HAULAGE BUSINESS SPLIT UP.
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A scheme to divide a haulage business between two parties was mentioned at Hull, last Friday, when Mr. William L. Dees, Great Union Street, Hull,' applied for the transfer of the licences of three vehicles from Waddington and Co., haulage contractor, to himself, and for permission to acquire an additional vehicle. The applicant, who said he had been associated with Waddington and Co. since 1930; stated that it had been agreed to partition the business, on the basis that he should operate the vehicles mentioned in the application, as Dees' Motors, and that Waddington's should run the remaining vehicles.
The Yorkshire Deputy Licensing Authority (Mr. E. Russell Gurney) remarked that only experience could show how the arrangement would work. For that reason he would allow the transfer of the three vehicles already authorized, but the application to acquire an additional vehicle would be refused.
South Wales A.R.O. to Decide.
A special meeting of the executive committee of the South Wales area of Associated Road Operators will be held at Cardiff on Tuesday, January 12, to determine what action shall be taken in view Of the latest developments at headquarters. It is understood that Mr. R. W. Sewill, national director, will be present to meet the committee.
A Tool Steel Handbook.
Production engineers are well aware that the varying design and diverse applications of machina tools render a universal tool steel impracticable. This point is emphasized in a new booklet, entitled Carbon and Alloy. Tool Steels," just issued .by William Jessqp and Sons, Ltd., Brightside Works, Sheffield. Apart from being a practical treatise on the manipulation of carbon and alloy tool steels, covering forging, normalizing, annealing, hardening, tempering and grinding processes, it is a valuable guide to the selection of tool . steels for different purposes. A copy of the booklet may be obtained from the company at the address we have given.
Motor Fuel from Wild Plant.
According to a Rome paper, it has been discoVered. that motor "fuel can be obtained from a plant which grows wild in certain regions of Italian East Africa. This plant is a euphorbia or spurge, and, if an incision be made in the bark, a gummy substance flows out, which, when distilled, gives a liquid with chemical properties similar to those of hydrocarbons obtained from coal
In some parts of Eritrea and Somaliland, spurge grows profusely over large tracts: From a single plant two to three kilograms of latex can be obtained annually, which can be transformed into about a third of that amount of motor fuel. The residue can be used for making various products similar to the heavy oils obtained from tar. Mixed with the right proportion of alcohol, this vegetable benzole forms, it is reported, a fuel for motor vehicles.
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