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7th May 1908, Page 13
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I met, some weeks ago, and enjoyed a long talk with Mr. Geo. W. Lowcock, of the Lowcock Commercial Motor Company, of Albion Street, Manchester, a very enterprising local gentleman evidently widely known and very popular. He has taken up the agencies for the Berna lorry and the Garrett tractor amongst others, and he has very great faith in the excellence of both. Mr. Lowcock has made a close study of the question of motor road haulage and those in his neighbourhood who are thinking of changing over from horses to motors will do wisely to consult him.

If you spend an hour or two with Mr. George H. Halley, the subject of our sketch this week, you are conscious of a brighter outlook. He is so full of life, energy, new ideas, and joy of life. Mixed up with it all, you always detect the native shrewdness and the business instinct peeping out. In talking together, Halley appears to go off the line to relate some amusing or interesting experience, and he has had many ; but he is soon back again—at what is really the uppermost thought in his mind—the undoubtedness of Halley motors, He seems to put the same enthusiasm into his helpmates which, as Rudyard Kipling has said, is " the way of a man." George H. Halley is, like many of the leaders in the motor movement, on the young side. I think I heard it said that he is about 32, but he is an old-fashioned 32. -Tie must have been " very big when he was little."

I have gathered that he served his time at =rim) engineering, with Burmeister and Wain, of Copenhagen, and then went to Ramag-e and Ferguson's, of Leith. He subsequently rejoined his "

apprenticeship" firm, and for same years acted as their resident engineer for Great Britain, but the heavy-vehicle trade soon began to exercise a fascination for him, and he made a start, with the Halley steam wagons, in Glasgow. Later, however, the possibilities of the petrol vehicle attracted him, and he has never looked back. The R.A.C.

last year, served to place his motors on a thoroughly sound basis, because he claims that his two vehicles came in far three prizes, first amongst which was the highly-coveted gold medal, so it may be fairly assumed that Halley has to be seriously reckoned with in the commercial motor trade ; he is fortunate enough to possess, personally, that magnetism which attracts and retains one's interest. He has been known to be fond of shooting, but all hobbies appear to be swamped in his love for motoring, and he ,seems to get his greatest relaxation when at the wheel of a fast pleasure car. I think I may say that Halley is a typical Scotsman, a man with his heart in his work, and endowed with the "saving grace of humour" that makes him a welcome companion everywhere.

The 'little puzzle (suggested by a recent striking advertisement), to which I gave some prominence in last week's notes, has brought in response to my invitation a great sheaf of replies from all parts of the country. The envelopes were turned face downwards, on Monday morning last, so that writing could not be recognised, and a member of our Editorial staff, who, considering how much he knows and the part of the country he hails from, is singularly free from subterfuge or guile, was asked to select the first envelope to be opened. This proved to contain a correct solution, which runs thus:— If the grate be empty, put coal ; if the grate be full, stop putting coal on.

I am sending, during this week, a framed original sketch, by Mr. Guy Lipscombe, the subject being " Motoring in the Shakespeare Country," to Mr. H. Stott, 2, Richmond Grove, Richmond Road, Lincoln, and I think he will be pleased with the picture. I may say that a very large number of correct solutions have been sent in : one gentleman from Forest Hill explains to me that ." the puzzle is so very ancient," anti goes on to give the answer in, I hope he will. forgive me for saying, somewhat slap-dash fashion—and just misses it. I hazard a guess that my Forest Hill friend could not be accused of being ancient, but that he has "all his future before him." If his envelope had been selected, it would have broken my heart to disqualify him. To one lady, who sends in a correct answer, and to many business friends of mine who have done the same, and who must have burned some midnight oil over it, I tender respectful sympathy.


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