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He of the Diseased Clutch, In addition to being a most popular person, he is an excellent driver, and he explained to me exactly how it was that he had a seized clutch. It happened, as these things do, at an awkward time, he and his family being due to take tea with a friend across London. Our hero was pulled up eventually opposite a metropolitan hospital. One member of the family went for paraffin, whilst he sailed into the hospital in order to use the telephone. His idea was te ring up the intended host and explain the reason for his delay. The host was not on the 'phone, however, but a neighbour was, and the passage through one or two hands somewhat distorted the message. When my friend erriv ed eventually he was an hour and a half late, and was received with wild entimeiasm. The transformed message had come through from the neighbour that he was in a certain hospital " with, a diseased ciuteh," Two very prominent men in the motorbus movement in its early days have recently mierateci to the pleasure-car side. We find out these changes when the November Show time comes round. Mr. Ernest Rowbottom, who was for years associated with the Motor Car Emporium selling de Dion and Diirkopp buss, is now to be found in charge of the London business for Mors. Another gentleman who was connected with the same bus concern, and who played a very strenuous part in the early days along with Dr. Lehwess, is Mr. F. Frentzel. He has now taken over the agency for the Snerber car. with which he seems to be quite successful.
From 1st November, the English business of the White Co., of Cleveland, will be carried on in the name of White, Coleman and Co., Mr. Frederick Coleman, who has managed the White business for so long in this country being now the sole British concessionnaire and buying agent. I look up-en this as being a distinct advance all round, and I hope it means that the commercial-vehicle side of the White-Coleman business will be extended. They have a ‘vondrafid range of vehicles, and it is on evidence that in America they take avery prominent place and I ave been unable to snare deliveries for England. Now we shall probably see some developments taking place.
To my mind, the Show dinner held two days before the opening of the pleasure-car exhibition is at present the most representative trade gathering of the year. All sides of the motor industry seem to foregather here' and the sundry chats had with various principals -on what is often called the
heavy " vehicle side pointed to a brisk state of things. For the first time, this banquet was served at the Savoy Hotel, and wa-s eminently satisfactory.
There is, of course, an infinite amount of interest for both man ii facturers and users of commercial vehicles, at the pleasure car show at Olympia, although solid tires and purely " commercial" accessories have been rigidly excluded. All the same, there is much in common, and I have had the felicity of welcoming hosts of friends at the T.P. Elizabethan Cottage, which is situated a few stands to the right from the main entrance and underneath the gallery. Those responsible for our sister paper, "The Motor," have put up, to serve as a bookstall and reception room, an almost perfect example of the country cottage of Shakespeare's day. One friendly satirist said of it that " the surroundings may be Elizabethan but the denizens who inhabit it are distinctly of the present Georgian. period. ' Anyhow a warm welcome is extended to our friends connected with the COMMERCIAL MOTOR.
Numbers of our readers are well acquainted with Mr. E. Houghton, manager for the world-known automobile exporter, Mr. A. W. Roslington. He fills with much credit the responsible post, and he has been round the world selling Belsize, Karrier, and other commercial vehicles. He now contemplates taking unto himself a wife, and before this month is out Miss M. Creffield is to link her future with his. I tender my sincere congratulations.
Motor Show time brings interested people and inquiries from all -parts of Europe, and although French, German and Spanish are widely known, a difficulty arises when some other tongue requires a translator on the spot. Everybody's friend, Mr. W. Geo. Williams, has come to the rescue, and at the Society's Local Section Stand, No. 204 in the Annexe, the above-indicated languages can be dealt with and in addition the following: Russian, Flemish, Dutch, Danish and Portuguese. Little demand is anticipated for Turkish or Yiddish.