Roadside Supplies.
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The roadside victualling of steam wagons and tractors is again mentioned in our columns (see page 207) by a correspondent. Tt is an old-standing, but still an unexhausted topic. In fact, in these days of increasing longdistance journeys, which class af trip WAS at one time oceasional, the claims of drivers and owners demand consideration afresh. More than five years ago, this journal offered to tall a special type of roadside wateringequipment, upon one of the main west-to-east highways into the Metropolis, but there was insufficient response to give the needed assurance of frequent use. Other journals took up the same idea, much later, without definite results. Now, in spite of the extending circulation of petrol-driven vehicles, -there is also an advance in the employment of steam-driven units by contractors, furniI use removers and other hauliers. We are disinclined, from experience in various parts of the United Kingdom, to advocate the formation of a. company for the specific purposes indicated; local knowledge counts for too much, whilst effective supervision at low cost is only possible in conjunction with pre-existing businesses. We, therefore, commend the stocking and sale of Welsh coal and ather supplies, as well as low-scale charges for clean water, to dealers and others whose present trades call for their having depots of any kind adjacent to main highways. We have often wondered why many garage proprietors have ignored the requirements of the steamer.