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A f. 1-• RED HERBERT, LIMIT ED —The specialities of this company are labour-saving tools for the economic production of motors and transmission gear. A " No. 2" patent turret lathe, for making camshafts, valves, bolts, etc., from the bar, was shown in operation. A combination turret lathe, with patent chas
ing saddle, for machining fly-wheels, gear blanks, brake-drums, cylinders, etc., was another well-made tool, and ether excellent appliances included a vertical milling machine for facing aluminium gear-cases and similar work, and a horizontal milling machine with patent dialfeed motion.
SELIG, SON N E N THAL and CO. (123i. —This firm exhibited machinery and tools for motorcar manufacturers. A selection of Kempsmith's milling machines was to be seen ; also Becker's vertical milling machine, the Gould and Eberhardt gear-cutting machine, and various types of lathes, including a three-spindle lathe, were other items of interest. The remaining exhibits comprised a disc surface grinder, with wireless magnetic work holder, an adjustable two-spindle radial sensitive drilling machine, with chain drive, a portable crane, and an assortment of small tools
such as patent pine-bending tools, patent expanding boring heads, etc.
MORS, LTD. (164).—The most interesting exhibit on This stand was a shooting brake fitted with a 1711.p. engine. The chassis is of the standard type made by this company, and contains no new features. rhe body is art excellent one in natural wood with a canopy top ; all the seats are removeable, and the body can be used for carrying light luggage, and should prove useful for station work. We may remind our readers of the successful
zSh.p. omnibus which competed in the trial organised by the French Automobile Club at the end of last July. The Motor Car Emporium, Ltd., of r, Addison Road North, London, W., has the control of the first 200 omnibus chassis for England.
JOSEPH OWEN (184).—This stand, of great interest to the body builder, had a large show of motorcar bends. Complete sets were to be seen, consisting of front seat, tonneau bends, bucket seats, and front and hind wings in walnut, mahogany, and white wood. Single and double tonneau rails, bucket rails, motor heads, ash and hickory wheel rims, wheel felloes, oak and hickory spokes (dressed and in rough) also found a place here. This company has in stock a splendid selection of seasoned timber, both at London and Liverpool, whilst it has branch yards in other ports.
WILLANS and ROBINSON
One of the most interesting stands in the commercial section was that of the above company. On it were exhibited all kinds. ofvanadium steel parts for motorcar construction, including crank-shafts, solid and hollow axles, blanks for gear-wheels, and springs. The use of vanadium .,teel for these parts of the car has many rdvacates among the trade, and much has. been done by Winans and Robinson to. perfect this class of steel. The company showed also single, double, and triplecylinders in iron, bearings in special alloys, and aluminium castings of all varieties for motor work. A full accountof the company's work was included in our issues of the and, gth, and r6th inst.
One of several prominent features in the design of vehicles is the persistence of chain transmission, and it looks as though the division of opinion on this subject would be as extensive as the old discussion on the relative merits of watertube and smoke-tube boilers. There is every reason to gather from the trend of design that manufacturers are finding it desirable to introduce a second reduction of gear, where chain transmission is employed, in order to get over the question of an exceptionally large change-speed gear-box. We may cite the new Straker and Squire model and the James and l3rowne differential shaft as examples of this tendency. In respect of electric ignition, the marked increase in the employment of the low-tension magneto system has to be reported, and there is no question that this method of firing the charge in an internal combustion engine finds greatest favour with users of commercial vehicles.
With the Olympia Show a thing of the past, everybody interested in comercial motors will now be looking forward to the Agricultural Hall Show which is to be held from March 24th to 31st, 1936. This exhibition promises to maintain its lead in this branch of the industry, and we anticipate that a large number of new models will be exhibited. These will include vans, wagons, and omnibuses ; but it is of the last-named type that there will be several entirely new makes on view, and we are advised that several makers intend to be in a position to quote for rapid delivery in large numbers. It is, in fact, reported to us that one of the largest and most highly respected engineering companies in the Tyne district has "on the stocks" a first batch of so omnibus chassis at the present time. Of the well-known commercial motor builders who were not at Olympia, and whose machines are in no way inferior to the best types that were on view last week, we may quote the following :—William Allchin, Limited, Globe Works, Northampton ; Aveling and Porter, Limited, Rochester ; William Foster and Company, Limited, Wellington Foundry, Lincoln ; Messrs. E. S. Hindley and Sons, Bourton, Dorset ; the Lancashire Steam Motor Company, Limited, Leyland, Lancs. ; Mann's Patent Steam Cart and Wagon Company, Limited, Pepper Road Works, Hunslet, I.eeds ; Messrs. Moss and Woodd, Banister Road, Kensal Rise, London ; Parsons Motor Company, Limited, Town Quay, Southampton ; Messrs. James Robertson and Son, Dock Street, Fleetwood, Lancs. ; the St. Pancras Iron Work Company, Limited, 171, St. Pancras Road, N.W. ; Seaham Harbour Engine Works, Seaham Harbour ; and the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Company, Hunslet Lane, Leeds.