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dynamo bracket of my 16-month-old car broke on M1 and I crawled into Luton mainly under steam power. After two garages had regretfully declined assistance. Barrett's took on the work at once and their charge was agreeably modest.
While waiting I inspected their splendid 1899 Daimler nine-seat charabancs, which, 1 was told, had earned a good deal of money for charity. All it needed was a battery to make it a runner.
Barrett's also have a 16-vehicle haulage business, which does a large amount of work for the Luton hat trade and for Vauxhall Motors.
Silent Scouses
NO official reason has yet been given for the cancellation of the Liverpool round of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition a fortnight or so before it was due to he held last July. I heard last week of the embarrassment it caused the organizers at Manchester and Stoke-on-Trent, who, at the last minute, were asked to take disappointed entrants from Liverpool. They did their best and strained their resources to the limit, but Were unable to accept everyone.
Liverpool will have to give a better account of itself before it is allowed to take part in the competition.
Sales Through Press
D RIT1SH trade and technical journals are being sent to more thart-3,500 leading business and professional men in Canada under a scheme designed to boost exports from the United Kingdom to Canada. The Dollar Exports' Council and the Periodical Proprietors' Association of London have jointly planned the operation.
Mr. James Duncan, chairman of the Dollar Trade Council in Canada, has written to each recipient, commending the publication he is to receive. This is another example of how much British trade and industry rely on their specialized Press.
Food for Thought
ikirR. G. W. SEDGEWICK, the genial chief engineer of the IVIDevon General Omnibus and Touring Co., Ltd., is a man not afraid to practise, with marked success, some of the rather unconventional theories that he holds. His latest less-practical thought, which he aired to me with a subdued chuckle last week, is that because most of the properties of modern lubricants are provided by additives, the oil in them is corning more and more to act merely as a carrier while becoming progressively less viscous. If another additive were developed to prevent the evaporation of water and suitable anti-corrosive agents were introduced, he suggested, oil as such could become a back!lumber.
ssorted Takings
HE experiment of fitting "honesty" boxes to 20 trams in Budapest produced £10, foreign coins, buttons and rude otes. But the operators are not discouraged. Even fter subtracting the miscellaneous items, the fitting of " money oxes " to the whole tram fleet is expected to bring in another 15,000 a year. Most British operators who have tried them ound that they got only the rude notes.
oises Off
ACKGROUND music of recorded tram noises accompanied
a dinner held in Sheffield last Saturday to celebrate the assing of the municipal trams. Mercifully, they will never e heard again in the steel city. Some of the trams are being reserved for posterity—in silence.