The Industry Supports the Soc.M.O.Eng.
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It is satisfactory to record the widespread support which has been accorded to this representative society. The following list is official :
It should be noted that only operating engineers are eligible for membership : no manufacturer or trader has been admitted other than to enrolment as an associate. The committee will consider, at its next sitting, how best to proceed with an investigation upon the important subject of petrol engine lubrication, and it is probable that steps will be taken to establish a research laboratory during the next few months. General support for the project is assured.
The Berlin Omnibus company purposes putting on no fewer than eight additional motor omnibuses for service between Hailesches Tor and the Chaussecstrasse, in Berlin. All have made satisfactory trial trips, and the first of them was put in regular service on Monday last.
" The Daily Mail " estimates that there will be 2,000 motor omnibuses on the streets of London by the end of this year. Our own estimate is 1,300, and the temporary. f.et-back which is likely to be given to output by the modifications in the chassis, which are necessary to comply with the requirements of the Chief Commissioner of Police, may prove to render our own estimate slightly on the high side.
The degree of noise which emanates from motor omnibuses is gradually being recognised as a vital consideration in the operation of these vehicles. Mechanical engineers know full well that any excessive vibratory or "grinding " noises are certain evidence of excessive wear, and the action of the police, both in London and Birmingham, in serving notices upon the owners to take such vehicles off the streets pending their being put in proper order, is by no means unreasonable. At the capital of the Midlands, no less than mm out of To motor omnibuses were considered in an unfit state to have their licenses renewed.
At the last meeting of the Birmingham Watch Committee, when the above condition of affairs was reported, it was stated that the whole question of motor-omnibus traffic in Birmingham would come up again in April, and it would then be for the committee to say whether it should with hold the licenses from such vehicles altogether. The matter, according to the chairman of the judicial sub-committee, had caused the watch committee a good deal of anxiety, and it did not see how anything more could be done, havinnregard to the capital expended upon those buses, and the evident anxiety of the owners to do all they could. With regard to collisions that had occurred, it appeared from enquiry that in nearly every case they were due to accidental causes, mainly by skidding of vehicles owing to the greasy condition of the road, and not due to defective mechanism or carelessness on the part of drivers, except possibly in one case. Mr. Godlee thought the committee would not receive much commendation from the public if it suddenly found that this particular class of vehicle was taken off. No doubt a large section of the public found the motor omnibus. service was a great convenience.