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It's Still Going Strong !
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BUSILY pulling along 60-ton railway wagons in a yard ,at the Furstenberg-Braun Lumber .Co. premises in Saginaw, U.S.A., is a 39-year-young vehicle that just does not seem to know when to stop. It is a K72A model, built in 1923 by the General Motors Truck Co. (predecessor to the G.M.C. Truck and Coach Division of General Motors) and was bought by Furstenberg-Braun in 1948 for $500, since which time repair bills are said not to have topped $50. The Big Brute, as it is affectionately termed, still has its original 3-cu.-yd. dump body—in working order—and its driver doubts whether the engine cylinder head has ever been removed. Big Brute will have to be retired soon, though; the solid-rubber tyres are almost worn down to the rims—and there are no replacements!
Wheel I Never
THE current edition of Rubber Developments, published by The Natural Rubber Bureau, contains an article about a Canadian project which—if it comes off—will make a Mighty Antar look like a child's pedal car. It is a vehicle intended to be used over undeveloped trackless areas of Canada whilt \\\ carrying loads of up to 200 tons at a speed of 35 m.p.h. Ic do this it will have wheels 50 ft. in diameter, with tyres 10-ft wide and 9-ft. deep inflated to 15 p.s.i.
The designers—Avro Aircraft, of Ontario—envisage usinf 16 petrol engines, each giving 750 b.h.p., and mounting foui : each wheel with hydraulic drive to the wheel rim. This ter will be 125-ft. long, 50-ft. high and 75-ft. wide, and ieoretical turning radius is calculated at 150 ft. As an illing unit there will be provision for a crew of 40.
loesn't look to me as if this design would meet the requireof British Construction and Use Regulations (not even :w ones, when they appear!).
Retiring
)SE expressions of relief round at the Transport Ministry we changed back to worried frowns.... Mr. Rupert Speir, rvative M.P. for Hexham, Northumberland, will be back the next election after all. This self-appointed badgerer import Ministers (and others) has changed his mind about lg from Westminster.
ryone's Confused
end of people are very confused about the European oves, within and outside the Common Market, towards ied transport policy. However, as The Commercial Motor xclusively reported, the Common Market did at least to have sorted itself out with the knowledge that the :ad Common Market Commission had agreed a timetable ese events to take place.
just before last Friday's "deadline" for submission by ommission of its proposals to the Council of Ministers a dignified bleat from the European Parliamentary ibIy, which (being composed of politicians) seems int to stop discussing any subject, that the Commission me over their heads and not awaited their views. What, P.A. asked, did the Commission think of the ethics of My guess is that the answer was easily framed.