News and Comment.
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This journal is extensively read by the heads of many wealthy commercial houses.
Our leading articles this week inevitably contain a reference to the coal strike. We discern in it yet another incentive to the purchase of commercial motors.
Pages 12 and 13 of this issue should be read by all parties who are interested in the production of high-class worm-gearing and other motor-vehicle parts. Their contents are due to a special visit which was paid by a member of the Editorial staff of this journal on Friday last..
Home and Colonial Opinion.
"The Newspaper Owner," of the 24th ult., makes this complimentary reference to us :—" THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR for this week has an exhaustive illustrated report of the Manchester Motor Exhibition, and naturally devotes itself more especially to motor vehicles suited for commercial delivery, municipal and ambulance purposes. The number is an excellent one."
" The Toronto World," of the 18th ult., says this about our Overseas Annual of December last.:—" It is a most interesting and noteworthy publication, showing as it does the enormous size to which the commercial-motor business has grown in the old country. The issue in question treats of every sort of motor hauling, from the light delivery van to the heaviest form of agricultural
tractor or road locomotive. . Anyone interested in motor trucking should make a point of seeing the Overseas Annual of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR." "Drive Near Left Kerb."
The National Vehicle Owners Association, which is an influential organization of horse-owners with its headquarters at Birmingham, and is one constituent body of the Midland centre of the Roads Improvement Association, has agreed to circulate" Drive near left kerb " notices to be hung in the stables of its members.
More Motor mails.
The Postmaster-General invites tenders for the conveyance of the parcel mail between London and Bournemouth, and full particulars may be obtained from the Controller, G.P.O., London. Each van must have a load capacity of 45 cwt. of mails. The specification provides that the two side lamps must be placed at, the extreme sides of each vehicle, in such positions as to be free from all ob tructions to the light. Contracts will run for a term of three years from the 1st September next. This service will be the next longest in the country to that between London and Bristol, but the loads of parcels carried will be heavier than on the London-Bristol road.
The ninth annual dinner of the United Horse Owners' and Allied Trades' Protection Association took place, at the Holborn Restaurant, on Monday the 4th inst. Mr. Henry J. Selby was in the chair. A large gathering was secured, and amongst the speakers were Mr. H. Tilling, Mr. It. S. Tilling, and Mr. C. W. French, and other well-known livery and bait proprietors.
From Guildford.
Deliveries from the Dennis works, since the Manchester Exhibition closed, have included the following vehicles : a 40 h.p. five-ton van for Messrs. 3. and W. Atlee, of Dorking; two 18 h.p., 30-cwt. vehicles for the Bristol Tramways Co.; a, 40 h.p., five-ton pantechnicon for Messrs. Creasy, of South Norwood ; a 28 h.p., 21-ton chassis for Carter, Paterson and Co., Ltd.; a 40 h.p., five-ton lorry for Messrs. Strong, Rawle and Strong, of Bermondsey; an 18 h.p., 25-30-cwt. for Messrs. Leny and Co., of Dover ; an 18 h.p., 30-cwt. chassis for the Lancashire Engineering and Motor Co., of Preston ; and a 20 h.p. ambulance for the Lightburn Joint Hospital Board. Three Dennis vehicles which were on the stand at Manchester were delivered immediately after the close of that exhibition.
Fire–Brigade Matters.
Newry U.D.O. is about to buy a motor fire-engine, and is inclined to give a preference to steam.
Acton U.D.C., following inspection visits by some of its members to Harrow and Willesden, has decided also to let them pay a visit to Leytonstone and Kingston-onThames, with a view to further report..
Morecambe Town Council, probably following upon the successful installation of Leyland tramcars in the district, is likely to arrange for the early delivery of a motor fire-engine.
Belfast to Spend £10,000.
The Police Committee of the Belfast Town Council has approved the report of a sub-committee on fire appliances, and has recommended the immediate expenditure of £10,000 on the purchase of further petrol motor appliances, in order that the present horse equipment and steam fire-engines may he entirely replaced.
New Registrations.
; \thong the list of new registrations are : David Brown and Sons (Huddersfield), Ltd., with a capital of £150,000 (50,000 6 per cent. cumulative preference); office at Pa rk Gear Works, Huddersfield. Provincial General Omnibus (Pa rent) Syndicate, Ltd., with a capital of 21,000 in 21 shares, by Newman and Sons, 05-66, Chancery Lane, W.C. Provincial Issues, Ltd., with a capital of 15,000, to carry on the business .of znotorcab and motorbus proprie tors, etc. : office, ha, Wormwood Street, E.C. North Tipperary MoLorbus Co., Ltd., with a capital of £500: office at Cloughordan. Co. Tipperary.
Wood-Milne Tires.
Before and during the recent show at Manchester, we had the opportunity to discuss Wood-Milne steel-rubber tires with a number of people who know something about them. Experience during the past two years has satisfied themanufacturers upon several points of detail in production, with the result that there appears to be every reason to anticipate that existing
high mileage records will be exceeded in the near future. The correct percentage of steel-wool, for incorporation in the mixture, has been determined with great accuracy.
Any of the several following depots of Wood-Milne, Ltd., can supply further particulars concerning both solid and pneumatic tires : Preston, Ribblebank Mills ; London, 6, Manchester Avenue, Aldersgate Street, E.C. ; Glasgow, 10, Waterloo Street ; Belfast, 149, Donegal Street ; Bristol, 36, Narrow Wine Street; Paris, 212, Ter. Boulevard Pereire ; Buenos Aires, 544, Bartolome Mitre.