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FATAL HESITATION.
"This is another instance of he who hesitates is Jost," said Mr. Ingleby Oddie at Westminster Coroner's Court recently, in em phasising the terrible danger of hesitating and "dodging about”
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Road engineers have discovered that it is possible to mix colour'|| linta with the texture of the new hard pavement surfaces. Red con- erete roads have made their appear ance in the United States. Recent- ly a British firm experimented with a pink road, and they are now dia- cussing the possibility of laying p: when in traffic. “I am always ad-history had begun length of highway bright green invocating the importance of pedes.
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Visibility is very bad on some roads at night when they are wet, and their shiny surfaces too often dazzle drivers by day when the sun
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Would coloured reads remedy these defects? Would they help to 'solve the "dazzle light problem? These are points, which are being considered by road engineers.
An official of the Royal Automo- bile Club aald:
"I should imagine that red roads would be most trying to the eyes of drivers. A green, road might well prove very soothing and pleasing. It would considerably dull the driv
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trians standing still when they find themselves in difficulties," he added, when recording a verdict of ac- chiontal death, and exonerating the driver in a case In which Caroline Maria Ball, 71, formerly a erness, of Park-lane, Tottenham, was knocked down by a taxicab. in
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When Mr. A. R. Erskine, Presi- dent of The Studebaker Corpora- tion of America, saw the last nail driven in the shipping box that was to carry the fret Erskine Six to the Paris Salon he know that a dream had come true, and another epoch in Studebaker's 75 years of
For the Erakine Six, revealed at Studebaker's the Paris Salon as new 21/8 litre European car, is the embodiment of an ideal conceived two years ago in Paris. There Studebaker dealers from all over Europe had gathered to tell Mr. Erskine their conception of the ideal type of car for European drivers. . The descriptive composite of this ideal car, derived from the cumula
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Heavier penalties, including im- prisonment, for dangerous motor diving, are to be introduced in Eng- land in January, says the "Daily. Newa,"
There will still be no general ¡speed limit, but 60 miles an hour will be consider- the maximum speed to
ed
be attained with safety on the open road Populous centres and coun- try villages are empowered to en- force a speed limit of 10 or even flye miles an hour...
Driving licences will, in future éontain the photographs of the hold- ers. No licence to drive will be fasued to anyone under 17 years of age; at present a lad of 16 can secure a car-driving licence, and boys of 14 may ride motor cycles..
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Cel, Macro, piring, nåvise: un a muzalain journey to à fuir vialtor at Baffi An encounter with a grizzly in the heart of the Canadian Pacifie Rockies is a tame experience compared with dodging through traffic, in Montreal, according to Gol. Phil A. Moore, pioneer guide of Banff, Alberta, who arrived at Windsor Station, Montreal, over C.P.R. nes recently..
But of course,, Col. Moore Isals differently about bears and other wild animals than most people do. He knows them intimately, and has made a careful study of their kapita and disposition during his 25 years: bf residence in the mountains. He pooh-hoohs the common belief that there are no birds in the mountains. He himself has identified 107 va- rieties. "Of course ons must use their eyes,” he explains.
Col. Moors, visited the East recently before. continuing his journey to Chicago, where he fulfilled an engagement with the United States Bureau of Economics giving series of lectures on Canada.
showed that she hesitated while crossing the road,
In another case, that of Athro Alfred Knight, 74, of independent means, the father of Mr. A. C Knight, a solicitor, similar evidence was given. A verdict of death as a result of an inevitable accident was recorded Mr. Knight, it was stat- ed, was crossing from St. Martin's place to Duncannon-street when he "dodged about" in the traffic and was knocked down by a taxicab.
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that a signal triumph for British industrial research is marked by the announcement that, after ex- periments with several American types, Mr. Henry Ford has adopted for his cars a well base rim of the type originally evolved at Fort Dunlop, Birmingham, and already part of the standard equipment of over nine out of ten cars of British News has just been received from make.
Germany of two scaplane world re- The idea of the new rim is older "cords. that, have been created by than the first motor-car, for it was Captain von Groban, flying - a used on the Dunlop-Welch bicycle Heinkel-Napier seaplane. The re- tyre in 1890. During the war Itcords achieved are for altitude came into prominence in connection whilet carrying heavy loads. The with cushioning aeroplanes, against machine weighted with 2,204lb. the uneven surface of landing fields.reached a height of two and three- The rim, which le cheaper than quarter miles, whilst with half this Its predecessors, allows a tyre to load it reached an altitude of three be taken off and put on without the and a half miles. These records ase of any tools, and the tyre itself, are subject to confirmation by the having greater air space, absorbs Federation Aeronautique Interna-
tionale. more shock.
Although the idea of the rim is now patented in all countries; the inyentors are so convinced that its universal adoption would be for the benefit of everybody concerned that they are giving manufacturers' rights to anyone who wants them.
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tive experience of men who were experts in their knowledge, was turned over to the Studebaker en- gineering staff on Mr. Erskine'e return from Europe at the close of 1924. The combined genius of a $100,000,000 corporation started the task of translating this ideal into an actuality. Every respurce of the corporation and of its $1,000,000 Proving Ground and ex- perimental laboratories were brought into play to determine that the Erskine, Six; as it was finally conceived, was ready for the mar kets of the world. Test after test | pronounced the car ready for its debut in the world's greatest inter- national motor show.
After the first car produced was tested and approved, it was dis- mantied, packed into its specially designed box stencilled "París. Salon, Paris, vis Havre," and start- ed on its long journey-forerunner of a new development in motordom.
A LIST OF DONTS...
Don't let the engine knock or labour. Both imply that an undue strain is being imposed on the me- ekaniam.
Although Great. Britain does not Don't drive on the brakes or the herself hold any world flying re-exhaust lifter, but on the throttle. cords; yet her products have help ed in this case to create, records. This is the same machine which won the Commercial Seaplane Competi- 'tion held at Warnemunde recently.
Don't ride with the tyres "board hard" but allow the rear tyres to show a slight bulge when at rest under full load; the front tyre may be rather softer.
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