The North of England Show.
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The writer has found, during several visits which he has paid to Lancashire and Yorkshire during the past fortnight, that owners and prospective-owners of commercial motors of all types are looking forward to the Second North of England Show with a lively interest. That growing interest is possibly even keener in the West Riding of Yorkshire than it is in Lancashire, and for the reason that the various sections of the Bradford wool trade are now awake to the advantages of road-carrying by commercial motor.
From the point of view of the purchaser who buys a vehicle or vehicles with the intention of doing his own carrying, as much as from the point of view of the carrier who wishes to enter into contracts to serve other people, the high rates which prevail in the Bradford district certainly render motor conveyance a most attractive proposition. Those rates are frequently twice as much per mile for equal distances as they are in Lancashire, due to the fact that the hilly nature of the country frequently renders it impossible for two horses to draw a net load in excess of 30 cwt. A comparable cycle of handlings. of course, exists in the Yorkshire wool trade to that which is found in the Lancashire cotton trade, but with the important difference to which we have just alluded—better rates.
Apropos the Show, we hope that existing readers and supporters of this journal will specially instruct their newsagents to reserve copies of the next two issues. The issues in question will be enlarged. in order that we may deal adequately with various matters that arise in connection with the Show,, and we have plenty of evidence before us that a consider
able extra demand will be experienced. In these circumstances, notwithstanding an increase in the printing order to meet estimated new orders, there is a risk that newsagents will be sold out early.