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ipsy Legfer the Best
FTER a detailed technical discussion with Austin technicians on the leaf-spring suspension fitted to the nv Gipsy rigid-axle vehicles,.I was left in no doubt that provides greater stability and improves 'adhesion, comtred with the independently 'sprung type, when there is agonal loading of the wheels. But having no doubt is not Jite the same as knowing. Now I'm sure!
A fortnight ago, I drove a : short wheelbase leafer a tmber of times round the Austin test course in Marlbrook .uarry, four -miles from Longbridge and later an independit model for one lap at a lower speed.
This is a really cruel course with near vertical ups and owns, deep potholes, wide gullies and oceans of mud, and ie leafer rode better and was easier to control, particularly ten the vehicle dived diagonally into rutted or soggy round. So it's back to leaf springs if you want them— rid I think a lot of people will. The leaf is a simple thing, ut there's more to it than that—a lot I can't understand. Vhy should a relatively narrow spring base be a good thing, r example? I don't know, but it works.
rresh Heart for Modellers
t CONSIDERABLE amount of correspondence arose -1 from my comments made in January about modelrry kits, which lamented the current dearth of such contructional gems as those produced by Wilson's Lorries, Ad. I am pleased to record that the position is being willed by Airfix, who have been establishing quite a eputation over the past few years for very finely detailed its or aircraft and ship models, available from such places
s Woolworth's for surprisingly few shillings,
Airfix have now entered the commercial-vehicle field with 2s. kit of a Scammell Scarab three-wheeled tractive unit too had about the four-wheeled Scarab announced a few ays before!) with two semi-trailers--one of the standard tritish Railways pattern and the other being a Watney's pecial, complete with three large barrels. John Moon is Ding to build the kit, but he tells me he won't be starting intil he's finished his model of a B-type bus, one of Airfix's arlier kits.
;oods No Good
A PARTICULARLY extensive cobbled market place
• is among the proud posSessions of Thirsk, in North !'orkshire, and under an ancient charter commercial vehicles .re entitled to park there free of charge. And they lo, in fact the number of lorries and vans availing themelves of this facility in recent years has caused the square o be likened to a goods yard, with departures at all hours if the night. Up in 'Thirsk a few months ago even the yes of your own Hawk had difficulty in detecting a way hrough from the main road to the hotels behind the tightly lacked ranks of vehicles.
Now some of the inhabitants are protesting. Why? lecause, they say, the lorries' and vans that find this a :onvenient stopping place on journeys between Tees-side ind the south have filled all the available space and so have driven away coaches that would bring ._business to the town's shops and hotels. .A petition: has been drawn up and a public meeting is :to be held. to, discuss the
matter.
-Rubbish!
A N interesting conversation took place between a lady applicant and the West Midland Deputy -Licensing Authority, Mr. R. Hall recently, when the lady in question was applying for the modification of a B licence to carry "goods for the Birmingham Syphon Co., The Mint,
Birmingham, Ltd., and Delta Enfield Rolled Metals, Ltd., within 25 miles."
Asked what she was carrying for the Syphon Company, she replied, "Rubbish." The transcript then reath as follows:— Q. What are you carrying at the moment?
A. I am restricted to rubbish.
Q. What do you carry for the Mint?
A. Rubbish.
Q. Within 25 miles?
A. Yes, rubbish, nothing but rubbish.
Sweetener
IT is rumoured that tests are being conducted in America to determine whether eating sweets helps drivers to avoid accidents. A research group believes that drivers who fall asleep at the wheel do So partly because their blood sugarlevel has dropped too low!