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SKIDS.
THRIR CAUSES AND CURES.
"KILL THEM AT BIRTH.”
[By the Hon. Victor Bruce.] Prevention is better than cure, in regard to motoring as well-
of attaining.
this way.
us into
THE CHINA MAIL
The this to control a skid, there- RECKLESS DRIVERS. EASE IN NEW SEDAN
can-
THEIR CONTROL "AND PUNISHMENT.
THE LITTLE KNOWLEDGE.
SALES INDICATE APPROVAL
OF ERSKINE SIX;/
FOUR-DOORS,
appearance. Studebaker calls the new Erskine an American edition," because these points have been par- ticularly stressed to meet the re- quirements of American motoriste. "The new body lines, with wide
fore, is before it has bogun; and this can only be done through knowledge of the causes likely to generate It, together with the antidote to apply. As I said be fore, much valuable information on these lines may be obtained in The problem of dealing with the Nation-wide approval, as regis- deliberately trying to make the car dangerous driver becomes more and tored by record sales throughout akid, so that Intelligent and more insistent. It stands to reason the United States, has grested the thoughtful practice on a deserted that, at the rate at which new driv-new American edition of the Ers- human fls; and it would no doubt road is doubly worth while.
ers are taking to the roadkine alx, according to Chester N. be possible to go through one's) But supposing that a skid does every month, one might say every Weaver, Studebaker-Erskine distri automobile careor without ever develop in spits of all one's caution week, the number of accidents will butor in California.
"The four-door sedan," said needing to know how to check and The effect is that while the driving steadily increase, and it did not control a skid.
This, however, force, or momentum, of the car need the remark made at an inquest Weaver, "like other models on this would necessitate such unusually persist in the original straight line, held recently that it was time a new Erskine chassis, is noteworthy good luck, as well as good judgment the centre line of the car is athwart mortuary was established on the for its roomy comfort, greater po and careful driving, that the state the line of force. The skid of complete skid-freeness is rather not be stopped until those lines Southend road to remind us of the Wer, ease of riding and attractive
fact. an Ideal for which to strive than have been made to coincide onco
Many suggestions have been put one which we have any real hope again, or until the line of force forward by all sorts of people hold has ceased to exist owing to the Luck enters into the matter in dying away of the driving force or ing totally different views for the
No matter how slowly momentum.
The latter would be control and punishment of the reck- and careful we may drive ourselves, brought about normally by the ap-less driver, and there is little doubt crown fenders, a new radiator de- is a that before the present summer is sign and the embossed steel, panel at almost any moment on any run.plication of the brakes, and some lete careful person may thrust fact that the use of four wheel out the whole matter will have once sweeping back over the hood reficet a situation where it is brakes will often serve not only to more been exhaustively discussed a distinction that is Immediately ap necessary to apply the brakes or check the speed without aggrava-and yet more solutions of the pro-pealing,
The same good taste is carried steer in such a way that a skid isting the skid, but will actually help blem offered. It is most sincerely to
The be hoped that some practical sugges out in the interior. Front and rear courted. It is obviously desirable, to straighten up the car.. and even essential, therefore, that degree to which this action can be tion will be made which will at any compartmenté have many features the gentle art of skidding, its causes rekoned upon with any particular rate make a beginning of the check of convenience and comfort.
One of are unusually wide and there is an and control, should be assimilated car should be made a matter for ing of dangerous driving.
the many difficulties in the way of ple head room In both compart by the novice in the earliest pos- experiment.
finding a working solution is in the ments. The rear set is flanked sible days of novitiate.
lack of a recognisable definition of with cushioned arm rests.
Dangerous a dangerous driver.
"While beauty is an outstanding But to bring back the wandering
car to coincide driving and its consequences may feature of the Erskine six the great- ding can be mastered only by centre line of the
It holds the record practice. I would any to every with the line of force, it is neces-not always be due to sheer reckless-est appeal lies in its remarkable If the say that at the present time a con- for full equipped stock cars selling novice: Do not let your first skid sary to turn the steering wheel in ness: In fact, I should be inclined to performance. be accidental. You do not know the direction of the skid. how your mind and muscles will rear of the car has thrown out to siderable proportion of the drivers under $1,000 when it recently aver- the right, steer to the right, the whom one would instinctively label aged more than fifty-four miles an react to a skid until you have
And It is significant of the skidded, and it is better that you tendency being thus to keep the as dangerous drive in the deplor hour for twenty-four consecutive A the Erskine six that it may be should choose the location rather nose forward. A few moment's able manner they do mostly from hours:
de; notable exception to these is, of engineering genius that produced than have it forced upon you. thought will make this point more ignorance or lack of manners. Usually safety in the event of a clear than mere words can skid occurring depends upon a cor-but it may help to consider what course, the type of driver who is driven forty miles an hour the day
would happen if one steered away really the scourge of the highway, it is delivered.” tain amount of free-space, and a deserted road, so far as your portion from, instead of into, the skid. the man with a high-powered car, Your tall has swung to the right, who has a certain amount of skill,! of it is concerned.
