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GGESTION made in Fleetwood that consideration mkt be given to the possibility of constructing a ly to carry road traffic straight across Morecambe Hri the Fylde to Barrow in Furness, will have found ative echoes in the hearts of many commercial Certainly those who have to operate on the roads West Cumberland or the Furness district and midhire would welcome an alternative to the route the north of the bay where they come in for more eir fair share of congestion.
road journey between Barrow and Fleetwood is a of 75 miles, but only 15 miles separate the two places :row (or rather the seagull) flies. There is, of course, Le matter of finance, which seems likely to prevent edy materialisation of the causeway idea. A possible live which, it has been suggested, would present far vactical difficulties is that of a vehicle ferry.
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man who put up the original proposal, Alderman A, Lawrence, was well known to an earlier generaroad transport men as a bus operator in the Fylde ad head of Lawrence's Motor Services (an undertakt was sold to Ribble quite a number of years before war). At one stage of his career the then proprietor d victorious from a brush with the old London, td and Scottish Railway which questioned his use of ers " L.M.S." in travel publicity.
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T well-known phrase "Where is the pen of my int? " could be applied just now to the report of )-nation study group which has considered the form ;ed Channel link. Mr. Marples is currently studying
rmation on the report, and even on the discussions led up to it, has been sparse and elusive. First the ers held sway, then the bridge men hit back. Now le has been confused by the bridgers, who advanced project involving a bridge and a tunnel (sensing, s, events?).
.c has been much lobbying and hare-chasing, as big al interests are involved, but the true state of play ,tn hidden. The Government attitude throughout, on le, has been that we can afford to wait and see. 'thing comes of the present report, history will merely z:ating itself. Napoleon himself received a report and of a tunnel from a French engineer—though for nt reasons—in 1802!
VOU need to look carefully at this piece of transport A equipment. Through the cut-away section of the roof, this artist's impression shows men working at machines. Control cabins can be seen at the front " nearside " and rear "offside ". It is, in fact, a 2,456-ton crawler transporter which will be used to transfer America's Saturn VApollo moon rocket from the assembly building to the launching pad at Cape Canaveral.
Just what this space-sized lorry costs I do not know. But as an indication, I can tell you that the 90 tons of servo hydraulic equipment (supplied by an English concern, AMF Ltd.) is worth £.500,000.
Where's Our Prize?
CO many inquiries have been ireceived by my technical colleagues in the past week or so in connection with a quiz that Ford is running for its dealers that they are wondering if they ought to get some sort of share in the prizes—if there are any! One of the most frequent inquiries has been as to the rolling resistance on concrete: no indication as to what sort of concrete, of course! And I've been surprised at the number of salesmen still unaware of British maximum legal weights. Thank goodness the quiz ends today: perhaps we can get some work done now!