The Wheels of Industry.
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"The wheel of wealth will be slowed by all difficulties of transport at whatever points arising, as a carnage is
by the roughness of the roads over which et runs."—John Beattie Crozier.
Fifteen Per Cent. on Petrol for the Agent.
Such sales of motor spirit as take place through a motorcar agent and garage proprietor, or other local distributor, are now to bear a profit for such agent of 15 per cent, on the wholesale price. This is practically .5d, per gallon, on presentday prices. It is, of courSe, out of all proportion for large-scale sales of spirit to :commercial users, to whose requirements will no apply asta general rule. We Consider, in fact, that there must be another scale for business with those commercial buyers who purchase locally, and no doubt that point will he settled, if it " is not already settled.
We recall with pleasure the advocacy, in November, 1912,%y the Editor of this journal, at the annual dinner of the Agents' Section, at the King's Hall, Holborn, Restaurant. of a better margin for agents flan the 2d. per gallon which was then in force for ordinary purposes. An intermediate improvement of 3d. per gallon did take place, and now the margin is to be put up to 5d. The agents, surely. will have done much better
for themselves than they expected, if this 5d. is retained in respect of ordinary motorcar spirit after the peace.
Paris Taxicab Troubles.
The recent struggle between the taxicab drivers of Paris and the police has not come to a close with the, agreeruent, on the part of the men, never to claim anything more than the legal fare, and to accept all clients who present themselves. Within a few hoursaof, the signing of the agreement, the drivers had decided -among themselves not to work-after 7 p.m. ; thus, when taxicabs are most wanted, none is to be found. The. authorities a,re powerless to hold a cab on the streets if its driver has decided to go home, and the men cover their action with the statement that, ow:ing to the high costoniving, they prefer to begin work early and finish early, thus getting dinner, their most important meal, at their own homes, instead of at a restaurant:
Although he has undoubtedly been checkmated, the Prefect of Police does not consider -that he has been beaten, for he has given instructions that the underground electric railroads, the tramway services and the Motorbuses must run until midnight every evening of the week. For a considerable time these services have ceased at 10 p.m., except on two evenings, when they ran until a little after 11.
Coalgas : Latest.
The Scottish Motor Traction Co.,, Ltd., of Edinburgh, has decided to equip all its motorbuses to run on Coal-gas, except those which work the longest routes. This decision has attracted very general attention throughout Scotland ; it is the subject of tmuch interesting comment in many Scottish newspapers. The first two pages of this issue are devoted to a review of progress to date, and to a statement of interesting facts which concern both the present and the immediate future. There iS no hope,until after the peace, in the direction of obtaining any considerable supplies of rigid containers to hold coal-gas under pressure. The flexible holder is the quickest and cheapest remedy • for an otherwise-hopeless malady— unless the Gov.ernment brings more petrol from America,. The Italian Military Departraent, as a result of its experience, regards cars having engines of 275 cubic inch piston displacement as the most suitable for ambulance work.
Agrimotors for Morocco.
Some agricultural motor trials will take place in Morocco between 15-30th September. The A utornobile Club of Morocco will be responsible for the organisation. Particulars can be obtained from the Board of Trade, Whitehall, S.W. 1. Machines for light and heavy work will be entered.
Receiving Orders.
Receiving orders, in each case on the petition of a creditor, have oeen made against A. Aldersey Taylor, motor dealer, of 42, Richmond Road, Bayswater, London, W., and lately residing at Oranbourne Mansions, Cranbourne Street, W., and against Lawrence Gordon Greig, motor engineer, 25, The Crescent, Maidenhead.
Recent Registrations.
K.W.P. Engineering Co., Ltd. (25000), by Messrs. Nash, Field.and Co., 12, Queen Street, E.C. 4.
Motor Gear and Engineering Co., Ltd. (25000), with its registered office at 75, Curtain Road, E.G.
Associated Accessories, Ltd. (2400), with its registered offices at 56, High Street, Bloomsbury, W.C.
John Cox and Co., Ltd. (2500), with its registered offices at 10, Fenn Street, Homerton, N.E. 9, to conduct inter alia a cartage and furniture-removing business.
Rotary Ignition, Ltd. (210,000), with its registered office at 30-32, Ludgate Hill, E. C. 4, to manufacture and deal in ignition parts, accessories, engines, motorcars, etc.
Slack and Parr, Ltd. (21000), with its registered office at Sideley Road, Hegworth, Leicester, to carry on the business of mechanical, electrical, motor and general engineers.
Autoloc Motor Engineering Co., Ltd. (21500), with its registered office at St. Peter's Court, Lee Green, S.E., to carry on business in motorcar and motorcycle components, etc.
