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A Handsome Brougham for Commercial Travellers.

10th April 1923, Page 16
10th April 1923
Page 16
Page 16, 10th April 1923 — A Handsome Brougham for Commercial Travellers.
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THE COMMERCIAL traveller, who was at one time content with a horsed brougham—and sometimes a most antiquated vehicle at that—now aims to be the proud possessor, or, at any rate, the user, of a motor brougham which is, to outward appearanoes, a private ear. Naturally, this laudable project cannot always be carried out with certain classes of goods which requirea considerable amount of space and necessitate some form of box-van, body, but with lighter and less bulky objects the motor brougham can usually be made to resemble a limousine.

It. is certain that a vehicle which is handsome without being blatant does much le encourage business. It gives an impression of financial stability tcathe firm employing the traveller, and, apart from all this, customers appreciate and are more likely to pay attention to a traveller whose importance is emphasized by the fact that he arrives in an elegant vehicle.

We recently inspected a very smart commercial traveller's brougham on a Wolseloy Fourteen chassis, the bodywork of which was built by Frederick 3. Rees, 96, Little Albany Street, London, N.W. The vehicle is one just supplied by Ware and de Freville (1922), Ltd., Weimar House, Regent Street, Oxford Circus, London, W., to the Norvic Shoe Co.— Howlett and White, Ltd., Norwich.

The vehicle is provided with a fullwidth seat for the driver and another person, whilst the rear portion of the body is constructed for the conveyance of the samples of boots, shoes, etc. This part is finished in varnished natural wood and is provided with a shelf which reaches right across the body from the back to the door -pillars. Two doors are provided for the driver's seat and two for the samples compartment. At the back is an oval window, protected inside by three vertical bars. ' All the door handles embody a locking device.

The comfort of the driver is ensured by drop windows to the doors and an adjustable upper half to the windscreen. The appearance is enhanced by a scuttle dash and rubber-faced running boards, provided with aluminium beading.

The spare wheel is carried at the back between the body and the end crossmember of the frame. The whole vehicle is finished externally in dark green. The Wolseley Fourteen is identical with the well-known Fifteen type, except that it embodies a side-by-side-valve engine instead of the overhead-valve type. It has four cylinders of 3-,F, ins. bore and 5i ins, stroke, cast in pairs, and developing 30

The drive is taken through an inverted fabric-faced cone clutch and a small Hardy disc joint to a gearbox of the sliding-spur type, providing three forward speeds. Behind the gearbox is another and larger Hardy joint and a short shaft leading to the propeller shaft enclosed in a torque tube, the final drive being by underneath worm The price of the chassis without body is £450.

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Locations: Norwich, London

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