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Four Tests for Lorry Driver Final

12th September 1958
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nETA1LS of the four tests to be used

in the final of the Lorry Driver of the Year Competition at the Civic Aerodrome at Baginton, Coventry, on September 21, were released this week. They will be undertaken by all drivers in the morning and again by the class champions in the afternoon.

In all four exercises competitors will start with their front wheels on line AA, with engines running. In every test 20 marks will be lost each time an obstruction or kerb is touched. Any flagrant breach of regulations or test instructions, or dangerous and careless driving, will involve disqualification. _

Anyone who does not perform a test correctly, disobeys instructions, or, in the case of Test 2, sets the gap too narrow, will be treated as having failed and will suffer a penalty equal to the worst performance in the appropriate class, plus 100 marks.

Tests 1, 3 and 4 will be timed throughout. Test 2 will be timed only from CC to AA. One mark per second will be awarded. Time will be a material element, and will not be used solely to decide ties.

The competitor with the lowest number of overall marks will be the winner. Tests, and penalties .other than those • already given, are as follows:— Test 1: At fall of flag, drive forward to stop with foremost near-side front wheel between kerb

CA and line BB. Reverse from line BR to stop with rearmost off-side rear wheel between kerb CA and line EE. Drive forward to stop with both foremost front wheels between lines DD and CC. Penalties: Failing to place vehicle correctly at first attempt, 20 marks per error.

Test 2: Indicate to marshal at BB the -minimum gap through which the vehicle can pass. At fall of flag, drive between pylons and stop astride line CC. At fall of flag, reverse between pylons at BR and identical pylons placed at DD and stop astride line AA. Penalties: One mark per inch in excess of vehicle width at pylons KB, .

Test 3: At fall of flag, park vehicle at kerb BB in three moves—forward, reverse, forward. Penalties: Mounting, overrunning or displacing kerb BB, 40 marks. One mark per inch over 9 in. when parked at kerb BB, measured to near side from centre of

foremost and rearmost wheels, hubs or tyres (variation due to design of vehicle will be calculated and allowed). C10

Test 4: At fall of flag, drive forward to StOP astride line BB. Reverse into loading bay C and stop astride line BE. Drive forward and then reverse into loading bay I), with rear of vehicle as close as possible and parallel to barrier FF, but not touching it. Penalties: Failing to stop astride line BB or EE, 40 marks .each. One mark per inch from barrier FE (if not parallel, farthest point from FF will be measured). Variation of more than 3 in. between near side and off side rear at FF, 29 marks.

RATES FOR CHRISTMAS MAILS SUGGESTED

H'RING rates and conditions for vehicles carrying Christmas mails in the London postal region have now been recommended by the National Association of Furniture Warehousemen and Removers. It is proposed that minimum daily hiring should be 81 hours, except for Sundays and Christmas Day when it should become 51 hours: For vans between 251 and 350 cu. ft. capacity, the hourly rates should be 12s. 9d., plus 71d. a mile after 50 miles in one day; 351-450 cu. ft., 14s. per hour, plus. 9d. a mile over 50 miles; afid over 451 .cu. ft., 15s. an hour, again plus 9d. a mile.

It is also suggested that between 9 p.m. and 6 a.m. an extra 8d. an hour should be paid for night work.

• GEARLESS MOTOR WITH VARIABLE SPEEDS

AN infinitely variable-speed electric motor which requires no gearbox or outsidse resistance has been invented by Mr. Charles Brunt, managing director of the Armature Manufacturing Co., Ltd., Middleton Road, Chadderton, Oldham..

Developed during the past two years, the motor is being incorporated in the company's Octopus electrical test benches, although it probably has many other applications.

An 8 h.p. motor of this type won for Mr. Brunt an inventor's award at the Brussels Exhibition. His entry was chosen out of 1,200 others from 19 countries.


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