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Mr. Hall, of Orme Evans and Company, radiator manufacturers, has been ailing for some time, but I understand he is now convalescent and getting strong for the Olympia week.
If any firm requires 4 commissionaire, Who is thoroughly to be relied upon, and tactful to a degree, I should be glad to put them in touch with a man whom I can recommend.
I know a 'highly respectable Sheffield rm which manufactures iron safes for storing petrol in tins or in bulk. There is already a brisk demand for these, and they are looking for a suitable London agent who will stock various sizes. I think it is an excellent thing and I shall be pleased to put parties in touch. * *
" Should you be in the hilly part of 'Colwyn Bay (North Wales), look for a louse at the highest altitude. That is the house we delivered the furniture to." So say .Copplestone, Unsworth and Company, Liverpool, in a letter to Savage Bros., Ltd., with much more in the same strain of satisfaction, refer-ring to a tractor recently delivered.
1 was much interested to see the new -wagon built by Walker Brothers, of Wigan, and to have a talk with the 'manager of Walker's motor depart-rnent, Mr. Arthur J. Drake. This gentleman was works manager for 5?,years for the Daintier Company, at ,Coventry, so it May be fairly assumed that a motor is no Chinese puzzle to "him-; this Walker wagon looks well. The Austin cab will be with us very quickly now. 1 just missed the ()ppm% tunity of trying one when in Birmingham last week, but I hear the most excellent accounts of it, and shall look forward with interest to Olympia time or before, when probably a trial will he arranged in London.
If you meet Mr. Cecil Routledge of the Valor Company, you can confidently reckon that he will have some new contract for numberless New Era Extinguishers to tell you about, and, if you should only indicate the slightest glimmer of scepticism, he will be ready to, and will, prove it to you by chapter and verse. I never thought so much " dead earnest " devotion to the merits of fire extinguishers could be possible until I made Routledge's acquaintance. I always have the words "order for 300 " and " absolutely extinguish petrol fires." running through my poor brain for hours after meeting him.
The great firm of Tangyes, Ltd., Smethwick, has produced a jack suitable for buses and heavy wagons, which will interest a large proportion of our readers. The name of Tangyes on a lifting jack is a real guarantee.
Mr, Percival Chubb is not now connected with the St. Pancras Ironworks Co., Ltd., nor is Mr. Lyon. The news that the St. Pancras Company has taken a good space at Olympia points to the fact that it is not slackening efforts in the steam-wagon branch of the business.
Harvey Frost is well known in connection with the vulcanisation of tires, and I have found several young men proudly exhibiting the certificate saying that they are capable of carrying out the process satisfactorily. It is equally possible to effect repairs to solid tires by this process, and one of our technical staff expects to give some details of this work at an early date.
was on the top of a motorbus an Saturday, going from King's Cross uP Euston Road past the great railway termini for the North, and the conductor looked down on a passenger who was getting on board. He said, " Natthen, mum, "'op in, mum. Thils ain't a country carrier's cart nor vet a 'oss bus, ".and, turtling to me, he went on, " Lot' we do.find 'ern, sir, cornin' parst -these stations-,they wants five minits to git on, eVeryone of 'em."
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