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DURING February, 1936, "Alexander Duckham and Co., Ltd., installed a Perkins Wolf high-speed oil engine in one of its staff cars, and this vehicle has now completed 53,620 miles. Oil fuel consumed (at 31 m.p.g.) amounted to 1,728 gallons at a cost of Is. lid, per gallon, representing £97 4s. For a similar vehicle with a petrol engine the m.p.g would be about 18 and the consumption 2,979 gallons at Is. 6d., totalling ;8223 8s. 6d. Thus the saving of the oil fuel over petrol was £.126 4s. 6d.
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Striking Economy of Oil engined Private Car
It Pays to Make rrIIE itinerant oil merchant Motor Insurance I and ironmonger, who carries Doubly Sure . . around with him many inflam mable goods—such as firewood, matches, brooms, soaps, mats and floorcloths—as well as the wherewithal to ignite them, is foolish to insure his van only and let the stock take its chance. We heard of a case recently where the shorting of an electric wire under the driver's seat sent everything up in flames. The stock was not insured and the owner had not even taken the precaution of carrying a fire extinguisher.
A Motor Post Office WE were interested to Depicted on a Swiss VI' receive, a few days ago, a newly issued Swiss postage stamp, which features a mobile post office. We understand that this vehicle carries post-marking equipment in four languages, including the old Romansch tongue, which is now officially used in the country. Despite the great use which is made of transport, it is very seldom that we get so far as to have a vehicle reproduced in this manner.
Stamp A Driver Who Was PEAKING at the recent Converted to the *--/ electric-vehicle display and Electric convention in Salford, Mr.
D. F. Pilkington, transport officer of Lancashire Associated Collieries, mentioned that the driver appointed to the concern's first 15-cwt. electric vehicle said, when he first saw it, he "didn't reckon much of it." Later, finding that he could do an ordinary day's work by limch-time, he remarked that he " would haVe liked to stiCk on it." Mr. Pilkington did not say, however, whether the driver had a holiday that afternoon.
Filament Shock DarnA NEW idea in electric bulbs pers on New Vehicle 1-1. for the lamps of motor
Lamp Bulbs vehicles is exhibited at the Leipzig Spring Fair, which opened on March 6. The principle is not one of springing, but of damping the filament by means of one or more beads of glass, according to the size of the bulb. The bead is apparently connected to the glass of the bulb, but it is allowed to oscillate slightly with the filament, and throws little or no stress on this.