Petrol-Oil Mixture Tried with Success
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"14IGHLY successful " experiments
have been made by GrimsbyCleethorpes municipal undertaking running buses on a mixture of 90 per, cent. oil fuel and 10 per cent. petrol, Mr. J. Rostron, manager, has reported.
The takings during the undertaking's first month of operation were £7,000 higher than the combined amounts earned during the comparable period of 1956 by the separate Grimsby and Cleethorpes transport departments. One of the reasons may be that many persons who would otherwise have used cars have travelled by bus.
The Pelham Road depot, formerly used by the Cleethorpes undertaking, has been closed.
AMERICAN 30-TONNER HAS AIR SPRINGS
1-1. A NEW 30-ton heavy-duty dump
truck, the Le Tourncau-Westinghouse LW30, was exhibited during the American Road Builders' Association's Exhibition in Chicago last month.
The truck has a Cummins V-8 oil engine which develops 375 b.h.p. and all the wheels are independently Suspended, using compressed-air springs. The suspension layout gives a ground clearance of 2 ft. and there are no exposed steering linkages to giVe trouble when operating over rough ground.
N.C.R.T.C.II. DATES
ANNUAL general meetings of areas r-kof the National Conference of Road Transport Clearing Houses will be held as follows: East Midland, 7 p.m. March 13, Victoria Station Hotel, Nottingham; West Midland, 7.30 p.m. March 14, Grand Hotel, Birmingham; London and Home Counties, 7 p.m. March 18, Old Bell Restaurant, Holborn, London.