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ence of missing, often by Travellers . . .
seconds, a connection when two classes of conveyance have to be used to complete a journey. London Transport is helping to mitigate this nuisance by installing, at certain Underground stations, small illuminated signs in the forecourts
from which buses run. Trains approaching the stations operate electric contacts on the track and light up the signs. The bus regulating official, who may be on the point of dispatching a bus, is thereby warned and holds it 'back sufficiently Icing to enable train passengers to catch it. These signs are being installed at stations where bus services operate at wide intervals and where approaching trains cannot be seen from the station front.
Good Treatment Will AWORD of warning la Ensure Long Sparkingnecessary concerning the plug Life cleaning of sparking plugs. A good make, if properly, attended to -and adjusted at regular 'intervals, will give long trouble-free service. Some types with nondetachable centres have ceramic or porcelain insulators. These may be cleaned in a " sand:blasting " machine, but this process should _never be used in connection with plugs of the mica-insulated pattern. Certain makes have an internal-insulation of mica, with a protective ceramic sleeve, and users may be apt to -think that they are not of the mica type. For all forms of mica plug it is sufficitrit to wipe the mica clean with a cloth, whilst a blunt penknife can be used to remove the carbon burnt on to the metal parts.
Ca re les s n ess Still rIRES caused by carelessness Results in Many are at present of eyen more Factory Fires . . . importance than those caused
by the Luftwaffe. Throughout the .country, day after day, they are taking place in factories -and other important buildings, reSulting in considerable losses and 'a regrettable diminution in the war effort. Sir Stafford Cripps, Minister of Aircraft Production, recently addressing fire fighters of this Ministry, stated that only a few days ago he was at an aircraft factory where, as the result of an employee smoking a cigarette, a serious fire was caused, and had it not been for the highly trained lire servjce the factory would have been lost, together with some 60 aeroplanes. In another factory II friurengined bombers were destroyed, together with the entire building, as the conSequence of an electrical fault. It is not suggested that fires in factories are
on the increase ; actually, the incidence is dfopping, but any such fire is a grave loss, particularly in these
times. So 'don't smoke where youshouldn't, and where you may smoke, ,stub out your fag end.
The Sightless Being THE blind, through their
Encouraged to Use associations, are being asked White Sticks . . . to co-operate in encouraging the use of white sticks. This simple precautionary measure has already shown excellent results where it has been adopted. It not only makes people on the pavement more careful and ready to give all possible help, but is a definite indication to drivers to pay particular attention to the blind when they are crossing the streets. So far as possible, they are discouraged from walking about in the black-out, but where they do so, the white sticks show up more readily.