Notes Concerning Packing and Shipping for Export.
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With a Table Giving Average Data for Typical Models.
Those who are contemplating the purchase of one or more of the many types of commercial motors which. are now available for users, and the majority of which are mentioned in the course of the present comprehensive issue, must, of necessity, endeavour to gam some idea with regard to the cost of packing and shipping at the port of origin, and of freightage to their own country. It is quite true that it is not safe to entrust the packing of heavy machinery, of the class to which the ordinary commercial vehicle belongs, to the care of the common or garden carpenter. Cases for shipping purposes must obviously be made of a minimum size, in order to save cubic measurement, and yet the dimensions must not be cut down to the detriment of security. It must be remembered that in the course of shipping operations such a case frequently has to be tilted on end and occasionally to be turned on its side. Cases must, therefore, be made with a view to such unusual treatment being meted out on occasion. It is usual in the case of commercial vehicles to dismantle them as far as possible, in order that the cubic contents of the package may be brought down to reasonable dimensions. We cannot too strongly urge readers to insist thnt packing of this kindbe entrusted only to people who are accustomed td this class of work.
In the course of the many individual notices which appear in the various sections of the present issue, it would only lead to confusion were we to attempt to catalogue the shipping sizes and weights of the almost innumerable models which Are included in the collective outputs of the various makers nowadays. We have, therefore, thought it 'to be a more practicOils. course to adopt to compile a short table giving the average dimensions and weights of the principal types of machines without reference to their origin, and to include some indication of the cost of putting these models, packed, on board ship. This table appears in the opposite column. With regard to actual freightage, we shall make no
attempt to quote these for all the various ports to which readers of this special issue may require deliveries to be made : we have not sufficient space at our disposal. Local shipping agents are as a rule quite well able, and indeed willing, to afford information of this nature, and regulations with regardto import. duties are, of course, well known in the respec tive countries.
For the information of buying houses in the home country, we make the intimation that we shall lee happy at any time to furnish them with freightage rates to and with particulars of import duties into thri
principal countries of the for commercial motors, on application.