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CHANGES AND DEVELOPMENTS IN 1926:
FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 1926.
MOTORING PROSPECTS:Marseillos this year, but the Royal Automobile. "Club will also organiec a premier event, a 300 miles race, on the track at Brook-""" lande, on August Bank Holiday for 1,500 e.e. engined machines, quite without prejudice to the Junior Car Club'a yearly 200 miles International race, which will be, run on September 25, on There is no chance of 1926 the principle of having turns is being a dull motoring year. For the course of cach circuit of the one thing there is overy prospect track.
(By H. Massac, Buist in the Observer.).
of some 2,000 private car owners A B is also before Parlia-| being recruited weekly until the ment to secure the closing of cer
tain ronde in this country for a last day of December next.
First and last for consideration, limited period for the purpose of however, is the Rond Fund, in condutting a road test that should connection, with which it is sought be as invaluable for the evolution to limit the amount of revenue of design and a proof of construc derived from motor taxation tion us are the classic road races which shall be devoted to road abroad and the series of Tourist development and evolution. The Trophy road races: were in the actual financial position in retale of Man. In this connection gard to that work, which, la fort is not intended that any much the service of the "community at frequented roads should ever be large, and which represents closed, but only short stretches of expenditure of a semi-permanent thoroughfare of, say, 10 to 14 character for an asset to the miles, at the most, in a circuit nation, is that there is no surplus mapped out on Dartmoor, or rond fund and cannot be for among the hills and dales of York- many years, because we are shire, or Cumberland; or in the engaged in undertaking work that Highlands of Scotland.
Practi-
has been delayed a quarter of a cally nd inconvenience would be century too long. Further delay occasioned: yet the spot would be
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will be severely prejudicial to the accessible by rail, or by road, and such as is impossible to attain by water to got to the Isle of Man. return of normal industrial and an educational purpose could be asking the motor car owning it will not in any appreciable commercial conditions, because served by organising these tests,
public to traverse 80 miles of numbers.
this is the age of mechanical road travel, and the problem also con- cerns agriculture intimately.
Indeed, the folk to benefit least by this great work are the pas- senger car owners, who contribute the greater part of the revenue. Their machines are so weil sprung that they could ride comfortably over quite indifferent surfaces, *|-|-~|~|~j~f« The community, however, travels
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hrgely in buses, and its food- stuffs and other necessaries are transported to an ever-increasing extent by that means. Economy, comfort, and safety are involved in expediting and increasing the scale of our road work, which is essential if we are to distribute the population and avoid over- crowding in our large cities.
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It is plain that the motoring organisations will have to asso- ciate themselves directly and pre- sent a united front on the subject with County Councils, Borough Councils, and all manner of other bodies concerned. with road. making maintenance, and use, that being the only means to ensure in this time of great financial stress. that the right thing shall be done.
By contrast, this is a most un- favourable time for individual motoring organisations to air their cherished schemes for re- casting the basis of car taxation, and so forth. If anything of that! sort is indulged, the result will! be to land us with a dual taxi instead of a single one on motor- Ing, a point of supreme impor- tance. It was very difficult to get back to a single tax on motoring, which is the only means of check- ing the total amount it costs the individual. Any dual tax is the golden opportunity for Govern- pents to play ducks and drakes with the gross amount contri- buted. When we had a petrol tax as well as a horse-power tax, the situation was wholly unsatis factory: large number of motorists of my acquaintance boasted that they never paid a farthing fuel tax from the time the measure was introduced to the time of its withdrawal."
1n the international sphere, us far as motoring competitions are conecrned, the year starts with the provision of a series of, new international regulations govern ing this all-important matter for the evolution of automobile en- gineering and yehicle building, At the moment it must suffice to mention in passing that the new rules further provide means for each recognised body to draw up any rules that may seem good for competitions of a national charac- ter within the borders of the given country.
As regards our major, competi- tions, namely, the series of Grand Prix races on the Continent · of Europe-France, June 89; Spain, July 26; England, August 2; and Italy, September 5; and the Ameri- can premier event in the Indiana- polis race on May 30-this year, the maximum engine permissible is 1,500 cc. cylinder content, or half the size of the small car or voiturette engine category seven years ago; yet miniature 1,500 s.c. [engined vehicles havo, already travelled at over 118 m.p.h., and some of these multi-cylinder. 10 h.p. Treasury-rated units will function at 8,000 cr.p.m. this
summer.
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