The Supply Department.
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Selected Information which is likely to be of Interest to Makers, Owners, and their Buyers.
\Ve have received a useful wall sheet from the Torino Manufacturing Co., 67-68, Bun bill Row, E.C. ; it contains in list form the useful dimensions of all the standard sizes of " F. and S." journal and thrust ball bearings. The company, we are informed, will gladly forward one of these sheets to anyone who is interested.
Sheet-metal Work.
Few, if any, motor manufacturers now produce in their own works the radiators, bonnets, wings and other sheet-metal work which is necessary tor the cars they manufacture. In the Midlands, this class of work has become quite a trade in itself, and there are several well-known concerns which are specially laid out for the production of the most intricate pieces. In London, too, the manufacture of sheetmetal work for motor vehicles has attained to something of a fine art in the works of Messrs. J. H. Randall and Co., of Paddington Green. Motorbus and motorcab garage managers and general motor-repair shops throughout the country frequently invoke the aid of these specialized workshops, and not infre
quently do they place their orders locally if there is a suitable works Yorkshire motor repairers have found that they can rely upon their requirements receiving most-careful attention at the hands of Mr. Joseph Bramah, of the City Radiator Works, 16-24, Chapel Walk, Fargate, Sheffield. Mr. Bramah's works are specially equipped for the making of all classes of sheet-metal work for motorcars, including hammered panels, wings, radiators, bonnets, tanks,
silencers, chain cases, etc. We learn that he has recently had such an influx of orders that he has found it necessary to add greatly to his equipment.
Van Recorders.
Owners cannot over-estimate the value and importance of using an instrument to record the movement, stops, etc., of a motor or horse-drawn vehicle while on the road. Such an instrument gives the owner an accurate knowledge of what the driver is doing while out of sight. It prevents recklessness, waste of time, and other losses, as well as showing what a car or vehicle is actually accomplishing in profitable work. Untortunately. there are very few really reliable instruments on the market, but, in reply to numerous inquiries for such devices we recommend a careful consideration of the claims made for the Rogers van recorder, made by Motormeters. Ltd., Broad Sanctuary Chambers, Westminster, S.W. Turner's Wedge Wheels.
During this summer's long spell of hot, and dry weather, steam wagon users and drivers have been obliged to give frequent attention to the condition of their wooden W heels, particularly the driving wheels. Unless they are regularly and thoroughly wetted, the wood, both felloes and spokes, shrinks to such a degree that the life and safety of the wheels are greatly reduced. We have, during the past few months, heard many wheels loudly complaining, by their creaking, of neglect on the part of their owners or drivers. The only way in which the slackness can be taken up, once it has boen allowed to develop, with a wheel of ordinary construction, is by sending the wheel back to the tire press, thus involving the laying-up of the wagon for a time, unless spare wheels are available. With the Turner wedge wheel, however, all trouble on the score of shrinkage of the wood is avoided, as in this type of wheel a number of steel wedges are inserted between adjacent felloes and spokes, and these wedges, by means of suitable screws and nuts, may be forced apart so as to stiffen up the structure of the wheel by the elimination of all " slack." It is a well-known fact that "there is no wheel like a wood wheel," if it will hold up to the work, and Turner's patent adjustable wedge wheel embodies all the best points of the wood wheel, cuts out the disadvantages, and, with the in
genious use of the metal wedges, makes what is evidently an ideal wheel. It absorbs shocks, and increases the life of the tires. They are made by Wedge Wheels, Ltd., of 4, Queen Street Place, London, E.C.