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A RETROSPECT.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 30, 1926.
buyers were not disappointed; THE MOTOR IN WAR.
for it was generally thought that. prices Inst your had reached 'their
BRITISH MOTORING IN 1925. Towest level. Four-wheel brakes
were pratically universal at the show, even on the smallest cars,
AN ENORMOUS IMPROVEMENT;
loss for a thousand years in the opon where horses could operatoją The superior strength of the horse enabled armour to be carried, just s as today it was the superior energy of the petrol onging which did so. Was it, therefore, illogi-
It has been an eventful year for the British motor-car industry Two firms, who are producing In the course of a lecturu re-eni to suggest that what happen- The outstanding feature has un- 80,000 cars between them incently at King's College, Stranded in the days of the armoured questionably been the rapid 1926, both adopted this system: Colonel J. F. C. Fuller pointed knight might happen again? As growth in the development of the or 'the safety of this device out how the petrol engine intro-regards the next war, small car. This class of vehicle there can now be no possible duced a new factor in the lato war. that the side which possessed we knew has been turned out from the Bri-doubt, and with so many new cars fif it were not for the use of cotor superior hitting power, guarding tish factories in astonishing num-coming on to the road next year torrles the huge supply of shells power, and mobility was the more bors'one firm alone having an out-with this equipment, motoring in the fighting line would not have likely to win. put for the year of 50,000 cars, generally should be safer-always been possiblo. We began with
His views wer
Such an achterment represents a provided powerful brakes are used less than 20 of such vehicles, and On the declaration of war it triumph for the British industry, intelligently.
nished, in the fighting zone, with | would be possible for such a force for hitherto we have never been Small saloon ears were also the 118,000. Tanks were used for to move 100 miles Into the enemy's able to create cars in numbers fashion at the motor show. One the first time correctly at Cam-country, and this, meant, in all that in any way compare with our maker showed his confidence in brni, in November, 1917, when a probability, a corresponding in- principal competitors-the. United the pulling powers of the modern 15.000 yards frost was penetrated erease in fortifications to counter Stares. These figures are to be small engine by exhibiting at 7 h.p. by surprise, without any prelimi- the mobility.
He was of diametrically opposed to those of price of the vehicle being £200, opinion that the use of tanks people who thought that fortresses saloon car to seat four people, thenary bombardment. the cheapest saloon ear so far pro- theries than effected by the intries could be rapidly invaded meant,d grouter change in war javere thligs of the past. If coun- duced.
Motoring costs in 1925 were gen-
troduction of ganpowder... their vital centres must be per July 1, has already been of great erally lower, except in the case There was a certain resemblance manently secured, To-day We assistance to the British ear znake: One of the direct results of rubber, the prices of tyres the fourth and fifth centurios and could not attack infantry in moun-
of tyres.
Owing to the shortage between the Gothic invasions of were in the Adrianople period of l'infechanical warfare, Infantry was the decision of one of the were materially increased during the war condition of the present leading French madsfacturers to
vastly increased in 1926. There is no doubt that the re-iniposition of the McKenna duties on foreign cars imported into this country, which was carried into effect on
build his cars for the British mar-the year. But this was largely age.
The Roman legion was a Lainous, thickly-wooded and
ket in this country, and for this compensated for by. The greatly low-moving instrument of war, swappy regions. Therefore, for purpose he bought a site at modern cord tyre. Many motor-ed on superior speed and weightanks would replace infantry, and. increased wearing qualities of the while the mounted Goths depend sombat purposes in level country, slough, Bucks, where 6,000 British its now find that they can obtain of shock, which gave them the bien all other country infuntry workpeople are to be "employed.
a mileage of 15,000 out of the new tory at. Adriariople in the fourth would continue much no bofore. set of tyres, whereas a few years century. The armoured knight but, as they had got to keep pace ago the figure wis about 4,000 £f the Middle Ages was a human with tanke, they would be moved miles.
tank, and infantry was nearly use in cross-country vehicles.
SMALL CARS ADVANTAGES,
Bul apart from the protection afforded by the 83 per cent. 'im-
Altogether, it has been a won- port duties on foreign cars, the derful year for the British motor. British car has triumphed on its car industry, and prospects for own merita, It has introduced 1926 are even brighter. Not only the delights of motoring to thou-is our output fur home consump sands of people who would not tion to be largely increased, but otherwise have been able to afford there is every indieation that the the pastime. In the few years British car maker is at last to that this type of car has been in have a share of the overseas vogue, it has proved inexpensive trade.--Harold Pemberton, to buy and economical to run, it Daily Mail Year Book. is lightly taxed, and most impor- tant of all. its lasting qualities have exceeded all expectations. It is not an exaggeration to state that the small car will be the world's most popular car "of the
MANY AUTOS STOLEN.
In
future. It has already, within a The present year probably will few years, driven many cheap set a record for the number of U.S.A. cars off the road in this automobiles stolen in Loy country. it is being developed Angeles, according 10 Walter now on an extensive scale in near-Woad, head of the theft depart- ly every European country, and mont of the Automobile Club of the U.S.A. "the world's most proli-Southern California. While the fie car-making country", which number of cars stolen has been has hitherto neglected the small greater, there is also a larger number being recovered. It is car, is now, making feverish al-
expected that the recoveries will tempts to make up To lost-time.
run 78 per cent. this year.
Attempts were made during the latter part of the year by one of the largest motor-car corporations of the United States to buy up a large British concern which makes a typical small family car of the best type. Thosu, "how- ever, failed, and American un- gineers are now concentrating on The development of a small econo- mical unit of their own. It is felt over there that the home has reached very nearly the saturaR- tion points, and, that if trade is to be extended, makers must com-: pete in the new small car market. But they are now some four years behind this country.
The development of the small. car has led to a great increase in motoring in this country. 312 1924, there were 756,000 licences] issued for motor vehicles, exelu- sive of motor cycles. Before the end of 1925, the figure had risen to 888,000. We are still, however, far behind America, where, in 1024, 17,438,000 vehicles were re- gistered. During the height of the summer season our main roads were crowded as never be fore. Every day hundreda of new motorists joined the ranks. Lack ¡of experience in some cases, but recklessness and inexperience in the majority, rosulted in very big increase in rond necidents of all descriptions. Motorists were not only to blame. Careless cyclists, motor cyclists, and pedestrains helped to swell the daily tell of the roads.
At one period no fewer than 10 people a day, on an average, lost their lives through road acċidents. Experience showed that, as re-"| gards motor-car accident the most serious and numerous oc- curred on "blind" corners. Early in the year experiments were made with what was known as the white line system. A white line was drawn in the middle of the road to indicate the position which a motorist should occupy in negotiating a, hend or crossing. This system proved immediately successful, and toward the end" of the year became pretty, general throughout the country, local au- thorities who used the line report- ed beneficial results.
At the annual motor show ab Olympia, curly In October, one of the chief features was the develop- ment of the small six-cylinder car. Many new models with six-cylin- der units of 15 hp. and under were introduced. Prices wore also reduced, though in most cases only slightly, but in this respect
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