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NERVE AND ENDURANCE.
With ever-increasing traffic on Is the long life of the typical the roads, together with the ad- British car actually worth much to vent of the comparatively cheap its owner? This is a feature on fast six-cylinder car, the standard which the British car has always of driving should of necessity be beaten its rivals, and the question very much higher than that of of what its longer life is worth in three or even two years ago. But a. d. to the owner has never been has the average driver to-day properly estimated.
realised this? And, since this Recently, however, the makers article is written mainly for of ene British light car, the well-women, has the woman driver of known four-cylinder 12 h-p-to-day realised it?. I fear the an- Galloway, heard from a dealer the swer is in the negative. It is, I story of one of their. cars which had been sold to a lady in May, think, not unfair to say that when 1926. It has recently been taken
a woman drives well she drives back by the dealer in part ex- very well, but that the majority of change for another Galloway of us are, perhaps, what may be this year's date, and the dealer termed mediocre or indifferent found that in the lady's hands it drivers. This is the more curious had done no less than 40,000 miles, because a woman has, as a rule, an that it had never once been de- abundance of what is one of the carbonised, nor had any other re- first essentials in the mentality of pairs and replacements been made, a good motor driver-imagina-. and that no undue attention had tion. Yet in nine cases out of ten been paid to it beyond greasing and she will not use it consistently. oiling once a month. Yet auch was She will, for instance, sound her its condition, mechanically and otherwise, that the dealer was able horn in good time before a bad to re-sell it for three-quarters of corner, but having done this her its original list price,
sense of anticipation ceases and That any two-year-old car should she will take the corner in full fetch 75 per cent. of its list price, confidence that either no one will is surprising enough, but after be there or that if there is the 40,000 miles in the hands of another driver will have heard her unakilled amateur of the un-horn and will be exactly on the mechanical sex.
right side of the road. But in will give food for thought to those these days that is not sufficient, who say that long life in a car Allowance should always be made is of no, practical benefit to the for the fact that another car may average owner. And, Incidentally, for an ordinary poppet valve en-
he a few feet over its legitimate gine to run 40,000 miles without
margin. decarbonising must surely be a world's record.
!
It
THE IRON ROAD.
NAILS SPRINKLED BY "HUMORISTS."
The Chairman of
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Leeds
Magistrates in fining two men for placing nails on the roadway re- marked that it was almost incredi salves to do such an action. I have ble that anybody should bring them- sometimes said the same thing to myself after finding a couple nails of the same sort in a flat and weary-looking tyre.
of
And yet one wonders whether, perhaps, somebody with a mis- guided sense of humour, may not have sprinkled the road for the Very often those nails are of a kind benefit of the passing motorist. known as boot protectors-a kind of enlarged drawing pin with a flat head, on which it can stand
up- side down for an indefinite period without becoming fatigued, No doubt, such fall out after much service, and those which I collect are generally much worn. casuals; but they seem at any late They may be mere honest to be enormously popular. I could wish that I were interested in their manufacture"Morning Post."
POPULARITY OF MOTORING.
Queues 3 Cars Deep and 3 Miles Long.
London, May 9. of motoring threatens to make the The unprecedented popularity ronda round London and other big cities impassable at week-ends. The scenes yesterday recalled the Another example of a lack of congestion of the General Strike. imagination, or perhaps it should Queues three cara deep and be- here be called forethought, con- tween 2 and 3 miles long were cerns "filtration." During & counted at road junctions at vari- traffic hold-up it is surprising to out points twenty miles outside NEW PREFERENCES. note how few drivers seem to give London yesterday evening. Every
any thought to those behind them main road was blocked. who may wish to turn
As it is estimated that 4,000 lett, and are very often allowed to new cars appear on the roads do so while the main stream sweekly, the chaos in future is still stationary. These rear cars likely to be intensified. are frequently prevented from
Eleven deaths in motoring acci- moving owing to the fact that the drivers in front of them, although dents were reported at the week- proposing to continue with the end, showing that a Hampshire main stream, persist in keeping vicar did not exaggerate when he on the left side of the road, thus wrote in his parish magazine that preventing any "filtration" in that "Sunday is becoming a day of direction."
death and danger, dust and din.”
