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MOTOR TOPICS.
[By Edgar N. Duffeld.] Destiny plays strange tricks with One of them has ordained that 1, the most inveterate of misogyn- ists, should be commissioned to
us.
write on motoring for ladies. I am, however, too sagacious to rebel against Fate, and I shall therefore
obey the behest!
Take, for instance, this case, which occurred some days ago.
"Christmas," I said to Ethel, who had come to pay me a niecely call; "Christmas will soon be with us, Ethell Are you going away?".
"Of course, uncle!" Ethel's tones were surprised. "Christmas at home, in these days! How very
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two youngsters cannot cover that distance. In a driving day, well ..." Here I took out my pipe.
The fallacy that motoring is any longer a butterfly, fair-weather, summer-only business is ridiculous, Ethel," I went on, after a medita tive pause, during which my niece watched me with ruminative eyes.
THE CHINA MAIL,
& RHINOCEROS. TRAFFIC TOLL
CHEVROLET ADVENTURES IN POINTS TO BE REMEMBERED
JUNGLE
EXCITING EXPERIENCES
Gordon Makepeace, Press repre- sentative with the Chevrolet Cape town Stockholm Expedition writes:
to
BY DRIVERS
RESPONSIBILITIES
If the record of 1928 highway accidents la to be maintained at decent minimum, it is essential that every motorist fulfil to the letter, the fundamental rules of the "It is very curious that when road and the basic regulations anyone announces to his friends which govern safe and careful that he is about to proceed to Cairo, driving.
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by road, the first question he is A road crowded with Sunday asked is almost invariably, "What touriats presents difficulties which can be met only, by intelligent, guns are you taking?"
manipulation, Apparently, in the public mind considerate car
the journey by road through the Cutting in and then out, danger- heart of Africa is synonymous with ous swerving and unheralded
the destruction of much of the stopping-these are some of the natural. fauna of the continent. factors which have caused hun- Admittedly the more journey by dreds of mishaps on the country's road would become dull indeed were highways, and if 1928 is not to It not for the hundred and one ex-be a year marked by a fearful toll citing incidents, which occur once of automotive injuries each driver the traveller has left the more must take himself in' band and populous centres of civilisation, but exercise rigid control over what really there is no need whatever to may be a characteristic of his set off from Capetown with a type of motor vehicle operation. couple of Lewis guns, a maxim or two, and a Hotchkiss, in addition to the normal equipment of shotguns and a sporting rifle.
The point is that every one, at some time or other, is seized by a desire to "step on it," to do a bit of daring driving, to outwit and Africa is rapidly losing much of outclass the other fellow, That its charm by the decimation of its is a natural, human impulse, but wild animal life, and the average it is important to remember that man will be glad indeed to learn there are times and places for that the Administrations through everything, and a crowded high- out Africa are gradually putting way is no spot for such tricks. stop to the indiscriminate slaugh-On an empty road, where the only ter of wild creatures merely be cause they are wild creatures.
The Blood Lust.
injury possible would he to the driver himself, another question is involved. But where many in- Unfortunately, most people be nocent human lives are at stake, come affected with a bloed lust, the thoughtful motorist will drive once they set foot on the Central with the utmost self-possession African plains, and blaze away at and with every consideration for anything and everything they see, the rights, privileges, and lives of Land the result is pitiful indeed. To his motoring colleagues.
go shooting for meat to ent is rational; but to litter a plain with dead creatures la fict only irra tional, but criminal in a day of supposed civilisation.
RECORD SALES
GENERAL MOTORS EXECU»,
TIVES GET TOGETHER
There are enough buffaloes, Ilons and leopards to satisfy anyone in Central Africa, so there is really no reason at all to shoot more buck
MOTOR TRUCKS than one can eat. Besides, anyone can shoot a buck, but lion, leopard
Predicting a record sales year and buffalo present quite à differ-
for the motor truck manufacturing ent problem. If anyone shoots any industry and an increasing Nation- one of these three you may be sure wide demand by merchants and that he is quite a good shot, and business concerns for motor trucks, that he has taken more than ordin-branch managers and executives of ary trouble to get his bag.
