Try Some Benzopet.
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,A suggestion for trying a new motor spirit will be found in our advertising columns, and it is the importance of the fuel question only that makes me draw attention to it Most of us find it difficult to move out of our grooves, but the apathy in connection with motor fuel, with its increasing price, is rather inexplicable. I personally buy, a few gallons of motor spirit weekly, and for months past I have used nothing but benzoic, with the /mist satisfactory re-sults. Until recently it was difficult to obtain, hut I take a. fair amount of trouble in order to fill up with this spirit, because of its extra. power, swee.1.ness of running, extra mileage, and lower price, each of which reasons is a potent one. I do not hesitate, therefore, to suggest that commereial-vehicle users will be actto in their own interests in testing one of these five-gallon drums of Benzopet and putting it fairly on its trial, observing the results most carefully. It is a. plain duty to ourselves, as users, to keep the price of fuel within reasonable proportions.
A position is open at a large engineering -works in the Provinces for a smart. young fellow, with some initiative and ideas, to look after tile advertising and stationery. The work will be well, understood hy many, but it may be explainedthat be has to draft fresh advertisement
copy" for the different engineering and motor papers, and make the most of advertising space. There is plenty of scope for ideas in this, and it is up to a man to make himself almost indispensable. There is in addition the stationery and printing work generally to be looked after—altogether an interesting job. Suitable applications, marked "Stationery," sent. here will be f7iwartied to their proper destination. •
Mr. Wilberforce Burrell, whose features are faithfully portrayed on this page, is the younger sou of Mr. (Ma. ries Burrell, of Thetford. He takes an active. part in the steam-wagon industry, and is a, familiar figure at the Smithfield and Royal Agricultm al Shows.-
Studebakers are now seriously tackling the motorvart question, and will be shortly appointing agents for sale of same.
I know a tire firm, who would like the 'distributing agency for a good steel whe-el suitable for lorries and the like, The 10 h.p, engine for light vans being made at Pegasus Works, Willesden, by Engines, Ltd., is p racticay ready no w. —
In spite ef the advance of electric lighting, there were never sebina.ny 'Bray's Roni burners for acetylene lamps on order as at present. This seems an indication that motor business is increasing rapidly.
My employment in appears
to be in demand just now. Last week I had two vacancies to ‹ihronicle, TIOW I have a coirimunica_ tion from. one V;j11=1 is looking for a position. He has hipd 12 years' experience with commercial motors, and that would appear to be going hack to the time when there were but few of them: He is an engineer has for a. long time had ciharge of a fleet of chars-it-banes, and will be an invaluable inani,in similarposition. Letters marked " Engineer," care of this journal, will be forwarded.
One of the pioneers offithe motor trade, Mr. Frtelk. R. Simms, desired, as he '•.puts it, to " obtain used plugs of all makes for examination and study," so he boldly olered, on theAladdin's lamp p.,inciple, to supply new plugs for old. An extraordinary response having resulted, he o.irns now the most weird pin.ig-. eolleetira in the world. Whether he proposes to establish a Plug Museum. does not transpire, but in any case, we are glad to see his name. to the front again, and herfuture of the new British-made plug, the No. 11, seems assured.