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'QUIPMENT to warn of possible brake failure through loss of draulic fluid is now available as a kit fitting to any hydraulic brake layout. Le device, which is known as the Sovy, distributed by Staples and Son, Ltd., eat Pulteney Street, London, W.1, and currently fitted as standard equipment a number of European cars.
A level-sensing unit, consisting of a at and \-a micro-switch, screws on to the draulic fluid reservoir in place of the rmal cap. The float -is connected to a Ift which passes upwards through the it, projecting above it, and is set so Lt when the fluid drops to a dangerous el the micro-switch circuit is closed I energizes a warning light.
the Sovy fluid-level indicator kit is tilahle for 6v. and 12v, circuits and ;ts El 9s. 6d.
Four More Patterns L'OCIR new patterns have been added I to the range of decorative plastics laminates sold by the Arborite Co. (U.K.), Ltd. They are available in the
standard grade in high gloss, furniture finish and texture finishes and also in bending and post-forming grades.
The new patterns are Autumn Breeze, a four-colour leaf design, Red Holiday, a black-and-white pattern on a red background, Golden Glitter on Horizon Blue and Golden Glitter on Red.
Aluminium Welding Manual WITH the considerable advances that VI' have been made in the techniques of welding aluminium during the past few years, Alcan Industries, Ltd., Banbury. Oxfordshire, have brought up to date • and considerably enlarged their book Welding Aluminium.
Like its predecessors, the new edition makes special reference to the arcshrouded processes—tUngsten inert gas (TIG) and metal inert gas ORGY—and the tables of procedures, which occupy half the book's 48 pages, apply to these methods. Descriptions are also included of other welding processes---namely metallic arc, resistance, ultrasonic, gas and pressure welding, also brazing and tungsten-arc cutting—and a section has been added explaining the fundamentals of welding aluminium. Other sections deal with the choice of process and alloyand the strength of joints.