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REMINDERS.
Agrimotor trials will be held in Tunis, by the government, from the Lith to 22nd April next.
Carters Force the Pace.
The present attitude of Lancashim horse-carters is well calculated to urge transport interests to extend their use of motors.
The Private-car Show.
Manchester readers who wish to see a representative display of private cars and their accessories should visit the City Hall on or before Saturday next.
Finding Garage Sites.
The article on the second page of our issue of last week was from the expert pen of Mr. W. IL Richards, I'. A,!,, of Granville House, Arundel Street, Strand, W.C.
More Motor Mails.
The Surveyor, G.P.O., Cardiff, I% ants tenders, which must be posted on or before 24th inst., for the conveyance of mails (maximum of 5 ewt.) between Worcester and Stanford Bridge, for a term of three years.
A New Registration.
Wyles Motor Ploughs, Ltd., has been registered, with an authorized capital of .k15,000 in 21 shares, to acquire from A. Wyles, Junr., and L. Wyles, or either of them, the benefit of certain existing inventions relating to motor ploughs,
A Weekly Journal's Jubilee.
We heartily congratulate our contemporary " The Railway News " upon its jubilee issue. It is a splendid production. Had it fallen due 10 years hence, it must perforce have given more than passing mention to motors in relation to railways.
North and East Lancs. C.M.U.A.
The subscription to the North and
:Eit: Lancs. C.M.U.A., whose secretary is Mr. 3-, H. Jepson, A.C.A., ith offices at •District Chambers, Darwen has now been reduced to one guinea per annum, with an entrance fee of like amount. It is expected that this alteration, from the old subscription of 23 per annitni, will bring in a large number of new members who are owners of single vehicles or small fleets. Alderman Alfred Nuttall,J.P., of Blackburn, has been appointed president of the association in succession to the late Mr. T. W. Grace. 23rd to net 'Scottish Motor Show. Jan.
8.0t5 Jan. to j Commercial Motor Show, at 7t5 Feb. Manchester, Vith to 21st Aero, Marine and Stationary March. Engine Exhibition, at Olympia.
Mr. David J. Smith read a paper last night, before the Association of Engineers-in-charge, at St. Bride's Institute, LC:, on " Commercial Motors, Petrol and Ste-am." Dr. Hele-Shaw, I.R.S., presided.
How Owners Pay for the Roads.
Our principal leading article this week briefly sets out the germ of the argument that owners pay for the roads. In many London thoroughfares, where motorbus and other motorcar traffic is very frequent, the total annual -cost of the mainten:;Tice of the carriageway is considerably less per annum than the yield of the petrol and carriage ta.xes upon all the motor traffic which passes over them. In the case of Piccadilly, this excess of yield is not less than at the rate of 1;000 per mite per annum.
As the 'density of motorcar traffic falls away, other factors have to be
brought_ into theease. For example, -when the traffic has to be carried by ordinary macadamized roads, the influence of the weather conditions is marked, but, of course, the .day of the water-bound macadamized road is ne-arly over.
It will ha-ye to be accepted by everybody, before long, that motorcars do pay enough, and that proper -construction in the first place is the direetion in which matters should be improved. The resulting economies are enormous.
It is true that the Road Board takes the money, and not the particular local authority, but any grievance on this score can only be viewed as a temporary one. The out-of-date surveyor or highway committee cannot hope for much longer to continue to blame the
motorist. Let them, rather, continue to blame a system of government in which a due allocation of resources in relation to national requirements has not yet been made. Petrol motors, if we make a few exceptions in the case of speciallyweak roads, more than provide the cost of the road wear which they
cause. It is wrong, as we p-cant out elsewhere, to suggest further taxation, and so ask owners of the vehicles to pay twice.
Hallford Shops Busy.
An interesting batch of Hallford deliveries is the subject of one of our illustrations in this issue. These include one of the 32 h.p. liallford fire-tenders fitted with chemical cylinder and extension ladder, a machine which is constructed on similar lines to those whic-h the company has already su-pplied to the fire brigades of Chatham and Sideup. Amongst the other models which are included in the photograph are: a. A--ton box van to the order of Messrs. J. Robertson and Sons, Ltd., Bristol ; two 2l,ton lorries for export to Sumatra a 30-cwt. lorry for Messrs. Westlake's Brewery, Ltd., Cwmavon, Monmouth ; and two 5-ton, high-speed lorries for the Rochdale and Manor Brewery, Ltd., Rochdale.