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Tech n Ica! getalls of exLAST month we were asked
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nical bureau dealing with road transport matters in Austria, for details of British ex-Service vehicles purchased for use there. The object was to give as much information as possible to Austrian drivers and the men in the repair shops concerned with their maintenance. Apart from sending certain details, we published a small paragraph in this journal, and as a result the bureau received much useful advice. In a further letter the director said that the bureau had not expected to receive an answer so soon, "because in Austria one has to wait for everything for a long time."
AT the Goodyear Tyre and . Rubber Company's plant
Tyres Akron, Ohio, is one of the world's largest tyre-testing machines. It is used to conduct deflection and other tests on tyres employed on giant earth-moving equipment, also on those for aeroplanes. It can exert pressures up to 600,000 lb., or be employed for any type of tensile or compression test within its limits of dimension and load capacity. Standing 32 ft. high, it is hydraulically operated and has three load ranges. There is a clear width of 6 ft. between its columns, and it will accommodate tyres or test specimens measuring up to 12 ft. in height or length. It is truly a giant amongst "giants." A Super Testing Machine for the Largest Cold-spell Comforts for Manchester's Buses . . .
PART of the ammunition which M'anchester Transport Department has laid in against a possible annual return of the "ice age," consists of a -store of stout brown paper. This material will provide " cosies " for those vehicles not fltted with radiator blinds or shields. It is, we understand, to be issued out to depots when the temperature falls to 20 degrees or below Use of such methods of blanidrig-off, of course, prevents local freeziag, usually of the lower water hose, and boiling of the water higher up If necessary, it is stated, windscreens will be sprayed with glycerine to prevent their misting over, whilst the wipers will thus be less likely to clog To obviate engine stiffness and gumming up, a special winter grade of oil will be used Measures were so desperate in last year's emergency that some companies even experimented with anti-frieeze mixtures of old sump oil and salt Such additions are, however, not to be recommended, salt, in particular, being most harmful to radiators and wat:pumps.
How fords Halved nNE of the 'special sections Costs of Radiator'1/4" of the Ford works at core Assembly Dagenham is the 'surveying • department. the sole activity of which is to consider present production methods, with a view to reducing costs and making work more interesting and less strenuous One machine conceived by it is for the assembly of radiator cores it required 150 drawings, and for it 316 component parts were made in the factory It assembles 330 votes in 91 his and, incidentally, cuts production costs arid scrap wastage by 50 per cent,, whilst the operation requires the attention of only three men.