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15th October 1948
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Oil for the Machines NA UCH time can be saved in and Food for Opera"" factories by taking various tors supplies to the workers

instead of forcing them to waste their time and often leave their machines for unduly long periods in order to obtain them. At one important factory, opened recently in Glasgow, use is made of a mobile oil unit, comprised of a normal factory trolley converted to carry a range of drums, each holding a particular class of oil. Hand labour, time and waste are also saved. Following the same principle, tea trolleys also tour the plant. A24

Clayton Dewandre TECHNICIANS are not Gives Special Dinner I always so fully appreciated for Technicians . . as they might be. Therefore, the Clayton Dewandre Show dinner, almost exclusively for these important people. was thoroughly enjoyed by them. One coincidence remarked upon was that amongst those present were Mr. G. J. Rackham (chief engineer, A.E.C.), Mr. G. K. Edwards (chief engineer, Shelvoke and Drewry), Mr. C. F. Cleaver, and the Editor of this journal, all of whom were in the A.E.C. drawing office at Blackhorse Lane, Walthamstow, in. 1912.

DRIVERS of the Crow Tankers Carrying Co., Ltd., have enviable records for the safe conduct of their tankers. .141 the Safe Driving Competition of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, the company's 54 entrants gained an 89.8 per cent. success. Many have already won high awards by freedom from responsibility for accidents during long periods of years.

DamagedShow Bus A N appreciated gesture on Brought in t)y Same r-k the part of an important

Driver coachhuilder occurred in con nection with an accident in which a Show double-decker was involved. The vehicle was being driven to London, and while on a 14-ft. road approaching traffic forced it over until its near-side wheels were on a grass verge, which could not take the load, and the vehicle fell over on its side, but was fortunately arrested from going down

a bank because of the presence of a stiff edge. The Show finish along the side was, however, so marred that the vehicle had to return to the works, whilst the driver was so upset that he almost broke down. However, a good and quick job was done, and the main point of the story is that the same driver was commissioned to bring the vehicle in triumph to the Show.

Driving the Same ABOUT to be offered for Leyland Lorry for 27 "sale is a 27-year-old Ley-.

Years land belonging to Messrs.

Clayton Bros, the Wandsworth tablewater manufacturers. It has been driven over the whole period by the same man. Estimated to have completed 500,000 miles, the vehicle has had only one major overhaul, in 1932, although it has been on the road continually. The driver, Mr. L. J. Tye, claims that it has never been towed, nor had any new major parts.


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