MOTOR LORRIES AND CANADIAN TRADE.
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The Work of the Dominion Express Co. of Canada.
THE MOTOR LORRY plays a very important part in the operations of the Dominion Express Co. of Canada., not only in the great territory in e Northern America itself, but also in the British Isles, The company in question is closely associated with the Canadian Pacific Railway—indeed, it operates " over the entire systemof the. Canadian Pacific Railway to and from all points in Canada and Central and WeStern U.S.A."—" some" task, as our -American cousins would say. , Its activities may be summed up in the phrase : "The encouragement of trade to and from Canada." Those activities are well known in London and Liverpbol and other large towns in the United Kingdom, and the company either has offices of its own or is -directly represented at all the leading towns on the ' Continent. It has its own fleet of motorvans and lorries for collecting the goods and packages of its customers, and a very fine
fleet it is, embracing, as it does, some of the best examples of motor road stock to be found either on this side of the broad Atlantic or the other.
At Liverpool, for example, the latest addition to the Dominion Express Co.'s fleet is a Thornycroft J Type four ton lorry, which is said to be the
finest of its kind ever seen in that great seaport. But Dominion Express lorries are familiar enough to the deniztris of Liverpool, and very imposing they look when, laden with goods of all descriptions, they suddenly arrive at the landing stage alongside a Canadian Pacific steamer, which is due to leave in a very few minutes for Canada.
Four and two ton lorries are generally employed for this purpose. Outside the Canadian Pacific Railway Co.'s office in Charing Cross, one may sometimes see the type of car that is used in the London service —an Argyll '15 cwt. ear, In Canada, Loylands are used for heavy traffic and long hauls, wagons of 15 cwt. being used in the light delivery service. It may be mentioned as an item of interest that the Dominion Txpress Co. is' agent for the " Airco " express service between London and the Continent, and that its motorvans and lorries play a by no means insig nificant part in that enter prise. The company is out" to save its custo mers trouble and worry in getting their belongings on trains and steamers, and there is not the least doubt that its motor lorry service is greatly appreciated in that connection.
J.H.K.