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TWO OR FOUR- SEATER? Views by Three
known Writers.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. · SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1928.
without a moment's healtation for SPREADING ROADS. the two-seater. Why? Because,
for all practical purposes, there
were then only two people In the Traffic Demands Width. world, and they had in mind a Well-motoring honeymoon. To-day my
(By G. J. F. Keeling.].
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every time to the opposito type, the sports car though, in these en lightened days, practically all the best sporting cars are built with really comfortable touring type multi-passenger bodies.
answer to the question is just as unhesitatingly-the four-center. Why S
The four-seater is the family
RECONSTRUCTION NECESSARY.
a year's
man's car (I am assuming that he How the need of wider roadways By the terms two-senter and can keep only ono); it is the weak for greator volumo of traffic is bo- |
mindedly good-natured man's car, four-scater one instinctively under-for in it he can give friends a lift the met in New York State stands that a car of the type sme and keep them as friends; and it (U.S.A.,) is shown in a comparison what loosely called a "touring car" is the lazy man's car, because into of total figures for highway con- is implied. My own tastes Incline the back compartment he can fing struction in that State.
luggage, pienie cases, golf clubs, At one time the percentage of guns, cricket bats, rackets, and/or reconstruction work in fishing rodn until the rear cockpit highway programme was about 20. is filled to door-top level-and even Now, reconstruction work forms higher if the side curtains are nearer 60 por, cent. of the fatal. erected and the lighter impediments of the 700 miles planned for are given the seats of honour of the 1928, about 376 miles will be re- construction, and about 825 miles summit of the mountain.
Many a time, in days gone by, new construction. has the safety of my smaller im- pediments depended precariously "pen the tenacity of a side curtain's than the two-seater. Well, my own turn-button, or upon a string tying experience does not confirm this. one door handle firmly to its op- The actual running exponges seem posite number to prevent one door
people go wrong is in confusing Aying open upon the stress of in- to me to be about the same; where with the cost of running thong ex- Of course, one cannot be quite so traneous charges that include meals casual if there are more than two for four or five, with tips "accord- travellore in the party. A certain ing," theatre tickets, and the like. attention to the If the possession of a four-seater modicum of stowage of kit is desirable if a rich inflates the poor man with an urgo relative is to occupy one of the invariably to pay all the expenses back seats. The absent-minded of all his passengers, he had better owner may so easily bury the rear aim lower at the two-seater; but passenger under an avalanche of if the idea of a "Dutch treat" is sult cases, and where he or she is not repugnant to his finer feelings, short-tempered or brittle, this is he may carry on with the assurance that the running of his car will not a contretemps to be avoided.
appreciably add to the inevitable elock that will bo tle when he re- celves la income tax demand- "Auto Car."
Why do I prefer a sports car Because, in the first place, I am enthusiastic about my cars, and like to keep them in the best tune and condition Undeniably, a car of the sports type repays constant at tention in a whole-hearted manner, and, indeed, loses much of its good performance without it, whereas a touring car is always comparative ly sluggish, whether in tune or not.
Besides, I have not yet lost myternal pressure. love of goin quickly-nt the right time and place and ultra-quick ac- celeration on the gears gives me very real pleasure. A touring car which ambles along all day on top Any ass Hear frankly bores me. can pilot that type of vehicle, but it takes a sports car to teach one how in drive and how to get the very best out of a car.
I make no claims to be a good driver, but I do like having to try my hardest always. A stodgy tour- ing car always has the same effect on me as playing games with some- one who is even more of a rabbit than I am. In both cases I find it something of an effort to try.
Three Seats the Ideal. And now as to body. I am a bachelor, so I do not need to tako large number of seats about with me., At the same time, there are nccnsions when one wants to give! somebody à lift, and then a two- seater is rather small.
In iny own particular case, then, a sporting three-seater seems to meet the bill exactly, for the third seat would normally accommodate quite an appreciable quantity of lurage within the body, and though capable of seating a third person on occasion it would pur- posely be not too luxurious, thus serving the double purpose of dis- couraging importunate life-cadgers, and not really mattering if luggage were piled on it! Nothing is more annoying than to be for ever worry- ing about possible damage to the upholstery.
Moreover, a three-senter body can be made very pretty, and a good sports car deserves a good-looking body,
[BY II. MASSAC BUIST.) A amail engined two-seat car can give me to-day as much seating capacity as the suficient, accom- modation I have had on standard examples of the largest scales of vohicles. In the case of my stan dardized design the weight in die- tributed where it should be, well be- tween the two axles. Such a car is alert on the hills, excellent as to braking, roadworthy on good and broken surfaces alike, and uncom mon Landy for threading a way through narrow, tortuous country Janes to enjoy one of the greatest attractions of motoring-exploring byways. I have often done this) with the most luxurious and power- ful car, but they are not compar- ably ne convenient for the purpose, and therefore one does not onjoy the quest as much,
Such a car as I own is a proper all-weather type. In spite of the claims advanced on behalf of one- man hoods on machines having four and five seats, there is nothing in this kind so easy to raise, or lower, as the hood of a two-senter. like to motor without physical exercise, which I seek for health by other means.
The
The Luggage Problem Solved. The luggage problem is solved by the mere lightness of the car, which renders it undesirable to have a grid of generous accommodation projecting from the rear. frame is not designed for that. Therefore, I have a grid attached by four finger-tight butterly nuts and set up on the closed boot. In two minutes I can secure two large cabin trunks on it. Yet neither water nor mud can get under, or into, this generous provision for personal luggage, which is simply wrapped in a sheet of waterproofed canvas, procured from a trunkmaker for 303. Therefore the trunks are free from damp, dust and dirt. Neither I, nor servants, have to stoop to put this laggage aboard the car or to take it off I have merely to ad- just three strap buckles. The load is where the weiglit ought to be as regards cornering and no forth when touring.
For a Specific Purpose. But I do not make the usual mis- take of buying a two-seater car and using it as a three, or four-seater. I am writing of motoring entirely Motor-cycle taxis which have for my wife's and my own con- been running in Berlin (Germany)venience, to which end I buy a car for some years have been with- to be used only for the purpose for which it is designed. Whatever drawn from use.
They were nular because of one's combination of needs, that in their cheaper tariff, though the the only way to get the utmost covered side-car only seated one satisfaction. I liko hundiness, livo- passenger; but the controlling liness, and' reliability, company announced that the cost of repairs was so great that operat ing costs were higher than income.
→ [BY II. C. LAFONE.) What a problem! When I had to solve it just 20 years ago plumped |
The Question of Expense. One hears it said that the four- seater is far more expensive to run
THERE
WERE
Wo sneered at old one-lungers, With ongines loud as bungers, And giggled, as they wriggled
creakily, exhuding smoke; We scoffed at four horse-power, Flat out at ten per hour, Those stoic and herole gioneers
which seemed a joke.
Yet, 'epite our coaches cosy, Our cushions dat and doxy, The tangle and the jangle of the
trafic rands our wits;
Our forebears took it easy, Though cars were cold and
breozy,
The tramless streets were jam-
less
And no cops tore them to bits. When motors fell asunder,
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And drivers out and under, Though ribald at their plebald|
clothes, the policeman push- ed them home-
But now-ts: "Hoy! No park-
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And angry klaxons barking. They never knew such clover traps as dirty traffic domes.
We sweep along at forty They managed twelve-If sporty, And horses from their courses 'swift departed, breathing
fright,
We at a horn that bellows.. To forge amongst our fellows, But jays in other days stood on
the kerb to see the eight.
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