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Trafford Chassis.
[4238) (Inquirer.)—The address in our records is the Trafford Engineering Co., Ltd., 91, Lord Street,
Southport. s Postage on "rite Commercial Motor."
[4239) (Dispute).—Postage on an ordinary issue of this journal is one penny. ThiS has been the rule for many months past Seeking an M.T., A.S.C., Commission.
[4240] (Leeds, and others).— We advise you to see the local recruiting officer, and to put your qualifications for M.T. work before him. This is the bestcourse, and the most regular one. If you prefer not to deal locally, you should address the Director of Supplies and Transport, Q.M.G.5, War Office, S.W., asking to be favoured with a form of application, and granted an interview in London, Emergency Calls en London Motorbus Drivers in Case of Invasion.
[4241] (Provincial).—The point which you raise was answered in the House of Commons on the 156 March last 14 theiFinanCial Secretary for the War Office. He stated that an agreement was in force under which the L.G.O.C. and other London motor. bus proprietors guaranteed to produce certain motorbuses in certain eventualities. A small retain • ing fee is paid in respect of each motorbus, and an agreed rate of hire has been settled for each motorbus that is called out. The drivers are classed in B reserve.
Points About Rubber-tired Steamers.
[4242] (New Purchaser).—The two points concerning which you inquire are easily answered. The risk of your driver's being given an electric shock, due to the building up of a static charge in the metal parts of the rubber-tired lorry, can be eliminated by trailing a chain from any portion of those metal parts on to the road surface, The risk that your driver will not be able to keep so clean a -fire without more trouble can be removed by the use of fire-bars which are spaced a little more widely than is the practice for steel-tired steam lorries. If you have been in the habit of using half-inch air spaces between the firebars, these might now be put up to five-eighths of an inch.
Steam Tractor Wanted.
[4243] (Paper Mill).—Delivery is the unknown Factor, You should write to the undermentioned manufacturers .
Ransomes, .Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., Orwell Works, .Ipswich.
Chas. Burrell and Sons, St. Nicholas Works. Thetford, Garrett and Sons, Ltd., Leiston, Suffolk. W. Tasker and Sons, Ltd., Waterloo Ironworks, Andover, Hants.
Wm. Foster and Co., Ltd., Lincoln. Mann's Patent Steam Cart and Wagon Co., Ltd., Hunslet Works, Hunslet, Leeds.' W. Robey and Co.. Ltd., Globe Works. Lincoln. MarShall Sons and Co., Ltd., Britannia Ironworks, Gainsborough.
There is, of course, the alternative of purchasing second-hand, as to which the best. course is to advertise your wants amongst the Classified Advertisemerits of TETE COMMERCIAL VOTOR.
We are assuming that you mean the -smaller types of steam tractors, which are permitted by law to draw only one truck at a time'? If more than one truck is drawn at a time, you chme under the traction-engine law.
c58 Centres in ,Russia.
[4244] (Traders)..—The seven towns about which yo.0 inquire are certainly, so far as we can learn, good centres for prospective trade in commercial motors. We give, as requested, the population of each: Odessa, 550.000; 'Moscow, 1,600,000; Kieff, 469,00.0; Tiflis, 287,000; Ekaterinoslav, 182,000. The population of Petrograd isvariously estimated as between 2,100,000and 2,300000; the city of Baku has a population of 220,000.
Best System of Bookrkeeping.
[4245] (Aircraft).—We have no specimen systems such as the kind for which you ask. The last article which we published, bearing upon your queries, is in our issue of the 15th February last, and a co'py of this has been posted to you by separate Mail. • We advise you to arrange with your accountants. department that each lorry has its own account in the impersonal ledger. The value of all goods, stores, etc., which are allocated through he storekeeper, must then be separately, posted to .the •proper impersonal account, in addition to similar posting in respect .of repairs or other specific charges against each vehicle. The scheme of a. separate impersonal aecotint for each vehicle alsO permits, on the other side, the showing of earnings which each machine makes. One can then strike a balance of profit or loss on each vehicle. The scheme, of course, has its limits; it is not applicable to very large fleets, such as those of London motorbus companies.
Coal-gas in Steel Bottles.
[4246], (Liverpudlian).—It is extremely difficult, we know, to obtain anything like an amnia supply of steel bottles. The source of supply of which we have most knowledge is the British Oxygen Co.' Ltd., the head office of which company is at Elverton Street, Westminster, S.W., with branches at Birmingham. Wolverhampton, Cardiff, Manchester, Birkenhead, Sheffield, Newcastle-on-Tyne and Glasgow. Whilst this company primarily sells oxygen, it Supplies many other gases, both for industrial and medical purposes. Its catalogue, which is before us, shows that it also supplies gas regulators and other apparatus and fittings. Supplies for your area would be undoubtedly based on the Bromborough Port Works, near Birkenhead. The company's standard sizes of cylinders, stated as cubiccontents in feet at atmospheric pressure, are six in number, ranging from 10 cubic ft. to 100 cubic ft. The approximate weight, including valve, varies from 14 lb.to 108 lb, for the foregoing range of sizes: The approximate external diameter in inches varies from 4 ins, to 7 ins., and the approximate overall length, including valve, from 19 ins. to 49 ins., also inrespeet. of, the same range of cylinders. The company is now supplying a smaller cylinder, to hold coal-gas, with a capacity of 5.2 cubic ft., measur
ing i ins, in external diameter, and 14 ns, long overall.
As regards price of cylinders, these vary from £1 6s. 6d. for the 5.2 cubic ft. size, to 93s, 'for the 100 cubic ft. size. These prices are subject to fluctuation without notice.
We regret to have to state that, it is practically impossible for this company (and for any other, so far as that goes) to do much in the matter of supplying cylinders, owing to the heavy Government den-land for all sizes. We understand that a limited number will be hired, and it, is possibly, in this direction.with speeial road arrangements for the re-delivery and collection of re-charged cylinders, that you may have 'a means of keeping your vehicles in full service. This arrangement however, is only possible in conjunction with a Class 'A priority certificate. Why not try one of Barton's flexible holders?