Renewable Valve Seatings.
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Our attention has been drawn by 3Ir. E. W. Jackson to certain features of his patented valve seating (specification No. 380,608) recently described in Tire Commercial Motor, which were not mentioned in our synopsis of the specification. He states that both the threaded seating and tapped hole are accurately tapered, with the Object of ensuring not only that the seating is absolutely secure when fully screwed up, but also that it shall be permanently in compression ; as a precaution it is also locked by a dowel.
The space below the seating is claimed to give it a certain resiliency which increases its life and that of the valve. We understand that worn seatings can easily be removed with a special tool and that there is no need to re-machine the casting. Encouraging results, we are informed, have been obtained with this invention.
Certified Clearing Houses Coming.
Liverpool haulage contractors, at a meeting held under the auspices of the Road Haulage Association (North Western Area), on Monday, after hearing an address by Mr. Donaldson Wright, of the Nottingham Chamber of Commerce, expressed themselves in favour of privately operated clearing houses, in preference to those worked under the regis of Chambers of Commerce or those in which hauliers themselves were represented on the board of management.
Mr. Donaldson Wright discussed the growth of the clearing-house movement nod forecast a development in the direction of the elimination of undesirable clearing houses, and the certification of those that were worked impartially The certification of clearing houses, he said, would be followed by the stabilization of rates, and it would become patent to even the owner-driver that he would fare better by working with a recognized clearing house than by canvassing for his own traffic.
What manufacturers and merchauts wanted, Mr. Donaldson Wright continued, were guaranteed services to given points with guaranteed times of delivery and, if these could be assured, they would prefer to do their business with one traffic organization.
At Nottingham, they had observed, in recent months, a considerable increase in small consignments.
The meeting passed a resolution drawing attention to the destructive effect that the implications of the Salter Report would have upon the new Mersey Tunnel.
Farmers Want Lorries: Roads Prevent Them.
One of the complaints made by farmers and their organizations to some of the Welsh county councils, regarding the neglect by certain local authorities of third-class roads, is that the state of such roads definitely precludes the use of mechanical transport to the desired extent. The state af the third-class roads in some rural areas is said to be such that farmers have to continue the use of obsolete means for transport.
" United Counties" Report.
The 11th annual report of the United Counties Omnibus and Road Transport Co., Ltd, shows that there was a profit of £39,270 (for 54 weeks), the amount available after adding the balance carried forward from the previous year being £39,459. Of this sum £30,001 has been placed to depreciation, renewals and contingencies reserves. Of the remainder, the payment of a dividend of 8 per cent, on the cumulative participating preference shares will absorb 14,000, that on the 7 per cent. cumulative preference shares £8,500, and a 10 per cent, dividend on the ordinary shares £5.000. These amonnts (lesi tax) total £9,375, leaving £82 to be carried forward.
Personal Pars.
Mr. Victor Riley, managing director of Riley (Coventry), Ltd., has been elected president of the Institute, of the Motor Trade for the ensuing year.
We learn that Mr. F. S. Cook has been appointed secretary of W. C. Standerwick, Ltd., the well-known Blackpool motor-coaching concern.
Mr. H. B. C. Manton, previous manager of the Sheffield depot of Andrew Page and Son, Ltd., the concern of motor-accessory factors, of Leeds, has now been appointed sales manager of the company.
Mr. Sidney W. Lewis, for many years manager and secretary to Fiat Motors, Ltd., has joined the Southgate Motor Works, of High Street, Southgate, London, N.14, who undertake general engineering and motor-vehicle overhauling and repair work.
Mr. A. Drysdale Wilson, M.I.A.D., Assoc.Inst.T., has been elected chairman of the West Midland centre of the Institute of the Motor Trode for the ensuing year. Mr. Wilson is well known to traders in the Midlands, and is a popular figure in the motoring life of Birmingham. Ile has had experience in the motor trade extending over 25 years, and has held poaitions of importance with leading concerns.
He entered the service of Karrier Motors, Ltd., as superintendent of the vehicle road-test department, and after serving for a period as manager of the main service department at Huddersfield, Mr. Wilson was, in 1927, placed in charge of the company's Midlands sales and service depot at Birmingham. Mr. Wilson is the first manufacturer's representative to be elected to the chair of the West Midland centre.