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by VAN, WAGON and TRACTOR.
The Johannesburg municipal authorities are just now buyers of self-propelled tip-wagons.
Important to Owners of Steam Wagons and Tractors.
The legal position, according to the views of competent judges of the law as now laid down, is not very satisfactory at the moment in relation to the claims of owners of steam wagons and tractors to regard the reversing gear of their engines as a second brake. We examine the case editorially on the opening page of this issue, and we give (on page 428) the text of a memorandum by him which has been lodged with the Secretary of the Local Government Board.
Concerted Action to Resist Attack.
Speaking at the annual general meeting of the National Traction Engine Owners and Users Association, which was held at Doncaster on the 4th inst., in the meeting-room of the R.A.S.E., Mr. H. Howard Humphreys reported that measures had been adopted under which the Association would combine with the Commercial Motor Users Association, with the object of taking common action in the matter of opposing certain parts of the proposed legislation which was being advocated by the County Councils Association.
Mr. A. E. M. Turner, of Kiveton Park, near Sheffield. who is a member of the West Riding County Council, said that it was not the county councils themselves which had started this movement, but the County Councils Association—a body of unpractical men who met in London. He was inclined to think the proposals would not get any further than Jieir present stage.
Mr. George Arnold (Kent) and Mr. W. H. Willcox (London) supported the view that it would be unwise not to take steps to be ready to resist the threatened attack, which it appeared had been taken up seriously by some county councils as such.
An Opinion from Gloucester.
Messrs. William Staite and Co., of 28, Barton Street, Gloucester, have communicated the following testimony, in respect of their Mann steam tractor, and we have pleasure in giving publicity to it :—" It may interest you to know that, accord
Mg to our books, our Mann tractor has run upwards of 13,000 (13,185) miles, and has not cost us £2 for repairs apart from what our driver has done. At times, we have done journeys up to 400 miles, and we have never had difficulty in making good time. She does her runs almost with the regularity of a clock."
A New Registration.
Quick Delivery Co., Ltd., with an authorized capital of £50,000 in 21 shares, by T. T. Hull and Son, 22, Chancery Lane, W.C., to carry on the business of transporters of goods, etc., by motorvan ; traction engine proprietors, haulage con
tractors, etc. First directors : W. L. Peake and J. J. Whitney.
Direct Supply.
Owners of motorvans in all parts of the country appear to be giving more and more attention to the matter of direct-supply house-tohouse deliveries of commodities which have hitherto been ordered in weekly lots, or at greater intervals. The chief case in point is that of the direct supply of aerated waters.
Motorvan Lights..
A driver was summoned at the Worthing Petty Sessions for leaving his motor pantechnicon standing throughout the night without the lamps being lit. The driver was fined Ws. for absence of lights and 3s. 6d. for obstruction.
A few more cases of this kind are all that is necessary to bring about the necessary night-storage facilities in all parts of the country, which we have so often urged as being of vital importance.