Heavier Vehicle for Bad Roads
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AHEAVIER vehicle was required by West Coast Transport (Argyll), Ltd., Campbettown, for work over bad roads, Mr. W. F. Quin, Scottish Licensing Authority, was told, on Monday. The company sought an A licence for a vehicle of 41. tons to replace a special-A licence for a vehicle of 31 tons.
A representative of Millburn Motors, Ltd., said that the 41.-ton lorry, an Albion Clydesdale, was a more suitable type for cattle transport as it had a heavier chassis to offset the high centre of gravity.
The application was granted. It permitted the carriage of goods to Glasgow !which was named as the base) and other parts of Scotland. The company were also allowed to run a 2-ton van on collection and delivery work within 10 miles of Glasgow.
ADVANCE IN LUBRICATION
THE Glacier Metal Co., Ltd., Wembley, Middx, have developed a system, known as Ramrod, for the delivery ofoil at high, pressure (about 900 p.s.i.) to:bigend bearings immediately before each -stroke.. The .company discovered that a cavitation oectirs in the. oil film around a journal when the bearing cap is forced away from the crankshaft on the firing stroke..
• This cavitation travelled around the journal 'c-reating the risk that a conneeting rod rniOt apply its load fb a" dry' portion of' the journal. The, system is still in the experimental stage. It is-also -Einplicable to main bearing..
29B.R.P. FROM :125 C.C. THE German -NSU, company • have 1 released further details of their rotarypiston petrol 'engine; larger versions of which are being developed by the Curtiss-Wright Corporation of -America (The Commercial Motor, November .27). A prototype 125-c.c. engine has produced 29 b.h.p. at 1,700 r,p.m. Fuel consumption was said to be comparable to that of a conventional 'engine of -similar capacity.
NSU claim that major difficulties have been overcome, :and that .it is only a matter of time before the full capabilitieS of the engine can be exploited.
RISES FOR 6,500 AoRE than 6,500 workers in the road AVI passenger and road haulage sections of Coras Iompair Eireann will benefit under the terms of an award by the Labour Court in Dublin.
Bus crews, maintenance men and road haulage employees are to get a pay rise of 12s. per week. The rise will mean an increase in bus fares, likely to be announced next year.
£85m. FOR WEST MIDLAND ROADS THE 'expenditure of U5rn. on roads 1 other than motorways and trunk roads in the next 10 years is demanded in the West Midlands. A plan has been drawn up by a committee -set up a year ago by the Minister of Transport.