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MOTOR NOTES
I' should also wish to see the owners of the dead motor-cars re- quired by law to be towed home. in them. Nowadays they leave the dirty work to some mechanic, and when, a day or two later, ther start bragging in the club about their car being one of the sort that never lets you down, nobody can ges up and say: "Yes, old chap, but | didn't I see you tooling up Regent Street last Saturday behind a pair of spanking bays!" I have an un- of motorist, the fellow who is a swerving-grudge against this type
ways bragging in the papers that he has done thirty-three thousand odd miles in his Mile Eater, and that he only had to stop once to remove a chicken from the intake pipe. He will add that by a sim- pie device of his own contriving be has taught it to carry the coals upstairs, turn the mangle, play with the baby on the mat. There may be cars like that. For the bulk of as the nameless car, the unspecialised, representative,
and
all others. I agree, however, that the horse has distinguished itself chiefly as the forerunner of the motor-car. My objection to its dis. appearance at the present time is that the horse is still the more reliable instrument of the two. A great deal of illusion prevails about motorcars, and, it is not due to the During a debate in the House of Commons on the subject of Lon-machinations of the motor, manu- don traffic it was urged by one of claims on behalf of their wares are facturers or their agents, whose the speakers that, if any real im generally quite modest is such provement were to be effected, things go. The illusion is per universal car, the car you get na would be necessary to banish the selves. To be a motorist means to buy and fondly imagine, no doubt, porated by the motorists them-opposed to the car you hoped to horse from our streets. I sincerely be a perpetual booster of the parti that your neighbour has bought! hope "nothing of the kind will sa ular brand of vehicle, be its be- done. I am ret moved, I admit, haviour never so eccentric, that by historic er sentimental codit lets you down the louder you you happen to possess. The more aiderations. The horse liss, I know, sing its praises. been the friend and servant of man for countless generations, and if the "number of individual steeds who have made history are few, the benefeent effect on the progress of civilisation of horsehood in the mass is incalculable. If there had been no horses there would have been no carts, and if there had heer no carts there would have i been no motor-cars..
The germ of the idea that there is some advantage to be gained by getting from one place to another a bit faster than one' is deing al ready would never have developed, and if it had not developed the world would be a very different place from what it is now. This s. not the only contribution which the horse has made to what we are pleased to call progress.
If there bad been no horses there would have been no glue, no aut cases, and probably no sausages. Calves foot jelly would be un known, the Wiener achnitzel would never have set its indelible mark Central Europe, and his Majesty's postage stamps wouli never have acquired, the delicious favour that distinguishes them from
The "Hey! For" Stuf Some time ago I read, I think in sure, a mess of breezy poetry in a motor paper, but I am not at all
praise of the joys of motoring. It I have never quite understood mentioned a particular car, or per twist in the otherwise normal and I well believe it to have what underlies this psychological haps several, and was guaranteed. human brain, but there it is. And been compiled, not by soxe hawk the reason I want the horse to eyed scion of the advertising side retain among us is that it may act of the Trade, but by an amateur as a sort of spur to our waning enthusiast. The poems would run sense of proportion, an ever pre. something like this: sent reminder that while in the midst of life our motors, like our. selves, are in death.
The Enthusiast.
A
When the sun's on high and the
wind is mellow
It'y hey! for a light of the
purple hills.
Open the throttle and let her
bellow;
That is the caper to cure your
ills.
.
Summer smiling from hill and
valley
Soothes the sorrows that make
you sore;
Care departs as the miles you
tally,
I admit that horse traffic is a nuisance when the Mile Eaters chafing at the leash, but I would like to see a law passed requiring every dead motor car to be towed home by a b "ke. only be convenient and instructive It would not to. ourselves. worth living for the horse, that I It would make life cannot help thinking has been treated anther shabbily as the re- sult of our mania for speed 1 should like to see the horses sup ported out of the Road Fund, and if they were, I believe the police, I realise that I have not repro. who in this as in other respects duced the metrical excellence of are all in favour of solid progress the original which, if I remember rather than the meretricious ap rightly made for rhyme with pearance of excessive speed, would | “*
pure."
On the other band. T relax none of their vigilance in pro- have managed to convey the er- widing Dobbin with a full nosebag. hilaration that the combination of
By Car and
Mr. Francis Burtles” journey by motor.car from London to Australia occupied ins months, during which he travelled 16,000 miles.
Hitting it up in your Umpty
Four!
Car and Aeroplane
to Australia
Two Notable feats
THAT the spirit of adventure
Two
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wild nature won by kindness and á Best of all, however, and the maximum of horse miles per hour greatest favourite with the moto is supposed to convey. This is the poets is what I may call the litante authentic note that
Bells
motor form perfected if not invented by motar papers, and (some Rupert Brooke. My arrangement' times) motor pups, and I can quite of the theme would run something understand the Trade simply eating like this: it up every time a new enthusiast churns cut a piece.
But what I want to know is, why should the cathusiasts have it all their own way! Why should not the anon- thusiasts do a little hey for'ing on their own account I am a bit of well conducted hey for goes, some- a poet myself, and my idea of a thing like this:
PAN
Down on your back in the wild,
wide road,
With a heigh 1 bo! The wind
and the rain!-
A wet ditch shelters the rest of
your load.
(You've done it before, and
you'll do it again!) Their feet are frozen, their noses
blue,
But tuning her up is what in-
terests you,
So out with the pistons! The big
end unsere,
With a hey! hot the wind and
the rain!
The Grantchester Touch. Some motor songsters I know affect a simpler style. It is quite) easy to catct:
The u is a hateful car; You wind and wind-and there
you are!
But would I drive auf Bah! I do not know why it won't go.
EH
The folk who drive the -
fivrer
All get aclerosis of the liver, And strong men lig beneath the
mould
Who tried to start the
from cold.
There's not a street in London
town
Where's have not broken
dowy,
And all about the rolling shites Are's with hunted tyres. -u's have rotten carburettors Aadu's all the courts with
debtors
There's no accounting for the
tricks
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INTERESTING COMPARISON.
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The question whether motoring in England is safer than on the Con- Played on you by the Six, The from valve to.hub.
tinent frequently comes under dis Was fashioned by Beelzebub, cussion. An interesting comparison But Stirgo-Smith-the Stingo-between the risks in England and
Smith 1-
Ab, there's a name to conjure And there's the cär-none build
with f
a worse-
To make an honest poet curse, A car that
But why pursue the theme-at the mement The Motor Booster exists in his thousands. He has come to stay. But there's a legion that
I shall dedicate my song. never was listed-the Legion of the Disillusioned To them some day
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France is illustrated by, the ex pariences of one of the best-known British insurance companies, who two years ago set up a branch in Paris and have now discovered what are the lowest premiums that can be demanded.
In every case premiums, baving been raised by 95 per cent. on January 1st this year, are a good deal higher than in England. A fourteen-horse-power car that would cost about £13 a year for a full comprehensive policy in London has to pay about £23 if driven in Paris.
Even then good many of the benefits offered to the British motorist are not included, and in- atead of the third-party hability being unlimited it is fixed at about
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