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Another Lancashire. Company.
Motor Haulage Co., Ltd., with an authorized capital of £3000 in 11 shares, by Jordan and Sons, Ltd., to carry on public motor services in Bolton and elsewhere. First. managing directors : J. Leigh and J. Kershaw.
,Keep the Prospective Buyer Informed.
C. F. Wells, Ltd., the London agent for the Pagefield two-tonner, has adopted a very smart device for advertising this vehicle. During the busy hours of the day, the truck runs along the principal thoroughfares in London, bearing a placard which says : " This is the Pagefield two-tonner."
Blundell's Thornycroft.
Our second "Goods Transport" page of last week had upon it an illustration of a Thornycroft vehicle about which its owners state that they would not " on any consideration go back to horses." In another letter, dated the 11th April last, addressed by these owners to John 1. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., they add: "We are so delighted at the performances of the vehicle, that you may use our name at any time—particularly with members of our own trade."
Messrs. Blundell, we may recall, are large grocery, provision and tea dealers. In a direct letter to this journal, dated the 13th ult., they proceed : "Our average, load is 11 ton on the outward trip, and the lorry sometimes returns empty. At other times, it collects a full back load. The outward loads vary from four to six per day, and the Lorry works six days per week. During the first two or three weeks or August last, the machine did 12 hours running per day without a stim, and it was a revelation to us after our experiences with horses. We reckon the advertisement of -the van is worth 150 a year to us."
Bernas in Australia.
We have received some interesting reports in regard to the performance of Berna five-ton wagons in Australia. These trials were arranged by Messrs. Renowden, Archbold and Co., of Bourke Street, Melbourne, and they again demonstrate the low fuel consumption of the Berna system.
Some of the tests were canied out before members of the Melbourne City Council, and included the steepest hills in the city. Later, souse of the principal members of the Master Carriers' Association of Melbourne observed certain of the tests, and particularly those over badly-paved thoroughfares.
With a net load in excess of five tons, one of the tests showed a consumption performance of fully 73 ton-miles to the gallon of petrol, whilst another test came out even better than that. Comments in the principal Melbourne papers deal in very high terms of praise with the work done the Berna Co. and its local agents should reap the benefit of these demonstrations.
Forwarding Milk by Motor at Lee us.
About 20 farmers in the Yeadon district have recently held a meeting to consider the advisability of conveying milk from their farms at Yeadon to Leeds by means of motor delivery vans. The farmers were rather surprised to know that the cost of running a motor vehicle fully loaded is very little different to the cost of running it empty. As an illustration of what motorvans can do. it was pointed out that for the last three years a mail-van in the district has covered 60 miles a day, which, in addition to relief work at night, makes a total of 800 to 900 miles per week, and in the three years that the van has been in service only one train has been missed. The farmers were favourably impressed with the possibilities of such a service, and it seems likely that in the near future some co-operative motor delivery scheme will be inaugurated which will collect the milk from the various farms and deliver it at Leeds.