-Irish Operator's Tribute to Commer 4-5-tonner
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AMONG the many Commer vehicles which are giving good service to their owners and performing valuable service to the Nation under .war-time conditions is one, in respect of which Commer Cars, Ltd., recently received a letter of warm appreciation. It was in August, 1937, that Messrs. Hugh Donnelly and Sons, farm produce merchants, of Oxford Street, Belfast, took delivery of a Commer forward-control 4-5-tonner, of the L.N.5-type, through the maker's Belfast distributors, Messrs. A.. S. Baird.
The operators relate that, without the need for a major overhaul, this vehicle—one of five Commers in their service—has covered more than 150,000 trouble-free miles in collecting and delivering farm produce, chiefly potatoes over practically the whole. of the " Six Counties." Throughout its life, this lorry, it is stated, has been most.economical in its consumption of petrol and oil. It has averaged 12 m.p.g. in respect of fuel, and has never bad a breakdown or been towed.
It has given the operators such excel
lent service that they recently decided to have it fitted with a reconditioned engine by the distributors from whom
it was bought, who have also equipped the vehicle with 36-in. by 8-in, wheels and tyres.