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30-ft. Worries
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DUS manufacturers are reported to regard the 30-ft. double1J decker as a mixed blessing. Turning circles are causing them to turn in circles, and the need for fitting bigger tyres to carry the extra weight is creating serious problems with some designs in which space is extremely limited.
I am told that the only alternative to redesigning the front end of one make of double-decker is to fit Michelin metallic tyres, which are able to carry the load without an increase in size. It is an ill-wind that does not inflate somebody's tyres.
Weather Profit
1/IR. D. W. JACKSON, cleansing superintendent at Sunderin land, does not need the services of the Meteorological Office in deciding whether to muster his snow-removal and gritting gangs. He has on his staff a weather prophet with an uncanny gift. Mr. Jackson says that he would not be averse to considering a transfer fee for the man, but it would have to be large!
Tubeless Troubles
TBELESS tyres have suffered a setback in America for reasons suspected but not positively known. An acute shortage of medium-carbon steel is also likely to retard the widened use of such tyres in Britain, because there is difficulty in producing the wheels to carry them. Germany and France are reported to be affected by a similar shortage.
The advantage to operators of tubeless tyres lies not in the absence of tubes, but in the great advance in design which they represent. They are expected to give better results than the existing type of tyre by cooler running and by the reduced weight of the wheel and tyre assembly. They may also enable larger stiffeners to be fitted to the brake drums of heavy vehicles, because of the extra space afforded by the design of the rim.
Little Horse Sense
I-1 A CATTLE haulier tells me that he recently engaged a
16-year-old typist. On the first morning he told her that she would have to open the post, make herself thoroughly familiar with the contents and bring to his notice anything of urgent importance. The next morning she strode triumphantly into his office carrying a handful of letters and grinning from ear to ear. Putting the pile in the middle of his blotting pad, she said: "Someone here is pulling your leg. A man wants to know if you can collect a pony, 12 hands. Who ever heard of a pony with 12 hands?" He is now waiting to be asked to deal with a cow with six calves.
Labour Wastage
RETURNING from Eastbourne after the recent Public Cleansing Conference, I had reason to reflect on one of the topics that was raised— the shortage of labour. Road improvements are being carried out on the LondonEastbourne road, necessitating the manually operated road signals, " stop " and "go."
Each signal has a man to turn it. How simple it would be to attach arms to the signals and run two cables between them. One man could then operate both, leaving the other to swell the labour force.