A Traveller' s Car and its Cargo.
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By the courtesy of the Rover Co., of Coventry, we are enabled to reproduce two photographs
which illustrate in an admirable manner the possibilities of the small motor vehicle for employment by commercial travellers. The machine which is used is a standard 8 h.p. Rover, and this, as one of our photographs reveals, has large sample boxes of special construction securely strapped in position behind the driver's seat. This sample ease is a veritable Pandora's box, and, by the ingenious nesting of drawers and shelves, is capable of containing a very large assortment of samples. All the lighter goods are carried therein, whilst the heavier samples are securely and systematically stowed in the compartment of the coachwork proper upon which the sample case is located.
The smaller photograph, which we reproduce, at first. sight appears to represent the miscellaneous winnings in kind of some champion boxer or sword swallower, but, in reality, it is merely a representation of the complete range of samples which this traveller is enabled satisfactorily to carry over the country roads from village to village. As a matter of fact, if our readers will compare the size of the vehicle and the enormous range of samples which are capable of being stowed thereon, we do not hesitate to state that in most cases they will be inclined to doubt the possibility of such exceptional stowage. It is merely, however, another remarkable instance of the adaptability of the motor vehicle and its carosserie. Recent journeys with this traveller's car have been in the Wensleydale and Swaledale country, districts which are known to many as abounding in hill tracks. As companion on one of the trips in this district, a 14stone passenger was carried ; nevertheless, the speedometer frequently registered 30 m.p.h., we regret to have to record !
It may interest those of our readers who are amateur photographers to learn that the picture of the display of samples was secured as late as 8.45 p.m. on a recent evening. This is surely a remarkable instance of daylight exposure at such an hour. The photographs and particulars upon which this notice has been based were supplied by the Rover Co.