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20th February 1913
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Latecome s at Manchester.-By " The Extractor." Drivers Ufant Badges.

The opening day of the Show was quiet, but on Saturday and Monday I was struck with the attendance of the right class of people, and many exhibitors confirmed this. The F.I.A.T. threetonner was a late arrival, having been dispatched by passenger route all the way from Italy with a man in attendance, so that no delay could occur. Unusual interest is being already shown in this entirely new type.

The talk at one luncheon table during the Show went in the way of fines for leaving cars unattended whilst taking lunch or making business calls, and some harrowing injustices were brought to light. Then one revealed an incident at which he laughs now. He finished up a long day and a longer evening with many friends at the Midland, and the discussion went on even into the reading-room after they had been turned out of the Octagon Court. Eventually a taxi took him some three miles out to the sharer of his joys and sorrows. She made some remark about the motor, and then he remembered! He had left his own car outside his club in the early evening, and there was nothing else for it but to plod back and get it.

Another capped this by relating how he went to the club one morning about twelve, found his car outside' and only then remembered that he had, absent-mindedly, taken a taxi home the night before and forgotten it.

A salesman is wanted by a prominent firm to sell lorries and the like. In addition to knowledge of motors, he must have commercial experience. He will be required to go out and clinch the orders and sometimes to take duties at home with correspondence, etc., whilst his chief executes a flank movement. They are excellent progressive people, and the right man should be comfortable and feel that he is getting on. Letters may be addressed in confidence to " C.G.," care of this 'paper.

It looked as if foje..WtSillt play havoc with the Manchester Show, but when it opened on Friday there were very few missing vehicles. Stoewers were very late and Turner-Smith and Gilchrist worked the night through putting things right. Lacre's managed to change their small space in the body of the hall for something more adequate under the gallery. There were pillars, however, at short distances to be contended with, and when they tried to manceuvre their great chara-bancs into position they were

fairly up against it, There was a great shaking of heads and much sympathy expressed. The vehicle was wedged in, another six inches was badly wanted, and one wag said the only way was to " open the throttle."

Surrounding exhibitors who were being hampered by the blockage said things about getting a quart into a pint pot, but the Lacre men rose superior to it. They juggled with a front axle, shifted the body round a little, just as quickly replaced the axle, and "The Grey Knight" looks now as stately and superior as if he had never known what trouble was in his life.

When two brothers, with initials inconveniently alike, are staying at the same hotel, confusion is apt to occur. Captain A. G. Hills, of the London Improved Motor Coach Builders Ltd., and Mr. A. C. Hills, of the B.S.A. cars, are both at the Midland Hotel during the Show week, and letters for the former should be addressed as above in full. He does not desire in the least to receive orders for his brother's pleasure cars, being interested solely in making commercial-vehicle bodies of all descriptions.

One steam-wagon driver, whose face I see at every show, agricultural or otherwise, spoke to me at the City Hall and said what a great benefit the R.A.C. guides were even to drivers of heavy steam vehicles. Useful information had been constantly given to him on the road. He thought hosts of drivers would be willing to contribute to the funds if they were approached. Perhaps a subscription similar to that charged to the motorcyclists might meet the case. I commend this to my friends of the Commercial Motor Users Association.


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