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COI synopsis: Modern buses taking over in the busy streets of Accra and the Motor Mechanics Training School. The port of Tema, Ghana, where factory workers assemble heavy vehicles of many kinds, including...
COI synopsis: Our motoring correspondent, Gordon Wilkins, takes a look at the first thermostatically controlled air-driven radiator cooling fan to be fitted to commercial vehicles. Because it only operates...
COI synopsis: And a new concept in invalid cars. The invalid’s wheelchair itself can be rolled up to the steering wheel and locked into place to become the actual driving seat.
Shows the limits which are in question; the laws of physics which apply in truck engineering and the factors which the driver must keep in mind: rolling resistance and drag, the pull of gravity, static and...
The history of Grand Prix motor racing from 1924, when a British Sunbeam raced with a supercharged engine, to 1939. Uses archive film and restored historic cars driven by Grand Prix driver John Watson.
COI synopsis: The Commonwealth Engineering Conference held in Britain, which was attended by delegates from eleven countries.
In the hundred years since the first driver died in a car crash, cars have become safer but progress has come at a price. Archive material reveals how volunteers, experiments on live animals and even the...
Aerial view of the Ledo road passing through mountains. American vehicles driving along the road and crossing bridge. Chinese labourers at work on the Burma Road, breaking, sorting and carrying stones....
Three case studies examine various elements of good product design: 1) the McLaren F1 super-car - looks at the use of carbon fibre and other compostite materials and the ergonmics of the car’s interior; 2)...
COI synopsis: A wheel puncture at high speed can be fatal. The problem is that a punctured tyre can come off the rim. Now a very simple addition to any wheel prevents that. A light plastic hoop slotted under...
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