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The Metropolitan Asylums Board has accepted the tender of Messrs. Carless, Capel and Leonard, of Hope Chemical Works, Hackney Wick, N.E., for supplics of motor spirit during the current year.
John I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., notifies us that it has appointed Lookers, Ltd., of Hardman Garage, Deansgate, Manchester, sole agents for the sale of its commercial vehicles in Manchester and the immediate neighbourhood.
From Overseas Correspondents.
Notes from our own correspondent in South Africa will be found on page 455, whilst a short note from our own correspondent in Calcutta is published on this page. Notes from Jamaica are held over.
R.A.S.E.
Intending exhibitors at this year's show of the Royal Agricultural Society of England will do well to note that they can obtain full particulars of space and shedding from Mr. Thomas McRow, the Secretary of the Society, 16, Bedford Square, W.C. and that applications must be lodged on or before Wednesday the 20th prox. Liberty and Co., Ltd., of Ltegent Street, W., is the. latest London owner of commercial motors to purchase an Albion vehicle, and that purchase brings the Liberty fleet of Albions up to three—a total which we feel sure. will shortly be increased.
To Replace the Bullock Wagon Our Calcutta correspondent writes :—
" As you may well suppose, the advent of the motor in India has had the effect of materially reducing the employment of horses, which up to now have mostly been imported from Australia and Persia. Very few desirable horses are
bred in India. The acting Lieutenant-Governor of Bengal, in a public speech the other day, requested his hearers to look forward to the time when the motor would replace the bullock cart, which does about nine-tenths of the transport work of this country. His Honour expressed himself in these words :— ' I wish that when so much is being done for human beings it were possible to do something for the unfortunate animals whose strength is chronically overtaxed to provide for the transport of the trade of the city. The condition of the cart-bullocks is not only a constant sorrow to the humane, but suggests the reflection that the whole system is an archaic survival unsuitable to a modern trade centre. I wonder if it is too much to hope that the increase of motor transport may some day lighten the burden of the bullock and ease street congestion.'
"As I pointed out on a previous occasion, the great factor in favour of the bullock cart is its extreme cheapness, both in original cost and working, the wages of its driver being only about 4d. a day. Nevertheless, motor lorries are more and more in evidence in the streets of the cities of India."
Agricultural Motor Trials in France.
We have had a letter from the prmaeters of the competition, which is to take place in Paris this month, from the 25th to the 20th inst., in which they reiterate the hope that British manufacturers will take part in the tests. We mentioned them a week ago. They offer to supply the fullest particulars by retura of post, and interested parties -will perhaps communicate with Le Secretariat General, Association Francaise de Moto-Culture, 58, Boulevard Voltaire, Paris.
New Registrations.
British Carriage and Motor Body Fittings Co., Ltd., with an authorized eanital of £1000 in 11 shares (500 preference), and with its office at 110, Edmund Street, Birmingham, to carry on the business of manufacturers of and agents for coach, motor-body and other vehicic fittings, etc. Wagner Tyre Co., Ltd., with an authorized capital of £20,000 in shares, and with its office at 34, Gray's inn Road, W.C., to acquire, deal with and turn to account. certain inventions relating to wheels and tires for motor vehicles, etc. First directors : R. V. Wagner (chairman and sole managing director) and R. W. Knapp (secret a rya.
Lorries for the North-Western.
John I. Thorn,yeroft and Co., Ltd., advises us that it has just supplied three two-cylinder, 16 h.p., 2i-ton lorries to the Birmingham depot of the London and North Western Railway. Two more similar machines are shortly to be delivered to the same station. Thornycroft lorries are already in use at the Leeds and Dewsbury goods depots of this company.
We illustrate on tinge .450 a h.p., D-type brewer's lorry, which has been supplied by this maker to the Holt Brewery Co., Ltd. A similar machine has been -supplied to Messrs. Rushton's Brewery, of Birmingham. These two interesting vehicles have been delivered through the company's Midland representative, Mr. T. C. Aveling. of 01, New Canal Street, Birmingham. Another delivery to a brewery during the past week has been a 30 h.p., D-type van to H. and G. Simonds, Ltd.
Amongst other recent goods-vehicle deliveries by this maker are ma.ehines to William Dennis and Sons, All Saints Brewery, Ltd., and to James Wrigley and Sons, Ltd. Repeat orders have just been received from Pickford's. Ltd., and from J. Stone and Co., Ltd. Other orders include a 16 h.p. type chassis for Messrs. William Bartlett and Son, of High Wycombe, and, through Mr. Bruce Cooper, the
South West of England representative, a 16 h.p. van for the Newport (Mon.) Motor Supply and Garage, Ltd. A. Boake Roberts and Co., Ltd., has also ordered a B-type sheet van.
Tilling-Stevens Omnibuses: Works Extension.
As the result of the combination of Thomas Tilling, Ltd., and W. A. Stevens, Ltd., a new factory, which it is intended to equip with the most-modern types of electricallydriven machine tools, for the rapid production of the complete TillingStevens omnibus chassis, is being built at Maidstone. The contracts for constructional steel-work and the buildings have been secured by Edward Wood and Sons. Ltd., of Manchester, and Messrs. R. Corben and Co. of Maidstone, respectively. Mr. Walter Wolsey, Junr., managing director of Thomas Tilling, Ltd., has joined the board of W. A. Stevens, Ltd., of which Mr. W. A. Stevens is chairman and managing director.
The company has the advantage of the valuable experience of Mr, Percy H. Frost Smith who, while retaining his position as chief engineer to Thomas Tilling, Ltd., will have entire charge of chassis Construction as works superintendent. All chassis built at the new works will be identical with the 140 now on order fcr Thomas Tilling, Ltd., and the Newcastle Corporation. The London offices of the company are at 26, Victoria Street, Westminster, S.W. All inquiries should be forwarded to that address.