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SATURDAY, MARCH 1, 1930.
WRECK STOPS TEST.
SAFETY FIRST.
Dangerous.
Chrysler's Fine Run. Billboards Said to
SYNTHETIC FUEL.
wrecked.
An endurance run that Was being made by a Chrysler G saloon on the Avus track in Berlin, came to sudden atop when the car ran over the banking and was The car had been running on the track continuously for 69 days and nights and even after it was wreeked the engine was kept going and finished the equivalent of 70 days.
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dust is climenated, detours are NEW SPEEDWAY. improving, washouts are repaired with convincing dispatch, snow is
be removed with constantly increas
DRIVERS CONFUSED.
Washington, Jan. 20.
ing efficiency.
"Yet it is on these roads that rural advertising thrives and con- fuses the driver.
Suggestion to Build in England.
"Obviously à driver needs his] WORK FOR 2,000 MEN, whole attention on the road and
and
The application of the Auto- bill-boards which obscure the view ment may distract him. Similar permission to construct a moter
Road side advertising on huge crossing signals when approaching
a grade crossing. Any advertise mobile Racing Asociation, Ltd, for and attract the attention of the provisions, with similar excep speedway between Boston motorist from his job of driving tions, apply to highway intersec- Skegness along the foreshore of is dangerous to human safety, istions and sharp highway curves. the opinion of Dr. L. I. Hewes,
the Wash in Lincolnshire was in- deputy chief engineed of the U. S.
"There is in the legislation Board of Trade by Captain V. E. quired into recently on behalf of the Bureau of Public Reads.
much variation. No state absolu- Brandon. tely prohibits the display of ad- "We know that outdoor adver-vertising within public view of the the association, outlined the scheme. Mr. G. L. du Cann, counsel for Up to the time of the accident tising on private property Inter- highway. In fact, one state makes It is to provide a main speedway it had covered 5-1.024 miles at an feres with highway operations.it a misdemeanour to remove ad- from 12 average speed of 34 miles per that it mars the scenery, and that vertising signs from the right of yards. wide. Down the
15 miles long and 200
hour.
centre
The fuel used was a Cer-fat times it is even dangerous," he way. man synthetic spirit and the con- says.
would be a roadway 100 feet wide "There is, in the nower laws, a with return loop roads. Access to sumption was 21.25 miles per "Outdoor advertising screams marked evidence of the recogni- the sea would be provided at inter- gallon. Continental tyres were loudest on the most densely trav-tion of danger at curves and at vals by gateways, fitted at the start of the run and elled roads. These are the expen-railroad grade crossings. these were changed at the end of sive roads built and maintained state laws forbid signs along the half of the association and also as Many Earl Howe gave evidence on be- 50,000 kilometres. The test was and largely operated by the state highway within a distance varying president of the Marine Motor carried out under the observation highway departments. These are from 300 to 1000 feet of such Association, for of the German Automobile Club.
the, roads where the operating job, crossings. Some states weaken, waterway also is proposed.
a motor-boat already difficult, is growing con, however, and permit legal stantly more difficult. There is officers to tolerate signs even, with-ployed for two years.
He said 2,000 men would be em- constantly better maintenance
preliminary costs, including the test borings, which cost $29,940. Retirement of the bonds and all other expenses will be taken care of by the tolls.
Not Harmful in War.
The Redwood Highway's empire is pictured here. Scenes along the highway are shown to the right of the map. Upper photo shows the Douglas Memorial Bridge over the Klamath river on the way to Crescent; lower right is a view of the highway running between the huge redwoods; and lower left shows the highway winding through the Smith River Divide.
