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This journal fosters, represents, and chronicles commercial motoring in all its branches; it is recognised and supported by Users, operating engineers, and the motor industry at large.
A subscriber to this journal advises us that the engineer of a large Argentine carrying company will arrive in London, early in the New Year, with the intention of placift orders for some 15o comrneecial motors.
These ..nicl,s will be required for loads ranging from three tons to five tons, and British manufacturers who quote will do so in competition with Continental builders. We feel confident that our British makers will be able to satisfy the intending purchasers that they merit a large share, if not the whole, of the order, owing to their greater experience in heavy work.
Brooke Motors (London), Limited, has been registered, with an authorised capital of 1,;18,000 in 4-1 shares, to acquire the sole London agency for motor vehicles, including omnibuses, and boats, manufactured by T. W. Brooke and Company, Limited, of Lowestoft. There will be no initial public issue.
The Motor Union has voted the sum of 20 guineas to the Motor Van, Wagon, and Omnibus Users' Association, for the purpose of testing the legality of certain notices which have been placed upon a large number of bridges, in Cambridgeshire, by the Great Eastern Railway Company. This money will be applied to action to be taken in concert with other active bodies whicti are opposing the restrictions in question.
Mr. 1VaIter Runciman, M.P., in replying, at the Motor Union dinner last week, to the toast of the "Public Audiorides of the United Kingdom," stated that it was not the intention of the Government to adopt horse-power as the basis of taxation. Sir Edward Henry, Chief Commissioner of Police for the Metropolis, remarked that he would welcome any suggestions which would assist him to deal with the difficult situation arising from the definition and measurement of undue noise. He was now in consultation with Lord Rayleigh and others on the subject. We comment upon the new police regulations elsewhere in this issue.
Carter, Paterson, and Company, Limited, has instructed the Valor Company, Limited, of 9, Bush Lane, Cannon Street, E.G., to supply a number of" New Era " petrol fire extinguishers of the " No. 03 " bus type standard pattern, for use on its motorvans.
Messrs. Sander.son and Sanderson, of Percy Street, Newcastle-on-Tyne, are doing excellent business with their local agency for the New Arrol-Johnson Car Company, Limited, and no less than eight of the new a-ton type of lorry, as illustrated on this page, have recently been delivered to various customers in the neighbourhoo4 of the Tyne city. We hope to be able to deal further with Messrs. Sanderson's sales in an early issue. Our second Olympia report begins on page 243 of this issue; accessory, component, stores, and tiro exhibits are described.
A considerable increase of heavy motor traffic between Walsall and Wolverhampton is reported.
The War Office has placed a further order for Royal Sirdar Buffer tires with the Sirdar Rubber Company, Limited, of 34, Baker Street, W.
Argylls (Liverpool), Limited, has been floated by Mr. H. James Hamilton, and has acquired the well-equipped garage and premises of the Road Carrying Company, Limited, in Hardman Street.
Brown Brothers, Limited, desires to notify its many customers that its new telephone numbers are 3,700 to 3,704, all on the London Wall exchange, and that it hopes the five lines will be found sufficient for the needs of its business, James and Browne, Limited, of I lammersmith, in advising us, officially, of its new arrangement to dispose of its output to the Lacre Motorcar Company, Limited, adds : " We are pleased to inform you that we have a very high opinion of the value of your paper as an advertising medium, and can trace many valuable enquiries and orders to its source."
Pickford's, Limited, of 57, Gresham Street, London, E.C., has made preparations to undertake the cartage, carriage, or freight of motorcars, machinery, accessories, elc., to any part of the United Kingdom, or abroad, at the conclusion of the present show. The company's telegraphic address is " Pickford," London, and its telephone numbers 3,143 to 3,146, London Wall.
Having recently laid down a very complete plant for gear cutting of every description, the Lancashire Steam Motor Company, Limited, of Leyland, is in a position, until the contemplated extension of its machine shop is carried out, to undertake gear cutting for the trade. The company's equipment for cutting spur, bevel, worm, and skew gears is of the very best, and we believe its prices to be most reasonable.
The competing vehicles in the French military trials of heavy vans, which are to extend from the Igth of this month to the 5th of December, disclose no novelties, although the records may possess some factors of interest, when the trials are over. We illustrate the start from Paris.
The Birmingham Small Arms and Metal Company, Limited, the Gloucester Railway Carriage and Wagon Company, Limited, Muinners, Limited, of Birmingham, and the New Engine Company, Limited, of London, have been recently elected to membership of the British Empire Motor Trades Alliance, of Red Lion Square, W.C.
America was second; now France comes along. Journals devoted exclusively to commercial motors have appeared in connection with the 44 POidS lourds," as the French term them. We wish them good fortune in their efforts to further the application and scope of Lime utility vehicle. M. Pierre Souvesire, of I, Rue Tardieu, Paris, is at the helm of the new monthly—" Le Poids Lourd," which promises well, but we doubt if there are the same openings for trade motors in France.
" The Draper," "The Drapers' Record," and other trade journals have made copious quotations from our first great van number, which was published on October tSth. This issue appears to have attracted more than usual notice, and our latest request for copies comes from Agra, India. Messrs. Pooran, Chund and Company, contractors, and Messrs. Pestonjee and Company, motor agents, both of that city, will accordingly receive copies in course of mail. Messrs. Barford and Perkins, of Queen Street Iron Works, Peterborough, continue to deliver their excellent water-ballast rollers to various parts of the United Kingdom. These machines, which are manufactured in eight sizes, are found particularly handy for cricket grounds and public parks, owing to the simplicity of their construction, their low cost in operation, and the ease with which the weight of the roller can be varied. Lord's cricket ground has, without doubt, benefited very much from the services rendered by the M.C.C. roller of the Barford and Perkins make, and the satisfactory results already obtained should become more marked as the improvement in the condition of the pitch becomes more thoroughly appreciated by the committee of the club, and other cricketers. The rollers are adapted for work on all classes of surfaces; street work is equally well done as is that which arises on macadam, estate roads, racecourses, golf links, paths, cricket pitches, or elsewhere, One of the latest deliveries is to the Jockey Club at Newmarket, where the roller is wanted to add to the attractions of that famous racecourse and training grounds.
The Lancashire Steam Motor Cornpuny, Limited, has just shipped one wagon on account of an indent for three to the order of its agents, Messrs. Graberg and Company, of Monte Video. TheseLeyland wagons have been sold to building contractors in that city, and have been specially strengthened for colonial service. They are, otherwise, of the company's standard tip-wagon pattern. Another order recently given to the Lancashire Steam Motor Company, Limited, is from Kodak, Limited, of Ilford, who have purchased two 3-ton indiarubber-tired petrol vans.