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£10 Rebate of Customs Duty on Ford Vans.
[4160] (Grocer).—If you apply to the Ford Motor Co. (England), Ltd., Department No. 40, Trafford Park, Manchester; you Will no doubt hear at an early date. We anticipate that the company will arrange the refund of 210.
Vols. I to IV of" The Commercial Motor" Offering.
: [4161] (Notts.).--We have not at the moment any knowledge of a possible purchaser for the early volumes of THE COMMERMAL MOTOR. No doubt, if you were to send a small advertisement to our -BuSin.ess Department, you would be able to. get into touch with a buyer.
A Man. of 18 and the A.S.C.
[1162] (Liable).—You will not have any chance of being taken for an MT. A.S.C., Cadet Corps, unless you have specially good qualifications in connection with motoring, because the demand-for men in the Infantry is very much more pressing. Any inquiry should be addressed to the Director of Supplies and Transport, War Office, S.W.
More Petrol for Millers.
[4163] (Still Shorth—We recommend you to see Mr. Barton., at the Feed Control Department, 18, Upper Grosvenor Street, W., Who is within our knowledge granting orders on the Petrol Control Committee for additional petrol licences to be handed to millers. The official to see at the Petrol Control Committee, 19, Berkeley Street, W., is Mr. Ford, but you should make your representations in the first place to Mr. Burton.
Age of Boy Steersman.
[1161] (Manchester).---If a boy steers a steam wagon he is, in our view, under the Motor Car Acts, acting as a driver, in the sense that lie controls the direction of the machine over the road. If that view is correct, and it is supported by many legal friends although it has not been settled by an Appeal Court, ma steersman must he under seventeen years of age. Each must also have a 5s. driver's licence. So long as the boy on a steam wagon does not steer, he may be younger than seventeen.
Concerning Clydesdale Lorries and " K.T," Tires.
[4165] (Salop).—The Clydesdale vehicle should do the work which you mention (take 35 cwt. up 1 in 9), and should prove satisfactory, provided the ground. is not very soft and yielding. If the road is of macadam, and reasonably-well metalled, there should be no difficulty. You 'should see a corresponding test if possible. The tires to which you are evidently referring, and which you -ask us to identify, are the K.T." tires, made by the Commercial Tyre Co., Ltd., 22, Albert Embankment, RE.
Rates for a One-ton G.M.C. Chassis as a Motorhearse or a Lorry, and Other Inquiries.
[4166] (Clydeside).—We recommend you to charge, under the first-mentioned cost, at the rate of is. 3d. per mile run, adding light and loaded mileage together. You might charge 8d. a mile less as a van" or a lorry. The charges by the hour should be 8n per hour, with the mileage rate added if eight miles of running per hour of hiring is on the average exceeded. Seeing that the 16-20 h.p. Bianchi chassis will-be fitted with pneumatic tires, the same rate will hold good as tor the van or lorry. As regards passenger cars, under present conditions it is advisable to charge led, per mile with passengers, and 5d. per mile returning empty, or 9d. per mile all round with passengers in the ear, whilst 3s. per hour is a fair charge for waiting in the country, up to a maximum of two hours, or 4s. an hour if waiting is for longer. Rates for a 50 h.p. Pneumatic-tired One-tonner.
[4167] (Empreas).—You Must obtain a :revenue of Is. per mile as a minimum, Spread over both light and empty running. If you hire out the vehicle by time, you should get 8s. per hour, and charge Is. per mile for any running in that period exceeding eight miles. If there is much competition; you might in each case read led, for is., but the margin will then be so much smaller, and the iisk of extra cost with pneumatics under a load of one ton of goods is considerable.
Getting Ready for Coal-gas.
[4168] (S.W. Lancs.).—The internal capacity of the: steel vessel which yon' Carl aceommodate will be approximately 6 cubicft. It will obviously be, necessary. to fill this to a pressure of some atmospheres, as the lorry to which you refer will probably want about 18 cubic ft. of gas at atmospheric pressure per mile. For each 15 lb. of pressure on the sq, in., the tank: will hold an additional 6 cubic ft.It will accordingly have to be charged to 12 atmospheres (180 lb. on the sq. in.) in order to run, the vehicle four miles. This. indicates the necessity to carry by preference a 5.-2cubic ft. steel bottle of gas, such as can be obtained: from the British Oxygen Co., Ltd. of Bromborougli. Port, Cheshire, charged to 120 atinospheres. Such a steel bottle contains about 630 cubic ft. of gas,. when reduced to atmospheric pressure, and it can be used to refill the rigid holder on the vehicle several times over during each journey, or as may be required.
Classification of the "Fruit and Potato" Trades.
[1169] (National Serviee).—You can obtain_ a copy, of Form .R117, the list of certified occupations, dated 1st February last, from H.M. Stationery Office, Imperial House, Kingsway, London, W. C., price lid. including postage. The fruit and Potato trades do not appear in that list, neither are those trades included in the list of primary trades which are recognized by the Director-General of National Service. 'rhe only reference in the list of NationalService primary trades which bears upon you is the following:—
Section X.—Agricuiture.----All occupations on farms and in market gardens.
On the other hand, the list of non-essential trades, also issued by the Director-General of National Service, does not include the fruit and potato trades, so: they apparently rank midway between the primary and non-essential trades, and may in that sense be regarded as essential trades.
"Keep Your Lorry Fit."
[4170] (Reeords).—The following are the dates on which articles in our " Keep Your Lorry Fit" series were published. The series commenced on the 10th August of last year. with an introductory article. We then dealt in turn with the:— Thornycroft, on the 17th August. Leyland, on the 31st August. Garrett steam wagon. on the .7th September. Austin, on the 11th September. Sentinel steam wagon, on the fist September. Halley three-ton chassis, on the 28th September. _ Foden steam wagon, on the 12th October. Star, on the 19th October. Clayton steam wagon, on the 26th October, Belsize, on the 9th November.
Leyland steam wagon, on the 7th December. Commercar, on the 28th December.
Mauctslay, on the 4th January. Others are in preparation.
All the above copies are available, and can be, if you so desire, posted to you at a charge of lid, each.