No London Show.
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There is to be no show at Olympia this year. We are scrry, and we think a mistake has been made. The previous show there was in March of 1908, and it was a comparative failure from the business standpoint. That proves nothing, in relation to 1911, as we have already pointed out on sundry occasions, but we can see no advanVigo in a re-hashing of arguments, or in an approach to recriminations. There is to he a good show held at Al allchester, which centre is second only to London, and the abandonment of the London display cannot fail to help the une which will open on the .17th prox. That " North of England Show " now demands a short. reference at our hands. It follows --in combination with auother important announcement.
The "Users' Experiences—
Costs and Results—Special Issue."
Four weeks from to-day, readers of this journal N% ill have in their hands an important and novel special issue whose contents will probably amaze most of them. Pew people. even amongst those who make a close study of commercial motoring, realize the comprehensive nature of records which are now possessed by owners in the numerous loitoebes of use to which vehicles and tractors have 1.een increasingly applied during the last five years. When. in March of 190.5, this journal initiated the policy of special numbers addressed at large to members of particular trades (brewers. millers, Laundrymen, market-gardeners, builders and contractors. store proprietors and general tradesmen, hotel. keepers. jnbmasters, etc. : also owners of barge estates. municipalities, tramway and railway companies and other public-service undertakings). there was much in the natore of prophecy-since fulfilled. It was only in the steam-wagon sections that records were obtainable which dated back more than a year or so.
The time has come, we feel, for a basic chanee in the form of presentation of the ease. Individual owners, who have never yet published the data. are possessed of ac
ftcumulated figures of costs and service, and we mean to be he channel for their useful conveyance in collated form to the notice of thousands who are still waiting to see
we statements of proved achievements which ;rill remove all lingering sense of doubt. The day of thedemonstration trial, in our view, is nearly over : testimony from satisfied users is strong enough to take its place. We shall insist upon that point with convincing force, and with due care for explanatory notes and comments in the course of editorial arrangement.
Renee, to announeing our "Users' Experiences" special issue, for the 16th prox., we know that a huge total of potential buyers will be deeply interested in its tsintents, whilst the issue will immediately serve valuable purposes, at Manchester, in conjunction with our advance notice of' the North of England Show. The succeeding issue, dated the 23rd February, will be the report number proper.
Exemption from Carriage Tax.
We do not exactly follow why the Inland-revenue• authorities have varied the text of the directions as to the making of declarations in connection with motorcar licences for the current financial year. A subscriber has. submitted one of the 1911. forms to us, and has asked us to compare it with the form used in 1909, which We have clone. The omission, to which we agree it is expedient to direct attention, occurs under the heading of " Carriages (Exemptions)." On the 1909 form, it is stated that licences: are not required—" for a wagon, cart or other such vehicle, or a motor m• rebirle drawn by a motor, which is. constructed and adapted for use and is used solely for the conveyance of any goods or burden in the course of trade or husbandry. and whereon the ehristian name and stirname and place of abode or place of business of the person or the name or style and principal or only place of business of the company or firm keeping the same shall he visibly and legibly painted in letters of not less than one inch in length." The italicized words do not appear on this 1911 form, and we are somewhat at a loss to understand the necessity for the ambiguity. In an event, a motor vehicle which is solely used as indicated in the terms of the exemption clause, which are quoted from Section 4 of the Customs and Inland Revenue Act, 1888 (.51 Viet. Cap. 8), is still exempt from carriage tax, and we have advised our querist to return the present form with a statement written across the face of it. to the effect that his mntorvan is exempt on those grounds.