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-ONE of the most cheery spots at Yarmouth during the recent , conference of the Municipal Tramways and Transport Association was the interior of the .
.A.E.C. Relianceused -for demonstration purposes by G. .D. eters and Co., Ltd. `.` Mine host," was the genial Mr. Riley, who managed to convey
• to visitors a very useful amount of knowledge about the working of the door-operating System and brake mechanism of the bus in question in a humorous and interesting manner. Incidentally, he and his satellites scoured Yarmouth and district and bought up every available copy of The Commercial Motor dated September 10th, which gave first details both of the door-control and braking systems in their very latest forms.
THE police have had to suffer many criticisms, and it is only fair to draw attention to particular examples of efficiency.
A few days ago we left a mackintosh at a seaside resort, and upon notifying by post our loss to the local superintendent we received a courteous reply B18 saying that the garment had been forwarded to the nearest police station to our offices for identification. Following upon this, we received, with some trepidation and a conjuring up of our motoring sins, a Visit from a police sergeant, and • were relieved to find that he had merely brought the aforesaid mackintosh. The only charge made was 6d. for postage.
WE have received from Mr. A. Bayliss, A.I.Mech.E.,
A.M.I.A.E., the lecturer on motor engineering at the University of Sheffield, an interesting syllabus of the evening classes, of which the second-year course commenced yesterday and the first-year's will start to-morrow, an additional first-year's class being held on Friday evenings. Instruction in theory and practice costs only 10s. for the 4eason, and excursions are arranged to various works of interest. Students are trained for the City and Guilds and the Institution of Automobile Engineers examinations.
We noted with interest that "The Motor Manual" is one of the text books employed.
PROBABLY the most important feature in connection with double-saloon tuseS which was brought. out during the demonstration at Yarmouth was the low overall height.
While chatting with Mr. Hardie, of the Associated Equipment Co.; Ltd. (Who, by the way, is looking very much better since his recent serious illness) we heard no fewer than seven delegates to the confer-, once ask the same question—" What is the overall height? "—after they had made atour of inspection of the new type double-decker.
DURING the recent floods in Tasmania the electric power failed at the works where the Tasmania Examiner is printed and current had to be drawn from an auxiliary power house—until the flood put that out of order also. The newspaper, which was in type, was without any means for printing, but a resourceful engineer conceived the idea of using a farm tractor to drive the press and a Delco lighting plant to provide additional ,power and electricity. So the Tasmania Examiner went to areas as usual. A POLICEMAN was ensconced behind a hedge timing the speed of long-distance coaches on the • Great North Road. For a time he was happy in the thought that he was quite concealed, but he was exceedingly annoyed when the driver of a NewcastleLondon coach stopped his vehicle and approached him with a request for a match. We have not been told whether he acceded to the request.
NEWS comes to hand of an interesting metal which has been discovered and is now used in America for the making of tools employed in the shaping of automobile parts such as pistons. The metal is said to be harder than a sapphire, so that it isocapable of producing a scratch on the natural sapphire stone. Tools made of this metal are used not only for turning pistons, but also for boring gudgeon-pin holes. Metallurgical research is resulting in great refinements in manufacturing processes. We know one company which, in place of the ordinary broaching tool, uses a diamond tool for finishing work on gudgeon-pin holes, etc.