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The Etceteras that Matter.
ENV features of the great automobile exhibitions of the year which has just closed have been more striking than the phenomenal growth of the many industries that are closely allied with that which is responsible for the huge production of complete machines of all kinds. The maker of accessories, the constructor of components, 65 and the supplier of raw material, each one in his own particular sphere,
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has risen, in remarkable fashion during the past year or two, to the possibilities of the many extensive branches of this great industry.
The exhibitions to which we refer have beets primarily concerned, of course, with the pleasure ear and its thousand and one subsidiaries. The pleasure car per se seems to call for the use of a host of what perhaps may be classed as" frills and furbelows." The man who owns a pleasure car, if he can afford it, loves to lavish trifles on his hobby; 63 hence, a host of what, from our own industrial point of view, appear to be unnecessary accessories, or unwarranted luxuries are seen.
The commercial vehicle seldom requires a mascot; the agrimotor has little use for detachable wheels; foot muffs are a comfort which is denied to the crew of a motor fire-engine ; whilst flower vases and holdalls are distinctly out of place on a steam wagon.
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63 6,4 Iii 67 The commercial branch of the motor industry, nevertheless, has called into being a large number of purely utilitarian accessories, of additional fittings and specialities which haulage requirements have necessitated. The garage and its equipment is an important factor to the owner of a fleet of vans, so that machine tools of the simpler kind 66 and portable plant of a suitable nature are of particular interest to the 6.5 commercial-motor owner.
67 In many cases, manufacturers of accessories, who have built up vast businesses in connection with supplies for the pleasure-car owner, are now turning their specialized attention to the requirements of the business vehicle. This is as it should be, for the employment in con 63 nection with industrial machines of many accessories and components 117 which have achieved a deserved reputation in the lighter side of the industry is likely to be as disastrous as is invariably the attempt to use a converted obsolete pleasure-car chassis for industrial purposes, to employ it in a way which was never intended, and in which it could never, under any circumstances whatever, reoader economical and reliable service. To components, accessories, and supplies much the same tale applies.
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THE EDITOR.