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Overseas 1915 Demand.
The Municipal Commissioners of Singapore make provision for the purchase of additional motor vehicles c uring the year 1913. The estimates include an allocation of $i2.000 for two conservancy motors, and i$7500 for a motor fire-engine.
Auto-Carriers (1911), Ltd.
The manufacturing side of the Auto-Carrier business is to be developed and extended by provision for further output at Thames Ditton. An issue of 225,000 in 6 per cent. cumulative participating preference shares of Cl each is now being made. We observe that the directors of the company are Messrs. J. Browne Martin, John Pearce, John Portwine and John Weller. The prospectus states that the directors are disinclined, for trade reasons, to give an estimate of profit, but points out that a preferential dividend of 6 per cent. on the original preference shares was paid for the period ended the 29th February last. Demonstration Charges in U.S.A.
The National Association of Automobile Manufacturers, of America, has been considering the cost of demonstration charges by manufacturers and agents to prospective purchasers of commercial motors. A somewhat chaotic system has hitherto existed in the United States with regard to this work. Some few firms have made a fairly-high charge for demonstrations, whilst others have given free use of their trucks for a period. It was stated at a conference of makers that the cost of motor working should decrease as the size of the vehicle increases, and it followed, then, that any schedule of charges for demonstrating motor vehicles should bear a definite relation to the actual cost of operation and maintenance.
Appended is a table, published by an American journal, which gives an idea of the cost of running vehicles in the L.S.A. A scale of demonstration charges ranging from El 16s. 6d. a day for a one-ton truck, to 26.5s. a day for a 10-ton truck, has recently seen adopted by the National Association of , Automobile Manufacturers.
Demonstration charges per day.
20-cwt. vehicle ... El 16 6
2-ton do. ... 2 3 9 3-ton do. ... 2 12 0 4-ton do. ... 2 18 0 3 ton do. 3 2 6