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Petty Obstructionists
HOW does a haulier justify to a customer the Road
Haulage Association's recommendation of a 10-per-cent. increase in rates to offset the higher price of fuel, when British Road Services have added only 71 per cent, to their charges and the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses have also advocated an advance of 74 per cent.?
The Commercial Motor put this question to the Association through Mr. Frank Lyon, public relations 'officer. He wished to be helpful, as he always does, but he was unable to elaborate on the bare statement issued by the R.H.A.
This is the kind of muddle-headed, petty obstruction that the Press sometimes encounters in the R.H.A. If the Association wish the public to be 530 sympathetic towards the problems of their members, they should be a little more co-operative. Members themselves might well ask who muzzled the public relations officer and thereby increased their difficulties of securing the recommended advance in rates.
Not Wanted on Voyage
IT seems extraordinary that as late as last Friday the I Minister of Transport should have had to appeal to goods-vehicle operators to apply at once for their basic fuel rations. A "very substantial number" had not done so and ran a serious risk of entering the rationing period without fuel.
The haulier who, as reported last week, had not heard of fuel coupons is apparently by no means alone in his ignorance.
Foam Strip Obviates Rattles
MANY are the uses for plastic foam, which is ridw being employed to an increasing extent for seating. Backed with a self-adhesive strip it does much to exclude draughts in the home, offices and works. Sealdraught, Ltd., Chandos -House, Buckingham Gate, Loudon, S.W.1, are marketing a product of this type as an eliminator of rattles for doors, bonnets and windows of motor vehicles, where they are badly fitted or worn. Dashboard instruments. can also be freed from the bad effects of shock by mounting them in this material.
Supplied in 10-ft. rolls, the black foam is I in. wide, nearly + in. thick and costs 4s. 6d. It will adhere to almost any dry and non-greasy surface, and once fixed is unaffected by moisture.
Courtaulds Spin A Yarn
THE story of " Tenasco," the high-tenacity rayon yarn for tyre cords manufactured by Courtaulds, Ltd., is related in their new 15-minute film previewed in London last week.
Easily -understandable by non-technical audiences, the film contains a cartoon sequence illustrating the stresses 'to which tyres are subjected, also actual shots
taken at the Motor Industry Research Association proving ground, Nuneaton. The whole construction process of a tyre is shown, from the original wood logs floating down a river, the subsequent manufacturing of yarn, its transformatton into cords and fabric, and the building of the fabric into tyres.
This 1-6 mm. film "Travellers' Yarn" is available on loan, free of charge, from Sound-Services, Ltd., 269 Kingston Road, London, S.W.19.