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THURSDAY, MAY 7, 1931.
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TOLL OF ROADS. Safety Week Effort at Home.
AN APPEAL
Drivers Who Will Not Signal.
One of the first Impressions re-
takes to
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or
every
NEW VENTURE.
Commercial Side of Motor Racing.
Captain H. R. S. Birkin, Bri-
ROAD TRANSPORT.
BRITISH MOTORS.
Mr. Morrison and New Sir H. Austin and the
Regulations.
Mr. Herbert Morrison, the Min-
McKenna Duties.
The stimulus which the War gave
Every day nearly fifty people are killed and 3,000 injured by acceived by the Malayan, motorist who tain's leading young racing motor-ister of Transport, made his first to the adoption by the British motor cidents in Great Britain. Every
ist, is entering the commercial side public appearance since his eleva- half-hour somebody dies; every
when on of motor racing. He has joined tion to Cabinet rank at the annual car industry of mass production minute somebody is hurt.
leave in Great Britain is the un-forces with Mr. W. M. Couper, an- luncheon of the Commercial Motor-methods was stressed by Sir Her- These figures are given by the ceasing care with which the other prominent young motorist, Users' Association. at the Savoy bert Austin in a speech at a lun- National Safety First Association, majority of drivers give and observe and "Birkin and Couper" will tune Hotel, on March 25. which is holding its second the recognised signals, both to
cheon of the American Chamber of and prepare cars for races.
In a light-hearted mood he told tional safety week from May 11 to
Commerce, London. Sir Herbert Captain Birkin ia a rich man, but the industry that it was lucky to be i May 16, and which urges that more oncoming and
following traffic. he has always tuken motor-racing as ruled by regulations and
Austin recalled that between 1900 not by than 75 per cent, of such accidents Similarly, on his return to this something more serious than a statute, because the Ministry could and 1914 progress in motor manu- are preventable.
country, the motorist is impressed sport. For some time he has main- always undo to-morrow the harm it facture was not very rapid. Firrns The programme will include 4
tained a very elaborate workshop had done to-day. He warned them, made too many models and intro- Safety Congress at Leeds, at which and shocked by the indolence,
at Welwyn Garden City. 80 com- however, that while the Ministry every branch of national life will ignorance, displayed in regard to pletely equipped that it is practi- was willing to listen to argument a
duced too many changes. Coste were be represented, and every aspect joven the simplest signals by thecally a miniature car factory. regulation once fixed would be high and manufacturing facilities of safety first and accident preven great majority of cor-drivers; men There he and his men have de- strictly enforced.
were of a hand made variety. This tion will be discussed.
and women of all races are equally signed and constructed supercharges | Referring to the new Motor was changed, however, by the War Throughout the country there earclese, or callous, and the number and other special components. Vehicles Regulations, he said that will be an intensive propaganda for [of accidents, minor and major, pre-There he has practically re-built the he had been reluctant to impose any
which gave manufacturers a real "Safety First" and accident precipitated each year through this special 42-litre supercharged Bent-regulations upon the commercial appreciation of what might be re- vention. Special talks, lectures, neglect of signalling must be greatleys which he raced for the Hon. motor industry which would in any complished by mass production. At and cinema displays on the sub- That this is a crime of omission Dorothy Paget, who actually owned way be regarded as unduly onerous. the Armistice they were four years ject will be given in the schools.
which should be visited with sharp them. But she has retired from "I look forward, however, to Janu- behind in their conception of what In addition to local competitions penalties is obvious, especially since ownership, and Captain Birkin's ary 1, 1940, as a date when the to build, but this defect was coun- there will be a competition on the the correct signals are explained own racing plans for the coming then Minister of Transport will be ter-balanced twelve most important points of the textually and pictorially in
by the knowledge season are still uncertain.
able to address a prosperous Com-, which they gained of the value of new Highway Code, for which driver's licence issued locally, and A Blue Bird Workshop.
mercial Motor Users', Association, mass production and the confidence prizes to the value of £6.000 have there is thus no excuse for ignor-
to them the welcome necessary to deal with large quan- already been guaranteed.
So he and Mr. Couper, who for and convey ance of the law, which, as everyone several years past has been a lead- news that road costs are rapidly' tities. While Britain was The association points out that knows, is in itself
out of Fince "Safety First" work started any neglect to observe Its rulings.
no excuse for itg member of the Lagonda racing falling," he added.
business, America had quite team, and who has competed
The grave state of disorganisa-legitimately secured most in 1925 the annual increase
of the Road-Users' Duty.
tion which the evidence before the foreign markets. Brooklanda motor-cycle in the number of street While it is clear that, in the first events, are going in, on a commer existing in the road haulage section that British
Transport Commission revealed as recidents has been reduced from instance, the police can only bring cial scale, for
Sir Herbert Austin pointed out 1 per cent, to 3 per cent, Edia-offenders to book by a well-organis- other people's racing and sports of the industry would necessitate finding it a long and costly process
the preparation of
manufacturers were burgh, which nossesses aned system of road or ambush care.
considerable weight being attached to drive them out. The progress of energetic "Safety First" Council, patrols, responsible European and The workshops are a little smaller to the recommendation of the Com-the industry since 1921 has been has in five years reduced its annual Asiatic motorists can render invalu- than the well-known premises of mission that some system of control constant if number of accidents from 1,800 to able assistance by reporting to the Thomson and Taylor at Brooklands, by licensing should be introduced.
