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SOME idea of the importance of motorbus services, particularly those employing the smaller vehicles, is gained when one realizes that the Gloucestershire Education Committee has had to consider the difficulties arising, in connection with the transport of children to school, as the result of the Road Traffic Act. Resolutions have been passed that the Minister of Transport should be urged to take into consideration the effects of the various regulations regarding the certifying and licensing of small buses, and that the question be re-opened as to a larger grant from the Board of Education towards conveyance expenses. WE are truly sorry that we could not attend the reading of M. Boutteville's paper on "Modern Methods of Street Cleansing in Paris." which was BIS read on the occasion of the recent International Conference on Public Cleansing, at Olympia, for if it was read as it was printed, many of the delegates must have been not a little amused and at times somewhat bewildered by the Frenchflavoured phrasing of the English composition. The translation was indeed most literal, and our vocabulary has certainly been lengthened, and possibly some of the delegates may have thought that a stenoclactylographer. was something in the nature of a prehistoric animal.
LAST year 3,500,000 cars were tested for safe driving condition in nine American States, and of these 2,000,000 had faulty headlights, 886,000 defective brakes k and 108,000 faulty steering. This means that some 90 per cent. of all the cars regis tered in these States needed important adjustments before they were really safe to drive. It would be interesting to know the comparative figures for Great Britain, not only in respect+, of cars, but also for goods and,passenger vehicles. We believe that such particulars would reveal the fact that the average commercial vehicle is much better maintained than the private car.
TO commemorate the success of the recent relia bility demonstration extending over three days and nights, the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., has published a 12-page picture paper, appropriately entitled "Demonstration News." Genuine newspaper style has been adopted and the general appearance would do credit to any editorial staff.
The paper contains a graphic description of the non-engine-top run, in which 194 vehicles took part, each car being independently entered by an authorized dealer in a different part of the country. In the three days and nights the vehicles covered a total mileage of 334,930 without a breakdown and without any untoward incident.
FIFTY machines for making tyre cord by a new process, which gives much greater resistance to fatigue, have been installed in the Dunlop cotton mills at Rochdale. The process, which enables two twists instead of one to be put in the thread for each turn of the spindle, is not entirely new, but until recently it could not be worked satisfactorily because of the difficulty of preventing the spindle from oscillating. With this trouble overcome, the new process yields a better-controlled yarn. There is no limit to the amount of _twist that can be imparted to the yarn and greater control of elongation is obtained.