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Captain E. A. Beattie desires us to point out that he is not a director of Sully's (Cardiff), Limited, and we regret our misapprehension in this matter, which we trust may cause no further inconvenience to anybody.
The clerk to -the West Ham Board of Guardians, whose office is at Union Road, Leytonstone, X.E., is prepared to receive tenders for the supply of a motor ambulance. Specification and form of tender will be supplied on application.
Turkish Possibilities.
Major L. L. R. Samson, the British Consul at Adrianople, in his report for the year 1908, suggests that a motor service between that town And the railway station, some 3,1 miles distant, would probably be a success. He believes that two heavy cars, capable of carrying goods and passengers, might also serve the villages and districts of Ortakeui, Mustapha Pasha, Kirk Kilisse, and South. Major Samson is prepared to submit particulars of suitable vehicles to interested persons.
Lacre Vans.
The aggregate of large fleets of Lacre vans continues to be augmented by several important owners. The announcements of the Lacre Motor Car Company, Limited, of Poland Street, W., which regularly appear in this journal, now have added to them a further repeat order, for six vans, by William Whiteley, Limited, of Westbourne Grove, which company already has 15 Lacre vehicles on the road. To the Lacre Company belongs the unique record of having sold upwards of 120 vans to six leading London firms, whose names are household words : we refer to the houses of Shoolbred, Harrod, Whiteley, Joseph Lyons, Carter-Paterson, and Maple. Mr. Claude Browne, the head of the concern, has arranged the largest sales.
R.A.S.E.
The journal of the Royal Agricultural Society of England, being volume the 69th, has been issued, and it contains the accounts for the year ended the 31st December last, including those for the show at Newcastleon Tyne. We congratulate Mr. Thomas Mellow, the secretary, upon the continued success of his administration, and are glad to note that the Society, which was practically bankrupt in the year .1904, now has invested funds in excess of £36,000.
The receipts at Newcastle were: Local subscriptions and prizes, £6,049; implement section entries, £5,766; live-stock entries, £3,314; poultry entries, £126; other entries, £174; catalogue proceeds, £1,081; miscellaneous receipts, £703; admissions to show yards, £16,334; entrances to horse rings, £1,458; sales, £393—total, £35,598. The expenditure was: Net cost of erection of show yard, £9,110; surveyor, £339; printing, £1,572; advertising, £1,139; postage and carriage, £138; money prizes, £8,847; forage for live-stock, £743; judges' fees and expenses, £496; badges and rosettes, £79; general administration, £2,030; farm prize competition, £208; implement trials, £130; general showyard expenses, £713; balance (being surplus), £10,054—total, £35,598.
Leeds-Scarborough-Leeds.
Last Saturday's motor-defence trip, from Leeds to Scarborough, was marred by the weather. Some two score of fair-weather motorists stayed away, and a proportion of the Territorials had to go one way or the other by rail. Colonel Stead, commanding the 7th Battalion of the West Yorkshire Regiment, was in charge of the defence operations, and the Yorkshire Automobile Club co-operated to help with cars ; 723 men paraded, in addition to officers, and 200 had to go by train. Mr. Bennett Ilurleigh, the war correspondent of the " Daily Telegraph," was driven to and from Scarborough in one of the cars owned by Mr. F. J. -Kitson, the present Lord Mayor of Leeds, who was himself present throughout.
Lack of space prevents our dealing in detail with the experiences of the day, which were held to be highly satisfactory, and upon which we cordially congratulate the Chairman of the Y.A.C., Mr. E. H. Hepper, and its secretary, Mr. C. P. Wilson. The Dennis and Arrol-Johnston vehicles did admirable work, the Arrol-Johnston having been specially driven from Paisley, by Mr. E. J. C. Roberts, for the purpose. A Halley van also attracted much favourable notice. The guns were carried by two Dennis vehicles, and they completed the 60-mile run to Seamer in time for action. Messrs. E. and F. Waudby, fishmongers, of 11 and 12, Fossgate, York, have started a 10h.p. Vulcan van for their local deliveries.
