The Wheels of Industry.
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This journal, dealing as it does with the "Chariots of War," no less than with the "Wheels of Industry," is now of national importance. Its interests embrace impartially the transport wagon and the parcelcar, the steam wagon and the ambulance.
Special dispositions of motor fireengines are being made in various parts of London in connection with the scheme for protection against aerial attack.
One of the earliest batches of disabled lorries and cars from the Front reached the Surrey Docks last week on a Furness liner. They were all encrusted with mud and rust, and had the appearance of having been through many hard days and nights of campaigning in the open.
Mr. Tennant, replying to a question in the House by Mr. Hogge, stated that the Army Council was unable to release any three-toner four-ton motor lorries now being manufactured, and that the War Department was in fact still impressing such vehicles all over the country. He could not say when the military requirements would be reduced.
Proposals and Purchases.
D. Napier and Son, Ltd., is supplying a motor brougham to the Westminster Guardians.
Teddington U.D.C. has applied to the L.G.B. for a 21000 loan to buy a motor fire-engine. Lloyd and Plaister, Ltd., is selling a motor fire-tender to the Totten ham U.D. C., at. 2620. The Southend-on-Sea section of the St. John Ambulance Brigade is about to buy a motor ambulance.
West Bridgford U.D.C. is expecting early delivery of its new Alldays and Onions make of motorbus chassis.
The Upper Ward District Committee of the Lanark County Council is spending 2467 on a Motor ambulance. A 400-gallon fire-engine, complete with first-aid equipment, has just been supplied to Altrincham by Messrs. John Morris and Sons, of Salford.
Southend-on-Sea Town Council Wants tenders for a petrol motor fire-engine, complete with pump and a 30 ft. telescopic trussed ladder, on or before the 5th prox. Mr. W. G. Harvey, chief officer of the local brigade, will supply full particulars on application.
H.M. Consul-General at Marseilles (Mr. M. C. Gurney, M.V.0.) has an inquirybefore him from a firm in that city which is desirous to receive terms ef business from British manufacture-s of motor lorries. The name anj address of the inquirer will be fura:gbed on application to the Commercial Intelligence Branch of the Board a Trade, 73, Ba,singhall Street, E.C.
Results front Impressed Vehicles.
Reports are coming back from the Front, concerning numbers of vehicles which were impressed in August last, and in some cases at later dates. Not all are by any means encouraging, and in not a few instances they are bad. A wise discretion must be exercised in coming to any conclusion upon them, because numbers -of vehicles were taken as they were found, and not in a state of complete repair, were driven not infrequently from concentration depots to the port of shipment by men who were accustomed to handling other makes, and were shipped without the best attention or provision. Whilst, of course, all makes were subject to the same disabilities and risks, the incidence of subsequent breakdown or failure in sertiice may happen to fall unequally. We hope that no relative claims of superiority will be made by reason of the comparative behaviour at the Front of impressed machines, except where the differences are radical in character and sweeping in extent. Conditions of usage, particularly of late, have been abnormal in a number of respects.
Lieut. J. S. Critehley and Lieut. T. B. Browne have been promoted first-class inspectors of mechanical transport, with the honorary rank of captain, whilst Lieuts.
Niblett, J. S. Napier, D. S. Kennedy, S. Strickland, E. A. Rose, and George Pollard have been pro moted second-class inspectors of mechanical transport, with the honorary rank of captain. Other promotions are anticipated.
Payments to the Continental Co.
On Monday last, reserved judgment was delivered by Mr. Justice Lush in the case, Continental Tyre Co. v. Tilling, Ltd., in which the plaintiffs claimed about 25753 for goods supplied. The defendant company objected to the status of the plaintiff company, in which practically all the capital is held by Germans living in Germany. He contended that any payment would be "to or for the benefit of an enemy." The judge held that the right to trade with a company occupying the plaintiff's position was recognized and sanctioned by the emergency legislation, and therefore, that the defence failed. Judgment for the plaintiffs, 1._-..ave to appeal was granted.
New Registrations.
Ariel Works, Ltd. (2100). Signatories, C. Sangster and F. Warwick. Private company.
Barrow Taxicab and Motoreab Co., Ltd. (E2000), with its office at Church Street, Barrow-in-Furness, Army and Navy Contract Corporation, Ltd. (X10,500), with its office at Oreycoat Place, Westminster, S.W., to carry on the business of manufacturers of mechanically-propelled vehicles. First director, Mr. A. H. Fellows,
Commera For -A1.1 Armies.
Mr. G. R. Barnes, the publicity manager of Commercial Cars, Ltd., informs us that his company's machines have figuredprominently in connection with the various Overseas contingents. The Canadians brought eight Commercars with them, the Indian. contingent impressed Commerears before it left the East, Russia has impressed 40, and the British Government, of course, has over 500 in use. The French Government has been making use of Commercars for the transportation of troops in Algiers.
A 'carrier's Work.
Certain illustrations on this page -deal with the activities of a 40 h.p., four-ton Karrier lorry owned by the Pontefract Industrial Co-operative Society, Ltd., engaged in carrying flour and groceries. On an-average, this machine covers 50 to GO miles a day conveying 16 tons in all. This wagon is fitted with the Karrier hoisting gear, which can lift a fourton load of flour to the second or third storey of a warehouse, and discharge it in 20 minutes. This particular machine is supplied with an interchangeable char-a-bancs body, and is thus kept 'Constantly -On one kind of work or another.
Our Fund. "
r Our " Campaign Comforts" Fund may have reached -a total of -£600 by the time this issue is in the
-hands of readers. . We give the :total elsewhere to Monday after -noon last. The demand for gloves :is insistent, and the recent sharp spell of ,frost should go far to re ,people 'of the discomforts
-1Wmhich many sectioris of the A.S.e., V.17., have ;-to endure. The demand for such assitaime may be particularly emphasized in respect of the men with the supply columns fir the ammunition parks. These : drivers and their mates frequently have to stand by, for a week or More on end, before they are called upon to deliver their loads, and during this period of inaction they -may not move. At such times they must feel the consequences of the -weather conditions more severely than at others, and even more severely than the drivers and their
mates with the columns which are carrying food, and which columns are generally on the move daily. Action means bodily warmth, as all who have driven know. It is a cold job to wait and waitfor orders. The annual general meeting of Dennis Bros. (1913), Ltd., was held on Monday last. The profits for the year ended the 30th September last were £61,484, compared with X43,249 for the previous 12 months.