' NEW " CASE " C.-I. -ENGINED CRAWLER TRACTOR
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ADEVELOPMENT of interest to agriculturists is in connection with the crawler-type Case tractor, as handled by Roadless Traction, Ltd., Gunnersbury House, Hounslow, Middle
sex. The heavy-duty model is now offered either with the model L petrol or paraffin engine or with the Model LH oil engine.
In the latter case, the power unit is of the Hesselman type. This engine 'does not operate on the compressionignition principle, but, whilst having the charge of oil fuel injected, relies upon an electric spark to ignite it. The claims made on behalf of this principle include lower first cost and simplification' of mechanism. Ensuing advantages, according to the Roadless concern, are lower maintenance costs, easy starting at any temperature and smooth running. Against these is only the fact that consumption rates are not quite so good as with compression MANCHESTER PARCELS DELIVERY RATES INCREASE
MANCHESTER Transport Commit; tee has approved a report by the general manager recommending a further. increase of 6f per cent, on the parcels delivery rates, to apply only to parcels over 42 lb. weight. Representatives of the committee, the railway 'companies, and large parcels carriers in the Manchester district had previously held a meeting at which ;they agreed that the need for the increase was justified.
NEW BRITISH STANDARD FOR ROAD STEAM VEHICLE BOILERS
ANEW British Standard relating to loco-type multitulaular boilers, other than for railway locomotives, has just been issued by the British Standards Institution, 28, Victoria Street, London, •S.W.1, from which copies can be obtained price Ss, 9d., including postage.
It has been prepared in collaboration with the boiler insurance companies, makers, users and classification authorities and includes full details of technical requirements with respect to construction and workmanship.
PISTON-RING COMPANIES' AMALGAMATION PROCEEDS
A CCEPTANUS having been re
ceived in respect of not less than 90 per cent, of the total issued shares in the Leeds Piston Ring Co., Ltd., steps are proceeding for the amalgamation of the company with Wellworthy Piston Rings, Ltd., of Lymington, under the recently announced scheme, whereby shareholders in the Leeds company sell their shares in exchange for Wellworthy shares.
TESTIMONIAL FOR MR. RICHES
TRANSPORT operators and their 1 friends in the north and north-east of Scotland are to .present a testimonial to Mr. Henry Riches, who is retiring from .the post of Regional Transport Commissioner for the Northern Scotland Area, following the Minister of Transport's recent decision to merge into one, for the duration of the war, the two traffic areas into which Scotland has, hitherto, been divided.
TRANSPORT SECRETARY DIES ISS INA GIBB, secretary of IY1Fraser's Transport Service, Ltd., South Esplanade West, Aberdeen, has died. She was well known in the transport business throughout Scotland and had been associated with the company since its beginning 20 years ago.
FOR IMMOBILIZING OILERS
FROM Simms Motor Units, Ltd., Oak Lane, Finchley, London, N.2, comes a new injection-pump drive coupling which, whilst representing an improvement in respect of its primary function, also serves as a ready means for immobilizing the vehicle. It is suitable for practically all oil engines with the exception of the Gardner, which can readily bg immobilized by other means.
For obvious reasons,we refrain from describing the device, but we may state that it can be operated to mobilize or immobilize the vehicle in about one minute and without a tool or a key and definitely prevents the engine from being started.
Fitting the coupling involves no modification to the power unit and the cost of the device is moderate. It transmits the drive noiselessly and without backlash, an adjuster being incorporated to take up wear, whilst it permits the injection pump to lie detached without 'first having to be shifted along in an axial direction.
MOBILE CANTEENS FOR THE Y .M.C.A.
I'IITEMBERS of sports and social lYlorganizations of London Transport have given a cheque for over £2,000 to the Y.M.C.A. for the purchase of seven mobile canteens. • Two of them have already gone into service and three others Were presented to the Association on January'10.
The latest canteens are all based on 12-cwt. chassis, two being Of Morris make and the other a Bedford. They will go into service immediately as units of the Y.IVI.C.A. fleet of over SOO vehicles, which covers some 130,000 miles a week throughout England, Wales, Scotland and -Northern Ireland.
Day and night, they will take refreshments to searchlight, balloon barrage. and anti-aircraft crews, Military camps, etc. Many of these are in lonely parts of the country, which is the reason why such articles as razor blades, pencils
and hair oil are carried, in addition to the usual canteen fare.
