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ABIG drive for increased membership ,of the state associations affiliated with American Trucking Associations, is now being carried out, and, according to "Transport Topics," more than 33,000 carriers throughout the country are receiving suggestions and invitations to become members. By April the names of prospective members had been received from 46 of the affiliated bodies. This is the first time that the haulage industry in America has conducted such a campaign. New members will receive the benefits of national representation at Washington, as well as being afforded a common meeting ground for the handling of their problems within the respective States. Apparently, the idea is to enlist also the ancillary operators, for some' two-thirds of those listed by the state associations to receive applications for member
ship are in the latter field. This differs from the principle employed in Britain, where the various groups are to retain their separate identities, although to be ,united by a National Federation. Getting Road Carriers Together in the U.S.A.
Another Plea for A N ardent exponent of full Medium and Small 1—k opportunities for personal
Concerns enterprise and of looking to the medium and small concerns in the post-war world as the main sources of initiative and progress is Mr. E. C. Gordon England, who spoke to this effect in his recent address as chairman of the Engineecing Industries Association. He said that the engineering industries would, in the main, require two years to change from war to peace. He urged that concerns should be allowed to prepare now, as was being done in the U.S.A., and that the incidence of industrial taxation" should be altered to render this possible. He quoted figures to'show that two-thirds of production in this country comes from concerns of moderate size. Most great ideas and inventions which ultimately sweep through the industrial field have started in small organizations or personally conducted firms. If we ignore or underrate their importance or value, we shall court national disaster. He believed that for many years there would be a dearth of men capable of running largescale industry with industrial and social efficiency; supermen will not be found in the ranks of the bureaucrats.
AnUCH interest attaches to Lvithe enormous quantities of "equipment and materials delivered to the U.S.S.R. by America, Great Britain and Canada. We have selected only those which are of particular interest to our readers, and they are as follow:—From Atnerica: 3,734 Tanks, 207,000 lorries, 2,073,000 pneumatic tyres, 476,000 tons of high-octane aviation fuel, 99,000 tons of aluminium and duralumin, 184,000 tons of copper, 6,500 tons of nickel, 20;380 lathes, the total amounting to 7,400,000 tons. From Great Britain: 4,300 Tanks, 5,240 lorries and armoured troop carriers, 103;500 tons of rubber, 35,400 tons of aluminium, 33,400 tons of copper, 29,400 tons of tin, 47,700 tons of lead, 2,700 tons of nickel, 7,400 tons of iinc, 6,491 lathes, the total being 1,150,000 tons; but, in addition, there were received from Canada: 355,000 tons, including 1,188 Tanks, 842 troop carriers, 36,300 tons of aluminium, 9,100 tons of lead, 23,500 tons of copper, 1,324 tons of nickel, 6,700 tons of zinc. As an example of other material, Britain and Canada sent nearly 18,000,000 shells. These figures do not inelude -what was lost during transport.
Huge Supplies Received by U.S.S.R. from Her Allies. Alcohol Transport DIRITAIN does not suffer
Difficulty Between from the difficulties experiWet and Dry States enced in the U.S.A. as a result of State boundaries and the varying regulations concerning them. For example, some time ago a haulage concern was carrying 225 cases of alcoholic refreshment consigned to an officers' club in a State which was " dry." This. was seized, and it was only after appeal to the highest tribunal that it was ordered to be released and delivered. Thus the club has become a little oasis in an otherwise arid desert.
LAST week we found a friend busy preparing his cycle for a rail journey. He had removed the lamps and toolbag, but bitter experience had taught him that other precautions were necessary. Wing nuts were replaced by plain ones, the carrier was removed, handle grips
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pocketed and mudguards swathed in sacking well wired on. A final precaution, which might not have occurred to the uninitiated, was the removal of the valve caps. All these odds and ends added to the weight of his suitcase, but, carried in that way, he *as sure of having them safely on his arrival at his destination.
Preventing Water HE experience of operators
Corrosion of Standard I of Government-type gas Gas Producer . producers indicates that corro sion of the side of the producer in the region of the, weld between the upper• and lower portions is accentuated by water overflowing from the tuyere cooling tank. The trouble may be overcome by altering the position of the outlet of the existing vent pipe to the outside of the cooling tank and connecting to it, by means of a flexible hose, a suitable length of tubing, the lower part of which can be secured to the trailer frame.