PETROL VEHICLES AT THE ROYAL SHOW.
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. cerned, many of these arrived at the Show very late, but we have endeavoured to include them in numerical order.
Following out this method, on Stands Nos. 1 and 2, occupied by Thomas Green Linn :attii, Ltd., the visitor will find a 5-6 ton motor road roller. This incorporates a stout two-cylinclered engine placed across the frame. There is a large water tank at the rear, and the rollers also form water tanks. Here also will be found muter lawn mowers of various sizes from la ins. to 42 ins. Of these, the first is a new pattern. One of the most interesting exhibits shown on Stand No. 47 by Blackstone and Co., Ltd: branch of A.G.E.), is an oil-driven light railway locomotive which is shown on a section of line, on which it will be demonstrated during the Show period. This machine drives on all four wheels.
A useful either-side tipping trailer is to be seen on Stand No. 85 in the possession of the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd.
A cable plonghing engine of the in ternal-combustion-engine type " using paraffin as fuel and arranged to work in pairs is shown by Walsh and Clark, L.d., on Stand No. 91.
A neat little one-cylindered motor roller of 2-1. b.b.p., arranged to run on paraffin and with friction drive from the engine shaft to a countershaft and thence by link chain to the rear roller, is to be seen on Stand No. 92, occupied by Petters, Ltd., and Vickers-Petters. Ltd.
Take and Bell, Ltd., exhibit on 'Stand
No. 128 a 5 ton trailer with the ConStable patent either-side tipping gear. A compiete chassis with (Jostt-ahta patent tipping gear is also shown.
Large trailers on rubber tyres to carry loads of three and five tons, and also a. light trailer for Ford and other vehicles are exhibited by Cranes (Dereham), Ltd., on Stand No. 141.
Two lorries, one a one-tonner with 35 in by 5 in. pneumatic tyres, and the other a two-tanner on solid tyies, are. to be found cm Stand No. 163, where they are shown by the International Harvester Co. of Great Britain, Ltd. The smaller vellicle carries a. capacious van body, and the other has a drop-sided lorry body.
A rubber-tyred trailer suitable for heavy loads, and with the wheels running an phosphor-bronze floating bushes is staged by Joseph Atkinson on Stand No. 278.
On Stand No. 303 Henry Garner, Ltd., show two interesting vehicles, both essentially suitable for -Country work. One is a special dual-purpose bus, constructed for the carrying of goods and passengers or a proportion of each, it will carry 22 passengers Or 30 cwt. of goods. This is on the 30-40 cwt. chassis.
On a similar chassis is shown a hinged sided lorry body with rettiovable extension sides, which make it suitable for the carriage of agricultural produce.
A fine example of the 4 ton Bristol chassis, fitted with an all-steel, endtipping body and donble-ra,m hydraulic tipping gear, the pump for .which i3 driven from the gearbox layshatt, is shown on Stand No. 306 by the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd. The Bristol chassis embodies many unusual and interesting features ; these were dealt with fully in our description of the chassis which we published some little time ago, but we may mention in particular the single selector rod gear and the internal cam-operated foot brake.
A convertible char-a-bancs and lorry, body suitable for the Ford ton chassis will interest many who visit Stand No. 308, where it is shown by Ellison and Smith, Ltd. This convertible body is known as the Magnet, and when used as a motor coach seats 12 people. , Similar bodies for other vehicles are shown by the company on Stand No. 173.
The,most striking exhibit on Stand No. 30, occupied by Commercial Cars, Ltd., is a 28-seater saloon bus on a 3? chassis. Entrance to this ■7ehic1e is obtained through a door at the near side front end. Michelin pneumatic tyres are fitted all round.
The next vehicle is the 4 ton B.C. type chassis fitted with market-gardener's body. The remaining exhibit is a 26 type chassis.
Holmes Bros., Ltd.,, have a fine display of vehicles on Stand No. 310. It includes a Gafford_ char-h-bancs on pneumatic tyres to seat 24; a 30-35 cwt. Selclen lorry, a Star tipping Wagon, and an Overland van.
