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Lesson's Oct Output pRODUCTION at the From the Pyrene Pyrene factory is 40 per Factory cent. up on what it was two

years ago with approximately the same number of employees. About 70 per cent. is 'piecework and, unlike the general experience with labour, some workers have left because the proportion is not higher. The keenness is Such that men on night work often arrive well before the official starting time in order to prepare the "programme" for the night. Mr. D. C. Daily, the general manager of the works, did, however, mention during a recent visit that the 15-minute break for rest and refreshment throws production back by 45 minutes. One reason for the aforementioned general increase is that the situation regarding raw materials is easier. Previously, the workers were not in a hurry to finish a job;

because they feared a hold-up. Then there are improved methods and machines, and more of the

latter will be installed, but the horse-power available per head is still nearly 50 per cent, under the average American figure. Essentially, the limit of a man's capacity can now be based on what he can control in the way of power.

Remove Purchase THE incidence of the Pur Tax From Vehicle I chase Tax sometimes falls Upholstery . . . . heavily in unexpected quarters,

and most unfairly. For example: How can anyone justify the imposition of 100 per cent, tax on the upholstery materials for coaches and buses, and on other vehicles where it may be employed? It seems iniquitous to us that the original cost and maintenance of such vehicles should be considerably increased in this manner, and it is a case which should be taken up by the representative bodies concerned.

A Red Rear Light niNE of our friends was Which Developed telling us the other day of Anwrnia a little surprise that he had

had in connection with a tail lamp. This might appear to be quite an insignificant matter, but the point was that he began suddenly and unintentionally to break the law. When the vehicle was delivered to him new, the lamp showed red according to the legal requirement, but one night he found to his amazement that the light emitted was white. On investigation, he found that the inside of the white glass had been sprayed with red synthetic paint; vibration had detached this mask, and it had fallen below the level of the glass. Presumably, there had been a shortage of supplies and this was an expedient adopted by the people concerned, but, apparently, not a very successful one. Fortunately, he noted it before the police raised any objection.

A Few Lucky People A LITTLE while ago we Can Use Calor Gas were interested to see a

Fuel . . . vehicle with a special fuel con

tainer at the back. This turned out to be a large Calor-gas cylinder. Querying this with the driver, he said it was quite correct that he was running on this gas. We suggested that it was illegal to use such an alternative fuer,..and he agreed that this was so except in a few Cases in which the equipment had been fitted up before .a. certain date, and each driver using it had to carey. a special certificate to this effect. He had had a griat deal of trouble with the police, who needed a lorof persuasion, but the certificate always carried the day. It is, of course, rather an expensive fuel to employ, the cost working out at something like the equivalent of petrol at 4s.5s. per gallon. The running appeared to be quite normal, and the arrangement .was, such that petrol could be used alternatively.

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