A Concern that Supports 'Home Industry"
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LIA.ULIERS will have little to fear in I I the way of competition from ancillary users, so long as a substantial number. of manufacturers adopts the transport policy pursued by the wellknown lubricating-oil refining concern, Engelbert and Co., 119, Finsbury Pavement, London, E.C.2. Indeed, if all motor-trade companies would take a leaf from the Engelbert book (the organization having been established in 1868, we might justifiably say archives() and wholeheartedly support their customers, the road-transport operators, the industry would be considerably stronger. • The oil is carried substantially by road, in bulk and in barrels, from the docks to the company's refinery at Ormside Street, London, S.E.15, hauliers being mainly responsible for transport. On arrival at the works, the oil is tested, blended, retested and then distributed to storage depots all over the country. The Engelbert concern operates a Bedford 3-ton tank wagon, which is convertible to use as an ordinary lorry, but otherwise depends upon the services of carriers, which 'it finds to be eminently satisfactory.
The company adopts the attitude that, so long as it obtains first-class service at reasonable cost from hauliers, why should it sink considerable capital in the purchase of its own vehicles? Incidentally, the Engelbert concern has largely abandoned rail transport, for the reason that has prompted so many manufacturers throughout the country to take to the road.
The well-known Lubol offs are available in grades to suit a wido variety of vehicles, and stores are situated at Aberdeen, Bristol, Barry Dock, Buckle, Cardiff, Glas.gow„ Hull, Leith, Liverpool, Methil, Newport (Mon.), North Shlelds, Newcastle, Oban, Portsoy, Perth, Southampton, Sunderland, Swansea, Tyne Dock and Wishae . The Engelbert business is, of course, 'entirely British.