A friend of mine in a large Yorkshire town is
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mixed up in religious work with the princiMotomans for pal butcher of the
Butchers. town, and a very fine and large business it is, I should say. He, knowing my interest in motorvan business, has had some conversations as to the advantages for tradesmen over quadruped traction, and I am asked to call in on this meat purveyor during my next visit, and in a friendly way give him a few facts and figures. Many of these I have in my brainbox, but if any manufacturer likes to write me a line giving me more—concerning, especially, the adaptability of the motorvan for butchers—I will gladly hand them all to this tradesman, and pass them. also, to the Editor.
Those who have come into the motor trade through the cycling side will re member with keen Frank Peach. pleasure Mr. Frank Manchester. Peach. He was sec retary, for many years, of the National Cycle Show. He appeared to me, when he acted in that capacity, as an ideal secretary—always courteous, suave, and resourceful. Sometimes, I used to think, his hands were somewhat tied by his committee ; there were many things he would do, but he had rather hard and fast lines of demarcation laid down. In spite of all this, he remained a most-popular figure, and the subsequent blotting-out of the National Show could not in any way be attributed to him. Now, we find him associated with the Milnes Daimler vehicles, principally in the, Provinces, and he has made his headquarters at Manchester, with a fixed local address-57, Yarburgh Street, Alexandra Park, Manchester. I am reminded of this, because I ran across him in Manchester last week, together with his chief, the insuppressible Mr. H. G. Burford, who had buckled on his armour, and gone for a Lancashire pilgrimage, like *King Arthur's Knights when they went in quest of the Holy Grail, but I should judge by Burford's satisfied expression that he had met with more success than they did. Anyhow, Milnes-Daimler interests in the capable hands of Mr. Frank Peach should advance. I gathered that they had been putting one of their vehicles through a little trial on a hill at the back of the London Road Station, a hill which was not used for wheeled traffic, but which they successfully negotiated, both up and down, and stopped and started again in the middle—altogether a mostcreditable performance, and one which met with the distinct approval of their taskmasters. Hence. I take it, the look of satisfaction already noted. T venture to wish Mr. Frank Peach every success, and I feel sure the Manchester people will appreciate him when they get well acquainted with him in his new sphere of activity.
It was a wily and subtle move on the part of this much-abused Government, to make the naval display so near to London, and thus calm an excited nation, and I had decided to spend a few hours on Wednesday afternoon—my only chance before leaving town---in assuaging my own individual heart tremors by gazing on the Dreadnoughts. This plan, however, was of no avail, when F. G. Bradbury, of Vieo, Ltd., suggested that I should attend their luncheon at the Motor Club and take part in a subsequent trial of Vieo wheels. I, so to speak, threw the Dreadnoughts overboard, and I have no complaints. Mr. Marshall Hall, K.C., an excellent speaker, Sir William Bull, M.P., and Mr. Stuart Ogilvie gave us satisfactory figures of extended trials on Vieo wheels. I found myself in a Daimler car, the back Vieo wheels having Continental solid tires, and we went out—by roads which seemed to be selected for their bumping qualities—as far as East Molesey and back. I was greatly pleased with the smooth running, and I had an excellent chance of judging; I sat on the seat over the Vieos, and, at good speed over bumpy roads, any shock was almost imperceptible. I should certainly 'judge that the resiliency of this wheel should effect a great saving in commercial vehicles.
Vigo Wheels.