Out and Home. Inter..Freight. -.••aTniszi.Croelopyripses. —By "The Extractor."
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Not the Weather.
The real explanation is that if they want a thing doing they must get a busy man to do it.
Lamps Alight.
Light up your lamps at :-4,46 on Thursday, 4.45 on Friday, 4.43 on Saturday, 4.40 on Monday, 4.39 on Tuesday, 4.38 on Wednesday. The above times are for London. In Edinburgh light up 25 mins. later, Newcastle 22 mins. later, Liverpool 35 rains, later, Birmingham, 34 mins, later, and Bristol 40 mins. later. For Dublin the lighting-up time reckoned, in the local mean time for the district is 23 mins, later than London time.
Trade Changes.
Mr. H. B. Fenwick has been allotted increased duties at the Alldays and Onions Engineering Works, vice Mr. A. E. Billing, who is no longer with this concern.
Mr. W. B. Shirehampton, who has for the past 14 years been in charge of the foreign and colonial business of Veritys, Ltd., has now joined Morris Russell and will tb,ke full charge of the export branch of the business. Mr. Shirehampton has travelled extensively abroad.
Soon after getting back in this country, from active service in the Motor Transport columns of Botha's forces in German South-West Africa, LulT Smith, who was formerly with Wolseley and later with the British Automobile Traction Co., has received a temporary second-lieutenancy in the A.S.C., M.T.
Inter-Freight Exchange, which was described as an organization for providing "freights for motor vehicles and motor vehicles for freights," has been acquired by Commercial Car Hirers, Ltd. Mr. J. C. Moth will be acting as managing director, and the company will be known as Motor Freight Exchange, Ltd. Some developments of this scheme may probably be looked for very shortly. There are exceptional difficulties in Freight-Exchange organization.
Want Tire Colours Specified.
The way of the solid-tire manufacturer is often hard, especially in these war times. It has been pointed out to me that for tires for War Department lorries a specification should be furnished by the authorities, giving colour of tire and section. If a subsidy lorry with all its wealth of variation from standard practice, surely a specification for a tire can be formulated. At present a manufacturer sends in black tires to a chassis maker, the inspector in that particular district has his own pet theories about tire mixture and promptly rejects them. In another case white tires are rejected: because the local inspector prefers black, so the tire manufacturer is often in a quandary, as will easily be imagined. Now in the case of cycles for Post Office and other Government departments, a clear specification is fnrDished to the tire makers and there is no confusion. Since writing the above, I understand one of the War Office inspectors has framed a specification of what, in his opinion, the tires should be, so that we may be able to record shortly an improved state of things.
What should prove to be a most useful regular motor service is being established between London and Birmingham. Bessemer 21-ton vehicles will run three times a week each way, starting at, 7 .a.m. and arriving approximately at :3 p.m. This will give ample time to deliver and collect the same day, so that a prompt start can be made each morning.
Independent of the Railway.
Motor services between important towns should extend rapidly now. I hear of great enterprise in the delivery of Wood-Milne tires. It has been found almost impossible to send goods by train from Lancashire over the Scottish border, so they despatch their Garrett steam wagon weekly to their Glasgow depot securing return loads of machinery. Three Leyland lorries a week bring up Wood-Milne productions to London from their Leyland factory. They send as far as Bristol by road, and of course to towns like Leeds, Sheffield, Liverpool and Birmingham. The three-tormer is found the most useful size, but the five-ton Berna has been extraordinarily successful. Their fleet comprises, in addition to those mentioned, a Palladium, a Straker-Squire and a Renault, then they have a three-ton Straker and a three-ton Halley on order.
011a Podrida.
Mr. W. Dewis of British Mercedes, Ltd., is happily at work again after his recent spell of rheumatism.—
The last I heard of Wilberforce Burrell of Thetford was in the summer ; he was senior captain, and was doing major's work. If he is not a lieutenant-colonel
by now, I shall be disappointed
Some of the older R.A.C. members objected to the recent sweeping reductions in the amount of the annual subscription, and there was talk of some rich members contributing huge sums, but it ended in talk.
"Dreadnought" is the correct name for Mr. Hat.ford G. Olden, even in his hours of ease. If it he snooker pool and you start off the same mark it will save time and heartburning if you pay out to begin with and get on with something else.
There is an excellent opening in an important Yorkshire town for a man to take charge of a depot and district for the sale of a well-known solid tire. Leta ters addressed to me marked " Yorkshire " will be forwarded.
Mr. Gordon Richards of S.R.O. ball-bearing fame, has been close up to the trenches on business, and goes to Switzerland on the same mission. In spite of a passport vised in every clear space, being on the young side, he is always detained for hours on the Swiss frontier until his peaceful character is personally vouched for.