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All roads lead to Doncaster just now, and I was picking my way up there by road on Saturday last. I was never fond of the Great North Road ; it has a grandiloquent sound and suggests old coaching days, highwaymen and the flint and steel period, but it is deadly monotonous and unpicturesque. When an evil spirit who accompanied me induced me to take the hunting country—Uppingliam, Oakham, and Melton Mowbray—as an alternative, I seemed only to have avoided the eminent personage to drop into the boundless ocean. It seemed to be market day everywhere, with fearsome corners, and when you were not wearing your brakes descending precipitous hills you were unwillingly engaging your " first" climbing up the other sides ; and the "guide, philosopher and friend " at your side assuring you that "this is the last one.". Anyway, the incident that gave rise to these reflections was when pulled up I watched with the greatest admiration the evolutions of a motor tractor having three trailers attached. For a few moments they occupied the entire roadway and we were perforce hung up behind. They were proceeding to a pleasure feast, and the manceuvring to get this long tail through a sort of bottle neck with a bend in it was marvellous. The movements of half an inch at a time, the incapacity to back at all, and still the driver's entire success evoked a cheer from the onlookers.
After that my troubles seemed so tiny that I drove my little Relsize with a thankful and chastened spirit, with knowledge of cheery faces at my journey's end. It is always said that if you would sell English goods in Ireland you must send over an Irishman as representative, and "by the same token" a Scotsman must be established for the same purpose if you would trade beyond the. Tweed.
There are of course some exceptions. T know some inoffending unobtrusive Englishmen who have made and kept excellent business friends in both these countries. Anyhow, the rule is a sound one, and J. I. Thornyeroft and Co., Ltd., has made a sound selection in Mr. E. IL Collie, who has taken over the control of their new Scottish branch at 53, Bothwell Street, Glasgow. I have not yet had the pleasure of meeting this gentleman, but when I am next in Bonnie Scotland I will endeavour to repair the omission.
Business changes are inevitable, and the most recent severance after
long service is that of Mr. E. A. Jarmain, who has just left the Yorkshire Commercial Motor Co. after a connection of nine years. It will be interesting to numbers of our readers to see on this page a reproduction of Mr. Jarmain's photograph. He is an Eastern counties man, and served 16 years, including a term of apprenticeship, with Ransomes, Sims and Jefferies, at Ipswich. Then followed a. spell of two years with Davy, Paxman and Co., Ltd., of Colchester, and two years ensued with Garrett and Sons, Ltd., of Leiston. This record would show close on 30 years of practical engineering and much commercial experience. Mr. Jarmain has, for some years past, travelled extensively in the interests of the " Yorkshire " in France, Spain, Italy and Germany, and in conversation with him not very long ago I learned that he never journeyed abroad without, bringing the business for which he went to a successful termination. He is now, I understand, open for a post for which his qualifications will fit him. He claims a varied experience with all types of steam en.. gines and boilers from 2 h.p. portables to 1000 h.p. high-speed engines, pumping and refrigeration plants, air compressors and machine tools, and latterly he has designed and produced petrol Coinmercial vehicles. I shall be happy to act as intermediary.