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Preventing Rust by UANY operators look upon Holding thePaint "I the well-known Pyrene Firmly method of Bonderizing.steel as being something that in itself gives precaution against corrosion. This is not actually the case, although it plays a great part in this desirable attribute. It is a method of phosphating which provides a spongy surface, thus holding the paint far more securely than would otherwise be -the case. It is this close binding which prevents the intrusion of water and assists in preventing peeling.
The Development WE have already referred .
of a Famous Oil vv. griefly to the Jubilee of Company C. C. Wakefield. and Co., Ltd. When Charles Cheers• Wakefield launched the concern he was already a man of 40 and had a wide knowledge of the trade, having cornruenced in it as a junior clerk with a Liverpool oil broker. His office staff of three was established in three small rooms in Cannon Street, London, and there were five travellers on the road. During the first few years the business was mainly in railway oils, although, indeed, a lubricant for the new " horseless carriages" was included amongst the company's subsidiary products. it was in 1909 that a new type of oil called Castrol was developed, which
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resulted in a great expansion of sales. Withthe end of the 1914-18 war the public was offered a multiplicity of grades by different makers, and to simplify this position the Wakefield concern introduced a single oil which would be acceptable for the majority of vehicles. This was Castrol XL, the two 'letters of the second _Part being" _symbolic of the word " Excelsior." Lord Wakefield, as he became in 1930, and his company did invaluable work to enhance the prestige of British engineering by encouraging motor racing and flying, and the tiny business became one of the largest in its field, with branches all over the world. Until 1943 it was a private concern, but then became a public company representing millions of pounds of capital.
Blind Men Successful 7-'HERE are 89,000 blind in Fine. ElectricalI persons in this country, Work . , S and many more than at present could make a useful living. The Post Office has set a good example in this direction, and some of. the men employed by it he developed such a fine sense of touch that they can identify any one of 90 electrical relay springs, some varying in thickness by as little as half a thousandth of an-inch: They are not treated any differently from other staff, and, except in special cases, decline any modification to the normal jigs and tools. I T is claimed by Mr. F D. Ascoli, president of the Institute of the Rubber Industry and managing director of the, Dunlop plantations, that if political disorders in Malaya were to interfere with rubber production, the loss in dollars would be equivalent to a meal a day for everyone in Britain. Last year, Malayan rubber earned dollars to the equivalent of 140,000,000, but production was seriously threatened by political unrest. In all the country's neighbours, to the north and east, there are disorder and civil war, and since early in 1948 the terrorism has spiead to Malaya. What Natural Rubber from Malaya Means to Britain . .
Enlarged Fawley ReTHE Esso Fawley refinery, finery Will Save Many A which is to be greatly Dollars extended, and which, it is
hoped, will be in full operation in its enlarged form in January, 1952, will, it is claimed, be the biggest in Europe. The additions alone will cost £.37,500,000. It will produce petrol, kerosene, gas and oil fuels, asphaltes and special products. The maximum daily output will be 110,000 barrels, as against the present 19,000, and the annual production will be about 5,000,000 tons. Employees will number about 2,500. The refinery should effect substantial savings in dollars, as there will be greatly increased shipments of crude petroleum from the Middle East instead of importing refined products.
A Spare Part That NA AN Y stories are told of Could not be 1"boys being sent to the tool Supplied stores for such things as a
4-in. hole, or a rubber hammer, but the cream of them all must surely be an inquiry recently received by the technical department of a well-known London distributor ,A female voice asked, "What are the valve clearances for the model X Blank engine? On being given the information, the inquirer asked if the distributor had any in stock! Whether or not a joke was being played on the girl is not known, but the concern for which she worked was one well known to the distributor.