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APPROVED.
GRANTS from the Road Fund, totalling well over £100,000, have been made by the Minister of Transport towards the cost of building a TWIV road, about 21 -miles long, to supersede part of the existing road from Scarborough to Filey. The new road, alfich is to be built by North Riding County Council, will be set back farther from the edge' of the cliffs, along which the present road runs for a short distance. Its overall widtlr will be 120 ft. and it will include a central reservation 30 ft, wide, dual 22-ft. carriageways, and 9-ft, cycle tracks.
Another important road scheme is that for the• construction of the third and final section of Leatherhead Bypass, the Minister of Transport having made a grant to Surrey County Council for the purpose. The by-pass, after making a detour to the east of the town, now ends at the junction of the Lendon-Worthing road at Givon's Grove, It is to be extended westwards, at an estimated cost of £111,000, to the Leatherhead-Guildford road—a distance of about It miles. The work will commence right away, and is expected to take about two years to complete.
An Unusual Boring Feat. .
A REMARKABLE achievement by
the aid of the Van Norman boring bar was made when Major Gardner recently obtained his international speed records in Germany. We mention it because it shows the efficiency of the method employed, The car attacked the 1,100 cc. record with a 57 rim). bore engine, and in less than 48 hours afterwards was taken out again to attack the 1,500 c.c. record, the bores having been enlarged to 59.5 mm.
Boring was done without removing the engine or disturbing the crankshaft, and after assembly the engine was given merely a short warming-up
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The job was done in the workshops of the Germanemobilerpoliee.,-and-took, roughly, three hours longer than usual because of the precautions taken. Special funnels were affixed to the ]oar pelts of the bores and held in place by a common plate.
Nottingham Distributor's Big Extension.
EXTENSIONS. comprising showJ-A rooms, garage and service station, were recently added to the premises of Hooley's Garage, Ltd., Upper College Street, Nottingham, The new premises extend for 78 ft., with a depth of 94 ft. At the rear is the main servic
lag bay, equipped with a Globe 5-ton hoist, grille-floor wash, and Castrol Lubrequipment. The company holds the. main distributorship in Nottinghamshire and Derbyshire for Chevrolets.
Interesting Bowden Brochure.
AN excellent brochure giving a brief history of Bowden from 1897-1939 has been produced by Bowden (Engineers), Ltd.., Willesden Junction, London, N.W.10. It is a striking survey of the development of a particularly interesting mechanism which has been found invaluable in many classes of machine.
I N the course of a recent contribution to the proceedings of the French Societe des Ingenieurs Civils, M. Gross (who, since July of last year, has been in charge of a compressed-gas filling station in Toulouse) reports that tests carried out by the Toulouse Public Transport Co. show that approximately 61.5 cubic it. of compressed gas will do the work of one litre (1.76 pint) of ordinary commercial-vehicle motor spirit, giving a financial advantage in favour of gas of 43 per cent.
In the case of a lorry weighing, with load, 11i tons, operated by the Toulouse Gas Co., tests have shown that as against one litre of petrol, only 66.2 cubic ft. of gas are required, the advantage being about 50 per cent.
Russia to Produce 32,000 Producer-gas Vehicles.
A CCORDING to the Bulletin of the tARusso-Britikti Chamber of Commerce, the experiments which have been carried out in Russia with vehicles equipped with producer-gas plants have proved so successful that the Soviet authorities have decided to go ahead with construction on a large scale.
It is stated that, during the present year, it is planned to produce 10,000 producer-gas vehicles at the Stalin works in Moscow, 12,000 at the Gorki factory and 5,000 each at the works at CheIyabanski and Kharkov.
Night Parking for Long-distance Lorries.
AS a result of accidents occurring through lorries parking on the highway at night, Angus County Road Board has decided to experiment with the provision of a parking place for long-distance vehicles. The parking place will be on the main Perth-Aberdeen road, about one mile on the Perth side of Forfar borough boundary,
Brechin District Committee is to consider the question pf providing a similar parking place on the outskirts of Brechin, on the Forfar road.