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, ..11104, By "The Extra c tor " News of quite an interesting innovation reaches me from Canada. It appears that the taxiA Taxi-Drtvers` cab drivers in
CM& Toronto have a
club house w i t Ii reading rooms where the leading mechanical magazines may be perused, bedrooms, and bathrooms (including a shower bath and a "shoe shine" stand); further, the men's uniforms are carefully brushed and looked after by the "club valet "! Taxicab enterprise is said to be financially successful in Canada, and the cabs used in the instance above mentioned are the Berna.
It looked, some time ago, as if the St. Pancras Ironwork Co., Ltd.. would speedily More Cabs for develop the steam London. wagon department. but it seems to have practically relinquished it. I hear, however, that an arrangement has been made with a French firm to put 200 taxicabs on the London streets, and these will be garaged and looked after at the Belle Isle Works, near King's Cross.
There is a bold, determined look about the " football fiends " in the plvrtograph on this r page. Well! " it is
in Business better to be over Concerns, bold than bowled over," as one of the characters remarked in a play I saw recently, and I hope they will win every football cup in the district, and cut of it for the matter of that, for are they not the Dennis Athletic Club team? This comes of my immortalizing the wonderful FOtlen WagonWorks Band in these columns a few weeks ago. The next photographic assemblage to reach me will, I suppose, emanate from one of the Scottish firms: the Albion Angling Club. perhaps, or will it be the Argyll Archaeological Association P Anyhow, and seriously, I think these clubs in connection with business firms are admirable. It is the aim of principals and managers to keep their men, and to get the best work out of them: it seems to me this is accomplished with more certainty when men are working well with one another, where there is mutual goodwill, and the general friendliness that association in athletics, music, or sport undoubtedly produces in all quarters.
Some further notes regarding the fire-brigade work at John Morris and Co.'s works at
.F ram Salford Salford were to Shanghai. crowded out of my
page a fortnight ago. I wanted to mention a fine motor fire-brigade petrol wagon of 50 h.p., which I saw ready for despatch to Shanghai, and also one—for Pretoria —fitted with a 60 h.p. engine. Then there were others on the stocks, for Bury and Stockport, both fitted with pumps capable of ejecting 300 gallons per minute. The Shanghai vehicle was fitted with a, searchlight, by special order, and it was interesting to hear that by its light a newspaper could be read at 300 yds. I judge, by this precaution, that roads must be pretty wicked in Shanghai.
I ran up against Mr. W. H. Clay, of the Ryknield Co., in Lancashire, last week: he was in great good humour, and rightly so, because of the order from Brussels for 40 chassis. They have, of course, been working for it and expecting it for a long time, but that does not lessen the glow of satisfaction when a substantial order like this is finally secured. I gather that More About the Brussels Order.
they secured the order in the face of keen competition from the leading foreign manufacturers, and the Ryknield estimate was by no means the low eat in price. It is gratifying to reflect that the visitors to the great International Exposition at Brussels will be carried in omnibuses manufactured in England. According to Mr. Clay, the buses will be of the light type indicated by the recent regulations of the Landon Police authorities, and will be the last word, as the phrase goes, in motor-omnibus construction.
"In the spring, a young man's fancy lightly turns to thoughts of
In November: lore." In November, every one, young
The Show. and not so young, begins to think about motor shows with something akin to joy. As we have no commercialvehicle exhibition immediately coming along, we shall foregather at the pleasure-vehicle show, and compare notes. I expect I shall put in a few days there, and shall he much interested to meet with friends both of London and from the provinces. My headquarters will be at the offices of our sister journal " The Motor," which will be situated in the north-east corner of the gallery—the old spot.