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THE 21st CM Fleet
Management Conference seemed to me to reach a higher plateau of achievement than any of the previous ones held in London which I have attended. Unfortunately, this was my last.
Can we use your magazine to repeat the IRTE Research Fund appeal which will fund the MIRA investigation into the "Lost Wheel Mystery"?
All contributions will add to the £4,605 received to date and supplemented by £2,000 by !RTE.
Our accounts are subject to the Charity Commissioners' scrutiny and under the trusteeship of the council so my "friend" who suggested it is my retirement fund in disguise need not think they have rumbled me at last! J. A. FLETCHER Secretary institute of Road Transport Engineers London SW7 OUR INTEREST is in, just about, the last light road vehicles to use solid tyres: vintage Trojan cars and vans. Some of us still run our Trojans on solids so following the letters from Mr McHarg and Mr Cowley (CM, September 29 and October 13) we bestir ourselves.
The fact is that no modern solid tyre maker is able to produce solids with anything like the performance and durability of those which were available in the 1920s from many companies such as Macintosh.
The art of making good solids, like that of producing Roman cement, is dead as evidenced by the fact that when we contacted recently 14 UK companies who profess to be in the business we had no success in locating a satisfactory source. It was not just that half of the companies did not trouble to answer, but those who did so offered poor products. Trojans are not Don Williams and a Trojan solid tyrad van.
exactly breakneck racers (30mph flat out), but none of the tyres described could even cope with this velocity.
A few years ago I met an elderly lady who in the 1920s wrote the solid tyre testimonial to the Trojan company (whose mechanical components were designed to use solids as components would have to be today) concluding with the words "I really do not know what will happen to vehicles with puffed-up tyres."
More than half a century later she was still bewildered but for the opposite reason.
Sir, today, we really cannot make a true comparison although we have to admit that the likelihood of running over nails shed from horseshoes is somewhat reduced.
DON WILLIAMS Technical Adviser Trojan Owners' Club Chalet Hill Bordon, Hants