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The Back Room
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SOME of the finest scientific brains in Britain are engaged in research and development work that is producing ever-improving commercial ,vehicles. Millions of pounds are spent each year by the British motor industry and its associates on long-term and short-term investigations into materials and designs. As a result, this country is keeping in the forefront of progress in commercial vehicles.
To do justice to the subject would require a volume, but the 16 pages of this issue devoted to some aspects of it give an indication of the scope of the work now in progress and of the benefits that it may. be expected to yield. Six articles deal specifically with research by various organizations on engines, suspension systems, transmissions and brakes, and another reviews the broad-based activities of the Motor Industry Research Association..
In addition, of course, a large expenditure of money and effort is incurred annually by tyre and oil companies in their particular spheres, and by individual producers of materials of all kinds, as well as collectively through their various trade associations. Work done by development organizations of rubber manufacturers and timber merchants, for instance, may have a direct influence on commercial-vehicle construction and design. Some of the larger operators, too, are continually engaged in research into the design and use of vehicles, which ultimately benefits the whole road,transport industry.