The Wheels of Industry.
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This journal, dealing as it does with the "Chariots of War," no less than with the "Wheels of Industry," is now of national importance. Its interests embrace impartially the transport wagon and the parcelcar, the steam wagon and the ambulance.
!Congratulations to Mr. S. D. Begbie, of the Aster Works at Wembley, upon the fact that the winning Green (L5000 Government prize for aviation) engines are built at his works.
Campaign Comforts.
We hope all our readers will carefully read pages 151 and 156-157 of this issue. We have accepted the dirty of organizing a "Campaign Comforts" Fund as part of our policy of working to keep the wheels of industry turning. It will be a bad day for commercial users at large, when the war is over and matters again become normal, if drivers, their mates and mechanics are not sustained at the Front against the day when they will be wanted at home in large numbers. The fund can be strengthened by gifts in cash or kind.
Proposals and Purchases.
Glasgow Electricity Committee has ordered three Edison battery vehicles.
The London County Council has ordered two petrol-electric chassis, at 2762 each, from W. A. Stevens, Ltd., to carry Magirus turntable escape ladders.
Westminster City Council, notwithstanding its decision not to replace impressed vehicles forthwith, is asking tenders for any number of such vehicles up to 12. Particulars may be obtained from the Town Clerk, and tenders must be lodged by not later than 9.30 a.m. on the 4th nrox.
Tottenham U.D.C. is asking tenders for a petrol motor ambulance. General conditions and form of tender can be obtained from Mr. W. H. Prescott, M.Inst.C.F., at the Town Hall, Tottenham, and sealed tenders, each accompanied by a deposit of 25, must be lodged by not later than noon of the 3rd prox.
The L.C.C. is making extra provision for the accommodation of motor lorries, at Poplar and Kentish Town.
Woolwich Borough Council has bought a five-ton Foclen, and the purchase price will be paid out of money received from the. Government for impressed horses.
Twickenham U.D.C. has accepted the tender of Dennis Bros. (1913), Ltd., at £1125. for the supply of a netrol motor fire-engine, complete with 450-gallon pump, 50-ft. fireescape, and first-aid equipment. Lambeth Borough Council is buying a 15 h.p. Albion motor disinfecting van, at £512.
Stoke-on-Trent hag deferred the purchase of a motor fire-engine.
B22 We learn that no fewer than 400 motor lorries were shipped from New York on the 12th inst., to meet "
allied" requirements. Britain and the Continent are largely interested, to say nothing of the American manufacturers who sold the vehicles. Packard, PierceArrow and White machines appear to predOminate, and they are all intended for military mechanical transpo t. They were shipped aboard the s.s. " Suruga," under the British flag. It is currently reported in .New York that fully 2000 sister vehicles are still on order for the same buyers. As we pointed out a fortnight ago, these vehicles may be contraband, but it is up to Germany to catch them if they can.
We give on page 161 an illustration, of a Pierce-Arrow five-Wnner carrying a crated two-tonner of the same make, which shows examples of the productions of one of America's best commercial-motor factories, and one for which an old member of the British industry, Mr. H. Kerr Thomas, is so largely responsible on the works side.
Watering in Lancashire.
'Owners and drivers of steam wagons and tractors should irnniediately pay heed to a new by-law of the Lancashire County Council. This new regulation, under Section 1 of the 1896 Act, reads :— "A person in charge of a heavy motorcar (i.e., a motorcar exceeding two tons in weight unladen), shall not cause or suffer the heavy motorcar to remain stationary on any highway so that any wheel of the heavy motorcar rests on any bridge, arch, or culvert, or within 10 ft. from the face of the abutment of any bridge, arch or culvert.
"Provided that this prohibition shall not be deemed to apply in any case—(a) where, in pursuance of the statutory provision in that behalf, a heavy motorcar may be required to be instantly stopped ; or (b) where the stopping of a heavy motorcar may be rendered necessary by accident or other unavoidable cause." 801ne4400 hands are in ordinary times employed at the St. Nicholas Works, Thetford, of Chas. Burrell and Sons, Ltd. The fact that 107 of the company's mei) have joined the Colours indicates a high response. One of the directors, Capt. C. W. W. Burrell, is serving, and the men who are left at the works subscribe 211 per cent, of their wages weekly to a fund for the benefit of the dependents of those who are away. It is interesting to find that in Sir John French's last despatch two old Burrell pupils, Captains Beanie and Pery-KnoxGore, both of the A.S.C., were mentioned.
A Karrier and a 15—pounder.
The photographs which we reproduce herewith are of a 40 h.p. 31-ton Ka.rriar wagon hauling a 15-pounder gun. They were sent to us by Captain Lister, of Donnell, Ebden and Co., Port Elizabeth and Cape Town, the Karrier African agents. The Normanton and District Joint Isolation Hospital Committee is advertising for a motor ambulance " consisting of a standard Ford chassis," the ambulance body to be fitted with sliding stretcher on one side and a seat opposite.
From Palmer's Green L.G.O.C. A correspondent informs us that
the employees of the L.G.O.C. garage at Palmer's Green sent a wreath to the headquarters of the Navy League, to be placed on Nelson's Column on Trafalgar Day, and this was acknowledged by the Executive Committee in suitable terms. The floral emblem took the form of a beautiful anchor.
We also learn, with regret, that
two of the company's employees at that garage have already given their lives for their country. Con. ductor Pendellbury went down in H.M.S. " Cressy,, and Motor Driver Lan gdridge, who .went to the Front with the 1st Middlesex Regiment, was wounded during the retreat from Mons and has recently succumbed to his injuries. Every employee at this garage is volun
tarily giving a weekly subscription to the company's Mutual Aid Fund_ The New Henley Solid Tire. The Maker's Straightforward Claims.
An influential newcomer to the solid-tire trade is W. T. Henley's Telegraph Works Co., Ltd. We are happy to be able to make some announcement of the company's policy in respect of this new branch. Although the marketing of the Henley tire has only recently commenced, the type has been under test for over two years. They have been run against examples of wellknown established makes.
The company has over 50 years experience of the treatment of rubber at the back of it, and in a communication to us the following passage occurs : "We are confident that there is no reason why British tires should not be supplied equal in every respect to the foreign variety. We have concentrated every endeavour to help make British tires synonymous with best tires, in the same way as other British goods are regarded. We are essentially an all-British firm, and are proud to advertise the faet. We shall also continue to advertise it, but we particularly wish it khown that we seek no orders under the shelter of patriotism, but purely on the merit of our productions, seeing that we claim what we shall be pleased to substantiate, viz., that our tires cannot be excelled by any foreign competitor. We certainly think home industries should be supported."
The company's own vehicles, running daily to and from London, Woolwich and Gravesend, encounter a variety of bad roads, and these journeys have proved exceptionally useful in respect of tlie searching tests to which the tires in question have been put.