Royal Show Forecast.
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Upwards of 20 representative members of the motor industry will participate, from Tuesday to Saturday of next week, on the occasion of the seventieth annual show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, which is to be held at Gloucester, and practically as many additional stands will contain accessories and stores which are of interest to owners or prospective owners of agricultural motors, lorries, rollers, tractors, vans or wagons of the self-propelled variety. We have occasion now in view of our intended early publication next week of a complete report, direct from the showyard at Gloucester, only to deal very briefly with the exhibits which leading manufacturers are getting ready. The numbers in parentheses are those of the stands.
The admission-charge on the opening day will be Ss.; on Wednesday and Thhrsday of next week, the charge will be 28. 6d.; on the last two days, Friday and Saturday, the charge will be is. Special single-day bookings, from all parts of the United Kingdom, have been arranged by the leading railway companies, on the basis of single fare and a quarter for the return journey, and it is anticipated that there will be a large and responsible attendance.
Agricultural Motors.
Dennis (160), Ivel (348), Marshall (131), and Saunderson (350) will present models in this section. The Dennis irrigation motor and tractor, with Gwymie turbine pump, will certainly prove one of the attractions of the show, owing to its combining the features of a tractor, a portable engine, a pump and a land-watering outfit ; it has a 2811.p. engine and is of compact design throughout. It will be on the stand of C. Healey and Son; Ltd., of Gloucester, the local Dennis agent.
The Ivel is an 18-20h.p. tractor, with vaporiser adapted for paraffin or alcohol, a total weight of 3-5 cwt., and priced at £260; it will be shown driving a five-knife chaffcutter, and with a three-furrow plough alongside.
Marshall will, for the first time, present to the public gaze the four-cylinder tractor which should have taken part in the War Department's trials at the end of February, and which we illustrate on the next page. This machine is to occupy a prominent place in the centre of the stand.
A novelty will be introduced by Saunderson, whose 3511.p. and 50h.p. Universal motors are well known to readers of this journal. This make of portable engine has now been designed to propel itself, and we are pleased to reproduce herewith views of two examples of this remarkably cheap, light and handy combination: the model also lends itself admirably to installation for grinding or sawing purposes. Either 4h.p. or 8h.p. engines can be fitted, the selling prices, in the Universal model for a load on the platform, are only £60 and £75 respectively, with £5
extra for reversing gear; ploughing attachment, if required, is charged another £.5. The self-moving pump is priced at £60 complete with 3-1h.p. engine, or at esa complete with 6-8h.p. engine.
Petrol Vehicles.
By slow degrees, but surely, this type of commercial motor is tending to assert its vogue, even in the implement section of the R.A.S.E. Merryweather's (121) at their showyard fire-station, have for several years had petrol lire-engines on view, and this year they are to have the particular rivalry of the .Dennis-Gwynne turbine fireengine in evidence, as Stand No. 160 will, in addition to the petrol irrigation-machine already named, have one of the Guildford company's best and latest machines for standard fire-brigade requirements.
Two other makers are to further the claims of internal combustion, on this occasion, qua road haulage—Clayton, of Huddersfield (323), and Leyland (329). The first-named stand will have on it a two-ton " Karrier Car" chassis with tipping body; the Leyland stand—alongside its " steamers "—a three-ton lorry.
Rollers and Mowers.
The stand (321) of Barford and Perkins will have upon it two water-ballast motor rollers—one of the latest 7i-ton size. A third is already on the ground; it has, at the request of time Local Committee, been at work for several weeks. The largest model is selling as well as the firm's popular types for lighter duties, which include estate work, grass rolling (parks, training grounds, racecourses, cricket fields, golf links and polo grounds), roadmaking (with macadam, tarred materials, asphalt, gravel, etc.), and the use of power externally. Prices range from £195. to L410, and certain models are specially adapted for export sale and shipment.
Thomas Green and Son, Ltd. (Leeds), on Stand No. 120, will show a three-ton roller, with two-cylinder petrol engine, and two petrol-engined MO wers; one of the mowers has a 30in. cut, and the other (with seat for man in charge) a 36in. cut. About 200 of Green's petrol mowers are now in use, and the two sizes for the show are priced at £110 and £140 respectively.
Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, who were among the first of our great engineering houses to fit the petrol engine to machines of the class, will have a couple of motor-driven lawn-mowers on Stand No. 3— away from their steam tractor and other heavier engines. A variety of requirements, both for private and public buyers, can be met Nv it h these 24in. and 36in. mowers. Steam Wagons.
A total of eight vehicles—the same as in 1908—will be on view, and the number will include specimens of proved value, Much evidence of repeat orders will be adduced by the older manufacturers, and this testimony usually proves most convincing. It is clearly not yet, whatever the future may have in store, that the five-ton " steamer " has to yield to the five-ton petrol vehicle in other than special cases.
Fade!' (330), Garrett (79), Tasker (328), Wallis (351) and Yorkshire (324) will each show one standard machine, whilst Mann (327) will show no fewer than three. The
Mann contribution is: one two-ton wagon ; one five-ton wagon—a repeat sale to Mr. Thomas Morgan, Wine and Spirit Merchant, Victoria Buildings, Pontvclun ; and one five-ton cart—sold to Gibson, Battle and to., Ltd., of 7, Bent Street, Sydney, N.S.W. The Yorkshire " six-tonner " has been sold— a fifth repeat order—to Messrs. Watt and Fergusson, Mineral Water Manufacturers, of Rawmarsh Road, Rotherham.
When dealing, next week, with the standardised types of steam wagons. and the excellent results which they are yielding in the hands of purchasers, we shall be able to direct attention to interesting points of difference in the designs and systems which have survived the tests of severe usage throughout the country, and to emphasise our belief that, in cases where loads of from five to eight tons per trip have to be carried, and where the working range per day need not exceed 40 miles, the steam lorry will continue to retain the advantage of lower working cost per mile, as well as lower first cost, in comparison with any internal-combustion-engined vehicle of equal or comparable speed capacity.
Tractors.
The tractor section contains the greatest departure in construction to which we shall have occasion to referTritton's patent suspension, as embodied in the latest Foster tractor. The number of engines advised discloses a reduction on the total of fifteen at Newcastle-on-Tyne, as there will only be 11 at Gloucester. Standard models will be shown by Aveling and Porter (212)—sold to Messrs. Wray and Fuller, Builders' Merchants and Contractors, of Chelmsford; Burrell (325); Clayton and Shuttleworth (132); Faster (321); John Fowler (213)—a two-cylinder engine ; Richard Garrett (79); Mann (327); Robey (353); Savage Bros. (135); Tasker (328)—sold to Mr. W. H. Snook, of Preston View, Yeovil; and Wallis (3M).
Win. Foster and Co., Ltd., of Lincoln (321), by reason of its staging the novelty of the show so far as steam tractors are concerned, must have an extra few lines. This machine marks a distinct advance in tractor design, particularly as regards stability ; the maker's former arrangement of spring compensating levers gives place to a simple and obvious arrangement of laminated flat springs over the axle, and outside the hornplates, yet neither the height nor the width of the machine has been increased.
Stores and Sundries.
Visitors will do well to bear in mind that there are important exhibits over and above complete vehicles or tractors, and that of W. H. Willcox and Co., Ltd. (230) may unhesitatingly be recommended for a first call, as this " Universal Provider" caters for owners in all departments. The company will have a representative collection of its well-known specialities, which include highpressure injectors capable of dealing with hot feed water, Willcox semi-rotary pumps, Storey's parallel vices, sightfeed lubricators, and a new and stronger brand of its wire-bound hose for the water-lifters on steam machines.
The British Petroleum Co., Ltd., which rejoices in the occupancy of Stand No. 1, will be pushing its " Shell " motor spirit ; Price's Patent Candle Co., Ltd. (982), will have samples of, and packages for, its gas-engine and other oils, both sight and heavy, as well as specimens of testing apparatus ; Joseph Owen and Sons, Ltd., of Liverpool and London (229), will make, as usual, a fine display of timber, planks, bends, and other specimens for felloes, panels and the various parts of van and wagon bodies, including wheels; Fastnut, Ltd. (225), will show its latest washers and locking devices ; and the North British Rubber Co., Ltd. (261), will have rubber goods and tires in great choice. These, however, by no means exhaust the minor stands which will come under the notice of our staff between the time of sending this issue to press and Monday afternoon next at Gloucester.