Fully Automatic Gearbox for Leyland
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AFULLY automatic version of the Leyland Pneumo-Cyclic gearbox has been developed. It will be fitted on a Leyland double-deck bus in the demonstration park at Earls Court.
There is a small master controller with lever positions corresponding to the number of gears in the transmission. This master control is moved to the " Automatic " position and when the accelerator is depressed the vehicle moves away. Thereafter, gear changes are carried out automatically according to road conditions and vehicle speed.
There is also an override position in which the system functions in a similar manner to the semi-automatic PneumoCyclic unit. The new system has been developed by Self-Changing Gears. Ltd., a Leyland associate.
T.U.C. AT ROAD TALKS
THE Trades Union Congress will be represented at the conference of the British Road Federation to be held in London from September 18-20. It is understood that Mr. J. Campbell, of the National Union of Railwaymen, will be the T.U.C. delegate. The conference will study how motorways may relieve urban congestion.
The T.U.C. General Council's report for the past 12 months says: "The General Council would feel consider-ably happier if the problem of Britain's roads were receiving more vigorous attention. Bad communications are a serious drag on industrial efficiency and hold-ups on the roads outside the works may well set at naught gains in higher efficiency inside the firm,"
During the year the council gave special attention to transport efficiency and pressed their point of view regularly at meetings of the National Production Advisory Council on Industry.
FOUR NEW ROWE MODELS
FOUR new vehicles will be exhibited by M. G. Rowe (Motors) Doublebois, Ltd., in the forecourt of West Brampton station during the time that the Earls Court Show is open. They will comprise a prime mover with setback engine, an 8-ton tipper, and goods and passenger chassis powered by a new design of oil engine.
UNION WIN PAY DISPUTE
THE Industrial Disputes Tribunal have upheld a claim for higher pay for maintenance workers employed by Road Services (Caledonian), Ltd, made by the Transport and General Workers' Union (The Commercial Motor, August 10).
PAY TALKS: NO DATE YET
ADATE for the resumption of talks on a claim for higher pay for London busmen has not yet been agreed between the London Transport Executive and the Transport and General Workers' Union.