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Out and Home.—By " The Extractor."

14th October 1909
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" He is not yet back at business." was the response to my enquiry for Mr. Raymond Dennis Two Brig14 at Guildford ; so that Spirits. Mr. Raymond's ill ness is more pro-. tracted than was expected. He is, however, recovering steadily, if not speedily, and at the pleasure vehicle show at Olympia he will be found, I expect, as bright and alert as of old. Another lively personage who has gone through a spell of serious illness, but who, happily, is hard at work again with as much verve as ever, is Mr. Albert E. Newton, of the Vacuum Oil concern.

The Brewery Exhibition is gradually becoming a market for heavy motor wagons suitable for Wagons for the use of " the Brewers. trade." and Foden, Yorkshire. and Mann vehicles are usually to be found there ; the latest exhibitors. I hear, are Leyland Motors, Ltd.. which company will show two petrol wagons. and the Berme Co. One of the latter make will be shown in Gilbey Hall. about which name there is a hospitable sound, reminiscent of dry sherry and crusted port, but there! These are different days, when most of us at the luncheon hour make a choice between a " plain Polly " and a ginger ale.

So that the agricultural motor department at Marshall's works, Cainsborough. shall, as nearly as possible, lie under one roof, extensive alterations

and building are going on. I was down there a week or so ago, and I remarked, to Mr. Herbert Marshall, that a new wing or two had been added since my previous visit, and he said, smilingly, that they had pulled down the old vicarage, which adjoined their works, and had built the vicar a new house a little farther off, and, rapidly being erected, on the site of the anci Actrvity at Gainsborough. eat " manse,is a fine building intended solely for the production of agricultiiral tractors. Marshall. Sons and Co., Ltd., with branches all over the world, and just on 5.000 workmen at Gainsborough alone, have proceeded very cautiously in this matter, but for some time they have been convinced that there will he a great demand for these traetors, and already they are not a little behind with their orders.

Four of the cars, on which Reinforced inner-tubes were being tested, were pulled up, on " To the Public King's Road, Brigh Danger." ton, by the police. and, to our complete amazement, we found that our driver was charged with "driving to the public danger." I do not remember anything so hulierous, and I hope he has heard nothing more of it. The only other occasion when I was concerned in a similar " misdemeanour " was a few years ago, down in the West Country, arid I was the responsible culprit. A fortnight after my holiday trip was over, I heard of it for the first time. I had never even dimly expected such a transgression, but my number was taken, subsequent protest was unavailing, and the "blot on the escutcheon " is ruthlessly re-endorsed on my licence year by year. I think I must carefully put by a few records of some of my daily "good turns," as the Boy Scouts have it, to counterbalance this, or my chance of a cool hereafter will be jeopardized.

The historic motor controversy has brought forth a note from Mr. W. F. French, of Balhatn. The Early Roots who is known to so Van. many of our readers

in connection with Ryknield motors. It appears that he purchased the Roots van (L.C.3999), to which reference was made on the 23rd ult., in the spring of 1907. and sold it to Messrs. Watson and Sons, of Rochester. He believes it is being used now for the delivery of petrol. Mr. French thinks it must be 12 years old. The photograph of this van. reproduced on this page, was taken, in 1906, by Mr. A. E. A. M. Turner.


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