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GLASGOW members of the traffic police are now as wary of their colleagues on foot as any civilian driver. The unpleasant fact that not even a policeman an flout the law with impunity was brought home to them recently when a constable who was convieted of reckless driving of an official car was fined £5.
COMMENTS on Manchester's experience with oil engined buses were made recently by Mr. R. Stuart Pilcher, the municipal transport manager. He said that the corporation now has 52 vehicles of this type in service and that the weekly economy in operating cost, as compared with a petrol-engined bus, is at least equivalent to the initial price of the new engine.
DURING his inspection of the commercial-vehicle exhibits at the Berlin Show, Chancellor Hitler was surrounded by rings of his partisans in uniform, whilst outside the show Hitlerites were drawn up in serried ranks, and lorries full of policemen were stationed between the two halls. Everything, however, remained quiet, and the Chancellor appeared , to be very popular, having friendly chats with all the important exhibitors.
A TRIBUTE to the longevity of fire-engines is paid
in the report that a northern municipality proposes to dispose of its two fire-fighting appliances, which are said to date back to early in the 17th and 18th centuries. They are stated now to be "virtually no use in fighting fires." MOTOR-COACH services play a leading part in arrangements made by the G.W.R. in connection with the football cup final at Wembley. Combined rail and motor-coach trips, including meals, are arranged for parties of from 25 to 31 persons. The coaches meet the parties at Paddington convey them to a restaurant and then tour around London during the morning, afterwards proceeding to Wembley, where an arrangement has been made to park the vehicles close to the ground.
pARTICULARLY neat and effective guide signs were hung above the stands at the Berlin Show. They were so arranged that, viewed from any angle, the exact location of any exhibitor could be ascertained without difficulty. A sketch of one of them accompanies this paragraph. DURING the past year or two we have become so accustomed to the cry of "unfair competition" by railway interests that it is sometimes regarded with indifference. From China we now hear the same story, but its import is such a reflection upon its authors that the full humour of the situation may be enjoyed. The "unfair competition" fs that of wheelbarrows and handcarts!
IN his paper on oil engines recently, Mr. C. B. Dicksee, of the A.E.C. concern, surprised his listeners by telling them that the average diameter of one of the globules of fuel in the spray injected Into an oil engine is about 1-2,000th of an inch, so that one drop (as used when meaSuring medicine) contains about 1,600,000 globules. Each globule burns in the manner of a meteorite.