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It is pleasing to know that the Dunlop Rubber Company is quite busy with solid tires.
Mr. Edgar Lound tells me that the agency for Gaggenau commercial vehicles, which was to have commenced operations at the old Beaufort premises in Baker Street, is suspended for the present, but that there is a possibility of the Gaggenau firm's opening a branch business in London befere long.
It looks as though, having regard to the large number of cabs which are on order, the General Motor Cab Company, Limited, will shortly have to make fresh arrangements for the obtaining of more money, or run no small risk of becoming short of working capital. There should not be much difficulty, in view of the good returns to date, over such an issue, whether pri
vate or public, notwithstanding the liberal division of profits amongst the holders of deferred shares, to which allusion has already been made, on more than one occasion, in this journal.
The "Radio" welding process seems to contain the elements of success. I see they have an up-to-date plant for the fused welding of all kinds of metal motor cylinders, etc. They claim to have discovered a new flux, which, used in combination with their process, is said to give a far better result than any other system. 'When I called, they were still in the toils of the British workmen, but I am told they will have a special plant for the thorough repair and overhauling of all makes of magnetos, coils, and accumulators. Later, when they are quite ready, a member of our staff hopes to pay them a visit, and to give some details of their work and their facilities from his own observations on the soot. Mr. E. Gascoine is paying a flying visit to the Armstrong-Whitworth works at Newcastle, in connection with their new 18-2oh.p. commercialvehicle chassis which will very soon be on the market. It occurs to me that presently we shall have to drop that colloquialism " flying visits," and be more precise when aeroplanes arrive.
I ran across Mr. A. P. Dannison, at the Midland Hotel, Birmingham, last Nyeek. He was formerly with J. Tylor :01d Son, Limited, and then with the Hopkinson Engine Company, of Huddersfield. Now he has joined the firm of Bouiton and Paul, at Norwich, and is principally interested in motor boats. Staying at the smite popular motor rendezvous was Mr. W. P. Durtnall, of the Hart-Durtnall Petrol-Electric Syndicate, and now also the representative of the Safir Commercial Vehicle COMpally, whose factory is at Zurich, and Mr. Albert Brown, of Brown Brothers, Limited, besides many others on the pleasure-vehicle side. Likewise--these are like the poor, they are always with us—at least three other motor Pm-en-taco, all voracious, and all voluble.