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Illustr ating A gr i c u IA STRIKING feature of the ture and Transport r-k Ford stand at the Royal is Over 2,000 Years . . a giant frieze, 184 ft. long, de
picting in colours the development of agriculture and transport from the earliest times of which iecords are available until the present day. It covers a period of 2,000 years and took six months to prepare.
A Lord Mayor Praises A T the annual rally of the Commercial-vehicle r"-k Sheffield Safety First Coon Drivers . . ciI, the Lord Mayor said that he was struck by the courtesy of the men who earned their living on the roads. One scarcely ever encountered a lorry or bus driver who, if the circumstances be favourable, does not give the requisite signal to pass him. He wished to pay tribute to these men for their consideration and kindness.
Measuring Wheel imA T the National Physical pact Forces on Heavy r-ILaboratory there was de
Vehicles . , monstrated, last Wednesday, at the annual inspection by the general board, an apparatus for measuring the impact forces between wheel and road on a heavy six-wheeled lorry. It works automatically and continuously by means of an oscillograph, which throws a spot of light on to a moving film forming a wavy line, which gives the load as the vehicle runs over irregularities.
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Possibility of IncreasingT was stated in a paper by Benzole Production in 'Messrs. W. G. Adam and' England G. W. Anderson, presented
. before the Chemical Engineering Congress in London, that the present output., of benzoie is only about half the potential production, and that the growth of the motor industry should ensure an outlet for considerably larger quantities. The position was hardly likely to be affected by the growing production of Synthetic motor spirit, which is more likely to replace imported fuel than home produced benzole. No fewer than 90 gas undertakings operate benzole-extraction plants, the spirit produced being estimated, in 1934, at over 10,000,000 gallons.
A Good Example of TRAFFIC lights, in the Wigthe Strength of DeL more Street area of London, termined Unity. . . have been erected now for nearly a year, but. such strong opposition to the proposed ban on parking and to other traffic restrictions has been raised by shop.keepers that negotiations have so far failed. Since the inauguration of the automatic light system depends, to a large extent, on decisions concerning traffic restrictions, •the strong line taken by the traders has held up the use of the signals. Whilst as motorists we might deplore the possible delay that we may suffer due to the lack of Signals, yet we can admire such determined opposition. Would that our industry had shown an equal unity of 'purpose in'tbe past few years. For and Against THE chairman of the Antra Buses and Trolleyhalt Tramways Board apbuses in Australia. . Paten:1.1Y lives in. the past, for
he recently stated that the tram is safer, cheaper, faster, more effective and more profitable than the trolleybus, oil or petrol bus. In contradistinction, the Commissioner for Road Transportation in New South Wales, who recently returned. from a world tour, said that it was likely that the trolleybus would eventually replace the tramway in Sydney.
The Interest Taken in 1311) ECENTLY we published a
Light-alloy ProducA N• paragraph concerning a
tion brochure on Birmal technical data regarding light alloys, issued by the Birmingham Aluminium Casting (1903) Co., Ltd., Srnethwick, Birmingham. The company has now received requests for copies from all over Great Britain, as well as from many British Colonies and Dominions, and a number of foreign countries, including America, France, Holland, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Russia and China. He Ought to Have IN a certain South of England .5.et an Example to A town there is a tricky S-bend Others which is completely blind.
When negotiating this recently we met a motorcycle, with sidecar, coming briskly around on the wrong side of the yellow line, and an. accident was only narrowly averted. The motorcyclist proved to be an A.A. patrol.
A Haulage Meeting TkE Pheasant Inn, Salt Held in a 11th-tenI Lane, Salisbury, in the tury Inn principal room of which
" S.T.R." recently delivered a • lecture on operating costs and haulage. rates, is of great antiquity;and a most interesting old place. -It was, according to ,local legend, 'built in the 13th cep.• tury, partly with a view to providing board and lodging for some of those who were engaged in the building of Salisbury' Cathedral. It is still the headquarters of the Leather Guild of Salisbury, one of those guilds the origin of which is as old as trade and industry, and certainly much more ancient than the A.R.O. or even the C.M.U.A.