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by all difficulties of transport, at whatever points arising, as a carriage is by the roughness of the roads over which it runs."—John Beattie Crozier.
GERMAN INVITATION TO BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY.
The Reich Technical Association of Motor Vehicle Dealers, Berlin, is inviting members of the British motor industry to visit Germany and participate in a tour of the country's economic centres, with special application to the German motor industry. The tour, which will last for a week, will be made from Berlin to southern and western Germany and, apart from points of scenic and historical interest, the new Reich motor roads will be included. Certain motor works will be inspected, including those of the Opel, Adler and Daimler-Benz concerns.
The cost of the whole tour, including hotel accommodation and meals, circular tours, steamer trips and visits of inspection, but excluding railway journeys, is 178 reichsmarks per head. The tour will take place from September 1-8, and full details of the programme may be obtained from the publicity department of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, 83, Pall Mall, London, S.W.1. Application forms may be obtained from the same source, and have to be completed and returned by August 25 to the Reichsfachverband des Kraftfahrzeughandels und gewerbes E.V., Berlin W. 50, Marburgerstr.3,I.
Big Developments in Road Transport of Vegetables.
The Ministry of Agriculture has issued a report (No. 25), in its economic series, on the marketing of vegetables, and it deals at some length with the subject of carrying vegetables by road. Mechanical road transport for vegetable marketing, the report states, has made great strides in this country since the war.
So far back as 1906, at least two growers were using motor lorries for transport to Covent Garden Market, London, It wa's not until 1920, hriwever, that the business was tackled in earnest and vegetables were conveyed regularly to market by motor lorry.
Regular road transport over distances up to 50 miles, or 70 miles for certain vegetables, is common. Some of the larger lorries used for the haulage of vegetables can, the report states, compete with the railways up to 100 miles.
Plan for Big Network of Parcels Services.
A new company, Leeds-Newcastle Parcels, I.td., has been formed in connection with the development of a transport service for "smalls," which was established two or three months ago by Messrs. A. E. Keeling and Sons, of Leeds.
One of the directors of the new company is Mr. John Hirst, who is also a a2.0
director of Ripponden and District Motors, Ltd., Rippondeni near Halifax, which company operates extensive parcel services in Yorkshire and Lancashire. The other two directors are Mr. Joseph Keeling and Mn Edward Keeling, the partners in Messrs. A. E. Keeling and Sons.
Ten vehicles are already operated on the service, and there are depots at Newcastle, Stockton and Leeds. By co-operation between Leeds-Newcastle Parcels, Ltd., and Ripponden and District Motors, Ltd., it is planned to provide services between the Newcastle district and a large number of towns in Yorkshire and Lancashire. PROMINENT EXPERTS TO SPEAK AT C.M.U.A. CONFERENCE.
In our issue dated August 2, we gave details of the programme of the National Road Transport Conference, which is being held under the auspices of the Commercial Motor Users Association at Southport, from September 23-25. The authors of the papers to be read in connection with the event are as follow :— Tuesday (September 24), "Steps That Have Been Taken to Solve the Transport Problems of the Country," by Brig-General Sir H. Osborne Mance, K.B.E., C.B., C.M.G., D.S.O., Rapporteur General of Special Committee on Road and Rail Co-ordination of the International Chamber of Commerce ; "The Control of Traffic in Towns and the Open Country," by Major Michael J. Egan, 0.B.E., chief constable of Southport, and immediate past-president of the Chief Constables Association.
Wednesday (September 25), "What Amendments are Necessary to Legislation Affecting Goods Vehicles and Public Service Vehicles?" by Mr. Henry Backhouse, Junr., solicitor to the Blackburn area of the C.M.U.A. ; "Rationalization of Distributive Road Transport," by Col. Arthur Jerrett, transport controller of Lewis's, Ltd.