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Musings Awheel
Idle Thoughts upon Motoring Matters of the Moment,
[By Mileator."}
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SATURDAY, NOVEMBER
15, 1930.
now
A LONG, LONG TRAIL.
It took three prosidante, 10 con-
rock in the Channel. promptly go to, and whereabouts this bab-less, in fact, because a dinner jacket bumped into something hurd and bling brouk joins up with the lg-suit hitherto has taken up as much remarked that "this Is one of ger river. These are the questions apace as two ovening frocks and them."
I do not think I have over, to which ou rears can give us the pag day dress. lost my way on a main road, but
ia But this anawers. The tourist is a dull dog
definitely have done it scores of times on it who
must keep to preconceived changed. Long dresses are "in" esses and 14 government acts to tle ones and every time when plans, adhere to written Instruc-and they must not be squashed. finished from Cumberland, Md., to get the famous. "National Road" my map has been to blame-I have tons, and arrive every night at the Phyllis requires more luggage room Wheeling, W. Va. The road was Bald int Mups which
show town and hotel plotted and plan- than Stephen. What does this started in 1908. Ita length of 135 Ime where i am when' I kno»; ned out for him, whether by ex-studame bas packed there wil, beater.
mean? In normal households, when miles, was finished n your
aro of
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USE perts or on his own map.
some reason when all the country other, even though they velists toniohite knowledge which probably beauties laid down for one in the trunks of increased cr, the vogue'
was perfect to see it was quite ex- any mo option to meet with torists on tour anywhere off the And the little Innes beaten track. wer so lovely and so lonely, from ene end of the country to the other, The Mistakes of Man Makerg,
for
But to appre
Failure aftor failure
WoAr
where I Home; the sort
1 re- of map FUR Most of the fun of holiday tour-precious little room for Monsieur's quire is the one that will show mein lies in Its unexpectedness and wardrobe. Then the papers will Where FLETI when I don't know
often the result of the bow drawn be full of dirges about our badly the other fellow. where I am." -Involved,- but that is what maps are really aventure; every road lends to dressed men at the holiday resorts, jelato really how many indifferent
perhaps i
somewhere or other and, at this Fashion la guilty, but the luggage if not actually bad--drivers are for. often think That a time of the year at any rate, it is
f container makers will get the on the roads it is instructive, and study of maps and how to use them safe to say that one will enjoy and blame. So while englues tend to well worth while, to spend an would be a good deal more useful to appreciate one's own discoveries diminish in size with increased ef afternoon on a really formidable budding motor-tourists than the far more than the too well advertis- ficiency, I hope we shall see luggage hill, such as Porlock.
may b Use The By-Ways,
of a lot of technical au acquisition
text-book.
in the near future.
seen. It lo hardly over the car's Motorints make a very great mis.
their handiwork as and touristic." When special motor, in these advances days will
See these specialities by l
fault; it la hearly always because Hotel Prices. Lake when they imagine, as many
the driver will not engage first but never forget that this means, of them seem to do, that only the
mapa fok their place all they did never be of any vaine, at all. was to paint some of the most dir-
We all seem to learn such a lot country, at any rate, has just as
Is there any association in Great speed soon enough, and keep in main road are proper to travel on.
loog. eet ronds blue or red and leave it or useless things when
Humelontly we are many beautiful things hidden asBritain corresponding to the ilstel that and that all the others lead no-
ut tent, though some of them very young? I know few people who
advertised. "Every motorist his Keepers Association in France? Novices are, apparently, scared at where and posons no fentures of
stupally imagined that they were would not swop all their Latin and own exporer" would be no bail mot-If so, doen it issue anything so the
the sound of n fast revving interest of their own. I do not by
engine. But the gear there to I often wonder if I is that prlian being helpful to motorists by leal their Greek for the knowledge to for those of us who feel that, as cheap and so useful as the li any means wish to infer that they are themselves originally to blanc rotarists touring for pleasure are Inst out all skle-issues altogether. jot enough French to allow them to it in, this life is, much too full of vepenny booklet called Le P'rir des be used, so why not use it? for this state of ignorante; on the afraid to settuce off the reculs they merely indicating by a pair of pa- enjoy the Continent without having Die allel lines jutting out of these dito display their ignorare of what contrary, they have borrowed the know, if they imagine idra
chiefly from Those who net when all is slanger and risk of that Teet routes that here a road to no- might make their travels infinitely
***; where-in-particular existed, but as Įmore interesting. themselves up To print their thing at all elvilland exists o obaly would ever think of using pastora und masters, and maybe safe wol advertised areas. When it, it was not rousidered of any use ven more from those soaps that motoring was young our maps were to denote where it went to or mark only thr big town-lo-town or younger, and even the bigger! routes and offer leave binnk all the roads on them were marked in whence it came.
The Use of Maps, go to what they more definite rolours than the small side ads that would describe as nowhere in parti.jones; in fret, cartographers cabar. Because sheep follow other, 10th who were responsible for thươm,¦ sheep is nu rezeson why one motorist! jun mule no effort to distin should follow another, and ved fort
ich between one kari
indat' Al
driving at big service
Hoteln en France? This gives the i often think that instructors in a dull thing routine.
names of thousands of hotels of driv
stationa Fashion and Luggage.
all sorts and conditions and prices should nat pass out any pupil as in France, often a dozen ne more proficient till he or she, can make May 1. as a married man, uso
a protingial town; the number, rapid change to first at any A Plea for a Little More this column to call the attention of rooms, the prices of single and given moment on a steep hill.
Individuality.
of luggage trunk makers to a most double rooms in ordinary times It is no excuse that beenure a signillent fact? Fashions have
in the case of resorts, at the motoriat livna in the Fena he has But I did not begin theme ram-
changed. For the past few years height of the season, the costs of no need to be clever with the gear bling thoughts with The idea of Which was all se foolish and an discusing either maps or edtsen./ even the smartest of women have full board, and whether hot and lever: he is the very one who gets
needed luggage trunks of no great-cold water is laid or not,
into the quickest and completest useless. The procedure remindedtion. As usual, I was thinking of er empacity than have their men- There is no doubt that the trouble in the Lake District or me of the ship's captain who gate, what dos over these hills and dean folk for a week-end trip or even a French regard motor touring t
North Devon. While boasting that he knew every (that lane where that little road may long tour of a week of two. Even Foreigners in France na a national
janel. The Come-to-Britain inves ment ought to get busy on similar linca. We enn do with the sand ing af foreign moderats' mony Lever bere, quite as well no France
Tx Destination.
The village constable shook his head, I don't mind giving you a atut, init purely you are not "olng to pish that big "Ameriena ear aft The way back to your garage?” Snap Changes,
"No,"
village motorist hindered. "if you give me a Presumably much of us fancier hand to push it as far as the cliff himself as a driver compared with Lodge, that'll be all I want."
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