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Why Not a Centre Driving Position ?
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>Y the number of full-width cabs which are now being ) used on coaches and buses, it appears to me as those responsible have never driven inside a cab in g or in a blinding snow-storm while trying to peer rough the two little port holes made by the screen i pers.
Apparently, the general idea nowadays is that two Ira seats are more important than the safety of the issengers or the convenience of the driver.
With the ideas of safety and convenience in mind, would like to suggest the design of a chassis and suit1e body arranged in such a way that the driver can located in the centre, with his cab projecting from e bulkhead, so that he would have a clear view of the ant and sides. The cab could be much after the style
• that used on the London buses, but centrally isitioned. This would give the driver a far better ew of everything around the front of his vehicle than Jm a full-width cab. All the controls would have
to be modified accordingly, but this should not cause any great difficulty, and, presumably, the driver would have to enter and leave by a door within the main saloon behind his cab.
If such a design were to-be allowed both here and abroad, it would help the production drive because there would be no need to alter the controls from right to left, as so often happens when vehicles have to be built for overseas.
Rock Ferry. • CROSVILLE DRIVER.
[This is quite an interesting scheme, and we cannot see any great objection to it. Hand signalling would, of course, be impossible, but that applies to many vehicles with wide bodies, and the use of mechanically operated indicators would solve this problem. It is not illegal for the driver of a vehicle to be on the near side, where signalling by hand would prove difficult. Certainly, the centrally positioned driver would have an excellent view of everything in front and to both sides.—Eo.]