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IN ACCIDENTS. Education Urged For Road Users.
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Motorists are the first to deplore the heavy toll of road casualties, but they will be, also energetic in deprecating panic legislation to deal with a problem that has, in varying degree, heen with us since the very early days of this century. That there are far too many read accidents is admitted by everybody,
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Motors' Progress
Despite Evolution Achieved By Builders
HORSE - POWER TAX
EXHIBITION VISITORS TRIUMPH CAPTURES
ARE THRILLED.
"In The Ditch” At Michigan Fair,
FORD CAR DEMONSTRATION.
AUSTRALIAN CUP
Mr. R. G. Tucker Wins Annual Classic.
One of the most coveted trophies for which motorista "down under"
can compete is the Australian Cham- More than 75,000 visitors to the pionship cap, which is awarded an- Ford Motor Company exhibit at the nually to the member of the Light Michigan State Fair during Sop-Car Club of Australia who has gain- tember were the company's guests led the greatest number of points in on test rides in Ford V-8 cars reliability trials and speed contests around the first special demonstra-throughout the year.
tion track ever built in the Fair For the 1981-32 season, just con- Grounds. As stated by Major C. G. Nevatt; peurs difficult to justify. It is cor-
cluded, this cup has been awarded The test which attracted most to Mr. R. G. Tucker, driving a but does not mean that undue at in hia Presidential Address tainly too early to attempt to attention from riders and sights- triumph Super Seven. Mr. Tucker, timate the future position of such tention should be paid to those who to the Institution of Automobile engines, but their present positioners alike came near the conclu-who is a well-known figure in motor would like to see all users of Engineers, legislators are, a has certainly not been reached sole- were run up an inclined platform was successful in the four largest. cars racing circles throughout Australia, mechanical road vehicles "put in rule, honest men, but they often ly in virtue of their low fuel costs. which tipped them at a sharp an- reliability trials and also won
are sadly lacking in imagination, Quite apart from the latter, their gle, such as they would assume if several hill-climbs..
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superior torque characteristic ren-
sion of the ride where the
forced into a highway ditch, Left!
To reinstate the speed limit for with the result that many of the ders them particularly suitable for wheels remained on the ground but private cars and motor cycles--a regulations introduced impede certain classes of transport, and
Was
the and
remedy suggested in certain quar-rather than foster progress. The the freedom from fire risks result the right wheels were elevated 18 ters would be utterly futile. Its speed regulations afford an admiring from their use cannot be put inches, yet the efforts of two strong gine under this unusual driving removal was not, as the pessimists able example of this tendency, as on one side as of no importance. men failed to upset the cars. load. On, the downgrade from the
it was only by persistent disregard If the last of such engines had al-stone and was kept in condition by positive action of the brakes The track was built of crushed ramp, drivers demonstrated were loud in asserting that it would be, followed by a great in-by designer and user alike of the ready been fitted in road vehicles, crease in highway casualties.
a steam roller. At the inception the ease with which the cars could limits imposed that the modern car their development for this purpose, As a matter of fact, official observa- was made superior to its predeces would still have been thoroughly of the ride, the unusual accelera- be brought to a quick stop in an tlons showed conclusively that the sors, in acceleration, braking, and justified, as the extensive experlatively low power-to-weight ratlon,
tion of the care, due to their re-emergency. standard of care in driving became road holding qualities. These re fence gained on the road has al-
Approaching the "jacking test" higher rather than lower, possibly gulations are now happily repeal ready been of great service to the demonstrated. Next they where the cars were driven 01 because of the tightening up of ed, at least in part, but there are designers of high-speed eil engines were driven over a railway cross the inclined platform with the of others of long standing, and also of for marine and rail 18-Engir inches above normal, and over a ground, riders ware first assured ing, where the rails were raised two right wheels raised high above the the matter dangerous driving. What recent introduction, which are al eering.
rough "washboard" road, to show that the test was perfectly safe, required in the opinion of "The most equally repressive in ten- Autocar," is education of all road! dency.
the comfortable riding qualities re- despite the spectacular angle at The majority of these, however, users education which is needed
aulting from the new transverse which the cars were inclined. spring design and the automatical- When the cars reached the top just as much for fifteen as for fifty in contradistinction to the speed limits, affect only a limited num miles an hour.
ly-controlled double acting shock of the platform attendants first ber of users, and the mass-resis
absorbers.
opened and closed the doors to em- "Jacking Test" Thrill, phasize the freedom from body dis-
the law In
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SOVIET OIL IN CANADA.
Soviet oil is being imported into Canada, 5,000 tons of crude off This education cannot be instill-tance tactics, which led ultimately having been brought to Montreal ed in a moment. Actual practice to the repeal of the speed limits for from the Black Sea. The oll is to The cars then were driven in tortion even at the sharp angle of on the road is essential before any-private cars, cannot therefore be be refined in Canada in competition high gear at a speed of only 10 inclination. Then three strong thing like perfection is attained; but effectively applled. Major Nevat with the Canadian oll companies. miles an hour up a long 12-degree men pushed against the car roofs there is hard common sense behind made the suggestion in the course Protests are likely to be made to the ramp, which simulated a steep hill, to demonstrate their inherent stu- the argument that driving licences of his address that flexible regula Federal Government.
to show the smoothness of the en-bility even in such a position. to-day are too easily obtainable. tions should be devised.
for en For many years there has been agineers, and that those existing strong section of motoring opinion should be overhauled by an advisory in favour of some examination for
committee to tha Ministry of licence applicants. The objec- Transport convened by the Institu tlons have been two-expense and tion of Automobile Engineers, but the feeling that a mere test of we fear that even the dynamic driving forward and reversing would be no safeguard against sanctum in Watergate House would energy emanating from the inner
reckless behaviour.
be powerless to alter accepted The time, however, has come for Parliamentary procedure. this matter to be reviewed. Ex- In dealing moře particular' pert driving of a "showy" charac-with the regulations which impede ter is not necessary, but common progress, Major Navatt gave pro- sense in starting from n kerb, tura minence to the horse-power tax, ing to left or right, stopping, sig-based on the diameter of the cylin Indling, and generally considering ders only. He expressed the the requirements of other road opinion that this method of asses- users is of vital importance.
sing the taxable value of a vehicle: did a great deal of harm to our ex- port trade; it resulted in the de- i velopment of small bore engines Last Word in with relatively long strokes, which
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German, and Italian car engines, although taxed by entirely different methods, had in fact practically the same bore-stroke ratio. It is there- fore evident that the British prae- tice of basing the tax on bore, alone was not the cause of the popularity of the long-stroke engine, and Dr. Rowell suggested that the chief agency at work in producing such engines was poverty. It is practi- cally universally agreed among techniciana, however, that our me thod of taxation is unsound, and it | therefore affords a good example of the disregard by, our legislators of scientific opinion: There is, how- ever, some excuse for, this in that the latter in unorganis- ed, and there a at present no means of determining which of the voices crying in the wilderness 18 possessed of the true vision,
Other Example. Mayor Nevatt gave, a mumber of other examples of the unfortunate effect on progress of existing legia- lation, but we doubt whether there will be any general agreement with his view that one of the very doubt ful blessing that the petrol tax has assisted in conferring upon us is the Diesel type of power unit. It is certainly open to question whether the tax has, in fact, appreciably in- fluenced this line of development, and the general condemnation of the airless-Injection engine for road work implled, in his statement ap
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