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New Insulator
ReTWO recent British patents duces Weight of A refer to a new type of Electrical Equipment . material made by the poly n-nrization of quartz or silicon in sand and the carbon of hydrocarbons. The products of this treatment are transparent liquids termed "silicones' They have the properties of resisting high temperature as well as affording good electrical insulation. The wire used is dipped in the liquid and baked. It is claimed that electrical appliances can be made much smaller and work at a higher heat, whilst the insulation enables much more power to be developed from a motor of a particular sic. Dispersal of Fog Is rINE of the curses of the
Too Costly for Our road is fog, and, techni Roads cally, it is now possible to
disperse it. So far, however, the energy which would have to be expended in doing so does not render it an economic proposition. According to "Petroleum Times," fog dispersal for one hour on a bomber airfield requires the equivalent of eight times the hourly consumption of fuel of the huge power station at Barking, i.e., about 80,000 gallons of petrol. It appears, therefore, that drivers will have to put up with fog until some cheaper method be found. The American inventor's chemical method seems to have faded out.
E ettricity Supply ROME of the comments. Chairman and Nation" quoted by the "Financial alization Times" as having been made
by the chairman of several important electricity supply groups might well be applied to road transport. He said no one can say . that this industry has ever failed. On the contrary, during the war its services have called forth an expression of the Government's gratitude. Moreover, not a single advantage can be made out for nationalization. Instead, those with experience in the industry, both on the company and local-authority side, fear that the consequences may be serious and, per
haps, even disastrous For the sake of abstract theories held for the most part by people with no knowledge of the industry, the whole future of our industrial life is to be placed in jeopardy at a time when the efforts of the whole country should be turned in quite another direction. Our policies ought to be guided by experience and by °human nature, and not by abstract theories and arguments.—That all goes for us, too.
Captain Gammans ,qPEAKING at an important Castigates Soft" London meeting on handed Theorists . . January 10, Captain L. D.
Gariamans, M.P., stated, in connection with the proposed nationalization of longdistance haulage, that many tens of thousands of exServicemen will be denied the opportunity of entering the industry. This would be at the dictate of a small band of soft-handed theorists, not one with the slightest experience of the industry which they were out to ruin.