Eire Prohibits British Tours
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BRIT1SH coach companies will not be permitted to operate summer tours in Eire. This information was given to Sligo Chamber of Commerce by the Eire Department of Industry and Commerce.
The Chamber had requested that licences be granted to permit British coach companies to operate tours in the Republic to promote the tourist trade, which had shown a sharp decline.
It was stated in reply that the Coras Iompair Eireann were actively engaged in developing coach tours, and that the limiting factor in expanding these services was inadequate hotel accommodation.
OIL ENGINES FOR BEGINNERS
VjERICLE owners, drivers and V mechanics with no experience of oil engines are catered for in "Small Diesel Engines," by Donald H. Smith, M.I.Mech.E., which has just been published by Iliffe and Sons, Ltd., at 4s. bd. It provides a useful introduction to.oil engines.
In clear, simple terms the author compares the design and operation of the oil engine with the petrol engine, and gives advice about care and attention, the driving of Vehkles with oil engines. and the legal aspects of their use. Certain features of the engine and servicing procedure are described in unnecessary and sometimes inaccurate, detail, considering the emphasis placed on the importance of leaving many of the jobs to the specialist. Space used in this way could have been more profitably devoted to practical advice on what to do in the event of the governor jamming, rather than dismissing it with the suggestion to stand back and watch the engine disintegrate.
A warning should have been given about the result, when venting the fuel system, of undoing the vent of a fuel filter on the suction side of the fuel-lift pump.
"SUCCESSFUL SHOW FOR B.M.C." " IT has been an outstandingly success
' ful Show from the point of view of the B.M.C., both from the home and export angles." This observation on the Commercial Motor Show was made on Monday by Sir Leonard Lord, chairman of the British Motor Corporation.
Referring to orders that had been received for Austin and Morris-Commercial models, particularly those incorporating the latest types of oil engine, Sir Leonard stated that he had promised his sales managers that he would issue instructions to ensure that production was adjusted to meet demands, so that all agents at home and overseas would soon be able to quote "very reasonable delivery dates."
Big orders were placed for MorrisCommercial vehicles, and one customer made a demand for several hundred Austin A30 vans.