Correspondence.
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The Editor invites correspondence on all subjects connected with the use of commercial motors. Letters should be on r.ne side of the paper only, and type-written by preferenc... The right of abbreviation is reserved, and no responsibility for the vices expressed is accepted.
Animal Power or Motor?
The Editor, '` Tim COMMERCIAL MOTOR."
Sir :—In view of the question of street congestion, I enclose a small photo which I took on Westminster Bridge. It shows a portable engine being drawn by seven horstee and there was also another horse and wagon carrying the funnel and sundry other parts. Surely, it could have been done much more quickly and cheaply with a tractor, and would not have taken up nearly as much room, As a matter of fact, it seemed totally to disorganise the traffic wherever it
went.—Yours obediently, H. IV. MAsoN. London.
Motor Depot Management.
The Editor, " THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR."
Sir :—I was greatly intertsted in the article entitled " Motor Depot Management," which appeared in your issue of last week, and was glad to see how far Lico could be made to go in the equipment of such a depdt. It appears to me, as an owner of motor vehicles, that much money would have been saved had an article of this character appeared at an earlier date. I do not overlook the excellent series which was published in one of your earliest volumes, or the hints which you gave in your motorcab issue, but all of those were on a much more ambitious scale. It is gratifying, now, to realise that one can take in hand the majority
of running repairs, including periodic overhauls, withc laying out appreciably more than the sum which you ha
indicated.—Yours faithfully, " ECONOMY. ' 26th October, 1908.
Wellington (N.Z.) Wants Electric rire-engines. The Editor, "Tun COMMERCIAL MOTOR."
Sir :—Referring to an article appearing in your journal the Mth July last, with respect to London's electric taxical I have to state that the Wellington City Council are present considering the question of increasing the numb of their fire-engines, and that it has been suggested th possibly electric motors may bc in a sufficiently advanc state to make them available for propelling fire appliance:
I have written to the Electromobile Company, askii them for information on the subject, and I shall be glad you will be good enough to inform me of the names of a companies from whom I can obtain information on I matter,
Thanking you in anticipation, I am, Sir, Your obedient servant,
Town Hall, JNo. R. PALMER, Town Clerk. Wellington, New Zealand, tour correspondent will, by now, have seen our further articles, and p ticularly that of the 14th ultimo, entitled " Good-bye to the Steam [FL
engine."—Eo.