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21st March 1912, Page 13
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

6-ton load from Soho to Durham, and that offers are wanted at once.

That further experiments are being made in London with a new type of motorbus body which has inside cross seats.

That one effect of the R..A.C. road-guides scheme may be an increase in the charge for new issues of the C.M.U.A. badge.

That there are many taxicabs running of which the hoods are leaky, and that the spell of wet weather has found them out.

That bus drivers keeping to their legal speed on the tramlines are liable to be fined for obstruction under the new 16 m.p.h. train-speed limit.

That the probable postponement of certain Waroffice trials which might have been rushed through during May is alleged to be due to the coal strike.

That some big supply columns of motor wagons have been seen on the roads round Aldershot lately, and that they are stated to have been putting in big mileages.

That panicky demands for assistance by motor haulage ding the present industrial crisis should only be acceded to when a contract for twelve months is also forthcoming.

That the Armstrong-Whitworth people are continuing the manufacture of commercial vehicles at Elswick, in a department quite distinct from the car branch at Scotswood.

That Sunbeam commercials have not been put into the background for ever' but that there is no saying when the boom in Sunbeam ears will let them take their deserved place in the output.

That the Diesel engine still weighs about 110 lb. per h.p., compared with, say, 10 lb. for an average petrol engine, and that its use for road work is therefore distinctly in the Ian of the future.

That the British Motor Cab Co.'s dinner on Saturday last was not the brilliant success which had been anticipated, and that the strike on the following Monday may have had something to do with it.

That the coal strike has made an appreciable difference to the takings of taxicabs everywhere, but that recent Suffragette disturbances have been the cause of an unusual increase in hirings to Holloway.

That burnt, fibre mats and inside footboards are common on taxicabs, and that this is due to the proximity of the exhaust box, which is occasionally red hot, and to the throwing down of lighted matches by fares.

That Mr. Ebenezer Howard, the founder of the Garden City at Letchworth, is convinced that "Garden Cities will ultimately lead to a settlement of the labour troubles which now worry us," and that he did not instance the engineers there as an example.

That the Railless Electric Traction Construction Co. Ltd., which Owns the trollevbus film which is being shown at picture palaces all over the country, denies that it was aware of the Hagley Road anti. tram agitation when this film was recently sent to Birmingham for exhibition. That the Eastern Motor Wagon Co. has many weeks' supplyof coal in hand.

That a horse fell dead last week outside a wellknow ii motor factory—from shock.

That Mr. Willows, the airman, was recently seen in Birmingham d riviin a White petrol lorry.

Of delivery vans rapid enough on the streets but not quick enough out of the shops to satisfy order departments.

That, as we said some months ago there will be big changes on the staff of the General Motor Cal* Co. before long.

That two bonus-earning cabdrivers are respectively known to their intimates as "Long Jim" and "the Galloping Jew."

That the War Office is now distinctly interested in four-ton petrol lorries, as well as those for 30-cwt. and three-ton loads.

That motor-boat licences are granted at Eastbourne, subject to the motorbus engineer's certifying the boats to be seaworthy.

That a County Court witness said that the only way he could tell if a horse was lame w-as to watch if he wagged his head.

That the special haulage business on account of the coal strike is largely confined to requests for assistance on account of stage fright."

That quite a number of British makers still appears to be in the dark about War-office requirements, and that very few outsiders know why.

That telephones are being fitted to telephone poles in Pittsburg for the purpose of calling taxis, and that over there they think it's quite a new dodge.

That the Associated Omnibus Co.'s new motorbus programme is well in hand, and that many bodies are already under construction at Kentish Town.

That whilst some gas engines may show the same heat efficiency as Diesel engines they cannot use the same low-grade fuels for which the latter evince a consuming appreciation.

That notwithstanding the extensive facilities of the L.G.O.C. coachbuilding department, new motorbus bodies are being built for this company by contract at Peckham. Westminster and Loughborough.

That at a recent Daimler ploughing demonstration in Cambridge, one of the onlookers was an old gentleman of over ninety years of age, who, it was computed, had consumed in his lifetime something in excess of 160 tons of beer.

That on some of the London tubes, the staircase alternatives to the lifts have been closed "because of the coal strike," but that there is at present no intention of putting the automatic ticket machines out. of service for the same reason.

That. amongst the reasons why it is difficult to extend commercial-motor transport in Mexico City are the facts that the native peons receive less than Is. a day in wages, regularly carry three cwt. of load at a crack, and do this upon repeated trips each day.


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