TRACTOR TRIALS AGAIN: R.A.S.E. MOVE.
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The Royal Agricultural Society of England has taken the step of conferring with tractor manufacturers and .agricultural engineers on the question of organizing tractor trials.
The suggestion that trials are needed was made some time ago, but tractor manufacturers and, traders are of opinion that when trials are announced, farmers will . refrain from buying marhines. until the events are held. ;That is why the R.A.S.E. has suggested that, instead of trials,. 10, tractors should be tested each year by the Institute for Research in Agricultural -Engineering, the R.A.S.E, making itself responsible for the tests and publishing the results,
Such tests will be welcomed by tractor users and potential .users, but it is doubtful whether they . will • satisfy farmers to the same extent as would public trials. There is so-wide a variety of power machinery available to-day that nothing short of periodical public demonstrations can keep farmers up to date in their knowledge'f, it. , The object is not so much to demonstrate tractors, which .. are .now, well known, as to show, the way,they work with power appliances,, and it is doubt
IA. 13. Repair-certificate Tests.
The next practical tests • for the .In.stitution of Automobile Engineers' repair certificate will be held. In Brad.ford, Bristol, Coventry, Glasgow, London and Manchester on April. 25, so far as the mechanical section is•.conceined, and ja London, and Bifiningham . on May 2 for. the electrical section.
Big Increase in New German Vehicles.
In 1935, • 31,962 new goods vehicles were registered in Germany, together with • 1,832 new buses.The total of 33,794 compares with 23,509 in 1934..
The total of goods vehicles was made up of 8,368 vehicles for loads up. to 1 ton: 6,430, 1-2 tons; 11,705,'.2-3 tons; -3.320, 9-4 tons: 595; 4-5 tons; and1,544 over 5 tons. The first four sections all
618 show increases, but the number of new 4-5-tonners declined from 1,010 in 1934 to 595 last year. Vehicles for loads over 5 tons increased from 296 to 1,544.
The most popular makes in Germany, in the order of their importance, are Opel, Ford, Daimler-Benz, Hansa Lloyd, Bussing N.A.G., Magirus, Krupp, and M.A.N.
'Wakefield Scholarship Examinations.
The examinations for the Wakefield scholarships in Automobile and Aeronautical • Engineering, 'presented each year by Viscount Wakefield, the presir dent of the Colleges of Automobile and Aeronautical Engineering, will be held on June II and 32, and the four subcessful candidates will be admitted to the colleges in the autumn term.
Application forms in respect of the exantinations may be obtained, up to May 8 from the secretary of the colleges, Chelsea; London, S.W.3. PROGRESSIVE CLEANSING OF A , SMALL BOROUGH.
A centralized scheme of scavenging has been brought into operation by Blaby (Leicestershire) Rural District Council, by which mechanized trans. port replaces the old parish system of
horsed cleansing. The council has acquired a fleet of five vehicles, four Karrier Bantams and a small van. Three of the Bantams' for 'refuse collect-on :tie equipped with metal shutters and tipping gear, The fourth Bantam is a gully-emptier, which will draw a trailer equipped with a pump.
The area to be served is over 50 sq. miles in extent, with a population of 30,000 people. It is largely semiurban in character,. oldfashioned villages having become suburbs of Leicester.
13Iaby Council is the first rural authority in Leicestershire to centralize scavenging by efficient motorized means, and the steady growth of the .district as an urban area is expected to lead to additions to, the cleansing fleet. Provision is made for replacement ofthe fleet in three years, the initial cost of which is £2,500, and the annual cost estimated to be approximately £4,300.
New Dennis Lancet Literature.
We have just received from Dennis Bros., Ltd., Guildford, a copy of its latest Lancet leaflet. This is an attractive publication containing specifications of the Lancet chassis and the standard bus and coach bodies with which it can be equipped.
The Lancet is offered with the 1)3 four-cylindered petrol engine, the Dennis-Lanova compression-ignition unit and the six-cylinclered petrol engine, whilst both normal -and forward-control chassis are available.