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Parry D. Saylor, a Real Rubber Man ; ',Wag Cars on the Railway. By "The Extractor."
The contour of the face depicted on this page, although caricatured, reveals the forcefulness and determination of the individual. Mr. Parry D. Saylor has a long way to go yet for middle age, in fact is just on the threshold of life, and yet he has had an eventful career. • Ile is a real rubber man, having graduated through the workshops, the offices and the selling department of the tire business, in addition to which he has expert knowledge of the mechanical rubber side. There has been, however, another phase, a most absorbing one ; Saylor is a fully qualified Doctor of Medicine, and it thrills one to learn how he had to borrow for his first year's tuition, how he refunded that money and liquidated the remaining fees by application and industry which must have been prodigious ; every Saturday, every holiday, even his summer vacations were swallowed up accumulating a little extra so that he could take the degrees and pass on, leaving the tire trade for the ancient profession of medicine. The fates decreed otherwise, for he met encouraging good friends in the rubber business during this strenuous time, his commercial instinct was awakened, and his organizing powers made him too valuable a man to lose, so medicine had to take second place. Saylor first saw the light in Ontario Canada, but migrated early to the United States. When he had established himself, or "made good," aa it is tersely put these days, he was made vice-president and general sales manager of the Goodyear Canadian business, a separate organization with, I understand, Canadian capital. The next move onward was his transference to this country, where he now rules as managing director of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co. (Great Britain) Ltd., which is run with British capital, and is a buying .agency, not a branch depot. Goods are bought, as a rule, from the Canadian house, but in these tronblous times purchases are made from the United States in addition. It goes without saying that Parry D. Saylor is a forceful energetic personality with a wonderful enthusiasm for his business. He holds a great love-for his land of the snows, and like the true Canadian (as we have found in our stress to our own immeasurable joy) he has a lasting love and reverence for the mother-country—motoring arid a little golf, in normal times, are amongst his relaxations, but his heart yearns mostly when he can spare a day off, for a party of good friends, game and guns. "A Real Ru The Eternal Food Question.
At an hotel in South Wales I timidly asked the magnificent head porter if, there were -a dining car or grill car on the particular train I was interested in, and the reply came, very witheringly and with a great air of finality, "There are no dining cars on any railway in the country now, sir." It was a pity to disturb such self-confidence, but I explained gently to him that the dear old Midland still did their best in that way and, what is more, charged the old prices, albeit -the portions • were now microscopical. I put him "wise," too, as to the South Western, who still pander likewise to the peripatetic, and I included in 046 this list also the Great Eastern, and the Great Central, who contrive to serve a square meal as well as war rationing will allow. On other lines, luncheon baskets rising steadily in price and falling in quantity have to serve. Some travellers say that a hardy race of diminutive chickens is being reared especially to go in these baskets, others say that they are the ancestors of the present race : the South Western, being essentially a military line, will only serve you with minerals to wash down.
A Firestone Tire Change.
A very popular appointment is that of Mr. Jac Pedersen to the control of the British' business of Firestone tires in place of Mr. Jordan who has joined up. This practically includes European business. It will be remembered that I recently reported a. successful trip to Scandinavia by Mr. Pedersen in Firestone interests. As is well known, Mr. Pedersen is a Dane, came up originally from the cycling business and sport, and has been in this country since boyhood.
011a Podrida.
More than one big co-operative insurance scheme is on the tapis.— Eight tires are now being fitted to steam wagons, triplets on the back wheels according to the gospel of Leo Swain.
American vehicles are said to run better with their own cheap plugs than with the high-grade British makes.
Only aeroplane radiators are turned-out of the works of John Marston, Ltd., Wolverhampton, these days, except for Sunbeam vehicles.
Mr. T. C. Aveling, so very popular with his Broom and Wade in the R.A.C. trials years ago, is now a' Lieut.-Colonel, and has distinguished hirriself.
Mr. Edward Lisle, Jr., of the Briton. Motor Co., is still in a convalescenthome on the South Coast, but is ex
tected back at work soon after.
Easter. I know a good man with eighteen years .experience of the motor industry both on the manufacturing and selling sides who is disengaged, and should prove extremely useful. Any letter addresied Price," care of this journal, will be forwarded.--
Never have the ethics and virtues of advertising received such a fillip as in the case of the recent )11,rar Loan. It was positively dragging its slow length alongwhen Mr. Kennedy Jones and some advertising lieutenants sot to work with spectacular announcements in the daily Press The effect was magical. Forty. Clydesdale three-tonners have been ordered by the Ministry of ltlunitions, their deatination being the Expeditionary Force Canteen. This makes a big. drain on the Clydesdale resources, but they are getting them ,oat at the rate of about. eight a week. I hear excellent accounts of this lorry in various hands.' Mustikon" tire repair. plugs haae not been 'heard-, of very much since the war,' but I understand the
sole selling rights have been handed over to those' enterprising people R. Martens and Co., Ltd., andthere is no doubt now thatIthey will be pushed. land-' a great business should ensue because the article is ripe. bber Man."