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91 HE efforts made by the public-transport organizations of London to overcome the litter • caused by the scattering of used bus and tram tickets in the streets have not, so far, met with much success, and it appears most difficult to educate the travelling public to the need for tidiness in this matter. After experimenting for a period of close on two years with receptacles on tramcars in which used tickets can be dropped, the London County Council has now decided not to extend the idea. When the scheme was first inaugurated, only 8.3 per cent. of the tickets issued were placed in the receptacles, even now it is only 12 per cent.
AT the recent general meeting of Agricultural and General Engineers, Ltd., the chairman, Mr. G. E. Rowland, made a passing refere,nce to the remarkable performance of one of the company's Diesel n18 engined agricultural tractors in working continuously for a period of 1,500 hours, thus beating the world's record set up in July last by an American tractor which was in operation continuously for 484 hours. The tractor has an Aveling engine and was manufactured in the Garrett works. A short reference to this feat was made by Mr. Rowland in our issue for last week.
IT is reported that at the Putilov tractor works in Leningrad there are at present about 22,000 employees, of whom those engaged in the tractor plant number 5,500. The Amo motor works at Moscow is said to employ over 5,000 workers and to have produced in August some 240 30-cwt. chassis and 150 2-i-tonners, well-known makes of commercial chassis being copied. ONE of the excellent qualifications of the oil engine is remarkably low consumption when idling. The average large petrol engine consumes 24 pints to 3 pints per hem' when running slowly, whereas an oil engine, such as the Gardner, requires under 1 pint. This shows its undoubted advantages for traffic work.
SALES in South Africa of motor vehicles of all types are expected to improve considerably from the date of the Rand Agricultural Show, which is held at Johannesburg at Easter time. The information is of a reliable nature, but, of course, much depends upon trade conditions in the meantime in South Africa. A GLIMPSE of the adventure involved in provid ing motor-vehicle users with petrol comes to light with the recent death of Capt. J. Scott, of the "Iroquois," Commodore-Captain of the AngloAmerican Oil Co.'s fleet, who is stated to have delivered over 500,000,000 gallons of Pratts spirit and other petroleum products to British ports and to have travelled 1,000,000 miles with the giant tanker barge "Navahoe " in tow. The tanker, which was• sold three months ago, had only sails and sometimes in stormy weather in mid-Atlantic the cable would snap or the ships would voluntarily part company, and after the storm had subsided Scott would spend days looking for the " Navahoe."