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Feb. 26 A Queer Kind Of Motorcycle Combination: This isn't a sidecar with its toes turned in but a specially designed research combination for measuring the resistance of different road surfaces to skiing, in use by the scientists at the Road Research Laboratory at Harmsondsworth. How science aids the road make: Laboratory work helps decide what surface a road will have, and a variety of safety measures for vehicles and traffic control systems. A variety it strange machines, instruments and device are in consistent use by research workers at the laboratory of the Road Research Unit of the department of Scientific and Industrial Research, at Harmondsworth. Started in 1933 as a small experimental station on the Colnbrook By-Pass by the Ministry of Transport, today its scope is much broader and concerns road materials, methods of making roads, layout, traffic and safety. Physicists, chemists, mathematicians combine with the practical engineers to discover ways of improving the laying, the maintaining and economic upkeep of the country's roads. Work is firstly done in the labs, using a variety of machines. Findings ar then tested in practice on the lab's own test roads. and finally a full scale trail is arranged with a, local authority. Cost of making a road job an experiment is small compared with the possible savings effected traffic control and flow by fly-overs, lights etc are studied on models and by practical tests and statistics and other data made available to all interested

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