Service Which IRRITAINS reputation as a Surprised an American " philanthropist was recently
Visitor strengthened when an Ameri can visitor arrived at Airways Terminal, London, to find that he had left his camera at the airport Traffic officers of British Overseas Airways Corporation spoke to the airport authorities, and the camera was sent to London on the next coach. Accommodation was arranged for the visitor and a taxicab called. When the American was told that there was no charge for these services, he was momentarily astonished and then said, "If I were in any other country I would call that remarkable, but as I am in Britain, well, I guess I expected it." *
A Spare-parts Service 301E operators complain Which is Difficult to of the difficulty Of obtain
Beat ing spare parts for their vehicles, but those who own Morris-Commercials must, in general, feel pleased at the excellent service given by the maker in this respect. While looking over the extensive stores at the Birmingham works, we were informed that the company has been able to supply from stock 96 per cent, of the demands for spares for vehicles up to seven or eight years old.