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THE TWO-WHEELED CAR. DOCTORS AND ALCOHOL.
TURF CONSPIRCY CASE,
DREAM OF MOTOR-CYCLEİYOUNGER MEN ADVOCATE HORSE SAID TO HAVE BEEN TEMPERANGE DEVELOPMENT.
DYED.
Those who have taken more Members of the British Medical The turf-conspiracy case WAH, |than a superficial interest in the Association attending the con-resumed at Bow Street Police svoludon" of car and motor-cycle farence at Cambridge recently Court resently. Two mare de- design (says a writer in the Times) discussed the question of alcohol fandanta-Norman Welt, pearl will remember that a few years in relation to efficiency.
and diamond dealer, Kensington, |back a considerabla revolution in Bir G. Sims Woodhead, Pro-and Cyril Lawley motor engineer, fundamental principles was fassor of Pathology, Cambridge, Hampstead, ware charged in promised because Mr. Brennan's aid recruits to the temperance addition to the previous defend- gyroscopically stabilized vehicles movement were coming in from ants. Peter Christian Barrie, horsa publicly demonstrated their the younger men in the hospitals dealer and gentleman rider. practicability. The idea of the men of strong character who had Hampstead, and Walter Hopkins, single track motorcar made an been able to lead those with whom horse trainer and dealer, of the irresistible appeal to the imagins- they were associated. Men who Paddocks, Ashtead. The case tive mind, and one has no doubt were not abstainers had come arose out of the alleged substitu- that at that particular time the back from America enthusiastic tion of a three-year old borse British Patent Office was kept
in the belief that in her "dry" named Jazz for a two year-old obusually busy filing specifics-policy America had taken a step horse named Coat of Mail in the tions of strange new vehicle which was going to place her very Faceby Plate at Stockton las: designa, just as the advent of a far forward in the internationalOctober, and they were charged novel and comparatively sucress race.
with obtaining money by false pretences from Messrs. Weather-
and lecturer at St. Club
ful automatic carburettor always
drives would-be patentees into Mr. W. McAdam Eccles by and Sons, agents to the Jockey trying to find other ways towards surgeon the same end and also, incident-Bartholomew's Hospital, London.
Inland Revenue.
While Barrie was out on bail
ally, inta contributing to the said the public were looking to he was re-arrested on a fresh the medical profession to speak warrant charging him with con- spiring with others to obişin money from the same prosecutors
Pers
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the nation.
Among the minds which in- stantly reacted to the Brennan idea was that of Mr. H. G. Wells, should tell the scientific truth, with intent to defraud. Hopkins who procanded to picture and pave the way for the will ofas not concerned in this case |Brighton-road deliciously free
and WAN remanded on the from anachronistic police traps
previous. charge. and alive with single-tracker gyro Sir Clifford Alburt said alcohol.
Mr. Gill prosecuting, said the stage when taken intemperately during defendants were charged with co- cars in ат advanced of development. For reasons the war, was distinctly on the spiting to obtain money by false into which is is no: neces-side of inefficiency Alcobol was
pretences from the stakeholders at autca disadvantage to mountaineer Cheltenham races and the owners matically stable two-wheeler does in, as he hat experienced, and of horses entered in the Malvern not appear to have received very he had little doubt that applied selling Hurdle Race, and from per- much notice, and such experi- to the whole of the word of life-sons who might be induced to bet ments as have been made hase During 20 of the hardest years of with defendants on the race. On generally proved borb expensive his life in Leeds he was a total December 16 Messrs. Weatherby and abortive. The problems con-abstainer, and was very much nected with it can no doubt be the better for it. solved, but the thing, so far as ordinary motoring is concerned, has never been more than a four de for when materialized, and (otherwise an abstract speculation.
