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We publish on this page a portrait of Mr. )D. R. Walters, who returned from Australia in April of this year, „after having been associated for a period of four years with A.E.C. (Australia) Proprietary, Ltd. Mr. Walters has now been appointed secretary and accountant of Pour Wheel Drive Motors, Ltd., and Hardy Rail Motors, Ltd. We had the pleasure of meeting him recently at an informal little function held at Olympia when the F.W.D. concern entertained its staff to tea.
Mr. Rowland C. Moore, one of the chief assistants in the traffic department of Sheffield Corporation, has, we learn, been appointed traffic superintendent of the municipal bus undertaking at Stockton-on-Tees. Mr. Moore has had many years' association with transport activities in Sheffield and has obtained a first-hand knowledge of the working of bus services. He was a first-prize silver medallist in 1028 in connection with the Municipal Tramways and Transport Association's competition for at paper on "The Principles and Practice of Co-ordinated Motor Omnibus Services."
• Provisions of Cardiff's New Bill.
The present session of Parliament is to receive from Cardiff City Council a Bill seeking power compulsorily to acquire the Penarth Road toll gate and to operate it until the purchase cost has been recovered. Authority will also be sought for the purpose of making by-laws to forbid unauthorized bus services to be worked in the area. Joint inter-town bus services are also to be the subject of the proposed bylaws.
,Front-drive Buses in Berlin. The Voran front-wheel-drive motorbus put into service in the summer of 1928 as an experiment by the Berlin Verkehrs Gesellschaft was recently dismantled for inspection and overhaul purposes after completing a distance of nearly
26,000 miles. According to one of our German \contemPoraries the main components showed so little wear that they are being re-assembled for further use. As similarly 'good results are being *obtained from a second Voran :front-drive bus it is said that the Berlin Co. Iflis decided, in the .near future, to place a -number of such vehicles on the road.
Traffic Increases in Nottinghamshire. A traffic census that was recently undertaken in Nottinghamshire shows that between 1923 and 1926 the increase in the number of vehicles was equivalent to 24 per cent, that from 1926 to 1929 being 17 per cent., whilst from 1923 to 1929 the number of vehicles increased by 45 per cent. From 1923 to 1926 the increase in 'tonnage was 47 per cent., that from 1926 to 1929 14.5 per cent., whilst the increase from 1923 to 1929 'was 68 per cent.
Scammell's in South Africa.
A company has lately been formed in Durban, with the title of Seammell Lorries (South Africa) Proprietary, Ltd., to handle Scammell industrial motor vehicles in the South African Union, A Loss to a Municipal Journal.
It is with deep regret that we learn of the death of Mr. C. Chambers Smith, the editor of our contemporary, Municipal Engineering, Sanitary Record and Municipal Motor. Mr. Chambers Smith had a long association with that paper, for he contributed to its pages long before he was called to the editOrial chair. He had a sound knowledge of municipal matters and was especially mindful of the need for changes in road construction, following the remarkable growth of mechanical traction—in fact, he was considered to be an authority on the subject of roads and road construction.
The Change-over to Pneumatics in Germany.
As a result of deputations on the subject, the German authorities have agreed, in so far as concerns tractors weighing up to 3 tons, to suspend until July 1st, 1930, the regulation which recently came into operation in Germany requiring all heavy motor vehicles to be equipped with pneumatic tyres, so as to give owners ample time to change over from solid to pneumatic equipment. The extension, however, does not apply to trailers, the wheels of which must be fitted with cushion or pneumatic tyres by January 1st next.
' Standard Marking for Vehicle Parks.
The Ministry of Transport has notified local authorities that it has adopted, as a standard, a method of marking parking places for the whole of London. The system of marking will include the International car-park sign and special triangular Staybrite steel road studs to indicate the ends of each rank. The International ear-park sign will be fixed to an existing lamp standard where available, or, alternatively, on an iron post within the limits of each' rank or park. With the sign there will be a special notice plate giving details of the parking place.
Descriptive of A.J.S. Models.
A. J. Stevens and Co. (1914), Ltd., of Wolverhampton, has just issued a booklet in which 'details of the company's Commodore and Pilot chassis are given. There is a brief specification of each model and some of the salient characteristics are enumerated. Both of these chassis have been described in our columns.
A Large A.E.C. Order.
The Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., has recently obtained a contract from the East Surrey Traction Co., Ltd., for 42 Regent 95 11.p., six-cylinder, double-deck-bus chassis and 18 Regal coach chassis of the mune .type.