The Wheels of Industry.
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Proposals and Purchases by Local Authorities.
Westminster City Council has now sold• its road.-roller to the Road Board, for 2275.
The licensing of women taxidrivers has now been approved by the Birmingham Watch Committee: East Grinstead U.D.C. is considering the acquirement of a niotor fire-engine, or, alternatively, the use of a self-Propelled vehicle to haul its existing steaffi fire-engine.
The Waterworks Department of the Birmingham Corporation has reported favourably in respect of an Albion lorry, which was purchased a few months ago for haulage work at the Elan aqueduct.
• Worcester City County has come to a friendly arrangement with the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co., Ltd., with regard to practicable speeds within a certain radius of the centre of the City.
The Electricity Committee of the Croydon Borough Council is buying a battery-equipped Edison lorry,. for four-ton loads, at 4,1245. The Water Department of thesame Corporation is considering the purchase of a motor wagon.
The motorbus accounts for the Borough of Todmorden, for the year endedthe 31st March last, continue to show a satisfactory position. The balance carried to Reserve and Renewals Fund is 11897, bringing the balance to the creditof that fund up to £30.89. 'A sum of 2500 is to be applied in reduction of the present year's rates.
A .steam-operated vacuum gullyemptier, manufactured by Leyland Motors, Ltd., is to be bought by theZambeth Borough Council.
The profits of the Eastbourne Corporation's motorbus undertaking, for. the past financia,1 year, were 23940, after charging• everything possible against,the undertaking— an increase of 2S62 over the profits for the previous 12 months. Onehalf of the net profit is to be applied in the reduction of rates.
Gazette.
Mr. A. C. Bourner, of Bush Lane House, Cannon Street, E.C. has been appointed liquidator to Romar Lorries, 'Ltd, Particulars of debts or claims must be lodged on or before the 14th prox. Mr: A. E. Green, of 100 to 104, 1Vtoorgate Street Chambers, E.C., is the liquidator of the Railways and Metropolitan Omnibus Co., Ltd., and he will present his report at a meeting at his offices on the 10th prox. at 11 a.m. • Recent Registrations.
• British Overseas Rubber and Trading Co., Ltd. (21000), with its office, at 8-10a, Finsbury Court, E.°.
George H. Alexander Engineering Co., Ltd. (215,000), with its offices at 34, Waterloo Street, Birmingham, to take over the business of a mechanical and automobile engineer.
Central Garage (Barrow) Co:, Ltd. (25000), with its registered office at Duke Street, Barrow-inFurness, to take over the business of dealers in motor lorries, motorvans and motorbuses, etc.
Editorial Staff Vacancy.
There is a vacancy, due to military • service,for a sub-editor on this journal. Applicants must be trained journalists and possess a practical knowledge of commercialmotor vehicles. Write in first instance to The Manager, stating age, qualifications and salary required.
Tribunal Cases.
All married men to whom the New Military Service Act applies and who are • seeking exemption from Military Service, but who are not in "Certified Occupations" or holders of war-service badges and certificates, should lodge their appeals on or before the 20th inst. in order to be in time.
Extension of Service.
We have been asked a number of questions as to the position of A.S.C. (KT.) men, in category C., who joined for a definite term at the outbreak of war, as regards the application to them of the new Military Service Act. We have made the necessary inquiries in official circles, and we are thus enabled Lo make the following authoritative announcement with regard to such men : —(1) if compulsorily retained, the men will keep the same rate of pay ; (2) the men who have been discharged and re-enlisted will only get the lower rate of pay ; (3) these men cannot decline to extend their services, and whether they are discharged and recalled or retained men they are entitled to bounty when the same is issued.
British Automobile Traction Co., Ltd.
The report and accounts of the British Automobile Traction Co., Ltd., for the year ended 31st December last, are now published. The annual meeting of shareholders is to take place to-day, Thursday, at 1, Kingsway, W.C. The paid-up capital of the company is 2138,273, in ordinary shares of 21 each, and the trading profit, after deducting general expenses and other Items chargeable to revenue is 29438. As the amount brought in was 24249, the disposable balance is 213,687. The directors add 22000 to the reserve account, pay a dividend on the ordinary shares at the rate of 8 per
cent, per annum, and carry forward 24408. The position of the con], party ha 's been consolidated.
"Cycling."
Abnormal manufacturing activity in certain trades, and the layingdown of new factories as part of the developments, has led to a revival in cyCling. It is not inappropriate, therefore, that our contemporary " Cycling " should be enjoying considerable freshcirculation, in sympathy with which we observe that it has recently conic out with a new and attractive cover._
Royal Agricultural Society.
Space has been allotted for 239 stands in the Implement Section of the Manchester showyard, for this year's "Royal." An interesting corollary to war-time events, in the matter of dilution qf labour, is found in the allotment of four acres of ground _in the showyard, for the purpose of holding a demonstration of women workers; three acres of this will be under plough.
A general meeting of the R.A. S.E. will take place-in the showyard, on Wednesday, 28th inst., at 12 noon. The local guarantee fund now amounts to 25860, whilst the Manchester Corporation is laying on water and-gas, free of charge, at an approximate cost of 21500. .
• h.1 has been . arranged, between the War Office and the Board of Agriculture, that farmers shall be left the following labour : —one able-bodied man to every team of horses, • the team to be the number of horses required to plough any particular holding---a two-horse or three-horse team ; one able-bodied man to every 20"cows in milk, with the assistance of a boy or woman ; one able-bodied man . to every 50 stall-fed cattle, with similar assistance; one able-bodied man to every 200 sheep on enclosed land, exclusive of lambs ; one able-bodied man to every 800 sheep on hills. The ILA. SE. has undoubtedly. contributed very largely to this .offitial result, but the labour stringency forebodes general recourse to mechanical aids by thousands of farmers.
Motorbus Routes.
Our announcement, of a few weeks ago, that there were 4000 miles of provincial motorbus routes, caused no small amount of astonishment, to our knowledge, in the ranks of the County Councils Association. The thoroughness of the hold which the motorbus has already secured upon the provincial travelling public had been but inadequately realized by those who apparently do not believe in the justice of the claim that the roads of this country are for the people who live in it.
Testimony to the development of motorbus routes in and around Birmingham is available, for anybody who wishes to gain a first-hand impression of the facts concerning that centre, in the shape of a monthly guide, published by Mr.. 0. C. Power,of :547, Bearwood Road, Smethwick, price id. post free. Particulars of some 50 services are therein given, with running times.