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Russia Makes Use of ACCORDING to "Soviet More Producer Gas War News," Russia is conEquipment . . . . siderably increasing its employ
ment of producer gas. One large tractor station has switched over nearly all its tractors to this fuel, using wood blocks for the producers. Mobile prOducers are also being built for use with threshing machines. There is apparently no Government producer, such as, is being mass-produced in Britain, the-plants being turned out by local factories.
How Lorries Have A GOOD example of the Saved 5,000 Tons of 1-1. vital importance of trans Tomatoes port in conserving food was
referred to receetly by "The Sunday Express." Excess deliveries of tomatoes were in danger of rotting in London markets, but to avoid this serious loss, 5,000 tons were distributed in three days to every part of the country by convoys of lorries, this huge contract being arranged by the London Tomato Distributing Association. The work involved the carriage of 12,000 baskets.
Power Consciousness I T was not an over-statement of Farmers Benefits that Lord Perry made at the
the Nation . . recent general meeting of the Ford Motor Co., when he said that the Fordson tractor has been the keystone of the Nation's food campaign in this world war. Quite apart from the company's direct manufacturing efforts, many new American Ford tractors, embodying the Ferguson system, have been distributed through its organization. Other tractor makers have, of course, played a valuable part, but the Ford Company's vast resources have naturally enabled it to enjoy a deserved measure of limelight in connection with tractor output. When the full story is available after the war, the work of the company in helping to make agriculturists power-farming conscious will be found to mark a definite milestone in the advance of mechanized agriculture.
Do Not Forget Your q0ME people appear not to War Damage Insur0-Jappreciate the fact that a ance concern carrying on a business is legally required to insure under the War Damme Act, 1941, in respect of its equipment. Failure to do so has resulted in Messrs. P. Hearn, 234, Gray's Inn Road, London, W.C.1, the well-known coaching firm, who pleaded guilty at Clerkenwell Police Court on September 23, being fined £10 with costs of £157 10s., for carrying on a business without there being in force a policy of insurance issued under the business scheme of the above Act. The value of the equipment in question was approximately £20,000. A policy had been in force up to September 30, 1941, but this had lapsed. Premiums amounting to £15113 had not been paid, and the Fund thus automatically lost this sum, but this was, in effect, made good in the costs imposed.