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and publicity bills sometimes reveals a lack of care in the compilation of these ambassadors of custom, in that they are undated and the information given is incomplete. Surely a passenger would more readily patronize a service details of which could be gleaned from a glance at a handbill? The publicity value of the time-table and fare sheet should not be underestimated, and care should be given to its " make-up " and to the information that it imparts.
THE vice-president of the General Motors Corpora tion, in discussing production problems before the S.A.E., recently, prophesied that industrial chemistry will play an increasing part, perhaps, by providing new methods of rust-prevention, new synthetic materials and different kinds of finish. He foresaw the increasing use of electrically welded parts as a substitute for machine castings. u18 OFFICIAL informa tion is to hand from America that in September this year Spain became t h e leading market for Canadian commercial-motor vehicles, taking 378 out of 1,702 exported that month. Most export managers would be surprised to learn this. British India and British West Africa were second and third with respectively 247 and 244) units. The exports were down on September of last year, when the figure was 2,348.
IN view of the interest, be it only academic at present, which commercial-motor engineers are commencing to show in the eight-cylindered petrol engine, it is interesting to learn, from the United States Chamber of Commerce, that, to use their own apt expression, the technical departments of the big car-dealer organizations appear already to •be " sold " on the eight-cylinder idea, general trade depression being the only real obstacle to large-scale introduction. IN a recent issue we referred to certain spiral-bevel gears which were claimed by the maker to be the largest cut in this country, the crown wheel being 1 ft. 8 ins. in diameter, but David Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd., now informs us that similar gears have been cut in its works to over 1 ft. 10 ins. in diameter, and the company has plant capable of cutting these gears up to a diameter of 2 ft. 8 ins. Spiral gears have actually been supplied to transmit as much as 340 b.h.p.
A SIMPLE swindling trick =is, we are informed by the Hire-Purchase Clearing 'House, Ltd., being practised with some success in the North of England. The procedure is for the trickster to enter the trader's premises and offer to bny a vehicle at the cash price asked, actually tendering a deposit of £50 and promising the balance for the following day when the vehicle will be collected. Next day, however, he informs the trader that he would prefer to pay the balance under a hire-purchase agreement, which is signed, and the vehicle taken away by the customer. It is not until the trader finds that his instalments are not received under the agreement that he realize's that the customer holds a receipt for the original deposit in the cash transaction, which, consequently, becomes a direct sale and the goods cannot be repossessed, nor can any action be taken for the balance, except as for an ordinary civil debt.
It is therefore essential that, in such cases, the receipt for any deposit should be received back.
A CASE of some interest was that which was heard recently in which the Court of Appeal disallowed damages awarded to a widow for the death of her husband. This man was killed by a vehicle owned by a company, but the driver was using it without permission for his own purpose, or, to use the legal phrase, for "frolic travel." It was therefore held that the driver's employer was not responsible.