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Members of various trades will be interested in the particulars of a three-days test with an Adams van (pages 411-413).
The Sydney City Council has resolved to spend £1,500 on the purchase of five motor wagons for transporting road metal, etc., from the quarries to the streets.
-0-wners are invited to van) drivers to beware of holding out the right arm horizontally for any purpose other than an indication of their intention to turn to the right. See page 401.
Special Bodies.
Owners who have themselves devised particular features in connection with body construction are invited to communicate photographs or sketches for publication on this page. We believe that many extremely-smart ideas of the kind have been embodied as the result of initiative and experience.
A New Company.
Road Transport, Ltd.. with an authorized capital of £20,100 (20,000 cumulative participating preference shares of 21 each and 2,000 ordinary shares of Is. each), and with its offices at Bassishaw House, 70a, Basinghall Street, E.C., to carry on the business of builders, 'etc., of lorries, omnibuses and conveyances of all kinds, etc. First directors : G. L. Courthope, M.P., T. C. Moore, H. L. Allfrey and A. H. O. Streatfield.
This Year's Parade.
The entries (w hout fees) for this year's C.M.U.A. Parade closed on Monday last. Later entries will he subject to payments according to date of receipt. Some few owners have not yet completed their forms. and their names are therefore not included in this first list : FIRST LIST OF ENTRIES.
Na. of Entrant. Vehicles.
Allen and Hanbm•ys. Ltd. s Allen's Motor Express. Ltd. ... 6 Ariel and General Repairs, Ltd. 1 Batger and Co. ...
Brent:ford Gas Co....
Bryant and May, Ltd. ... Burroughs. Wellcome and Co.. Ltd.
Cannon and Gaze, Ltd. ...
Chapman Bros, ...
Chibnall's Bakeries, Ltd. Continental Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd. ...
Commercial Car Hirers, Ltd. ... Corneille, David and Co. ...
John Dewar and Sons, Ltd. ...
Dickinson, John and Co., Ltd...,
Dunn, H. G. and Sons ...
Eastern Motor Wagon Co., Ltd.
Fremlin Bros.
Friary, Holroyd and Healy .s Breweries, Ltd. ...
Fry. J. S. and Sins. Ltd.
Gas Light and C:ike Gas Light Improvement Co..
Ltd.
General Post Offic.?
Cloaca Percha Co. ...
Hamilton and Co. (London). Ltd.
liammerton and ea.. Ltd.
Harrods. Ltd.
Hedges and Butler. Ltd.
Heinz, H. J., CD. ...
Idris and Co.. Ltd.
Jenkins and Francis ... Junior Army and Navy Si ors...
Kenyon, J. H., Ltd. ...
Kidd, C. N. and Son ...
Kodak, Ltd. Lane and Son Lincoln, Bennett and Co.. Ltd. Lobjoit. W. J. and Son ...
Lush and Cook, Ltd. ... Marriage, Jacob ...
Mayhew, Mark. Ltd. ... McNamara and Co., Ltd. Midland Railway Co. ... Milnes-Daimler. Ltd. (Hiring
Dept.) ... 10 Nelson. James and Sons. Ltd. 10 Nicoll. H. J. and Co.. Ltd. ... 1
Parke, Davis and Co., Ltd. ...
Pascal!, Jas., Ltd. ... 2 J. and M. Patrick ... 1
Peek. Frean and Co., Ltd. ...
Pickford's, Ltd. ...
Polack Tyre and Rubber Co., Ltd.
Joseph Rank, Ltd. .„ 10 Rickmansworth and Uxbridge Valley Water Co.
Robertson Electric Lamps, Ltd. 1
1 1 3 6
1 7 12 4
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I Robertson. Jas. and Sons, Ltd. 2 I Rudd, E. W., Ltd. ... 25 2 Selfridge and Co., Ltd. ... ... 1
Simonis, Henry and Co. ... ... 1 6 Sterling Manufacturing Co. ... 1 *Sun Flour Mills Co., Ltd. ... 5 Tilling, Thos., Ltd. ... 10 Thompson McKay and Co., Ltd. 3 Tottenham and Edmonton Gas Co. ... 5 Trollope and Sons and Coils and Sons, Ltd. ... 1 Waring and Gillow. Ltd. ... 8 Westminster City Council ... 16 1 Yorke, Stoneham and Jones, Ltd. • •• ••• Donations to Funds.
The following lists, additions to which are expected, concern the two accounts into which the Parade Committee divides its income. 2 Donations to the "Special Fund" are reserved for award to drivers in 4 charge of vehicles of particular makes, or drivers who use supplies of particular makes. A new rule, this year. is that any trade donor to the "Special Fund" must help to cover the general expenditure by a like contribution.
