The Supply Department.
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International Polacks.
We have received from the Polack Tyre and Rubber Company, Limited, 31-34, Basinghall Street, W.C., a copy of each of two new catalogues. Both these publications are of considerable interest, and they are put together in such a way as to attract the attention of users of all classes. What is to be known as the International List is really a handsome album, in which appear no fewer than 82 beautiful reproductions from photographs of many different types of commercial-motor vehicles to which Polack tires have been fitted. The pictures are grouped according to the country in which the vehicles represented are working. England, Belgium, Germany, France, Italy, Austria, Switzerland, and Spain are all represented. The types of vehicles illustrated are so varied that the whole collection forms an interesting pictorial review of many classes of modern business-vehicles. No other letterpress than that necessary for the description of the pictures is included in this list, and this is in three languages, English, French, and German.
The new English catalogue has been brought up to date, and it includes sectional drawings of all the types manufactured by the Polack Company. Tabulated particulars are printed of the standard tires up to 160 millimetres in width, the last-named size being for five-ton steam lorries. The inner and outer rim measurements, the diameter over the wooden felloes or the steel rims, the widths of the felloes, the maximum weights that may be carried and the allowances that are made for the return of old steel bands, are amongst the useful data which are given for each of the many standard sizes of tires, An innovation with this maker is the twin type C, in which the steel rim is quite plain and the tires are held on by two bolted flanges.