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MOUNTAIN ROADS MADE SAFE,
Hugo gas well casings, drilled deep into solid rock, are used on curves in the mountains of West Virginia' to prevent› landslide or washout of the road.
FEBRUARY 25. 1928.
THE ORDER OF THE ROAD
Why a Third Motor Organisation?
The following letter has been sent to the London Morning Post by the well-known motorist, Mr. S. F. Edge-
"Sir, I think that Lord Cot- tenham, Sir Arthur Stanley, Lieut- enant-Colonel Moore-Brabazon, Pro-
fessor Low, and others who are giving their time and energy to forming the new order of motorists deserve the very sincero thanks of the whole motoring community.. Of course, there are immenso dif- ficulties in administering such a Society..
A vast number of people who drive badly on the road to-day do it through ignorance and not through malice, or, so it seems to me when watching them. There are a great many people who have never had any experionce of road usage, and, therefore, do, the most dreadful If things perfectly innocently, overyone had to ride a bicycle for a year on the road before driving a motor-car this would teach them road usage in the best and most practical way as the bicycle is the most delicate thing on the road and, therefore, the people who uso them have to exercise the greatest possible care.
West Virginia road engineers to use abandoned gas well casings, have originated an inexpensive which are numerous in West Vir aystem of safeguarding road beds ginia, for the hillsiden
I hope that the committee of the from washouts and landslides. On steep cuts and wide curves
When West Virginia started these pipes are drilled down into Order will try to discontinue the huge road building programme a solid rock at the lower edge of the use of the bumper bar. This al few years back the engineers faced road bed. Rock is then packed ways seems to me the badge of the a serious problem. Railroads had around them and the work of driver who wishes to push things: been built first through the state's grading can go ahead with assur-out of his way.. Personally, I like numerous valleys and they chose ance that the road bed will remain to keep a considerable space be- tween myself and the vehicle in the best routes, using in many intact after a heavy rain.
On wide curves and steep hill-front of me, as obviously the driver Cases all of the ground availabin between the hills and the rivers, sides, where there is more weight in front can start pulling up long This forced the road builders to to hold, huge pipes are used. On before I am aware of his going to take to the mountainsides, which straightaways and lower down on do so. Therefore, if one is too incurred great expense. Added to less precipitous hills, smaller close there is always a likelihood the expense was the fear of land-pipes, placed a foot apart, serve of bumping into him.
I think the Badge should be of slides. Cut along the sides of the the purpose.
Rond building in the mountains sufficient size, so that it can be mountains, there was great danger of the road beds washing away in has been speeded up by this system affixed to either the front or the without adding much extra back of the enr, where everybody heavy rainfall.
expense to the already largo sum may see it. It would be interesting required to construct a mile of to watch and see whether the Order road in the mountain state.
And the engineers vouch for the greater safety.
It took a long time for the roads to settle before they could be gravelled or paved after a final grading.
The engineers hit upon the idea
SUBSTITUTES FOR PETROL.
Research Board Experiment.
The Fuel Research Board has just issued a fourth memorandum on the subject of fuel for motor transport. Earlier memoranda outlined the Empire position in re- gard to supplies of petrol as a fuel for internal-combustion engines, and, the steps that have been taken. to investigate the possibilities of producing with the Empire after- native fuels, and more particularly alcohol.
The present report states that so far the question of the produc- tion of alcohol for power purposes has been dealt with on the basis of using as the raw material the sugar or slareli derived from vege- table matter, Alcohol, however, can also be produced from the cel lulose of plants by its direct fer- mentation, or by convering the cellulose into fermentable matter, In view of the fact that large quantities of cellulosic materials, constantly renewed by nature, are available, and are of little or no commercial value, they would appear to offer a possible solution of the problem of raw materiale, provided a practicable and econo- mic method of treating them could be discovered. In such an event it might be possible to make use of the vast quantities of tropical and semi-tropical vegetation, such as the Krnases of Australia and Africa, and the wasto vegetable products such as maize and rice straw, corn cobs, rice husks, and sisal hemp waste available within the British Empire.
The discovery of an economic process of the kind required has engaged the attention of the Fuel Research Board for some consider- able time and experimental work in this connexion has been carried out at the bueteriological laboratory of the Royal Naval Cordite Factury.. After describing the details and outcome of experiments, the mem- orandum submits that the result of the work has established the détails of a process which should present no real technical difficul tles once the raw materials are, available in suficient quantity and at a sufliciently low cost. Where waste vegetable materials can be treated where they are available without further expense of collec tion, it would appear that their conversion into alcohol for use in Internal-combustion engines as an alternative to petrol should be in vestigated from the point of the Bultability of the process to local conditions and of that of costs.
"The question of grasses," the memorandum continues, "would be a somewhat different one, owing to the fact that the cost of harvest- ing and transporting them might make their use economically im- possible. This again, is a matter. depending on local conditions once their technical suitability for the purpose has been established."
LONG TERM IN ITALY.
then has practical effect in making people drive properly, or whether these people drive improperly pure- ly through ignorance.
I wish this new body every suc- cess, but I think it is a pity it was Automobile speeders in Italy, not combined with the A.A, or the convicted of killing or seriously R.A.G., as a multitude of bodies of injuring pedestriana, are now this sort are not in the best in-| hoing sentenced to 20 years' hard|terests of automobilism." Inbour.
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