AN EPITOME FOR PURCHASERS.
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A Guide for Buyers of Goods and Passenger Vehicles. Essential Chassis Details Presented in a Compact Form.
THE tabulated matter appearing upon this and subsequent pages gives, in a concise form, certain particulars concerning the majority of the vehicles,.tractors, municipal and other appliances on the British market, the particulars being limited to the essentials which serve to determine a choice or to incite inquiry for fuller details. We use the word " majority " advisedly, be'cause it is our experience this year, as in former years, that manufacturers and coneessionna,ires are, more often than one would imagine, unable to comply with requests for the information required until Show-time, or even later. With the object of rendering our information complete, we have provided the trade with forms to facilitate the work and have written and telegraphed, when necessary, asking for the completion of the forms and their return to m. Hence
no stone has been left unturned in an endeavour to make the information complete. We have placed British productions in one classification and foreign productions in another. The vehicles and appliances are Placed in alphabetical order according to the name they bear, and they are subdivided into petrol goods, petrd1 passenger, petrol municipal, steam goods, steam tractors, steam municipal, electric goods, electric passenger and electric municipal. In the classifications for goodscarrying vehicles the term gross weight is the gross weight carried with the body, and the platform space is the length of the frame behind the driver's cab. In the case of passenger-carrying vehicles the platform space is the length of the frame behind the dash, as in their case the driver's seat forms part of the enclosed seating accommodation.