FIRST OF ALL 0 NCE again it is our pleasure
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to present to readers over the seas our annual digest of what the corn mc,,rcial-motor industry can offer them in its many phases. As year on year goes by, the scope of our subject increases at almost. alarming rate. Adequately to deal with the constantly-growing number of specific employments, we have successively to devote more Editorial space to thG branches in hand. Not only are the applications of the commercial motor increasing rapidly every year, but the number of manufacturers, as well as the great ranges of types winch they produce, constitutes with regularity an augmented list.
in tins present issue we have thought fit to embody certain revisions in respect of the grouping of our subjects. The continued and even growing importance of the steam-vehicle section has rendered it expedient to devote a whole, section to the collation of data and information concerning steam wagons and tractors and their employment. In this way, we have been enabled to avoid general treatment together of petrcA-propelled and steam-driven goods-carrying machines The pe.t2.-o1-drivon lorries claim Section B, which is, of necessity, by far the largest in this issue, and, the variety of machines which is there carefully listed and described is indeed a remarkable one. When it is considered that this industry, in its regenerated form, after the unavoidable slulLup of a few years ago, is yet of no considerable age, the object-lesson afforded by Section B alone is one which it is not at all easy to disregard.
Agricultural motors have for convenience been grouped with the goods haulage units, primarily because the majority of them are examples of internal-combustion-engined tractors which are, in addition to their fitness for agricultural duties, especially suitable for goods haulage. of certain kinds.
The growth of municipal employment for the commercial motor is one of the outstanding features of the past twelve months' history of the industry, and its attributes have, therefore, been grouped together in Section D.
The remaining two distinct portions of this our 1913 Overseas Tssue deal, as on previous occasions, with the extensive subjects of wheels and tires and of accessories and supplies, respectively.
It remains only to add that the arrangements which we have made for the effective circulation of this reference book to the whole industry hm-e, been even more far reaching in their ramifications than in previous years. We ask recipients to acknowledge receipt.