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The Mother of Invention
iN the days of the great Henry Ford a widespread 'belief existed that a high-powered section of his headquarters devoted its time to the circulation of funny stories regarding his products. Records suggest that the presence of such a department was never denied.
Although often slanderous, the jokemongers' efforts were seldom humourless and, accepting the principle that all publicity is good publicity, they must have exercised a valuable influence on business. "Sweet are the uses of advertisement," as Shakespeare might have said, and on that basis British Road Services must surely be well satisfied with the quantity of publicity that comes its way.
. Behind the scenes there may even be industrious servants of the nation who sort over the side-splitters of the day, blue-pencilling those that are already blue and farming out to the world 'those snappy stories that will assist in keeping BA.S. in the public mind. Many will hope that, like the gentleman who was called the Flivver King, B.R.S. will not deny the existence of the smoke-room boys and their A26 Unsuspecting Citizen. Who but that charming character, the U.C., could have mistaken the Road Haulage Executive for a bus undertaking because he had heard of the enormous number of passengers it carried? '
To disown the creators would be unjust not only to them but also to those of the B.R.S. staff who slave to make things really tick.
In these days, of course; the desire for publicity is the mother of much invention.
No Need to Doubt Remoulds
A LTHOUGH remoulded tyres are not viewed with " the same suspicion that they were a few years back, there are still people who are not fully convinced that they are not buying trouble. One of the major troubles in the past was that insufficient trouble was taken to ensure that the casing to be treated was sound.
A member of our staff who recently needed three remoulded tyres was rather crestfallen when the remoulder refused to accept his casings. Even a loose ply is sufficient reason for non-acceptance. The Marsham Tyre Co., Ltd., with which one associates, particularly, the name of Regent remoulds, refuses anything but a near-perfect casing for ,treatment. This applies whether it is taken in on an exchange basis, or whether the customer wishes to have his own casings treated.
This policy is one which can lead only to a greater acceptance of remoulded tyres as, after all, the casing is the foundation of the whole structure.
Tyre-patching in China
DURING recent years the average life of tyres in
China, where spares have been virtually unobtainable, has not been subject to safety precautions. Tyres remain on lorry wheels until they burst. Even after the carcasses have been ripped open, they are often patched and returned to the rims. When completely useless for road work, they are usually sold to boot repairers, for when everything is hard to get, nothing is wasted. The "snobs" do not get them until they have covered more miles over bad roads than their manufacturers could have conceived possible.
The accompanying illustration shows one method of repair for a typical burst in an outer cover. A strip cut from another tyre, no longer repairable, has been secured by half a dozen small nuts and bolts and large washers. Repairs of this type may do anything up to 2,000 miles over the roughest roads.