Pulse Motor 'Being Produced
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DEVELOPMENT of an entirely new design of vehicle motive unit, described as a pulse motor, is reported from Lancashire. The engine, it is stated.. employs compressed and exhaust gases for reciprocation. There are no valves, crankshaft or connecting rods, and it is suggested that production and running costs would be low. The engine is reported to be under test and development by a Lancashire textile organization, but inquiries made by The Commercial Motor have so far failed to reveal the identity of the company concerned. It is possible that this power unit consists of a free-piston gasifier, feeding a small turbine, writes the technical editor. Vehicles using this form of propulsion are known to be running in the United States and France, and units have been under development in this country. The free-piston engine and turbine combination should give fuel economy comparable to that of an oil engine, but it has the added advantage of a simplified transmission layout.
COVENTRY COUNCILLOR SPEAKS OUT
WHEN Coventry City Council last week discussed their expulsion from the Federation of Municipal Passenger Transport Employers, Clir. C. M. Maxwell spoke out against the "uncompromising attitude that the municipality had adopted.
He complained that the transport and administration committees had been
placed in an impossible position. In future wage claims they would have to act both as judge and jury. Cllr. W. Spencer, chairman of the transport committee denied that 'jungle warfare" would break out over wage claims.
FORTH BRIDGE ON TIME WORK on the Forth road bridge is up VV to schedule, and the Scottish Secretary of State has no reason to believe that it will not be finished by the
end of 1963 as planned. ,
This was stated in the House of Commons last week by Mr. N. Macpherson, Scottish Joint UnderSecretary. Edinburgh Corporation, he added, planned to build an outer circular road to carry traffic which might use the bridge, and a by-pass might be built. Work on a aray road bridge, it was hoped, would start within five years.
NO UNDERTAKING GIVEN
I T should be made clear that in a case before the acting North Western Deputy Licensing Authority,-reported last week, Idris Williams and Marshall, Llanfairpw11, Anglesey, did not undertake not to carry return loads of feeding stuffs and fertilizers from Lancashire. This work, by agreement with British Railways: was excluded from their normal user.