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Passing Comments Clearing Exhibits A NYONE who has any After a Big Agri. 1-1 . doubt regarding the use

28th July 1939, Page 26
28th July 1939
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cultural Show . . . and value of road transport in connection with farming should attend during the afternoon of the last day of any large agricultural show. It becomes almost a mass of motor vehicles transporting produce, flowers, horses, cattle, sheep, pigs and appliances, often to be conveyed quite long distances, to some other exhibition elsewhere, and the clearing is performed with remarkable expedition.

Man Should Always ONDON'S bus drivers are

Be Master of exceptional in their skill.

the Machine . . Sa, however, are London's day-by-day private-car users and lorry drivers. We hope that the new buses, which have various mechanical refinements, will not hasten A24 the progress of a tendency we have noticed for these worthy men to take undue advantage of the capabilities of their vehicles. There seems to be a growing habit, on their part, to accelerate and brake as lustily as possible, regardless of other road users. Let them not endanger a fine reputation of many years' standing.

ALETTER in the July Journal of the Institute of Automobile Assessors draws attention to the serious obstruction to the sight of drivers caused in so many old vehicles by defective " safety " glass in windscreens and rear windows. There is something in this, for we have seen windscreens in which vision was possible only through a small area of the glass. We have also noticed back windows which were almost opaque. Both examples are obviously dangerous

Restricted Vision Caused by Defective " Safety " Glass . . Tax Takes Farthing of

Every London Bus SPEAKING recently at the chairman, Sir Kenneth Crossley, Bart„ alter mentioning the satisfactory progress of the company, particularly on the municipal side of oilers and trolleyhuses, referred to the huge taxation. He pointed out that motor vehicles pay more than one-tenth of our national revenue, whilst their owners pay rates. and taxes like everyone else. Considering London Transport, national and local taxation has grown to 9 per cent, of the traffic receipts. The total contributed last year amounted to £2,770,000, of which 74 per cent, was for vehicle licences and fuel tax—a farthing per passenger. Locked-fibre ConCONSTANT improvements

struction Improves `..--'are being effected in the Pneumatic Tyres . construction of pneumatic tyres. The cords of a tyre are, of course, the main factor in load and stress carrying. In this connection, there has been developed a new Firestone special cord body of greatly increased strength. This results from the use of a new cord called Safety-Lock, in which the cotton fibres that make up the individual cords are so locked together that they give greater strength and cooler running. The fibres in each cord, the cords in each ply and the plies themselves are then all secured by an advanced and especially developed process of gum-dipping.


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