MORE STANDING PASSENGERS IN BUSES
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A S from November 20, the number tn. of standing passengers permitted in buses operating between midnight and 7.30 p.m. is 12, or not exceeding half the number for which the vehicle (or in the case of a double-decker, the lower deck) has seating capacity, whichever number be less. Between 7.30. p.m. and midnight, the number of standers remains as formerly; varying between six and eight, according to the type of bus.
CAR SPEED WITH PRODUCER TRAILER
HITHERTO any private motorcar 1.1 (and there are many used for business and official purposes) towing a trailer was restricted to a speed of 30 m.p.h. As a result of representations made by the R.A.C. to the M. of W.T., an Order has now been issued removing this restriction in cases where the trailer is used solely for the carriage of a gasproducer plant, the vehicle now being required to observe the ordinary speed limits laid down for private cars.
ANOTHER EFFORT TO FREE TOLL BRIDGE MORTHUMBERLAND County '1 'Council has been invited to meet representatives of Hexham . Rural Council and Prudhoe Urlaan Council to discuss the freeing of tolls from
Ovingham Bridge. The Minister of Transport rejected a similar application some time ago oin the ground that the bridge did not connect two trunk roads, but it is felt that the bridge should be freed because it links the two sides of the Tyne.
LET-THE LOCAL PUB SELL THE LOCAL BREW WHY was so much transport used in sending beer brewed in one county to another county, asked Mr. Thorpe in Parliament last week. Major Lloyd George replied that upwards of 90 per cent. of the beer produced in the United Kingdom was distributed within 30 miles of the brewery where it
was produced. The practicability of effecting further economies in the transport of beer sent to greater distances was under close examination.
SPECIALLOID PISTQrS FOR PRODUCER GAS
A REVISED specification leaflet of Specialloid pistons for producergas conversions has recently been issued by Specialloid, Ltd., Finchley Works, London, N.12. It includes a list of pistons for 16 makes oLengine in' which are shown the old.2..nd new compression ratios, the numbers of cylinders, bores, reference numbers and prices. In several cases the pistons listed are for oil-engine conversions. Details are given of the piston with special turbulence-promoting crown, which the company has developed for producer gas, and there is brief information relating to the high-compression cylindet heads offered by certain makers.