Motoring Triumphs During one of his Motor Tours The General remarked:-- "It was here (Banbury) that the idea of a Motor Campaign was conceived.

Seven or eight years ago (1900) I held an afternoon Meeting in this place.

On that occasion a crowd of my own people and friends came to the station to give me a send-off.

Such was the affection shown, and so manifest was the pleasure derived from my visit, that I said to myself:-- "'Why should I not impart this satisfaction to those comrades and friends throughout the country who have never had the satisfaction of seeing my face, or hearing my voice ?' "And then the idea occurred to my mind that the automobile would not only be the readiest means of transit, but the only plan by which I could reach the small towns and outlying hamlets.

Moreover, it would perhaps prove the only method by which we could get through the crowds who would be likely to assemble on such a Campaign." By most men, in their prime, it would be thought an ample filling up of any week to address three large Meetings on the Sunday, and one each week night; but The General, at seventy-four, saw that, travelling by motor, and visiting in the daytime such smaller towns and villages as had never seen him before, or not for many years, he could not only reckon upon three large indoor Meetings every day, but speak, perhaps, to millions of people he had never before addressed.