the General Motors Truck Company held an enthusiastic get-together that the animal most to be dreaded meeting at Pontiac, Mich., recently. Reports of the optimism that pre-
People may be surprised to hear
in Central Africa is the buffalo, which is one of the fiercest of
ence to crave for. plenty of wraps, tons of room for
Amazement.
round behind the deceased without
"In u saloon like yours, with a first- class windscreen, an automatic wiper with two squeegees, a fog lamp on the near side dumb-iron, animals to be found anywhere. To valled at the big gathering were that Thermorad heating device for find oneself in long grass with a brought back to Coast dealers and Northern California branches of I want to tell you about my niece.ase if it should really be cold/wounded buffalo is not an experi- the company by J. J. Davie, San Ethel. A heart of gold, Ethel, and luggage, a pocket for a Thermos into long grass very rarely does so
The man who follows a buffalo General Motors Truck Company.
Francisco branch manager of the far, far shrewder than she looks,faak, the facilities for smoking on any subsequent occasion, even their production schedules for the "Factory executives report that Yet even Ethel can commit appali- and front seats which will enable
the passenger, the idler of the if he returns to tell the tale after ing blunders at times,
moment, to sleep for an hour or two the first experience. Buffaloes hunt coming months have been increased in anticipation of the increased de If so disposed-why, my good girl, by sight, sense and cunning-a mand that general prosperous con- I'd rather drive to Scotland inry dangerous trio-and it almost ditions throughout the length and Invariably is stated at the inquest breadth of the country would, acom December than in June!"
Ethel looked at me in genuine that the wounded buffalo worked to indiente. Dealers and branch his being aware of it, and charged managers in all sections of the country are increasing their orders. The fast, high-powered trucks, him.
It is imperative that the traveller with their many safety factors and should be armed, and that he new features that provide riding dated you are at times! We are able? The very height of enjoy should know how to use his arms and driving comfort, as well as going to Scotland to Jock's people, ment, my dear girl! I would not in case of necessity. That this maximum haulage capacities in you know, my "in-laws. Very nico miss such a trip for the world necessity occasionally does arise, every price field in the General who has travelled the Motor Truck Company line have people! But I am dreading eight Why, when I was your age" And anyone
African Great North-road will tell won the buyers' interest. Their hours in the train, because Jock's laughed.
"You think I could stand it?" you. It is only a few weeks ago performance is resulting in con- sisters live near their parents, in
that 1 gentleman driving a. Scotland, and fresh positively Ethel guld dubiously, "You do not
Chevrolet car in the vicinity of stantly increased demand.
"The recent Nation-wide cam- glowing when we arrive-I all think I should be fatigued?"
Mount Kilimanjaro encountered a paign for better delivery, which dusty and dishevelled from the
I shook my head emphatically. eight hours' journey. I hate trains..
"For a girl who can dance rhinoceros in the roadway. Now,
tors Truck Company, has received You do, too; I know, don't you, steadily from about nine till four, rhinos are very inquisitive animals was sponsored by the General Mo eat bacon and eggs for an hour, and once one gets a strange scent, the indorsement of public officials spend a couple of hours in bed he will charge in that direction at
uncle?"
have done!" And I sank into a reveric,
"Yes, darling, I know" Ethel re-
"Do you really mean," she asked, that such a journey could be tolerable?"
"Tolerable?" I echoed, "Toler-
with his ton or so of flesh at about;,
weightfly, "can be very useful, golf, lunch to beat the band, then rush leads him. Fortunately he is and delivery problems of the day, "Trains, my dear," I answered have a díp, play a round of man's/full apesd, no matter where his wit in every big city and has caused the buyer to consider anew the hauiage They have why it would take me play tennis all the afternoon, and an extremely unwieldy creature, from the standpoint of public ser- hours to tell you all that trains sit down to Bridge all the second and once he has got well under way vice and public welfare. : } .
evening, I Fatigued? Good
"The Pontiac gathering of Gen- 10 miles an hour, it is an easy materal Motors Truck Company sales heavens no!
"Stamp on the idea that motoring ter to dodge aside, and let him executives was addressed by Paul is a spring, summer, autumn and finish his wild career some distance Seiler, president of the company: "But why go to Scotland by train, that the motor car of to-day is de did some extraordinary cornering thorities on motor trucks and hau- O. L. Arnold, director of sales, and winter affair," I went on. "Realise off in the bush.'
