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Exceptional Overload ik ANY readers must have but Margin of Safety LYI observed with interest a
Enough current advertisement of
Carilmore Six-Wheelers, Ltd. It shows a big articulated furniture van which had been lifted by blast on to the top of a large Luton van. Apart from the freakishness of the phenomenon, it is of real note that the Carrimore cowling held, and that the body of the lower vehicle (also built by this concern) is hardly damaged, although forced right down to the ground, Incidentally, the other body (of the same make) has stood the stress remarkably well.
The Need for KnowTHOSE of our manufac
ledge of Overseas turers concerned with export
Markets should be most careful to ascertain the legal and other conditions pertaining in the countries in which they are interested. For example, we have just received from a well-known firm of patent attorneys in Cairo, who are willing to give further advice, a letter containing a warning against traders wrongfully using on goods sent to Egypt the words " Registered Trade Mark' in connection with a mark that has not been registered under the New Egyptian Trade Marks Law of 1939. Registration effected in other countries than Egypt will not justify the use of such a term, nor will the fact that a trade mark has already been deposited with the Bureau of the Mixed Court of
Appeal be a legal defence of such use. Severe penalties may also be incurred if any trade description affixed to goods, shops, signs, packings, publicity matter, etc., does not correspond -absolutely with the facts. Where the quantity measure, gauge, weight, origin or component parts of a product constitute an element of its value, importation may be prohibited unless one or more of the above details be indicated thereon. In addition, they must be in Arabic.
Road Maintenance in HE authoritieswho are
Germany During responsible for roads in the War Germany have considered the probable course of development in road construction in that country during the war. The conclusions arrived at are that on the motor roads work would decrease, but the reverse effect will occur on provincial roads; new construction work must be avoided and heavy bituminous additions greatly limited, maintenance methods being used in their place. Cement and concrete construction will assume greater importance, involving the conversion of existing plant from motor-road work to that on national and provincial roads. Materials obtainable locally must be used wherever possible to avoid demands on transport and careful maintenance must be ensured. The most important problem is to develop a low-cost construction that will render roads carrying relatively little traffic durable and dust-free without requiring periodical surface treatment.
Avoid Ordinary Bus rIN December 27 the Bir Journeys During Peak mingham Post published Hours an appeal to ordinary travel
lers to avoid using buses during the peak hours, so that those workers engaged on tasks of national importance may not be delayed. It is pointed out that hundreds of men may go sick and lose time if they be crowded out of transport vehicles in the mornings and nights, and it is suggested that general travelling should be arranged after 9 a.m. and before 4.30 p.m.
Railway Luggage IT is sometirhes extremely. A ccorn m odat ion 'difficult to reconcile state. Which is Wasted . . ments about railway activities
with the facts. The companies are, to our own personal knowledge, refusing to accept luggage for despatch by passenger train. The reason given is lack of space. Actual investigation does not seem to support this plea. As one example, take the 1.15 p.m. from King's Cross to Doncaster
on Friday, December 13. There were no more than a dozen small packages in one large luggage van, whilst a second was empty. The gross cubic capacity of these two vans thus travelling a couple of hundred miles nnoccupied, was in the region of 3,300 cubic ft., room for quite a number of small consignments.
A Driver's Story of FILMING a raid last week a Weals Within Rear L'e driver ran into a " blitz "
Wheels so hot that he parked his lorry and took refuge underneath it with his mate. After some deafening moments the sky cleared and they resumed their journey, but the "bus" was running so badly that they pulled up again after a while for an overhaul. They found —no, not that they had shipped a time-bomb, this is a true story—a large bomb-splinter embedded in one of the back tyres. Although they had been lying close beside that wheel, the arrival of this invader had passed unnoticed in the general upheaval and din.