LIGHT SIX-CYLINDER DESIGN.
to the
European motorists, with their greatest preference in the past for cars of four-cylinder type, have shown a change of ideas within the past year, and the popular trend is now turning in force to care of light six-cylinder design. This complete reversal of former standards in Britain and on the The psychology of the feminine Continent, WAB the outstanding driver is interesting, though it is feature of the recent Paris Salon often somewhat mystifying to the
and the Olympia Automobile Show driver behind her. A woman will our engines, misjudge the load to nt London, Great interest was drive down a fairly crowded be taken up, and the timing of it, centred at these shows on the new thoroughfare, such as the Bromp were we not in our secret heart light aixes, and it was generally ton Road, in the afternoon, far. somewhat in dread of the driver admitted that European manufac-
turers were forced to produce cars more slowly than is warranted. behind us, in other words, "fuss- of this type, because of the invasion This she seems to do on principle, ed." It takes many months, of American manufactured sixes because it is a "crowded thorough-sometimes years, to eradicate this which have made deep inroads in fare." She will not take advan- lurking fear-I am not, of course, the European field. This fact wastage of the stretches between the alluding to the really finished very apparent at the Paris salon side turnings to put on a little driver, but to the mediocre ones as an indication that European speed but drives as though there for whom this article is written. manufacturers determined to add were crossings at every yard. An excellent rule, and one which to the position of their time-This is exceedingly irritating to I have constantly heard laid down honoured, four-cylinder cars, those behind her and is in many but which, nevertheless, remains six-cylinder type 'built along
On difficult to adhere to, is "never be cases unnecessary caution. American lines in an effort to meet the other hand, she will treat the hurried or flurried by the car be the Yankee invasion. Observers at the Paris salon declared that it far more dangerous, though com- hind you." It is a very sound is doubtful if any light six would paratively unfrequented, roads of maxim and one which can only be have been produced this year by Mayfair and Belgravia with much learnt by hard experience on the French makers had there not been lesa respect because they are not road, and not on paper. But once ofered the strang American com- "crowded thoroughfares." Yet in this mental attitude is achieved, potition. The ready acceptance of places such as the cross-roads be driving becomes a pleasure which the light six disclosed that the tween the end of Pont Street and increases day by day, and one sud- European manufacturers had real- Chesham Place, Eaton Square-denly comes to realise that in ly made a popular move.
the very width of which is a dan-driving a motor car there is a ger to an undecided driver at the wonderful' finesse which has corners and the bad corner hitherto been undreamed of. Thè crossing in Park Street, care and gear-box becomes one's friend and caution are far more needed than not a fiend, and one ceases to won- when going down the Bromptonder why the experts prefer con- Overseas orders Road or Kensington High Street. stant changing and a four-speed figure largely among the business | Again, a really good driver will box to less changing and a three. of the Leyland Motor Co. Thus never lose time in getting away The average woman driver is of no less than fifty single-deck 'buses from a traffic block. She will the mediocre class, but this is of special design have been sup watch not so much the car im-chiefly from bad tuition and from plied recently to Moscow, a 'bus of mediately in front of her as those the fact that she does not seem the Leyland "Lioness" type has a little way ahead, so that when to realise how little it would take. gone out to the Cape Electric the moment comes she is fully to turn her into a really good. Tramwaya, and a number of 'buses of the "Lion" type to the Kowloon prepared and with a flick of the driver. Nerve, endurance - as gear lever and quick changes up shown in the general strike, for Several more of the same type (many women wait far too long on example these qualities she has are on order for the China Motor the low gears) is away, cleanly. in plenty, and uses them; but the 'Bus Co., of Hong Kong, and a still and evenly.
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It is surprising how often one imagination, and anticipation she As regards commercial vehicles, hears an engine raced when get seems to ignore. Yet the develop- recent customers of the Leyland Co. ting away from a traffle block, or ment of these qualities all, if I include the Capetown Municipality, the Irish Free State Army, the when reversing, and I must con- may say so, far more present, in the Soudan Government, and the Indian fess that the driver in nine cases even though latent, Governmont, while four-tonners cut of ten is a woman. This, I feminine mentality than in the with special bodies are being con- think, is largely accounted for by masculine--is often all that is structed for service in Perala, and temperament-that useful peg needed to transform the indiffer- another order for a four-tonner which bears so many of our de-ent driver of to-day into the good comes from the Canary Islands. linquencies! We should not race one of to-morrow."The Times."
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Again has the civil war in China taken a startling turn. General Chiang Kai-shek is going after Hankow first instead of Peking, and this decision has occasioned a series of com- plications, which are all set forth, and the situation sized up, in this week's "Overland China Mail.”
Various moves by the foreign troops in China are being made almost daily, mainly as a result of the threat to Tien- tsin and the North generally by the advancing Southerners, Fresh disturbances and a degree of anti-British feeling have broken out again in Shanghai and other places; the arrest of Comrade Borodin and other "Reds" has been ordered--all matters appertaining to China in Arms are covered in this issue.
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