Speaking of the trade generally, I anticipate that in future the bulk of the business will be in the hands of a few leading firms, who will do most of their trading through agents. The smaller firms will go out of business, or amalgamate with bigger houses. The standard of cars will go up, and the manufacturer and retailer of a cheap car will not much longer be able to take advantage of the ignorance of the public, since that ignorance is gowing less day by day. • Now in regard to the individual who wishes to enter the trade as an employee, real common sense will cause him to improve his position in whatever part of the business he takes up. If he does that work which is allotted to him correctly, he will be very quickly put on to something better. Employers are looking for such men all the time, but they have no use for those who, when they have failed in the position allotted to them, point out what a wonderful success they would have been in another position which has not been allotted to them. My experience is that the man who does not successfully carry out the small tasks given to him seldom succeeds in the big ones—in fact, most employers would be afraid of trying employees in big positions when they have failed in small ones.
So far as employees are concerned, their opportunities in the motor busi ness are in some directions better than in sonic of the standardised businesses, because the motor business is still expanding; but unless they have ability, even in an expanding business, they will not succeed any better than they would in a stationary or declining business. Although the motor business is expanding, it has exceedingly able people connected with it, people who expect a good deal from their employees, and the employees have to be just as much alive and on the alert as the employers. The motor business is place for people who are prepared to work very hard and for very long hours; it is no place for the man who wishes to pass his declining years in well-paid, drowsy ease. S. F. EDGE.
Managing Director of S. F. Edge, Ltd.