February 25, 1919 



HARDWOOD RECORD 



33 



Change in English Concern 



Hardwood Record Is informed that the personnel of the firm of Tickle, 

 Bell & Co., Royal Liverpool building, Liverpool, Eng., has been added to in 

 the person of William Redfearn, who Join.s the organization as partner. 

 Mr. Redfearn is one of the best-known figures in the lumber trade of 

 northern England and has had a lengthy experience in the business. He 

 Is Intimately acquainted with all of the requirements of the British 

 market, being greatly respected and very widely known in all lumber 

 circles throughout the British Isle. His entrance into the Arm ought 

 to be of material benefit to Tickle, Bell & Co. and hence, of course, to 

 the various American firms that Tickle, Bell & Co. represent. 



This is one of the oldest timber firms in the Isles and has been promin- 

 ent in international lumber circles for many years. It was founded by 

 the late Gilbert Y. Tickle, who during his life time paid many visits to 

 America and who in his work abroad became one of the best known 

 African mahogany experts operating on the Liverpool auction sales for 

 American buyers. Since his death in 1916 the business has been con- 

 tinued l)y the surviving partner, his son, Ernest W. Tickle. 



"E. W." ha-s also made many trips across the water and is rapidly 

 becoming a familiar figure in lumber circles as his father was. He had 

 a very thorough training in the mahogany business under his father and 

 is given recognition everywhere as a ranking expert in that particular 

 branch of the business. He will continue to give his personal attention 

 to American requirements in this wood and will retain all of the trans- 

 At'.antlc end of the business under his own direction. 



Mr. Tickle has expressed himself as intending to keep up the good 

 reputation this firm has always enjoyed in America, and will visit his 

 business friends in the United States and Canada at frequent Intervals. 

 Ill fact, we are informed that Mr. Tickle expected to sail from Liverpool 

 about the seventh of January, and probably is on this side of the water 

 now. 



Ernest W. Tickle went into active military service with Great Britain 

 in 1917, and after a short training in England went into the field as a 

 gunner In a siege battery of six-inch Howitzers. It was pretty rough 

 going for a man who had been used to more or less sedentary life at 

 home, and one over thirty-fi%-e years of age to Jump into the heavy work 

 incident to feeding "compliments" in the form of 100 pound shells to 

 the Germans, particularly when the operation was carried on in the mud 

 of Flanders under the characteristic winter conditions of that region. 

 It resulted in a pretty serious breakdown of Mr. Sickle's health, and 

 after a period of dodging about from hospital to hospital, he was trans- 

 ferred to "Blighty" and by chance landed in a hospital in his own home 

 town. He was discharged from this hospital last October because of 

 trench fever and by his doctor's advice has taken three months' com- 

 plete rest at his home in the country several miles outside of Liverpool. 

 The ex-gunner states he is now practically back to normal health and 

 hopes that his most effective offensive weapon will be a two-foot rule 

 and a mahogany gauge. 



Mr. Tickle is looking forward to renewing old friendships on this side, 

 and he says the following in anticipation of his trip : 



Whilst in Chicago I hope to spend some pleasant hours with the Inter- 

 national Secretary of Rotary, of which 1 am a member in the Liverpool 

 Club, and also to be able to take back with me to England new ideas. 

 I am very interested in watching what effect the drawing together of 

 our nations has had at our end. England has come on splendidly under 

 this influence, and feels as if she had a part proprietorship in the "Yanks" 

 who are now part and parcel of the crowds in English streets, and are 



quite as popular as her own boys in khaki. This is particulariv true of 

 Liverpool where you will see almost as many "Old Glories" at the mast- 

 head of the buildings as you will find "Union Jacks." 



Lockwood Heads Flooring Men 



One of the distinguished visitors in Chicago tliis week wa.s Robert Lock- 

 wood, general manager of the Memphis Hardwood Floorinmg Company. 

 He, like Q. Ransom of Nashville and H. A. Batchelor, Tennessee Oak Floor- 

 ing Company, Nashville, Tenn., were in attendance at the hardwoo<l floor- 

 ing manufacturers meeting, this being an annual. Mr. Lockwood was 

 elected president." Robert, like Bill Nye and others, is long and slim, espe- 

 cially slim, but he has a convincing way of talking and makes a great 

 presiding olflcer. We predict that he will be a "hustler" head of the flooring 

 association this year. The association is moving its oflSces and head- 

 quarters to Chicago. 



They are beginning to get in touch with their old flooring customers, 

 who went to sleep after the gentle doses of the government to the building 

 trade during the last two years, but they are now starting a campaign to 

 inform the maid, mistress and the man of the house about the wonderful 

 floors that can be made of oak and other hardwoods, and their activities 

 will no doubt mean a personal suggestion to every retailer who sells house 

 bill or public building and you can anticipate some active work through 

 the hi gorganizations and through the trade papers as to how to build 

 a floor. 



Mr. Lockwood is one of the progressive hustlers from the Southland, and 

 had added during the dry spell the wholesale hardwood bu.siness to their 

 already large flooring operations. If Memphis keeps on furnishing the 

 presiding officers it will soon take the place of Ohio as the home of presi- 

 dents. Mr. Lockwood reports Improved demand for liardwoods. 



Pertinent Information 



Agricultural Machinery Wanted 



Large tracts of agricultural land in Asia Minor, particularly in Meso- 

 potamia, are going into crops rapidly since the Turks were driven out by 

 the British ; and a strong demand tor agricultural machinery is reported. 

 The farmers are anxious to buy, and the chief hindrance will be lack of 

 capital. That region was once the garden spot of the world. The old 

 irrigation canals, some of them dating back to the days of Nebuchadnezzar, 

 are being cleaned out and in hundreds of them water is again flowing. 

 American manufacturers of farm machinery should not lose sight of that 

 opportunity, though it is far away from the common centers of trade. 



Prospective Lead Pencil Stock 



The common wood used in the manufacture of lead pencils has long been 

 tlie southern red cedar. It has now become scarce and the search for 

 something else has been active. Two or three cedars of the Rocky Moun- 

 tains, closely related with the southern pencil trees, offer some promise of 

 becoming valuable, but not on a large scale. Their wood, when clear of 

 knots, is soft and suitable, but not much is found in any one locality, and 

 the trees are generally knotty and defective. However, pencils can be made 

 from small blocks, and some material can usually be obtained from very 

 unpromising trunks, though at considerable expense and with large waste. 



E. W. TICKLE, TICKLE. BELL & CO., LIVER- 

 POOL, ENGLAND 



R. J. LOCKWOOD, MEMPHIS HARDWOOD 

 FLOORING COMPANY, MEMPHIS, TENN. 



WM. REDFEARN, TICKLE, BELL & CO., 

 LIVERPOOL, ENGLAND 