Select a suitable piece of road, and you steer to the left, the that little knowledge which is 80 therefore, and deliberately handle obvious result being to help the car the car in such a way that the rear in its desire to complete the circle wheels lose their adhesion. In of its skid.
Muster by Practice.
And, just as with learning to re- verse neatly and efficiently, so skid-
you
Help the Wheels Round
a greasy
car in the
Seats
dangerous, and more than his fair MOTORISTS' £7,000 BET share. of luck... He is the man who deliberately takes risks, whether by
SUCCESS OF BRITISH TYRES.
It is possible to neutralise a rear cutting in or taking blind corners -all likelihood, in these days of al- most universal four wheel braking, wheel skid; but the most terrifying fast, or overtaking other cars on some difficulty in experience a motorist can have labends, or, where it is just as dan- may have
Great Britain, the United States, steep bridges, and- gerous, over causing the car to skid, but in your a front, or four wheel, skid. The repeated efforts and eventual suc-most likely cause is an endeavour leaves behind him a trail of fear Italy and France were all concern- cess you will acquire a great deal to turn too sharply on
only of every decent-minded driver, £7,000 which was run on the In- of useful knowledge of the causes, surface. The front wheels, in- and batred. He is the enemy noted in an exciting motor car race for as well as the correction, of a stead of carrying the
direction set by the steering wheel, but of every user of the King's dianapolis track of America re-
highway.
cently. sideslip.
Anything
Owing to the undoubted skill
The contest was the result of a It is a popular fallney, by the push straight forward. way, that four wheel brakes have may happen; and the exeprience is completely eliminated the danger; doubly terrifying because the car which be sometimes displays the statement made by a United States until driving crimes he commits do not motor manufacturer, that an but this is a dangerous. overstate-is entirely beyond control
Other factors adhesion of the front wheels has always have fatal results and far American car could beat any Euro- car which M. Weymann, ment of the truth.
too often he gets off acot free. been regained.
It has often been suggested that of Paris, liked to bring across. must be considered.
drivers should undergo special M. Weymann therefore selected an tests to prove their driving capabi-Italian car, equipped it with Dunlop lities and their possession of a tyres and left France for the traffic sense. It never seems to me United States where a thrilling 24 that there would have the slightest hour race was run.
First, if the brakes are out of adjustment, and pull more to one aide than the other, they may cause a skid even more readily than the old back wheel braking.
Second,
JUVENILE RACES.
while perfectly adjusted brakes will MINIATURE CARS WITH TINY prevent the car's tail from wagging
and alde alipping, if they are applied
ENGINES.
pean
effect, or at any rate would avail As it happened, the tyres were to cure the major evil. It is not the decisive factor. The American Paris, Amid the greatest en-necessarily your indifferent driver car started off at a great pace, but the wheels became locked, the car thusiasm, with orthodox starters who is dangerous. It is doubtful its chances were soon hopeless, for, whether any examination could be during the 293 laps it completed, will continue to skate forwards. and time-keepers, and numerous
on a very slippery surface so that
It is an advantage that it is still laughable but not serious accidents, get so difficult that the average skil-20 tyres were used, while the ita- responsive to steering, but bad two events for boys and girls under ful driver could not pass it with lian car, which completed 543-laps, luck or bad judgment may bring eight were inaugurated at the Chil-ying colours; while such an exam-only had to change its Dunlops about a collision with the rear of the dren's Motor Races in the Buffalo ination might deprive thousands once. Indeed, so much time was vehicle in front. And, third, skida Ring.
Miniature cars with tiny of law-abiding, decent, careful wasted by the American in taking
roads
can occur through faulty driving, on engines, capable of fifteen miles an citizens of the right to use the off worn tyres and putting on new that at the finish it was actually a corner. for instance, and if the hour, were used.
