TO STOP GOVERNMENT'S MAD GALLOP A RECENT meeting of hauliers
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in Preston voted 1-k 9 to 1 for a stoppage of their vehicles until nationalization of transport is abandoned coMpletely.
Here, on a nation-wide basis, is the haulier's remedy for this nationalization bug.
Day-by-day reports show that all the very praiseworthy efforts to secure amendments have been so much waste of valuable time and work. One wonders how much influence the Co-op. party, with its huge C fleets, had in the Government's change of mind on C-licensed vehicles I am convinced that a united show by the A and B licensees on the lines suggested by. the Preston meeting xvould stop the Government's mad gallop Please advise your haulier readers to prepare and present their ultimatum to the Government without delay, or go under. SMALL HAULIER. Lancaster.
ADVICE TO TYRE MA N UFACTURERS YOUR article entitled "How to Reduce Costs on I Tyres" and the advice given in it, published in your issue dated May 30, greatly interested me. This is particularly because I invariably inspect the tyres and start up and drive our vehicles out of our depot. I also test the brakes and steering.
My main point in writing to you, however, is to express surprise that the tyre makers have not paid a little more attention to the length of valve stems. If these were only 1 in. longer, a considerable amount of tyre trouble could be avoided. An inspection by the tyre makers of some 34 by 7 and 38-by 8 wheels, when fitted with tyres, would no doubt show them, as it has demonstrated to me, that it is almost impossible to use an air line or tyre gauge on them. Some people advise the use of valve extensions, but my own experience of these gadgets is that, apart .from being a nuisance, a true reading cannot-be obtained.
I trust that speedy action will be taken to retnedy this serious difficulty now that information has been issued through your valuable journal.
E. WALLAICER, Manager London, S.E.5. (For J. Wallaker, Ltd.).
A RAILWAY OPERATED FLEET IN PERU IN" The Commercial Motor " dated April 11 you published a letter entitled "Experience of Operation at 15,000 ft." This was written by a late employee of the Diesel section of this railway. Some of the details he gave are incorrect, and I would like to amend them to avoid a misunderstanding. This railway operates a mixed fleet of trucks in the Lima and Callao district of Peru The vehicles are not engaged on long-distance haulage, the greatest mileage being seldom more than 20; this is on the coast and at sea-level.
During the war years tyres were difficult to obtain in these parts, but the railway never suffered or was incon venienced in any way for this reason, because measures had been taken before the tyre situation became difficult, and stocks of the necessary sizes were obtained before the shortage became felt in Peru. We have never had any occasion to fit tyres of odd sizes.
It is correct to say that we have both petrol and oil engines operating in altitudes up to 15,000 ft. Tests and experiments have been made with the cooling systems of these engines over a periodof years, but the author of the letter referred to took no part in these. Neither are we experimenting with any pressure radiator and condenser We have, however, some new equipment on order, and the oil engines will be fitted with a specialty constructed radiator and a pressure and vacuum release valve of British manufacture.
The author of the letter to you was with us for only a short time and now has no connection with the motorized equipment on this railway. I may add that I'have been a reader of your journal for 25 years and know that you acted in good faith. I wish your -paper every success. T. ECKERSLEY, A.M.I.A.E , A. M .I.B .E., M I. M Chief Diesel Engineer (For Ferroearril Central del Peru, Ltdo.).
Peru.
Of VALUE TO THE ROAD TRANSPORT STUDENT I WOULD like to endorse a paragraph in a recent issue
of "The Commercial Motor" which emphasized the valuable assistance that this worthy journal gives to the student of road. transport. I have recently entered for a series of transport examinations, and have received considerable help itt my studies by perusing its pageS.
I wonder if, in the near future, you could see your way to printing an article on costing from the point of view of the C-licensed operator? H. J. DELLOW London. S.E.3.
[We are glad to learn that the matter in this journal 1-tis been of assistance to you as a student of road transport. Ws know that there is a great dearth of useful and upto-date textbooks on this subject, and we hope we shail be able, in the near future, to devote more attention to matters of educational interest in his field. We will endeavour to meet your wish to hEve furthFr information on costs for the C licensee, although this is dealt with from time to time by mir eosts expert, S.T.R.—Fol NOT A RADI 0-RE NTI NG SERVICE SEE from the issue of your journal dated May 2 that. I in the caption to a picture Of one of our vans you state: "Central Relay Wireless, Ltd., Is. Midlands concern specializing in radio-renting serv ice,"•
I would like, to take this opportunity of mentioning that Central Relay Wireless, Ltd., is not a Midlands concern, but is a member company of the BRW Group and has many branches in London and the suburbs.
This group of companies is in no way concerned with renting radio sets in the accepted sense of "radio renting," flut supplies its subscribers with a multiprogramme service by direct line to the B.B.C., in the case of B.B.C. programmes, and to our own receiving station in respect of overseas programmes.
T. R. MATIIIEWS, Publicity Manager London, W.C.2 (For British Relay Wireless, Ltd.)