Albion Commercial Motor Vehicles.

Progress, Volume VII, Issue 9, 1 July 1912, Page 1179

Albion Commercial Motor Vehicles.

v\ e illustrate below the latest addition to the fleet of similar machines, owned and operated by the Post and Telegraph Department in Wellington. The vehicle was landed complete ready for the road a few days ago, and makes the fourth to be commissioned for the mail service in Wellington.

Like its sister lorries, it is of two-ton carrying capacity and fitted with a 16/20 h.p. engine. Such satisfaction has been afforded by the output of the Albion Motor Car Co., of Glasgow, that Messrs. Grapes & Riley, consulting engineers, of this city, have been instructed to duplicate the existing plant at an early date. When this is effected it is proposed by the authorities to dispose of the last of their horses, and to undertake the whole of the mail transport in Wellington and its environs by motors. This transformation is rapidly taking place in the public services throughout the entire world.