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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

Prize Scheme to EnCLEANLINESS and neatcourage Factory l•-• ness in the factory are Cleanliness . . . . matters which help greatly in attaining higher and more accurate production. On the contrary, slovenliness tends to make the workers careless and slack. With a view to encouraging the former attitude. the SelfChanging Gear Cu., Ltd., of Coventry, awards every month a money prize, free of income tax, to the employee whose machine or place of work is judged to be the cleanest. Marking takes place at several unspecified times during the month, so that the final result does not depend upon a snap decision or any periodical burst of cleanliness. Even customers are sometimes invited to make the rounds and act as judges.

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THE Geneva Section of the Touring Club of Switzerland is making a special appeal to all drivers for care and courtesy during the period of the Motor Show in that city. On alternate days, stamp cancellations on all letters posted there bear the words "Prudence et Courtoisie"; on the other days they carry publicity concerning the exhibition. Each member of the club has been given a smart transparency for the rear window of his vehicle, inviting drivers to be -careful. Nine large notices, with similar wording, are stretched across the principal roads of the town. Every driver coming to, or stationed at, Geneva is receiving an illustrated folder on road safety, of which 40,000 have been printed.

Road Safety Campaign during the Geneva Show

'f THE director of the British HE and Motor Cycle Manufacturers and Traders' Union, apart front complaining to the Coventry Chamber of Commerce of the delays in delivery of goods carried by British Road Services (reference to which we made last week), has been hitting out at the careless way in which the products of his industry are treated on the railways. He stated that while at Euston recently he saw new motorcycles and cycles thrown here and there in a . disgraceful manner, and hardly one escaped minor damage. The same carelessness applied to parcels: He added that goods put on the road for Birkenhead and Liverpool seven days before the normal requirements, were actually losing the ships, and the impact on the export effort was almost impossible to describe. One of his audience suggested that as there is a car-delivery service there might just as well be a cycle-delivery service. He was sure it would be quicker! . Trade Official Criticizes Quality of State Transport . . • Thames Dartford A RECENT question in the Tunnel which many 1ThHouse of Commons have Forgotten . elicited a written answer con

cerning a projected Thames tunnel about which many people seem to have forgotten. It was first mooted in 1924, when it was estimated to cost £3m., and it was to pass under the river north-east of Dartford. Work commenced 13 years later, when engineers began driving a 12-ft.

pilot tunnel, 110 ft. below high-water level. A junction from the shafts at each end was effected in 1938, and preparations then made for driving the main passage, which would have been 1,500 yds. long with a 20-ft. road, but work on it ceased in 1939. A sum of £100,000 was spent on plant for keeping the pilot tunnel in good order, and the annual expenditure since has been £10,000. If this tunnel ever be completed, it will be of great help to industrial traffic between many riverside areas, and divert this and through traffic from other already congested tunnels and bridges.


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