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The North-western Road Car CO., Ltd., is to spend £696,000 on the purchase ot 214 new buses.
The David Brown service manual, reviewed in "The Commercial Motor" on August 5, is priced at 12 2s.
Stockton-on-Tees Corporation is seeking sanction to proceed with a 1225,750 scheme for a depot for the transport undertaking.
A deputation from Rutherglen Town Council has told Glasgow Transport Committee that it prefers trams to trolleyb uses!
Automotive Products Co., Ltd., is now able to -supply Lockheed hydraulic brake fluid in half-pint (3s. 2d.) and pint. (5s. 10d.) bottles.
Hastings Town Council has decided not to exercise its option to purchase the Hastings Tramway Company's trolleybus system.
Russell Motors (Knightsbridge), Ltd., 47, Sloane Street, London, S.W.1, has been appointed London agent for Runbaken Electrical Products.
A Stratford-on-Avon company, Avon Express Transport and Repair Co., Ltd appealed against a notice of acquisition by the Road Haulage Executive.
It is reported that the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., has agreed to buy the shares of Bintex, Ltd., manufacturer of cellular rubber latex. The Bintex company will continue to operate separately.
Plans for extending bus services to the rapidly growing outlying housing estates are being considered by Sunderland Corporation. Buses are to replace tram:: on the Tatham Street route.
West Hartlepool Corporation tried to sell four 14-year-old double-deck buses, but as the offers received were not considered satisfactory, the cost of making the vehicles roadworthy is to be investigated WITH the general adoption of wideVV base wheels by American manufacturers since the war, there has, been a tendency in Britain to mount tyres on standard-type wheels of greater base widt:i. The example may be quoted of the 9.00 by 20-in. tyre which was originally permissible fitting on a 5.00 by 20-in., rim and is now fitted to a 6.00 by 20-in. wheel. The revision was approved by the Tyre and Rim Association, largely as the result of representations by the wheel companies.
The demand for a range of wheels specifically for wide-base fittings has been met by Joseph Sankey and Sons, Ltd., Wellington, Shropshire, with the recent introduction of a commercialvehicle pressed-steel wheel which •has been designed for this kind of mounting. Taking the same example of the 9.00 by 20-in, tyre, the appropriate wide-base wheel has a 7.0 by 20-In. rim, "7.0" being quoted as the dimensional figure in place of "7.00" to indicate the wheel type.
The use of wide-base wheels increases the tyre resistance to side thrust for a given inflation pressure, with a consequent improvement in cornering power. Alternatively, lower inflation pressures may be employed without sacrificing the road-holding capabilities of the vehicle. Economically, the new wheel represents a saving, as it enables the combined cost of the wheel and tyre to be reduced.
1,000 PICTURES OF TRANSPORT
OVER 1,000 pictures covering every aspect of Leeds municipal passenger transport will be on view at a photographic exhibition entitled "A Pictorial Story of the Leeds City Transport," which the Leeds Area of the Light Railway Transport League will hold in the Art Gallery, off the Headrow, Leeds, 1, from August 27-September 17, inclusive.
CHANCE IN CHILE
A CCORD1NG to the Board of Trade, ti Besa y Cia Ltda., Av, 13, O'Higgins 1486, Casilla 1147, Santiago, wishes to take up an exclusive agency for commercial vehicles in Chile. The company already has experience in the handling of motor vehicles.
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