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Passing Comments
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WE have, on previous occasions, stressed the need for care in loading goods vehicles. Apart from the risk of infringing the law on the matter, bodily harni may be done to other road users by articles falling from a lorry while it is in motion. Recently a case occurred where an operator was fined through nothing more serious than a brick falling off on to the road. Unfortunately, a cyclist hit it, broke his front wheel, and reported the matter.
IN criticizing the restrictions on driving hours, a 'Scottish haulier said that whilst operators must be prepared to accept them, there should be some elasticity in the case of a lorry manned by two drivers, where each could take the wheel in turn. He also suggested that, to overcome certain objections against the increase to 30 m.p.h. of the speed limit for heavy vehicles, this increase should apply only to machines licensed after, say, 1980.
THE attendance of representatives of manufachirers at the National Road Transport Conference at Harrogate was not quite so satisfactory as we expected, but we noted Messrs. Ewart Guy (Ouy Motors), C. N. Nixon (Leylands), J. F. Bishop (Brockhouse trailers), W. H. Binns and F. E. Ellis (Goodyear tyres), and Major Hoogwinkel (Multiwheelers)..
THE practice of casting crankshafts in place of the more usual forging method appears to be gaining ground. As a result of a year's experience with cast crankshafts in America, the Ford Motor Company of Canada, Ltd., is, we understand, to build a new electric-furnace foundryin Ontario to be devoted solely to the production of cast crankshafts for the Ford V-8 and commercial vehicles. The capacity of the new foundry will be 200 per eight-hour shift.
QTANDING at the entrance to the Hotel Majestic, ---liiarrogate, during the C.M.U.A. Conferences, was a particularly well-groomed member of the council of the Association. To him came a Yorkshire member with the demand : " Aye ! ware con a' leaive me car?" " I really could not tell you, but perhaps the porter will give you the information," said the council member in his best Oxford manner. Turning io the resplendent hall porter, and touching his cap, the Yorkshireman asked: "Where can I leave my car, sir?"
NA ANY of the delegates at the Harrogate Conference api3reciated the rhetorical contribution on wages and conditions made by Mr. D. Fletcher. He _ was somewhat critical of the activities at headquarters, and one quotation which was received with relish was: " Words are like leaves, and where leaves abound, much fruit of sense is rarely found."
DESPITE all that has been said regarding road 1-"fatalities, the position is not so bad as it was some years ago. The worst period was 1930, and unless the present month proves abnormal, the number in 1934 will be fewer than in 1930, although 140,000 more vehicles are in operation, and, according to the proportion indicated by previous statistics,. this would have represented 400 extra deaths.
NAANY important men in aviation still have a bee Min their bonnets concerning the use of the petrol tax, For instance, a member of the aircraft industry, responding to a toast at a recent dinner, stated that the eightpence per gallon on aviation petrol went to the Road Fund, and that it required 200 passengers per annum to cover this taxation. Such a statement shows a surprising lack of knowledge, in view of the explanation of the tax made in the House of Commons by the Chancellor of the Exchequer, and of others appearing in the Press.