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���The type furniture awaits the make-up man in a rack attached to the "turtle" table

��A Motion-Saving Rule-Case for Printers

HERE is pictured a little invention, just out, which will be appreciated by every printer. It is a time saver in newspaper offices, and a saver of many steps to all those who make up type into the forms.

This is a new style of rule case for printers to be connected with the form chase within easy reach of the make-up man who has occasion to use the many- sized rules required in making- up his page of type matter.

Heretofore the make-up man had his rules somewhere in a separate case near at hand but never within easy reach, so that whenever he wanted a certain-sized rule it was necessary for him to go to the case and get it.

With this new invention, all the dififerent-sized rules are right at the page he is making up, and all he has to do is to reach over the page and pick out just the kind of rule he needs with- out even changing his po- sition over the type.

The case of rules extends over the end-screws in the chase, and when the page is made up and ready to lock, the case is lifted off the end screws and hooked

��on to the next page to be made up. The invention is being used in the make-up room of one of Cincinnati's largest newspapers.

An Automobile Machine- Shop for the Battlefield

BECAUSE of the great number of automobiles and aeroplanes which are being used by the armies in the field in Europe, it has been found necessary to pro- vide a practical traveling workshop which may be hurried to any point along the road where a break- down has occurred. (Jne of the most complete of these workshops is shown in the accompany- ing illustration. Upon a powerful motor- truck is mounted an independent power unit, consisting of a dynamo, switch- board, and a charging-set. Two work benches are provided for the workmen who accompany the car, and these are equipped with a five-inch lathe, drills, grinders, and a complete set of tools.

One of these traveling workshops will soon be attached to each column of the Royal Flying Corps and to the British Army Service Corps, in order that all repairs may be made at the front with- out the necessity of requisitioning aid from the service stations at the army headquarters.

���Traveling automobile repair shops were a novelty at the

automobile shows two years ago. To-day they are

common necessities of war

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