THE POWER OF THE WHITE.
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We reproduce below an interesting photograph which has been placed at our disposal by WhiteColeman Motors, Ltd., the British concessionnaire for the American White motorvans and wagons., The subject of the picture is the unusual one of a threeton lorry's being utilised to hoist an 80 ft. sheet-iron smoke stack into its cradle, 12 ft. above the ground, at a newly-installed boiler plant, which has been erected for the Belk-Vernon-Mapes Dairy Co., of Cleveland, U.S.A. Although the stack weighed just over two tons, the wagon picked it up from the ground without difficulty, and set it in position in a very few minutes. The local stevedores are reported to have been astonished at the way the wagon accomplished this task, It is important to remember that
this machine was only a White standard three-tonner, a model which is equipped with what is scheduled in America as a 30 h.p. engine, but what is known here as a 20-30 h.p. engine, an indefinite classification which is necessitated, it appears, by the fact that the R.A.C. rating is 22.4 h.p. The engine has a bore of at in., and the stroke is 51, in. This illustration is a very good answer to those peoplewho are inclined to criticise the use of an engine of this size in a three-ton truck. There appears to be ample reserve of power.
Whilst writing of Whites, we may here record the placing of an order by the Russian War Office for ten three-ton White wagons, with an assurance of more to follow. This business was arranged by Mr. Frederick Coleman personally.