VEHICLES FOR GOODS TRANSPORT.
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MHE SHOW provided a host of light and heavy goods-carrying vehicles of all types, ranging from a tiny threewheeled parcelvan with a small twostroke engine to huge tractor-trailer pantechnicons.
Rochet Schneider show a most useful vehicle for butchers ; this has a slatted centre-portion for carrying stock and anenclosed back portion provided with a refrigerator, shelves, hooks for joints and spaces for the various implements of the trade, Meat May he kept in perfect condition for a week. A second Rochet Schneider is fitted up as a pig
c38 carrier for Brittany, here the farmers rise at 3 a.m., so the cab is quite enclosed. The body has an upper floor at the front for small pigs, whilst the lower part is divided into two by a drop gate. Protection is given to the animals by roll-down curtains. Huge vans are shown in large numbers for Au Printemps, Galeries Lafayette, etc., these like the coaches are invariably equipped with pneumatic tyres, and many have front-wheel brakes. . Some slight modifications are occurring in the farmer's vehicle, the type known as the " charrette Normancle," in which there is a front on car lines and a natural slatted-wood rear portion, being in many cases so altered as more closely to resemble a private car, the drop tailboard being usually partly concealed by the hood, when this is folded back. Examples are the La Licorne and De Dion.
There is one body of the farmer's type on a 15 cwt chassis called La Fermiere; this has a Panhard engine, plate clutch with four easily adjustable springs and a four-speed gearbox suspended by four brackets from two tubu lar cross-members. The torque tube is anchored by a bridge bracket to the rear crass-member supporting the gearbox..
One large pantechnicon is shown on an Aries chassis' it is rather high and has no well, but entrance is facilitated by the fitting of three steps ia the dropped tailboard, which fold Hush when nut required. The body is well padded, and the vehicle runaon.pnetunatic tyres.
Having mentioned tyres we may here point out that only the heaviest vehicles are still using solids.
Tractor-trailer vehicles are fairly popular, one of the best being the Renault; the trailer on this has folding front wheels and an autoniatie lock. Stall rollers are mounted on the trailer frame and these run up shaped ramps. on the tractor, the forward portion thus
being lifted, with its small wheels clear, Chehard et Walcker show one of their tractors coupled to a four-wheeled -trailer built by Lagacho Glazinann. This trailer has an end-tipping body with Wood 'Horizontal Hydraulic gear, the pressure for operating which is aupplied through armoured pipes from a pump on the tractor. The tractor has a dual type axle with separate load-carrying member, and the trailer drawbar is secured to a special lock which can be raised or. lowered by a screw running in a stout vertical pillar, thus although the trailer is four-wheeled, some of the weight can be transferred to the tractor to afford better wheel adhesion.
Another tractor of striking interest is the new all-wheel-driven and all-wheelsteered Latil with driving pulley at the rear, and pneumatic-ted wheels provided with snow' •Sphds which can lad folded out Of action towards centre of wheel or thrown outwards over the tyre. • The smallest parcelcar in the Show ia the three-wheeled Villard with frontwheel drive. Steering is also effected through this wheel, which rocks as required without affecting the position of the chainwheel of the final drive. The brakes act on all three wheels. Power is provided by a two-stroke engine driving through a friction gear giving seven speeds and reverse.
• Another neat little van is the 5 h.p. Citroen. One of the most striking vans is the Unic on the roof of which is a life-like representation of a lion, which is appropriate as it is to advertise Lion blacking for boots.