The Electric Vehicle Committee.
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A meeting of the Electric Vehicle Committee was held in-London, on the 29th ult., Mr. R. A. Chattock presiding.
Dir. E. S. Shrapnell-Smith, representing the Commercial Motor Users Association, was unanimously elected vice-chairman of the Committee.
Having in view the extent to which electric vehicles are now being employed in Municipal sanitary service, it was resolved to issue an invitation to the Institute of Cleansing Superintendents to nominate a representative to sit upon the Committee. It was decided to send a circular letter to British automobile manufacturers, and another to British electrical manufacturers, suggesting that they should consider the question of taking up, after the war, the making of electric vehicles in the case of the firstmentioned, and electrical equipments for same in the case of the second-mentioned class of manufacturers.
Upon the basis of 'a communication received from the Recorder of the Standards Committee, Society of Automobile Engineers of America, stating that breakages of charging plugs and receptacles made according to the present standard had indicated the necessity of increasing the length of the outer metal protective casing of the receptacle, and that the American standard design had accordingly been altered by increasing the length of the said outer casing by 11-16ths of an inch (18 mm.), the Committee decided to suggest to the British Engineering Standards Committee the desirability of altering the British standard in a similar manner. It may be mentioned that the said lengthening of tLe shell involves no alteration to the plug portion or to the contacts or moulded insulation of the receptacle. A letter was considered which had been received from the City Electrical Engineer of Bradford, relative to the period of the loan authorized by the Local Government Board for the purchase of electric vehicles. It appeared That the loan for the three Bradford vehicles has been granted for a period of only four years, although it seems that in September, 1914, the Corporation were only able to get a similar period granted for the purchase of a steam wagon. The Secretary was instructed to write to the L.G.B.