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The directors of Tilling and British Automobile Traction, Ltd., announce a final dividend of 6 per cent. on the ordinary shares of the company, making 10 per cent. for 1932, as well as the payment of an additional dividend of 2 per cent. on the participating preference shares, also making 10 per cent. For many years past similar rates have been paid.
Goods •Vehicles Up: Hackneys Down.
A return recently issued by the Ministry of Transport shows that there were 2,239,567 licences current in respect of mechanically propelled road vehicles during the quarter ended September 30, 1932, the comparable return for the previous year being 2,213,722. The total for 1932 includes 370,100 goods vehicles and 84,950 motor hackneys, the corresponding figures for 1931 being 860,614 and 87,464 respectively.
The return includes details of the numbers of vehicles of different classes licensed in each registration area and an analysis of the principal classes according to the various taxation schedules.
A Special Dennis Tipper.
The Dennis 6-ton tipper shown in an accompanying illustration has a wheelbase of no more than 11 ft. 7 ins.—a dimension generally associated with a miich lower carrying capacity. Messrs. F. H. Moss, of Luton, through whose agency this vehicle has been sold, state that it is required for quarrying work and that handiness and ability to tow a trailer loaded with a further six tons are of more importance than speed., Consequently, the rear axle has the exceptionally low ratio of 11* to 1, so that the bottom gear ratio is rather more than 70 to 1. Provision is made for attaching a trailer, and a worm-andwheel-operated fitting in the cab applies its brakes.
Both body and cab are of all-steel construction, the latter being the standard pattern
produced by Dennis Brothers, Ltd., of Guildford. The three-way tipping body has a capacity of 6 cubic yds. and is operated by hydraulic gear. The 'tailboard can be hinged from the bottom or from the top, the sides of the body being hinged from only,the bottom. Telescopic outriggers, normally lying below the body, can be extended outwards for the -purpose of supporting the sides or the tailboard in a horizontal position, thus
focilitating the loading and unloading.
The sides and all corner posts, including those at the front forming the base of the gantry, are removable, so that it is possible to use the vehicle as an ordinary platform lorry.
Germ Lubricants for Oil Engines.
From Germ Lubricants, Ltd,, 736-739, Salisbury House, Finsbury Circus, London, E.C.2, comes a useful and interesting little booklet entitled "The Lubrication of Compression ignition Engines for-Road Vehicles." Although obviously written to promote interest in Germ Motoils, there are many notes on the various difficulties in oil-engine lubrication and how these are -being overcome, whilst photographs are shown of vehicles equipped with compression ignition engines of almost every wellknown make. The booklet is certainly worth having.
German Exports Lower.
During the ten months ended October last 1,772 vans, lorries and chassis, valued at p355,000, were. exported from Germany, as contrasted with 2,848 and £932,101) respectively in the corresponding months of the previous year.
Personal Pars.
We learn that Councillor J. Ainsworth has been re-appointed chairman of the executive council of the Commercial Motor Users Association and the East Lancashire Road Transport Association, this being his third year of office.
Mr. Percival Bevan, principal of Messrs. J. and P. Bevan, Swansea, commercial-motor engineers and coach proprietors, has been elected chairman of the West Wales centre of the M.T.A. and M.A.A. He founded, with his partner and brother, Pioneer Bus Services, Swansea—disposed of to another company since the war—and is now sole owner of the present business.
The London sales staff of Karrier Motors, Ltd., Huddersfield, has recently been strengthened by the appointment of Mr. Wilfred Buddell, who has joined primarily for the purpose of arranging agencies for the Karrier Cob and Colt models in the south-eastern counties.
Since serving in the R.A.P. during the war Mr. Buddell has had a long experience in the heavy-vehicle industry. For five years he represented Straker-Squire, Ltd., first as assistant sales manager and, later, as sales manager, leaving this company to become sales manager to the Curtis Automobile Co., Ltd., well known in connection with Lancia vehicles, whilst recently he has been associated with the sales of Morris-Commercial products in the south country. Several territories in the south-east are still open to representation, and interested traders are advised to communicate immediately with Mr. Buddell at Windsor House, . Victoria Street, London, S.W.1., We wish Mr. Buddell every success in his new sphere.
