- Telling Them Where They Get Off A DOUBLE-DECKER of the East
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Kent Road Car Co., Ltd., fitted with passenger-address equipment, by means of which the driver can inform the passengers of the names of the various stops, is operating in the Canterbury area.
The equipment, consisting of a microphone in the driver's cab and loudspeakers in the saloons, is made by S. Smith and Sons (Radiomobile), Ltd., 179-185, Great Portland Street, London, W.1, and will be exhibited at the Commercial Motor Show.
AGREEMENT ON COMPRESSORS
AN agreement has been concluded between the Burtonwood Engineering Co., Ltd., and Alfred Bullows• and Sons, Ltd., Walsall, giving Burtonwood an exclusive licence for the manufacture and world-wide distribution of Hydrovane compressors having a maximum working pressure of over 125 lb. per sq. in.
The Hydrovane is a rotary com• pressor, single-stage and multi-stage. Among special features are maximum working pressures up to 200 lb. per sq. in. or more and absence of oil or oil vapour in the air delivery. It is silent in operation. Its efficiency is claimed to be over 90 per cent.
Burtonwood will continue to manufacture its own range of reciprocating • compressors. It is expected that Bullows and Burtonwood will shortly grant a joint licence for the large-scale production of Hydrovane compressors in the U.S.A.
NO SECOND MAN?
ALETTER has been sent to the Ministry of Transport by the British Agricultural Contractors' Association asking for an amendment to the law relating to attendants on trailers drawn by tractors. B.A.C.A. is pressing the Ministry to allow all agricultural trailers drawn by tractors to use roads without a second man.
MONEY NO EXCUSE I N a letter to the Minister of Fuel and Power urging him to permit the sale of branded fuels, the standing joint committee of the Royal Automobile Club, the Automobile Association and the Royal Scottish Automobile Club states that it has taken into a ccou nt the economic position of the country and this is considered no longer to be a deterrent in view of the improvedfi nancial situation.