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COMMERCIAL MOTOR
Recognized in Business Circles as the Leading Journal.
The Authority on all forms of Mechanical Road Transport.
4argest Circulation.
Conducted by EDMUND DANGERFIELD.
WE describe and illustrate the proceedings at the recent parade of commercial motors at Birmingham
and give a complete list of the awards. Page 710.
THREE new chassis produced by a British maker for medium-size bodies and intended to be employed for passengers or for goods are described and illustrated in this issue. Page 720.
WE give brief details of the forthcoming French commercial vehicle trials and a plan of the route to be followed in the course -of-the--three clays to beoccupied with the contest. • • • Page 719 A NEW petrol pump which exhibits the measured quantity of fuel in a glass reservoir before delivery to the tank of a vehicle, and which can be employed to draw from any one of six sources, is described and illustrated by us. Page 727.
IN his weekly notes upon matters discussed in Parliament, our special representative in the Press Gallery of the House of Commons refers, inter al-a, to the debate on London traffic, to the question of damage done to roads by heavy tractors and to the matter of police traps on the Great West 'Road. Page 709.
PERU as a commercial vehicle market presents possibilities, as we show in a special article in this issue. We also know, from sources more or less private, that one well;known British manufacturer who has recently been devoting attention to this market has fared con siderably better than he had anticipated. Page 712.
THE cost to the ratepayers of IJ on d on of the operation of the tramway system of the Metropolis is shown in our analysis of the figures for the year 1925-20, just disclosed by the London County Council. The deficiency on the year's working was £114,020, this being less by 1300,000 what it would have been but for the
temporary suspension of the sinking fund. Page 702.
SYRIA and Persia are gradually being supplied with mechanical road transport, which is 'solving an age-old problem in each country and serving in the development' of the rich lands which lack railways and ready COMnounications with Europe. We describe the manner in which a batch of British-made lorries was delivered in convoy fashion from the Mediterranean port to Teheran.
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THE development and the use of the rigid-frame sixwheeled chassis are rapid and are fully justifying the anticipations of this journal, which was the first to advocate carrying the load on more than four wheels. The use of an :additional axle, as we• show in an important article to Which, this week, we have devoted our centre pages; has enabled a manufacturer to produce double-deck , buses, even with top-deck covering, upon pneumatic tyres, Page 716.