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" War and the Motorvan " is an article (page 126) which contains many points of interest just now. The formation of a " Civil Transport Reserve " is suggested.
Eley Bross, Ltd., the well-known maker ef cartridges, sporting ammuniticm, etc., has ordered a " CommerCar " petrol van. This owner, in previonS years, has used steam-propelled vehicles only.
The 'Post Office authorities have accepted the following tenders for motor-mail services; between Warrington and Burnley, Messrs. Blake and Co., Beaumont Street, Liverpool; between Basingstoke and Winchfield and Farnham, Thomas Tilling, Ltd., Winchester House, Peckham, S.E.
Water-ballast Rollers.
A water-ballast motor roller, from the Queen Street iron works of Messrs. Barford and Perkins at Peterborough, will be exhibited in Dublin, this and next week, throughout the continuance of the Irish Roads Congress. These rollers have exceptionally-fine records to their credit, and are widely used, both at home and abroad, for race-courses, cricket fields, golf links, public parks, private and estate roads, and public highways.
Carcases by Motor.
The use of motor vehicles for the conveyance of dead animals is extending. Quite the latest instance is provided in a sale which has been made by F. B. Goodchild and Co., Ltd., of Craven House, Kingsway, W.C. This concerns a Belhaven lorry, which has been supplied to Messrs. A. Mason and Sobs, horse slaughterers. of Omoa, and we now reproduce a photograph of the vehicle in service. On the occasion under notice, the ear
cases of a horse and a cow were being hauled on to the vehicle, by means of the special winch and hoisting gear fitted.
Roads Improvement Association
H.S.H. Prince Francis of Tuck. K.C.V.O., Chairman of the Royal Automobile Club, has been elected President of the Roads Improvement Association. This body will be represented, at the Roads Congress of July next, in Brussels, by Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Earl Russell, Col. R. E. Crompton, 0.13,, M.lnst.C.E., Mr. W. Wurby Beaumont, M.Inst.C.E., Mr. Charles Cerdingley, and Mr. W. Rees Jeffreys.
The L.G.B. has allotted the additional index mark " L.A," to the London County Council, for the purposes of the Motor Car Acts.
Rad Lights Behind.
The Royal Automobile Club, with the support of the Commercial Motor Users' Association and the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, with which bodies the Club has close working agreements, is taking active steps to secure general support for the principle of compulsory universal lighting of vehicles, including bicycles, with a lamp or lamps that will show a red light to the rear.
Extensions at Exeter.
Gould Bros., Ltd., of Scruthernhay, Exeter, is a progressive and wellmanaged company. It has just reopened its Southernhay works, with au unobstructed ground-floor, machine-shop overhead, and other notable improvements. The company will now, in all probability, turn part of its attention to commercial motors, and we should like to see a. good agency entrusted to it. Maintenance and repairs will receive close attention.
C.M.U.A. Parade.
It has been decided not to hold a members' luncheon, on the 21st pros., but members may care to know that the restaurant at the Inns of Court Hotel, Holborn, E.C., adjoins Lincoln's Inn Fields. This hotel, in fact, overlooks the area where the vehicles and tractors will assemble. If, therefore, any members or other interested parties are intending to visit London for the purpose of attending the meet and parade, they will probably find the suggested rendezvous a convenient one. The Executive Committee of the Association will entertain the Judges Committee, and representatives of the leading London papers, at luncheon, prior to the parade, at the same hotel.
Donations to the prize fund, additional to those which were reported in our columns a fortnight ago, are: the Society of Motor 3Ianufacturers and Traders, £10 10s. ; Fodens, Ltd., A:5; Leyland Motors, Ltd., Vi; and MinesDaimler, Ltd., £5. It has been decided that THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR Cup, which has been offered by the proprietors of this journal for award by the Judges to the owner who submits the best "team" of six machines, which may be mixed as to type or power, be accepted by the Association. The full conditions affecting this section of the parade will be published.
Tito parade will evidently create a real " stir " this year, and the arrangements are well in hand.
Cole and Shuttleworth, Ltd., of 407-411, Now King's Bead, Fulham. S.W., has delivered a 25-cwt. motorvan to James Hunt, Ltd., printers
and stationers, of Atalanta Street, Fulham. Tho vehicle will chiefly be used in the Provinces. The body is nuninted on a 16 h.p. Albion chassis.
To and From Brussels.
The South-Eastern and Chatham By. announces cheap return tickets, by the Dover-Calais short-sea route, or via Ostend, on and from the 20th inst., in connection with this year's International Exhibition at Brussels. A 14-day, third-class return ticket, per the night services, can be obtained for as little as 19s.
Thornycroft's Are Busy.
