Underground Railways for London's Goods Traffic: Link Between Existing Terminals Details have been made known of a projected scheme of an ambitious and far-reaching character for dealing with the goods and parcels traffic of London by a new series of underground railways, with direct communication with all' principal surface goods terminals, and with London docks and wharves. The scheme, an Anglo-American contemplates a capital of £32,000, 000, which is already arranged fcr.
Details are now receiving the con of the railways through a committee representative of the four great railway groups. provision of the capital of £32,000,. 000 required has been arranged through the ce-operation of portant American and English banking houses, under conditions. which provide for the distribution of the issue between the two markets. It has been arranged to form a promotion company with a nominal capital of £100,000, for the purpose of obtaining the necessary statutory powers from Parliament, The undertaking provides for 69 miles of underground directly linking up goods tes at Paddington, Marylebone, Euston, St. Pancras, King's Cross, Bishops: gate, Fenchurch Street, Nine Elms, Bricklayers' Arms and Hammersmith, well as London docks tharves and other main distributing trade centres and areas of London. It would electrically run, with electric capable of moving one or loaded waggons at a time where necessary.
In addition to railway termini brought into communication, there would be scientifically organized contact with markets of Covent Garden, Leadenhall, Spitalfields, gate, and the Borough, and most¥® Jof the great trade and distributing centres, not least being the newspaper trade and Post Office. It seems to offer the possibility of, relief from the present traffic chaos. vasser for an Osaka firm was rested recently at a boarding house Osaka, charged with having murdered 'a_man while he was resident of Sacramento, California, a year ago. It is said that the man shot his friend while taking a walk with him and then after robbing him succeeded -in escaping From Our Moromina Cosnesronpaxr London, Aug. 18.
Some very fine performances have recently been put up by British motor vehicles of various classes in aces and teste upon the track and on sandy beaches. At Pendine sands on the Welsh Coast the world's records for the flying kilometre and the flying mile have been broken by Captain Malcolm Campbell 0 his 350 bp. twelve-cylinder Sunbeam, which is now undoubtedly the fastest car in the world. Both distances were covered at a rat of over 150 milles an hour, the previous best being rather under) 146 miles an hour. Not only the driver and the car, but the magna to, tyres, petrol and oil were all' British.
During the meeting held by the Royal Automobile Club of Austr: tio on Gerringong Beach three imhall cars, esting was the victory of Mr. H.R. Clarke in the 24 miles for cars over 15 lip. ear is famous in the
dates back to 1914 and has Australian motoring world, since string of successes to its credit.
The newly constructed Montlhery track near Paris has been the scene of some very fine performances by British vehicles.
Mr T Gi lett recently undertook @ singlehanded 24 hour run on. 'a normal six-cylinder A. C, chassis with a normal sports engine and a single seated body, In 26° hours and 13-—_saminutes he covered 2,000 miles, setting up a whole list of figures better than any existing world's record, The previous record for the 24 hours was a little over 1,820 miles, the average speed being about 75% miles an hour. The A.C. in its latest performance averaged just over 82 miles an hour. The pre vious best figure for a single-handed drive was set up by Mr. S. P., Rage, now Governing Director of A.!
Cars Limited, in 1907. On that occasion the vehicle used was of 60, lip. the engine being many sizes larger than that fitted in the little six-cylinder A. C.
For the most part the manufac turers of private cars will be showing improved editions of existing models rather than new models, though naturally the latter witl alan be in evidence. A good, ample is the new 14-30 hip. Arm: strong Siddeley which has been de ved and built as the direct result of prolonged and personal study of the overseas market, The engine overhead valves operated by push rods and is of 1,852 e.. gear box gives three central control, the springs re semi-elliptic and four-wheel brakes are fitted. The ground clearance is approximately 10 inches, the wheel track 4 feet 8 itches, and the wheel base 9 feet 6 inches. The petrol tank holds enough fuel for a run of 200 miles and an ever-visible petrol gauge on the filler cap on the scuttle eliminates the risk of running out of fuel unawares.
