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I understand from Mr. J. M. Fenton rthat Doherty Motor Components, Ltd., Coventry, is bringing out an entirely ECNV radiator, and he promises full particulars within the next week or two.
The harmless but necessary printer is _alone responsible for allocating Mr. 'Charles Davies, in these columns last week, to the firm of Foster's, of Lin.eoln. Mr. Davies, of course, is the ubiquitous representative of the Sandbach firm anti, in more than one quarter, to distinguish him from any of the baser sort, I have heard him described .as Mr. Foden Davies.
"From Log Cabin to White House," she life story of a famous American President, was found an enthralling work and marked a wonderful transition. It is by no means generally known that we have, in connection with the motor industry, a transition equally marvellous and with a tinge of romance in it. The managing director of Drummond Bros., Ltd., of Guildford, the Nourishing tool manufacturers, is Mr. Arthur Drummond, and it is within the last decade that he was engaged solely in the artist's studio. I think it will interest everyone to know that he is responsible for the world-known picture " Ills Majesty the Baby " and that of General Roberts and the Boer child, entitled, " Can't you see I rn busy," besides many others almost equally renowned. Mr. Drummond has not entirely given up painting, but the claims of his rapidly-increasing tool business leave him little spare time. Another detail is that the model for the nurse girl in the first-named picture was Mrs. Arthur Drummond and it follows naturally that the diminutive figure in the foreground, on whom all eyes are fixed, is one of the hopes of the house of Drummond.
I found myself, through necessity, -outside a horsed bus recently for a short distance during rather a busy day, and I was inwardly chafing at the dreary jog trot of the horses when my neighbour, a smart young man about 25, opened up conversation by saying, " Thank goodness there are no motorbuses on this route." I expressed may surprise at his sentiments and told him that I had just returned from a business trip to Manchester, Leeds, and Sheffield, that I had not set eves on a horsedrawn bus for a week and that it seemed odd to get back to this primitive locomotion in London of all places. He looked at me wearily and said, "I don't agree with you a little bit. When I go out for the firm now, I get no chance of a quiet pipe on a bus. journeys that could not be done under an hour are expected, with these blessed moors and tubes, to be done in twenty minutes, and our travelers are expected to make nearly twice as many calls in a day as they used to. I don't hold with it," he said sadly as he saw me laughing, " this ride this morning is the only peaceful time I've had for some days," I bade my miserable friend good-morning, and hoped he would get used to it before long. The writer, when in Sheffield a short while back, was shown a high-speed screw-cutting lathe manufactured by Messrs. J. and P. Hill, of that town, and he was much impressed by the finish and by the general " handiness" of this tool for motor requirements. He hopes, at a later date, to secure an illustration and detailed description.
The " Brush Budget "was handed to me the other day and an interesting little publication it is : the cover is daintily illustrated in colour and the contents deal with the latest doings and developments of that vast concern the Brush Electrical Company. This "contemporary," if I may so call it, is published monthly and it deals principally with tramway work, though it has many references to, and photographs of, the Brush petrol wagon which is steadily finding its way into the hands of large users.
"Tits EXTRACTOR."