The man driving the Chevrolet other men nationally known as au- now you are married?" I asked.
signed, materialled, built and "You have only just spent three equipped to be a three hundred-round some trees feat for lage and delivery problems." hundred pounds on the Morris, sound-sixty-five-day-per-year conven which, in normal circumstances he' why go by train? What has the lence. Realise that no railway would be awarded any automobile
plied calmly. "But if you had to
sit in one for eight hours, you
car done?"
journey could be quite so comfort-
. . "Car?
In December?" Ethel
club certificate and managed to avoid the rhino, which' dashed past.
shrieked. "Do you want me to own car! You go as you please after all, life is worth quite a few through 50 miles of sodden black able and jolly as one made in your He received no certificate but was hard, but it was a good deal better than the road, which led freeze on the way?"
and when you please. Four hun I nodded slowly.
certificates, dred and fifty miles will cost you
cotton soil to Arusha.. We found it "At the end of December, maybe; Afteen gallons of petrol and a pint the way from Capetown to Stock several times when we lost the path, The Chevrolet Expedition now on necessary to employ a compass four hundred and fifty miles la or so of engine oil; call it a sover holm via Cairo and London have but Invariably we ran into it again rather a tall order on end," I
eign; at the outside. Four hundred had many experiences thus far with little further on. There is no agreed. "But you are married now, and fifty miles, for two of you, first wild creatures, and these have doubt that this road from Kondoa and you can stop half-way. Start class, by rail would cost you some helped to enliven the undoubted to Moshi would be really excellent early, at about eight or nine in the thing nearer twenty pounds!" tedium of a long motor journey.in the dry season for all types of morning. Have lunch and a rest Ethel began to yieldf I could see at one, then go on again. Have a that. Yes; the minx was coming.
It was while the expedition was transport. cup of tea at five, then hit the trall round to my way of thinking. And negotiating the road between That afternoon, when the cars once more, and go on until it is when Jock came in a few minutes Kondoa Irangi and Moshi in were crossing a big clearing, a really dark. Then find a good inn later, and I told him of our conver Tanganyika Territory that the flock of guinea fowl was encoun- and put up for the night. You can sation, he put the cap on things. party had several exciting exper!-tered, and with visions of a fairly start off again at nine o'clock next Ethel would make the journey to ences with lions.
good dinner that night' I got out to day.
Scotland by roading
have a shot at one. All, the native "Your car is as snug as a car cán There may be other Ethels, won- The road from Kondoa to Moshi servant who was standing on the be. You can be just as warm as dering if perhaps this year they was the alternative route selected truck, became very agitated and you like or as cool aa you like. The might make a similar journey in by Mr. C. V. H. Lacey, leader of the endeavoured' to point out some Morris is as comfortable as any their Morris. Let them canse to expedition, after consultation with thing, but I thought he was merely money can buy; you have a lamp in wonder. Let them bite hard on the the local road authorities, it being directing my attention to another the roof as well as one on the infact that a journey which cannot pointed out that the generally sc- guinea fowl, so I took no notice. strument board, and bags of room be made by the average, well- cepted main road from Kondos to When I fired four Hons rose from for your luggage in the rear turned-out motor car of to-day Is Arusha was utterly impassable. the grass about 200 yards away and “You and Jock can take turns at not to be made in tolerable comfort. This road to Moshi was, covered cleared into the hash and while not the wheel to make the run easter and convenience any other way, by over with grass and in places it exactly frightened was pleased 'I am asking you to do two hundred any other means.
could not be found at all; but, in indeed at the direction
A Meeting With Lions
their
and twenty-five miles in ten hours, Ladies, the very best of good ether places we found it, well de fexit, for a man armed with a shot as day-light is short-lived, and you wishes May we meat in the New Ered and made up somethin a the gun is in no At condition to argue may meet a little fog in patches, or Yearl
Mas nature of an English woodland the right of way with a lion, far snow; It's long way, but if you
Woman's Kingdom."karpath. It was soft and the going less with four of themi
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