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C.M.U.A. Committee.
The meeting of the C.M.U.A. -General Committee for July will take place on Wednesday next, the --9.th inst., at the usual time-2.15 p.m.
Topical Subjects.
Our leading articles this week deal with the following topical subjects: (1) " In Hand for Olympia" ; (2) " Local Authorities and Ownership" ; and (3) "The International Road Congress."
For Olympia.
Everybody is now concentrating on work for the Olympia Show. The "Before the Show" number of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR Will be published a fortnight hence, and that issue will also be specially addressed to public authorities throughout the country. We make particular references to these matters on the first page of this issue.
At Bristol.
We shall report, in our next issue. the proceedings in connection with the visit, arranged by this journal, of the chairmen of the leading national motor organizations to Bristol, on Wednesday, the 2nd inst. Sir George White, Bart., the President of the Bristol Chamber of Commerce, and other leaders of West of England commerce and manufacturing interests, acted as hosts.
Manchester, Etc., C.M.U.A.
The address of the secretary of the Manchester. Liverpool and Counties C.M.U.A., Mr. ElTis :Green, F.C.A., is Cromwell Buildings, Blackfriars Street, Manchester. Owners whose interest may have been aroused by our last week's report of the inaugural meeting at Manchester, and who do not already belong to the C.M.U.A., or to a branch, should apply to Mr. Ellis Green for particulars.
From Fremantle Town Hall.
"It may be of interest to your advertisers and readers to know that the Municipal Council of Fremantle, Western A nstralia, is considering the advisability of obtaining motor wagons of from five to eight tons, and will be pleased to receive information noon the subject. If you -could assistin giving publicity to this, I should be obliged. Thanking you in anticipation, yours faithfully, —HENRY' THOMAS HAYNES, City Engineer."
The Associated Chambers of Agriculture are much incensed at the notified railway increases. The railway committee has been authorized to oppose the increases ; the Chamber endorses the claims of coastwise service, and road-motor distribution from the ports.
The Oil Era.
Next week's issue of "The Motor," dated the 8th inst., will contain an important and special article, from the pen of Mr. Alan H. Burgoyne, M.P., the well-known naval expert, entitled" The Oil Era and its Portents." This will have a direct bearing upon our contemporary's strenuous campaign In favour of home-produced fuel.
Popular lssu s.
Following the successful flotation of Dennis Bros. (1913), Ltd., we are interested to note that the new issue of 100,000 ordinary shares of Li each. in Ruston, Proctor and Co., Ltd., of Lincoln, was much oversubscribed. The total applications reached 2400,000, and the portion available for the public was subscribed no fewer than seven times
Over.
We have an inquiry from Calgary, from a. reputable motor agent, who desires to be placed in touch with manufacturers of taxicabs.
The Bosch Magneto Co. intimates that business Nvill be suspended on Saturday next, on the occasion of the firm's annual outing.
Motormeters.
Messrs. Lacy, of 13, Elizabeth Street, Pimlico, S.W., are now looking after the business of Motarmeters, Ltd., and all communications should be addressed to them in future.
Southampton Engineers.
Messrs. Markham and Prance, consulting engineers, have opened a new office at Newcastle Chambers, 72, High Street, Southampton. Engineer-Lieut. R. G. Law Markham, M.I.Mech.E., M.I.A.E., late R.N., will be in personal attendance as required.
Held Over.
Amongst the regular features for which we have been unable to make space this week are "Opinions from Others" and the "Purchase Department." Particulars of new models and the "Royal" report have crowded them out.
Two Albion Points.
Another Albion van has been purchased by the Crown Agents for the Colonies, and the Albion Co., in severe competition with vehicles from the works of many countries, has just secured a gold medal, at the St. Petersburg Exhibition, for its 32 h.p. four-tonner.
Delahaya Progress.
Mr. A. A. Campbell Swinton, when presiding last month at the annual meeting of Delahaye and Co., Ltd., pointed to the large increase in sales of commercial vehicles, and particularly to the orders from the British War Office for a number of Delahaye travelling workshops and aviation lorries, some of which will be exhibited at Olympia this month. The 170 Delahaye postal vans, in service in Paris, continue to do well : they were simultaneously put into use on the 1st December, 1911. The company is also developing its fire-engine and other departments apace, whilst numerous foreign countries have bought its military types. The company has, so far, done most of its business on the Continent.
The New Bristol Tramwa Workshops, A private tour of inspection of the new motor construction works belonging to the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., was made on Monday last. The shops are situated in a pleasant position at Birslington, some two miles outside Bristol, They cover a space of 4i acres in all. The sheds have been laid out to conform with the latest modern engineering practice, great consideration having been paid to the elimination of delay of work en route from shop to shop. Owing to the lay-out of the buildings, the work, as it is done, is forwarded from one department to another in natural sequence. Valuable and up-to-date plant has been installed, and, although the shops are, as yet, barely open, over 50 chassis are in course of construction. The directors of this company seem fully determined. to maintain the progressive policy which has characterized their actions. during the past few years, and which has assisted in securing for Bristol the reputation
of being the centre of the great and ever-increasing commercial industry in the West Country. AU classes of motor vehicles can be built at these works. The " Blue taxi," which is now so well known in this Western town, will be turned out in considerable numbers; the largest vehicle to be tackled will be a three-tonner. It is not without interest to note that 471 commercial motors have been, up to the present, built by the Bristol Tramways and Carriage Co., Ltd., in addition to 350 "Blue taxis."