Whiting, Ltd. stage five exhibits on Stand No. 313. The pick of these is a 1 ton Whiting on pneumatic tyres (twin at the rear) and carrying a tilt van body. This machine is equipped with electric starting and lighting set. Next comes the 1i ton Whiting with hand-operated tipping body. Another 1i ton Whiting carries a farmer's stake body. There is a Federal of similar capacity with a platform body. The lightest vehicle is a neat 15 cwt. Dort express van. This has a remarkably handsome body painted sky blue. • • On Stand No. 314, occupied by Straker Squire, Ltd., is to be seen one of the latest 5 ton chassis. This was described in detail by ,us some time ago, and we then mentioned that it is one of the most up-to-date goods or passenger-carrying machines on the market. It is built with the dashboard forward, so that about one-third of the space occupied by the engine projects into, the dash. The engine is ef a specially efficient type with overhead valves and spring rocker arms. The springing is particularly interesting, the rear springs being underslung and provision being made on all the springs for side movement as well as cud movement.
Atthe time of our visit the only vehicleshown on ;Stand No. 315 by North-Western Motors, Ltd., was a Traffic 2 ton chassis carrying a Lomas side-tipping body which is operated by a hand lever at the centre of the off side Two other vehicles, one a two-tanner rated with elm-tipping body and 13romilow and Edwards hydraulic tipping gear, and the other fitted with a tradesman's van body, had not arrived in Derby at. the time of our Visit, but were on the way.
Four very interesting vehicles ate to be found on Stand No. 318, where they are shown by the Vulcan Motor and Engineering Co. (1906), Ltd. Perhaps the strongest appeal to visitors will be made by the special country carrier's passenger bus or shooting brake. This is arranged to seat 11 passengers, and behind the seats is a space for luggage or goods. The body is carried forward to protect the driver.
Next in interest is a farmer's or dairyman's utility wagon with ex.tensitin cages and loading ramp; This is On a 30 Cwt. chassis.
In addition to these there is a 16seater motor coach and a side and end tipping lorry with hydraulic tipping gear. Other Vehicles are being shown by F. Kenning and Sons on Stand No. 316.
Renault, Ltd., on Stand No. 319, show a 20.1 h.p. 3 ton lorry with wood-lined canvas tilt. It follows the usual Renault practice of placing • the radiator behind the engine and embodies four forward speeds and a vertical banjo-type real ,axle on which the springs are underslung.
The Ford vehicle is much in evidence on Stand No. 320, where various types are shown by A. R. Atk-ey and Co., Ltd.
The exhibits include two Ford ton trucks, ane -with a detachable-sided lorry body and the other with a tipping body, and a Ford light delivery van of standard type. Fiat Motors, Ltd., have a representa: five display of their productions on Stand' No. 322. These include two 4 ton vehi cles, one a lorry and the other fitted with a handsome tilt body ; a 1 ton diassis carrying a van body; a 1 ton, fourstretcher ambulance for the Brighton Corporation, and a 14 seater motor coach, also on a 1 ton chassis.
The vehicles shown by J. I. Thornycroft and Co., Ltd., on Stand No, 325, comprise a 41 h.p. Q-tvpe lorry to the order of Salt and Co., brewers, of Burton, and a 30 lip. B.T.-type machine of two-ton capacity, built for J. H. Jack son, Ltd., confectioners. The larger
vehicle has an open-sided body with hinged flaps at the centre, whilst. the 2 thriller has a fixed roof and hack, and detachable' canvas side curtains normally held in position by straps. In both ma• chines adequate protection of the driver is afforded by enclosed cabs and double windscreens.
