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THE managing director of Morris Commercial Cars, Ltd., Mr. W. Wilson Hamill, accompanied by the chief engineer and designer, Mr. C. K. Edwards, spent some time at the International Motor Exhibition at Berlin. They must have been very pleased at the interest displayed in the cleanly designed Dictator passenger chassis which formed one of the company's exhibits, actually displayed by the Stoewer concern. It compared very favourably with many of the somewhat complicated and heavily built chassis of foreign manufacture.
LAST week Mr. A. G. Par tridge, Managing director of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain), Ltd., Wolverhampton, announced the manufacture of the company's two-millionth tyre, which marks the conclusion of three years of constant night and day work since the factory was opened in
this country. The home production of this huge number of 1318 tyres has involved the steady employment of over 2,000 persons.
It is appropriate that the tyre in question should be the largest ever made for a commercial vehicle. It actually weighs about 2icwt., and has a maximum carrying capacity of four tons, so that by its use the need for twin tyres on heavy vehicles can be obviated. A photograph of this remark-able tyre, together with one of 24-in. by 2f-in, dimensions, is reproduced on this page, and affords an interesting comparison, particularly when the height of the little girl is considered.
MUCH interest is undoubtedly being aroused by the striking advertisements concerning a new light truck described as a_ "product of one of Europe's largest factories and 100 per cent. British." The method of introduction is one of unquestionable value, and already many inquiries and guesses are circulating. APPARENTLY as the result of some official function our legal adviser has sent the following contributiOn:—Many years ago, more than I care to recall, I returned to the dear old school after some summer holidays, and found that forms had been revised, the dear old Quad was now "The Square," the "Stinks Room" had blossomed Into the "Chemical Laboratory." All was changed.
It was with thoughts such as these that I finished my first. contemplation of the Motor Vehicles (Construction and Ilse) Regulations, 1931. The name itself showed the general post whin had been played. For nigh on 30 years we have had the Motor Car (Use and Construction) Orders, but now evolution is to the fore, and tells us that construction must precede use. The old order changeth. . . .
I LOOK over the Regulations again. Axle alas, my poor axle I Wherefore wert thou axed? No more? 'Tis not so sweet as it was before, For now two wheels do count as one, and transversely do appear, where formerly there was but axle one.
The evil which men do lives after them. Overhang has not been interred in the grave. There was a time when I thought I knew an overhang when I saw one, but being neither Euclid nor Einstein I no longer hazard an opinion.