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Lorry in a Hurry QPEEDI;ING in narrow, wind.
Causes Itself and "ing, country lanes is in itself Others Worry . . . dangerous, and where there is
any loose equipment aboard the danger is immeasurably increased. In Sussex recently a lorry whipped around a blind bend and we saw some object fly off and narrowly miss a passing cyclist.. It proved to be a stout corner stanchion with two large hooks ,for the attachment of side and tail boards or chains. The driver had only his own carelessness to thank for the loss, of this essential fitting.
The Load Capacity A READER has suggested of Oil and Petrol 4—k that, class for crass, petrol
Vehicles engined machines offer a much larger platform space than oil
engined vehicles where the limit of unladen weight is 3 tons, i.e., vehicles which can run at 30m.p.h. We have not looked very closely into this matter, but whilst realizing that the oil engine. must be rather heavier than the equivalent petrol type, there does not seem to be any specific reason why, the platform space should not be just as large in the case of the oiler, unless it is here where weight has to be cut. Our correspondent suggests further that, for certain classes of traffic, where bulk rather than weight is the vital factor, the petrol vehicle can run at a lower cost per load, this, presumably; because of the alleged smaller platform.
Haulier Advertising rINE of our readers has sent for H u nd re cis of ‘—ius a small advertisement Horses for Killing . from a Peterborough .paper in
which .a haulage contractor is advertising for hundreds of horses for killing. Our correspondent suggests. that this may be a novel method of cutting out the possibilities of competition by horsed transport both now and after the war. We might point to another motive, that the haulier concerned has to deal in horseflesh as a side line in order to balance his accounts—possibly he has vehicles on hire to the M.O.W.T.!