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Delivering a Vehicle IT would be helpful to mannin t h e Bo dy of 1facturers and -dealers if they
Another . . were allowed, when delivering, under limited trade plates, vehicles of widely diverse capacities, to carry one machine in the body of another. At present this is illegal, because vehicles under limited trade plates must not be used for delivering loads. Consequently, needless expense may be caused to vehicle suppliers by the necessity of sending under its own power a machine which might well be carried.
Ignorant Operators IT is to be hoped that, with a Duped by Unscrupuwider understanding of the bus Salesmen law, the activities of the unscrupulous motor salesman will be completely checked. A representative in the Southern Scotland Area convinced a hawker of fire*ZS wood, who wished to take up haulage, that he must first secure a vehicle under a C licence, and that six months later he would automatically qualify for a B licence. • The salesman supplied the forms of application, but the Licensing Authority had reluctantly to refuse the licence.
This Style Not WE have just heard the folRecommended for our " lowing story which we pass -Shorts" on without vouching for its
truth or applauding its moral. Au unemployed man advertised thus in an Australian paper :--' ' Aged 20. Well-educated, capable and industrious." He received no replies, so he tried a different tack. His new effort :—" Dirty, careless youth of 20. Lazy and untidy. Give me a chance," brought him many answers, and he is now settled in a good job. Instilling the Spirit of nNE of the methods of de British Engineering in veloping a pro-British atti Foreigners . . . tude towards the purchase of our products by foreign countries is to train apprentices from abroad in our engineering workshops. The Federation of British Industries is doing much good work in this connection, an example being the scheme sponsored jointly by this body and the China Association. A system of scholarships has been in being for four years, and 15 Chinese apprentices have already completed their training and secured responsible ousts abroad.
London's Refuse Raises 'TO many of our readers it will Steam for Building I be news that the Ford com Fordsons pany is now raising a part of the steam that runs its huge generating plant by burning London's refuse. Special furnace and boiler equipment has been installed for this purpose, and a jetty has been built, from which the refuse is unloaded from barges and conveyed up to the furnace. It can be consumed at the rate of 300 tons a day, and it seems characteristic of the mind which originally conceived this immense, almost self-contained undertaking that it should economically utilize that which has been discarded by others as useless.
Prevent Dirt and IT would be difficult to estiWater Entering Tyre imate the number of vehicles Valves in which the tyre-valve caps are missing. This is one of the most common causes of deterioration of the rubber valve seatings, as dust, dirt and water can penetrate. A special type of valve cap used extensively on commercial vehicles, where pressure testing is carried out with great regularity, is the Schrader Dublchek, which is a secondary valve as well as a cap. It allows pressure to be tested and tyres to be inflated without being removed.