Mr. R. A. Fearnley, M.Inst.T., general manager and engineer of the Light Railways and Transport Department of Southend Corporation, has, we learn, been recommended by the transport committee of Coventry Corporation for the appointment of transport engineer of the city in succession to Mr. T. R. Whitehead, who retires in March. Mr. Fearnley is the son of Mr. A. R. Fearnley, who is general manager of the passenger transport department of Sheffield Corporation.
Mr. N. D. Bruce, who has been associated for many years with the Shell interests, and for the past three years particularly in connection with municipalities, has now severed his connection with the oil business and has been appointed to the position of sales manager to Metropolitan-Camraell-Weymann Motor Bodies, Ltd.,Vickers House, Broadway, London, S.W.1. Mr. Bruce began his career as a pupil at the works of the Brush Electrical Engineering Co., Ltd., and, later, joined Balfour, Beatty and Co., Ltd., as manager of its undertaking at Dartford.
London Terminal Garage Transfer.
We understand that the garage portion of the London Terminal Coach Station, in Clapham Road, S.W.9, has been taken over by the landowner, Blue Belle Motors, Ltd.
New Hire Service for Small Vans.
A new service for the hire of small delivery vans has recently been inaugurated by Rapid Motor Services (Rapid Carrier Tricycle Co.), 4-9, Emerald Street, London, W.C.1. The trader chooses the vehicle and the company supplies it at a fixed weekly charge covering painting and lettering the van, a competent driver, petrol, oil and all taxes. The hirer also accepts all risks to both van and driver.
Raleigh three-wheeled vans are offered, on a 12-months' contract, at £4 12s. 6d. per week, Austin 7 h.p. vehicles and Morris Minors at £5 5s., and Singer Juniors at £5 3s. 6d.
A.E.C. Oil-engine Progress.
During the past two months the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd., has received a large number of repeat orders, these not being confined to any particular class of vehicle, but being spread over the company's range of passenger and goods models. A point of interest is the increasing adoption of the company's 130 h.p. high-speed oil engine for different classes of transport, and, from a long list of orders recently received, over one-fifth are for vehicles equipped with this type of power unit.
Containers for Meat Carrying.
The Southern Railway Co. has recently constructed a number of containers of an hygienic type for the transport of home-killed meat. They are of the door-to-door type and thus can be readily transferred from a motor lorry to a railway wagon, or vice versa. Aluminium sheet is used as a floor covering and all interior angles have been constructed so that dirt cannot collect. Rows of sliding hooks, capable of holding nearly 80 sides of beef or carcasses, are suspended from the roof.
Motor Shipbuilding Progress.
"The Motor Ship Reference Book for 1933" is the ninth annual edition of this manual. Since it was originally written the motor ship has grown enormously in importance, until to-day motor-ship construction represents a larger tonnage than that of steam shipbuilding. The book has been revised and brought completely up to date.
In the contents are details of every large ocean-going motor ship, including those built in 1932, together with descriptions and illustrations of all marine Diesel engines now constructed. A summary of the developments in
motor shipbuilding and the manufacture of large oil engines.during the past year is given. The manual is published at 5s. net by Temple Press Ltd., 5-15, Rosebery Avenue, London, E.C.1.
New afoxons Dump Cart.
A useful convertible damp cart and tank trailer has been introduced by Moxons, Ltd., Totteridge Lane, London, N.20. The cart has one axle and is unsprung, but the two wheels are equipped with Dunlop land tyres of 8.00-in. by 19-in. section, and, as with an axle weight of two tons the rated pressure for these tyres is only 30 lb., a high degree of shock absorption is obtained.
The unladen weight of the cart, which is of metal construction and has a spring-loaded drawbar, is 9 cwt., or, with semi-rotary pump, cover plate, etc. (making it a 200-gallon tanker), 11 cwt. The dimensions of the metal body are : Width 3 ft. 8 ins., length 6 ft., height 1 ft. 6 ins.; the trailer is built to carry 2 tons.