The income of the Motor Union, for the year ended the 31st December last, was £10,791 and the expenditure £10,788. The assets of the Union now exceed £10,000 sterling.
Further steps are likely to be taken, during the next few weeks, to enable the London County Council to obtain powers to establish an efficient ambulance service for London.
Export Albions.
We reported, last, week, (page 132 ante) how Albion chars-à-banes were " taking on " in the Colonies and abroad, and how comparatively freely repeat orders were coming in as a result of experiences with them. As might be expected. Albion vans and lorries are doing equally well, and it is not inappropriate, therefore, tha-; we should illustrate one such vehicle— a 25ewt. van. It was supplied, a year ago, to Cargills, Ltd., of Glasgow and Colombo, and our view is from a photograph taken out in Ceylon.
C o -.one rat ive Saciety News.
Page 160 of this issue has upon it an illustration which helps to show the ubiquity of the commercial motor. The Newcastle-on-Tyne branch of the Co-operative Wholesale Society is one which owns a total of 17 commercial motors, and the :journey to and from the premises of the Ryhope Co-operative Society. 16 miles away, is easily accomplished in half a day. The traffic department at Newcastle is under the management of Mr. J. E. Gill. who has been a reader of this journal since number one.
Apropos the paper on motors for cooperative societies, by Mr. J. Frost, of Barnsley, which was reported in our issue of the 25th March, we are interested to note that Dennis Brothers, Limited, of Guildford, has turned the occasion to account by producing a very neat little booklet entitled " Cooperation and the Motor." This includes the leading arguments from the paper in question, and is embellished with illustrations of Dennis vehicles.
Two Trailers.
The Golden Valley Ochre and Oxide Company, Limited, of Wick, near Bristol, has on more than one occasion advised us of its satisfactory experiences with Wellington tractors. We have now pleasure in illustrating such a tractor with two loaded trucks behind it, the machine being used for the nonce as a. traction engine. This alternative method of working a tractor, under the Locomotive Act of 1898, at times when the routes and road conditions allow the extra truck to be hauled, appears to commend itself to an increasing number of tractor owners.
Historic Motors.
An exhibition of early motor vehicles is to he organised in connection with the Imperial International Exhibition at Shepherd's Bush. The honorary secretary of the committee is Mr. Claude Johnson, and he will be pleased to have any offers addressed to him at 15, Conduit Street, W. The committee includes Colonel Holden, Sir David Salomons, Bart., Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Mr. Worby Beaumont, Dr. Hele-Shaw, Mr. Mervyn O'Gorman, and Mr. James Swinlnirne. The Stourbridge Motor and Carriage Works, Limited, has been registered with an authorised capital of 212,000 in £1 shares.
The L.C.C. and other owners of electric tramcars find motorvans very useful at times of section breaks-down. On Friday last, for example, after a line failure between Cross Street and Liverpool Road, Islington, some 50 cars had to Joe hauled from the affected section by the useful motor.
S.M M.T.
Mr. E. Manville has been re-elected President of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, and Messrs. S. F. Edge and Charles Jarrott have been elected Vice-Presidents. The now committee of manogement is constituted thus: Messrs. Atkey, Burford, Citroen, Gascoine, Instone, Lanchester, Letts, McCormack, Sangster, H. Smith, Straker and Swindley. Members of the committees of sections, with the exception of those who have made no attendances, are re-appointed.
In regard to the proposed exhibition at Edinburgh, in January next, an application from the Scottish Motor Trade Association, for the official patronage of the Society, has been approved.
Jacobs' Biscuits by Motor.
W. and R.. Jacobs and Company. Limited, of London, Liverpool, and Dublin, made experimental purchases of motorvons as far back as the year 1899. The company had unsatisfactory experiences in those early days, but' it is highly pleased with the results yielded by its later acquisitions. These are two-ton Thornyeroft vans with 30h.p. engines ; one of these is now in use, whilst a. second is on order —the latter per Mr. C. Pemberton Wooler, of 3, Winston Gardens, Headingley, Leeds, who represents the Thornycroft motor interests in the North of England. See page 151. Allen-Liversidge front-wheel brakes are to be fitted at a cost of 230 to the petrol motor hose-tender now under construction for the West Ham Corporation by illessrs. Lloyd and Plaister, of Wood Green, N.
