A Lorry for Christmas
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ADUTCH transport operator, Mr. yerwer, of Voorburg, has won a new Mercedes-Benz lorry in a competition promoted by the manufacturers to discover the Mercedes-Benz goods vehicle with the world's biggest mileage. His 1934 model LO 2000 has covered nearly 1.37m. miles. Some 4:)f the vehicles entered showed far greater mileages but had to be disqualified because the claims could not be verified.
The competition entailed an enormous amount of organization, for expeditions had to be equipped to travel into remote regions of the world. But Mercedes-Benz have been rewarded by complete records of the histories of about 1,500 vehicles.
Too Good
DAPER-ELEMENT air cleaners at present in use seem to be
too effective in a British winter. They work well under dry, sandy, desert conditions, but some good old English smog has disastrous results on them. The damp, dirt-laden atmosphere clogs them, reducing the quantity of air breathed into the engine, and causing smoking and excessive fuel consumption. The oil-bath filter still has much to be said for it
Lead From Rail
THE other day I saw an excellent 20-minute documentary film called "British Locomotives." it was made in colour by Green Park Productions and excited all my youthful enthusiasm for "iron horses." I mention a railway film here because it was sponsored by the Foreign Office, Commonwealth Relations Office and Colonial Office, and was produced by the
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Central Office of Information with the co-operation of the British Transport Commission and the Locomotive and Allied .Manufacturers' Association. It is a film which will have a wide showing overseas at diplomatic level.
Strenuous efforts are being made by vehicle manufacturers to sell their products overseas. Could it be that co-operation between the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders and the C.0.1. might result in as happy a piece of publicity for road transport as for the locomotive builders?
On the Cheap
ONE of the ideas to be put to the Jack Committee on rural bus services is for loans by rural and parish councils to small operators to enable them to buy buses. It emanates from the Wiltshire Association of Rural District Councils.
Wiltshire Education Committee are having unwillingly to run their own school buses, because, according to Brig, K. M. F. Hedges, vice-chairman of the committee, "The bus companies either won't carry children to school, or won't conform with the hours required." It seems as though bus operators find the work uneconomic, so that loans to purchase vehicles are hardly likely to provide the solution of the problem.
Perpetual Motion
wHo will be the first commercial-vehicle manufacturer to VI' take up the idea of a self-aligning seat which is being developed by California University? It is designed to support the body's weight on the "seat bones" through a system of At springs to prevent any stoppage of normal blood circulation, ,hich may cause swollen feet, fatigue and other discomforts. be seat has two universal joints surrounded by soft springs Inch yield to the sitter's weight and are in constant, although arely noticeable, motion.
;ap Off OEXT time you call on Simms Motor and Electronics Cor111 poration at Oak Lane, East Finchley, pray doff your ad-dress on passing through the ving doors to the office building. hey are rather famous doors, trough which most of the surviving 'owned heads, and many others of p3a.1 charm and distinction, have assed.
They used to grace the entrance Oddenirio's.
1ashback TNTIL recently the flashing of headlights in daytime has inclined to oncoming traffic the driver's itention of pressing on, to the posble inconvenience of others. The gnal is now being used also to lean " After you." Unless the headalit flashers make up their minds hat they really mean. I foresee Ime stirring head-on collisions and idden death.