Doctors, Engineers Should Combine
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THE changing aspect of our roads,
1 where more and more Dieselpowered lorries and buses pour out black clouds of smoke, suggests that efficiency of mechanical performance may outweigh all other consideration in the design of engines," says Dr. P. R. Peacock, director of cancer research, Royal Beatson Memorial Hospital, Glasgow, in an article in the current issue of The Journal of the Engineers' Guild.
It could be said that an efficient engine did not emit black smoke, but the problem of incomplete combustion remained. Exhaust gases from even the best engine still contain undesirable substances, says Dr. Peacock.
He suggests closer co-operation between the engineering and medical professions to improve engine design, from the aspect of public health, without serious loss of mechanical efficiency.
T.R.T.B. EXTEND DANCE "SPECIALS"
THE Tees-side Railless Traction
Board have been granted permission to run dance " specials " throughout the year between Redcar and Saltburn and Guisborough, Skelton, Brotton Stokesley, Great Ayton and other points in Cleveland.
A spokesman for the Board told the Northern Licensing Authority that during the past year some 41,000 people had travelled on the late buses they already ran from the two seaside towns to Middlesbrough, St oc k ton and Thornaby, and about 8,000 of these were from Cleveland.
If the application were granted, the normal services might conceivably benefit, as more people would be encouraged to visit Redcar and Saltburn for dances if they were assured of transport home.
WESTERN WELSH TO RUN 16 TOURS IN 1956 QIXTEEN extended tours in Britain are provisionally scheduled for operation next year by the Western Welsh Omnibus Co., Ltd. According to an advance leaflet they will be:—
Twelve days: Highlands and Kyles of Bute (£38).
Nine days: Northern Ireland and English Lakes (£33 10s.).
Eight days. Edinburgh and Trossachs (£25 10s.); Western Highlands (£26).
Seven days: Devon and Cornwall (£22); Welsh Wonderland (£21); London and South-east Coast (£21).
Six days: English Lakes (£18 10s.); South Coast and Isle of Wight (119); East Anglia, Oxford and Cambridge (£18 10s.); Derbyshire Dales and English Lakes (£20); English Lakes and Scotland (£15 10s.).
At Easter there will be a five-day tour of the English Lakes (113 10s.), and there will also be three-day tours to the Derby, Royal Ascot and Blackpool Iluminations.