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1 GENERAL FUND. 2 a. Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd. 30 10 Carless, Capel and Leonard... 10 10 Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. ... 10 10 Fodens, Ltd. ...
Polack Tyre and Rubber Co.:: 10 10
Ltd. ...
" Shell " Motor Spirit, Th.e. 10 1°
Proprietors of . THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR. The Proprietors 10 11 Proprietors of 0
Albion Motor Car CO.. Lt (I. ... 5 5 Commercial Cars. Ltd. 5 5 Milnes-Daimler. Lid. ... 5 5 Thornycroft„ John I. and Co..
Ltd. ... ... 5 5 Willcox. W. H. and Co.. Ltd. 5 5 Mann. Crossrnan and Paulin, Ltd. ... ... 2
SPECIAL FUND.
Anglo-American Oil Co., Ltd. 10 10 Carless, Capel and Leonard... 10 10
Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd. „. 10 10 s L. t. .d . . . ... 10 1') F oLdtean. '
Polack Tyre and Rubber Co..
"Shell " Motor Spirit, The 10 I('
Proprietors of l
Force 10 10 County of London Territorial Force Association ... 0 n Albion Motor Car Co.. Ltd.
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5 Commercial Cars. Ltd. ...
Milnes-Daimler, Ltd. ... ...
Thornycroft, John I. and Co., Ltd. ... ...
Goods Transport—con.
English Mutton from Nottingham to London.
• `:N ottingham Market" writes :-" Can you help us by placing the following particulars before a suitable or likely firm of motorvan owners We are desirous of sending consignments of mutton to the London Central Meat Markets by motorvan, and we think that. if we could hear of a. firm who are already sending stuff, say, fruit, etc., in our direction, they might be glad of a fill-up for t he return trip back to town.
" We have made inquiries here, but find our local people want too high a, figure for a special journey. We could not pay much more than the current railway rates, which are i3s. per ton from Nottingham to London. Our load would not exceed 15 cwt. to one ton. We have also made inquiries locally as to whether stuff is being sent here by motor from London, but without We thought that you might know of a service to any adjacent town. say. Derby. Leicester, or even further north—say. Manchester or Sheffield."
The rate offered, reckoning Not at 128 miles and on the basis of a one-ton load, is 4d. per vehicle-mile. That should
be worth consideration as a back rate, and we shall be pleased to have offers for communication to our correspondents. The railway rate may be station to station, or it may be " C. and D." It would probably pay the inquirers to offer 5d. per mile—say, 53s. per trip. They should get a better rate per ton if they could send more than the weights mentioned. There would he a margin of profit for the con
tractor at 86s: for two tons. The frequency of loads is a factor.
An "8-year old" as a Mail Van.
A commercial vehicle which has had a chequered but eventful career is the long-wheel base, racy-looking, mail van which we illustrate on this page. This is a machine which has been constructed by an amateur builder, Mr. T. Spencer, of Misterton near Gainshorough. Any of our readers who participated in the 1,000 miles trial of 1900 may remember that this gentleman drove a machine at that time which he had made himself. That early example was a
two-seater, furnished with a h.p. de Dion engine. The present motor mail van is eight years old, but it has been transformed almost entirely since the days of its first construction. It. was first of all put together by Messrs. Bose Bros., of Gainshorough ; it then had a three cylinder engine ; and the total weight of it was 11 cwt. It now has a four-cylinder engine and hightension magneto ignition. Thermo-syphon cooling is used, and the vehicle is, after a thorough Iwerhani, in excellent order.
In Use in New Zealand.
We are enabled to reproduce three photographs of a useful Arrol-Johnston lorry, which have been sent to us by our own corresdent in New Zealand. The motor in question was purchased by Mr. Ernest Short some tune ago, when he was in England for the purpose of buying stock for the New Zealand Farmers' Motor Agency. The machine serves two purposes admirably. A load of butter being transported from the premises of the Cheltenham Dairy Co., Ltd., one of the lairst butter factories in the Dominion, is shown in one picture, whilst the use of the lorry for passenger carriage is the subject of the adjacent illustration. In the latter picture the gentlemen who are seen seated on the vehicle are members of the Feuding Chamber of Commerce when they were on a visit, to Mr. Ernest Short's famous stud farm. The inset photograph which is part. of our composite illustration is of Messrs. Waekrill and Stewart's garage in Feilding. This firm is the successor to the New Zealand Farmers' Motor Agency, and now owns the lorry of which our correspondent sends us particulars. They do not hesitate to state that the Arrol-Johnston in question has proved to be a steady source of income and confidence.