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Nigerian Transport.

2nd September 1919
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Which of the following most accurately describes the problem?

At the .farewell banquet given by the African, Trade Section of the Liverpool Chamber of Commerce to Sir Hugh Clifford, prior to his departure for Nigeria, one of the principil themes of the speeches was the necessity for more motor transport on the coast, particularly in Nigeria.

This deficiency will, it is understood, be fully met in the near future, as there IMn been registered anew company called Nigeria Motors, Ltd., which is launched under the best auspices, with powerful financial backing. It is a private company, with a capital of £20,000 in £1 shares, the objects being to carry on in Nigeria and elsewhere! in Africa the brismees of running meiter omnibuses, ears, cabs, and. lorries.of all kinds. The directors are men whose names are as household words in .1.1-te West African trade, and it is expected that when the company is eetablishEsd it will lead to material and rapid • developments in opening up the interior of Nigeria and other West African Colonies. At the present time the new venture only deals with Lagos, but it is anticipated that expansion will rapidly take place.

The Smoke Nuisance.

A driver of a steam wagon employed by Messrs. I. and W. Holdsworth, carriers, of Halifax was recently sum

moned under the Halifax, Act, the

offence being that the wagon in his charge did not consume its own smoke.

Evidence was given by Police-constable Evans that a, steam wagon was standing in Corporation Street and was emitting from the chimney dense 'clouds of black smoke. When he found the driver he took some action which stopped the smoke leaving the chimney.

Mr. Eaton Smith (of Messrs. •Learoyd and Co., solicitors, Huddersfield), instructed by the Commercial Motor Users Association, said the question raisedwas extremely important. se far as the users of steam wagons were concerned. Defendants were the victims of circumstances, and -wero sorry to cause the annoyance, but they could not possibly stop smoke being emitted from time to time. Theoretically, Welsh Smokelesjs coal was supposed to be on the market last month, but in this district-eand, he believed, in Yorkshire as a whole—no such coal had come to hand up to the present.. Mr. Smith read correspondence in support of this statement, arid added •'Until we do get it we cannot help emitting smoke." If the owners of .steam lorries were proceeded against they could not help themselves, and, without ally threat being thrown out, the question was whether they would keep the whole of their lorries LG or let them go out. For the wagon_ in question coke did not answer, and the coal the firm were using wa-s the very best they could get next to Welsh smokeless coal. They lad used anthracite briquettes, but could not keep the smoke down. Smokelees coal, as a matter of fact, was more economical than the coal the firm were using at the present time, because it went twice as far.

Mr. Smith's statements were . sup• ported by the defendant, who denied that any action of his had stopped the nuisance when the officer drew his attention to it.

The Bench dismissed the case on payment of costs.

The L.C.C. and the Leyland Order.

We have been requested by Leyland Motors (1914), Ltd., to make it clear in connection with the announcement of the placing of an order by the London County Coencil recently for a. Leyland machine for immediate delivery, that the vehicle which the company Was able to offer in this respect was one which was acquired by them froni the War Department and was not brie allocated from the normal output.

Municipal Buses.

The motorbus service inaugurated at Birkenhead by the Corporation has proved such a striking success that it is doubtful if there will be any further extension of the tramway system.

Birkenhead finds the new method of locomotion is more efficient, quicker, and far more economical, and is deciding that the buses will be the " tramcars" of the future.

With the extension of the bofough boundaries and the big housing schemes of the town and, district the necessity f or rapid locomotion is imperative, and it is argued that the tramcar is out of date. The possibilities of motorbuses for cross-centitry work are unlimited.

Personal Pars.

Sir Boverten Redwood left estate to the value of £163,013, the whole of which is left for the benefit of the family, except an annuity of £100 to his secretary.

Mr. H. G. Burford has just returned from the States, having secured several valuable licences for the manufacture :of improved devices for tractors, and for the BUrford two-ton lorries.

Mr. H. 0. Davies has accepted a special appointment with Vickers,Ltd., and accordingly will be resigning his position as advertising manager to John L Thornycsoft and Co., Ltd., which position he has held for several years past. Whilst severing his direct connection with the motor trade, he " will, nevertheless, still continue in office as hen. secretary ti) the Society of Motor _Advertising Managers for the coining session.

In the process of after-war reconstruction of the railways particularly, many noteworthy changes have occurred. One that is (4 interest to us particularly is the promotion of Mr. Dingley, who has been toms known to the industrialvehicle industry as the head of the Motor. Tianspert Department of the Loudon and North-Western Railway Co., with his headquarters at Crewe. Mr. Din gley has now been appointed superintendent of transport sea whole to that great company, and while retaining his control of thels and N.W.R. motor vehicle organization he will he able in his new pesition to ea-ordinate the company's other transport problems with these of his own original department. This arrangement would appear to follow -closely the line of thought cif those railway authorities who have been responsible for the framing of the Ways and Communications Bill..

Mr. Dingley is known particularly to the staff of this journal by reason of the exceptional and helpful courtesy which he has invariably shown to them whenever we were seeking advice or information with regard to his company's motoring activities. He pershnally planned and arranged facilities for the very interesting tale of the whole of the farflung organization of the L. and N.W.R. Motor Dept. that was published for the benefit of the readers of The Commercial Motor in the June just previous to the outbreak of hostilities in 1914.


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