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Many or Our ExA N official of the British Servicemen Wish to 4-1 Legion in Liverpool states,
Run Taxicabs . . . rather surprisingly, that out of 100 requests which he has received for advice in starting businesses, no fewer than 80 were from men who want to operate oneman taxis in that city. No doubt other areas are getting similar inquiries. If so, it looks as if the cab trade might be packed out. Perhaps these would-be cabbies have been reading of the profits gained during the American " invasion."
Is it Cheaper to HE excessive cost of
Plead Guilty Than L defending a law case is
to Defend ? . . referred to in a letter sent
from a Yorkshire haulage contractor. He and his driver were summoned in connection with the operation of a vehicle with alleged defective brakes. Both summonses were dismissed on payment of 22 14s. costs, but the legal fee was 2.8 8s. Added to this were the expenses of two witnesses and their transport, some 24. Therefore, to prove innocence in this case cost over 215. If the defendants had pleaded guilty, experience has shown that the penalties wourd have been in the region of 26. This is probably why so many prosecutions against drivers and operators go through unchallenged.
AT first thought one would believe that to print a name on the core of a sparking plug would be a simple matter. Actually, this has involved considerable research and special plant. For example, a new device utilizing gas-heated, high-temperature", infra;-red units has recently been installed by the Champion Sparking Al2
Printing Sparking-plug Cores' by Radiant Heat
Plug Co., Ltd.The equipment was designed and constructed by the Gas Light and Coke Company. To " fire" the red printing ink into the white glaze, of the sillimanite cores it is necessary to heat the latter to between 650 and 700 degiees C., thus • enabling the ink to flow into the glaze and become ' permanent. The new plant eliminates the numerous' nickel tubes, protecting muffles, heavy brickwork, air-blast cooling for inspection, etc., formerly• required. The new plant consists of two 12-ft. gas fires forming a tunnel through which pass vertical steel rods attached to a Renolds conveyor chain running beneath the horizontal radiant bars. The cores are dropped on to these rods and travel through the tunnel for nearly five minutes. They then pass through a cooling duct. One gill can, in a normal day, deal with up to 19,000 cores, and 16 sizes of core are treafed.
THE chairman of the
Retailers' Section of the S.M.M.T., Mr. H. G. Starley, said at Halifax, recently, that train travel was sufficient evidence of the urgent need for alternative transport. Overcrowded beyond description, the railways require the relief, that unrestricted coach and car travel would bring. 'Therefore, the new Order limiting the use of coaches to short distances is hard to understand. He added that in France, from which he had recently returned, he saw what could happen to a country where transport has almost ceased to exist. An extensive black market was found everywhere as a result of the nondistribution of goods, of which there were often adequate supplies. This surely indicates that in the world of to-morrow cheap transport will prove a means for reducing the .cost of living.
Good Transport Is a Key to Better Living
Not All German THEGeiinan Autobahnen Roads are in Good have received so much pubCondition . . . . licity that it has come as quite
a shock to many British Army drivers to find that most of the roads which they have tO use in Germany are rough and often poorly constructed. A member of tho Editorial staff of this journal, who is now' in the Services in that country, relates how one of his men was peacefully driving a three-tonner, when the vehicle sank bodily as the road caved in. It came to rest with its -tailboard and bonnet top level with the surrounding surface. Two 10-ton recovery vehicles were required t extricate it. Following this, a Tank had to tow out—one of the breakdown lorries. The trouble appeared to he_ due to ditch-water undermining the road, which was without any proper foundations. On the other hand, a run on a proper Autobahn. is hailed 'with delight by most drivers.
M.A.A. Presidenc TI-1AT versatile president of Describes Functions the M.A.A., Mr. George W.
of Trade Associations Lucas, has reminded Alder shot Rotarians that selfpteservation remains the first law of Nature, and if a return to the law of the jungle, which is what is meant by those loudest in their demands for free enterprise and free competition, becomes the future policy, combinations of individuals will arise to ptotect themselves against the consequences of the latter law. Trade associations, he says, must be given a national status in the industrial structure' of the future, and they will need an entirely new conception of their responsibilities. They must in future be the instruments of collaboration with Governments in the execution of policies required in the national interest; We might, however, ask Mr.. Lucas if the associations have not A duty to protect their members.