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Selected Information which is likely to be of Interest to Makers, Owners, and their Buyers.
k Useful Combined Tool for Coil Adjustments.
With reference to the special type of high-tension ignition mils for commercial vehicles, which are manufactured by United Motor Industries, Limited, and which we described Fully in our issue of the r8th of June last, we have now eceiyed a useful and ingenious combination tool, which
should greatly facilitate adjustments to ignition installations of this type. The small sketch shows the arrangement of the parts. The open and closed hexagon ends of the spanner itself are suited to the various lock nuts on the make-andbreak device of the UM.I. coil. The limb, which is marked A on the drawing, and which, with the small screwdriver (B), is pivoted to the spanner, is exactly millimetre thick, and it is used to determine the precise distance that should separate the platinum points when they are in the "break " position,
C.S. (Balbam) requires the names of firms that would undertake a small and regular quantity of good-class iron castings, to be made from patterns which he would supply. The foundry must be within five or six miles of Charing Cross.
P.W. (Leeds).—Buck and Hickman, Limited, of 2, Whitechapel Road, E., supplies the hacksaw about which you enquire; W. 11. Willcox and Company, Limited, of 23, Southwark Street, S.E., should also be able to supply you with a suitable machine.
NEMESIS (Sheffield).—We are pleased to afford information, in these columns, on any subject relative to the putchase of general stores, components and materialThe name you require is The Hughes-Johnson Stampings, Limited, whose offices and works are at Langley Green, near Birmingham.
L.L.M. (Wandsworth).—You will be well advised to fix up a definite contract for a period of at least twelve months for the steam coal that you will undoubtedly require for the particular steam wagon of which you contemplate becoming the owner. Write to William Cory and Son, Limited, or one of the other large coal factors. Cory's head office is at 52, Mark Lane, E.C.