That part of the population of Manchester which "does not
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know " is quite under the impression that the Show question is settled, and that S.M.M.T. has sanctioned the next year's exhibition, for have not the Manchester daily papers definitely said so F The controllers of the Manchester Show, however, speak differently, and a conversation with some of the Committee, early this week, revealed that the vexed question is not yet settled, although there is every hope of a desirable conclusion, in which case there seems a likelihood that two distinct shows will be needed—one for commercial vehicles, and one for pleasure cars and marine engineS.
7.lit'ot Yet :Settled.
Last week, I related a story concerning one of the former principals of the famous Jessop steel works, and.
1774. since that time, I have had occasion to visit those works, where I was then told that the management had not heard the story before, but that it was extremely characteristic of the gentleman in question; more illuminating anecdotes were given to me concerning the same individual, and also regarding earlier Jessops, because this company was founded by a Jessop in the eighteenth century. It
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was interesting to go through the shops, and to see much work in progress, in the shape of crankshafts, etc., for the Albion Motor Car Co., Ltd., for Halley's Industrial Motors, Ltd., and other concerns. Jessops are more than doubling the size of their motor department—I saw the ground marked out, and they will get a chance then of keeping abreast of their orders. An improvement in their motor business set in some months ago.
A gentleman with whom I am not personally acquainted, but who is very well known to,
Twenty Years' and esteemed by, the Experience, manager of THE
COMMERCIAL MOTOR, is at liberty to. accept a responsible post. I will briefly state his qualifications. For many years he has had commercial and consulting experience in gas, oil and petrol engines., motor vehicles, and most industrial machinery, bridges, and other constructional work, railway and tramway permanent-way, rolling-stock and accessories, and electrical work generally. His experience includes practical work, designing, erecting, estimating and the general management of works. I shall be most pleased to put him in communication with any firm or corporation who could utilize the services of a capable man with a unique knowledge of engineers and engineering works in many parts of the world.
It was my lot to spend the brief Easter holiday, with a few friends, in the North of Renard Tratn France, mostly at a ServLe. charming seaside resort named Wintereaux, and we made a journey, for a short distance, morning and night, in a Renard train, which travels daily between Wimereaux and Ambletetise. It was most helpful to us, and very interesting to me, to find this sys
tem in continued use there. At Paris-Plage, the manager of one of the hotels ran two 40 h.p. motorbuses, of a Belgian make, for use between that place, Etaples (the railway junction), and Le Touquet, and these vehicles linked up three places otherwise terribly inaccessible. I understood that four more buses were on
the stocks. I happened to journey over to Boulogne in the same boat
with the aviator.
Le Blon. Le Blon, and his wife, the former of whom I had met previously, at the Humber Co.'s exhibit at the Aero Show, and it was, therefore, doubly shocking to bear of his tragic death this week, so shortly after my hearing from his own lips plans, hopes and n SPirn t ions.