somewhat irregular.' just under 1,000-a drop of over 40 Traffic Department the registered where Sir Malcolm Campbell's latest
The present comparatively satisfac- "The arguments put forward by tory position of the British motor per cent. compared with an in-numbers of cars whose drivers have "Blue Bird" was rebuilt, and where this association against further industry was, in Sir Herbert Aus- crease of over 33 per cent. through-failed to signal their intentions many of the most famous racing control must, however, be borne in tin's opinion, largely due to the out the rest of Great Britain in when their neglect to do has been cars are stored and tuned up, be-
mind," said Mr. Morrison. "Im- McKenna Butles which the same period.
attended by the threat of dangerous sides
gave the the touring care of
portant recommendations are made British motor industry control of very consequences. Owners who employ fastidious motorists.
in the report with regard to high-the home market, helped to support professional drivers can also help to There is room at Welwyn for a
way policy and motor-vehicle taxa a considerable expert trade and en- make our roads safer for all users score of cars to be dealt with at a
tion, both matters which intimately abled the industry to reduce costs to by making sure that their sayees time, and "Birkin and Couper," affect your own industry." never fail to give or observe traffic Ltd., are prepared to improve any
Sir Eric Geddes and His Pledge.ternationally competitive.
a point where they began to be in- Sir Her- signals.
make of car, though they naturally
Sir Eric Geddes, the first Minis-bert Austin recalled that he com- On Tuesday morning, I followed have special knowledge of Bentleyster of Transport and the only one pleted his first car in 1895 and said for many miles between Kuala Kubu and Lagondas.
of Mr. Morrison's predecessors to that then as now the motorist was and Kuala Lumpur a large, blue Mr. Couper will continue to race be in the Cabinet, referred to the a favourite butt for local govern- saloon car (looking, from the rear, motor-cycles, but as a hobby of his pledge he gave when in office that ment legislation. The first of his like a six cylinder, 16 h.p. model own, not in connection with the if the proceeds of special motor two convictions was for travelling of one of the best-known British firm. They do not know with what taxation were more than the re- at a speed of fourteen miles an hour makes). In the rear seat ant two make or makes of car they them- quirements for which it was levied, and the second for proceeding down Europeans, in the front an Asiatic selves will be racing during the the taxes would be reduced. That a slope at a somewhat more credit- driver who never on a single occa-coming season.
pledge had been broken by his ownable apeed of twenty-three miles an and by every succeeding Govern-hour. ment.
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sion gave any indication of turning The Bentley company announced to left or right or of slowing down its withdrawal from racing during or stopping. He stepped hard on the midde of last season, but Cap- his brakes on several occasiona, tafn Birkin continued with the 4% without the slightest warning. It litre cars, one of which ran second was not to be expected, of course, in the last big race of 1980, the that the offender should even know Brooklands 500 miles race. They of the existence of less frequently may not compete in the first big used signals-such as that which in-event of 1931, the Brooklands dicates that its giver is about to Double-Twelve Hour race in May. swing out in order to overtake an- other vehicle. Bat, while the driver was very much to blame, hia Euro- puan passengers were also guilty of a grave breach of the code of the road in that they failed to observe and force him to correct his negli-
CA.V. AND BOSCH,
50/- A WEEK MOTORISTS. Judge Says It Is The "Road To Bankruptcy."
History could not show any indus- try which had been as badly treated by legislators. More transport, commercial and private, had appar- ently been singled out for penal taxation and restrictions. The motor vehicle tax and petrol duty A man told Judge Crawford at were together équivalent to 13% Edmonton County Court last month per cent, on the operating cost of that he earned only £2 108. a week, vehicles, 11 per cent, on the total but that he had owned a motor-car. cost of the business, and 45% per Judge Crawford.-You on fifty cent. of the wages paid.
shillings a week owning a motor- Since 1926 £88,800,000 had been earl It's perfectly monstrous, It is learned that an agreement taken out of motor taxation Into There seems to be a perfect craze has been reached between. C. A. the general finance of the country for possession of cars to-day. My Vandervell and Co., Ltd., a sub and not devoted to road purposes. experience in these courts has con- Misapprehension Which Must Be sidiary of the well-known Birming- There were, roughly, 26,000 miles vinced me that motor-cara are aim-
Removed.
ham manufacturers of motor acces-
of first-class roads in the country, ply milestones on the road to the Unfortunately, the impression sories, Joseph Lucas, Ltd., and and the estimated total road ex-bankruptcy court or to a judgment BCLIMB to prevail among a large Robert Bosch A.G., of Stuttgart, penditure for 1930 was £60,000,000. summone. majority of local motorists that to Germany. The arrangement is be- Motor vehicle owners contributed steer moderately well, to apply the lieved to be for the purpose of com- £42,800,000, equal to 71 per cent., | brakes forcibly when necessary, and bining the technical experience of and in addition contributed as rate- to change gear at the last possible the two companies in the manufac-payers. moment constitutes the whole duty ture of motor-car.equipment at the
gence.
of the "efficient" driver. Until thle Acton works.
misapprehension is removed there As a result of the agreement the the Financial News confirms the is very little hope for safer read new concern of C.A.V.-Bosch will foregoing report and adds that travel in Malaya, and without this! have a share capital of £600,000. · A | Bosch manufactures produced in improvement we are likely to de- scheme whereby Bosch, Ltd., a sub- Germany will be sent to Britain as plore a constantly increasing num- eldiary of the German company, had before. It is proposed to produce ber of fatalities, or in other ways planned: to erect, works of its own the manufactures of both firms for serious accidents."
|In England has been, abandoned. ́ British cars in the Vandervell fac- --TRAVELLER in Malay Mail.
The Frankfort correspondent of tory at Acton.
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