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25-cwt. Oiler for Tight Deliveries
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PRODUCTION of a 25-cwt. oiler for door-to-door delivery work is to start soon by a manufacturer established in the field of battery-electrics, The Commercial Motor understands. The makers have adapted one of their battery-electric models and installed an Enfield 1,100 c.c. horizontally opposed twin-cylindered four-stroke power unit. A feature is the fitting of an injection pump to each cylinder.
The gearbox provides three forward and a reverse ratio, and the rear axle is of the double-reduction type. Maximum speed of the vehicle is governed at 15 m.p.h. The prototype was tested extensively and proved not only economical but flexible in top gear, it being possible to accelerate smoothly in this ratio from 4-15 m.p.h.
The design of the vehicle was suggested by an organization with a large fleet of door-to-door delivery vehicles, and some of the first production models will be delivered to this concern.
WOKINGHAM REMOVERS TAKEN OVER
THE removals a n d warehousing business of E. W. Reeves and Co., Wokingham, Berks, has been purchased by C. and G. Ayres and Co., Ltd., Reading, consequent upon the retirement of Mr. E. W. Reeves, senior partner in the concern. after 42 years of business.
Reeves will continue to trade under the same name, and Mr. Reeves will act as a consultant to the company and to C. and G. Ayres, a removals and haulage concern founded 150 years ago.
Reeves have four warehouses and eight pantechnicons, also some trailers. C. and G. Ayres, Ltd., operate 51 vehicles and 48 trailers. Eight vans are used on the removals side of the business, and there are two warehouses.
ONE-MAN 41-SEATERS?
ANapplication by the Birmingham and Midland Motor Omnibus Co,, Ltd.. for permission to dispense with conductors on 40-41-seat single-deckers on certain routes in Herefordshire is to be heard by the West Midland Licensing Authority in Birmingham on June 18.
The vehicles will have power-operated doors and change-giving machines. One of them will be examined by Mr. W. P. James, chairman of the Authority. before the inquiry.
SIR BERNARD AND DAIMLER
NQ information could be obtained this week on the possible effect on Transport Vehicles (Daimler), Ltd., of the removal of Sir Bernard Docker from the board of the Birmingham Small Arms Co., Ltd., and from the offices of chairman and managing director.
Sir Bernard was not a director of Transport Vehicles, although he was head of the controlling company, and their board remains unchanged. Their order book, The Commercial Motor understands, is full for 12-18 months.