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Our numerous subscribers and other readers along the routes for the forthcoming R.A.C. Trials will be interested to !earn that we have concluded arrangements for a travelling office. This will be established upon a powerful double-deck motorbus (frlilnes-Daimler chassis), and the Editor hopes that many readers will visit the vehicle en route. This staff bureau will be at the service of all who may desire information in connection with the participating vehicles, the course of the tests, or any other germane subject. Fuller details will be announced later.
John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., has now transferred the entire sale of its commercial and public-service vehicles to its Sales Department at 2, Albemarle Street, W.
"Little Hercules" Sales.
We learn that Mr. A. E. Jackson, who was formerly with Wallis and Steevens, Limited, of Basingstoke, has taken over the post of representative in the South and West ef England for Clayton and Shuttleworth, Ltd.. of Lincoln, in respect of tractors. We wish him every success.
Two Australian Enquiries.
We received a visit, towards the end of last week, from a representative of The Tarrant Motor and Engineering Co., of 104-112, Russell Street, Melbourne, and we were interested to receive his personal assurance upon the prospects of business out there, his remarks thoroughly confirming the views of Mr. Roslington, which were contained in our last issue. Again, Mr. R. P. M. Manning, Consulting En
gincer and Contractor, of 151, Cashel Street, Christchurch, New Zealand, a subscriber to this journal, has addressed an enquiry to us on the subject of motorcabs, these two. 'instances of activity in the Antipodes, and the fact of their following so closely upon one another, going further to prove how widely " TEIE COMMERCIAL. MOTOR " gets about.
A Review.
Amongst recent technical publications from the offices of Charles Griffin and Company, Limited, of Exeter Street, Strand, is " A Manual of Petrol Motors and Motor Cars," by F. Strickland. The text is well written, and contains matter of much interest. All the principal components of a vehicle are discussed, and the points which govern their design are set out clearly and plainly. The numerous illustrations are adequate and well prepared. Chapter XIX is of especial interest, as it deals with the choice of metals for varying purposes, and the subject of fatigue, as well as the
design of, and some of the calculations necessary for, both leading and driving axles. The price of the book is !Ss. nett, and it may be ordered through the office of this journal.
"Sinking In."
One of Tilling's Milnes-Daimler motor mail vans sank into a soft place on the road, near Burgess Hill, last Saturday, and there was a considerable delay over its extrication. We cannot enlarge too much upon the importance of carrying an arnple supply of jacks, packing, and other suitable tackle in connection with the conduct of such road services. We have, in fact, known cases where the engineers in charge of road-carrying undertakings have laid down boxes containing large Wood-Haley jacks, blocks, planks, wrought-iron plates, and other gear, all suitably protected in a box, and have deposited complete units of this kind, at intervals of lo miles or less, along the whole of the road, in order that no driver should at any time be at the mercy of such " soft spots."