H. G. Burford and Co., Ltd., on Stand No. 328, show two lorries, one a 2 ton with end-tipping lorry body and handoperated screw tipping gear. This ma chine has four speeds forward, and embodies a special dual axle in which a ver tical banjo steel forging takes the load, whilst behind this is a light casing carrying the final drive, the differential gear and driving shafts. The foot brake is positioned in front, of, and supported by, the forged member. The second vehicle is a 25-30 cwt. with a body adapted as a milk float.
Two vehicles' comprise the exhibit staged by J. and E. Bali, Ltd., on Stand No: 329. The first one is a 5 ton wagon fitted with end-tipping body and handoperated serew tipping.gear with enclosed
screw. The other is a 4 ton vehiclewith a body specially designed for market gardener's work, end for this purpose it is fitted with removable cages and has hinged sides.
The Hallford is one of the best known ;vehicles equipped with chain drive, the chains being very efficiently enclosed by cast aluminium chain eases.
The vehicles produced by Halley's Industrial Motors, Ltd., rank amongst the finest productions in the commercialvehicle industry, and they are the only commercial vehicles intended for goods and passenger work which embody six. cylindered engines.
Two vehicles are shown on Stand No • 330, one is a 3i ton platform lorry with cab and windscreen, and the other is a saloon omnibus on a special overtype chassis. It holds 31 passengers. but six more can be carried on gangway. seats. , Attention will certainly be attracted to the handsome double-deck, 57-seater, • petrol-electric omnibus staged on Stand No. 331 by Tilling-Stevens Motors, Ltd. This vehicle has a 40 h.p. engine, and the body is arranged with a separate compartment for the driver.
In addition to this machine there arc two other vehicles, one a petrol-electric, 4 ton chassis with end tipping body, the tipping gear consisting of a horizontal screw operated by the main driving motor. The final exhibit is a 4 ton gear-driven chassis carrying a handoperated special side-tipping body ma-de by the Eagle Engineering Co., Ltd.
Five vehicles in all form the exhibit on Stand No. 338, where are situated the Associated Equipment Co., Ltd. One of the most striking of these is a singledeck bus seating 36 passengers. This is on the latest type S chassis, has entrances at each end on the near side, and is divided into smoking and non-smoking compartments.
The next vehicle of particular interest is a motor coach de luxe, seating 28 pas
sengers and provided with a social compartment. The other vehicles are a market gardener's wagon on a 4 ton chassis, and a 4 ton tipping wagon with telescopic tipping gear. Here there is also a rebuilt B-type chassis with a convertible lorry6er-à-banes body.
As, usual, Merryweather and Sons, Ltd., have been entrusted with the firefighting arrangements for the whole Show. They are installed on Stand No. 444, in the centre of the Show yard.
The chief exhibit of interest is the Hatfield four-cylinder motor fire-engine with reciprocating pump. There is also a large number of other fire appliances, including hydrants, stand pipes, hose carts, and a fire pump arranged to be driven by extraneous power. In addition to these there is a neat little water supply pump of the Ravensbourne pattern driven by a petrol motor. This can be used for general pumping or fire-fighting.. A branch of the A.G.E., Barford and Perkins, Ltd., have a comprehensive exhibit on Stand No. 47 of theirfamous motor road rollers. The largest of these weighs 12 tans, and -runs on petrol or paraffin. The Dorman engine, which drives this machine, is fitted aerial's the frame at the front. The next roller is a 9 tanner, which is of very similar design except that the Dorman engine is a twocylinder. Thit carries its own water for sprinkling roads, and has a pulley for driving farm machinery. It is equipped with a 1-1in. Wilcox semi-rotary hand pump (Na. 5 or El) carried on s. plate bracket below the water tank at the back of the. roller. Coupled to the pump are 25 ft. of 11in wire-bound suction hose with foot, valve and strainer, carried on a plate bracket on-the near side of the tank, . and 6 ft. of 1k in. wire-bound delivery hose, for filling the 140 gallon sprinkling water tank, the 50 gallon cooling water tank, or the back roller. The sprinkling water -rank or the back roller can be filled in about twenty minutes, the weight of water in each -being about 121 cwt.