Here is the latest summary of Thornycroft sales and deliveries: the War Office, two 30 h.p., 35-ewt. lorries adapted to run on paraffin—the result of the satisfactory running of a number of Thornyeroft vehicles previously supplied to the War Office; the French Cleaning and Dyeing Co., Southgate. 16 hp., 30-cwt. delivery van ; Messrs. Morland and Co., Abingdon, a two-ton. 1)-type van, fitted with a four-cylinder 21 hp. engine instead of a 20
engine ----supplied as a result (cf good running from a 16 hp. van previously ordered, both orders having been secured by the general agent in the South of Fog] and, Mr. Bruce Cooper, of Danes. hill Cottage, Basingstoke; James Keiller and Sons, Ltd.. the wellknown jam and marmalade manufacturer of Dundee and London, a 16 hp. two-ton clia.ssis; Carnarvon Motors. Ltd.. Carnarvon, a 30 hp.. 19-seated ehar-a-hancs: The Lena fiiddfields. Ltd., St. Petersburg, a 30 lip. two-ton van, with special clearance to adapt it for use in Siberia ; Messrs. Walter Haves and Co., Vancouver. two 30 hp. 3i-ton tipping wagons. with interchangeable watering bodies. a 16 hp., 30-cwt. delivery van, and a 30 h.p. two-ton delivery van : and Cadbury Bros., Ltd.. Bournville, near Birmingham, a smart 16 h.p. 30-cwt. delivery van (delivered). Also, per Mr. C. Pemberton Wooler, the sole agent in the north uf England, whose address is 2, Park Place, Leeds: The Leeds Industrial Co-operative Society, Ltd., a 16 h.p.
30-cwt. van (re peat order); Johnson and Akam, 11d., Bradford, a. 16, li.p. two-too
diessis ; Messrs. Moorhouse cc n d Wa in wright, Horsforth, a 30 hp, t w o ton van ; Messrs. Jennens, Welch and Co.,
udde rsfield , 16 h.p. two-ton ellassis; Mr. J. W. Ilorrox, Leeds, a 16 hp. 30-ewt. van ; and the Colne Vale Corn Millers, Ltd., Slaithwaite, 30 hp. four-ton lorry, with winding drum driven from engine.
Barker's Lacres.
According to Mr. Ralph Millbourn, one of the directors of John Barker and Co., Ltd., the long-distance work which falls to the lot of the dispatch department allows a remarkable success for the three 16 h.p. 30-40 cwt. Lacre vans which have been employed for several years--one since the dose of 1905. This company has six motorvans in service, and one of its oldest Lacres is shoe a below. The vehicles are worked hard, and a high daily mileage is necessary, something like 80 being not unusual. Goods are now delivered, direct, far away from the Kensington-High-Street store, and about 18,000 miles per van per annum is " knocked up." The oldest Lacre vehicle is said to have touched 75,000 a-5 a total mileage. and it is running as \i ell as ever.
Success in Australia.
An Albion lorry, owned V Vivian Lewis, Ltd., of Adelaide, South Australia, is illustrated at the loot of this page. This make of vehicle has now
been iised Australia for some considerable tune, and we have reason to believe that the success achieved has gone far to remove a had impression which was created in the States of the Commonwealth, several years ago, when it was a common practice to lit van bodies to pleasure-car chassis.
New Registrations.
The Gordon Carriage Works, Ltd., with an authorized capital of .C10,000
in shares, and with its office at 47, ilarders Road, Peckham, S.F., to acquire and take over as a going concern the business of coach and motorbody builders, now carried on hy the Gordon Carriage Works. Directors : F. Mackrell and D. T. Jewell, both of 47, Harders Road, Peckham; G. A. Lingley, 29, Albert Road, Peckham, SE.; and A. J. Weightman, 5 and 7, St. Mary Axe, E.C.
A. Ward and Co., Ltd., with an authorized capital of 1!3,600 in ,f.:1 shares, and with its office at 8,5, Shaftesbury Avenue, W.C., to carry on the business of motor and automobile engineers, and to manufacture and let on hire every description of motorcar, motor and other vehicles.
The Challenge Reinforced Tube Co., Ltd., with an authorized capital of £110,000 in IA shares (55,000 6 per cent. preference), and with its office at 48. Gresham Street, E.C., to acquire the business of manufacturing, and selling Challenge reinforced inner :tubes for motors and the patent under which same are manufactured; also, to deal in all kinds of tubes and tires for motors. Directors: H. Edmunds, S.W. ; H. Harvey Frost-, Millbrook, Hendon Lane, Finchlev, N.; and W. G. Yarworth-Jones, 24, Torrington So n a re. W .C. lyels For Abroad.
The sale of Iva agricultural motors is hy no means limited to this country, as our readers will be aware. The company which manufactures these motors is extremely aetive all over the world, and some of the latest shipments, to the Argentine. Brazil and British Columbia, recently took place from Liverpool. We illustrate departure of one consignment from Biggleswade goods station.
Ryknields on Hire.
French's Garage and Motor Works, Ltd., of 314, Ilalham Nigh Road, S.W., appears to be getting excellent results from Rykuield lorries. For example, two such machines have been running in the service of Truman, Danbury and Buxton, Ltd., of Taten_ ham, for close upon two years; the average distance travelled per month per lorry has exceeded 1.200 miles. The results have generally borne out the experience of Bass, Ratcliffe and orett., Ltd., of Burton-on-Trent. which company also uses vehicles of this make and allows them to travel, on occasion, as much as 110 miles in a
single day, with a five-ton load. We learn that the percentage of lost journeys has been extremely small in the London case. See page 135.