1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
11
12
13
14
15
16
17
18
19
20
21
22
23
24
25
26
27
28
29
30
31
32
33
34
35
36
37
38
39
40
41
42
43
44
45
46
47
48
49
50
51
52
53
54
55
56
57
58
59
60
61
62
63
64
65
66
67
68
69
70
71
72
73
74
75
76
77
78
79
80
81
82
83
84
85
86
87
88
89
90
91
92
93
94
95
96
97
98
99
100
101
102
103
104
105
106
107
108
109
110
111
112
113
114
115
116
117
118
119
120
121
122
123
124
125
126
127
128
129
130
131
132
133
134
135
136
137
138
139
140
141
142
143
144
145
146
147
148 
Back or Forward?
Page 44
Page 45
If you've noticed an error in this article please click here to report it so we can fix it.
L' OR those who think the use of the electric vehicle is limited in the commercial vehicle field, two items of this week's foreign news will be of interest and possibly cause some surprise. Are they steps backwards, forwards—or just sideways? In Belgium, the A.C.E.C. concern has just shown the "Eleetrobus," the brain-child of Belgian inventor Roger Fagel. This electric p.s.v., with room for 100 passengers, has an electric motor for each of its front wheels, these being fed while the vehicle is running by an electric generator in its turn operated by a diesel motor. With air suspension, the Electrohus is some 39 ft. 5 in. long, 8 ft. 2 in. wide and 9 ft. 41 in. high.
Those who wonder what has happened to the pick-up arms of this trolleyless-bus are advised to peep behind the Iron Curtain. In the Charkow vehicle works in the Ukraine, the first Russian "trolley-lorry" has been born. This 10-tonner runs from electric overheads, just like a traditional trolleybus. In case no such overheads are available, a spare diesel engine may be resorted to and the electric motor relieved. Phew?
More Light Pays
IT rather looks as though the opponents to the use of dipped headlamps in towns are on ,a losing wicket, if the results of Birmingham's experimental fortnight are a true guide. Although only just over half the drivers in the city used dipped headlamps instead of merely sidelamps during the period of
a 10 the campaign, accidents were down from 142 to 114 when compared with the same period of 1961; most remarkable of all, casualties were down from one killed and 63 injured to none killed and only 19 injured. " Of these, only II were pedestrians, which seems to support the view that headlamps give much better warning to pedestrians that vehicles are in motion.
The city's Lord Mayor hopes the experiment will be resumed in the autumn, and continued through the winter, and I understand that Coventry is to have a headlamp experiment soon. Incidentally, the official Lucas view seems to be that wellmaintained vehicles run little risk of flat-battery trouble, unless they cover only a very, very few miles a day.
reduced Dimensions
)LACES of public scrutiny like, for example, a traffic court, are as cruel as a cobra for they so often reduce men and rents to their proper dimensions. Recently, when a pretenously sounding limited company, through the mouth of its lanaging director, spoke of millions . . albeit, millions of ins of muck-shifting . . . interest was immediately kindled.
And when the Licensing Authority intervened (perhaps a ttle impatiently) to say: "Now you are telling me what you ant to do legally, but you must also tell me what you have ) far been doing illegally," and it transpires that it was all one without a licence, the interest sharpens.
7ruth Unfolds
LOWLY the truth unfolds. The vehicles for which the 'licence is sought will only be bought if it is granted, and len only if the money is available. The giant mechanical iggers used for the muck-lifting were neither owned nor hired y the firm.
And, finally, another director was recently discovered to have een running another haulage vehicle which, because he was Ls driver, kept him away from his work with the company.
I am not able to recall the decision in the case other than he Authority saying: "r think you had better go and get your. elfsorted out."
i'heriff's Eye View
'UNFORTUNATELY C-licences don't entitle you to watch TV. Always remember that the biggest strides 'towards oad safety are made by long-legged pedestrians."—Major J. B. Jpton, High Sheriff of Yorkshire.