A TTENTION to our .ri-backwardness in regard to safety on
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the road is commented upon by Sir Harold Bowden, Bt., who considers that the dangers of present-day travel are largely due to bad organization. In-Denmark, for instance, all main roads out, of town have special side tracks for cyclists as well as footpaths, whilst the road user is protected against the thoughtless pedestrian, who can be sued for walking dangerously. No dallying is allowed amid traffic and the walker must cross the road at right angles.
Is it, he says, too much to hope that the solution of our road-safety problem may he in the organization of traffic on the same principles that make travel in Denmark so pleasant.
ONE of the busiest sections of the A.E.C. concern is the photographic studio, which is under the control of Mr. A. G. Holding. The cameras are hard-worked, and arrangement drawings, graphs, charts, shop plant, experimental units, spare parts 3318 (hundreds of them), bare chassis, finished chassis, all receive attention, whilst photographic records are kept of new models on test, visitors to the factory, and outdoor social events. The studio is equipped with up-to-date apparatus, which largely accounts for the quality of the pictures we regularly receive for editorial use. A typical year's work for the department is 1200, separate photorgraphs and over 20,000 prints.
SOME makers of bumpers are finding that the .new Construction and Use Regulations" arehelp. lug business for them. The "why and wherefore" of this is that, where a vehicle is found to have rather teo large a rear overhang, the user is increasing the overall length by the simple process of "adding on a bit" at the front. This bit may take the convenient and useful form of bumpers, preferably on long brackets; hence the increase in trade I
MANY people have the idea that front-wheel drive for motor vehicles is, comparatively, an innovation, but we recently saw one striking proof that this is not the case, for at the fine works of Latil Industrial Vehicles, Ltd., there is a relic in the form of a horsebox for two animals which is 25 years old. It is said to have belonged, in the first instance, to a French nobleman, and eventually came into the possession of the Mayor of Fulham, from whom it has been purchased by the company.
It has a four-cylindered engine, with its cylinders in pairs, set across the frame at the front under the familiar Latil bonnet ;• the radiator is also mounted at the front. There is gear drive to differential shafts, from which ball-and-socket universal joints convey the power to external spur gears driving the front wheels. Every part, with the exception of the universal joints, is enclosed. This vehicle has an 18-in, loading line.
AMONGST those concerns catering for the ath letic and sporting elements amongst their employees is the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., the main sports ground of which is situated at Southall and covers 17i acres, plus an 18-hole putting green which is 600 ft. long by 125 ft. wide. There are three hard tennis courts and six grass courts, two pitches for cricket, excellent bowling greens, and ample facilities for football, whilst the grass running track gives four laps to the mile.
The sports pavilion is centrally heated and fully provided with baths, dressing-rooms, etc. The popularity of the scheme can be realized when it is mentioned that the club now includes 1,250 members.