TAIL AND OTHER LAMPS-SMALL TOOLS-TAXIMETERS-CHAINS.
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commercial type, price 14 10s., registers up to 100,000 miles and repeats. Taxi owner-drivers should visit this stand to inspect the very neat fare-register exhibited. A number of these is already in use in the provinces, and the instrument has been tested and passed by the National Physical Laboratory and the Metropolitan Carriage Office.
J. and R. Oldneld, Ltd., Refulgent Lamp Works, Warwick Street, Birmingham.
108] DEPENDENCE LAMPS. [10S
The Dependence lamps are by now, we imagine, familiar to the majority of our readers. We may shortly state, however, that the lamps intended for service on heavy motors are spring-mounted wherever experience has taught that this method is desirable. It is claimed, and the claim is certainly borne out by many users, that the lamp stands up even under the most arduous of service condition's.
For the more aristocratic town-delivery vehicles a range of acetylene head, side and tail lamps, together with generators, is shown. Readers will have little difficulty in selecting a lighting outfit suitable for any type of machine.
R. Methuish and Co„ Ltd., 50.51, Fetter Lane, London, E.G.
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The excellent array of tools of every description shown by this well-known London maker gies evidence of much care and forethought in the selection of equipment for the saving of both titne and labour on the part of both users and manufacturers. Two lathes, 41 in. centre and 6 in. centre, respectively, several sensitive drills, a portable forge. and an emery grinder, complete what we consider an interesting accessory stand. Readers will do well to get the new Methrash catalogue, which has just been published t in it, the full list of this maker's tools is described and illustrated.
Joseph Lucas, Ltd., Great King Street, Birmingham.
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The reliability of the mrdern commercial motor is now so well established that many accessory makers find it profitable to devote their attention entirely to the provision of fittings for the industrial vehicle. On the Lucas stand we find two fully equipped D26
showboards ,demonstrating the Lucas electric-lighting system. This comprises amp. and wilt meters, head, side and tail lamps, together with electric horn, in addition to these lighting sets a large number of the well-known double-bracket side and head lamps of a heavy type, intended to withstand the severe strain of every-day commercial service, is also shown,
Premier Taxameter Co., Ltd., 106, Albany Street, Regent's Park, N.W.
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With regard to the supply of reliable taximeters, we supoose there are few greater experts in London than Mr. F. Adler, the manager of the Premier Taxameter Co., Ltd. The advent of the motorcab in England in 1905 was followed by the formation of the first large English taximeter cab company, namely the General Motor Cab 'Co., Ltd., hut Mr. Adler hall already been first in the field, and a small fleet of cabs belonging to the Metropolitan Motor Cab Co., Ltd., was fitted with these instruments. Interested spectators will note that the instruments shown represent types fitted in various foreign ,anintries, as the words " For hire " on the flag appear in six foreign languages. The taximeter supplied by this company in London is known as the Kosrnos and is widely distributed, more particularly among owner-drivers. The company is also exhibiting varians forms of recording clocks suitable for factory business entrances.
Hans Remold, Ltd., Brook Street, Manchester.
139] DILIV/NG CHAINS OF ALL KINDS AND S/ZES. 11:39
The central exhibit on this stand is one of the Renold 3-in. roller chains, At the back of the stand will be found a frame on which a series of different