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From our Berlin Correspondent.

15th August 1907
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

The trials with freight-motor transport between Milan and Genoa have preyed successful enough to warrant those at the back of the enterprise transforming it into a permanent institution.

German Van Trials.

The German commercial vehicle trials which are to take place in autumn (see our issue of 8th August, page 550) bid fair to be a big success, as a score of entries has been already received, from foreign as well as home firms. From the Daimler Company's works at Marienfelde come six entries; the Neue Automobil-Gese;lsehaft sends three; the Fahrzeugfabrik Eisenach, three; and an Aix-la-Chapelle firm, six.

Nuremberg : Commercial Motors and Street Repairs. . The Nuremberg Police are called on to decide whether a couple of brewer's drays, weighing, when fully loaded, g tons t6cwt. and 3 tons mewl. respectively, shall be put on the streets. Whether the roads in their present con

dition, which, by the ,appears to be tolerably good, would not be seriously damaged by to-ton mammoths being run, is the subject of enquiry. Another matter interesting the Nurembery Police is the soiling of the asphalt at motorcab stands by oil-droppings. Seeing that the town does not possess more than a score of motorcabs, the soiling cannot be very great—certainly of no consequence compared with the fouling of the streets by Nuremberg's So horse-drawn cabs, especially in summer-time !

Motor Deliveries.

Some fifty " special " firms in Berlin (the term " Spezialgeschaft " implies business in one special branch and serves to distinguish this class of house from a universal store) have Organised a common system of motorvan delivery for the suburbs. Thus, a Potsdam lads. can shop in Berlin in the morning and get her purchases delivered by motorvan on the same day. What the suburban " specials " think of the system may be more easily imagined than described, all the more as this fast de

livery is free of charge. First-class Berlin houses are interested in the arrangement. •

A Novel Design for Ambulance Work.

Karl Kopp, an ambulance proprietor in the North of Berlin, has. just had a wagon built for him which, outwardly, looks more like an elegant limousine than anything else. Besides the stretcher (which, it will be seen from the accompanying illustration, rests on long elliptical and vertical, coil springs), there are also folding seats for two attendants. The carriage has a door at each side; another deer, which opens o,:twardly and at the back, admits the stretcher. No fewer than nine windows let in light, blinds being fitted to each. ITerr Kopp has already transported sick persons to a considerable distance in this luxurious car, haying 00 One Occasion conveyed an invalid as far as Dresden, a distance of over a

too miles The motor is a 4-cylinder N.A.G. of 2411.1).

Insurance Claims and Motorbus Traffic.

Nearly two months have passed since the Berlin General Omnibus Company's stores in the south-east of the city (the Viktoria-Speicher) were burnt down, and the charred ruins are still as they were [eft by the firemen. No. fewer than eight insurance companies have to bear the loss, which amounts to. some Li 13,000, and, until it is settled how much each shall pay,building or repairing, operations may not be effected : this much to explain the Company's. delay in making good the damage done to motorbuses garaged there and' to the apparatus for feeding them with

petrol.. On that part of the ruined store-house facing the yard are, the petrol taps, ten in number, for filling the bus tanks. The petrol is stored underground in huge metal tanks and, under pressure of carbon dioxide, the fuel is forced into ascending tubes attached tothe outer wall of the store-house that was. About three feet above the -ground, these tubes open severally into specially-constructed mouth-pieces withrubber-tubing attachments; by means of these the bus tanks can be quickly and conveniently filled. The fire damaged these .filling contrivances, and, but for the squabble over the compensation, they would have been repaired long ago. Under these circumstances Line to has been suspended. I owe this explanation to the Company, since, in a note on the fire, I explained the delay in re-working this line by apathy towards its motorbus traffic on the Company's part.


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