25cwt, Halleys.
We hear good reports of the work done by the 16h.p. worm-driven Halley vans for 25ewt. loads, two of which were recently supplied to the Junior Army and Navy Stores, Aldershot branch. One of these vehicles is illustrated below, and a similar couple were
recently supplied to Messrs. Marshal and Snelgrove, of Oxford Street.
At Olympia.
Further to the illustration which we gave, on page 134 of' our last week's issue, showing one of the latest motor water-ballast rollers made by Messrs. Barford and Perkins, of Peterborough, the improved arrangement of the .steering roller should be
carefully noted. Each of the side members of the main frame has now only one " set," and their forward ends are joined by a. massive casting in which a spring-mounted turntable is fitted. This new arrangement permits the employment of a leading roller of larger diameter than has previously been fitted by this maker. The new design has been evolved after lengthy experiment and trial, and the machine is thoroughly practical in every way. The roller which we inus trated is still being shown in the Builders' Exhibition, at Olympia, where it will remain until after the closing of the exhibition on Saturday next. Handiness, economy, speed, and effectiveness are the principal points about this roller, and the use of one is the duty of most road surveyors in the country. The old-type, clumsy and unduly-heavy steam-roller is not the machine for every job.
M.A.B. Small Ambulances.
At the meeting of the Metropolitan Asylums Board on Saturday last, the Ambulance Committee reported that tenders were received from 36 firms for eight chassis for motor ambulances. The tenders had been referred to the expert whose services had been employed on previous occasions, and acting on his advice the Committee selected the chassis offered by Dennis Bros., Ltd., at £327 each without tires. The companynamed had supplied seven of the motor omnibuses at present owned by the managers.
On the advice of the expert., an undertaking was given not to publish the prices of the unaccepted motor tenders on this occasion.
For the bodies, the following tenders were received :—Wm. and Thos. Robson, Ltd., 60, Parringdon Road, E.C,, £359: Chalmers and Co., High Street, Redhill, Surrey, £384; G. Redhouse and Son, 93 to 99, Caswell Road, E.C., £398; Brown, Hughes, and Strachan, Ltd., Netherwood Road, Shepherd's Bush, W., £440; John C. Beadle, Lowfield Street, Dartford, Kent, £455; Wm. Harding and Co., Ltd., 49, Lune Street, Preston, Lanes., £480; Holmes and Co., Derby, £480; Marehant and Fletcher, Brook Mews, Paddington, 2480; Wilson and Co., 21, RisinghilI Street, Pentonville, N., £496; P. Boswell and Sons, Borough Road, S.E. £490; Hewer's Car Bodies, Ltd., Alclbourne Road, Coventry, £524: Bayley's, Ltd., 42, Newington Causeway, S.E., £544; E. and H. flora, Ltd., 36-38, Peckham Road, S.E., 2550; Todd and Wright, Ltd., 34, Craven Road, Lancaster Gate, Hyde Park, W., £500 ; Atkinson and Philipson. Newcastle-on-Tyne, £600; Bristol Wagon and Carriage Works Co., Ltd., Bristol, £640; Wilson and Stockall, Bury, Lancs., 2680; The Belle Isle Co., Ltd., Belle Isle, York Road, N., 2.680; Stagg and Robson, Ltd., Selby, Yorkshire, £688; .J. Liversidge and Son. Ltd., 561, Old Kent Road. S.E., £760; Thames Bank Wharf Motor Works, Ltd., 112, Grosvenor Road, Westminster, S.W., £840; Million-Cuiet, 48, Old Bond Street, W., 2840.
In conclusion, the Committee recommended that the tender of Dennis Bros., Ltd., of Hounslow Street, Guildford, for eight chassis without tires he accepted at 2327 each, and that the tender of 'Wm. and Thos. Robson, Ltd., of 60, Farringdon Road, E.C.• to supply and fit bodies to the chassis for 2359 be accepted. The recommendation was adopted.