A Short Report from Brussels.
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Commercial motors were not a very important feature of the 12th Brussels Show, which was opened in the Palais du Cinquantenaire last Saturday morning.
The impression conveyed as the result of an examination of the exhibits is that Belgian manufacturers have not paid all the attention to mechanical transportation that one would expect in a country of such an industrial nature. The home makers were slightly out-numbered by the French manufacturers of commercial vehicles, and several Belgian factories having a high reputation for pleasure cars were unrepresented in the heavy .section.
The French exhibitors comprised Delahaye, Berliet and Aries. A Fareot fire-engine tender of the type used in Paris, and a. 3-ton chassis comprised the Delahaye exhibit. Berliet had a light delivery van on solid tires and another one on pneumatics. The Aries exhibition was the same as at the Paris Salon, consisting of a couple of heavy vehicles, one with rubber tires all round and another with metal tires at the rear.
Germany was represented at the Show by two makes only, an Opel shaft-driven truck with motor under a bonnet and an Adler firstaid fire-engine. Most conspicuous among the Belgian exhibits was the " Pescatore" saloon car. This comprised a two-seater tractor towing a huge saloon ear. The "tug " had a Daimler-Knight four-cylinder motor with power transmitted to the rear wheels by means of cn closed side chains. The saloon car, most luxuriously fitted, had but one axle, its front end being mounted on and suitably attached to the rear of the two-seater.
Another Belgian production was a brewer's lorry produced by Bevy Co. The Minerva Co. showed a commercial vehicle which had been in service and was brought to the exhibition under its own power. This appeared to have been produced in conjunction with some other firm, for there were none of the distinctive Minerva features, and even the Knight motor was not employed, although that. maker uses this engine exclusively for pleasure oars. An agriinotor section was announced, but its importance was very slight, the only agricultural machines being a Ransome motordriven lawn mower and the Champenoise motor plough. This latter machine has taken part in several French contests during the past season and was brought to the Show under its own power and with all the indications of active service. Germain, one of the leading Belgian firms, had an exhibition of a petrolelectric installation for country house use.