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MOTOR NOTES.
Regulations for Fedastrians.
A police order recently issued in Paris instructs traffe officers to artest all pedestrians who do not cross the streets at the appointed
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The annual trial arranged by the south-western centre of the Junior Car Club is to be held on Saturday, September 20. The run will finish at Lynton and will be followed by the usual dinner and informal dance at the Ably Hótel.
Mexican Automobile Association.
A National Automobile Associa tion has lately been formell in Mexico City, its objects being the
29208 improvement of the roads, to safe
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Royal Visit to A.A.
Tax Reduction
An Insurance Point.
A reduction was recently an A decision was recently given in nounced of the motor car tax in the Appeal Court at Iraq to the effect that in the event of the total Vienna. In future the tax will loss of a car an insurance company be £1 3s. 6d. per annum per horse must pay the full amount for which power an each of the first 10 b.pn Britain, what is known as the car is insured, and not merely, £ 16 d. for each of the next 10
the replacement value. It is be- hp and 2 for each additional lieved that British concerns may be horse-power above twenty. Com-affected by the decision. mercial vehicles and taxicabs are Uzreasonable. exempt from taxation. Death of Mr. Edward Gibbons,
Not only his personal friends, but also very many motorists who have had dealings with Swift of Coven try, Ltd., will learn with sincere regret of the death of Mr. Edward Gibbons, who retired from the post of secretary of that concern in De Mr. Gibbons had cember, 1927, been, associated with the company
for forty-six years, his appointment
as secretary dating from 1920. The Tyre Industry.
Some remarkable figures have come to light concerning the sale and production of motor tyres in The King of Spain, accompanied England. For instance, it is stated by the Duke of Alba and Berwick, that 14,000 tyres are now sold each Foreign Secretary of Spain, recently day, this figure representing a sale paid an infonnal visit to the head of more than 5,000,000 per year, Since the imposition of the Me quarters of the A.A. at Fanum
Kenna Duties in 1927, tyre factories House, New Coventry Street, W.1. The distinguished visitors spent an have been built in many parts of hour studying the details of the vast the country by such concerns aa organisation, while His Majesty was Michelin and Pirelli, and, except especially interested in the A.A.
for a few men, these concerns are service for tourists in Spain, de- now employing British labour. For elaring the intention of that coun- the first five months of this year try to develop the excellent system tyres to the value of £191,830 were of highways instituted during the imported, while those exported were past five years. The King request-valued at £2,147,238, compared with £1,602,126 for the same period last MODERN MOTOR SERVICE ed that he might be enrolled ns a
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During a discussion on parking accommodation at a conference of Urban Councils at, Colwyn Bay re- cently, a delegate complained that in acme instances motorists were being "bled white" in endeavone- ing to obtain parking places. It was also contended that, in view of the beneficial effect of motorists visiting various resorta, parking ac commodation should be obtainable at a reasonable charge. p
The Horse.
Following complaints which have been made concerning the conges- tion of traffic due to horse-drawn vehicles, it is anderstood that the Minister of Transport will again consider the question of the pro hibition or restriction of the hours of such traffic in central London, Mr. Morrison, however, is unlikely to move in the matter until the working of the automatic traffic signals to be installed in Oxford Street, London, has been tested. The Lycas Maze.
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Statistics further indicate that more than 30 per cent of the neci-. dents occur at street intersections, thus supplying a clue as to where. safety activities should be centred. With regard to the circumstances. of pedestrian motor vehicle acci- dents,cressing the street" at in- tersections is the most productive cause of death, crossing the street between intersections. ranks. second, while at play.in the street? ranks third."
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We have come too much to the attitude of taking it for granted that many will be killed in street and highway nocidents," warus the The Washington correspondent of Albany Evening News, and it the New York Times tells us the points out that while we read | Committee found that in the sec- with horror that 20,000 die by snake tions of the country without driv-. takes a greater toll." bites in India, yet our motor trafficers licence systems the traffic death-rate increased more than twice as rapidly from 1990 to 1928 as it did. in areas with licensing systems. As for the economie loss from moter accidents, the commit tee cites the National Safety Coun cil's huge estimate of $550,000,000 for 1029.
taken each year in motor, motor The rapidly increasing toll of life
"If 31,000 people were killed in cycle, and other vehicle accidents,. is revealed by statistics as presentares or railroad accidents the coun- ing a vital problem to each nation, try would be up in arms and in- A comparative table of casualties sisting that something be done follows:---
about it," remarke the Schener Year. Killed. Injured. tady Union-Star. What is the Great Britain 1929 6,696 170,917 stupor that falls upon the country when death in such vast sweeps Franca (Paris..
excepted)... 1920.
3,967"
comes from motors!" Germany(Ber
lin only) 1929 Italy (Lost 4
months)... 1929
Ds.only) Austria(Vier-
Egypt Czecho-Slova-
469 11,899
903
1920 1929
50 498
kia ........... 1829 Sweden
48
(Stockholm. only)
........ 1929 Desmark (3
1929
1929
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49 116 203
(Athens)
months) 1830 Norway Portugal Greece
43 1,170
195
885 183.
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Recommandations.
Safety education in the schoola and the passage of State laws for acessing drivers and to investigate motor accidents were recommended by the committee.
