MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1929.
PARKING AS IT
SHOULD NOT BE DONE.
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48, STANLEY STREET,
From Queen's Pier through to Des Voeux Road is greatly in demand for car parking, but no effort has been made to make the best use of this convenient locality. Cars are allowed to occupy valuable space lengthwise along the pavement, whereas were they to back on to the kerb obliquely, three times the number of vehicles could probably be accommo-
dated. The above picture shows the present waste of space.
HE LIKED AN OPEN CAR-AND SHE
PREFERRED A SALOON.
The Story of a Domestic Difference.
[By the Hon. Mrs. Vietor Bruce.]
CASUS BELLI,
His Side of the Question. Well, now, dear, let's come down
-and Hèrs.
An open car? I should jolly say not! This weather? to brass tacks about this motor- well car. It's decided we'll have an Why, we should both be down with rheumatics or pneumonia or some open car this time, isn't it?
thing!
Sunshine's for the insects! Last time I went out in an open car I swallowed a daddy-long- a legs, caught three gnats in my it eyes, and nearly lost my
manent wavOI
Yes, I know we'd have a bother But what Do you think God's sun- shine is for? You would sit in stuffy room all day and call motoring!
per.
Duet:-Oh, it's not good enough! Motoring simply isn't worth
Cars
while in {
closed}
open
(Please strike out clause which does not apply.)
SOLILOQUY.
Each retires huffly to his or her corner of the room and affects absorption in various reading matter-she in the financial columns of So do times the evening paper; he in the latest Edgar Wallace. change. If we could hear their thoughts they would be something like thin
HE
1 SHE:-
I suppose she'll want some great Leave him alone and he'll choose lumbering hearse of a car with some cramped little sporting car
shiny coachwork
Dignity at you!
that
NOT HELPFUL.
Compulsory Insce. Rejected.
REPORT AFTER TWO. YEARS.
Declaring that it is "no safely. or accident prevention measure, and but a partial and highly.in- offective means of protection against pecuniary loss," the joint legislative committee appointed by the State of Callfornin, (USA) rojected the idea of compulsory insurance of motor vehicles.
The rejection is contained in a report. covering the committee's observations and Investigallons into means of reducing traile hazards covering two years.
As the motor inws of California are somewhat tax in their appllen.
tion to damage by motor vehicles, the committee recommended that the liability bo broadened,
One suggestion is that the ilcenses of persons against whom a judgment establishing negl- gence in motor vehicle operation has been entered should be revok- ed unless the judgment is satisfl- ed promptly.
TESTING
THE
DRIVER,
Climbs, and Turns.
EXAMINATION. ORDEALS.
recently'
abricks that I wouldn't be found dead in! Pretence, abt performance!
The following letter He ruins a suit of clothes every appeared in the Daily Telegraph: Paint and varnish are all very time he cleans the car. Why not "Sir,-Your correspondent, Mr. fine if you don't have to clean the pay to have it done? Then varnish Ainley, says that in one foreign car on a cold and frosty morning. wouldn't matter. If I had thought city where he has lived, those ap- do. It's the only way to get the he would be ao mean I wouldn't plying for licences to drive motor- job done properly. Do it yourself. have married Jim.
י.
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cars are "put through their paces" Double declutch up as well as in a very thorough-going fashion, do not know to which city he refers, but I have myself personal knowledge of the stiff examination
which exists in Geneva,
And then I'll bet she will want a free wheel-Scottish blood will down-that's the sort of thing he out! I suppose women haven't got likes. How I hate gear-changing enough brains to learn to change And then look at the petrol a free
wheel savos! gear decently.
There, as in the caso Mr. Ainley Decent bucket seats and plenty Why she wants to sit bolt of headroom that's what I want. mentions, the candidate is accom- upright I can't imagine. I like to Even if you are a backboneless panied in his car by a pollco see the wings as well as anyone, gort of creature there's no need to official, who, throughout the test gives him verbal journey, but there's no need to look & loll in the car and tell the world. orders." It is rather like a viva stuffed dummy.
I suppose I am a bit gone on And the gadgets! A Christons gadgets, but they are all useful, voce, with the difference that the free is a fool to what her car and I don't see why I shouldn't candidate's "answers" are express- would be in alx months. Then she have a little comfort. If only he ed in the form of a series of de- monstrations of, what he can (or would want to sell it and start all wouldn't take them off and leave does not) do with his car! It is, over again. Never a thought of the dash, board full of holes-I
In fact, a 'most trying ordeal, and 'ng the fixings.
That open exhaust of his is the task of acquitting oneself well silent car! Yes, and you sheer swank-or else he's too lazy is not made any caster by one's have to keep sounding the horn all to sound the horn. I like to be natural anxiety to win the ap the time, so that you can't hear able to talk in comfort. yourself think.
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proval of the official "passenger." Among other things, you are I wonder if he's come to his directed to drive up a hill of more I wonder if sho's still huffy senses yet----
ARMISTICE.
This splendid Isolation begins to pall Each casts a sidelong glance at the other; catches and is caught in the act; and diplomatic relations are resumed.
His Graceful Gesture,
I say, I've been thinking
--and Hers. Oh, what with?
It's an iden, so long as we don't
No, seriously. Do you think a have to go motoring together too often and so long as I can have sunshine saloon would solve the the, car whenever I want. problem of closed or open car?
But WHY CAN'T
WE GO MOTORING TOGETHER?
Because if you had the roof It would bo so boastly
open
than ordinary steepness, stop half- way, and start again; and if in the process your car should drop back even a foot you run the risk of being disqualifled. Up the re- mainder of the climb the official may dismount and walk slowly, the driver's task being to keep his front mudguard a specified very short distance behind. If your brush the mudguard should examiner's coat talls again you lone "marke."
You may also find a group of sticks, awkwardly arranged on the
draughty, and if I had it closed ground around your car, and be asked to drive out of them with- you would, say it was, so beastly out touching any one of them. stuffy.
Should you be spared one or other of these testa you will almost cor- tainly be directed into a narrow etrect and there told to turn your car right round without grazing
PAX.
And so they purchased two motor-cars,,
MOTORING POLICE.
MUST STUDY"
(Daily Mall)...the pavement.
STE PETY.
I cannot see any reason why there should be difficulty In establishing examinations for drivers in England, as Mr. Mylius appears to think would be the
When vacancies occur in the Seven USA states now have case "In view of the large number palice force of the prefecture of safety Instruction as a part of their of applicants." Surely the great Paris, preference will be given to school curriculum. They are New Increase in the number of would. tandidates who hold a motor Jersey, North Carolina, Ohlo, Virbe drivers leelf emphasizes the driver's licence, according to a
and fitness."Yours, etc., recent notice by the Prefect of ginla, Pennsylvania, Illinois and growing need for "tests of skill
Police.
Indiana.
TRAVELLER.