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Loose Leaves.
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THERE will be some deep delving into pockets when _L the Railway Bills come before Parliament. Neither side will get out of it under £20,000, and whilst the railways have the funds available for the pursuit of their aims road interests Must now get together the wherewithal to fight, The Commercial Motor Users' Association has, therefore, opened a Railway Bills Opposition Fund, the general secretary, Mr. F. G. Bristow, sitting at the receipt of custom at 50, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1. Road users subscribed among themselves about £16,000 when the Extraordinary Traffic test case (Weston-Super-Mare versus Butt) was fought through its five stages, and, surveying the situation after the lapse of a few years, it is obvious that it was money well spent. Any owner, whether a member of the Association or not, should subscribe his quota to this Fund.
BAD roads encourage the suspension designer,
whereas good ones lull him to sleep. This is very natural, but the English designer should remember that chassis sometimes go abroad, and, for the salvation of the industry, it is to be hoped that they will continue to do so in ever-increasing numbers. Foreign roads do not always present the wonderful racingtrack surfaces which one finds in the British Isles, and this is where the English designer comes unstuck, so to speak. This fact, so he tells us, was brought Mine to our Paris correspondent the other day when D18 in conversation with the managing director of a big French motor coach concern doing a seasonal business with tourists visiting battlefields, chateaux of the Loire, etc. The concern in question runs a fleet of 60 or 7.0 coaches, and the director mentioned that some of his best money-earners were mounted on chassis of British manufacture. "But," he said, "whenever we get delivery of a new English chassis, it -goes straight into our repair shop and we have it re-sprung throughout. If this is not done," he added, "we sometimes lose tourists altogether! They fly right up into the air and do not always return to the coach at all! Fortunately, however, their fares are collected beforehand !" As we looked our Paris correspondent sadly in the eye we muttered, "Loose leaves !"
A MAN staying at an hotel wakened in the morning to find a chambermaid putting his tea tray on the table at his bedside. "I didn't hear you knock!" he remarked. "No, sir, of course not," she retorted; "I'm Ethyl!
OUR designers, who are always on the alert for im provements which will make their vehicles more useful, might with advantage study the page of this journal which each week voices the troubles and difficulties experienced by drivers and mechanics..
A recent letter from a driver giving some tips relating to the starting of large engines in cold weather has brought such a number of letters on the same subject that we are forced to admit that the trouble is a real tee. One correspondent points out that engines are now being made of higher power, and that It is time the matter of making the driver's task easier should be taken up serioilVy-,-efforts being made by our designers towards providing soine device that would save the time wasted and the exhausting work now entailed in getting a start on a cold morning.
Another point which the letters from .drivers bring forcibly to our notice is the poor arrangements so often provided for jacking up heavy vehicles. With the growing use of pneumatic tyres this matter is becoming more important than ever. Some of our correspondents say that when a tie bar is fitted under a rear axle it is practically impossible to lift a vehicle with the jack often supplied. We have repeatedly pointed out that some provision should be made on an axle for applying the head Of the jack, and, moreover, that the jack should be considered as part of the design and not looked upon, merely as a loose tool.