Provincial Meets.
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The accounts for the Reading meet of commercial motor vehicles, which meet took place on the 17th June, have now been issued by the Honorary Secretary, Mr. Leo. Harris (John Marston, Limited), under cover of a letter which announces that, at a meeting of the Joint Committee held in London last week, it was unanimously resolved that the committee should be dissolved. It will be remembered that this Joint Committee came into existence in order to test whether it was beneficial and practicable to hold such meets, and the matter of future meets will, at the wish of the parties themselves, be organised, if at all, by other than honorary officials. The first meet of commercial motor vehicles took place, on Sunday the loth March last, during the first commercial vehicle exhibition of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, when, as was fully reported in our issue of the ztst of that month, a large party visited Ripley. The second meet, at Reading, was an elaboration of the same idea, and this was subsequently taken up, so far as Scotland is concerned, by the Scottish Automobile Club, which successfully arranged a meet in Glasgow on the 17th October. This last-named meet was fully illustrated and reported in our issue of the 24th October. The matter of further provincial meets was specially considered by the Commercial Vehicle Committee of the S.M.M.T., at Olympia, on the t3th instant, when a representative meeting, at which the President of the Society, Mr, Edward Manville, was present, decided that, if anything further of the kind were desired, as to which the opinions of the members interested should be taken, such commercial vehicle meets should, at any rate, be organised by the Society. Since that date, a circular letter has been issued to the interested members, and we believe that further meets wilt fake place. The Society, with its enormous financial resources, and its large paid staff, should be able to carry out any such meets in an eminently satisfactory manner, provided it can successfully obtain the co-operation of influential local people, without which many difficulties are sure tc arise, and to interfere with the programme.