MORE WEIGHT, LESS WORK

Dominion, Volume 14, Issue 60, 4 December 1920, Page 10

MORE WEIGHT, LESS WORK

NEW IDEA IN TRACTION,

The Army authorities are investigating a "new" method of traction which, invented by Mr. T. H. Briber, * London engineer 32 years ago, had since been steadfastly turned down by ''experts/' snys the 'Daily Mail." To convince people who derided bis in. vention Mr. Brigg lias sunk from insolved technical phrases to simple in. stances of how naturo proves his invention to |bc sound. "There are natives," ho said to a reporter, "who can run 105 miles a day with the rickshaw, and who', without the rickshaw, could do nowhere near that distance. 4 "If an elephant is pulling a fly by menus of a thread you can n:nko his work easier by putting the fly on 2001b. of luggage, the luggage at the rear of a two-wheel vehicle, and letting the elephant pull the lot."

The inventor lias proved (hi? to the military authorities. Ho was provided with a 6.5. limber and horses from Woolwich, and went tjo n hill near Blnckheath. The horses pulled till tireii to get the limber up the hill, but failed. Tho attachment was then fitted, s"wt. of luggage added to the limber, and tho tivd horses took tho hill easily. Tho invent'on, which adds „C 5 to tho cost of a limber in its manufacture, is being further tested by tho military experts. A report on a demonstration at the Ordnance College admitted that tho attachment "materially assists the tiactive nower of the wheel horses," bill speaks of complicating the operations or limbering and unlimberinj. Mr. Brig? describes his invention in. tho implication to transport of the simple elementary prineinles of mechanics. Bv altering the "wheel base" of a vehicle he can give "locomotive advantage" to the puller instead of the pulled.