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By " The Extractor."
That pioneer of motoring, Mr. Fredk. It. Simms, has just returned from a successful business trip to the other side. He reports that the American Simms Magneto Co. is growing apace so much there that they are full up with orders for 12 months hence. He has made, during this last trip, an exhaustive study of the condition of the motor and accessory market of the U.S.A., and has brought back many promising novelties about which no doubt more will be heard anon. His firm is now denominated The Simms Motor Units, Ltd., 191, Werdour Street, W.
Death has conic: with tragic suddenness in the case of poor Andrew Gillespie, the northern representative of Fodens Ltd., Sandbach. It is a few weeks since I met him, and his ayes shone as he told me of his approaching marriage, and how he had decided to settle down in Leeds, that being the most convenient centre for his business, And now, in the middle of his honeymoon. while away on the north coast of Devonshire, he has been stricken down with acute appendicitis. Gillespie was a happy spirit, universally liked, and he will be sorely missed amongst his business and social friends. He had, of course, fairly established himself with the Foden concern, and I have had many opportunities for observing how completely his heart and soul were enveloped round his business.
It is indeed sad that he was destined for the " final goal of things " just as life was really openine and c12
beginning to have its hest charm. Gillespie was a Scot, loyal and truehearted, and I venture to convey, in addition to these poor words of mine, the sincere condolence of the staff of this paper to the bereaved one who is left.
The cordial appreciation of this journal is always accorded, as is
well known, to sports clubs in connection with motor trading and manufacturing concerns. It truly engenders a give-and-take spirit, and enables employees to know each other better, with a consequence that there is more e.s.prit de corm. They appear to have had high jinks at Acton the other evening. Rival teams at football were formed among he Napier employees, the Acton Works contingent opposing the New Burlington Street team, Mr. H. T. Vane, the general manager of the company, kicked off, at 5 o'clock, and, after an exciting tussle, the New Burlingtons scored a substantial victory. This was evidently no ordinary day, because they first of all adjourned to a hostelry hard by, where dinner was served and speeches were made, and then in thorough up-to-date fashion went on to the local Empire. Responding to the toast of " Napier Motors,' Mr. H. T. Vane, who occupied the chair, said that it afforded him the greatest pleasure to see the two departments of his company in such keen and friendly rivalry, for he realized that, although they were opponents on that day, yet in the interests of the company they worked hand and glove together. He liked to see comradeship, for comradeship meant co-operation, and cooperation in business meant success; and now that the two branches of the business were welded together, he would gladly make it his first duty to see that this policy was carried out in the spirit as well as in the letter.