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Motoring News And Views: Continued from Page Eight
Leaves From My Log-Book
I wander low navrh of our traffic problem is caused by, or is a direct resale at, lack of good manness and comtesy? 1 have been doing my best Tu awaken Hastarises to with is this mean of sketches, short setioles and even pisems-but I must rondes that mig in now I have not antic dem
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“Safety First" Bus
EMPAIGN
One of the many campaigns in London during the
summer was a “Safety First" week held in the different boroughs. In Islington, one of the latest London buses toured the district with safety-first posters and with drivers and con- ductors who, in their own time, gave "Safety First" talks to road users.
With many a local driver and This picture shows the drivers and conductors of
don't mean raxi drivers abune-there
and very nic
is to eli take give. Que seldom sees
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lone al teathe saw down to allow Bie esther må sålp in ahead; on the con-
Kelly, kata are driven almost burpee
Da bamper so that even the humble pets can fol 120 CDOJI which to lip through
the "Safety First" bus giving hints to some young cyclists.
PITTSBURGH HIGHWAY
A HEADACHE
History Of Morris Motors
Cradle of the £30,000,000 turnover a year Morris Motora Ltd., parent firm of the Nuf- field Organisation, Was tlie Grammar School on the Cow- ley Road. Oxford, where Wil- liam Morris's father THA eduented.
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In that building, little more than thirty years ago, the first ball-nosed Morris Oxford made by hand-slowly assem blod plece by, plece Mr. Mor-1 ris, who had rented the old" school building, designed this. his first motorenr, to travel at) fifty, miles
an hour, do fifty miles to the gallon and sell at 175. It made him world famous.
Today in the vast Assembly tutant tcitzམས the road 1голь that original Grammar School building where, incidentally.
Lord Nuffield sill keeps his office). Morris Motors can roll one new chr per minute of their production lines. Back through the intervening years we can trace the unfolding of one of the most dramatle suc- cess stories of our age.
First the 1914 war catching up like young enterprise in Its toils but doing nothing worse) than to divert its energies for time. Then the neusy pence, sad the industrial slump, which was to prove an unexpectedl springboard. It led Mr. Mori ris to make that surprise guti
the road to mass-production.
These reflectinus were necasinores. the other tourning when, at a southe what investially carly hour (for me!+ I found myself kicking my heels it) Engineers charged with con- Pitt Parkway. It is approximmte- alias shop, Bus alive bus snarent by, struction of Pittsburgh's newly wine miles long anal will raconated the spillover-pular, Car after | $90,000,000 Parkway system bring traffe stralphit in from car drove by, the majority of sheat have cene to a temporary halt near the western terminus of with noh
nr twa passengers, over what they describe as "the the 'Pike, near Irwin, Pa., over) in his price which set him u Yet not one at them even contem
most difficult plece of highway | four-and six-lane roadways. plined afering me a lift inu jowi,
-engineering-in-America, "That is quite ke contrast to
places in the world--Durban,
stats, alueet aux part of fan
fur
Land of a simbing walliansen matars cogenhet being not the a walk meni
Bristol iner, and being so pestered" A litt-offering unturists than even tualle 1 arcepted, a Tide I didn't
wan!
Ping ag arrtably Assed Chim and I west to eatch die sosne latas ister. fren, when abs went by, he would take a taxi but it never occurred to him to aller a lift. One thing
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arved at the has dap, I halted the feas and offered him a lift in Town, He works just round the earner from the "Mail" office and since then he and have often shared taxisi
Risk
This is two-nüle stretch of the Steel City to the down from the hilly Calland suretion
town Golden Triangle. The dif
and traffic conditionsa peculiar to
pre-Revolu
Bridges And Tunnels
The cast parkway will havej 28 bridges, six cloverleaf inter-|
Parutox-
The sale of cars from the Morris, Fac tory at Cow-
ficulty, they say, arises from changes and will ran through ley climbed higher each year as combination of topographical twin 4.000-foot innnela under the depression flung the coun- part of eastern Pittsburgh. An- try into greater depths of des- other $1.000.000 in contracts for pair. It was a paradox, but all thie mountainous Bonary elty,
various projected connected with through his life William Mor- streets
Pittsburgh's carly, narrow it is expected to be awarded
fallowed the englest soon and its total cost, original routes into the heights above ly set at about $29,000,000, Fert Pitt and the present-day now estimated at from $40,000.- industrin metropolis, which has 000 to $40,000,000. When com
an immediate district of 2,000,- pieted; it is expected to handle a 100persons, fannels a flood of traffic lond of more than 40,000 downtown trafic into a crowd-} automobiles a day. al, river-bound triangular urea - Although pinna. for the of little over 100 square blocks. eastern section have been com
pleted up to the two-mile section. from lewer Onkland Into the
Only Feasible Route
The
only feasible way to bring the new superboulevard into this downtown arek is down the Menongahela River Valley 4 aren cut by hallows and prowled with buildings other valuable real estate.
and
is has steered a course on his own. While other manufac- derh, turned their backs on turers, scared by dwindling or
new enterprises, Mr. Morrin and his Works strength to strength.
went from
But
By 1925 he created a Euro- pean record by producing 50.- 000 enrs in 12 months. even that figure was surpassed Triangle, virtually all plans for Cowley plant was reorganised and eventually doubled. The the western parkway are #tili tentative.
and expanded, A polley of tron of manufacture was intro- specialisation and decentralisa-
duced.
to-
Writing in one of the latest issues of the "Autocar.” The Scribe ask
This section will go from a When
your park, da you look to
downtown cloverleaf weat væmur ear in make sure not only that ail the dunes are locked but also that
ward the Ohio Bine and the point where it is to rejoin Routes 22 the window? arc faily closed?