The 14-40 Vauxhall, hitherto deseribed as a four-seater, has now been altered to take a really ade-nate five-seated body. Detachable wire wheels replace the dise wheels and the track has been increased to, approximately 4 feet 8 inches, giving room for enlarging the back seat to take three persons. The chassis has been slightly lengthened, which allows the doors to be wider, and low pressure tyres have been adopted.
The 20 b.p. Rolls-Royce can row be had fitted with right-hand change speed and brake levers and a four speed in place of a three speed gear box, without any addition to the previous chas: price. The Rolls-Royce system of six brakes, as standardised on the larger ch sis, can now be fitted also to the 20 lip. car an extra.
The chassis of the new type A.
four-seater now provides for a Longer wheel base, giving room for 2 greatly improved body with four doors. The front seats are adjustable optionally. either independently or the two together.
Several improvements have reseater 2oW ha far dora aad ole. 11/22 bp.. Wolseley. Th
f hood "with rigid aide curative, ler seats, an improved
inlet pipe, increased length of valve Mechanical items include a hot 5;
stem guides, a rearrangement the inlet ports on the same. side as the exhaust ports and Tecalenit Srease gun Stein sociation, the membership of which has, by the way, recently attained the astound: ing figure of a quarter of million, Road Book of and a separate volume, somewhat similar and arrangement, entitled "Scotland for the Motorist." Any visitor from overseas intending to tour in Great Britain ought certainly to get there books. They give a tree mendous mass of valuable informiation on routes throughout the country, detailed maps of most of the principal cities, and in addition contain gazetteers which are an absolute model in that they do not consist of the usual dry material, but give really live information bearing upon the historical and scenic interests of each locality, To motorists with a taste for Jong tours or an interest in motoring adventure, a new book called "By Car to India," published Hutchinsons, should appeal. It cone, tains a description by Major Fore bes-Leith of his journey from Leeda to Quetta on the North-West Indian Frontier in his Wolseley touring of colonial pattern, christened Felix IL' During the run 8,000. miles were covered and the load conslated of three passengers and of cinema and camp equipment weighing about 850) pounds. Ale though J,000 miles of the journey were over roadless country, 1,500 niles being on waterless desert, hundred miles on deep sand and 2 bumping over railway total hill for spares was only $2-17-0, and the party suffered from only two punctures, 'Traffic congestion is a subject that constantly in the minds of Lon don motorists and the' solution of which, complete or partial, is stead! ly becoming of more and more interest to motorists everywhere. Ona rather interesting point of view ta the following. Congestion is the result of excessive occupation of jthe roads. Suppose a certain {number of people need to be tran sported, then by reducing the space taken tp by each person we can. reduce the congestion. From this standpoint the small type of Bute ish car has a marked advantage ovur more cumbrous machines. Thus, for instance, the Jowett, which wag. really the pioneer of the small cua movement, combines an. overall length of' no more than 10" feck with ample accommodation for two tall passengers and has also. an occasional seat at the rear for two more. 'The largest model of this same make has enough leg room for four six-fact passengers' ta Teunge at their ease, but. is only 11 fect G inches overall, The mora popular such ears become, the longer can we stave off congestion of tref fit, though naturally their popularity is not based on this fact, but on their known reliability apd extreme econ amy of operation.
Traffic congestion depends also vat, only on the width of roads, but. on their construction. Rogds that are constantly up for repair are constant source of obstruction. Lately "The Autocar" has devoted a great deal of space to matters con nected with construction, having published articles by numer ous eminent authorities on the subject, Road repairs must, of course, become necessary sooner oF Inter, and when this is the case tha, great point is to condense them into the shortest possible time Hence the widely extended use of the rapid-Rardening cement known as "Fer-"to which reference was a recent note. This mater-the many important roads in London, including Picead-ly. and Victoria 'Street, and no cum could fail to notice with satisfaction' how chort an interval elapsed before these important thoroughfares were: jon and returning to Japan. cently been introduced into the again cpen.te trafic. hour permission.
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