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C°MING back from the United States, Mr. L. H. I.e./Pomeroy brought a wealth of knowledge and experience which, not unnaturally, appealed to Lord Ashfield, who himself had spent many years of his life in America. Mr. Pomeroy has quite the right idea about British requirements in public-service vehicles. Buses are driven at high speed and, as there is no getting away from the fact, manufacturers must design their vehicles accordingly; comfort and safety must be provided for the passenger and the very minimum of upkeep cost is the attainment which will draw bouquets from the bus operator. The driver, again, must be considered to the full, for eight hours' concentration at the wheel demands easy manipulation of steering, braking and gear shifting, and the vehicle which exhibits these merits will be popular with the driver.
AIR. POMEROY is interesting on the subject of the
use of aluminium alloys in such parts as brackets, brake drums, shackles, engine-bearer arms, dash plate, bonnet rests, etc.—or, as he terms it, tii4 aluminizing of the chassis. (Rather reminds us of the reply of the plater to the old lady : "No, mum, I'm not nickel-plating 'em, mum, I'm aluminiuming 'em, mum.") Few people over her know much about the behaviour of aluminium c18
alloys under stress ; what Pomeroy knows, however, is £800,000 worth of other people's money which has been spent in research work. Their use will mean much weight-cutting---a movement in the right direction, for if we could cut out weight entirely from a bus, then only the driver and passengers would have to be carried. Mr. Pomeroy tells us that Henry Ford has around him a squad of engineers safeguarding Ford products from materials and measures that would involve risk, and any person who could get past that squad could with equanimity face the task of getting past Peter. Probably Ford has done more than anybody in weightsaving, and Mr.. Pomeroy is confident that the new A.D.C. chassis is going to show up well when the hard test of public service is applied to it.
MR. ALFRED BAKER, in the capacity of general manager of the Birmingham Corporation Tramways, is one of our most experienced of operators in public-service transport. Fle recently sent two of his lieutenants to America to learn all they could about the design, manufacture and operations of buses. One of them, his son, Mr. A. C. Baker, tells him that "they have nothing in America to teach us about bus construction." He has come back with clear views about the need for a differential between the two axles of the bogie of a six-wheeler, and at one of the conferences which will be held at Olympia during the Commercial Motor Show he will speak on that subject. SINCE the death of that really great man, Sir Sohn Macdonald, Lord Kingsburgh, with whom we were privileged to spend many extraordinarily interesting hours, for he was an engaging conversationalist, probably Scotland's second most popular personality in the motor movement is Robert J. Smith, the secretary of the Royal Scottish Automobile Club. He is tact and consideration personified, and a man of wonderful organizing ability and efficiency. At the club dinner held in Glasgow. on Friday evening we had no more than a moment or two with him and With Lord Weir (who is the -only man we would place in advance of " R.J.") and to recall a few incidents of the past which have helped to cement so many friendships between motorists on the two sides of the Border.
EVERYONE will wish Horace Wyatt success with the World Motor Transport Congress, which will occupy the first four days of next week at the Savoy Hotel, LondOn. It is a nice place for a meeting. and has the added advantage that it is not very far to go for lunch. One could write a dissertation on the attraction of certain luncheon places (in London where there are so many to choose from, all quite suitable in every respect) for certain groups of men. One can always meet prominent men in transport in the grill room at the Savoy. To revert to the Congress, however, we fear that Wyatt has not had all the help that he would have liked, for an immense amount of hard work has fallen upon him. We hope he will issue quickly the papers which are to be " read," because we understand that the " reading " of each will take the form of a summary by the author, followed by the discussion, and such discussions can only he of ultimate value and effect if the papers upon which they have been founded have previously been fully digested. He.is_already assured of well-attended 'meetings.