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UER1ES
The Editor invites correspondence on all subjects connected with the use of commercial motors. Letters should be written on only one side of the paper. The right of abbreviation is reserved and no responsibility for views expressed is accepted. Queries must be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope.
WOMAN OPERATOR'S APPROVAL OF AN ASSOCIATION FOR DRIVERS!
IWAS very pleased to note that Mrs. Borrowdale approved of a drivers' association.
I would like to learn the views of a few more operators, also why there is not good support from the insurance companies for such a body.
' The grading of drivers (as each member is to be approved before he can join the association) would, undoubtedly, help the insurance companies and the operators.
Now, you .owners of vehicles, why do you not do your bit and so get good drivers, instead of wondering if that new driver is going to do a day's work, and bring the lorry and your living safely home? Lichfield. E. CARTER.
• WHY SOME OPERATORS ARE NOT USING DOUBLE HEAD LAMPS
WITH reference to your article on head-lamp masks, all operators would bo only too willing to fit two masks to each vehicle if they are able to obtain the masks,
We have had four dozen masks on order for two months, but the factors can give no idea of the date of
delivery. D. C. MATTHEWS, for Matthews and Co. (Carriers), Ltd. LOncion, S.E.1.
OPERATORS, STUDY YOUR . OWN TRANSPORT PROBLEMS
WITH particular gratification I read the article in 7 your issue of December 19 concerning the transport busineSS inn by Mrs. Borrowdale. One point that interested me very greatly was that she believes in going out on her vehicles from time to tine to see for herself how things are from the point of view of those on the road. It is a practice which, I have tried to promote in letters from me Which have appeared in your invaluable journal, and one which I would like to see more favoured by operators, particularly ancillary users, who are usually not so much concerned with their transport as: they are with their manufacturing interests.
, • The references to Mrs. Borrowdale's business clearly portray that she is doing her best in what I may term the Christmas spirit, not only amongst her helpers, but also amongst her clients. May I make an apology to the, writer of the carol, "Good King Wenceslas," which I have adapted and pointed for singing to the familiar • : Good Dame Borrowdale looled out On a feat of trans-port, • With her driver she went out To this feat of trans-port. Thus to her it would be giv'n Great-ex und-er-stan-ding Of the work and of her men, • And'her business sta-n-ding.
was glad to learn also that she would favour the
formation of a drivers' association, and in this connecffon I would be pleased to know the opinions of other operators on this matter, particularly as towhether such a body would have a good effect and if they think it ought to be linked with the C.M.U.A. and A.R.O.
I would like to send my good wishes for the New Year to my friends at Temple Press, to my fellow drivers
and to operators. A. J. PARRIS. Cranfield.
SUGGESTIONS FOR MORE ECONOMIC USE OF VEHICLES WITH regard to the advertisements issued by the vv Ministry of War Transport, and published in your journal, concerning the need for quicker turniound in order to add the equivalent of thousands of vehicles to our road-transport resources, why does the Ministry not permit heavy vehicles to travel at a higher speed, which would do much to bring about the desired end? Now another point. I am driving for an important brick company which operates a large number of vehicles. Many of these run to London daily, a one-way distance of about 46 miles. Practically all of them. return empty, and I think this is very wrong, particularly now, because it means that a driver spends half his time' running with an empty vehicle. Is there not some scheme by which they could be loaded in each direction? • Drivers would be glad of an opportunity to help in this way, as all of us prefer to drive a loaded wagon.
Slough. ACLOLAD.
OIL-ENGINED AEROPLANE WITH THREE TWO-STROKE UNITS
A LTHOUGH this is not exactly a road-transport I-Amatter, I feel sure that many of your readers will be interested in the following Press announcement from Stockholm, dated December 6:—
" The German Press to-day publishes the first pictures and details of the new seaplane DV.138, stated to be already in operation over British waters. The machine is driven by three Junkers Diesel engines using crude oil. It has the fuselage slung below the wings and two tail planes.. It is armed with cannon and machine guns." I believe that this is the .first " authentic " report of an oil-engined aeroplane used in this war, and therefore it is of considerable interest. Diesel engineers will perhaps wonder why they have selected the Junkers engine; when the Mercedes Benz (one assumes) would be available. The answer to this is, I think, that being a two-stroke-cycle opposed-piston type, the powerto-weight ratio will be somewhat greater than with the normal four-stroke-cycle type. The Junkers engine has not been a great success in road transport, although there are a good few running in Germany and France. One good point (for us) is that our observers on the coast will be able to spOt such a machine quickly by reason of the exhaust note, which will be most distinctive
and different from any other. W. Fl. GODDARD. Leeds.