As well as providing regular canteen service to the Forces and war workers, the vehicles are quickly available for taking refreshments to bombed areas.
TRANSPORT DIARY AND HANDBOOK rINE of the most popular little kidiaries connected with our industry is the Transport Diary and Handbook issued by Industrial Transport Publications, Ltd., Dudley House, Southampton Street, London, W.C.2.
This is pocket size, bound in blue morocco, has 16 pages of maps, and is priced at 4s. 2d., including postage and tax. •The first edition this year was sold before publiation, but a small number of other copies is now available.
NEW GAUGE FOR PRECISE VACUUM MEASUREMENT •
AN accurate vacuum gauge for test purposes has many applications in the commercial-vehicle industry. Readers will, therefore, be interested in a new British-made, high-grade instru,
merit offered at the reasonable figure of £3 6s., complete with mercury, by W. Edwards and Co. (London), Ltd., Allendale Works, Southwell Road, Loughborough Junction, London, S.E.5. Named the Vacustat, this gauge is a modification of the McLeod instrument and its range is from 10 mm. to 0.01 mmHg. The company manufactures also a variety of other models and types of vacuum gauge.
HELP THE RED CROSS
FORMED a year ago, the Red Cross 1 Penny-a-Week . Fund, is operated in
conjunction with the British Employers' Confederation and the
Some 28,000 employers in every branch of industry have offered facilities for their workpeople to become regular contributors. The fund now has a membership of 4,000,000 and is contributing at the rate. of £15,000 a week, the total to
December exceeding £400,000, but at least 23,000,000 a year is needed to finance the war work of the Red Cross.
Employers everywhere can help by bringing the fund to the notice of their employees, Collection is simple. With the consent of the workers, a penny is deducted from each pay packet weekly, and the results placed to the credit of the fund at intervals through a special bank account.
Further particulars can be obtained from the secretary of the Fund, 89, Kingsway, London, W.C.2. LICENCES FOR MACHINERY, PLANT AND APPLIANCES THE attention of manufacturers of 1 machinery, plant and appliances and of those wishing to acquire them, is drawn by the Board of Trade to an amendment in the Statutory Rules and Orders covering the sale or the transfer of machinery and to an extension of the Orders to include additional machinery, plant and certain appliances. This is known as the Machinery, Plant and Appliances (Control) Order, 1940 (S.R. and 0, 1940, No. 2179), which came into force on January 1, and amends former Control Orders. • Any person now wishing to acquire such machinery, etc., must obtain a supply licence, and makers should not book orders until they know that the person who has applied has obtained such a licence.
Supplies of forms for the libences can be obtained from the Industrial Supplies Department, Machinery Licences Division, Board of Trade, 25 Southampton Buildings, London, W.C.2.
REFUSE-COLLECTION PROBLEMS OF BIGGER POPULATIONS THE imposition of a charge of one
• guinea per year for refuse collections inexcess of once per week from Harrogate hotels and boarding houses, has been recommended by Harrogate Health Committee. A report Submitted to the committee states that because of the increase in the number of visitors staying at hotels and boarding houses in. the town, it has become necessary on the ground of public health to collect refuse more than once per week from these premises.
REPAIR OF DAMAGED BUSINESS PREMISES.
assist owners of factories or other business premises, the Board of Trade has issued a leaflet embodying all the necessary information as to steps to be taken to obtain materials to repair or licences to rebuild premises and plant damaged by enemy action.. In view of the need for economy in the use of materials and labour, the leaflet tells owners that they can expect to •be allowed to carry out only " first aid " repairs, -Unless they be engaged upon essential work.
Copies may be. obtained through local authorities, or direct from the Regional Licensing Officers of the Ministry of Works and Buildings, or from the Regional Officers of the Ministry of Health. PERSONAL PARS
MR. J. GIBSON JARVIE and MR. ROBERT LETCH have been appointed by the Minister of Transport to be the Regional Port Directors for the Northwestern and Clyde Regions, respectively. Their functions will be to coordinate the activities of all the ports within their regions, so as to secure (1) the most rapid clearance through the ports of goods, whether inward or outward bound; (2) the quickest turnround of ships; (3) the best utilization of available transport facilities. The North-western Region comprises all ports between Holyhead and Silloth and the Clyde Region all ports between St ranraer and Oban.
