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Why riot the Chamber of Horrors ?
Young Blood in Old Firms.
By "The Extractor."
The question of personal sketches is always a very difficult one. An easy example of this is apparent if one picks up the high-class illustrated weeklies and one takes wellknown personages such as the King and Lloyd George. It is difficult to catch the expression in every case and we must be content if we get a fair proportion of speaking likenesses. I have in mind a sriend of mine who runs a trade journal, and an important Jaw case was creating tremendous interest in the particular branch of business which his paper touched. The idea occurred to him to give in his paper thumb-nail sketches of the litigants and chief witnesses. He had a. very enterprising artist working for him, drawing tools, machinery, and the like, and he cheerfully volunteered to attend the High Court and give his impressions of the witnesses. My friend ought, of course, to have sorrowfully but firmly declined the sketches, but he is tender-hearted —he felt that he had. ordered the work, so they appeared 3n she paper. Later an artistic friend was asked his :opinion of the sketches. His reply was very terse " I don't know whegler they are likenefflReg or not, bat /hey don't look like human beings." All this came to my mind when a few days ago I made a long journey up North in company with the incomparable Mr. Johnny Adams of Belsize Motors, Ltd. The talk turned to the little booklet. of sketches, "Half-hours with a Cartoonist" issued by us during the Show, and something was said about a group of sketches which appeared during the Show in one of the evening papers. I had certainly seen it. I had read the names underneath each effigy and instinctively shuddered. "You saw my picture I suppose," said Adams, 'amongst thr other murderers?"
e6 Foden's of Sandbach are indeed fortunate to secure such active and progressive people as Scammell's for official agents and repairers. It is simply marvellous to see the progress made in the SpitaJfields establishment of recent years. I never go down there but I am shown some really fresh development of extension. The petrol re
pairing side is tackled with equal avidity, for are not Scammell's official repairers for Conimercars ? Which means a great deal seeing that the Commer factory is 30 miles north of London. The Spitalfields firm was established nearly a cent:. ury ago as coachbuilders, smiths, wheelwrights, and general engineers. Their good fortune lies in having youngerranembers of the family at the right age now to tackle mechanical transport and infuse into that section of the business the right spirit, the entlitisis asin, and the knowledge so necessary now that the change from horse-drawn traction is right upon us. I know of no one more capable in the position in which he is placed than Alan Howard ScamDrell, who is the subject of our cartoon this week. He has had 13 years at the business, for years has perceived the trend of things in connection with motor transport, and has had much to do with equipping their establishment to meet the case. Most wisely he spent three years at the bench, so now taking a leading part in the control of this business is a man also well equipped and also richly endowed withKas keen business instinct. Alan Scammell is, of course, a Londoner ; he was educated at Highgate Grammar School, and like most of us has developed a great enthusiasm for pleasure motoring in his leisure time, but to keep him_ self fit and, incidentally because he likes it, he finds some time for golf and tennis, not. forgetting in due season the "scream of the reel and the other attendant thrills of a little fly-fishing.
Scammell is of a genial disposition, home-loving and fond of music, and he is well described as an entertaining companion, Ife certainly possesses the many faculties that go for making success in his business.