The Commercial Motor Volume 5; V. 5 (Paperback)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1907 Excerpt: ...acquired two or three light, Adler delivery vans, also one of newest type of Daimler lorries. This lorry carries 17 cwt. and is fitted with a 22h.p. engine. Its main purpose is the transportation of the sugar required at the factory, but one occasionaly sees it used for the delivery of small cases of chocolate absurdly out of proportion with the dimensions of the body and chassis. The driver told me that the lorry had been running since Christmas without having given the slightest trouble. The back wheels have twin rubber tires. On May 8th, at the first general meeting of the Allgemeine Berliner Omnibus Gesellschaft since the reconstruction of the directorate, one of the shareholders charged the management with having introduced self-propelled vehicles "without careful investigation" of their effectiveness and working costs, whilst another characterised the abandonment of the 10-pfennig tariff as "tactically false," since the 15-pfennig lines would never be popular, and this increase of 50 per cent, had drawn into competition the Grosse Berliner Strassenbahn-Gesellschaft, whose motorbus scheme would not have come to anv thing had the omnibus company adhered to the lower maximum tariff. Possibly not; but then, on the other hand, it is doubtful whether the Allgemeine Berliner Omnibus Gesellschaft could have continued working on the lower tariff. The " Grosse Berliner" is the monopolist tramcar company.--Ed. A director subsequently stated that the company had 54 motorbuses actually working, and a number in reserve. The purchase price averaged 8,000 marks (circa., '900) per vehicle, and the working expenses per omnibus and per kilometre came out at 65-70 pfennigs (8.123d.-8.73d.), which gives a maximum of 112.63 pfennigs for t...