WHEELS OF INDUSTRY.
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"The wheels of wealth will be slowed by all difflcultios of transport at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it runs."—John Beattie Crozier.
Reduced Taxation for Steam Wagons.
• Coincident with the formation of the • Steam Transport Association, to which reference itt made elsewhere in this issue, we learn that the Mining Association is combining forces with steam wagon manufacturers in an endeavour to obtain some, alleviation of the heavy burden of taxation which steam wagons have to bear.
It is intended, we understand, to approach Mr. Winston Churchill, and to bring to his attentionthe fact that steam wagons are helping the mining industry by consuming coal at the rate of a million tons a year. It is to be represented to him that the 12,000 steam wagons and tractors in this country are keeping 3,000 miners employed, and that any encouragement which users of steam wagons may secure in the way of relief of taxation must inevitably react to the benefit of the miners, inasmuch as every three or four additional steam wagons find work for another mm r.
As one of the primary objects of the new association is to endeavour to obtain some relief of taxation, it may well be that the continued energies of the three bodies—coal owner, vehicle maker, and vehicle user—will have the desired effect.
One-way Traffic in the City.
We understand that the one-way system of traffic contemplated for the centre of the City will not be introduced until next March. This is in "accordance with the desire of the City Corporation and is necessitated by certain structural alterations that are to be carried •out. • The one-way streets will be Queen Victoria Street (between Mansion House Station and Mansion House Street), Cannon Street (between Mansion House Station and Queen Street), Queen Street (between Cannon Street and Cheapside) and Cheapside and Poultry (between Mansion House Street and Queen Street).
Foden Works Band at the Show.
The music provided throughout the Commercial. Motor Show by the Foden Works Band was very much enjoyed. We believe that at first the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders did not intend to have any music at all. rids would have been a great mistake, and we are glad -Quit wiser counsels prevailed. The Foden Works Band programme was varied and in every way delightful, and it was a pleasure to halt and listen to it, the coaches and buses on show making excellent "rest saloons" for the purpose.
Bus Results at Cardiff.
Details of the operation of the Cardiff City Council's bus services in the year ended March 31st last, are now available. The gross income from ell sources amounted to 1106,808, which is equivalent to 13.72d, per bus-mile. Expenditure amounted to £100,552, equal to 12.91d. per bus-mile. The amount carried to the net revenue account was 16,256, to which has been B16
added earnings of 11,286 in excess of sinking fund requirements. The total carried to the net revenue account was thus £7,542, which was insufficient to meet loaa charges of 111,170 on the undertaking and resulted in an excess of expenditure over income of n,628. From the accumulated profits of the undertaking, however. £918 was transferred to the relief of the rates.
Protecting Hauliers Interests.
At a meeting of the Owner Drivers' Protection Association, held one day last week, it was decided that, in future, the Association should be known as the Owner Driver and Small Hauliers Protection Association. Its next meet hug will be held on December 1st, at Rolls Chambers, 89, Chancery Lane, London, W.C.2, at 8 p.m. The Association hopes to obtain the support of all owner drivers and small hauliers, for it proposes to bring pressure to bear upon the Chancellor of the Exchequer, regarding the manner in which the small man is affected by motor taxation.'
A Guy Appointment.
We understand that Mr. Ewart Guy hag now joined Guy Motors, Ltd., after several years connection with •Tom Garner, Ltd., motor agents, of Manchester and Liverpool.
Not on Technical Grounds.
Leeds Watch Committee has notified Mews. °reeves, Atter and Beaumont, solicitors, that it will raise no objection on technie.al grounds to an appeal being made by them to the Ministry of Transport with respect to the committee's refusal to grant permission for the Yorkshire (Woollen District) Electric Tramways, Ltd., to augment its bus service between Huddersfield and Leeds.
Prices of Commercial Motors.
In our issue for November 15th we published the tables of specifications of commercial motor vehicles, and we have issued gratis many thousand copies of a pocket-size edition. Alterations of prices and other amendments of the particulars given occur from time to time, and we propose to publish them in one of our news pages, and (so that they may be readily found) always at the foot of a column. The alterations we have to record this week are as follow :—Guy Add to pass.inger vehicles 61-seater trolley-bus (six-wheeler), 16 ft. 44 ins. wheelbase ; price not stated. Star : Alteration of prices, 30-cwt. goods vehicle, £360; 20-seater passenger vehicle, 1595.
The latest Fiat chassis prices are given on page 542.