Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-01

The writer has just recently return
ed to this city after an absence of over
TWO years. A little over nineteen
months Of that period was spent in
England and Scotland, and, although
the writer was born and lived over
twenty years i'll Scotland, some thirty
Years had passed since his last visit to
that country. l think that it would
be useless to describe the voyage from
New York to Glasgow, as many 9TH
ers. much better qualified for that task,
have done that In manner which
leaves nothing to be desired.
The first four months OF my stay on
the other side were spent for the most
part, with my brother at Paisley,
Scotland, although l should say that
on or about the Goth of November,
1911, | visited. in company with my
brother, the automobile show in Lon
don, which was held in the Olym pia,
q building which 1 should judge was as
large as the Madison Square Garden
in New York city. There l. saw a great
number OF our American automobiles
on exhibit. in fact. ( think that almost
all of the lower priced cars and some
of the medium priced were there, and
] understood from what a representa-
tive of the Wyillis Overland company,
of Toledo, Ohio, said. that there were
some forty or our engineers from diff
terent parts of the country present at
der to show that, while there is an i'm
preston on this side of the water
that we have little to learn from
what we are sometimes pleased to style
that old, slow people. there are those
among the technical and manufacture
ing people who are not so minded. 1
noted that most of them spent consid-
cradle of their time in closely ex-
amining the products of the great
German. Italian, French, English and
Scotch manufacturers. L viii not say
any more about this eXhi biUion as
most people who are interested in au-
tomobiles have visited the show in
Madison Square Garden. New York,
or some other of the shows in large
cities on this side. and the one at
London did not differ materially from
our own exhibitions. In fact, only
for the low-set bodies and the Ridge
WhitwOrth wire wheels, which are ex-
tensively used on foreign cars, and per-
haps in the engine construction, where
almost invariably their cylinders would
have small bore and long stroke, we
might easily have imagined that we
were at one of our own exhibitions
Week in London.
We remained about a week in Lon
don, attending the show five days in
that week. so that we had very limited
opportunity of seeing much of the city,
but in that limited time l noticed that
the greater part of the street traffic.
both passenger and goods, was carried
on by motor busses. some. steam, quite
number of electric, and still others,
which 1 think made up the major part,
using what they styled petrol (gas-
oline) for fuel To be sure there are
a number of electric trolley lines but
they generally terminate at points out.
side of the congested traffic zone.
Then, the underground system of rail-
road is similar to our own on this
side, and needs no description other
than to say that II is first-class in
every way. Where the roadbed Of
such railroad is any considerable depth
from the street level, access is had to
the station by large and commodius
are frequently four, or perhaps six,