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THOSE people in South Wales and Monmouthshire who received their Christmas mail weeks after the correct date must have been very pleased with the railway company concerned. It appears that a truck containing 48 mail bags was pushed into a siding at Milford Haven and forgotten until. It was wanted for fish traffic. One can hardly imagine such an incident happening in connection with road transport. ONE of the most attractive little booklets which each this office is "The Concrete Way," issued on behalf of the British Reinforced Concrete E 'Deering Co., Ltd., Stafford. It is thoroughly we4l illustrated and all the latest developments in th use of concrete throughout the world are dealt wi . It gives an excellent impression of the nu erous practical and artistic ways in which this rim ern material can be employed. IT will be of interest to many, to learn that since the 1931 Commercial Motor Show at Olympia approximately 300 British-made Armstrong-Saurer oil-engined vehicles have been put into service in Britain.
ALL who participated in the Third All-rounder Concert organized by our associated journal, Cycling, and held at the Royal Albert Hall, London, on Saturday last, voted it a most enjoyable and well-organized affair. It was attended by over 7,000 cyclists. Perhaps the time may come when such a gathering of commercial-vehicle enthusiasts will be held in that imposing building. If so, it will probably be to register a protest against some injustice, such as is contained in certain of the recomnienda.tinns of the Salter Report.
SOME years ago we tested out the Robertson automatic variable gear and were favourably impressed with its possibilities. Types were then being developed for testing on tanks. In a circular letter to its shareholders the Robertson Automatic Variable Speed Gear Co., Ltd., now states that good progress has been made in the development work, and Dr. F. W. Lanchester, LL.D., F.R.S., has expressed the opinion that the gear is capable of being applied to heavy traction operating under severe conditions. THE vast amount of capital that is invested in the hundreds of thousanC.s of petrol engines is now becoming more widely recognized in manufacturing circles as a material factor in the development of the compression-ignition engine. How can this big collection of existing equipment be made use of to burn the cheaper oil fuels?
MANY vehicle operators are inquiring for details of conversion systems and, whilst the possibilities of adaptation may be limited, the policy of this paper has been to give all possible publicity to promising systems. Further efforts of a serious nature are being undertaken by engineering concerns, and, although announcements concerning them would be a little premature at the present time, detaila which will be of material interest are to be published later in The Commercial Motor.
SOME remarkable mileages have been put up by the well-known Henley cushion tyres made by Henley's Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., 20-22, Christopher Street, Finsbury Square, London, E.C.2. As an example, a set fitted to a Leyland lorry in August,. 1929, has just been removed after running 55,474 miles. The previous record for the same lorry, which is run by Chance Brothers and Co., Ltd., Glass Works, Smethwick, Birmingham, was just over 52,000 miles.