The foundations for the two towers, the exact location of Francisco, dan. 20th-highway which stretches from San mission reveal that the general which will be determined by the Spanning San Francisco's famed Francisco, through the interior of average traffic increase over the borings, will be set in approxi- Golden Gate and linking the eity California, up into Oregon.
northern portion of the Redwood mately 48 feet of water on the with seven counties, the recently
Highway during the Heavy Traffic Caused Bridge
past 12 San Francisco side and on the begun Golden Gate Bridge is ex-
months has been 67 per cent. with rocks slightly above tide level on pected to materially increase the The interior of California along a 212 per cent. increase of out-of-the Marin county side. wealth of the Redwood Empire by this highway began to develon. state cars from the north. Gen- further opening inland territory. And with this development traffic eral Redwood Empire traffic is between Fort Point, San Fran- The depth of the Golden Gate This bridge will be the largest commenced to increase. Traffic shown to have increased 19 per cisco, and Lime Point, Marin; suspension bridge in the world, it over the highway and its connect-cent. during this period. is said. From Fort Point, Saning system of lateral and parallel Francisco, it will throw its central roads grow to tremendous propor- Noted Engineers Build It.
span 4100 feet or more to Lime 'Point, Marin county. Its single deck structure will be strung on cables three feet thick 200 fem above tide level.
tops and each of the eight coun- ties north of San Francisco profited by it.
bay
As this traffic grew, the reces- sity for a short cut across the bay This engineering feat. one was realized and a ferry boat or- the most gigantic ever under-ganization was formed which did taken in the United States, had its rushing business. So rushing inception some 10 Hardy motorists who travelled the pant to take care of it.
This large increase of traffic, and the fact that the ferries were hard pressed to accommodate It, Golden Gate Bridge. was the basis for building the
county, where the engineeers have fixed the bridge site, averages 300) feet, Because of this
fact, coupled with the swift currents of the Golden Gate, army engineers agrece that demolition of the bridge in time of war would not, impede navigation,
After this bridge is opened- Such famous engineers and su-actual construction is expected to thorities as Joseph B. Strauss, start wihin a year-the Redwood years ago.in fact that it pressed the com-Ralph Kojeski and Alfred Lilen-Empire, composed of the counties thai have put their approval of San Francisco, Marin, Sonoma, roads out of San Francisco up the Semu idea of the extent of the project and work has already Napa, Lake. Mendocino and Hum- mountains into the redwood dis-travel through this district may been started under the direction baldt, in California, and Josephine tricts came back with reports of a be gained from the traffic figures of Strauss as chief bridge engin-in Oregon will benefit by a direct wonderful land that only needed of this ferry company. good roads for development.
Preliminary estimates set the month's survey of 1929 shown: And go the Redwood Highway May. 121.967 passengers; June. cost of the bridge at $27,000,000. Association was formed and from 140,495: August, 157,705: Septem-part of which will be collected in that nucleus of motorists sprang ber, 137,796; October, 99,384. the foundation
taxes and the remainder in tolls. that pushed On top of this, figures compiled through that famous Californing the California Highway Com-lied. This assessment is to defray A three-cent fax. has been lev-
A six neer.
connexion between San Francisco and Grant's Pass, Ore., over the Redwood Highway. Markets will open up more and business in general is expected to benefit by cisco hay. this short cut across
San Fran-
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THE AUTO SHOW.
JUST MY LUCK-HERE I'VE BEEN PARKED FOR HOURS IN JACK'S NEW SUPER-SILLIOUS ROADSTER AN' NOT. ONE OF MY FRIENDS HAS
PASSED YET
Captain Malcolm Campbell, the racing motorist, said the track pro- posed would be the best in the world and would make the district the Mecca for all speed events. Foreign- ers who wished to compete in the world's racing would have to come bere.
Captain Woolf Barnato, another director of the association, said there was no place at present where our motor manufacturers could test · their products.
Captain Brandon will report in due course..
A rough estimate of the cost is between £300,000 and £600,000.
1922. SCRAPPED IN 1928.
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It has been estimated that of the 4,358,748 motor vehicles manufac tured in the United States during 1928, 2,416,720 were used to replace vehicles that had been scrapped. This replacement nearly equals the production of 1922-2,646,000.
in the danger limit when judged not obstructive to view.
"It would seem that highway officials could demand that the rural right of way be entirely free of any outdoor, advertising what- ever. To eliminate further the advertising nuisance, wider rights. of way would help.”
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