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Australia's Safety THE Council of Manage Council and Cornpulment of the Road Safety sory Fitness Tests • . Council of Australia has
endorsed a scheme, drawn up by a special committee, which provides for medical and eyesight tests for drivers. This is to be submitted to the Government for endorsement by regulation. The main points are that drivers of public-service vehicles must undergo these tests when obtaining their original licences and be re-examined at specified 'periods. Drivers of private vehicles must pass an ordinary eyesight test and after the age of 40 be re-tested every five years.
Hints on How to Avoid Serious Fire
THE amount of valuable
production, the quantities of materials and the loss of factories as the results of fire, constitute a serious matter, even in normal times. Now, when the country must devote all its energies to the improvement of our position, it is more vital than ever. In this connection the Fire Offices' Committee Fire Protection Association makes some suggestions to lessen the risk, which is increased by the staggering of working hours. It points out that if smoking be permitted, a plentiful supply of metal receptacles with sand or water in the bottom should be provided. Arrangements should be made for more frequent inspection of bearings and machinery, for lubrication will be required more often. Care should be taken to ensure that the rearrangment of working hours has not resulted in the making of temporary
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electrical connections for any purpose unless the feed is of ample capacity and the work carried out by competent engineers. A good plan, to which we have referred previously, is to ban all smoking for a short time before the end of the last shift every day. Any cigarette ends will then have time to burn out or to show their presence while people are about to deal with them.
Ford Installs Mass THE Ford factory at Dagen Radiography For Its ham is claimed by the Ford Workers Motor Co. to be the first fac
tory in the country to install -mass radiography for its workers. The new equipment means that each of the 14,000 employees will be afforded the opportunity of being X-rayed with the minimum of discomfort, with the object of discovering any signs of tuberculosis in its earliest stages, when a cure is comparatively easy. Time taken in making such a picture is a 'matter of seconds... The process is just like that of taking an ordinary photograph, and there is no need to undress. The initial examination will be carried out in the company's time, but employees have been asked to do their best to prevent the production programme suffering. The test will be free and voluntary, and the results kept confidential between the company and those photographed._ If the need for medical attention is indicated, a medical officer of the works will see the individual privately and give advice as to any action necessary to regain health, Other large concerns will probably follow this example. Bus Magic with VJHAT touches first if you
a Projecting Rear-view run a London bus along
Mirror side another one, on its near side, until contact is made? In the case of the one in which we travelled the other day, it was our near-side mirror which rubbed shoulders with the other's side pillars, as our two monsters jollied their way around Aldwych. Our pilot had a wary eye on the situation as he rounded the sweeping curve at a brisk "lick." Whether he was looking at the mirror to see how far it would bend, or into it to see what his tail was doing, we shall never know, but the whole business was so neat that the mirror was simply swivelled through about 30 degrees on its mounting, by which time the other parts of the two buses were about a coat of paint apart
The Public will TYPICAL of the nebulous (as Usual) "Take Back I replies frequently given by
the Can" . Government Ministers to questions asked in the House of Commons was that of Mr. Callaghan, Parliamentary Secretary to the Ministry of Transport, when he was requested to explain what steps were to be taken to ease pressure on public transport caused by the abolition of the basic petrol ration. " If any special difficulty arises, the bus operators will do their best to meet it," said Mr. Callaghan, although he did not explain how additional services can be run with worn-out vehicles that Sir Stafford Cripps has decreed shall not be replaced. The public will presumably help out the Government, and save the faces of the Ministers responsible, by cycling or walking—if sufficient cycles and shoes be available