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Out and Home. A Tire Leader.

20th January 1916
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Keywords : Holderness, Paull, Tire, Bicycle, Shin

Some Changes.

The love of Wales is common to most of us. Mr. W. H. Paull, the subject of this week's cartoon, has gone further—he had for years a delightful house under the shade of Cader Idris, on the Barmouth Estuary. His business interests have for years been centred in the Midlands, so that "Wales," as he has told me, "is the nearest point of access to hill and sea."

Mr. Paull is one who takes a huge delight in his home, and the little time he can spare from his great business responsibilities is absorbed mainly in tending his roses and his garden.

He is essentially an outdoor person, and, like several of us on the staff of Temple Press, took an early, enthusiastic and abiding interest in cycling. He was captain of the famous Centaur Club, and, I happen to know, "a very good captain, too." This meant the scouring of England for its beauty spots with long glorious days awheel, sheer joy for the country lover who is ever finding fresh. "bits " off the beaten track. His increased responsibilities came with the motor development; and Mr. Paull has for many years had opportunities of gratifying his enormous appetite for work. He now controls the solid-tire side of the Dunlop Rubber Co.'s business the magnitude of which cannot quite be realized. The golf-ball section also comes under his care.

Mr. Paull is acting chairman of the Solid Tire Committee of the S.M.M.T., and chairman of the Committee of Solid Tire Manufacturers of the M.T.A. His successful work in connection with the standardization of rims for solid tires will always be remembered. His L.G.B. evidence was a masterpiece. The subject of these notes emanates from the land of the Sea Kings, spending his early life there and retaining a love and pride for glorious Devon. Like many capable men he has a dislike of publicity, and it may be explained that the cartoon shown on this page was surreptitiously drawn so long ago as the last Commercial Vehicle Exhibition at Olympia ; the geologist's hammer, peeping out of the side pocket, was an afterthought of the artist's on being told of his subject's intense interest in that science.

As I have said, Paull is a great lover of borne with a fondness for fishing and shooting. Through the exigencies of work he has now to locate himself in Birmingham. Painstaking, no detail too small when arriving at a decision, he is surrounded at Aston by a loyal and devoted staff.

I have in mind a -gentleman who will be shortly free to take up a post as works ,ixkinager or general manager of a/ meter factory. He Is a highly-skilled engineer, with complete knowledge of the internal-combustion engine and the handling of men ; he is relinquishing a similar post in which he has beenvvery -Successful, and I shall be much interested and pleased to put him in touch with any concern which has an opening for a first-class man. He will, of course, require adequate remuneration. A line addressed to me, referring to this paragraph, will teceive prompt attention. A friendly note reaches me from Captain E. H. Allday, who is with the A.S.C., M.T., in France. He tells me he has a fleet of " W " and " B " type Daimlers, and that they have each done more than 12,000 miles, and have behaved extraordinarily well. He remarks that this is " some " work for an Ammunition Park. He is personally very "fit and flourishing."

"For ways that are dark And for tricks that are vain The Heathen .Chinee is peculiar." —so also are those of the Government inspectors for the making of munitions, according to the various accounts I get from different parts of the country. They reject shells oftentimes without rhyme or reason. Certain shells were being thrown out at a commercial-motor works I wot of, so my informant placed amongst some laid out for inspection the shell which had been handed to them as a model and which bore the Government mark. Out it went with the rest !

Trade Changes.

A change in management has taken place in connection with the London business of the Canadian-built Acason lorries. Mr. R. •N. Fairbanks, the chairman of The British American Import Co., Ltd., has now assumed command vice Mr. H. Sutherland Pilch, who is no longer with

this company.

Air. Goode, British sales manager for Gaston, Williams -and Wigmore, Ltd., which handles Pierce-Arrow, Kelly-Springfield, Selden and Bee trucks, has now been transferred to the management of the same concern's Paris house, his place in London being filled by Mr. Rowan, formerly his chief assistant here. —

Mr. H. E. Dixon, formerly with Hoffmann Ball Bearings, at Chelmsford, and latterly as advertising manager with the Herbert Frood Co., Ltd., at Chapel-en-le-Frith, has just left the Ferodo concern.

011a Prodrida.

Mr. B. S. Gelston. who has been for some time with Mann, Egerton and Co., Ltd., of Norwich, tells me that he has now taken up the post of sales manager to John C. Beadle, Ltd. at Dartford. Beadle's are builders of commercial bodies; they are engaged upon work for the Government, and have already completed heavy contracts both for the War Office and Admiralty. Approximately 250 hands are employed in the body shops and works department.—

Mr. S. S. Nevill was formerly the concessionnaire for the Bruhn mileage recorder, to which he gave the Quaint name of "What Was When." This was of German manufacture, so Othello's occupation was gone indeed. There was work in plenty, however, for the brave hearts, and friend Nevill joined the Royal Flying Corps. He holds a commission now, and writes cheerily from Egypt, where he is hard at work preparing for a possible visit from the terrible Turk.

Light Lamps.

On Saturday, 22nd January, light up your lamps at 4.58 in London, 5.20 in Edinburgh, 4.48 in Newcastle, 5.1 in Liverpool, 5.1 in Birmingham, 5.8 in Bristol, 5.19 in Dublin.


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