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This journal is extensively read by the heads of many wealthy commercial houses.
Everybody who is interested in the arrangements for next Monday's great mototvan Parade is recommended to peruse the summary of information which we publish on pages :307-309.
Our leading articles this 'creek deal with the following topical subjects: (1) " The Undue Use of the
Hooter;" " The Cost of Contingent Alcohol ;" (3) " Bridge Lan : A Splendid Win ; " and (4) " L.C.C. and Paris Practice."
Roads in Wilts.
The Wilts County Council, following representations that were made to it. by the Commercial Motor Users A.ssociation at a conferenee which took place in February Last, has decided to withdraw its application to the Local Government Board for an order prohibiting the passage of heavy motor vehicles upon Frying Pan Hill, Bradford-on-Avon.
Examining the Subsidy Vehicles.
The closing stages of the Subsidy trials consisted of the mileage put in by the Maudslay and the Arsenal wagons in order to bring up the totals to 1706, similarly to the other four competitors. The final examination was a very thorough one, and after the machines had been cleaned, the following parts were opened up on each vontestant: the rear pair of cylinders was taken off the engine ; one connecting rod, piston and gudgeon pin was removed ; the bottom half of the crankcase was dropped and one main bearing cap was removed; the clutch was removed to expose the leather, and both journal .and thrust bearings stripped ; the gearbox cover was removed, and the front half of the main shaft was taken down in order to expose the :,spigot bearing ; the universal mint both between clutch and gearbox, and also that between gearbox and axle, were entirely dismantled; all the working parts of the back axle were removed1 including axle shafts and wheel driving dogs ; one each ef the front and rear 'road wheels were taken off ; steering-gear details wire examined.
It \vas interesting to learn at the 2onclusion of the trials of the intperutng transference of Captain A. E Davidson, who is shortly proceeding to Ireland, and that the new secretary of the Mechanical Transport Committee will be Captain I. M. Hutchinson.
Current Bath and West Show,
1st June C.M.U.A. Parade.
24th „Mee to Rubber Exhibition, at the Agri5th July. 1 cultural Hall.
1)0tb June to 4th July. j R.A.S.E. Show as Shrewsbury, Paraffin Motor Test by the Auto. let Oct. 1 mobile Club of Prance. (Entriea close finally Let July.) We observe that the British, Automobile Traction Co., Ltd., of 1, Kingsway, WC., is the new contractor for the conveyance of mails between London and Cambridge by road.
At Bombay Docks.
It is officially announced that. the Bombay Port Trust will in future give gicater facilities in respect of access to the Alexandra Dock, wl turves and transit, sheds, for heavy motor vehicles. The "Bombay. Government Gazette,". in its noliec on the subject, which restricts speeds to a maximum of 10 m.p.h.., and requires that no motor vehicle shall under any circumstances he left unattended, or with the Lap connecting the petrol tank and vurburetter open, incidentally states that any " motor vehicle in which petrol or other liquid fuel is used for infernal (sic) combustion shall be fitted with electrical ignition only, and the recharging of petrol or other fluid shall not be dom. in the dock." It 'would cer
tainly be an infernal vehicle, were it possible to recharge its petrol " in the dock."
By an oversight, the authorized capital of Stuart A. Curzon (Russia), Ltd., was last week printed in this journal as £5000. This should have been 250,000.
The surveyor for the North-Midland district, G.P.O., Leicester, is asking tenders for the performance of the mail service between Northampton and Hitchin by motorvan, as front 12th November next. The maximum load will be 2 0 cwt. of mails, and the distance is 39 miles each way, The contract will be for a term of throe years, and the latest date for posting tenders is Monday next, 1st June.
Miners Co-operative Purchase.
The miners employed at the Allerton Bywater Collieries of the New Silkstone and Haigh Moor Co., Ltd., at Castleford, York:shire, have just set an excellent example by purchasing a motor ambulance on their own account. The company met the men's representatives and offered to share the cost, but the offer was respectfully declined, the men expressing the opinion that they preferred to pay for the (-hide themselves.
News and Comment—con, The Nottingham Brewery Co.
The Nottingham Brewery Co., Ltd., has placed a further repeat order for a 32 h.p. three-ton Albion lorry.
Petters, Ltd.
The directors of Petters, Ltd., have issued their fourth annual report and accounts. These show a net profit of £19,022 for the year ended 31st March last. The preference shares receive their full dividend at the rate of six per cent.. per annum, and a dividend on the ordinary shares at the rate of tO per cent. per annum, free of income tax, is recommended. After transferring 28000 to reserve, there remains a sum of 26299 to be car ried forward.
Wm. Foster and Co., Ltd.
The 25th annual general meeting of the shareholders of Wm, Foster and Co., Ltd.,of Lincoln,was held on the 21st inst., under the chairmanship of Mr. C. W. Pennell. The chairman in his speech remarked that the liquid assets of the company now exceeded the total liabilities by no less than £68,557 The available balance for the year was £7296, of which it was intended to carry forward 24376. The adoption of the report was seconded by Mr. W. A. Tritton, the secretary and managing director of the company, and carried unanimously. Mr. E. W. Whattain was elected a new member of the board.
Commercars in South Australia.
Mr. W. Crowle, of Eyes and Crowle, Ltd., Adelaide, S.A. has written to Commercial Cars, Ltd., in the following terms :—" have just returned to Adelaide after an enjoyable and instructive trip through China, Japan, and the Philippines, and I just wish to thank you for your attention to ine, together with your officers, at your Luton works, while in England. Although I have only hen back in Adelaide a few days, I have already had conversations with several owners of Commercars, and they are very well satisfied with the general performances of their lorries while I have been abroad ; in fact, very few complaints are forthcoming. Mr. T. G. Ellery, the General Manager of the Metropolitan Abattoirs Board, advises me that the whole fleet of twenty seven-boners, which they are running as you know, has been giving them every satisfactioo. This, I think, considering the hard work this fleet is called upon to do, does great credit to the design, quality, material and work. manship of these machines. A great amount of credit in this connection is due to Mr. Martin, who is foreman of the motor garage, and has charge of all the trucks at me Abattoirs' own workshop. To see
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and hear these lorries working they seem to be in as aood order as when first put into commission. This fleet of twenty seven-tonners is used by the Metropolitan Abattoirs Board for the distribution of meat throughout the whole of Melaide and the district. The slaugh ter-houses are -under the control of this particular Board, and the whole of the meat is delivered by these motor vehicles." We have both mentioned and illustrated this big fleet on several earlier occasions. It continues to grow, and to do well.