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The authority, circulation and influence of this journal rest upon facts.
Mr. Henry Sturmey (pages 308 and 509) touches upon current features in road construction qua motor traffic.
" Culled from Contemporaries," a feature which we include at intervals, is this week (page 520) largely concerned with the taxicab discussions.
A plan to make sure of the petroltax rebate, in respect of a vehicle which is sometimes used for privatehire purposes, is suggested in our Answer to Query No. 1,676 (page 519).
Southern Patagonia is one of the countries throughout which our " Dominion and Overseas " issue of December next will spread up-to-date information. See pages 505-507.
Tilling's Motors.
Its success in motor-mail work has rendered necessary several important extensions of the motor department, under the charge of Mr. Percy Frost Smith. of Thos. Tilling, Ltd., at Peckham. This company's jobbing branch is also largely motorized now.
Dunlop's Trade.
In order to cope with a steadily-increasing trade, the Dunlop Pneumatic Tyre Co., Ltd., on Tuesday last, the 23rd inst., transferred its Nottingham business to Castle Warehouse, Castle Boulevard, Nottingham, where larger premises now allow bigger stocks to he carried and provide increased facilities for the immediate completion of all orders for tires and the numerous specialities manufactured by the company. The telephone number is continued, as formerly-524; the telegraphic address, " Pneumatic, Nottingham," also remains unaltered.
Rubber-tired Leylands.
Increasing numbers of Lancashireowned Leyland four-ton, five-ton and six-ton steam wagons, quite apart from the same make of petrol fivetonners, are being shod with rubber tires. We illustrate two of the Leyland steamers from the fleet of Messrs. Joseph Orrell and Co., Carriers, of Darwen. Polack tires, supplied by Messrs. Leo Swain and Co., of 237, Deansgate, Manchester, the district managers of the Polack Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd., are
fitted in each case. The advantages include greater speed, reduced mechanical repairs, absence of noise, lessened attention from the police and road authorities, better condition of drivers, and ability to accept urgent orders. The tires are guaranteed for a life of 10,000 miles, but careful usage often yields better results with corresponding benefit to the financial side of the question. The Belfast Board of Guardians is about to purchase a motor ambulance. The clerk is Mr. J. W. Robb.
The Brussels Fire.
The exhibit of Hans Renold, Ltd., of Manchester, whose chain stand at Brussels is in the large machinery hall, was undamaged.
Some New Halleys for Scottish Owners.
A list of some of the recent deliveries from the works of Halley's Industrial Motors, Ltd., which are still running at high pressure, with orders coming in as steadily as ever, is given below. The new extension has now been completed and filled with machinery, and the company is thus in a better position to overtake the verylarge demands which have recently been made on its output capacity. Messrs. Sym, of liroxburn, have just received one of the Halley vehicles, and are fitting it with interchangeable bodies for passengers and goods; during the Lanark aviation week, this machine was kept constantly on the go, with excellent running and financial results. The Scottish Co-operative Wholesale Society, Ltd., has just taken delivery of another Halley three-tonner, and the West .Lothian Motors, who have five of these vehicles already, have just taken delivery of their sixth. A new company has also been formed in Motherwell and district; this company has just received a three-tonner. His Grace the Duke of Buccleuch has placed an order for a special machine with winding gear, and this should be in service very shortly. Messrs. Graham and Morton, of Stirling, have also ordered a threeton chassis, which will be used as a furniture-removal van, and also will be fitted with a tank wagon to carry (ii New Registration.
H. Andrew and Co., Ltd., with an authorized capital of E.8,000 in 21 shares, by Jordan and Sons, Ltd., to carry on the business of motor engineers carried on by H. Andrew and Co., at Atherucum Place, Plymouth. First directors : J. H. Andrew and T. C. Prince.
The Selden Patent in the U.S.A.
The necessity for any importing or manufacturing firms in the U.S.A. to make terms with the Association of Licensed Automobile Manufacturers, whose chief office is at 7. East 42nd Street, New York City, has again been shown by a fresh series of injunctions. These command all of the defendants, as well as their associates, officers and agents, under penalties in case of disobedience, immediately and until the expiration of the Selden patsmt, " to desist from, directly or indirectly, making or causing to be made, using or causing to be used, or offering or advertising for sale or causing to be offered or advertised for sale, or importing or causing to be imported, or selling or causing to be sold to others in any manner, or disposing of in any way within the United States, any road engines, vehicles, automobiles, devices or apparatus containing or embodying or employing any of the inventions described in said letters patent and claimed in the said first, second and fifth claims thereof, or substantial or material parts thereof, or from infringing the said claims of the said letters patent in any way whatsoever."
Both Mr. H. Kerr-Thomas and Mr. Julian A. Halford have drawn attention to this necessity in the pages of former issues of this journal.
Fire-Brigade Matters.
Another county scheme has come to a head. Lanark has bought: two 75 11.p, and one 60 h.p. Dennis engines, with Gwynne-Sargeant turbine pumps, for £2,867; one Halley engine with Mather-and-Platt turbine pump, for £997 15s.; and one Morris (Salford) engine for £1,020.
Motors in Bombay.
