Prizes for Body Designs and Essays
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FOR the third year in succession, a member of the staff of Duple Motor Bodies, Ltd., has won the first prize in the coachwork-design competition arranged by the Institute of British Carriage and Automobile Manufacturers.
This year the prize went to Mr. F. J. Hollyman, 8, Seelig Avenue, London. N.W.9, a senior draughtsman of the company. Mr. Leonard Barradell, 3, Kelsall. Avenue, Blackburn, ,came second, and Mr. John Almond, 10, Earl Street, Great Harwood, Lanes, third.
In the competition for working drawings of a mobile library, the first prize went to Mr. George D. Blunt, 10, Waddington Avenue, Great Barr, Birmingham, 22a, the second to Mr. B. J Garner, 8, Wolverton Road, Stanmore, Middlesex, and the third to Mr. William Back, 70, Ferndale Road, London, S.W.4.
Prizes of £25, £15 and £10 are being offered by the Institute for a 5,000-word essay on "Present-day Motor Body Design and its Effect on Maintenance and Repair."
The competition is being divided into two sections, one for public-servicevehicle bodywork, and the other for private-car bodywork. Full particulars can be obtained from the Institute, 50, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1.
GUIDE TO ALL EXPRESS SERVICES IN U.K.
1-1 ONT AINING over 17,000 refer\...-ences, Ribble Motor Services, Ltd.. Frenchwood Avenue, Preston, has issued a road travel guide covering all express and limited-stop passenger
services in Britain. The information given includes the name of the operating concern, whether the service is seasonal or regular, and the adult single and return fares.
There is, too, a pu-11-out map which indicates the respective areas covered by the operators included in the guide. It is a most .ambitious effort and the guide should prove invaluable to all those in any way connected with longdistance passenger transport, whether as operator, agent, or passenger The price is 2s. 6d.
BOMBAY REPEATS THE DOSE
AFTER an official trial, over a stiff 345-mile circular route, of the first of 75 Leyland Comets, delivered to Bombay State Transport, 75 more of these machines have been ordered. The vehicle used for the test was the first to be fitted with one of the all-metal 28-seater bodies being built in the State's Santa Cruz workshops from prefabricated parts shipped from England by Metal Sections, Ltd.
The course used was described and illustrated in "The Commercial Motor" on February 18, and climbs to 4,626 ft. above sea level. The fuel consumption rate for the 345 miles averaged 17.7 m.p.g., states Leyland Motors, Ltd. It is estimated that the use of oil-engined buses, as compared with petrol-engined vehicles, will save Rs. 6,000 per vehicle per year.