Mr. J. Gibson Jarvie is well known in the City as the chairman of United Dominions Trust, Ltd., whilst Mr. Robert Letch is the assistant general manager of the Port of London Authority.
MR. GEORGE H. PULFREY is recommended for appointment as general manager of Hull's municipal-transport undertaking. He is at present general manager and engineer of St. Helens municipal passenger-transport department, to which position he was appointed in July, 1939. His previous association with municipal-transport undertakings was at Sheffield and Nottingham.
COMPETITIONS FOR TRACTOR PHOTOGRAPHERS
WE reproduce on this page the picture which was awarded the three guineas prize in Photographic Competition No. 1, organized by David Brown Tractors, Ltd., Meltharn, near Huddersfield. The picture was taken by Mr. J. W. Ford, The Croft, Kirk Deighton, Wetherby.
The company now announces its second competition, of which the subject must be a David Brown tractor engaged in hauling or any seasonal
operation on the land. The closing date is March 31, 1941, and the first prize will again be an award of three guineas.
Similar competitions are to be arranged for subsequent seasonal operations and, at the end of the 1941 harvest, a further prize of 10 guineas will be given for the best photograph of the year.
APPEAL TO KEEP OFF THE WHITE LINE
ANappeal to motor drivers to keep off the " white line" whenever possible, was made by Councillor Parker at a meeting a Rochdale Town Council. He said that it was remarkable how persistently drivers seemed to keep the off-side wheels of their vehicles on the line. It used to be said that carters could not find their way to Manchester unless they kept in the middle of the tram lines, and the same thing appeared to apply to drivers in regard to the white line now to be found in the centre of most roads.
SPECIALIZED FACTORY'S SUCCESS ON WAR WORK CRANK comments on matters con!. cerning war-time industry, including the question of wages, were made by Mr. Peel Fletcher, chairman of Jowett Cars, Ltd., in the course of the company's recent annual meeting. He made these observations in proposing the adoption of accounts, which showed a trading profit of £20,136 on the year, with a net profit of £8,778, which, after deduction of a £5,605 adverse balance brought forward; left a credit carry forward of £3,173.
Reviewing the company's position, Mr. Fletcher said the directors felt justified in sounding a note of slightly greater optimism than a year ago. Whilst the fundamental problem of its. peace-time trade could not be said ta be nearer to a complete solution, the successful transformation of a specialized factory to more general employment in war work should increase confidence in the ability of that same organization to solve the problems of transformation to peace-time work.
The company was to-day making satisfactory profits, and he did not see, at the present moment, why those profits should not be maintained, although certain war-time factors called for caution as to prospects.
FODEN'S LONDON RE PRESENTATION
WE are informed by Fodens, Ltd., VV that its sales and service for the London Area will, for the time being, be carried out at the following address:—Packhorse Filling Station, Kemsworth. near Dunstable (telephone, Markyate 217). For inquiries and estimates, application shouldbe made to the company at 36p Lankaster Gardens, East Finchley,, London, N.2
• (telephone, Tudor 5942). OUR NEW WAGES SCHEDULE
WPTH this issue we include, as a VV supplement, " The Commercial Motor " Wages Scales for Road Transport Employees. These scales have been brought right up to date with the additional amounts recently granted. Full details of how the schedule should be applied are given,, and the scales are so arranged, in tabular form, that wages in any particular case can be instantly found in connection 'With any district or any class of vehicle—in fact, the schedule forms the most compre. hensive of its type yet published.
STOCKHOLM TURNS FROM PRODUCER TO METHANE GAS
ABOUT 3,300 cubic metres, that is nearly 124,000 cubic ft. of methane are delivered every 24 hours by the Stockholm sewage works. It is now proposed, we learn, to use this as fuel for the city's transport. There will be adequate supplies,. it is estimated, for all its goods vehicles and 40 of its buses.
It is to be used in high-pressure containers and will replace producer gas that is at present widely used in Sweden as fuel for road vehicles. Results of trials, we understand, have shown that acceleration is -considerably quicker on methane, Whilst the absence of delay in starting is an obvious asset. A cubic metre of methane has been found equivalent to 1.8 litres of petrol.
Mr. H. Norman Letts, of Messrs. Mawby, Barrie and Letts, Lloyds Bank Buildings, 55-61, Moorgate, London, E.C.2, has asked us to state that messages to Bishopsgate 9981 will reach him.