It is pleasing to see that the agricultural-motor people are
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following up the advantage gained by the special Royal recognition of their section at Gloucester. Mr. Hoffmann, of the Ivel, anticipates more and more business for his company in the hiring out of machines for the purpose of reaping, binding and ploughing. I am glad to see this, because the British farmer is by nature exceedingly conservative and this enterprising move will. I am sure, appeal to him so much that he will try the new methods and compare costs. That is half the battle. It will be interesting to bear later on from the Ivel Co. how this has been taken up, together with some to hula td results. Agricultural ; Motors on Hire.
The daily round in a London office is sometimes not so humdrum as the superficial observer is apt to think, though not, perhaps. so thrilling as in a gold-mining community where revolvers are as much a part of one's equipment as is one's pocket-knife. I was startled, all the same, when calling upon a concern closely allied to the motorbus business, to find a life preserver solemnly brought out of the top handiest drawer, and in most serious tones adjudged a necessity in their office. because the speaker had been threatened with personal violence by his own co-directors. The words of one of Charles Dickens's famous characters involuntarily occurred to me : iOffice Amenities.
Something will come of this," said Mr. Simon Tappertit; " I hope it
mayn't be human gore."
On this page will • be foun• d an illus
tration of a commercial-vehicle engine made by Balaton and Paul, Ltd., of Norwich. I was down there last week, and felt sure a reproduction of this engine would be of interest. I was glad to find an old friend in charge of Boniton Norwich Engines.
and Paul's motor department Mr. A. P. Donnison, who was formerly with the Hopkinson Engineering Co., at Huddersfield, and previous to that with Tylor and Sons, of Belle Isle Works, King's Cross. Boultnn and Paul's motor department has been going through some trouble with its workmen, and it was obvious that the men had received the fairest possible treatment, but that is not enough when the paid agitator gets to work. Fortunately, other workmen were found, and the regular output was never interfered with.
Some of us• have hardly thought of holidays yet, yet here is Fritz Poppe, after some weeks in Germany and particularly at Waltershausen, back again like the proverbial giant refreshed. I happened upon him after dinner one night last week, and he made me eager to visit his native heath with its wonderful forests, its hills and its winding rivers. I have long had a craving to see Heidelberg, and the entrancing view from the Schloss, to witness the " Mensur," as they term the fencing bouts between the students of the various colleges, but now the desire is renewed tenfold by Fritz Poppe's enthusiastic descriptions, for is he not fresh back from these scenes, and ha.s he not revived his youth by delightedly going over the old ground with his English wife and children? After all this, I must spare time one holiday to see delightful Nuremburg, Berlin, the Black Forest and old Freidelhurg, and to quaff deep draughts of " Munich " in their famous beergardens, even though one's liver should cry out in very anguish. Well! here, I repeat, is Fritz Poppe in London again, with a sad shake of the head as he bewails the present price of rubber, but with the same confident smile as he takes up the business reins and prepares cheerfully for another year's close apnlication to work.
Poppe`s Return.