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6th April 1911, Page 13
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for many things," said Mr. Fritz Poppe, of The Polack Tyre Co., Ltd., to me one night last week, " but especially for introducing us to the gentleman who now represents us in Australia." This was good to hear, and the individual credit rests, I think, with the 'Editor himself. Mr. Eric F. Boult, in a, very-short time, has gained the complete confidence of the Australian buyers, and a satisfactory business has been the result. He is now on his way home for a vacation, and is sure of a warm welcome, Mr. Boult has acted as our Australian correspondent since he went out there, and many indications of the iaterest taken in his articles have come before me from time to time. It will, I hope, be my privilege to meet Mr. E.F.B. on his return, and to hear from his own lips of the progress of commercial vehicles

down under."

often get a surfeit of railway travelling, covering Great Britain as I do, but when I hear of a gentleman coming right through overland without a break from Rome to Leeds, and then again from Madrid through Paris and London to Cardiff, without. a break, itmakes me shrink back timidly into my shell. These are the sort of journeys taken by Mr. E. A. Jarmain,_of the Yorkshire Patent Steam Wagon Co., and one sympathizes readily with him for the deadly monotony of it, but he is sprightly enough when he speaks of the improved tone in business ; this year there is a brisker demand for Yorkshire wagons both abroad and at home.

A new branch office. is very shortly to be opened at Manchester by the Peter Union Tyre .Co., and, although some negotiations are going on with regard to the appoint-. ment of a branch manager, at the time these lines are written I have not heard that anything has been settled, and an opening is there for a capable man with business instinct and some go. The tire firms are certainly most enterprising and should attract first-class men, Manchester is a great centre, and it abounds with possibilities for an energetic man ; commercial motors have thoroughly taken hold there, and the district may be said to be some years ahead of other parts of Great Britain. On our group of journals we have recognized this, and have opened our office in Manchester. I look hopefully to see the. Peter Union fixedup with a live Marl who will adequately represent them.

The theme is still Manchester. I was conversing with an old motoring friend a man with a dominant, still a pleasing personality, the local secretary for the A.A. and MX., Mr. Percy Butler, who is a great insurance man to boot.I believe he does more Motor Union insurance than any other individual agent-, and mainly', I should judge, because of his personal popularity, his buoyant spirits, his general helpfulness, and because his hobby is motoring. At every gathering of motorists, indoors or out, Butler is there. At the out-door fixtures he is either in his F.I.A.T. or on his motor-bicycle, and if it is a competition for the latter type of machine he is a winner or thereabouts ; small wonder, then, that he has acquired a "local habitation and a name." All this might be beside the mark in these columns except for the fact that Butler tells me he has devised a scheme of insurance policies for commercial vehicles, and I strongly recommend makers and users to send a line for particulars addressed to him at St. Peter's Square, Manchester.


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