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Passing Comments T HE French Government has done more than any
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other to encourage the employment of suction-gas producers, and for some years has held extensive trials annually. Despite this, however, the number of vehicles in France using them was 616 at the end of last year compared with 667 at the close of 1932.
THE work which our contributor " S.T.R." has been doing for years in order to improve the status of the haulier and persuade him to establish his rates on a remunerative basis is now so widely known as hardly to need comment. A particular case, however, has just been established which seems at least worthy of mention. By assisting the haulier to present his case in a logical and convincing manner the price for a contract was increased from £90 to £200. AS an example of the manner in which everything is being controlled by legislation, the Mayor of Southend, Councillor H. E.. Frith, IP., mentioned recently that, chiefly as a result of legal requirements, the town council now has 30 different committees dealing with various problems concerning municipal affairs. This represents an increase of 100 per cent. in a few years.
I RELAND is world-famous for the production of a spirit, but not a motor spirit. The soil, however, that yields the ingredients of the one may now be coaxed into providing a substitute for the other. Experiments are to be put in hand to run motor vehicles on producer-gas made from peat, probably by converting this plentiful fuel into, charcoal for consumption in the gas-generating plant.
WE heard several remarks passed concerning the VT high quality of the papers read at the recent Institute of Public Cleansing Conference at Southend. They fully coincided with our own views. The symposium of essays, in particular, struck an original note, which might well be taken as an example.
HAULIERS in the fruit and vegetable-growing "areas 'should note that intensive propaganda is now being carried on to promote the consumption of British canned goods. It is anticipated that the result of this will be Considerably to increase the demand for those commodities. The production of canned goods of all kinds provides work for hauliers, both in bringing the raw materials to the factory and distributing the finished goods.
14ANY users of commercial vehicles fail to realize Ithat they are not obtaining the best from their tyres, either in wear or from the point of view of safety, simply because they neglect to keep them at the recommended pressures. The big bus and haulage companies insist on such pressures being checked every night, with the result that the average mileage of each tyre on, say, a Green Line coach is 60,000. Even when the valve and inner tube are in perfect order, air escapes gradually due to diffusion. Inddentally, the Schrader valve is standard on most of the tyres used in this country.
RESEARCH into the problems of lubrication is constantly being made and interesting discoveries are frequent. For instance, the pitting and corrosion of steel bearing surfaces, formerly attributed exclusively to acids in the oil, are now considered to be principally due to electrolytic action. Now, the presence of zinc oxide makes a lubricant anodic to steel, creating an electrolytic couple, so that the zinc plates out, penetrates the surface and produces a hard, corrosionresisting skin of ultra-microscopical thickness. The process, which is known as Keenolisation, is described in a booklet produced by Alexander Duckham and Co., Ltd.
THE honorary secretary of the Institute of Public 1 Cleansing, Mr. H. &dent, A.M.I.Mech.E., mentioned to us an incident in connection with the Conference programmes, These were printed partly in Edinburgh and partly in Blackpool, and owing to the lateness of the advertisement copy of a certain concern (a difficulty not unknown to The Commercial Motor) the programmes could not be ready until the evening before the opening. In view of the urgency, Mr. Ardeni preferred not to rely upon railway transport and adopted the expedient of having the packages placed on regular-service long-distance coaches at the two places in question, meeting them personally in London early in the morning. The Edinburgh vehicle started at 5.30 p.m. and was in London at 8.30 a.m.