Christmas Parcels by Motor.
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At no time of the year is the value of motor transport more appreciated than in the course of the pressure which falls upon all delivery and forwarding houses prior to Christmas. This statement, of course, does not apply to passenger services so much as to goads delivery. It is the big stores and furnishing warehouses—Harrod's, Shoalbred's, Waring's, and Whiteley's may be named off-handwhose managements know how advantageous it is to be able to work their power-driven vehicles literally day and night. Brewers and wine merchants too, notwithstanding the outcry about bad trade, seem to be as busy as ever just 110W; one secs their five-ton wagons loaded with ale, and their one-ton vans crammed full of wines and spirits, hustling along with all speed. Lucky, indeed, is the brewer and wine merchant who also happens to have a mineralwater department, for the motors which serve that branch in the hot weather are now concentrated on their alcoholic duties ! Extra hiring has, for the first time, largely been avoided by more than one user known to us, and these gentlemen are congratulating themselves on the foresight which bade them order one or more motors in the past. We do not hesitate to state that every utility motor capable of turning its four wheels is out on the road to-day, whether owned or hired by the user, and earning back its cost manyfold. Christmas provides one of the several object lessons which go so far to make converts : the manufacturer or trader who lacks these modern facilities is in a sorry plight at these periods of stress.