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This journal is extensively read by the heads of many wealthy commercial houses. c"'"w472;MINDERS.
"The Care of the Chassis" is a series of articles that will relieve many readers of care. It opens on page 40.
Intending exhibitors in the Implement Section of this year's itoyal Show, which will be held at Shrewsbury from the 30th June to the lth July inclusive, are reminded that sentries close on Friday the 20th inst.
Topical Subjects.
Our leading articles this week deal with the following topical subjects : (1) "Our Free Answers to Queries ; " (2) " Proposed New L.C.C. By-law to Provide Reserved Tramway Tracks" (3) "The Motorbus and the Rasher of
Bacon ; (4) "The Care of the Chassis ; " (5) "The End of the Journey" (M. Souvestre); (6) "Street Accidents Caused by Vehicles ; " and (7) "Trams that kept, to the Right."
C,M.U.A. Activity.
Mr. F. G. Bristow representexl the C.M.U.A. and other bodies, at a. L.G.B. inquiry, on the 28th ult., at West Woodburn. The Northumberland County Council sought to close East Woodburn Road, near Bellingham, to heavy motor vehicles, and the C.M.U.A. opposed. Mr. Bristow urged that the Council should strengthen and widen the road. He was supported in evidence by many local owners. So successful were the arguments, that, on the offer of the owner to give the necessary land, the Inspector adjourned the inquiry for the councils concerned to confer.
Arterial Roads and Road Mai Mem. ance: Government's Intentions.
In discharge of the promises which he made last year, on the oceasion of the conference at Caxton Hall of London local authorities and various bodies interested in street traffic. Mr. John Burns duly completed the arrangements, before he transferred from the Local Government Board to the Board of Trade, for the holding of sectional conferences in respect of arterial roads and town planning. The first of these meetings took place at the L.G.B. offices on Monday last, and it primarily concerned the Northeast section. Speech-es were made On this occasion by both Mr. Burns and Mr. Herbert Samuel.
Mr. Burns, in the course of his remarks, indicated that three important heads of discussion were c2 the following : (a) to decide whether additional main roads were desirable, and to determine where such roads should be ; (h) to determine whether existing roads should be widened or diverted, and, if so, where, when and how ? (c) to determine whether it might not be possible, through the adoption of townplanning schemes, forthwith to hold the vacant land which now exists on each side of narrow roads, and which can be secured at a low price, for future widening or for new roads.
Mr. Herbert Samuel made a farreaching announcement, and one which appears to us to be the first definite pronouncement in regard to further provision for main-road maintenance out of Imperial funds. He stated that the situation, in respect of maintenance charges, was likely to be altered in the very near future by the assumption by the imperial Exchequer of a very considerable proportion of the cost of main roads. it was the intention of the Government to lay proposals on those lines before Parliament in the present session.
Mr. Shrapnell-Smith, who was a delegate to last year's conference, is also a delegate to the sectional conferences. The north-western section met on Tuesday last, and the southern section yesterday (Wednesday); the northern section will meet on Monday next, the south-western section on Tuesday next, and the south-eastern section on 'Wednesday next. Further meetings will then be arranged.
Del Monte Developments.
Motor spirit from the improved Del Monte process prbmises' as our sister journal " The Motor" has periodically enforced for the past 18 months, soon to be of highly-beneficial effect upon fuelsupply problems. The latest improvements, to which our contemporary refers at length in its current issue (dated the 10th inst.), concern the newest adaptations of the Archimedean-screw principle of retorting, under which process working costs are claimed to be reduced to a minimum, coupled with correct fractionating to afford the, highest yields of motor spirit.
The new developments nifty be termed the "graduated-tempera tune " distillation system, rather than the " low-temperature " distillation system. Exhaustive large-scale tests have been com. pleted, under independent scientific observation, and the yields per to of cannel coal are such that the sale of either coke or gas from the process is quite negligible. These developments. we learn, are in the hands of Oil and Carbon Products', Ltd., of Watergate House, Adelphi, Strand, W.C. The motor spirit is almost entirely of the methane series of hydrocarbons, and not of the benzene series. Macintosh Tires.. The Cedes Electric Traction Co., Ltd., has placed a contract for Macintosh triple non-skid tires (Colman's patent), whilst. contracts for the ordinary Macintosh band tires have rocently been placed by Messrs. Auborn and Heavyside, the British Motor Wagon Co., Friary Holroyds Brewery, Ltd., and Messrs. French's Balham garage.
A Bradford Lecture.
Mr. F. J. Newboult read a paper before the Bradford Textile Society recently on the subject of "Problems of Commercial Transport." So far as he touched upon road transport by motor vehicles, Mr. Newboult advanced the proposition that transfers of freight had not materially affected any railway company. It was the door-to-door conveyance, without intermediate transhipment, that enabled any such road service to be completed at cheaper inclusive charges than by rail and horse. The longer the distance, the more likely the railways were to hold their own.
Attractive Bodywork.
We learn that. Messrs. lliIslands, of the Hydepark Bakery, Glasgow, has recently had two Albion chassis fitted with well-finished bodies by the South Western Motor Car Carriage Works, of 327, Scotland Street, Glasgow. The lettering on these machines, ue can say from personal inspection, is particularly effective, chiefly because there is not too much of it. The interior arrangements are of a special character to suit bakers' requirements.
Amongst the outstanding features of the body work, we understand, are the patent air-shaft at the front for ventilation, and the fitting of 35 bread-boards, each of which holds two dozen and four loaves, for quick handling.
Recent Registrations. Aspinall and Gurney (t5000); oiTice, Old Southsea Railway Station, Granada Road, Southsea ; as manufacturers, etc., of industrial vehicles.
The Dart Motor and Transport Co., Ltd., with an authorized capital of £10,000 in k:1 shares (2000 preferred), by Waterlow and Sons, Ltd., London Wall, F.. C., to acquire the business now carried on by the Dart Motor Transport Co., at 123, Rockingham Street, Sheffield.
Norfolk Motor Transport Co.. Ltd., with an authorized capital of X10,000 in Rd shares, by A. H. Atkins, Ltd., 27 and 28, Fetter Lane, KC., to acquire the business of haulage contractors, and lorry and general conveyance contractors,. etc., now carried on by S. Turner Le Once, at Queen's Road, Norwieh, under the style of " The Norfolk Motor Transport Co." The British Petroleum Co., Ltd., has placed considerable orders for Albion and Halley vehicles, and
many of these will be fitted for the pitrpoF.e of conveying motor spirit in tanks,