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1 RIBUTES to the efficiency of public-servicevehicle drivers have recently been paid by some of the Traffic Commissioners. Now that the subject of safety on the roads is so prominent in the public mind, coach and bus operators might well incorporate in their advertising matter quotations from the favourable remarks of the Commissioners regarding passenger-vehicle drivers. THE hazardous lines upon which some contractors A are prepared to do business was made clear at a recent meeting of the Congleton R.D.C., when tenders for haulage in a certain district were considered. Amongst those received, the clerk announced, was one that quoted "one pound below the lowest." This effort, however, was not successful, the council accepting the figure submitted by another concern. THIS year's summer visit of the Institution of Auto mobile Engineers should be a most enjoyable and interesting one. It will include a night in Boulogne, a drive through the Somme Battlefields, visits to engineering works in Paris, and a day for sightseeing in the gay city. The Societe des Ingenieurs de l'Autornobile is co-operating with the LAE, to make the visit a memorable one, and all this will be for the almost inclusive sum of 11 guineas.
THE care which must be exercised to avoid in fringement not only of patents, but of registered designs, is shown by a recent case in which the manufacturer of a range of moquettes for upholster. ing brought an action and obtained an injunction against another company for infringement of a registered design. It must be remembered that the Patents and Designs Act, 1907, prohibits any person from applying to goods, for the purposes of sale, a design which is registered or any fraudulent or obvious imitation of this without the written consent of the registered proprietor.
at last, London is to have a new fire-brigade
headquarters. A suitable site is available on the Albert Embankment, which will be acquired at a cost of £85,000. It presents the advantage that it abuts on a wide main road and contains a dock which can readily be used for major repairs to the river fire-floats. When the buildings have been completed, the Vauxhall and Waterloo Road fire stations will be closed, also the Battersea Bridge and Charing Cross fire-float and repair depots.
I T will be only a few weeks now before the last seclion of the North Circular Road, London, will be completed, opening up a remarkable highway for traffic skirting the Metropolis, and extending from the Great West Road to Woodford, where it joins Eastern Avenue, the arterial road to Southend. The task was commenced more than 10 years ago, and its completion has been delayed by serious engineering difficulties, the last of which is now overcome. The scheme has cost £1,250,000, and represents a great boon to commercial traffic.