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Military Service Act.
[2920] (Owner).—We have replied direct at length. Please remember the claims of our Campaign Comforts Fund, by sending not less than one shilling.
On Furniture-removal Work.
[2921] (Leeds).—Your driver will no doubt be entitled to exemption' despite the fact that furnitureremoving work involves collection from and delivery at private houses, seeing that you are haulage contractors (see answer No. 2897 in our issue of the 27th January). Things may yet come to such a state of stress that we shall be ordered not to move
Father and Son Partners in Motorbus Business.
[2922] (Lines.).—The father is undoubtedly exempt, by reason of his being above military age ; the son should be able to maintain a claim before the local tribunal that he is indispensable to transport, and to base his claim under one or other of the sections which have been explained in our answers to queries. Unless the son has not yet attested, he will be deemed (if single) to have enlisted, now that we are concerned with dates after the 1st inst. Married men are not within the Act.
Varying Charges by Taxicab for the Same Journeylength: Vehicle Widths: [2923] (Chiswick).—Unless the road-speed of a taxicab -falls. below six miles an hour, the registration on the taximeter is by distance ; the clockwork only functions at six miles an hour, or below that speed. The overall width of a heavy motorcar is the maximum width of the vehicle itself at any point, as, for example, over the axle-caps ; the width of the body is also included in this definition, but not the width of the load. The load may overhang up to the limit of the particular local by-laws, if any.
That E250,000 Promotion for Lancashire.
[2924] (Supplies).—We have been told that. the Treasury did not sanction the use of its name as approving any such flotation of a big haulage company. The promoters, therefore, presumably, had to "draw in their horns," and to be content with registration, as a private company, on the scale which you will find recorded in a paragraph on page 411 of our issue of the 20th January. The office of the company is at 4, Norfolk Street., Manchester, and it is called the Cotton Industry Motor Transport, Ltd. We commented upon its prospects of success in our issue of the 23rd December. The smaller capital does notnecessarily handicap its operations. Success will depend upon various factors, and not least upon management.
Chassis for Agents.
[2925] (Oxford).—We cannot say where the particular components for the Trafford chassis will be obtained. If you have no success in Great Britain as regards such supplies, the following U.S.A. list. may be of use to you: Engines—Wisconsin Motor. Manufacturing Co., Station A., Dept. 311, Milwaukee, Wisconsin ;
The Buda Co., Harvey, Chicago Suburb, Illinois; the Buthenber Motor Co., Marion,
Indiana ; Continental Motor Manufacturing Co., Detroit, Michigan ; Beaver Manufacturing Co., Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
Gearboxes.—Cotta Gear Co., 720-730, Sixth Street, Roekford, ril.; Fuller and Sons Manufacturing Co., Kalamazoo, Mich. ; Brown-Lipe Gear Co., Syracuse, N.Y.
Back Axles.—The Sheldon Axle and Snring Co., Wilkes-Barre. Pennsylvania ; Russel Motor Axle co., North :Detroit, Mich. ; Celfor Tool Co., Buchanan, Mich. ; Torbensen Gear and Axle CO., Clevelarid, Ohio.
B58 Early Delivery for 10-cwt. Net Loads.
[2926] (Stratford).—We think you might with advantage apply to the following makers Aildays and Onions Pneumatic Engineering Co., Ltd., Matchless Works, Birmingham. Belsize Motors, Ltd., Clayton, Manchester. Straker-Squire (1913), Ltd., Nelson Square, Blakfriars, S.E.
Willys-Overland, Ltd., 151-153, Great Portland Street, W.
Locating an Engine Knock.
[2927] (Lorryman).—It is, of course, rather more difficult for us to give you definite information as to the trouble which you appear to have with the one petrol engine of your fleet, without seeing it., than it is for you to do so wto can inspect the machine while it is giving evidence of trouble. It appears to us, however, that taking into consideration the circumstances of the noise being so peculiarly metallic, and of it only giving this indication when it. is pulling hard against the collar on a gradient, that your ignition system in some way allows early sparking on the one cylinder ; that is to say, that one plug may fire earlier than it should do. If it is always in the same cylinder, and only in that one, this confirms the impression. It does not appear to be a case of pre-ignition due to carbon or other extraneous matter in the cylinder. It is possible that there is some slight derangement in the distributor that would account for this. You should certainly settle in your own mind exactly which cylinder is at fault. You should be able to do this when the noise develops, and to test in one of the usual ways, which one it is that is losing power. In any, case you will do well to go minutely through the whole of your ignition system. It is obviously not carburation trouble