Tractors for Territorial Units.
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Motor tractors are to be purchased by the 'Pembrokeshire Territorial Army Association in order to equip the artillery units of the county and to enable horse haulage to be almost wholly dispensed with.
The Association held a meeting a few days ago, when Major-General Sir F. C. Meyrick, CB., C.M.G., who was reelected chairman, presided. At this meeting it was agreed that the sugges
ton of the War Department that artillery units should be mechanicalized should be acted upon. Arrangements were made, therefore, for the immediate return of horse equipment and for the disposal of animals owned by the units. The type of tractor to be acquired will not be decided upon until the January meeting of the Association.
It is understood that one tractor per gun and one extra tractor per battery, as reserve, will be needed, and the first purchase is likely to comprise nine tractors.
A Useful Record Card.
We have just received from Alexander Duckham and Co., Ltd., 0, Broad Street ' Place, London, E.C.2, a specimen of a very useful record card which" they are distributing to motor-vehicle users throughout the country. It is really an account card, and is intended to show the treatment a vehicle receive and the exact amount per mile Which it rests to run. Apart from space's fcrr disbursements under the beading of taxes, insurance, garage, repairs and sundries, space is also left for recording tyreperformance data, fuel figures and lubrication essentials, whilst a column is available for particulars relating to the purchase and use of Adcol oil which, as our readers well know, is the product of this company. Any of our readers can secure a copy of the record card by 'writing to the company at the above address.
A British Fire Appliance for New South Wales. Tilling-Stevens Motors, Ltd., of Maidstone, advise us that they have just received a repeat order from the Board of Fire Commissioners of New South Wales for one of their latest type
of all-power turntable ladders. The company tell us that before deciding to purchase this appliance the Board considered various British and German designs of, ladder, and the fact that its final choice has fallen on a machine produced in this country' is testimony to the esteem in which British products are held.
The appliance ordered by the Board is of the petrol-electric type in which the ladder extends to a total height of 87 ft.
Guy Buses for Burma.
After experience with the running of a Guy 16-20-seater bus, -which was put into service at the beginning of the present year, the Burma Electric Supply Co., of Mandalay, have recently sent a
repeat order to Guy Motors, Ltd., Wolverhampton, for five similar machines.
Amongst orders which have recently been received for Guy vehicles, the names of several well-known concerns are included, these being: alias Petroleum, Ltd.; Reckitt and Sons, Ltd.; Retail Dairymen's Mutual, Ltd., and the Leconfield Estate Co.
Transport Growth in Swansea.
According to figures presented to the local authority there are no 9,377 motor vehicles registered in the borough of Swansea. The number of motors now in use is 3,954 greater than four years ago.