There is also a 7f ton water ballast roller for use on e.§tates. Another" roller shown is designed for use on golf and racecourses, etc. It weighs 5 tons, and has a, rolling width of 6 ft, The lighfest machine shown, which also has a rolling width of 6 ft., weighs 35 cwt, empty.
As usual, the vehicles shown by Leyland Motors, Ltd., form one of the finest exhibits in the Show. They are to be found on StandNo. 327, where the 509 gallon fire-engine will be in operation ; this machine has come direct from the Ramsgate Fire Brigade Tournament. The other Leyland vehicles are an Edinburgh type two-compartment bus fur Salford, with seating air oa, a beautifullyamished 30 seater motor coach with silvered wheels, a 4 ton four-compartment end tipper with Broniilow and Edwards hydraulic gear, and a 3 ton either-side Lipping wagon of a new gravity-balanced type with self-opening and ciosing sides. A patent motor horsebox is shown by W. Vincent, on Stand. No. 304; it is fitted oil a 25 h.p. Guy chassis alai arranged to carry two horses. Two Fiat taxicabs with Vincent bodies are also on view.
The Unie has long been a favourite in this country, and the three well-built vehicles exhibited by Unic Motors Ltd., on Stand No. 333 should not belittle this reputation. Of the three machines one is a torpedo de luxe van on a 13-24 h.p. chassis, the second ia a 30 cwt. general utility lorry with canvas tilt, and the last is a 1 ton box van. Beth the vans are provided with sliding panels behind the drivers' seats.
Three Berliet vehicles are staged by L. C. Ita•wlance and Co., Ltd., on Stand No. 337. One of these is a 4-5 ton chaindriven chassis with cleta.chable-sided And canvas-tilted lorry body. The next size of vehicle is a 30 cwt. French Army type with canvas tilt and lorry body, This • ebassis is worm-driven. The amallest exhibit is a 15 cwt. van, spiral-beveldriven, and also with canvas tilt. All the machines are well worth considering, as the BerIiet is one of the best French makes.
. Examples of that most novel vehicle, the Autocar, are being shown for the first time by the concessionnaires, James C. Fell. Ltd., on Stand No. 175, One of the exhibits is a 2 ton plain lorry, but the other two are tippers, both embodying may points of interest The one known as the "High Lift" will raise the load sufficiently high to dump it into a railway truck • the other tipper cannot be overrun, as the operating arm merely rotates and lifts the body up and down. Cranes (Dereham), Ltd., in addition to those exhibits already mentioned, show on Stand No. 141 a Fiat chassis carrying a Dyson horsebox.
At the time of our visit to Stand No. 321, in possession.of Dennis Bros., Ltd., the 60 h.p. Dennis fire-engine was busy supplying water -for washing-down the other vehiclesThese were a fine 40 h.p. 30 seater motor coach, painted pearl grey and with patent hood, which folds back without obstructing the driver's view rearwards; a 36 seater saloot bat with smoking compartment; a 5 ton tipping
wagon with double telescopic hydraulic gear and self-opening tailboard; a3 ton farmer's lorry, and, finally, a 2 ton hinged-sided terry.
Walker Bros. (Wigan) Ltd., have a most interesting vehicle on Stand No. 324. This is a 3i ton tipping wagon on a special short wheelbase chassis, provided with the Pagefield patented tipping gear, consisting of a. double telescopic screw driven from the gearbox through a bevel pinion and two bevel wheels either of which can be meshed with the pillion to raise or lower the body. Tiab latter is of exceptional size, making up for its restricted length by being very high. It has folding side doors and tailboard.
Only one 'vehicle is shown on Stand No. 326 by the Austin Motor Co., Ltd. This is their famous 30 cwt. lorry, the engine of which develops 35 b.h.p. at
1,300 r.p.m. The engine, clutch, and gearbia-x form a unit; four forward speeds, actuated by a centrally-positioned lever, are provided, and the final drive is by overhead worm. The road wheels are carried on roller bearings.
