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PURE chromium is so applied -to cylinder bores by a patented process that it has millions of tiny pores; there are also minute channels on its surface. These pores act as reservoirs for lubricating oil,-,which is fed back to the surface as required. It is claimed that the addition reduces corrosion and wear' and greatly increases cylinder and piston-ring life.
Porous Chromium Re' duces Wear on Engine Cylinders
U.S. Motor Industry's HE Automobile Manufac
turers' Association of America, in its booklet,
" Automobile Facts and Figures," deals particularly with the war effort of this section of industry. Up to the beginningThf this year, some 24 billion dollars of aircraft products, guns, ammunition, Tanks, military vehicles and other classes of war material had poured out of 1,000 automobile plants reaching from coast to coast, whilst subciantractorS in 44. states had contributed their quota, which, in all; made the rate of production last year double that of the highest in any peace-time year. From June, 1940, there were turned out 3,400,000 engines of various kinds, 39,000 Tanks, 2,800 amphibians, 2,220,000 military lorries and nearly 5,000,000 rifles, machine and other guns. Actually, the industry is now responsible for 26 per cent, of the war products of the metaI,working industries. During the 2(1 months ended July last year. it salvaged 3,500,000 ions Of 'metal and dismantled, for their metal, over 500,000 motor vehicles. Meanwhile civilian-lorry production dropped from over 800,000 in 1941 to 120,01)0 in 1944.
Straight Hydrocarbon , EcONSTRUCTED hydroLubricants are gecom"'carbons, from the molecular
ing Obsolete point of view, are replacing the . purely distilled compounds, both for fuel and lubrication purposes. Complicated chemical-reaction processes. are replacing distillation; recent patents propose a phosphorcius sulphide with polymers of non-,olefinic hydrocarbons of low moleenlar weight, such as iso-butylene and iSa-arnylerie, with a catalyst of boron thioride, or a boric. eotnpound , with a metal—potassium—constituent. Sir William Rootes THE chairman of the Rootes Believes.in Free EnterI Group, Sir William Rootes, prise K.B.E., has been elected
president of the Coventry. Unionist Association, which bodyis being reorganized 'an a sound footing. Sir William, in accepting office, said that Coventry was particularly concerned with the motor industry-'---one which would have to face world competition. ' He 'felt that the work of the Conservative Party should be in the direction of malting certain that there would be no unnecessary restraint on trade-, but the maximum of free enterprise. He was convinced that continuation of controls beyond a reasonable point, and nationalitation
the sense . that the Labour •Patty advocates, are not in the best interests of our people.
B.R.F. Claims MotorA DDRESSING the Bristol. ways Would Help 1-.1 Replanning Association, a
South Wales. . . B.R.F. representative said that never _again must the appalling conditions, existing in South Wales between the two great wars, be allowed to occur. To avoid this, it will be necessary to establish light industries along the mouths of the winding valleys, and if these are to prosper it is essential that an adequate road system should be constructed immediately, linking with Eng
land and the industrial North by means of motorways.
It is a terrible indictment, but there appears to be no sign of earnest endeavour on the part of the Govern. merit to facilitate the rehabilitation of this depressed area by the construction of a really adequate road system