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Does it Pay To Use QOME people have doubts as Special Oils in Cold lb-J to the value of changing Weather? from summer to winter lubri
cants for engines. In this connection,. the National Physical Laba-ratory has just issued an interesting report on various oils, which reveals that 13 per cent. more engine power was obtained by using a lighter winter oil compared with that produced when a thick summer grade was employed. It may be added that such care is taken in the laboratory in question that a report issued by it is beyond dispute.
Hit Back Hard at NATJCH good work can be Pro-rail Anti-road Ividone by operators drawing Propaganda' attention to propaganda, which is obviously detrimental to road-transport. One of our readers recently visited a cinema *here a news-reel showed railway posters, a streamline train, and lorries, the last-named, presumably, being the villains of the piece; then Lord
Stamp said his bit. The posters were ‘received in silence ; when the train was shown several people remarked "What about some decent, suburban services?"; the lorries received a storm of clapping, whilst Lord Stamp's comments were received with several exclamations of "Sr. ydu r" These points and others, giving the road side, were included in a letter sent by this operator to the film producers concerned.
Right • of Commoners A LTHOUGH representations Comes Before Life 'have been made to West
Itself Dean Council, in connection with the menace of straying sheep in the Forest of Dean, and although members of the council agree that a regulation to prevent them so doing would reduce the toll of the road, they are unwilling to agree to a move which might threaten the right of the commoners. One is tempted to ask whether a decision of such vital importance should be left to West Dean Councillors. Surely, this is a case for the Ministry of Transport.