Show HOBBS loot lda 7 ac ri P afta abare re cato am lo 10 b no doubt of the fact that day k american look under the he care of mr hobba now in in london has baa been on ftc ully picked by 4 mr goater foreman of chubbs establishment A long ion g borr 6 d awe has in consequence taken place between mr hobbs and the successful picker athis of big lock 1001 the london mechanical mechanic magazzine MAgaz jine I I 1 is I 1 ym very severe upon our countryman for an endeavoring to ta bring english looks and lock lockma makers kera into disrepute it accuses him of asserting inon in one electure lecture that hu his look could not be gickel picked and again after he heard beard it had bad esh picked making the statement that it could be picked it therefore endeavors endear on to fasten the charp charge of ter V i on upon him the f following ol lowing is mr boaters Go at aters 8 0 rel reply to mr hobbs it presents the english sg side 0 of tu tse question 11 chau an objection is taken teben by mr hobbs that I 1 have only operated anone sized sid look lock and that a sin small one to this I 1 reply e PI Y tike the I 1 size or shape of the look makes no din diff erenee amee to me except that the larger the I 1 look lock the t I 1 easier it is picked icken and aad it con can be opened 40 easily cisily fixed fivas as unfixed I 1 mr mi hobbs says he be had bad some soine looks it t the boond meeting with improvements Improve mento in daw J I 1 to bak my op operations orations after he had explained these 0 o I 1 told him plainly plau aly before an all the civil engineers present that thoy they would abt atop MN me and I 1 could pick them as readily readi i t as I 1 had done the others in conclusion mr hobbs really h has so ao right to complain of this exposure be begab J the war against the english locksmiths lock smiths in n 1851 I 1 I 1 I 1 were there bisno is no necessity for aay tont tem on question H hm has hobbe look loch been picked if it baw h and tw that filly fairly it is setti esthe naele matter there dose does not no seem 0 to o be roy any doon dm 0 of tto the fact and thia adwa as the M I 1 to oc t im bag to be invented yet asperi I 1 cami emmeh bm |