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B.R.F. Will Help in SHORT leader in the
Publicity for Road "Monthly Bulletin of Road Transport . . , Information," published by the British Road Federation, deals with advertising the industry. It points out that before the war the Federation was maintainirt an excellent reputation for the quality and sincerity of its propaganda on behalf of road transport,and that when the moment is ripe for constructive publicity of this nature, it will again enter the lists.
The Lorry-loading ACCORDING to "Transport Conditions in Cleveri■ Topics," which quotes a
land, Ohio . . . report from the Permanent Advisory Committee of the Office of Defense Transportation for the Cleveland Area, U.S.A., in this whole territory, in 99 per cent. of all outborne trips by hauliers of general commodi'des their vehicles are fully laden. Of all the lorry
movements into the territory, except in the case of steel, full loads comprise 89 per cent, of the traffic. the remaining 11 per cent, consisting of partial loads or empties. So far as steel is concerned, the difficulty in this connection is shown by the fact that the vehicles of hauliers transporting this material run 40 per cent. unladen.
Important Progress in THE B. F. Goodrich Corn Develoome n t of pany has developed a Rubber Springs . . rubber spring. It was ready
for cars when the war came. It consists of a stall cylinder with a shaft inside, the 'space between being filled with rubber. The shaft is attached to the body, the cylinder to the wheel, and the cylinder turns as the wheel rides up and down, shocks being taken by the twisting rubber. A similar form has been designed for the amphibian Tank. It 4, however, lighter and more simple, with no projections.
Tractors Help Secure I ITTLE comment is needed Big Increases in 1--4 on some statistics that have Essential Crops . . lately been issued by the
Ministry of Agriculture to provide evidence of the war effort of the farming industry, but certain of them are worth quoting to show the vital part that tractors abd the equipment used with them have played in enabling crop outputs to be materially raised. The average increase in specific instances is well illustrated by taking some of the staple individual crops, which have showed the following percentages on pre-war figures:— potatoes, 80.4; oats, 72; cereals, 65.7; vegetables, 55.1; wheat, 35.6. Only by mechanized cultivation has such remarkable progress been rendered possible, and the fact that the number of tractors in use was raised from 55,000 in 1939 to 150,000 in 1942, and the number of tractor implements from 200,000 to 1,175,000 in the same period, form a reliable index of the extent to which mechanical equipment has been adopted for tillage and allied farming tasks. The estimated increase in the net output from the soil of the United Kingdom, measured in calories, is 70 per cent, above the pre-war total.
USA. to Use Liners A TTENTION might well with Tyres Hitherto 4-'1 be paid by Tyre Control to
Scrapped . • • a hint contained in a recent Order made by the U.S.A. Rubber Director. It is to the effect that where additional mileage can be obtained from old tyre casings by utilizing liners, they are to be excluded from rubber scrap. This would appear to indicate that in such cases tyres in which the breaker strip or even the fabric is showing could give many more miles of useful life.