A PEW years ago an oil-engined machine was desired to operate
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at an altitude of 8,000 ft. Concerns asked to tender for it had to turn down the proposition on account of the tech nical difficulties involved. To-day, compressionignition engines can be obtained to work at an altitude of 20,000 ft. This progress is important because it will enable overseas purchasers to make even greater use of the oil engine, which is frequently more suited to operation in districts in which petrol is not easily obtained and stored.
COACHING in Paris is likely to be given a fillip by reason of the Colonial Exhibition which is shortly to be held in that city. Arrangements are being made to provide most comprehensive travel facilities to the site, both by railway and road.
c18 When the Paris public realizes the comfort and conventcuce of the express coach for transport, not only on tours and excursion parties but also on short-distance trips, it is probable that a system of services to the suburbs, similar to that in operation in and around Loudon, may be organized.
OWING to serious over-production the United States is to curtail its imports of motor spirit from Mexico and Venezuela, and it is likely that these supplies will be transferred to Europe. This state of affairs makes a further reduction in the price of petrol even more probable.
In New York motor fuel is being sold at aid. per gallon and in the oilfields at Id, per gallon, whilst it is said that it can be landed in this country at less than 4d. per gallon. THE position which the Minister of Transport is rapidly carving out for himself in the spheres of activity with which he is immediately concerned is becoming one in which he will soon be requiring the judgment of a Solomon. Not only is he a law maker, but he is becoming both judge and jury, for if he obtains what he asks for in connection with his various restrictive measures he will be in the anomalous position of issuing orders and Instructions and himself hearing the appeals.
ROUTE No. 45 of the L.G.O.C. is, we believe, commonly known amongst the drivers and conductors as "The Maniac's Route." Why that is so is difficult to understand. It runs through traffic-infested areas from end to end and over road surfaces which are amongst the poorest in London. It may be that the combination of these circumstances has such an effect upon those who are employed upon the route as to justify the application to them of the word embodied in the title of the route. Perhaps some of our driver and conductor readers will tell us the real reason for the title, also whether other special routes in London or elsewhere have their own special names.
SPEAKING recently at a function arranged by the Commercial Motor Users Association, the president, Mr. C. le M. Gosselin, mentioned that he had thought that he knew something about the Road Traffic Act, 1930, but that he was now completely lost in a maze of ,regulations, provisional orders; etc.
If such a well-known member of the road industry can confess to being in this state, how can the average user of motor vehicles be expected to follow and abide by the intricacies of the new la vvs ?