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12th April 1957, Page 34
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Growing Success of an Additive GREAT enthusiasm marked the 16th annual con

vention of United Lubricants, Ltd., held at Blackpool last week. Mr. D. M. Glover, chairman and managing director, welcomed the guests and the 80-strong sales force, and was happy to announce that the turnover of Carburol Super and other products had risen by 48 per cent. in the past year.

Sales director Mr. J. L. Callaghan said that he had never faced a new year with more genuine confidence. About 63 per cent, of all operators who had made purchases in the first two months of 1956 had given . repeat orders, said Mr. J. Cunningham, sales manager, who announced two new products, Dextagrease Super H.M.P. and Super G.P.

The first grease is for high-speed and hightemperature applications, having remarkable antifriction, non-corrosion and metal-adhesion properties. It contains Dextral Concentrate 905, and has a melting point of 315 degrees F.

The Super G.P. is intended for general chassis work and bearings for speeds up to 2,000 r.p.m., and temperatures not above 185 degrees F. or below 36 degrees of frost. It embodies Carburol Super.

Tests of these greases on a special friction machine and before many observers, indicated that their resistance to seizure was much above similar products in this sphere with which comparison was made. Independent testimony to the value of Dextral Concentrate was given by a Marconi representative. Certain of their wireless transmitters have a number 1326

of important contacts. Wear with these had caused much trouble, but had now been reduced to the minimum by using Dextrol 905, and equipment employing it had been sent to 17 countries.

Mr. A. Fraser, managing director of Andrew Fraser (Ealing), Ltd., said that his company had experienced general improvement in machining operations and particularly in the tapping of hightensile steels. Dextrol increased feed and speed.

It is understood that developments with Carburol Super are likely to occur in connection with the additive trade in the U.S.A.

H.P. Concession Insufficient THE small amelioration of the conditions of hirepurchase for motor coaches was issued after the leader on this subject .published last week in The Commercial Motor had gone to press. It appears, however, that whilst the new method of instituting unequal payments during each of two years, the annual total representing half the amount outstanding following the initial deposit of 50 per cent., will help coach operators, it can have little or no effect on the purchase of new vehicles.

The debit balance remaining at the end of each year will be the same as before except, possibly, for a. slight saving on payments for bank overdrafts which might otherwise have been necessary.

It would be a far more valuable relief to reduce the statutory deposit and, perhaps, spread the remainder over a longer period.

Apprentices Challenge Shield Award

A N 18-year-old apprentice, W. Harnbleton, of the

CAN. Engineering School, has won the Junior Challenge Shield awarded annually by the London Association of Engineers. The test is open to apprentices employed within a 25-mile radius of Westminster, and this year there were 60 entries. Contestants had to submit a workpiece of their own choosing, as well as a 1,000-word thesis on a subject . of interest in the field of engineering science.

W. Harnbleton chose "Winding a Strip-wound Armature" as his thesis, and submitted a compound sine table as a work sample, which showed a remarkable degree of precision. This can be judged from the fact that the surface finish of the hand-lapped slip-gauge face averaged 0.9 micro inch, and that of the work face 1.7 micro inch.

Another C.A.V. apprentice, J, E. Stollery, was awarded second place for his plane-crystal spectograph and oscillating drive. This is stated to be a

unique instrument which will be used in the cornpany's laboratories for basic research.

The third entrant from the C.A.V. School, J. S. Stevenson,. was placed sixth.

This is the second year in succession that an apprentice of the C.A.V. Engineering Shool has won the shield, and a condition of entry is that the work must be the entrant's unaided effort, as certified by his employers.

U.S. Trailer Sales Fall

BR1TAIN is not the only nation in which the motor industry has been seriously affected by recent and current events. In America, slow selling during 1956 reduced the net profit of the Fruehauf Trailer Co., by over 25 per cent. as compared with that for 1955, and this was accompanied by a large increase in stock. The reduction has followed a down trend in the demand for road haulage, partly the result of the nation-wide steel strike and the sharp drop in car production.


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