IN YOUR OPINION
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I QUITE agree with The Hawk in his statement regarding the GPO and this country's motor engineering. I think it is time that the GPO put the trade on stamps.
Although still at school I always enjoy reading COMMERCIAL MOTOR.
J. A. HUNT (15 years), Kingham, Oxon.
Flasher Fault
YOU MAY think it prudent to publish this warning. I am an electrician working for a municipal transport department and have noted a fault on a batch of double-deckers on PD2 chassis. On these buses, Ericsson flasher units were specified, with CAV204 flasher switches. In order to satisfy the law the WL terminals of the switches had been looped to the outer terminals so that the warning light would work.
In normal conditions the system works, but with a faulty lamp in a side flasher the Ericsson unit ticks away and the warning light flashes as though everything is in order, so that a driver would think his flashers were working when they were not.
I have converted the 204 switches to eliminate the error.
D. G. DOUGHTON, Oxton, Cheshire.
Dead end?
T AM glad to see the chairman of British Railways Board hammer1 ing a sizeable nail into the coffin of the Channel Tunnel. He says that if the digging doesn't start in the next 12 months, the project sh&ld be abandoned; since the chances of actual serious digging starting within 12 months seem to me to be about nil, it follows that the project will lose railway support. In this eventuality it is hard to see who will be interested in sponsoring it as a transport entity, as distinct from a very long, empty tube on the Channel floor.
From any rational viewpoint it has seemed a dead duck from the start. When every experience warns us against creating new concentrations of traffic, because of the immense problems of congestion and lack of amenity which result, it would be foolish to build such a giant-capacity transport system terminating at our end in one static and not very aceessible location.
B. M. WHITE, Sidcup, Kent