Daimler : Stand 42.
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To the Daimler Co., Ltd., must certainly be given considerable credit for the way in which it has tackled the question or adeonate showmanship at exhibitions. At Olympia this year there is evidently somebody who is responsible for several clever schemes which are certain to attract. a very great deai of attention. Primarily we would instance the four-ton chassis, which has done something !ike 10,000 miles of hard service for Lovell and Christmas, the wellknown wholesale provision merchants. This chassis is shown partially stripped for examination, and we need do little more than advise visitors to see for themselves the slate of the worm and worm wheel, the chain-drive gear
box, and the sleeves of the sleevevalve engine, in order to secure assurance that Daimler construction is well adapted for industrial needs. This is an excellent objectlesson, and does the Daimler Co. great credit all round, especially in view of the fact thatthe wormdriven back axle, chain-drive gearbox, and the sleeve-valve engine, are none of them ,features which are nut, with the eaception of the last-mentioned, adopted on other chassis. In addition to Ibis machine, there is a collection of worn, or rather we should say unworn, parts, which have also been in service for a considerable mileage on another lorry. Over the Lovell and Christmas example is a cleverlydesigned illuminated sign with particular points to which it is desired to draw the attention of visitors. From each short notice there is a coloured rope, automatically drawing the eye of the visitor to each.
A. chaseis which in a special manner typifies the welding of Daimler and L.G.O. design is the fourtonner. This has a Daimler radiator and litany B-type features, amongst which we would particularly draw attention to the deep frame, the auxiliary helical back springs, the leather-disc joints, which are now being adopted by so many other makers since Daimlers were bold enough to try them, the oil trays east in one with the back axle and gearbox, and the provision of a sleeve-valve engine. The chassis is 71101.111tiRd on Continertal tires. There is a fine example of hush-sided torpedo charkbanes, finished in grey, a fourtonner loaded with beer barrels for the Kingston Brewery Co., Ltd., and the first example of the tiew ene-tonner, which has a fourcylinder sleeve-valve engia e and the gearbox combined with the back-axle construction. This lastmentioned machine is mounted on Dun lop pneumatics.