REMOULDING "THE SAME ONLY DIFFERENT" TYRES TRUE TO SIZE AND SHAPE
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Any given tyre size can vary slightly from make to make. For example, one popular 5.90-15 tyre is slightly larger in overall dimensions than another leading make. Yet both fit a 15" wheel. Regent have these differences plotted and remould different tyres accordingly. All casings are precisely measured before curing and the correct mould employed. Without this precaution, casings could become buckled or stretched during processing, a structurally weakened remould could result, and sudden premature tyre failure could occur on the road. Scrupulous care at every stage of the process is an assurance that the Regent Remoulds fitted to your vehicles will give you unequalled trouble-free mileage.
a day would cost about £67. The company have, how., kept their prices comparatively low by establishing r own branches in various cities, so that return loads be obtained. The alternative would be to use a liers' co-operative clearing house to whom 25-per-cent. missions would be payable.
further advantage of independence in this respect is individual jobs can be handled by the company's own tur throughout a long-distance operation, whereas subracting would entail passing work to other carriers lacked the same degree of responsibility for the conments. The value of this has been proved, as transmeat of loads is avoided and claims, when they occur, more easily processed.
lechanical handling has successfully been applied in the ;ern's warehouses, although the goods are of various ; and shapes. Although this is equally desirable in am, progress is hampered by the lack of capital to existing buildings or put up new ones, and, particur in towns, to find sufficient land at reasonable cost.
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kNY readers of The Commercial Motor cherish their copies for years and some have them bound, but sionally one is anxious that others should benefit. In connection Mr. C. Hamilton, 141 Lifstan Way, rpe Bay, Essex, has sets available for the years 1954and those for 1951-1953 with a few copies missing hose who have been thirsting to complete their files ild communicate with him.
Road Transport v. Burns
THE Bard of Scotland, Robert Burns, was responsible for those present at a recent luncheon given by Mr. F. T. Auld, himself a Scot, who is in charge of the commercial-vehicle department of L. F. Dove (C.V.), Ltd., of Croydon, whose " party " confrere was Mr. J. Godfrey, the general manager. Other guests were Sir Herbert Butcher, M.P., of the Beecham Group, Mr. R. Morton Mitchell, chief executive officer and secretary of the Road Haulage Association, that body's vice-chairman, Mr. N. T. O'Reilly, 0.B.E., Mr. F. Pilling of the South Suburban Co-operative Society, Mr. H. G. Stevens of Courage and Barclay, and the editors of this journal and another.
Much interest was shown in a volume of the poet's works published over 100 years ago, and another which was picked up for 6d. from a book market in Italy when our editor was there a few years ago to attend the Turin Motor Show. With a majority of Sassenachs, however, the conversation was mostly concerned with road transport and other matters unrelated to the immediate object.
More Name than Current
A LENGTHY name for a new kind of lighting is r-k " electroluminescence." This requires no white-hot filaments, arcing or activating rays. It is said to produce an area of light of any desired form and the panels which provide it arc claimed to last for 30,000 hours and use remarkably little current.