THE ROAD TRANSPORT OF BISCUITS.
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The prominent biscuit manufacturing firms in this country operate some exceedingly large fleets of motor vehicles, which are used for delivering their products throughout the length and breadth of the land. Although many of these companies make a somewhat limited use of the railway, it is found that the protection which is afforded the load by the elimination of handling processes between the producer and the consumer —which the use of the modern motor vehicle ensures—is the main reason why the motorvan has asserted itself with such prominence in the biscuit trade. Several companies operating big fleets
• send their supplies in • hulk loads tomain distributing depots, from which they are then conveyed by smdler vans to the consumers. The illustration which we reproduce • with this paragraphdepicts a Leyland 4-tonner van which is used by Messrs. Macfarlane, Lang and Co., of Glatgow, London and Mancheater; it it here seen on the Liverpool Deck Estate, with the White Star liner " Celtic" in the background.