Retrogressive people in Bombay have been lodging complaints about the municipal motors in use there, but the Corporation, after investigation, has decided that no action is necessary. One complainant said that a rubber-tired Leyland steamer travelled a particular distance in 10 sec. ; this was found to work out at 190 m.p.h.! The Executive Health Officer reported inter alia : " The steam motors have been running six months, and, considering that the system is new to the inhabitants and that Bombay is a very crowded city, very little inconvenience bits been felt. Owing to the use of these three motors, 150 trips daily of refuse carts drawn by bullocks have been removed from the streets of B Ward, thus reducing the nuisance caused by congestion, the smell, and the dropping of refuse in the streets. The motor wagons pass up Abdul
• Rehman Street as it is the most convenient for all concerned, but are diverted on the return journey. The complainants wish to enjoy the advantages -as tenants and owners of frontages in the busiest thoroughfares, but they must remember that Bombay is a very populous and progressive city. The streets are made for traffic and if owing to the rapid increase of trade and commerce the streets are now not wide enough the remedy is the same as in other cities jri the world, and the great factor in *proving communication and dissipating the lethargic condition of the people is the increase of traffic. With regard to our motors disturbing sleep, the latest trip is made at 8.40 p.m.; it must be remembered that our three motors are only a small element in the noises in the city due to increased traffic, and the same argument will hold good here, as in other cities, that locomotion by electric, petrol and steam motor traffic has come to stay, and that Bombay must be prepared to expand to meet the increased traffic."
What Thornyerofts Have Done Lately.
John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., of Basingstoke, Southampton and London, is busy. Amongst the orders which it has reveived recently are the following : special two-ton lorry for the Barramia Mining iind Exploration, Ltd., intended for use in Egypt, and ineluding many special features this is similar to a special vehicle (ordered previously by the Lena (holdfields. Ltd., for use in Siberia) which is nearing completion ; 20 h.p., 19seated char-a-banes for the Beaumaris and District Alotor Car Co.. Ltd. ; 10 h.p.. :10-cwt. delivery van for Messrs. Walter Hayes and Co.; 30 hop., four-ton chassis for James Keiller aud Sons. Ltd., the svell-known. jam and marmalade manufacturers—a repeat order, as a result of the satisfactory riinning of a vehicle previously supplied ; 10 h.p.. -2,-ton chassis for the Bombay. Ba rod a and Central Indian Railway Company—this has satisfactorily passed all its tests and has been shipped : a number of orders for vehicles for the British Colonies. these orders having been placed as a
result of the satisfactory running ot vehicles previously supplied. ihe company has also received the following orders through Mr. C. Pemberton Voiler, of 2, Park Place, Leeds, its sole agent in the North of England and Ulster 30 h.p., four-ton lorry for the Masbro' Equitable Pioneers Society—a repeat order ; 30
2f-ton lorry for the British Cotton and Wool Dyers Association—a repeat order ; 10 lip. 21-ton lorry for Ssdl-er and Co., Ltd.; 30 h.p., 21-ton lorry for E. Wood head and Sons, Ltd. : 10 lip., n-e■N t. lorry for Martin, Sons and Co., Ltd.--a repeat order ; 30 11.p.. 30-cwt. delivery van for the City of Bradford Co-operative Society—the fifth co-operative society to order vehicles of the latest Thornycroft types; 16 h.p., two-ton chassis for Nlessrs. Pickford. Trown and Co.; 30 h.p., 2f-ton lorry for Parker's Burslem Brewery. Ltd. (through Messrs. the Hanley (Iarage, of Hanley. Staffs., and Mr. .Wooler): 16 h.p., 35-cwt. lorry for Messrs. W. and J. White
head ; 24 two-ton box van for Messrs. the Lanibeg Bleaching, Dyeing and Finishing. Co.::24 h.p.. two ton box van for N. Richardson. Sons and Owden. Ltd.: 30 h.p.. 2!,-ton chassis for Isi7lis an:1 Co., Ltd. h.p., 3:5-cwt. lorry for _Messrs. T. Ambler and Sons.
The latest order is for a 10 h.p.. 30cwt. box VIM. fr0111 Holbrooks. Ltd.. the well-known sa; II CC mannfaeturers.
More Steam Wagons.
Aveling-and-Porter steam wagons aro being seen about in increasing numbers, though not many are yet in London. In connection with the Rochester products, the accompanying photograph may interest readers; it shows one of the steam wagons of the above make which is owned by the Metropolitan Water Board. It is a sturdy-looking vehicle, and is kept in excellent mechanical and ornamental condition. It usually does about 35 miles a day, and deals with eight tons at a time. Some of its loads, although not bulky, are very varied ; they range between keg and barrel goods and oompo.-piping. The vehicle was " caught " while making a morning's run from Nine Elms to Surbiton. Drummond Lathes.
From the 1st to 20th prox., at. Olympia, on the occasion of the Engineering and Naval Exhibition, Drummond Bros., Ltd., of Guildford, will show : one 4 in. precision, special, inventor's model-making lathe; one 3.1 in. screw-cutting lathe for power, designed for light motor running relairs one 3!, in. ditto, with foot motion, as supplied to H.M. ships "Exe," "Test.' "Saracen," "Swift" and " Crusader " ; one 5 in. self-acting, surfacing, sliding, boring and screw-cutting lathe (special design as supplied to his late Majesty King Edward VII); one 6 in. workman's screw-cutting lathe with raising blocks, as supplied to R.M.S. of the Wilson Line; one new-design small radial drilling machine, fitted with power and foot drive, capable of drilling by foot power to 1 in. holes; one universal grinding machine, capable of foot drive, for repair work, as supplied to H.M.S. "Destroyer," Portsmouth ; one hand-lever, bench, shaping machine; one new-design " DrummondBarreto " patent heavy universal screw-cutting, turning, boring, drilling, milling and gear-cutting machine, designed specially for ship repairwork ; one 9 in. high-speed S.S.S. and boring, gap-bed lathe. The stand will he of much interest.