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5,000 Miles a Week.

28th October 1924
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WIVE thousand miles a week is J2 covered by the motor fleet of Messrs. Lewis's, the proprietors of the largest emporium in Liverpool. Their fleet consists of 11 Garfords, a Commer Car and a Beardmore-Precision motorcycle carrier, .which is used exclusively in connection with this company's

valeting service. The motor's deliver 600,000 parcels a year to the homes of customers making purchases at the store. No charge is made for delivery, and no matter bow small an article may be, Messrs. Lewis's are willing to de liver it within an extremely wide radius from the stores.

From the department from which the purchases are made, the goods, on being transferred to the despatch department, are assembled, checked, packed and labelled and classified according to the delivery route. To •serve an area of 20 miles round Liverpool calls for organization, efficiency and scheduled routes which must not overlap or lead to waste of running time, Christmas traffic which will soon be prepared for, increases the difficulty of motor delivery, and at last Christmas season 15,000 parcels were delivered, and delivered safely, in one week.

One of the Garford vans is exclusively employed in running between the store and the company's tailoring and boot repairing factory at Litherland. Messrs. Lewis's have no horse vans in their service now, the transport work being exclusively effected by motor vehicles. It will be observed from the shape or the van roofs that the practice of carrying parcels on, top of the bodies it eschewed.

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Locations: Liverpool

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