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The World's Press on the Utilitarian Value of the Commercial Motor.
The New Duty of the Farmer's Boy.
Every man on the farm should be able to start an engine as easily as he can harness and hitch his teams.—" Ga Power Age.'" What Does the L.C.C. Say ?
With the advent of thy taical.) and the petrol motor a solution of London's traffic difficulties seems to have been reached. —" The Age," Melbourne.
The Value of the Parade.
The day of unsteady and uncertain motor travel has long since passed, but there are many business men who do not know this vet, and the parade will teach them.—" The Horseless ge."
Why ?
Electric rail traction is claimed to be so cheap that it is a little difficult tp understand why the directors of the Metropolitan Electric Tramways should want to place 100 new omnibuses on the roads to act as feeders to their tramways.-The Westminster Gazette."
Lies are What the Other Person Tells.
The tendency towards centralizing the control and supply of energy is so irresistible that when one comes across an apparent contradiction by . facts it is prima-facie evidence that the case is improperly stated. — " The Electrical Times " comments on articles in " Westminster Gazette."
Accidents in a Glasgow Street.
Further, the police produced statistics of the accidents which had occurred in the street during the last three years from which it transpired that these included the sum total of three in which motor vehicles were concerned, and six in which horse traffic was involved. And yet the application is to close the street to motor vehicles only I -" Auto-Motor J ourn al. "
-Would a Tour Bring Business ? An Opening for Vans.
The idea of organizing tours abroad for business men, or exhibiting goods on board ship in foreign ports, has never " caught on " seriously in this coun try. . . The idea seems to us, nevertheless, to be an attractive mm, with commercial possibilities that are not likely to be realized in any other way.—" Commercial Intelligence."
The Railways Utilize Commercial Motors.
The "good old coaching days," when such a notice as this drew a crowd to the Bell Savage Inn as early as five o'clock in the morning, have gone never to return, but, each year, owing to the advent of the char-i-bancs, educated travellers are realizing more and more that holidays spent amid the varied beauty spots and historic old towns of their native oonntry are well comparable with those in foreign climes.—" Gt. Western Railway Magazine."
Following in Father's Footsteps.
The time has come when the motoryin is no longer an experiment but a solid business proposition that the progressive business man cannot afford to be without. —" The Motor in Australia."
It is Good
It is the duly of all authorities when they do take up the Fire Brigades Acts to make use of every possible means of getting early calls and answering them quickly. It is good to have a motor fire engine.—" lire."
We Return the Salute Gracefully.
The real value of the commercial motor to those whose business depended upon means of transport dawned upon thousands of traders and business men for the first time during the two strikes of last year."—" The Financial News."
Montreal Grasps the Possibilities.
Large manufacturers are beginning to recognize the fact that the trucks are in many ways greatly superior to horse teams, and this year is ill see a great many used in Montreal.—" Canadian Automobile."
Manufacturers Should Make Note.
The reason why mechanical traction has not long ago superseded the oldfashioned bullock-carts is that so far no serious attempt has been made to introduce motor lorries in India. This is strange in view of the fact that there are profitable openings for motor road trains. —" Indian Industries and Power."
He Who Hesitates.
Those firms who are still debating in their own minds as to the advisability of substituting the motor lorry for horse traction, will find themselves very much behindhand when they have at last decided to make the change. There is no doubt now that both time and money is saved by the horseless vehicle, and putting off the question really means loss of business.--'' Newcastle Chronicle."
French Railways Court Disaster with High-speed Trains.
My object in troubling you thus about this very dangerous system in vogue ie France is to urge reform of this now general mode of travel, so that travellers' minds may not be continually racked by the awful thought of what might happen to a full express and pepular train at times going nearly 70 miles an hour.—Sir William Clayton in the " Daily Mail." The Danger of Tubes. Women and Children Last.
It :8 no part of our business to make the flesh of people creep, but we would ask them just to imagine what would happen should only a minor accident occur when the carriages are crowded to suffocation. -Horatio Bottomley in " John Bull."
The Fringe of the Industry only as yet.
As the taxi is ousting the ordinary cab, so will the motor supersede the horse-drawn van and lorry. Up till now the fringe of the motor industry has only been touched, but it will before long assume proportions far beyond anything that can at present be anticipated. —" The Motor World."
The Obviously Expensive Horse. The horse carriage trade is not dead, and probably never will be so long as the horse remains, because, even if motoring got so cheap that every suburban householder could sport a car, there are many who would revel in doing that which was obviously expensive or unique. —" The Automobile and Carriage Builders' Journal."
The L.G.O.C. Could Do as Well for £10.
The committee then took up consideration of the proposal for an extension of the service which runs from Tooley Street to Woolwich and Greenwich. The project is to extend the line to a point some 300 yards nearer London Bridge than the present terminus in Tooley Street, at a cost of £6900. It is opposed by owners and occupiers of warehouses in Toeley Street.—" The Railway News."
The Value of Waste Collection. In the commercial world motor vehicles are made in an infinite variety from the heavy-weight vehicle down to the tri-car for parcel delivery purposes, and the modern business man evidently finds it economical and indispensah:e Why then such infertility of resource amongst those who are responsible for the adoption of motor vehicles for munieipalities!—" The Sanitary Record."
The Tramways' Deathrattie is the Trackless Trolleybus. The plea for trackless trams is the death rattle of the electric tramways. Electrical advocates are having forced on to them the fact that the mobile, selfcontained street vehicle is about to clear the streets in the immediate future of the costly, cumbersome and out-of-date method of street transit. They hope to compromise and stay off the inevitable, and offer the awakened public a sort of bastard arrangement, which is neither an electric tram nor a motorbus. The advantage over the petrol bus, from an electrician's point of view, is that one suits its pocket, and the daily Press, having been " collared " by electrical in
terests, are unintentionally (perhaps) fooling the public every time they cry for electric transport or the alternative, railless trams. — " The Australian Motorist."