Nutlok, Ltd. (23000), by Ashurst, Morris, Crisp and Co., 17, Throgmorton Avenue, E.G., to adopt an agreement with J. F. Duke, and to carry on business as ironfounders, smiths, engineers, owners of patents, etc.
Frost Patent Engine Syndicate, Ltd. (21500), with its registered office at Grosvenor Chambers, Lichfield Street, Wolverhampton, to carry on business as engineers, manufacturers, and patentees of aeroplanes, hydroplanes, cycles and motors, etc. White Hart Hiring and Garage Co., Ltd. (21000), with its registered office at 21, Market Place, Arbroath.
S. T. Rosbotham, Ltd. (24000), by Mr. R. R. Glover, Ormskirk, to take over the business of a contractor for road-making and roadrepairing, at Bickerstaffe, near Orrnskirk.
E.M.P. Engineering Co., Ltd. (2/8,0W), with its registered office at 50-52, Craycott Avenue, S.W., to carry en the business of mechanical, electrical and power engineers, etc.
Hate and Brown, Ltd. (25000), with its registered offices at 17, East Parade, Leeds, to tako over an existing business of degreasers, enamellers and japanners, at Hough End, Bramley, Leeds W. R. Chown and Co., Ltd. p14,000), by Messrs. Claremont, Haynes and Co., Vernon House, Bloomsbury Square,'W.C.' to carry on the business of motor-garage proprietors, cab owners, motor and accessory dealers, repairers, etc. First subscribers are : R. F. Terry, Hendon.. Hall, Hendon, N.W. • A. -Boscher, 56, Queen's Avenue, Muswell Hill, N.; W. R. Chown' 25, Islington Green, N.; C. Freeland, Hendon Hall, Hendon, N.W.
Car and General Agents.
We learn that Mr. A. W. Walmsley, the new managing director of the Car and General Insurance Corporation, Ltd., the head offices of which company are at 83, Pall Mall, S.W. 1, has already completed arrangements under which the company's agents can write larger risks in either employers' liability or fire insurance than heretofore. The backing of the Royal Exchange Assurance no doubt accounts for this improvement of facilities for the company's agents.
Mr. Walmsley asks us to announce that he is desirous to receive additional applications for agencies in all branches, and not only in connection with commercial and other motors.
Gazette.
A winding-up order has been made in the case of the London and Provincial Motor Carriers, Ltd., 143, Clapham. Road, London, S.W.
A third dividend of 3s. 6d. in the 2 has been declared in the failure of James Madgwick, 82-88, Brighton Road, Surbiton, Surrey. The dividend is payable at the office of the Official Receiver, 132, York Road, Westminster Bridge Road, S.E. 1. A first and final dividend of Is. Sid. in the £ has been declared in the failure of Frederick Elliott, motorcar driver, and lately haulage contractor, etc., carrying on business at 96 and 119, Effingham Street, Rotherham.
A first and final dividend of 4s. 3d. in the 2 is payable in the failure of William Davenport, motor dealer and repairer, carrying on business with a partner as the Swan Garage, at Bucklow Hill., near Knut,sford, Cheshire. The dividend is payable at the Official Receiver's offices, Byrom Street, Manchester.
Dutch Mail Services.
The Dutch postal authorities have had to return to horses and horse vehicles for collecting mails. The shortage of petrol is the cause of this unexpected revival of the horse.
Another British Manufacturers' Association.
National Union of Manufacturers (Incorporated), registered on the 13th •inst. by Messrs. Moreton, Phillips and Son, 11, Finsbury Square, EX., as a company limited
by guarantee, and not formed for the purpose of profit. The object is to undertake all or any of the liabilities and assets of an unincorporated association known as the British Manufacturers' Association, 1916, the principal office of which is at 11, Paternoster Square, E.C. President, G. Terr'ell, M.P. (Tyler and Co., Ltd.); deputy chairman, R. L. Mathews (W. J. Turney and Co. Ltd.); -treasurer, J. Walker (John Walker and Co., Ltd.) ; secretary, G.4 W. Cheesman ; E. R. Arnold (Arnold and Sons. surgical instrument manufacturers); W. T. Bell (Robey and Co., Ltd. engineers); E. Berkeley (Berkeley and Young, Ltd., electrical engineers); H. Billinghurst. (John Brims-mead and Sons, Ltd); W. B. Booker (F. U. Ayres, Ltd , sporting goods); G. Day (Fast Colour and Hubert Companies,, eyelets and . boot furniture manufacturers); H. Frankenstein (H. Frankenstein, and Sons, Ltd., waterproof and rubber goods manufacturers); J. Geddes (Culter Mills Paper Co., Ltd.) ; G. H. Gemmell (Charles Venables -and, Go, paper manufacturers); A. Janston (North British Rubber Co., Ltd.); D. D. Macpherson (Gandy Belt Manufacturing Co., Ltd.); .H. Marshall (Sir Herbert Marshall and Sons, Ltd., piano and Angelus
player-piano n ufactu r era) ; F. McLeod (South Metropolitan Gas Co.); E. J. Mitchell.(Palmcr Tyre Co., Ltd.); E. D. Morton (C. and E.
