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Electric Ignition.
Here, too, one finds a thoroughly representative assortment of accumulators, coils, switches, dry batteries, magnetos, and the like. The stands of Messrs. J. C. Fuller and Sons (No. 224) E. Kalker and Company (No. 206), J. Lacoste and Company (No. 220), Lepauze and Company (No. 161), Marconi's Wireless Telegraph Company, Limited (No. 203), Peto and Radford, Limited (No. t9f), and the United Motor Industries, Limited (No. 171.), are not to be overlooked by the visitor who is fond of detail. Messrs. Fuller have a particularly good form of high-tension magneto, which should commend itself to the notice of all motorcar manufacturers and users who desire to use hightension currents, whilst we should not omit to point out the excellent tests that have been yielded lately, in independent expert hands, by the " Castle " coils of the United Motor Industries, Limited. The Peto and Radford stand, also, has a selection which is much above the average. Prices for magnetos appear to be steady, though there is little reasonable explanation for the charges made by some of the principal makers, and we wonder if reductions are in store. Petroleum Spirit, Lubricating Oil and Greases.
The oil trade is well represented at the exhibition, and all varieties of simple and composite lubricants are shown. The Anglo-American Oil Corn -. Limited (Stand No. 172), and
tu eral Petroleum Company, Limited (Stand No. 169), share the field at the show as regards the supply of petroleum spirit, and both companies show their heavy-gravity varieties, which promise to be more and more widely used on account of the lower cost and admiSSible range of boiling points. W. B. Dick and Company, Limited (Stand No. 166), the Joseph. Dixon Crucible Company (Graphite lubricants, Stand No. 157), J. C. and J. Field, Limited (Stand No. 16o), Price's Patent Candle Company, Limited (Stand No. 196), the Sterrt-Sonneborn Oil Company (Stand No. 151), the Vacuum Oil Company, Limited (Stand No. 18o), W. II. Wilcox and Company, limited (Stand No. 188), and Mr. Charles White (Stands No. 181 and 182), complete a pretty formidable list, and one of which it is extremely difficult to " run the gauntlet." The Willcox stand is a perfect hive of business, information, and industry.
Lamps and Lighting.
The lighting of motor vehicles for commercial purposes is one of supreme importance, because nothing is more tantalising and worrying for a driver than an unprotected flame, which either flickers or goes out entirely. Messrs. Eli Griffiths and Sons have some excellently-built lamps on their stand (No. 186), as have A. W. Gamage, Limited (Stand No. 178), the Lacre Motor Car Company, Limited (accessory stand, No. 199), Joseph Lucas, Limited (Stand No. t74), Salsb,ury and Son, Limited (Stand No. 194), and the United Motor Industries, Limited (Stand No. 171), whilst acetylene lighting is specially catered for by J. T. Williams and Company, Limited (Stand No. 184), and many motorbus engineers will be interested in the company's several classes of installation.
It is, perhaps, only a coincidence that no hurricane lamps were to be seen, as this pattern is in great vogue with wagon drivers. If painted round one half with aluminium paint, they give' a better effect, as the paint forms a fairly good reflecting backing for the flame, and one which is easily applied by any driver, with no small benefit when on the road.