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WE wanted to know what a journey by sleeper coach was like, so we instructed a member of the staff to make the trip and to recount his experiences—and he incontinently went to sleep soon after leaving Liverpool and awoke to find himself in London with no experience to relate ! However, a lady has succeeded where a mere man failed, and in an early issue we hope to be able to give her impressions of a night on the road.
THE DAILY MAIL has followed up its wonderful
"discovery" of the Diesel engine by an account of a. " new " form of wedding party. _Sir George Hutchinson and his wife took a short honeymoon cib first, and a week afterwards returned to town for their wedding reception; but this Is scarcely a new idea. Why, a little more than a year ago Mr. Eddie Welch, son of Mr. Walter Welch, chairman of Harvey Frost's and a General Motors agent, mar-. red, spent a week motoring in the . Highlands, returned and met the "wedding guests," explaining that they had done this because "they wanted to take their part in the festivities."
A BIRMINGHAM reader has written to one of the dailies complaining in bitter terms of that "horrible engine," the steam lorry. He is angry about the soot and the grit (often red hot) that are ejected, regards the steam wagon as a lumbering . antiquity and an anachronism (he uses the term. "paradox," but does not mean that, evidently), and
wants it turned off the roads. Yet, curiously enough, a high transport official recently gave figures which showed that the number of complaints lodged. against the steamer are now very few, and the met remains that, in the form of the six-wheeler, ihe steam wagon has become one of the most up-to-date of heavy transport vehicles and has gained quite a new lease of life.
IT has often been said that when fitting a carburetter to an engine each instrument must be tuned individually, and our knowledge of the sub ject has also led us to this conclusion, hut apparently much depends upon the carburetter, and. only a few days ago a well-known manufacturer of -commercial vehicles told 128 that out of several :thousand Claudel-Hobson carburetters which have been utilized scarcely ever has it been necessary to change a jet, proving that these instruments are manufactured to a remarkable degree of precision. Incidentally, it says something also for the perfect way in which the modern engine can be built.