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Out and Home.—By "The Extractor."

26th November 1908
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Visitors to Liverpool cannot fail to see and admire the gorgeous building put up near the river on the site of the Old Tower, Jt is a sky scraper, and the fortunate occupants can, in their odd moments, feast their eyes with a view of the Cheshire coast, the inspiring hills of Wate.s, and that everchanging panorama, the shipping in the Mersey. Early in the new year Meade, King, Robinson and Co., importers of motor spirit and crude oil, will move to this building from their ancient home in Old Hall Street.

During the Show this last week, at Olympia, more than once the question was put to me : whose bus and whose circus was that which careered madly on Piccadilly after the Show closed? One night, as I came along in a friend's car, I struck it. It was a Darracq-Serpollet vehicle, and one merchant with mighty lungs was busy every bit of the time with a post horn, while the passengers, mostly standing on the roof, were screaming like firemen. There were bills on that vehicle, and I have a dim suspicion this was a new way of calling attention to some particular motor commodity.

Speaking at a dinner of the Agents' Section of the S.M.M.T., at the Frascati one day last week, Mr. S. F. Edge stated that, having occasion recently to remove his personal goods and chattels from London to a place some 40 mites away, he had an estimate given for the removal to be made by horse vans ; but he then took the trouble to see that the job was undertaken by motor pantechnicon, and he was amply

rewarded. his belongings went in half the time and at half the cost. I was speaking of this to one of the representatives of the Berna people, and he vouched for an interesting fact, in connection with one of their own fiveton vehicles, which recently conveyed 41 tons of furniture from Peckham to Horsham (roughly, about 36 miles) in two hours and 20 minutes, and re

turned in two hours and five minutes. Now, this was done, and a fair profit made, for 4;3. It is obvious that horses and men to shift this in the old sweet way would have cost more than double, and still there are many people not yet alive to the advantage of motor transit.

I was grieved to miss my friend Mr. Frank Little, of Newcastle-on-Tyne, when he called upon me during Show week. He has, I see, opened a gigantic garage in the coal city, and has tilted it up with tea rooms, and even bath rooms, for his clients. Little's principal business, in the past, has been in industrial vehicles—Lacre's and Halley's, mostly. I don't know if he is agent for a steam wagon : if not, there should be an excellent opening for some maker. I went over these premises, when they were in course of construction, during the Royal Show, and they contain every facility for the

garaging and repairing of commercial motors of all sorts and sizes.

An excellent opportunity occurred last week of trying the resilient qualities of " Vieo " wheels. Meeting Mr. l;. G. Bradbury, at Olympia, one evening, he volunteered to transport three friends and myself up to the West End in a Daimler motorcar, and, apart trom the immediate convenience of it, I was glad to try this. The " Vieo" wheels were fitted on the back axle only, in this case, but it constituted a very fair test, and I was agreeably surprised with the excellent running, and the freedom front jar. A long stretch of the road near the Albert Hall is very bumpy, and we scarcely observed any difference whatever between the " Vieo " and pneumatics. I should think there would be a great saving to the mechanism of a motor lorry, or motor delivery van, if this type of wheel were used more generally.

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Locations: Liverpool, London, Newcastle

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