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It was suggested to me the other day, it, as our fortnightly census of the .torbuses had proved such an interest; feature, was it not desirable to. start imilar one, now, in connection with rtoreabs. I promised to lay it before t Editor. [Sec page 231.—E.D.1
1Ir. H. B. Cook, of the DarraN mpany, is away on a business trip Norway. I hope he is in a different ather zone to ourselves. 1 seem to nember that, when we had the last :tic spell, people in Iceland and Nor4.were busy fanning themselves.
3ur artist, G. A. Stevens, has suc:ded in giving, on this page, a very r presentment cf Mr. James H. inn, of Mann's Steam Cart and agon Co., Ltd., Leeds. He is one the pioneers of the steam wagon, :1 has given of his best to bring this ss of vehicle into its present state efficiency. I found it most difficult get much biographical information
• rn Mr. Mann, because he would apir to have the natural shrinking idesty of the Yorkshireman abnorlily developed. I have gathered, never, that he served some time with an Fowler and Co. (Leeds), Ltd., a ich-respected and honoured company,
with McLaren's, of Leeds, makers heavy traction engines, and I learnt, m Mr. Herbert Marshall, of Marin Sons and Co., Ltd., ofGains7ough, that Mr. Mann was at one le associated with that company, so it he has spent his time with real
good concerns; and, now, his own corn'pany is turning out wagons second to none, and one only requires to walk round his establishment with him, to see the numerous vehicles going through for all parts of the world, to note the organisation of his works, and to be much impressed by Mann's infinite capacity for taking pains, and by the absorbing interest he evinces in his work. Withal, you have the kindly, brusque, keen, business man, ready with a good story to illustrate, or a Yorkshire aphorism to force home his points, and just a suggestion of the feeds dialect in his tones which does the exile's heart good to hear. During the motorbus boom, Mann was much pressed to go headlong into that branch, but he was a little more farseeing than some, and he kept steadily to his wagons ; all the same, like all progressive men, he is keeping an open eye and an open mind for a passenger commercial vehicle which is likely to prove a sound business proposition.
Commercial Cars, Ltd., has struck a clever line in its last advertisement with the catch-line " , cars do not ." and this brings to my mind a similar catch which, with the above example in view, should be easily -elucidated. It is as . . If the BMT put ; If the B. putting
Solutions may be sent to me, at this office, with "The Extractor " on the envelope, and posted to reach here on Monday morning, the 4th May, and to the sender of the first correct solution opened I will forward a framed original rnotor sketch by Mr. Guy Lipscombe.