Norwich bulletin., 1914-01-01

the agency for the Wyllis Overland
cars, "a gentleman entered and with
out giving his card, in fact in rather
clever way evaded the, request for his
name, and asked to be shown the
mechanism There on the floor stood
a polished chassis with all its mechan-
ism exposed In such q manner as to
show It's advantageous points. The
gentleman in charge. who was a
Sootchman, unkindly or kindly, sad
died me with this task which task 1
performed to the best of my ability,
and when / had got through 1 noticed
that the inquirer had one foot on the
chassis and his eyes riveted on the
floor, and he presently remarked
You Yankees are very good at agri-
cultural machinery, but when a fine
machine is wanted you have to come to
the continent, or over here Now, of
course, this kind of stirred and Jared
me for a moment, but it was only for
a moment. I was waiting for him to
look up and when he did l said to
him, pointing at car passing the
window. "Oid you ever ride on one of
these cars?" And he said Yes
did you ever get on the front plat
form?" He answered in the af1rma-
tive. Then you must have noticed
the top plate on the housing on that
controller But he answered that
he had not well. then. if you will
do SO. and you can read. you will find
cast on that plate letters which spell
The Westinghouse Electric Company
Pittsburgh, Pa
Much Besides Agricultural Machines.
And If you will follow that con-
trOller down under the car you will
find that the motor which drives it was
built by the same company. Surely,
you do not call this an agricultural
machine!
"And if you will step round the cor
ner next door but one, you will find
offered for sale machines called type
writer's, marked plainly Smith Premier,
Underwood and Remington, one or
more of which you will find in about
every office in Glasgow Surely, this is
not an agricultural machine, Then,
If you will enter almost any store
worth mentioning, you will see in plain
| view cash register on which the
name of the American Cash Register
| company, Dayton. %, is cast in plain
letters. This is not an agricultural
machine. Further, If you will step
| down beyond here little ways to the
| central station. You will find at times
| from q dozen to thirty locomo tiVes
putting away, and when you approach
| nearer to any one of them you Will
! hear a measured sound like chunk,
| chunk chunk This is not anything
/ connected with a snow plow. 1t is
only the Westinghouse air brake. And
| still further. if you will take the trou-
| BILE to visit the Badd Stroude company,
| manufacturers of range finders, you
/ will see one of the finest equipped
machine shops in the world, and al
| most to a machine in that factory they
| Brown q Sharpe. Universal milling
machines, their Universal grinding
machines. their small automatic screw
| machines, and numerous others man
| ufactured by that company in Provi-
| dence. r. l.. and in this same group
! you will find the Pratt & Whitney line
| of machine tools of various descrip-
| lions, and also quite a number of
| lathes and other machines manufac-
/ tured by the Hendy Machine company
/ Of Torrington. Conn. And now. my
| friend I said to him. "a Scotchman
! has been talking to you, who served
! his apprenticeship with Hanna, Donald
| & Wilson. over here in Paisley. And
/ please" | added, do not for the sake
! OF the country and the trade to which
| you belong make such an exhibition of
| yourself again. Here, take a cigar
And he took it and departed.
! Now. this is not to say that there
! are not a very different class of peo-
! there. because frequently engineers at
| Ihe head Of the motor industry would
come in and present their cards open
| ~. with a request to be shown, and on
! being shown would almost always re-
mark exClaim: I do not under
! stand how such an excellent job can
/ be produced for the price and would
/ add many more favorable comments
/ OF course. sometimes, pointing out
differences where they thought they
had the advantage over our practice,
! which I readily admitted. But those
| instances. be it said, were few.
Wages Paid.
I interviewed a. few people with a
view to geetting at the wages paid
mechanics, engineers on the railroad
trolley car conductors. policemen etc
/ was travelling on a train of the North
! British Railroad company, which L
think would make a trip similar to that
between this city and Worcester, and
when getting off the train 1 approach
cd the engineer at the Glasgow term
inaI.
Engineers Pay.
Now. perhaps. l ought TO explain here
! that at this station the platforms are
raised so that the lower of the two
steps from the carriages is about on
! the level with said platform. That be
ing The case. ] could converse com
fOrtably with the engineer. I asked
. him how long he had been with the
company, and he answered that he
! had been with them for rs years
When | asked if he had reached a
maximum wage, he replied in the af-
| fiImatiVe. and to the question as TO
how much that was he replied "-hr-
ty-nine ShilllngS q week" and to the
same question put to the fireman he
replied that he had been IS years in
the employ of this company. and that
his wages were 80 shiIlings a week
This would be in our money, approx
imately, S1.6S for the fireman and 1886
for the engineer. In England the men
filling the same positions would have
from five to seven shillings more per
week, and 1 think that this difference
would hold good through al the trades,
as between England and Scotland.
Machinists in Scotland.
NIachinists in Scotland I found We're
receiving a maximum vase of about
1895 for a week Of 81 hours Police
men i'll the city of Glasgow from 20
shillings to 80 according to the years
of service. Those men are not allowed
70 carry firearms anywhere in England
or Scotland. and l have noticed some
of them getting sCant protection when
| handling ucruly subjects under arrest.
Several of those policemen, too, in
formed me that they only used their
sticks. or batons. as they called them
there. in the most extreme cases, and
even then with the fear that they
would he reprimanded by the maEis-
trate for so doing.
Trolley Cars.
Now. lei us take little trip on the
trolley cars of Glasgow. We will get
on here on the yellow car at the juno
ton of Argyle and Jamaica streets and
ride as far as Charing Cross. a dis
7 Sbouid of coOSide i11ea