30 has not yet been decided. It Queso point out that, quite apart from the fact that
In an effort to solve the prob-ton-will-have-at-least one-tune apartly upened- window makes it an easy matter talem, engineers of the Federal and possibly more bridges and
open, there is also a Public Heads Administration, the overpasses than its eastern sis-one particular component or
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that careles vicious State Highway Department, and ter. passersby can and do sometimes) the City and County Public, At one point it will conneet cigarette-end ne match into Works Department met recent with another parkway leading (the rac. A friend of his got back y to determine on one
his Wolseley just in time to prevent it which would combine the work Pittsburgh, Airport and one ten. plan into the new $25,000,000 Greater catching fire.
nble recommendations of alltative plan is to hook it up with
As a result, Here in
consulling n superhighway in Ohio. Hogg Kong, I doubt if fou irven a larmetically seated war wohl engineers here have been hand-
Ita cost in estimated at beter world to thirf or arooniared this phase of the job. Their roughly the same amount as for Bong. An Austin awner 1 know work eventually is expected to eastern parkway. Although has wire found it impossible to open bring forth a plan to meet the will be longer, property damages the sad of his ear, parked in a requirements of the PRA will be considerably less,
sy Central Street, av stengts had which is paying half the total cording to engineers. bert Bade to force The Jack broad daylight. Had the car been parked in a quieter street, around dust, say, he would probably have returned in fed ar
at least his spare tire, jack and rud tanks missing.
cost,
One hy were built throughout the Mid- one new factories lands, each to concentrate on the manufacture and supply of
sub-assembly to meet the ever- Krowing demands of the parent plant at Cowley.
War Again
Again war stemmed the flow; again when peace carne jt was resumed.
Today, under the direction the-of-Mr. H. Seaward, the 2144 it acre Cowley Factory with its fourteen miles of overhead ac- conveyors, three-quarter vallè assembly line and 4,000 work- Both the cast and west Rec-ers, has once more been rear- ahead on other sections of the link
Meanwhile, work is forging tions of the system will be a ganised to cope with still!
in a $3,000,000,000, 40, higher production totals. Castern part of the system, 000-mile chain of Interstate New models of advanced de- which is to join the Triangle superhighways planned by the sign will take their place in with the nationally-famed Pen- Federal Government and an- the famous cavalcade of cars The Chinese car thief is without a naylvania Turnpike via U.S.nounced this month by Federal that have put a sleepy Oxford. peer, in Singapore a couple of years Routes 22 and 30.
Works Administrator Philip B. shire village on the Industrial hack, there was a positive epidemic. Because of these routes, Fleming in Washington.
map of England. of car-arching. A friend of mine Highway 22, the William Penn, parked his pre-war Standard outside and 20, the Lincoln Highway. ane of the main buildings, next to a the parkway system was
first
Figures issued by the Ministry
In Britain
show
-the Loaner was already tackedway East from
ilitary car park. The locked the car called the Penn Lincoln Park of Transport for road casualties
during June made sure all windows.
the Turnpike that the types of vehicle "pri-
Heavy U.S.
and was away for about an hour.
were into Pittsburgh, while another marily involved in deaths were Demand
to be named the
For M. Gs.
When he returned, the ear had longer section, planned to re as follows:-Motor cycles, 57: vchleles vanished. He phoned through to the join 22-30 neur the Ohio line, mechanically propelled police on the Causeway, and it seem- WAS
motor cycles, 12; Penn other than ed impossible that the car could he Lincoln Parkway West.
pedal cycles. 64. Total casual. gotten of the islatul. Two months
tles were 380 deaths and $,422 The eastern section, for which approximately $3,000.000 injured-20 fewer deaths thon
1946, but 380 In June, already has been contracted, re- people injured and 1,538 more cently was renamed the *Fort casualties in all.
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later, it was found, in Kuala Lum purl.
Bermuda
It must have come as a sorry blow
more
to Professor Joal, that stalwart WHAT SORT OF TROUBLE
member of the Pedestrians Anocía- tion and a hater of motor car, when the ban on suramıobiles was lifted" 'n' Bermuda World War 11 and the leming of the Island to the United States brought the motor car Berinudo.
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Not, without restrictlane, however, for cars must not be of over 10 hp and mist have a comparatively short wheelbase. The speed limit, "is ̊.20 ph, and woe betide violators, for the penalties are heavy. Bermuda, of course, does not have the Tong, steen hills that are this Island's fot but it in Imeresting to speculate on what the position "would have been here, and whether flong
Kong's traffic problem would have been easier or heriler of solution, bad similar restrisauns pone:: Into effect after the Liberation,
DO YOU PREFER? (No. 3)
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"Please reserve total export allocation of M.G., Midget sports cars for the American market. Can sell all you can' send VAR | nero53,"
This message has been receiv ed by Nuffield Exporte “from their Bales Promotion Manager, Mr Donald Harrison, who la raw an a dollar-hunting trade tour of the United States, and Canada, opening up a complete- You're an un. ly new distribution organisation
America for. throughout usual motorist if.
sale of Nuffield Products. your...nn awer There is such a heavy do- isn't "Nono!" mand for the M.C. sports car Why
do from Bwitzerland and the 'Em- nut something about pire that it will be impossible to It now, instead give the United States all the of leaving it till Midgets she would like to have but Nuffield Exports hope to be too late? Sumable during the next twelve mer has been months to bring home to Britain A tough on your n harvest of no less" * than car, you know. DE$5,000,000 from the sale of Go to your re- this one sports car model alone, güldr
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