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Street a few days ago, we encountered one of the new traffic police mounted on a motorcycle, but held up for a minute or two by a traffic block. He appeared to be keenly on the alert and full of enthusiasm for his task. A brief chat elicited the information that for three years previous to joining the police he had been a driver of a Dennis lorry. This is the type of man who is required for traffic work, as he has practical knowledge and would be inclined to advise without being too officious.
WHILE an R.A.C. patrol was driving at night recently on the Watford by-pass he was surprised to find a sack of corn lying in his path. He lifted the sack into his car, intending to hand it over at the nearest police station, but a little farther on he discovered another sack, which was also
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taken on board. Within a hundred yards he came across two more sacks and, realizing that there might be still more ahead, he put on speed and caught up the lorry which was shedding its load at fairly regular intervals. When the driver was made aware of what had happened he and the patrol retraced their steps and gathered the harvest for the second time.
COMPARING the traffic handled this Christmas tide with that of Christmas, 1p29, on all the coach services that have not been altered in the meantime, London Coastal Coaches, Ltd., announces that, on the average, there was an increase of GO per cent. in the number a passengers despatched to the provinces from its coach station at Lupus Street, London, S.W.1, on Christmas Eve this year, and nearly 75 per cent. on Christmas Day. The increase is really astonishing. Year by year the figures have advanced in this remarkable way, and this Christmas the crowds at the station resembled those of last August bank holiday. WORTHILY has H.R.H. the Prince of Wales been styled our greatest trade ambassador, and his visit, with Prince George, to the Argentine during the progress of the British Empire Trade Exhibition in Buenos Aires will be certain to give a splendid fillip to the commerce between the two countries. On such journeys as this the question of transport is paramount, for the Prince and his staff will cover big mileages in the course of their official visits. In addition to four Humber cars which have been chosen for the use of the Prince, a Commer 2-2i-ton van for carrying baggage, etc., is to form part of the convoy. The van is illustrated in this issue.
ONE of the most urgent needs to-day in connection with the development of the compression-ignition engine is the official standardization of fuel specifications.
Engine makers, in some cases, recommend the use of gas oil simply to obviate the risk of users being supplied with a very heavy viscou.s.fuel, which might be the case if they specified Diesel oil as suitable, because there appears tb be more variation in the specification of Diesel oil than of gas oil.
Such an obvious need as this will no doubt soon be met, and it is to be hoped that oil-engine manufacturers will publish in their instruction books details of the proprietary grades of fuel which come within the scope of their official recommendation.
WE were recently discussing trade with a private hire man,and were amused when he mentioned that he sent a turkey to the local undertaker—one of his best customers. But that was only half the story. On Christmas Eve the undertaker hired a capacious vehicle for the \purpose of delivering turkeys to all the local doctors and nursing homes— no doubt, some bf his best customers