Royal-Show Forecast.
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Preparations for the Liverpool Display Well Advanced.
We are quite ready for Liverpool. There is to be one special number, and that is of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. This journal has the precedents of Derby, Lincoln, Newcastle and Gloucester as guarantees of effective treatment, .early publication, and no holding back. Everything good in the motor sections will be examined, at Liverpool, on Friday and Saturday of this week, the necessary photographic and other figures will be prepared in the opposite of leisurely fashion, our expert staff will take all necessary steps to complete the show notices and particular special articles with promptitude, and the result this year will be the same as that which astonished so many people in each of the four previous years—the finished descriptive and fully-illustrated number (276) on sale within an hour or two of the opening of the Show next Tuesday. Other journals are content to come out the day the Show
• closes, but we again prefer to be the only one that is early on such occasions. In this practice, of course, we are to some extent dependent upon the manufacturers,
factors and agents with whose exhibits the report will deal. We rely upon the co-operation and assistance which we have before experienced, and most of all does this reservation apply to the necessary forward condition of the stands on Saturday morning—the day after to-morrow. It may be noted, in concluding this brief introduction to the forecast, that our exclusive arrangements include the effective advertisement of the issue IN THE SHOWYARD, and the special circulation of an EXTRA 2,000 COPIES—over and above our normal and certified sales —to carefully-selected recipients, in Liverpool and a 40mile radius therefrom, who are LIKELY BUYERS.
Advices to hand prove that there will be a distinct increase in the petrol-vehicle section, compared with the Gloucester (1909) or any other show of the R.A.S.E. Recent extensions of use by owners of heavy petroldriven machines are surely having their effect upon Lancashire buyers whose traffic calls for long daily runs at comparatively-high speeds. On the other hand, we give
no countenance to the claims of parties who seek to assert with pretensions to authority that the five-ton steamer has seen its day, because some classes of heavy haulage in Liverpool cannot be economically or commercially undertaken by the newer type. This will be made clear in the course of one of the interviews v-1,ich will appear in our pages next week. The exhibitors of the eleven petrol motors are well assured, in spite of the peculiar limitations which we have in mind, of many fresh inquiries and a fair proportion of orders. In the older and more-settled steam branches, we find that no fewer than 15 wagons and 10 tractors will be presented; whilst a total of five agricultural-type motors—all of the internal-combustion variety—will be on view. Motor lawn-mowers and motor rollers are to account for 10 separate machines ; the fire-station, etc., is by Messrs. Shand, Mason and Co.