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Passing Comments
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Timportance of governors being rendered HJ immune from interference by drivers cannot be exaggerated. Instances are cited where oil engines have been unfairly treated, due to governors being rendered ineffective.
A NOVELTY in oil wells is to be found in process of boring at Ventura, 'California. To save the cost of a half-mile pier a steel island has been built, and the drill passes through 35 ft. of water to the bed of the sea.
GREAT improvements have been made in the proofing of moquettes and similar materials against moths and other insects. It is probable that if these features were advertised abroad exports would improve, for in several countries less comfortable covering for bus seats is employed only because the earlier moquettes used to harbour moths, etc. JUST at present Australia is producing a number of inquiries for devices that will permit farm tractors, normally driven on paraffin, to make use of heavier oils.
FROM private information it is clear that American manufacturers are becoming most interested in the rapid advance which the oil engine is making in Britain, for there is evidence of several urgent inquiries from "the other side."
THE railways continue their efforts to take fur niture-removal work away from old-established depository and removal concerns operating road vehicles. In December, 1929, the G.W.R. had 418 containers and now it has 1,248. A further 175 of these "lift vans" are to be added, and a special type Is to be constructed for furniture, this having slotted sides to enable the articles contained to be firmly secured. THE Wholesale Egg Distributors Association recently passed a resolution placing on record the complete dependence of the English egg industry on road transport. The' resolution also pointed out that, owing to arbitrary regulations imposed upon the cartage of eggs by the railways and their disregard of repeated requests for the readjustment of the difficulties, the despatch of English eggs by rail has been rendered commercially impossible.
THE Association views with very grave concern any attempt to restrict the activities of road transport and states that if the cartage of eggs be forced on to the railways it will be the greatest blow possible to this new industry.
Ajc amusing incident recently occurred on a main road out of London, when a light breakdown outfit was sent to salvage a laden vehicle. When weight was placed upon the crane the salvage lorry reared, its front wheels being raised well clear of the ground. THE objection to speedometers -being made com pulsory on goods vehicles lies in the fear that the fitting of them will not greatly help forward the cause for which they are suggested, namely, the prevention of excessive speeding.
THE following is an extract from a public state ment made by a member of the Salter Conference in the spring of this year. It seems hardly reconcilable with the " unanimous " report. "So far as the improvement and maintenance of roads were concerned, motor traffic, as a whole, contributed in taxation the full cost. The annual road costs were under 00,000,000, and the total contributions for 1932-33 by owners of motor vehicles were estimated by the Treasury to amount to over £62,110,000, made up of £34,200,000 from the petrol duty and £27,910,000 from vehicle taxation. The wages and conditions of employment of men in the road transport industry were in no instance less favourable than those of railway workers, and, in many cases, more favourable."