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Modernization Hits Sark
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T POSITIVELY guarantee that nobody else has the problem I now confronting Mr. J. M. Robson, of the Robson Electric Supply Co., Sark. He has to find a replacement, to quote his own words, for the island ambulance: "a horse-drawn fourwheel job from the Crimean War front."
Sark, you may remember, does not allow motor vehicles on its roads, Apparently the Dame of Sark rode in the Crimean ambulance—unsprung and in use on Sark for the past 50 years —for the first time about a month ago. She did not. I understand (not with surprise) like the ride.
Now Mr. Robson has to find • a trailer-type ambulance to be towed behind a Ferguson tractor.
Half-Time
ACCORDIN G to a daily newspaper 'communications between Jordan's newly expanded port of Aqaba . . . and the capital, Amman, have been cut by half with the cempletion of the Amman Maan-Aqaba road."
Is this another ease where, like air suspension, most of the people who have clamoured for an improvement decide, when at last they have it, that they never really wanted it?
Bus Artists
ONCE again London Transport are this year holding a display of their employees' oils, water colours, drawings and sculptures. More than 100 exhibits are on show at Charing Cross Underground station. Every year I go along to this first-class free show and, as this year. 1 am never disappointed.
Perhaps I have no spirit of adventure, but it always surprises me that so many good artists and sculptors exist under one roof—even as commodious a roof as 55 Broadway. One regret: there are now no paintings by the ex-chairman, Sir John Elliot. Could he not have been invited as a "guest artist "?
Sir John, for those who have not seen his works, is no mean artist and—like all true painters--is quite prolific in his output. I 1
This year, the only " top-brass" representative is Mr. E. C. Ottaway. the L.T.E. supplies officer.
No Limitometers
THE Minister of Transport has rejected an invention by two Durham men, designed to reduce the speeds of vehicles in built-up areas and thereby, it is assured, reduce accidents. The device known as a " Limitometer " has been invented by Mr, W. Scilly, of Ferryhill, and Mr. A. Wilkinson, of Spennymoor, both of whom are employed by a firm of electrical manufacturers. Fixed to the outside of vehicles, it would indicate on a dial the speed of the vehicle to people within a radius of about 100 yd.
The inventors stated that the fact that their speeds could be seen by members of the public would stop drivers travelling too fast through built-up areas. The inventors claimed that the device would not prove a distraction to other drivers. MO Charles Grey and Mr. Joseph Slater. two Members of Parlia
nt for Co. Durham, are to ask the Minister of Transport give the matter further consideration.
wish they would change their minds. Drivers—particularly private cars—cause quite enough chaos for road transport it is without giving them something else to look at.
ode Stopped Play
I ALE force winds reaching 90 m.p.h. along the Lancashire [coast were the cause of an application for a holiday camp vice by Rambler Coaches (Morecambe), Ltd., being with.wri from a list before the North Western Traffic Commistiers last week.
infortunately one of the main witnesses, the managing ector of the camp, was unable to attend. The previous day gale had literally swept some of his caravans into the sea many had been blown over and severely damaged. He was ible to get away even to attend the traffic court.
uod Ideas
£70 JOINT award has been made for a waste-saving L suggestion by the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great tam), Ltd., to two employees, Mr. Albert Isaacs (engineering ision) and Mr, Leslie Weaver (technical). They pooled their as for a winning award, and suggested a method of successLy avoiding wastage in steel tyre building. , Phis was an ideal ease of co-operation between employees two different departments, Mr. Isaacs contributing his experi:e from the manufacturing side and Mr. Weaver his technical )wledge of the product.
knother award which Goodyear have just made is for £40, ich went to Mr. Vic Burley, also of technical service, for suggestion of a new design for tread edge trimmers. This low in operation both at Wolverhampton and Glasgow.
t always surprises me, you know, that more people do not e advantage of their employees ideas and start suggestions ernes. They always pay off.
know of quite a few companies which have instituted such ns. If for no other reason at all, they are worthwhile for improved employee relations that result.