Morton, Ltd., preserved provisions); R. W. Phillips (Wyndham and Phillips, stoneware pipe and brick manufacturers); T. C. Pullinger (Arrol-Johnstori, Ltd.,motorlorry manufacturers); F. C. Pulsford (Ashwell and Nesbit, Ltd., hydranhc engineers); C. F. S. Rodwell (Re*, Ltd., photographic paper manufacturers); A. • F. Sergeant (Lilywhite and Co., photographic trade printers); L. 41. Vicary (John Vicaryl and Sons, tanners, curriers and fellmongers); E. H. Walpole (Walpole Bros., linen manufacturers); and a Watkinson (Wm. Walker and Sons, heavy leather dressers). The Electric Vehicle Committee.
The annual report for the year which ended on the 31st March last of the Electric Vehicle Committee of Great Britain (which, it will be remembered, is formed under the auspices of the Incorporated Municipal Electrical Association), has been issued, and it shows that, dining the period covered by the report, the constitution has been broadened by including representatives of the Royal Automobile Club, the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, the Institute of Cleaning Superintendents, the British Rubber Tire Manufacturers Association, and the Institution of' Automobile Engineers. The report deals with the growing popularity of the committee's ,journal, "The Electric Vehicle (published quarterly); with the question of the insurance of electric vehicles ; the formation of a list of charging stations in England, Scotland and Wales ; the facts in relation to the British Standard Charging Plug and Receptacle, and with other important -matters, showing that the committee and its secretary Mr. F. Ayton have been unremitting during the past year in their efforts towards development.
The income and expenditure accounts for the year, which accompany the report, show that, whilst the income from subscriptions fell slightly, the income from sales and advertisements in the journal and mail cards had made a substantial increase, so that the income, which totalled 2543 7s. 4d., was roughly 280 in excess of that for the previous year. The expenditure under all heads has been reduced, with the exception.of the item "printing mail-cards and journals," which naturally showed an increase. The surplus at the end of the year is more than twice that at the end of 1916. The balance-sheet shows a very healthy state of finances. Helped by the "CM." Messrs. J. Taylor and Son, coal merchants and cartage contractors, of Slough, Bucks., send us the following :—" We have been taking in THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR for over two years, and we now welcome the opportunity of expressing our best thanks for all it has meant to us. Business men who are full up with their own worries relative to their own. trades cannot afford to be without your weekly journal, which so often solves difficulties for them as owners of motorvans, etc. There is not one dull page in it, and, while we are not clever by any means, so far as the meChanism of a motorvan goes, yet, thanks to your journal, we are able to run three vans with profit to ourselves, and with little or no trouble."
Encouragement of Coal-gas.
Messrs. Andrew Barton Bros., of Beeston, Notts., manufacturers of the Barton gas holders and fittings in connection with the use of coalgas for road motors, have written to the Editor as under :- "It gives me pleasure to say that publicity in your paper and 'The. Motor' has brought us nearly all our business for gas-holders. We are selling 50 per week, and hope soon to increase that output. If your paper had not taken up this subject a year ago, and pushed it as you have since, we are sure that to-day's use of coal-gas for road motors would have been very small compared with what it is.
"Almost' every inquirer has heard about it through you. We are pleased to acknowledge this, and we consider you are benefiting the motoring public in your disinterested efforts to bring this economical and home-produced fuel system of motor propulsion to the front. If gas companies and garages will now further your efforts by fixing facilities for quick supplies, the nation will benefit from your strenuous efforts" Smith's Paraffin Vaporizer.
The premises of Messrs. Lawrence, King and Co., at 122, Alma Street, Birmingham, were sometime ago taken over by S. Smith and Sons (Motor Accessories), Ltd., of Great Portland Street, London, as a service depot for the convenience of Midland users.
National Motorcab Co., Ltd.
