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15th July 1919, Page 19
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Quick Work.

The Tank display at the Military Tournament at Olympia was exceedingly interesting; bringing the war home to the thousands who have remained on this side. The enthusiasm of the audience was stirred most by the breakdown gang of the M:T., R.A.S.C.. Hefty Pagefield lorries bustled in loaded up with pieces of Staff cars, wheels, bodies, running boards, bonnets and'ehaesis, in apparently: hopeless disarray, Suffering from shell 'shock of a very Severe order. Another lorry, when opened out, was:found to be fitted 'Up with machine tools, which werequickly set to Work, presumably making and supplying fresh parts. Anyhow, within five minutes these Sallie Staff cars *ere re-assembled and, accompanied by terrific applause, were driven away under their own power. This gives one hope for the future _of the derelicts down at the Slough of Despond. It is only necessary, apparently, to 'despatch a. few magicians such as these, and the Slough muddle will be cleared up. I wonder!

A Snug Nest.

Talking of Slough reminds me of that other heterogeneous collection at Kempton Park. Mr. J. C. Moth,. of Commercial Car Hirers, told me at lunch the other

day of a little domestic tragedy in bird life. Mr. Moth's people collected some Commer Car. lorries from. Kempton Park recently, and, on removal of the .top water pipe, a nest of dead sparrows was found ..practically on the cylinder head. The radiator 'and Lthe rubber connecting joint were all complete, and :Mr. Moth's theory is that they must have found their way through the open radiator filling orifice.

A Royal Show Echo.

Important railway officials are privileged persons, these days of hotel shortage. During the Royal Show we had perforce to sleep in Bristol and ti'a,vel to and fro daily, but the L. and N.W., on fincling no accommodation for' their staff, solved the problem by despatching a sleeping carriage to Cardiff.

It was pointed out to me, with a whiff of irony, that our published plan of the Royal Show gave no indication of the whereabouts of The Commercial Motor tent, although everyone else's pied-iaterre wasailainly marked. All the same, a lot of people found us, as we were in the main avenue, but, unfortunately, we had not been able tO fix our exact position until the eleventh hour.

The colour scheme for, the outside covers of this journal in the Show Report number met with many favourable comments and suggestions that it should be continued.

A Link With the Past.

A curious conneeting link with one of the ancient London City companies comes through the Coachmakers and Coach Harness Makers Company. All the familiarly known coachbuilders, the Thrupps and Maberlys, the Maythorns, Hoopers and Whitlocks belong to this City company, and these coachbuilders are now working mainly an motor work. No wonder, then, one discovered such purely motor names as Lord Montagu of Beaulieu, Sir Herbert Austin, and Mr. J. D. Siddeley amongst the elect at an. old City company's dinner -with the Lord Mayor, sheriffs, worshipful masters, wardens and chaplains in all their panoply. I was fortunate enough to be a guest, and greatly enjoyed the old ceremonial. Two members of the motor tyre industry I noticed are also members of this City company, Mr. W. J. McCormack, of Dunlop's, and Mr. John Connolly, of J. W. and T. Connolly. Selling Commer Lars.

The new sales manager at Commercial Cars Ltd. has begun to" niake his presence felt. The chief difficulty beseIting Capt. R. W. Stafford, MC., is the delivery question, which will doubtless straighten itself out in due course. It will be fourtd of interest to record that Capt. Stafford served nine years in the Yeomanry, was with George Heath, Ltd., Birmingham, and, on 'war being de_ dared, mobilized ivith the Warwickshire Yeomanry. He took a commission , with the Queen's Own Oxfordshire Hussars, and, later ,on, was transferred to the Tank Corps. He received his decoration, of which M.C. he is doubtless

very proud, near very proud, near

Ypres, on Pilkem Ridge, in 1917. Then for twelve months he was Tractor Repres-entaae of the Board of Agriculture, and was in charge of the ploughing of Northumberland, afterwards joining Commercial Cars, Ltd.

Birmingham's Motto, Forward!"

The day of the agent for commercial vehicles is at hand ; Cie best agencies are going and have gone, to those men who have an intimate knowledge of a business vehicle's requirements who have studied the problems of transport, who have made themselves competent to advise, and who, in addition, have a central warehouse or garage properly equipped. I have in mind at the moment Mr. N. L. R. Easton, ef Easton, Lloyd and Co., Ltd., Birmingham. His company hold 'the agencies for the A.E.C.lorries and tho Jackson-Holroyd chassis for the Midland shires of Worcester, Warwick, Nottingham and Leicester, and the southern,portion of Stafford. They have already one of the best showrooms of any agents in the country, and are 'busy building a garage adjoining, with a complete Bowser equipment for oil and motor spirit, together with electrical charging plant for accumulators. This, with a. separate repair works on which they are spending £10,000, will indicate the enterprise and spirit with which they are tackling, this business. I have known Mr. Easton for many years ; he was a successful and popular representative of the " 110 " oil, and, later, settled down in Birmingham as the local manager for the British Petroleum Co., Ltd.

A.P.M. and "Daily Mail."

Capt. Knox-Gilchrist, the Southport A.P.M. who succeeded in his action against the Daily Mail recently, is well known, in commercial motor circles, especially in Laneashise. Before the war he was associated with Mr. Turner Smith, and he personally con trolled Stoewers (Northern) Ltd., who dispensed motor lorries and were located at Preston.


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