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"The Extractor."
Home and Out.
A word or two of explanation is duo concerning the prolonged absence of these fugitive notes. I have been very much up and down the country by train and ear lately and have had little spare time. People who direct affairs from a nice comfortable desk Suggest that " Out and Home" could easily be written in the train, reeking little of the • crowded state of compartments these military days. Holidays have had to be taken in instalments (one is lucky, I suppose, to get any), but all these causes sap 'Lip the edges and fingers of time ' which have hitherto been devoted to the construction of this gossipy page. Anyhow, St. George steps in to ea* readers from the Home and Out" Dragon, with his petrol substitute lucubrations. Avaunt I Chas. R. Clark.
It has been interesting to me to discover that during the same period of my first months in London when I was a raw youth and lived in an old-world cottage in Dulwich Village, Chas. R. Clark, the subject of the cartoon on this page, was "creeping like a snail anwille ingly to school" at Dulwich College nearly opposite. Doubtless I often saw him bounding down the road when school was over. But, there, Clark has a thoughtful expression, and it may be that he was a serious youth and was very glad to go to school. If he was, then I never saw him.'
Clark was intended for medicine, and, as a matter of fact, put in five years study, but by an gad twist of the kaleidoscope doctoring changed into cycle trading, a strange metamorphosis. Although a, Londoner Clark had migrated to Xorthumbria. His bent was cycle lacing, and it is on record that in the early 'nineties he was North of England champion at five miles.
• He joined the John Griffiths Corporation up at Newcastle, which was a great cycle concern, enveloping, as it did, such mere as S. F. ydge and J. W. Stocks, then, subsequently, he went over to Humhers, then to Sineers, and back to numbers, thus Taking part, like Yuany others of us, in the pioneer Work of motoring. His territory for many years was the North of England and Scotland. Clark established himself a little later on in Liverpool, after which, he came in contact with Mr. Harry Whiting, induced him to take up commercial vehicles, which brings us within measurable distance of the present year of grace, if it be proper to describe it thus with a war on.
However, the subject of our sketch made, a few months ago, the most important move of his life ; when. Messrs. R. Martens and Co., Ltd., organized a" motor" department and took over the Clydesdale chassis the management was properly enough offered to our hero. Clark knows the business, knows the agents, arid knows, further, that he has a dependable article to sell. There is, therefore, nothing to stop him. Chas. R. Clark went down with the " Empress of Ireland" just over two years ago when that boat was rammed by a collier, hut happily he was one of the rescued.
He is a bachelor, has a, smile that seldom wears off, he plays tennis 'when he .gets a chance, and his tastes run also to Yorkshire terriers and gardening.
!A Memory Tickler.
'Ten thousand great ideas filled his mind,
But with the clouds they fled, and left no trace behind."
This is true indeed of most of us, although occasionally one acts upon an idea. Some years ago the thought came to me that a stiff card would be useful for the pocket to remind one of one's schedule of daily work and appointments—a plain sheet of paper covered with notes thereon used to serve all right in a way, but it required finding amongst the volume of papers carried in the masculine coat pocket. A stiff card would be discovered and withdrawn without the rest ; all to our convenience and time saving. Very well ; we have printing machines on the premises, so this particular conception was quickly brought into being, and it
has; never been abandoned. I should have said earlier in this paragraph that this card is probably only useful to outdoor servitors like myself ; others working mostly at a desk find plenty 'of• aids to memory.
However. It has occurred further to me that a supply of these cards would be useful to some principals, and to representatives of concerns who are readers of this journal, and the object of this paragraph is to offer to supply, free of charge, suitable quantities for use as described. On page 92 of this issue is a, reduced reproduction of THE COMMERCIAL MOTOR Daily Memo Card, and it only remains for me to say that requests for a free supply of these cards will be promptly attended to.
011a Podrida.
Mr. Mathieson has commenced duties as sales manager with the Scottish Motor Traction Co., Ltd., at Edinburgh.
Scout Motors, Ltd., at Salisbury, has received a, large order for Government lorries, and is installing some fine new tools and going ahead generally.
A very fine additional sales depot has been opened by Mr. Tom Garner at Deansgate, Manchester, mostly devoted to displaying commercial vehicles. Excellent taste has been shown in the decoration and lighting scheme.
The extent of the fac
tory in Italy is not realized in this country. They tell, me that they are'turning out mainly, if not altogether, for Government purposes 44 lorries per day in addition to six aeroplanes. They have altogether 18,000 work-people.
A well-known Manchester newspaper man, Mr. J. T. Ward, has 3oined the Ford Co. at Trafford Park, and should develop into a, very good helper of that famous concern. Ward always had a great opinion of America's universal car, and naturally with closer touch his enthusiasm is increasing. He always used well-rounded sentences, and a recent pronouncement of his to a friend of mine in Lancashire worked out thuswise " The Ford is the best proposition within the realms of commercialism "—next, please !
Lighting-up-time Changes.
Saturday, 30th September, and Sunday, let October. London, 7.11, ' 6.9 ; Edinburgh, 7.21, 6.19; Newcastle, 7.15, 6.13; Liverpool, 7.22, 6.20 • Birmingham, 7.17, 6.15 • Bristol, 7.21, 6.19; Dublin, 7.40, 6.38.