With the Dunlop wheel equipment and Timken tapered-roller bearings the price is £37 10s, whilst with water cart gear, including 1 0 f t.
of hose (with foot valve), semi rotary pump, 5 ft of delivery hose, rubber-jointed tailboard and cover plate, the price is £47 10s. Horse shafts can be provided for £4 10s. and brake equipment for £5 18s. extra. The pump is capable of emptying or filling the tank in 12 minutes.
A Chance for Trolley-bus Makers.
It is reported that the Soviet Peoples' Commissariat of Economy has decided to carry out trials, in Moscow and Leningrad, this year, with trolleybuses, the vehicles being imported.
Tipping-gear Progress in France.
Much progress has recently been made in France with tipping gear and bodies, and some of the companies which specialize in this work are producing fine machines. A go-ahead concern of this class is Fillet, of Colombes (Seine), which employs an hydraulic tipping gear of its own design. The tipping rams exert their lifting force on the body forward of the centre of gravity, and the maker claims that a tip can be safely effected with the vehicle in awkward positions, such as on a steep incline. The oil pump is of the normal three-plunger type and can be put into action without declutching the engine. Recent examples of Pinot tipping gear have been incorporated in a Renault 18ton oil-engined vehicle and a 12-tonner on the Saurer oiler. The Renault, supplied to a large brick works, has a twocompartment body in which the rear portion is a three-way tipper, as shown on this page.
The Saurer is a side-tipper supplied to a firm of contractors engaged in demolishing the old fortifications of Paris, a vast work which has already been in progress for more than 10 years and which will take another 10 years to complete.
Centenary of Pioneer Steam Engineer.
A fund has been opened to commemo rate, this year, the centenary of Richard Trevithick's death, and the leading engineering institutions, including the I.A.E., have expressed their full sympathy with its objects.
Trevithick, who was born in 1771 and died in 1833, is chiefly remembered as the pioneer of " high-pressure
steam. His predecessors, Neweomen and Watt, had designed engines to work at a pressure rarely exceeding 5 lb. per sq. in. and exhausting to a condenser. Trevithick raised the pressure twentyfold, dispensing with the condenser. In 1801, his road carriage made its first trip and two years later his first rail locomotive ran on the Pen-y-daren tramway in South Wales. To attempt to use such a pressure in those days must have seemed positively foolhardy.
Commercial-vehicle Imports • and Exports.
According to figures circulated by the S.M.M. and T., 371 commercial vehicles and chassis were imported during the 12 months ended December, 1932; as against 1,579 a year earlier, the value of the former being £66,010 and of the latter £231,771. For the same period 159 general-haulage tractors were imported (valued at £17,202), as against 200 (£23,307) in 1931.
• So far as exports are concerned, 8,381 commercial vehicles and chassis (valued at £1,511,875) were exported in 1932, as contrasted with 5,610 vehicles and chassis (valued at £1,567,940) in 1931. Although the number of vehicles exported was much higher, their value was slightly lower. The export of general haulage tractors fell from 113 in 1931 to 93 in 1932.
During 1932 19 complete commercial vehicles were re-exported, as against 8 in 1931, chassis of this type as well as of private cars numbering 47 in 1932, as against 168 in 1931.
A New Anti-dazzle Headlamp for Commercial Vehicles.
The Desmo Safebeam anti-dazzle headlamp, marketed by Demo, Ltd. Stafford Street, Birmingham, 4, which has hitherto been available in a form suitable only for cars, is now being produced for commercial vehicles. The new type of headlamp has a strong steel casing provided with two substantial lugs for mounting on the forked type of bracket.
Conforming with the draft regulations issued by the Ministry of Transport, the Desmo Safebeam lamp employs a system of mirrors and lenses, which, in conjunction with a special bulb, projects a wide, low beam, said to cause no more dazzle to approaching drivers than is normally produced by a dipped headlamp, and to give a high degree of illumination in fog.
The Ferodo Guarantee Scheme.
On February 1, Ferodo, Ltd., Chapelen-le-Frith, is launching a powerful campaign with the object of increasing the interest of the motor user in the importance of maintaining brakes in an efficient condition.