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received a letter from Belsize Lane, Hampstead, signed “Cyril |S. Lawley. Lieut. R.E... refired.” To this the writer described how he purchased a mare at some A Ene of £75 and costs was unable to trace her pedigree, bat army sales at Bristol. He was Now the motorcycle, carried, trate on William Henry Jackson the Malvern Selling Hurdle
imposed by the Liverpool magisbe wished to enter her as one may put it, to its logical for selling methylated spirit as a Race in conclusion." is a two-wheeled car,
the name of Silver beverage. Two women made and there are, indeed, machines three purchases in one day. A
Badge. to-day so well suspended and so police sergeant said that on three ounces of spuit supplied to one elaboration and equipment as to woman Jackson made a profit of base earned this honoured title. 415 per cent.
ambitious in their mechanical
It ia, of course, a hyperbole, for
no motor-cycle yet put on the
market has any night to be called i
and not
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"ear." if the word is to bear the ressional equilibrist, and one or colour, and unknown pedigree.
trade and the latter because they meaning it generally connotes.both of the rider's legs are | Accordingly as Silver Badge the When we sit in a motor-cycle brough: into use to help form the maze was entered for the race.
wanted to see it abolished. The rotes which were cast in favour on in the era of the requisite tripod. This very which was to be run on December
of the prohibitionist amendment res! "two-wheelet car" will have simple mantenere cannot be per-29. 1919. On the morning of the
were voles which were thrown in Arrived. Until then the great horned unless the performer has race the clerk of the course re-
the scala against public oWANI- gulf of difference will exist leg-freedom. hence, when a two-crived a telegram from the owner At Scarborough recently the ship: The bulk of the rem zining etween the vehicle that is "rid-wheeled car is under considers-of Silver Badze giving the colours Labour Party had before it the votes arains: State purchase ware fen" and that which is "driven." tion it becomes initially clear in which she was running and question of the fature of the given by those who reject the Thee of us who hare contrived that. whether
the declaring her weight as 1stdrink trade, and, as reported in files of the slightest control of the
the Press, the Conference adopted | trade.
a leather Cushion Hnd
the
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animal would soon have been
a
o lose our taste for the strenuous bine is to run gormally on af 1315. will always prefer to drive rather par of wheels, it will certainly About a quarter of an hour be a resolution, the keynote of which It is to be remembered also thad to ride, and there are times require one or more tabilizingfore the race was run, Mr. Gill was local option. Eight organi-that the debate on the resolutions when, stung by the wind and wheels in addition to keep it from continued. Barrie was seen to be sations, four of them trade unions, came on later than was arranged, Tired by a long journey, we would falling over when it is standing in possession of a horse, and at bad tabled resolutions in favour and the subject was not thorough- much to exchange the saddle still or going very slowly. The the last moment a well-known (of public ownership and control ly discussed. It is, of course, a
management of such extra wheelshockey was engaged to ride it. of the liquor trade. The LLP. matter of opinion whether handle-bars for a wheel.
presents prublerus, though, they | Barris gave him instructions for bad submitted an amendment in longer debate would have altered circumstances these
are not perhaps insuperable. The the ride, and the horse went out support of local-option as an the decision reached by the card isk burselves why the wo wheeled car should not be a faithrowing his weight well to the place.
mere fact that a skilful rider, by of the paddock to the starting alternative policy, whilst the rote. But it is not unreasonable to accompli, why it should not be of ide, can run a side-car
Glasgow Trades Council put for suppose that had such prominent po-site to enclose machine and combination with only two-wheel-
ward an amendment declaring in supporters of public ownership as DYED RACEHORSE * favour of Prohibition. The public | Mr.Clynes, Mr. Lansbury and Mr. nder in a neat little cizar the ground, suggests that the body-as invariably inherent difficulty can be more ur
ownership resolutions were ama)-Cramp been able to address the shaped"
It won very easily, and in
gamated to form a composite re Conference, their views would not spreified for racing cars by Frassatisfactorily met.
accordance with the terms of the solation. The I.L.P. amendment bave been without influence upon novelists--and why one sboold
What, then, is the disastrousuction. She was bought by the
race the mare was ppt up for was submitted to the Conference the delegates. have to worry about gyroscopes when the mere second nature of? The writer, whilst claiming defendant Weiz for 510 guineas the Glasgow amendment
as an independent resolution, and The ILP. resolution was carri- torning towards the direction intknow no more about the matte One would have thought, said treated as an amandment to the by which public ownership and was led by a larger majority than that hich one is falling and leaning than the ordinary motor geliat Mr. Gill, that such a valuable public ownership resolation. control was defasted. It will alsɔ towards the direction in which is inclined to think thatthe whole one wants to go satisfies all the thing revolves about the question heard of again, but that was its on which the first rote was taken, it was less than the total vote The Prohibitionist amendment, be observed that the intal vote on
requirements of stability.
