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Trailer Equipment in Lancashire.
From a correspondent in Lancashire we hear that the law which requires trailers to be equipped with sufficient. brakes, and also to have a man riding on the trailer, is being rigidly enforced in Bury.
Water Chaves.
The North Lancashire Commercial Motor Users Association, whose secretary is Mr. S. P. Dillon-Smith, of 20, Addison Road, Preston, has effected some useful reductions in the charges made by the Ormskirk U.D.C. for water supplies. A saving of about 50 per cent. has already been arranged.
Motor Haulage Chosen in Bedfordshire.
The Highways and Bridges Committee of the Bedford County Council has purchased three Commer-Car lorries, at a cost of £2130. The Council has been paying 6d. per ton-mile for haulage by horsedrawn carts, and it expects to be able to save at least 50 per cent. of that expenditure by the use of motors. We are inclined to think that the saving will be even greater.
We are amused to read in one report of the Council's proceedings a statement that "the tyres were of solid rubber, and were guaranteed for ten years." Seeing that the entire cost of the lorries should be saved to the ratepayers of Bedfordshire in a maximum period of three years, they will scarcely, we hope, exact a guarantee of " ten years " from the tire makers. For the Cleveland Milk Trade.
A correspondent writes :—" As a supplement to the recent advocacy in THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR of a motor service for farmers who want to get milk supplies from scattered country areas to some central distributing station (as is done in Cheshire and, I believe, in that part of North Lancashire which borders on Yorkshire), it. is of the utmost interest to report what happened during the past week at the Cleveland Chamber of Commerce, held at Guisborough (North Yorkshire).
" It was stated t hat the N.B. Rlv. Co. intimated that a. Sunday milk train would be unremunerative, and the company could not undertake to provide such a service unless it. had definite assuranens that sufficient traffic would be forthcoming.
" Strong opinion was therefore expressed lii favour of running a motor service to convey the milk of Cleveland to Middlesbrough, and a committee was appointed to consider the matter."
More Testimony to Motor Services.
Presiding at the annual general meeting of the shareholders in th Civil Service Co-operative Society, Ltd. (Haymarket Stores), Mr. J. T. Helby made considerable references to the value of motorvan delivery. He commented upon the changes in practice, compared with a few years ago, when customers were in the habit of coming to the stores, making their purchases, and in many cases taking away parcels in their own carriages. Nowadays. many of their customers had lefi. London, and hey expected the goods to be delivered at their houses, free of charge, at the old prices, and with the same despatch as if they were still residents in town. The directors recognized the absolute necessity, if the business wa, to succeed and to meet competition, to keep its delivery facilities thoroughly up to date.
It appears that fully two-thirds of the increase of the company's business arises in respect of deliveries which are affected by motorvans.