The mere fact that such an 600 miles behind its European rival brakes are not in use, it is obvious In the first race, viz. the girla that they can have no effect one eliminating heat, Jacqueline, the examination had been passed. (with, way or the other.
daughter of the famous boxer, presumably, a certificate to that Georges Carpentier, camo second to effect) might even encourage the The necessary action to check a Nicole De Launay the seven-year reckless driver in his evil courses. akid when it has started is as in-old grand-daughter of the noted We cannot compel people to behave stantaneous that for complete suc-motor-manufacturer. Another decently by Act of Parliament.
An Inherent Possession.
cess it must be instinctive, and to little girl lost a wheel while round-
Severe Penalties.
TOURIST TROPHY.
RESULT OF JUNIOR TROPHY RACE.
London, June 4.
a certain extent knowledge of the ing the turn and wept so bitterly As far as one can judge at pre way to act is an inherent posses- that she was allowed to participate sent, the only hope of placing any sion, rather than an art to be ac in the final.
check at all upon reckless driving quired through study. That is
The Douglas Tourist Trophy During the boy's heat a highly in the infliction of the most why I say that you cannot know excited competitor demolished the how your own brain will reset until wheel of Jacqueline Carpentier's severe penalties. It is obvious that motor-cycle races opened in the Isla a large percentage of instances of of Man to-day. Fifty-one started
people check 'their
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you have had the experience. Borse car which was standing at the reckless driving will go unnoticed, for the Junior Trophy over 264 MOTORWISE WOMEN.
very first ac-starting point. It was, however, or, from lack of evidence, anpunish miles, which was won by Bennett eidental skid with the perfection hastily repaired.
of the expert; others do just, When the final was announceded, yet one feels that, when a par-riding a Velocette, his time being 3
exactly the wrong thing, aggravate there was intense excitement. the skid, and have a crash which,
could easily have been avoided.
Let us consider an actual skid in
operation. For one of several PRINCE MAY TOUR AFRICA
reasons, the rear wheels lose their, driving grip on the road surface,'
BY CAR.
ticularly flagrant case is proved, hours 50 min. 62 sec. 5. Willis, on a really drastic sentence, given the a Velocette, was second in 3 hours, widest publicity throughout the 66 min. and K. Twemlow, aluo rid- country, would have some effect. ing a Velocette, was third, his tinta
In the case of first convictions it being 4 hours, 8 min. 59. sec. might be difficult to frame an équit- able code of punishment. The fear
NEW FEMININE KNOWLEDGE.
"Reports from dealers have been indicating for some time that a noticeably large proportion of all new Chryslera gold are go
The Prince of Wales is going on of permanent cancellation of A od slide sideways, and action' which is probably augmented in a tour of Africa in the autumn of licence would probably prove an ex- League of this Association and ing to feminine drivers," said most instances by centrifugal force, this year. So far no details have cellent deterrent, but inevitably faithfully obey its excellent prew Frazer, Chrysler Sales
Manager. and if the skid is unchecked the been fixed, but it is possible the cases would arise where such cepts, the standard of driving car will simply reverse its direction. Journey will include East Africa punishment would result in the would undoubtedly be enormously
hey are brought either dir It may even turn completely round and Northern Rhodesia. He will be offender losing his means of livell-improved. Indeed, I should like to ence or more than once, according accompanied by his brother the hood. The same objection applies see an examination paper on this ectly by women for their own use
Tentative in- to very heavy fines with the option booklet set to every applicant for to the allpperiness of the road, the Duke of Gloucester.
Ber
driving
orth the
speed at which it is travelling, and quiries have been made through the of imprisonment. A possible way a driving licence, Asl sald, I do
he action of the driver with steer-Colonial, Office with a view to out of this difficulty would be to in not think that pra ing wheel, engine and brakes, finding out where motor road tran- These last three points are such spart and similar factors are Avail Alet the most severe, penalty res- tests could ever uncertain factors that. It is im-able, as the Prince desires to make possible to predict exactly where the tour as far as possible by moon
the car will finish, but with car. practice it is possible to skid one's
car no accurately as it can be
steered in normal fashion. But GEOGRAPHY IN THE HUB OF
I do not recommend the budding
motor driver to aim quite so high
Site Sensing": Danger.A
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After the Open Championship a
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car when a skid is abor
It is useless, or
akes the position
sopable in the circumstances, cou-while, but the pled with the warning that the nation
next offence of any kind whatsoever behaviour would would lead to extreme measur
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