All repairers fitting new Ferodo facings are asked to fill in a guarantee disc, which is to be tied to the steering wheel on completion of the job. The disc is a certificate that the brakes have been fitted with facings of this make. On it is noted whether front brakes or rear brakes, or both, have been treated, and at the bottom is a space for the name and address of the repairer ; each guarantee bears an identification number.
From January 25, inclusive, a guarantee disc will be sent with each set of facings purchased.
A Small Reduction in Fatal Accidents.
An advance statement of the number of fatal and non-fatal road accidents during 1932 has been issued by the Home Office, and it shows that the number of persons killed in 1932 was slightly less than in the previous year, this being the seoond year in succession that a reduction has been reported, although the figure is only 40, or less than 1 per cent., as compared with 614, or over 8 per cent, in 1931.
The analysis of the causes of fatal accidents, which the National "Safety First" Association is now completing, will disclose some important facts which will point to means whereby fatal accidents can be further reduced.
Western Electric Co.'s Mobile Cinemas.
In making reference to the two mobile cinemas recently completed by the Western Electric Co., we referred to one as being a 2-ton Chevrolet, This should have been the latest-type Bedford 2-ton long-wheelbase chassis built by Vauxhall Motors, Ltd.
Spring-distributor Appointment.
We are advised that B.B. Sales, Ltd., 84, Clapham Road, London, S.W., has been appointed the sole London and southern counties distributor for the road and helper spring products of Messrs. James Leach (proprietor, J. Brockhouse and Co., Ltd.), Atkinson Street, Hunslet, Leeds.
Brief Items of News.
The death has occurred of Mr, A. E. Hall, the advertising manager of the Leicester Rubber .Co., Ltd.
On February 6, at 7.30 p.m., the North Western (East Lanes) Area Committee of the Road Haulage Association is meeting at the Waldorf Restaurant, Cooper Street, Manchester, for a hot-pot supper.
Leyland Motors, Ltd., now fieds that the information given us, that the Elektron crankcase on the Leyland oil engine is available at extra cost, was not quite correct, as it is to be fitted as standard. This engine was dealt with in our issue dated January 13.
Hepworth and Grandas-,,e, Ltd., Bradford, held its annual whist-drive and dance last Saturday, those present including Mr. J. Hepworth, M.P. (managing director), Messrs. G. Hepworth, W. Hepworth, N. C. Brearley and H. J. Young (directors), and the Lord Mayor (Alderman J. W. Longley) and Lady Mayoress of Bradford.
A Deceleration-operated Stop Light.
An electric stop light operated on a novel principle is being marketed by the well-known wholesale distributors, R. Cadisch and Sons, 5 and 6, Red Lion Square, London, W.C.1. The device is entirely self-contained, except, of course, for its connection to the battery, and it is in no way connected to the braking system. It is controlled by a swinging horizontal inertia member, and any retardation of the car, either by braking or deceleration, brings the stop light into action immediately, whilst reversing has the same effect Illumination during the day is effected by means of a pivoted mirror, whilst at night it is taken from the rearlight lamp by means of 'a moving shutter. For some time past the Taplin stop lights, as they are called, have been used by one of the largest coach companies in the country.
To fix the device it is necessary only to remove the old rear light, drill a single hole, bolt the lamp into place and connect up the ,wiring from the old light. The retail price is 18s. 6d.
Development of Italian Petroleum Industry.
It is reported that numerous borings for petroleum have recently been carried out near Parma, northern Italy. The Societe Petrolifera reports that it is obtaining nearly 100,000 litres of petroleum per day and that this quantity could probably be doubled, so that further' equipment is being erected.
Facilities for Hauliers at Burton-on Trent.
We are advised that, owing to a considerable increase in traffic turnover, E. W. Rudd, Ltd., the well-known haulage concern, has found it necessary to move its Burton-on-Trent depot to more commodious premises in Lichfield Street. At this address the company has parking space for a large number of lorries, extensive warehouse accommodation for storage purposes, and other facilities for the convenience of its regular sub-contractors and others calling for loads.