In the matter of the voluntary winding up of the National Motor Cab Co., Ltd., Mr. E. F. Hawkins, Incorporated Accountant, 4, Charterhouse Square, E;C., has been appointed to act as liquidator, jointly with Messrs. Wm. Goldie . and Frank Stanley Jarvis. The following have been appointed a Committee of inspection :—N. M. Wallace, Finsbury Court, B.C.; P. Houstoun, 119, Finsbury Pavement, E.C.
Covering the Coal-gas Container.
A correspondent makes the suggestion that the gas container should be carried in the domed roof of a. van, as is shown in the accompanying illustrations. The increase in overall height, he points out, need be very small, as the space left between the roof and the faLse roof of the -van could be such as exactly to accommodate the gas container when fully inflated. The container would thus be screened from view, it would be protected against the deteriorating effects .of sun and rain, and there would be no countervailing i complications, as an aperture n the false roof at the forward end would allow a hand to be inserted to pass the feed pipe through the opening provided for it. Our correspondent has, we observe, not overlooked the need for ventilators for getting rid of any escaping gas, but the ventilation will need to be ample or the heat under the roof exposed' to Bummer sun will be great, and might tend to the deterioration of the container. Wheels of Industry—con. Agrimotor Agency in London.
The Vulcan Car Agency, Ltd., of 106, great Portland Street, W., is showing considerable sighs of activity in the matter Of arrangements for marketing agrimotors large numbers. Its selling, programme covers the following tractors, amonsgst others :—Interstate, Denning, Joliet, Bates Steel Mule and Killinstratit.
We understand that the Vulcan Car Agency, Ltd„ has arranged for a series of demonstrations of all the machines which are 'being imported.
The Smith Form-a-Tractor. •
Contrivances to enable the Ford car to be readily converted for use as an agrimotor or rnotoe tractor seem likely to become as popular as those whose object is that of rendering the Ford chassis suitable for comparatively heavy commercial loading. Such a piece of mechanism is the Smith Form-a-Tractor. It consists in the main of a tractor frame formed of two stout longitudinal channels and a cross-member. These two channels meet at the front, and are bolted on to the front ale of the Ford. The Dame is carried on two large tractor wheels, which are driven by roller pinions and efficient gears. The roller pinions take the place of the ordinary Ford driving wheels. We understand that the corietrnotion is such that the conversion may be carried out in 20 minutes. It ddes not interfere with the. use of the. Ford as a ear, and after ploughing a field the conversion set can be removed, and the ear be ready for the road again in another SO minutes:.
This tractor is being handled in this country by Mr.. C. P. well known in connection with the Smith Form-a-Truck. His address is 8, Bramber Road, West Kensing ton, W. 14.
Technical Committee of the Motor Industries.
Mr. A. A. Remington (Wolseley Motors, Ltd.) was elected chairman of the Technical Committee of the Motor Industries, at its June meeting, and Lieut.-Colonel R. K. Bagnall-Wild, ILE., vice-chairman. The Committee adopted the suggestion of Mr'. H. Paull (Dunlop Rubber Co., Md.), that the tithe is now ripe for a serious effort to be made to introduce an international standard of wheel and tire rime for solid-robber tires.
Pagefield Extension.
While in the North of England recently we were pleased to observe the considerable extension of premises which. is in progress in the motor department of Walker Bros. (Wigan), Ltd., makers of the Pagefield chassis. The new ektonsion, which consists of an additional bay, is to be filled entirely with new machinery. New drawing offices and executive offices are also in course of erection.
The Pagefiekl chassis, which is the precinct of this company, is in high favour with the Army Service Corps, as we are well aware. In the 'course of a casual conversation with a, member of that Corps recently, this make of vehicle was mentioned by our friend. His opinion of it was a high one. He remarked that an older type of this make of chassis had been in constant work for a whole year, which. he stated was a very unusual occurrence. Generally, he told us, the behaviour of Pagefields was well above the average.
A Harrier Publication.
Those who are interested in 5-ton petrol wagons and who want a chassis which is of proved worth will certainly not pass the Karrier by without due consideration when making a selection.'
In order to help possible buyers to obtain a thorough,understanding 'of the merits of this chassis, the maker, whose address, by the way, is Clayton and Co., Huddersfield Ltd. Karrier Works, Huddersfield, has just issued a folder which deals entirely with this 5-ton Karrier model. There are several minor improvements which have been effected of late, chiefly affecting the suspension of the engine and the arrangement of the control levers, the latter being made more convenient, and the brake adjustment also. has received attentioni in this regard. The. power 50 lep. Tyler engine is fitted, and the body space behind the dash is 15 ft. 6 ins. Foi further particulars, we must refer our readers to the folder in question which gives the fullest clOkuls, and which is amply illustrated by photographs of this particular vehicle shown variously emnlo,Yd•