Automobile Engineer: 1955/01

January 1955. Front cover.

January 1955. Index to contents.

Note: This is a sub-section of the Automobile Engineer

CONTENTS

• Editorial -Developments for 1955...1-2

• London Transport RM Bus - A New Chassisless, Double Deck Vehicle with Independent Front and Coil Spring Rear Suspension...3-17

• Institution of Mechanical Engineers - Forthcoming Meetings of the Automobile Division...17

• Electrostatic Body Spraying -Fully-automatic Plant Employed by the Studebaker Corporation...18

• Correspondence - Georges Roesch, A. W. Frazer...18

• New Plant and Tools - Recent Developments in Production Equipment - Aldridge Tool and Engineering Co, Rockwell Machine Tool Co (Giddings and Lewis), Desoutter Brothers...19-20

• All-Season High Performance Oil. By J. C. Cree and J. G. Withers - Successful Developments at the Sunbury Research Station...21-28

• Recent Publications - Brief Reviews of Current Technical Books...28

• Synthetic Paint Finishing - Perfectair Plant for the Swallow Doretti - Perfectair, Swallow Coachbuilding Co...29-31

• Paint Drying Plant - Metrovick Infra-red Heating Installation for Finishing Small Machine Components - E. P. Barrus...31

• Automobile Fans. By J. L. Koffman - A Rational Method of Design to Avoid Protracted Development Work... 32-34

• Goods Vehicle Bodywork - New Materials and Techniques in Goods Carrying Bodies - Mann, Egerton and Co, British Aluminium Co, G. E. Neville and Son, University Commercials and Coachwork, L. F. Dove, Arlington Bodybuilders, Reliant, Eagle Engineering Co, Edbro-B. and E. Tippers, Bonallack and Sons, Darham Industries (London), APV, Kennings, B. Walker and Son, J. H. Sparshatt and Sons...35-38

• Exhaust Silencing. By F. J. H. Tutt. - The Tuning of Exhaust Systems to Improve Noise Reduction...39-40

• Current Patents - A Review of Recent Automobile Specifications...41-42

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