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OUR Paris Correspondent, in sending us the Mustration from Le Journal Aniusant, entitled " Sonicitude I " reproduced on this page, remarks that Mars-Trick has just about caught the right spirit in the way in which he regards the municipal ambulance drivers in the French capital. In the caption to the drawing in Le Journal Antusant the driver uses the picturesque expression " ecrasees " in referring to his two victims. It is used in France in the sense of "run over," but the operation is supposed to be fairly complete, for one finds the word used in its proper sense, as in " 4craser des groseilles "—to crush gooseberries. So "run over " means "crushed— squashed," or (as we have translated the.caption) thoroughly "wiped out."
MR. MA:URICE F. EDWARDS, the author of the article in this issue which treats more especially of strains and s t r es s es on the chassis frame, wheels, u20 etc., of "tippers" than it does of design in rams and gear, is the well-known principal of one of the world's leading firms in connection with tipping gears and bodies expressly designed for that class of work. He is one of the seniors amongst automobile engineers and has been connected with inventions and constructional developments in practically every phase of motoring from the early days of •the motorcycle and tricycle and quadricydle to cars, commercial motors and motor bOats, and at present his company's Nizorks has •a special department concerned in light car or three-wheeler development, apart from the tipping-gear workshops. In the article which, at our request, he has con': tributed to our Special Municipal Number he chiefly concentrates his expert knowledge on It phase of " tippers " not hitherto adequately dealt with, yet, as will be realized quickly, one of transcendent import.
OUR inward man naturrtily includes a great many queries, often on subjects Which one might consider quite extraneous to transport, but to all Of them, nevertheless, we send replies within the extent of our .acquired knowledge. Frequently we are asked ,situations for our readers, who perhaps -realize that a journal can hardly function mployment bureau. Technical queries ree many and diverse, and sometimes, owing .ek of information given, our replies may I more by luck than judgment, as happened ent instance when a user asked us why 4e exuded such a large quantity of Iubri1, and we inquired if by any chance the was choked. • His enthusiastic reply, after the trouble, was that he had corked up the hole from which the original breather had broken away!
Another gentleman of an inquiring" disposition wasted time and money in asking what mileage per gallon would be obtained with a certain ancient vehicle if it consumed a ,pint in half an hour when idling in the garage. We felt inclined to refer to a certain fruit as the answer. .
A recent gem was a request from an.urban.district councillor for advice on fire equipinent, the writer adding a postscript to the effect that the matter was of some urgency as the Council's refuse dump was burning!
ONE of the most useful volumes that reaches the editorial desk is published by the Electrical Press, Ltd., of 13-16, Fisher Street, Southampton Row, London, W.C.1, of which Mr. Emile Gareke is the chairman. The volume is entitled " Garcke's Motor Transport Year Book," and it is now in its 12th annual edition. It contains commercial, financial and descriptive particulars Of nearly 5,000 road-transport undertakings and their allied manufacturing concerns, with some statistical summaries of the progress, year by year, of that form of transport Asa work of reference we have always found it invaluable, and it has the additional merits of completeness and accuracy.