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We are happy to give publicity to an interesting " live " picture of a Thornycroft van in the service of a cabinet maker and house furnisher. The machine is a 24-cwt., two-cylinder, 16 b,p. van and has been in the
constant employment of its owner, Mrs. George Read, of East Grinstead, since last September.
A noteworthy feature of this user's deliveries is that very many of them are to country houses which
have carriage drives. Their owners constantly specify the sending of the motorvan, in the place of the ordinary horsed pantechnicon, in order to save the well-kept private roads through their grounds.
Mrs. Read writes of the Thornycroft and of the above aspect of rnotorvan delivery : "I am finding it very useful ; I used it on a large removal last week (about 12 pantechnicon loads) my customer insisting on my using the motor to prevent the drive being cut up."
Many people think that a lengthy training is a sine qua non for a motor driver. The driver of this van took it from the works at Basingstoke all the way to East Grinstead after less than a fortnight's tuition. For the 12 previous years this man drove Mrs. Read's horsed vans ; now he strongly protests at the thought of driving horses again, as his leisure would be very much curtailed by the extra time and work they require as compared with his motorvan. We note that this Thornycroft machine was supplied through the company's representative in the South-east of England, Mr. S. Bergersen of 5, Avenue Terrace, Maidstone