The M.A.B. Buying Crossley Chassis.
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Crossley Motors, Ltd., Gorton, Manchester, are just completing an order for six chassis for the Metropolitan Asylums Board. They are to be used for ambulance purposes, and are of the company's well-known 25-30 h.p. R.P.C. type. The makers have supplied 15 chassis to the Metropolitan Asylums Board on previous occasions.
A large number of Crossley ambulances is now in use by municipal and other authorities, amongst the most prominent being the Corporations of Glasgow and Manchester, the London County Council, the Rotterdam Municipal Health Department, the Air Ministry and the Australian Air Force.
Public Services in Dutch East Indies.
The public motor services in operation in the Dutch East Indies are, according to a recent report from Batavia, operated almost solely for the use of natives, who will use them only when fares are cheaper than by other means of transportation, any question of comfort or speed not entering into the matter. Most of the motorbus services in operation are in the handsof private owners—most of them Chinese—who have taken advantage of an overstocked lorry market, and have bought one or two vehicles at very low
prices for operation as buses. The types of body in use are many and varied, and entirely of local manufacture. It is considered that the chief prospects of an increased use of publicservice vehicles are not in the largo cities, but between small towns in the outlying districts which are unconnected by rail or tramcar.
Orders for Karriers.
Karrier Motors, Ltd., Karrier Works, Huddersfield, have recently received a number of repeat orders, amongst which is one from the Bradford Co-operative Society, Ltd., for two 2-ton chassis, and another from the Liverpool Co-operative Society, Ltd., for a 6-ton chassis. A lighter model of 25-cwt. capacity is being supplied to the Irish-American Oil Co., Ltd., and a further vehicle which will be used in Ireland is a 30seater bus, which is being supplied to the order of the Ards Transport Co.
The company also have in course of B20
construction two 65-cwt. chassis which are destined for Sydney, New South Wales, and several –aus chassis, whilst an ambulance is being built to the order of the Bedwas Urban District Council, and a collector and sweeper is passing through the works for the London Mid
land and Scottish Railway Co.
Motor Haulage on Canals.
The Societe d'Exploitation d'Auto Chenilles (Kegresse-Einstin), of Paris, has recently carried out some trials with a motor tractor equipped with the Kegresse traction system for haulage purposes on the Calais-St. Omer Canal.
Traffic in Merioneth.
Reporting on a traffic census the county surveyor pf Merioneth says that mechanically propelled vehicles have in every instance increased. With the exception of the Trawsfynydd road the horse-drawn traffic has decreased, and the cause for the increase on this particular road is due to the horse traffic to and from the artillery camp.
Comparing the total weights for the past two years there is a decided increase on each road, which, in one instance, is as much as 192 per cent. Generally the increase is 75 per cent. in three years, or at the rate of 25 per cent, per annum.
Another Trans-desert Motor Service.
A regular motor-vehicle service, running across part of the Northern Sahara, has been inaugurated between the oases of Southern Tunisia and Biskra (Algeria). The inauguration was made the occasion of a ceremony in which representatives of the GovernorGeneral of Algeria and of the Resident General of Tunis and high officials connected with the departments of railway and public works took part.
Milk and Coal by the Same Vehicle.
It is not often that a commercial vehicle is called upon to carry two such dissimilar Loads as milk and coal, but such is the case with the special steam wagon which has recently been supplied by John Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., Steam Plough and Locomotive Works, Leeds, to the order of the Fenwick Farmers' Co-operative Association, of Kilmarnock. The type of vehicle which the association required was one that could be used for handling a definite number of milk-churns, but the body also had to be made to tip to either side for dealing with coal in bulk. As it was required to carry 65 churns in a load, it was necessary to use a very long body, and, in so far as only a part of it was required for carrying coal, the body was made in two distinct sections.
As one of our pictures dearly shows, only a part of the body is arranged for tipping, the rear portion being fixed, and when the sides are dropped they are held in position by chains from the pillars supporting the hoops which carry the canopy. The other picture shows that plenty of headroom is left below the canopy for the convenience of the men dealing with the churns. This canopy, it should be mentioned, is constructed of steel and is readily removable, as are the windscreens. The vehicle is provided with a rigid backboard, in which two rectangular windows give a view to the rear.
The overall length of the vehicle is 24 ft. 9 ins., its width 7 ft. and its height S ft. 10 ins. The wheelbase of the wagon is 12 ft., and the total length of the body 18 ft. 9 ins., that portion of it which is arranged to be tipped being 15 ft. long. The users of the vehicle asked that the wagon should be built with a low-loading platform ; the netual height of it is 3 ft. 11 ins, from the ground.
Parking Sites in Tredegar.
No objections having been made to the proposal within the statutory period the Tredeg-,ar Urban District Council is now to proceed with the allocation of lands at Castle Street and Victoria Street for use as vehicle parks.