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purchased on the River Lea, within nine miles of the main Finchley factory. It occupies five acres, and Simms will be moving in almost immediately, It will enable them to fulfil a large volume of orders which at present it is difficult to meet.
Right Show—Wrong Speech
AA S 1 listened to the opening speech by Mr. Ernest Marples, Minister of Transport, at Earls Court last Friday, I began to wonder whether he thought he had come to the Motor Show. Then I remembered a remark he made when he entered the hail. He commented on the pleasant freedom to walk about, adding, "The Motor Show is more like St. Pancras."
Perhaps he had just mixed up his speeches.
Closed Shop
DRESS preview day at the Commercial Motor Shaw Pro
duced the usual complaint from journalists—a shortage of qualified representatives on stands to answer technical questions. The complaint has been uttered so frequently and so loudly, without visible results, that the Press is coming to regard preview day as a purely social occasion,
Workers' Paytime
A NOTHER complaint at the Show—this time by exhibitors— PI concerned the extravagant and extensive tipping of workmen that is apparently necessary to ensure that stands are completed on time. Hundreds of pounds were said to have changed hands in the two days before the Show opened, Some people blamed the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders. I wasn't sure why. Others said that "somebody ought to expose the racket." If I carried the torch for the exhibitors and burned my fingers in the process, would they testify on. my behalf in court? No, they said with pleasant candour, they wouldn't.
Carry on, workers!
Memory Men
TWO of The Commercial Motor representatives who were covering the -Show had their notebooks stolen. Their reports published this week are an eloquent testimony to their memories. Their feat recalls the occasion when Sir Miles Thomas, then technical editor of The Motor, had to dictate a complete Paris Show report from memory, without pause.
Change of Scene
SIR WILLIAM LYONS, chairman and managing director of Jaguar Cars, Ltd., found himself in different company at the Commercial Motor Show as the new " owner" of Daimler. One of his early visitors was an old friend, Mr. Roland E. Dangerfield, chairman and managing director of Temple Press Limited, and Mrs. Dangerfield, to whom he proudly showed the new Fleetline rear-engined double-decker. With boyish enthusiasm for anything on wheels, Mr. Dangerfield was quickly up in the cab, with Sir William as the newest trainee " conductor " in the bus business.
New Way of Bonding
BONDING of brake linings takes on a new meaning with the announcement that Cape Asbestos Co., Ltd., have offered to take over Small and Parkes, Ltd. The directors of Small and Parkes have decided to accept the offer for their own stock—and they are, of course, the leading shoes.