Brake Components to be Standardized
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PLANS are in hand for the BendixWestinghouse brake-adjusting device to be made by the Clayton Dewandre Co., Ltd., Lincoln. All part numbers, dimensions and details of the Englishmade adjuster will be identical with the American, so that spare parts may be obtained from any Clayton Dewandre or Bendix-Westinghouse depot.
The adjustment device engages on the splined end of the brake camshaft and comprises an internally splined hub with a worm gear at the periphery, and a spring-loaded worm drive in the lever. When adjustment is required, a special key is engaged on a hexagonally headed shaft, connected to the worm drive through a loaded locking sleeve, and as this is turned the splined wormwheel is rotated correspondingly to open the cam and expand the shoes.
SWISS SAFETY CODE
/-1 A NEW safety code for drivers of
coaches has been drawn up by the police division of the Swiss federal department of justice. Printed in four languages—English, French, German and Italian—it is being handed to coach drivers on arrival at a Swiss frontier post.
A map of the Swiss road network is printed on the back of the code showing which roads coaches are permitted to use. These roads are open only to Swiss .vehicles having a width of up to 94+ ins.; but to encourage tourists the department has agreed, for a ,trial period, for the overall width limit for foreign coaches to be increased to 98i ins.
P.O. DRIVERS' AWARDS NAAJOR awards won in the 1950 safeal driving competition, promoted by the Royal Society for the Prevention of Accidents, were presented last week to 60 post office drivers in Glasgow by Mr. A. B. Holland, head postmaster. Of the 488 engineering and postal drivers in the Glasgow postal area who entered for the competition, 255 gained awards. The fleet of vans which operates in the Glasgow area covered almost 5m. miles during 1950. The vehicles were involved in 382 accidents in that period, in 187 the drivers were deemed to be blameworthy.
Safe-driving awards have also been presented to seven G.P.O. drivers of Consett. During 1950 they covered 74,000 miles without accident.
VEHICLES BUT NO MONEY
ALTHOUGH two trolleybuses intended for use with the Colombo municipal undertaking have been delivered, they are not likely to go into service this year because the authorities have not enough money to proceed with the electrification scheme. Overhead gear has not yet been erected and further delay in its construction is likely to be caused because of a shortage of steel.