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Allchin.
William Alichin, Ltd., of Globe Works, Northampton, is one cf the school of loco.-type constructors, and the company's road vehicles are the outcome of close personal association with the problems involved, both in the shops and in use, by the responsible chiefs of the company. We hear high encomiums passed upon the Mlchin five-tonners, by London users who are personally known to us, whilst similar reports have been communicated to us concerning the lighter-type three-tonners in other parts of the country. The boiler mounting and frame construction are particular features, and these vehicles have won for themselves excellent records in low running costs. They steam freely and pull well.
Alley and MacLellan (Sentinel).
Alley and MacLellan, Ltd. of Sentinel Works, Polma,die, Ltd.,
and Sentinel Works, Shrewsbury, is a company which particularly supported the Royal Show of 1913. This company specializes in a design of wagon which 'embodies a. water-tube boiler, an engine with poppet valves, and a single-chain reduction from crankshaft to back axle. The vehicle has many unique features, the outcome of joint design on the part of Ma. S. E. Alley and Mr. D. H. Simpson ; the latter gentleman now occupies an important position, after earlier service in the A.S.C., M.T., on the staff of the Director of Trench Warfare.
Users of Sentinel wagons are numerous throughout Lancashire and Yorkshire ; Sir Gilbert Greenall's company (Greenall, Whitley and Co., Ltd., of Warrington and St. Helens) is amongst those in the neighbourhood which give splendid accounts of the service which they obtain from machines of this make.
The company specializes in types which are suitable for net loads of between five and six tons, or between three and four tons. It has been one of the strongest advocates of rubber-tired wheels, and an unusually-high proportion of its output is so equipped. The company's action, about a year ago, in devoting a. second works, the one at Shrewsbury, wholly to the manufacture of steam wagons, has been completely justified by results.
rodens.
Our friends at Sandbach take strong views about the holding of this year's "Royal." We believe they consider it is a mild form of scandal that it should be held at all, and that it is not consonant with the demand of the Government that all business men should concentrate their thoughts on one object—the winning of the war as soon as possible. Apart from these personal views, there undoubtedly is a blank in any Royal Show which does not have one or more roden wagons in position. This may be said particularly of Manchester, in which district the popularity of the Foden is wholly justified by the numbers which run, with such marked regularity, through the main approaches to, and the streets
of, Cottoriopolis. Foden reputation has been built up and made good within what one might term "a stone's throw of Manchester." The success of the, one-man ownerdriving, making his living, and paying for the vehicle at one and the same time, is almost synonymous with ownership of a Foden, so great is the support which the company has received in this particular branch. There are, of course, larger and wealthier owners, in and around Manchester, and each one of them seems to be well satisfied with the power and longevity of the make. Here, too, we find a very considerable incidence of solidrubber-tire fitting, particularly as regards the 31-ton size.
Halliard.
3. and E, Hall, Ltd., of 10, St. Swithin's Lane, London, B.C., and Dartford, Kent, which company enjoys a reputation for high-class engineering work extending over many decades in the refrigeratingmachinery trade, has now won for itself an equally-high place in the motor industry. The company is one of the approved contractors to the War Department, and its output, although not solarge as that of some other contractors, is similarly absorbed. The company is comparatively a, newcomer to the ranks of supporters of Royal Shows, but we have reason to believe that, in due course, it will take its place thereat with definite regularity.
The manager of the motor department is Mr. Frank Churchill, whose name will recall to many Lancashire and Yorkshire buyers his earlier association with the firm of Messrs. Durham, Churchill and Co., of Sheffield; he is chairman of the Commercial Vehicle Committee of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.
Leyland.
Leyland Motors (1914), Ltd., Leyland, Lancs. is the only company in the United Kingdom which has successfully continued the joint manufacture of both steam-driven
and petrol-driven vehicles. It is characteristically a Lancashire corapany, its earliest work in the county in respect of steam wagons going back to the year 1895. Steam lawn-mowers occupied its attentions before that. The company's earliest productions—or at least the earliest to be exposed to the public gaze—on the internal. combustion side were towards the end of the year 1804. Its output, at the present moment, is wholly taken by the Government, extending to nearly 40 three-ton chassis weekly, all of which go to the War Department, with the exception of two a week for the Government of India, one fire-engine a week for municipal purchasers, and one "released" vehicle for a W.D. contractor.
The Leyland Co. has regularly supported the " Royal " for many years, and the relative emptiness of the Implement Section is the more accentuated, by its absence this year, because of that previously-uninterrupted participation.
Scottish Commercial Cars.
Last year's exhibition, at Nottingham, was marked by the first display of the now-established Scottish Commercial Cars Co., Ltd., with its Caledon chassis. This company is represented in the Manchester district by Frances Motors, Ltd., of Hardman Street, and it has many customers there. We are able to note the following amongst other owners of this make C. C. Dunkerley and Co., Ltd., iron and steel merchants, Store Street, Manchester; E. Bridge, Dunkirk, Leyland, near Preston ; Nash and Co., baulage contractors, 33, Ashfield, Wavertree, Liverpool ; Morecambe Motors, Ltd., Harbour Garage, Morecambe ; Blackburn West End Garage, Ltd., Crosshill, Preston New ROad, Blackburn ; and S. and J. Woods, Ltd., 83a, Lytham Road, Blackpool.
Straker-Squire.
Straker-Squire (1913), Ltd., naturally took a prominent place at the Bristol "Royal" of 1913; the company has not otherwise, so far, been a regular supporter of the exhibitions of the R.A.B.E. This Maker has a range of models which practically embraces the whole requirements of commercial-motor users between 15 cwt. and 6 tons, but it makes a special. feature of the 25-cwt. and 3-ton types. It has recently established new and fullyequipped works at Sherland Road, Twickenham, in addition to its Lon-. don repairing depot in Nelson Square, Blackfriars S.E. Large numbers of Straker-Squire motorvans are used by some of the leading railway companies in the United Kingdom, and are found to pay their way in town collection.
Star.
The Star Engineering Co., Ltd., of Wolverhampton, supported the 1915 Show. It has sold large numbers of machines for war purposes, and its models are widely used by the leading petrol companies. The company's works at Wolverhampton are about to be utilized more
closely on Government work, but intending purchasers should not fail to address inquiries to them, as the position in respect of " releases" may, of course, vary from time to time hereafter.
Tasker.
W. Tasker and Sons, Ltd., Waterloo Iron Works, Andover, . Ha,nts., now specializes in chain-driven tractors and wagons. The company, although it is not exhibiting, is in a position to deal with both inquiries and orders. It is one of the pioneers of road locomotion, in the realm of light traction en gines, now commonly called " tractors' " and the company's design embodies points which are unique. These machines are known as the "Little Gia:nt " tractors ; they are much in favour with haulage contractors in many counties the kingdom over.
Yorkshire.
The Yorkshire Commercial Motor Co., Pepper Road, Hunslet, Leeds, is amongst the makers of repute who are debarred from exhibiting by the rules of the Ministry of Munitions. Whilst the company is unable, therefore, to show anything of interest to the agriculturist or haulage man, its exceptional type of lorry, with transverse boiler at the front, deserves, to be recalled to the minds of all *ho are looking into road-transport organization at the moment. The boiler is designed primarily for coke firing, and a vertical compound engine, located behind the space which is allotted to the driver, is employed. A single roller chain takes the drive from the countershaft to the back axle.
This company's smaller model for loads of about 3i tons is also one which sells in considerable numbers, fitted with rubber tires, although the company still does its chief business in the larger model for loads of between five and six tons.