"President Hoover stressed the need of preventive measures in his address to the conference. "You are gathered here," he said, to consider a humanitarian and econ." omic problem which touches.every man, woman, and child in the land."
The First Motor Accident. "Bit by bit the automobile 1,034 casualty lists have grown until they approach the toll of a major war," says the New York Herald Tribune. 6,422 Reproducing its first story of a motor accident," which occurred oa 3,609 July 13, 1900, when a car overturn
ed while going at full speed in a race with a bicycling telegraph boy; ¦ 1,139 the Herald Tribune points out
that it is a far cry to the day when Contemplating the frightful loss, 2216 such a mishap was news" it takes of life and maiming of bodies that at least a death, and sometimes cecar each year," says the Ashe- 2,503 several, to make a one-inch item ville Times, is it not remarkable
in the papers in 1930."
that this regulation-loving natier has only twenty States in which drivers are required to pass ex- aminations for driving 1" The real relief will come." asserts the Schenectady Union-Star, when these who cause fatal accidents are severely dealt with so that other drivers will take fewer chances."
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The alarming increase in motor, deaths was revealed by the Nation- al Conference on Street and High- way Safety, which met recently at Washington under the chairman ship of Robert P. Lamont, Secre- tary of Commerce, Statistics show ing the toll for the decade were announced by the American Motor iste Association.
Bad is the present situation is, only) 1929
"we have not yet done our worst, Canada
1929
says the pessimistic editor of the nited States 1923 33,060 1,200,000 Syracuse Port-Standard, New Zealand 1929 ..... 1929 Australia South Africa 1999
In France 48 per cent of the Alotorists who have visited the total of accidents were attributed to the practice of "cutting in." Rhone Valley, in France, have Special tracks for cyclists have almost certainly experienced con-been suggested, and in some cases siderable trouble in finding their made. way through Lyona. Indeed, some of them have actually chartered taxicaba as pilots through the maze of streets! The A.A. has just issued the summer edition of its service map of France, a new fea ture being the inclusion of a hig scale plan of Lyons, which should render it possible for the ordinary car driver to find his way without difficulty:
Pictorial Evidence.
The interesting suggestion was made in the House of Commons by Sir William Brass that the Home Secretary might consider issuing cameras to the officers of the new mobile police force with a view to pictorial dicebed of dangerous driving, dangerous parking, and traffic obstruction being obtained by them. "Mr. Clynes said the sugges tion was one which might well be considered by the police authorities, who would be primarily responsible for the equipment of the officers in question..
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Germany requires all drivers to be trained in schools and pass examinations. Taxi-drivers must submit to additional tests.
No motor-car license is issued in Italy until the applicant has pass ed a Government test.
So strict is the examination in Austria that 30 per cent. of the candidates fail Minor infringe- ments of the speed laws cira sub- Ject to four weeks' imprisonment.. The improvements made in Eng lish traffic rules are observed, in Egypt.
Stockhoun is a pedestrian's, night- mate. Owing to the scarcity of policemen the person afoot mast cafe for himself in traffic. A strict oral and practical test is given ap- plicants for licenses.
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Substitutions of motor cases, a minimum age of 23 for chauffeurs, and the night to fine traffic vicln- tors heavily is proposed by police in Greece as a method of reducing the loss of life. ·
The increasing number of acci dents in the United States, it is said, is blamed on congestion.
AMERICAN PRESS COMMENT,
Last year's total of 81,000 killed was an increase of 147 per cent in
While motoring through the Cevennes we had stopped for a few moments to watch a sale of cattle
Eighty-three Thousand men. that was being held at a small
women, and children last their village. It was wet and misty. We lives in the three years of 1997, were about to continue our journey 1996, and 1929, according to recent- when a man wheeling a bicyclely published statistics. Since 1920 along camp up and asked if he the moter-car has taken the efor could have a lift, as he was "eu
mous toll of 100.530. pane. The driver and owner of the car, a kind-hearted fellow at once assented. With some difficultynine years, and & jump of 10.8 from the cycle was attached to luggage-rarrier, already occupied by two large suit-cases. We indulged in polite conversation in our best French with our passenger in dis- tress until we reached the next village, where he asked to be put down. And what might the *panne' to your bicycle be, mon- sieur 1" kindly aaked our driver. "Oh, the panne," replied the why, when it is raining I never like to ride the bicycle; it is very unpleasant, Merci bien, mon. nieur"!!
man,
1925, we read. Defective cars were a direct or contributing cause of s full 15 per cent. of all traffic casial
as in 1929, or 4,059.
Alarmed by this huge increase, President Hoover bids the nation pause and consider what is to be done, for." the great loss of human life in street and highway accidents and the toll of suffering among sur- viving victims, is a national con- cern of grave importance."
Likewire, U.S. editors strive. almost in deoperation, it seems, ta drive home the obvious lesson,
Drivers are really anxious to co-operate with the authorities in the prevention of accidents.", de- clares the Philadelphia Inquirer, but they are puzzled because of the great diversity of laws in different communities and different States,"
The New York Herald Tribune
Of this needless effusion cf quotes the report made by the con- ference's committee on traffic acci-blood," the New York-orld says f "If the States would all do their dent. statisties.
duty by this problem thousands of lives might be axed yearly cut of the present, terrible total."
Approximately 35 per cent. of motor-vehicle deaths were caused by pedestrians being struck by a
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