We had some little trouble locating the trailers shown by CarrosserieLatymer, Ltd. but eventually found them on Stand No. 116. These are a patent ;mobile horsebox with exceptionally low loading line and door ramp ; high-sided trailer for carrying livestock or agricultural produce, and a steelbodied trailer for heavy work.
On Stand No. 316, occupied by F. Kenning and Sons, we found two Karrier machines, one a magnificent 30 seater motor coal+ with low fokling hood and Rn is ft WI-in royal blue, and
the other a large platform-bodied lorry painted red. In addition to these there are a Vulcan tipping wagon with double ram hydraulic tipping gear, a Vulcan motor coach, and a special motor coach body an a. 1 ton Ford chassis, Visitors should certainly not miss -the demonstration 5 to Karrier lorry, fitted with the Parker suction gas producer, which is to be found on Stand No. 111, together with a complete set of Parker plant fittings.
The exhibits staged by Guy Motors, Ltd., on Stand No. 317, make a brave -show. The most striking vehicles are the 18 seater motor coach finished in French grey, and the Vincent htirse box mounted on a Guy chassis. In addition to these there are on view a chassis carrying a detachable-sided stake body,
motor livestock van, 'a side-tipping wagon, and a fine saloon omnibus.
On Stand No. 311 the Maudslay Motor Cm, Ltd., display two of their famous lorries. One of these is a .6 tonner with a platform body, and the other a 5 ton vehicle with mechanicallyoperated either-side tipping body. The particular feature of the larger vehicle is the mounting of the driver's cab alongside the engine, thus giving a, body loading space of 22 ft. The usual Maudsla,y features of overhead camshaft, four-speed gearbox and double redue tion spur and bevel year, banjo-type rear axle are retained.
The most striking vehicle exhibited by Republic Trucks,-. Ltd., on Stand No. 307, is a 30 ei.vt, delivery van on pneumatic tyres. The body of this vehicle is painted bright yellow, with chocolate panelling and chocolate and grey striped turnunders. The Other vehicles shown are a 30i cwt. chassis carrying a stake body and equipped with a 20 cwt. trailer., and a, 2 ton chassis with a special body, which is really eight bodies in one. This. body should make a special appeal to farmers.
Electric Vehicle Exhibits.
On Stand No. 162, which is occupied by Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, Ltd., is shown is 3; ten Orwell electric wagon fitted with wide platform body. This machine has already been described by us in detail.It will suffice, therefore, for us to mention that in this veltiele the driver is well protected, the only open
ings being at the side. The batteries 850 suspended under the frame, and the drive is by two independent motors, An example of the 2 ton Greenbat truck for factory, station use, etc., is being shown on Stand No. 19, by W. 60001year and Sons, Ltd.
A 2; ton electric vehicle with hinged sided lorry body is shewn by Richard Garrett and Sons, Ltd. (branch of A.G.E.) on Stand No. 47. On this machine the accumulators are slung un der the frame,. approximately amidships. A single electric motor is embodied, and this drives through a differential countershaft and roller chains to the rear wheels.
An interesting 3; ton electric lorry,' which was shown for the first time at Olympia last year, is exhibited on Stand No. 334 by Newton Bros, (Derby, Ltd. This machine has two driving motors, one geared to each of the rear road wheels. The motors are mounted on springs in such a manner that all road shocks must first _pass through two spring system in series, The Royal Show covers a. surprisingly large area of ground and, to 'examine all the steam, petrol and electric vehicles and agricultural machines with anything like thoroughness, the visitor must be prepared to walk some miles and to "spTid at least two full days on the-spot. --rortunately for those who have not this. time to spare, few will need or wish, to cover the Show so minutely and it Will • be sufficient, for the business man to inspect carefully only those exhibits which particularly appeal. to him
So far as possible, we have taken the stands in numerical order, but, owing to the late arrival of some of the exhibits. we have had to diverge from this procedure in a few instances, although every machine of interest is mentioned.