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Where to Buy your Supplies.

Interesting :and New. Supplies from :Factory and Showroom.

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(Lancashire).---In reply to your inquiry for the names of makers of steel bands for solid tires, you should get in touch with the following firms:—

Shrewsbury and Challiner Tyre Co., Ltd., Ardwick Green, Manchester.

Messrs. Smith, Parfrey and Co., Rannoch Street, Voilharn Palace Road, London, S.W. Messrs. March, Newark and Co., 45, Lawley Street, Birmingham.

Messrs. Hurst, Nelson and Co., Motherwell, Glasgow.

Messrs. G. Scanamell and Nephew, Fashion Street, Spitalfields, E.

Mr. H. C. Bauly, 131a, Bow Road, E. • German Appreciation.

The illustration reproduced below shows eight Easyweigh jacks which have recently been supplied by Jas. Bartle and Co., Western Ironworks, Notting Hill, W., to a well-known firm of German carriers. Our readers are already familiar with the advantages possessed by this hydraulic jack. We may recall, shortly, however) that it dispenses with the necessity of a weighbridge as part of a running shed equipment, and further, owing to the fact that there are no valves which can get out of order, the risk of breakdowns, and loss of efficiency need hardly be taken into consideration. A small boy can, with the aid of this jack, lift a five-ton wagon dear from the ground. The weight is automatically registered.

Forges and Forge Blowing.

The name of James Keith and Blackman Co., Ltd., is well known to all engineers whose business calls for the use of smith's hearths or blowing plant. It may be noted in passing that some of the largest heating and ventilating plants in England and abroad have been constructed and erected by this company. The great increase in the number of small engineering concerns, together with the many firms who have put down a special light plant for motorvan repairs, decided the Keith Co. to design and manufacture a range of small appliances, comprising blowers and hearths, calculated to suit the wants of this market.

Each of the differing patterns in this range of hearths is fitted with electric blowers. They have all been designed with the requirements of some particular work in view. For use in any small repair shop, a circular portable forge, fitted with a continuous current blower, and a compact starting and regulating switch, is likely to be of great service.

A British-made File.

English manufacturers are displaying marked enterprise in producing files of high efficiency. To an increasing extent, users are buying such goods on the basis of the amount of work they do under mechanical tests, instead of merely accepting the lowest tender. American competition in this industry has been practically eliminated from the home market. Sheffield makers have gone well ahead in developing the highspeed file. We have before us the report of a test by the Sheffield Testing Works (LW.), of the high-speed " Lightning" file which has lately been placed on the market by Lockwood Bros (Ltd.), Spital Hill, Sheffield.

According to this report a 14 in. file tested on both sides, made 120,000 strokes, and in 3.4 hours removed 78.8 in. of metal, weighing 22 lb. in all, from an iron bar 1 in. square. At the conclusion of this severe trial the tool was reported to be slightly worn.

It is of interest to note that the Admiralty requires the files it buys to make only 20,000 strokes, and to remove 6 in. of similar material. In round figures the "Lightning" file is capable of doing treble the amount of work of an ordinary file.


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