USES OF GRAPHITE.

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 46, 1 September 1928, Page 28

USES OF GRAPHITE.

Graphite has many uses in an automobile. To make a graphite grease mix flake graphite with ordinary graphite lubricating oil until it has attained tho consistency of butter. This grease, besides being useful for gasket coating, may be used for many jobs. If tire rims are thoroughly cleaned with sandpaper and given a coating of graphite about twice a year rust will be prevonted. When applied to the threads of demountable rim studs the nuts may

be set up tighter and may be easilj removed when necossary. Graphite applied to the spark plug threads permits tho plugs to bo easily inserted and removed. The plugs may bo screwed down to the limit with a minimum danger of destroying the threads. Tho graphite will also assist materially in preventing tho leakage of compressed gas around the plugs. As a squeak preventer it is a reliable agent. The London police number 20,058. Of course, they are not all handling traffic. There- are, however, 2200 miles of streets on which accidents may occur. The tramway lines total 350 miles. London's busiest traffic spot is Hyde Park Corner. The daily average of vehicles passing there.is, roughly, 55,440. The next busiest places are Trafalgar Square, Marble Arch, aud Piccadilly Circus.. A .motor-car, said to be in good order, was sold for £5 at an-auction sale at Otak'ilast week. A landau that cost £140 went for 255. For 1927 British motor-cycle exports show an increase of 10 per cent, over

102G records, while U.S.A. trade suffered a decrease of 11 per cent. In British possessions the demand for Homo products remained practically the same, wliile in Europe the British returns show an increase of 28 per cent. ..It is interesting to note that whereas no trade worth mentioning existed with South America in 1924----25, small consignments are now being dispatched there.