Special Licence for Abnormal Loads?
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I-1 A SPECIAL licence for abnormal
indivisible loads is suggested in a list of amendments to the Road Traffic Bill to be moved in the,House of Lords by Lord Lucas. The fee to be paid would depend on the nature of the vehicle and load and the distance to be travelled.
Among other amendments, he proposes that a police officer on traffic duty should be authorized to compel a driver to take an alternative route.
He wishes to exempt from the speed limit dual-purpose vehicles operated under carriers' licences, while adapted to carry passengers and being used for a function for which a licence is not required. A definition of a dualpurpose vehicle is included, one of the requirements being that it should not exceed 2 tons unladen.
Samples carried in a dual-purpose vehicle used by a commercial traveller to solicit orders, but not for advertisement, or to sell or deliver goods, and medicines and so on, carried in such a vehicle by a doctor, nurse, dentist or veterinary surgeon should, Lord Lucas suggests, not be regarded as goods.
He seeks to delete the clause giving permanent effect to the speed limit in built-up areas. He wants a new clause to be included providing that a street where lamps are newly placed not more than 200 yd. apart, shall not he regarded as a built-up area until the Minister has made an Order.
COUNTY TO BUY WEIGHBRIDGE . TESTER AiFODEN weighbridge testing vehicle is to be bought by Lancashire County Council. The council last week accepted a report recommending the purchase of such a machine. It was pointed out that there were 1,050 weighbridges in the county and a testing vehicle, if made available to other authorities, wouId be fully employed.
The cost of the equipment was stated to be £4,680 and annual operating expenses £1,700. Savings and hire charges would amount to £1,035.
As reported in The Commerc-ia Motor dated January 14, Manchester Watch Committee also propose to buy a weighbridge-testing vehicle.
"LEARN ABOUT TRANSPORT" VOUNG men engaged in transport./ "an exciting industry "—should learn what was happening in the industry as a whole and not only their particular section. This advice was given by Sir Gilmour Jenkins, president of the Institute of Transport and Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Transport, when he spoke at the annual dinner of the Central London Sub-area of the Road Haulage Association on Monday.
Mr. H. H. Crow, chairman, thought that road transport should be better represented on the London and Home Counties Traffic Advisory Committee. ich demand minor engine changes. ten the mixture of gas and air passes : inlet valves it is quite dry, thus the yes are not subject to any cooling !ct, as in a petrol engine.
For this reason, inlet and exhaust yes, and their seats, are manufaced from high-heat-resisting steel and inlet valves are made to rotate. other cause of higher cylinder tern-attire is the slow burning of L.P.G., with a weak petrol mixture, and so der sparking plugs are used and a
• omium-plated top piston ring is ed to each piston.
iigher working pressures are also :ctivc in the cylinders and these not manifolds, colder plugs, chromiumplated piston rings, special valves, seats and valve guides, and tougher big-end and main bearings. Such a kit is offered in Holland for converting Reo engines at a price of about £125, recoverable in 25,000 miles of service.
These features arc also incorporated in International and Commer engines, but other manufacturers at present arc content to offer the basic equipment plus inlet manifold and sometimes dome-topped pistons.
The operation of an L.P.G.-equipped vehicle is straightforward. The fuel tanks, usually of about 35-gallon capacity, are filled under a pressure of
a two-stage vaporizer. The German Majert kit has a vaporizer which passes the fuel through the exhaust manifold, but this equipment is not shown on a vehicle at Amsterdam. Borg Warner equipment is, however,_ exhibited.
L.P.G. sells in Holland for approximately 2s. a gallon—less than half the price of petrol—and there is no increase in fuel consumption. Although the storage tanks are heavier than petrol tanks and the taxation weight is higher, payloads are not reduced because full tanks of each type weigh the same.
Passenger vehicles arc much in evidence at Amsterdam and all the bodies are of an exceptionally high standard. One of the newest buses is the Verheul-Leyland Holland coach, an integral-construction vehicle employing Leyland Tiger Cub mechanical components and pneumo-cyclic trausmis