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WII..Pomeroy, one of E note that Mr. L.
the best-known men in the motor industry, who has for some time been general manager of the Daimler Co., Ltd., was recently appointed managing director of that company, thus taking over some of the duties of Mr. Percy Martin, who has for many years held the dual position of managing director of the Daimler and B.S.A. concerns.
We have known Mr. Pomeroy for many years and well remember one occasion when, as chairman of a meeting of the London Graduates of the LAX., he expounded the theory that if engine connecting rods were periodically boiled it would arrest fatigue in them. We have not inquired as to whether be still bolds this view. At that time be was responsible for the design of Vauxhall cars.
FROM information which we have received it would appear that several of the taxicabs to be exhibited at the forthcoming Commercial Vehicle Show will be fitted with roofs of the sliding-top type. Cab purchasers will in future have the option of buying coachwork of this variety or of the landaulet type which has been popular for so many years. Among the advantages of the former is its cheapness.
THE electric engine starter is a much more robust piece of mechanism nowadays than it was some years ago, but one does not expect to be able to call upon it to drive a six-wheeled goods chassis when the engine is out of action. Yet this is what we witnessed a few days ago, and it appealed to B18 us as a remarkable testimony to the quality of British-made lighting and startiag sets.
A loaded six-wheeler of well-known English make was struggling manfully through a gravel pit when the driver stalled his engine in attempting to climb a bank having a gradient of about 45 per cent. Perched at what appeared a perilous angle the engine would not start, being starved of petrol, but the machine was extricated from the position in which it had become lodged by engaging the 12-volt starter. Slowly the starter drove it backwards until it was free.
AN interesting fact noticeable when looking through the second part of the agricultural statistics for 1928 is the further decline in the use of rail transport for the distribution of dairy produce. The quantity of milk carried by the railways was nearly 7,000,000 gallons less than in the previous year, the quantity during 1928 being 236,518,000 gallons. It may be taken for granted that the decrease represents a corresponding increase in the quantity of Milk distributed by commercial motors.
TRAVELLING recently in a London taxicab (we can sometimes afford to do this now that the fares have been reduced), we observed in the vehicle a supply of an interesting and happily conceived little brochure entitled "To Our Visitors," which is issued by the Cab Proprietors' Council, 42b, Elizabeth Street, London, S.W.1.
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