of wheel-base. In the existing first and last appearance. As & was heavily defeated by 2,605,000 cast on the State purchase re- machine we have a vehicle which
matter of fact there was no pach is remarkably easy to manoeuvre, horse as Silver Badge at all, and ownership resolution was than that many delegates who support- The public solution. What happened was to 472,000 yotes. largely because its wheels are counsel suggested that the letter It is almost impossible to be close together, and this very factof Messrs. Weatherby was con defeated by a narrow majority, ad of the policy of local option, put to the Conference and was ad public ownership also approv- lieve that two-wheeled cars have contributes materially to its not been actually tried, and it is robust strength. If, instead of cocted by Lawley at the 1.352,000 being cast in favour of it and voted for the LLP, resolu
of instance quite impossible to resist the witting
Barrie,
part and 1,672,000 against it. The vote įtion, whilst a number abstained over the wheels, one of the conspiracy being that on the LLP. resolution resulted from voting altogether. prediction that some day they must sit between the wheels.
Barrie should pose 18 will be available for those who the latter must be placed even owner and appear on the race-were recorded in support of it resolutions and amendments con- 20 in a victory for the LLP. There The results of the votes on the want the maximam of travel-farther apart than would be comfort with the minimum of necessary
course is that role.
2,003,000 votes and against it formed with the liquor traffic rs- four-wheeled a running costs. Certain it is that machine. In order that the "body" On the day before the race a 523,000 votes.
veal an undenialle division of patents innumerable have been should be clear of the wheels fore horse called Shining More was It is common knowledge that opinion in the Labour Party on taken out, at least one being due and aft a base of at least 614ft. removed from Epsom. This horse the determining factor in the the drink question. The LLP. to that very practical engineer would be necessary, and it might was taken to Waterloo, where it defeat of the public. ownership, at its last Conference declared Mr. A. V. Ros, pioneer of avia-not be possible to get it as low as was received by Barrie. Its cost resolution was the decision of itself in favour of probibition. Its tion who has thought much about this. The immense disadvantages was first dyed to change. the the Miners' Federation of Great resolation at the Labour Party surface transport and done a of such so unwieldy affair are colour and it was then taken to Britain to cast the whole of their Conference at Scarborough was good deal to improve it. One is easly imagined. Shortening of the stables at Cheltenham. On 600,000 votes against it. It is also esserned with loest option, and driven to ask what can be the the wheelbase can be effected by the course Lawley posed as the common knowledge that within accepted as a possible alternative "snag" which hinders develop seating the passenger higher up, owner of the horse, and his share the Miners Federation there was municipal ownership. Whilst the ment in a direction so promising but no advantage is gained thereof the frand appears to have been considerable body of opinion in LLP. could obtain luule backing The probability is that there is by, and if this is to be done, one the purchase price of the mare, sympathy with State purchase. for prohibition, it was able to
WIJ allowed to If the representatives of this obtain supporters for local option... not öne sasg, bat several, but it might as well leave the standard which he
keep. [is very unlikely that the stability motor-cycle as it is..
section had been able to record This latter policy is sppr vad by
DIFFICULT STABILITY,
in
quo and the.
of the machine is one of them. Except for this one point the Counsel then went on to sug-their votes in support of the publie boty sapporters and opponents of Given a comfortable single-seater two-wheeled car would be eren gest that the fraud described was ownership resolution, the result public ownership. There w body with a wheel at each end, now a practical proposition. The really perpetrated by the defen-would have been different. Clear section of the Party favourabls to there is no particular difficulty problems associated with its denis in order that they mightly, the miners who carried a fifths return to the statu about guaranteeing that, at a propulsion, both in regard to win large same from persons of the total voting power at the abolition of reasonable speed, it can be kept engines and transmission, have with whom they laid bets, and Conference exercised a very con- but it is undoub upright and steered with precis been already solved. The problem said that evidence would be siderable influence upon the amongst the Tan ioo. What one can do astride of of lengths must, it seems, remain given in st less, two cases that results of the card vofer taken on or
saddle one can equally do seat insoluble, for length means weight the defendant cleared £1,100 by the drink resolution...
ed on a cushion. The only trouble and weight means cost, and cost backing the horse, and no doubt The public ownership resolution ip connexion with stability means lok of demand, even apart, they won large sans from other was, in fact, defeated by occurs when the reasonable from the disadvantage of unband-
speed," is not available. With the mark
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