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UER1ES
The Editor invites correspondence on all subjects connected with the use of commercial motors. Letters should be written on only one side of the paper. The right of abbreviation is reserved and no responsibility for views expressed is accepted. Queries must be accompanied by a stamped, addressed envelope.
WOMAN OPERATOR'S APPROVAL OF AN ASSOCIATION FOR DRIVERS!
IWAS very pleased to note that Mrs. Borrowdale approved of a drivers' association.
I would like to learn the views of a few more operators, also why there is not good support from the insurance companies for such a body.
' The grading of drivers (as each member is to be approved before he can join the association) would, undoubtedly, help the insurance companies and the operators.
Now, you .owners of vehicles, why do you not do your bit and so get good drivers, instead of wondering if that new driver is going to do a day's work, and bring the lorry and your living safely home? Lichfield. E. CARTER.
• WHY SOME OPERATORS ARE NOT USING DOUBLE HEAD LAMPS
WITH reference to your article on head-lamp masks, all operators would bo only too willing to fit two masks to each vehicle if they are able to obtain the masks,
We have had four dozen masks on order for two months, but the factors can give no idea of the date of
delivery. D. C. MATTHEWS, for Matthews and Co. (Carriers), Ltd. LOncion, S.E.1.
OPERATORS, STUDY YOUR . OWN TRANSPORT PROBLEMS
WITH particular gratification I read the article in 7 your issue of December 19 concerning the transport busineSS inn by Mrs. Borrowdale. One point that interested me very greatly was that she believes in going out on her vehicles from time to tine to see for herself how things are from the point of view of those on the road. It is a practice which, I have tried to promote in letters from me Which have appeared in your invaluable journal, and one which I would like to see more favoured by operators, particularly ancillary users, who are usually not so much concerned with their transport as: they are with their manufacturing interests.
, • The references to Mrs. Borrowdale's business clearly portray that she is doing her best in what I may term the Christmas spirit, not only amongst her helpers, but also amongst her clients. May I make an apology to the, writer of the carol, "Good King Wenceslas," which I have adapted and pointed for singing to the familiar • : Good Dame Borrowdale looled out On a feat of trans-port, • With her driver she went out To this feat of trans-port. Thus to her it would be giv'n Great-ex und-er-stan-ding Of the work and of her men, • And'her business sta-n-ding.
was glad to learn also that she would favour the
formation of a drivers' association, and in this connecffon I would be pleased to know the opinions of other operators on this matter, particularly as towhether such a body would have a good effect and if they think it ought to be linked with the C.M.U.A. and A.R.O.
I would like to send my good wishes for the New Year to my friends at Temple Press, to my fellow drivers
and to operators. A. J. PARRIS. Cranfield.
SUGGESTIONS FOR MORE ECONOMIC USE OF VEHICLES WITH regard to the advertisements issued by the vv Ministry of War Transport, and published in your journal, concerning the need for quicker turniound in order to add the equivalent of thousands of vehicles to our road-transport resources, why does the Ministry not permit heavy vehicles to travel at a higher speed, which would do much to bring about the desired end? Now another point. I am driving for an important brick company which operates a large number of vehicles. Many of these run to London daily, a one-way distance of about 46 miles. Practically all of them. return empty, and I think this is very wrong, particularly now, because it means that a driver spends half his time' running with an empty vehicle. Is there not some scheme by which they could be loaded in each direction? • Drivers would be glad of an opportunity to help in this way, as all of us prefer to drive a loaded wagon.
Slough. ACLOLAD.
OIL-ENGINED AEROPLANE WITH THREE TWO-STROKE UNITS
A LTHOUGH this is not exactly a road-transport I-Amatter, I feel sure that many of your readers will be interested in the following Press announcement from Stockholm, dated December 6:—
" The German Press to-day publishes the first pictures and details of the new seaplane DV.138, stated to be already in operation over British waters. The machine is driven by three Junkers Diesel engines using crude oil. It has the fuselage slung below the wings and two tail planes.. It is armed with cannon and machine guns." I believe that this is the .first " authentic " report of an oil-engined aeroplane used in this war, and therefore it is of considerable interest. Diesel engineers will perhaps wonder why they have selected the Junkers engine; when the Mercedes Benz (one assumes) would be available. The answer to this is, I think, that being a two-stroke-cycle opposed-piston type, the powerto-weight ratio will be somewhat greater than with the normal four-stroke-cycle type. The Junkers engine has not been a great success in road transport, although there are a good few running in Germany and France. One good point (for us) is that our observers on the coast will be able to spOt such a machine quickly by reason of the exhaust note, which will be most distinctive
and different from any other. W. Fl. GODDARD. Leeds.