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MOTORIST'S TROUBLES.
Skidding a Frequent Cause of Accident.
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'PLANE SPIES ROUTES.
Oil Lines Found.
Worn Smooth
MERELY
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 28, 1929.
IMAGINARY?
Observe this picture that I paint) With highly-idealistio brush
subject rare, and rather quaint Peers from the board with modest
blush,
Though not attired in shining steels This kindly, unassuming lad Is Galahad, a knight on wheels- Step up and meet him, you'll be
glad."
wrath;
bricks.
A new use for an
of an aeroplane has been discovered by the Texts Company, In connexion with the construction of pipe lines from-cli Skidding is probably the most Company have adopted somewhat wells to refineries in the U.S.A. dreaded of all the troubles that the same policy in training their A special machine is used for beset the motorists.
drivers, na they put them all making aerial surveys and pano- The reason is rather difficult to through a skidding course on a ramic maps, in order to determine fathom, as, according to statistics, specially prepared slippery track. the most suitable routes for the skidding only accounts for a small This, of course, is necessary from lines.
He isn't meek and yet be's mild, proportion of accidents, but I am the omnibus drivers' point of view.
He always yields the right of way; convinced that it actually accounts on the slippery London streets. I eliminated,
He doesn't bellow and grow wild for a great many more than is am certain that on a wet day the
Nor harsh tunes on his klaxon play imagined, and does not get the full ordinary motorist would be unable credit it deserves, writes a cor- to manage a solid tyred omnibus The Inspector to a large insur- When someone stalls and blocks his
path; at all, and the difficulty in keeplug ance company once told me that He pities road-hogs and their respondent.
The probable reason for this one of these great vehicles even in the ease of an accident, în
tricks: dread of skidding, is that to the moderately straight would be a which skidding was suspected as His judgment's, never dimmed by
the cause,' he always first ordinary driver, it represents revelation to him. something over which he has no Of course, it would be impoa examined the tyres of the cara He wastes no breath In verbal control, and only rarely expert sible to put every private motorist involved. If he found one in through a skidding course, but I which the tread was worn smooth, I can remember a somewhat can heartily recommend anyone he did not trouble to look any
further. similar state of affairs during the who takes a" pride in his or her early part of the war, in what was driving, to try a little practice in Few motorists realize the won- then, the Royal Flying Corps, In some safe place. Dodging derful tyre wear that we have which at the time I was teaching bamboo poles on a wet surface can to-day. Our tyres hardly cost us London's Latest West people to By. New pilots were be excellent fun, and will give a more, and yet they run three o frequently killing themselves after driver more confidence in his car four times the distance they did a stall in certain types of machine, than anything else.
only a few years ago. Punctures when they got Into, spin.
If we consider the matter, how are extremely rare and other tyre Largely through the agency of the ever, from the point of view of the troubles negligible. Gosport "stunt" school, it was ordinary driver, who never has or The only trouble is that for
For the first time royal patron- decided that the best way to stop never will have an opportunity for about a third to a quarter of the this was to take the new pilots up, practice, and whose first experi- tyres wear, the tread will have age has been given to the opening and deliberately spin them, and ence of skidding, is to find himself been worn practically smooth, and of a garage in the West End of show them that it was perfectly waltzing about in the middle of a though the tyre is able to carry on London. The Duke of York re easy to get out.
crowded street, without the for many thousands of miles, the cently opened This worked at once, and soon vaguest idea of what to do next, vehicle to which it is fitted will be Garage in Little Poultney Strect spinning became merely a part of we must obviously try and Prone to skid in wet weather. routine dying and the death rate eliminate some of the causes. was immediately reduced, people only crashed when they got into one top near to the ground
Slippery Streets. The London General Omnibus) years
03 There are still, of course, many
dangerously slippery road sur faces, though these are rapidly becoming fewer, and in a few should be practically
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I was told recently by the engineer in charge of a large public service fleet of cars, which are required to maintain a fairly high speed, that he was not in terested in systems of tyre main tenance, as the life of his tyres depended on the life of the treads He always found that lone before the tyres were worn out the non- skid treads had ceased to "exist, and he could not send his men out with smooth tyres as they were a public danger.
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This is the case as far as moat private motorists are concerned, but you cannot expect a man "to scrap his tyres long before they are worn out. There is a real opportunity for an Inventor here, as a tread that would remain non- skid for the whole life of the tyre would save many accidents and many lives besides making driving much less nerve-wracking for [nervous people.
Another fruitful cause of accidents is the existence of badly jadjusted four-wheel brakes Four-wheel brakes have proved a great boon to the motorist, but a badly adjusted set is worse than useless, and, in fact, an actual source of danger.· ́
To get one wheel locking and takin all the braking strain is asking for trouble on a slipperi road. There are many suitable brake testers in use to-day which! show the actual, braking effort on each wheel, and motorists for their own safety, if they suspect un- equal braking, should have a test made.
There is widespread belief that if a car is really low built it will not skid. This is not true. Low- built cars will not turn over easily, yet from the skidding point of view many really low-built cars are the worst offenders, I know of several famous sporta · Cars which are terri bard, to control [ón a vřenay surface, just because
they are too low.
He never cuts a corner's edge" Nor speeds across the last cross
street: He keeps his place on mountain
ledge
As on a road of eighty feat: When children come in sight he'll
walow
His right foot ready for a stop; His headlamps never glare, they
glow;
He never argues with a cop..
You can't mistake his signals clear Before he stops or turns about; Pedestrians don't walk in fear
Nor rush like remnants of a rout,
Before his charge. So, I insist, He is the parfait gentil knight. What's that you say? He don't
exist?
No? Well, perhaps perhaps you're
right
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