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New Source of thetic rubber for tyres has Synthetic been fleveloped by the American Goodrich concern. It uses for the emulsion a soap solution with a base of resin acid derived from the abundant southern pine. This company alone has produced over 10,000 tons since June, 1944, and is now operating at the rate of 15,000 tons per year. Another plant of equal capacity has been set up by the U.S. Government. The new product, which is claimed to reduce tread cracking and wear, is called GR-S-10 and is of the same general type as GR-S, which now constitutes fottr-fifths of the national schedule of syntheticrubber production. There are no signs of a let-up in the competition against the natural product.

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Criticism of Our WE have received ,a corn. Vehicles Which ReVY municatiod from a quires Attention . . squadron leader, who is con vinced that some British makers ot commercial vehicles must "pull up their socks" if they are to achieve success in the export sphere. Under his control he had over :300 lorries, comprised of three American makes and one British. Many of the former have done over 65,000 miles and are still going strong on their original engines, but the British make caused many a headache. Our products were used mostly as tractors for 5-ton "Queen Marys." It seems to him that we must plan cheaper, better and much more simple chassis. This criticism, of course, applies mainly to one model, but it is good' to ventilate such a complaint and have it rectified. A Double-deckBus A N intere-sting development with Loud-Speaker r-Lin connection with facilities Equipment . . for passenger road transport is

a new double-decker equipped with amicrophone, battery-operated amplifier and three loud-speakers (two on the lower deck and one on the upper). By means of these, passengers are kept well informed as to stopping places. It is employed at Blackpool, and was recently inspected by delegates to the Lancashire and Cheshire Area meeting of the M.P.T.A. Such a scheme has possibilities in connection with coach tours.

A British Standards MANY people have argued Poll on a Spelling 0'1 as to the use of the letters Mat, r . " s " and "z' in such words

as " standardization, ' and readers of the " Standards Review,' issued by the British Standards Institution, were invited to advise on this matter. So far, the consensus of opinion is that " z ' is preferred. One letter received put the matter as follows :—" To particularize, I advise the

B.S.I. to show enterprise and realize that it has hitherto been misadvised, possibly hypnotized; that this particular enterprise should be -neutralized, or exorcised; and that the Institution should be manumised and should reorganize, normalize and legitatnize its utilization of ' ise ' and '.ize ' in their . properly recognized and etymologized places, so that it may no longer be despised and stigmatized for emprising to eternize ' ise.' where greater authorities have canonized ize '."

Our Journal Said to A READER informs us that be Full oi Useful 1-1. during the war he regu

Ideas larly handedhis .copy of this journal to a Service repair depot, but as this recently closed down he began to send it out to a youth who had just joined up in R.E.M.E. After a few weeks he inquired to know whether the paper was found useful. The answer was emphatic: " I like it. It gives me useful ideas." An unsolicited testimonial which we certainly appreciate.


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