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That is the Question (-)NE of our correspondents —To Be or Not To •-oihas asked us to solve a
? . problem which is candidly beyond our ability. He says that he recently observed an Army ambulance camouflaged to render it inconspicuous, and yet decorated with a large red cross. He asks the reason for this confusion of ideas. Perhaps sOmeone in the Services will be able to give an explanation.
A Tank Training Corps AN interesting suggestion for Suggested by "The '171 the forming of a Tank
Motor" Training Corps on similar lines to the Air Training Corps is made in a letter to our associated journal, "The Motor," of February 18, and we think it well worthy of consideration by the authorities concerned. Hitler has shown what can be done with Tanks, and as our equipment in this respect grows we shall require increasing numbers of young men skilled in the control
of these machines and in their repair. One point made is that the training should start on lightweight motorcycles, gradually leading up to track machines, but it is not envisaged that any Yak. should be competitive with 'the-A.T.C.
Rubber Stocks and HE U.S.A. claims that it Synthesis Will See A and its Allies have suffi Us Through . . . cient stocks of rubber to
supply war needs for 18 nnenths, and that by the time these stocks ; are exhausted the production of synthetic rubber in the States will be able to meet all requirements. The important point about this artificial but excellent material is that in America it is largely made !roil' a by-product of petroleum.