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Idle Thoughts upon Motoring Matters of the Moment. By "Mentor."
sion to use it, I cannot sell it, and am always wondering whether some day the boards across it will not collapse and my car or somebody else's will not plunge into its unknown fungus-ridden black depths. I wish I could give it. it stay put, a memorial of the times when motors were adventures and all sorts of mysterious and occult things happened to parta of them that nowadays never aven re- quire looking at.
CAREER.
Everything From Theory to Salesmanship
By I. Thornton Rutter.
Motoring, both as a career and ns a pastime, Is still attractive to the younger generation if I may judge from the number of lettera on the subject addressed to the forning Post recently by parents and guardians,
I propose to answer their querice
a Winter rally at one of our South depends upon intelligent driving away, but like suwpits and ponde collectively in this article.
To those about to Break the Bank, them. Thus they speedily get to Next month, I hear, there is to heroine how much their own safety, as ivell na that of other read-users, Const resortu, So that home and algnaling. hibernatora who are giving Monte
There is logic In this, and I am Carlo a miss this season can find inclined to think that my friend their little spot of cote d'azure has hit the nail on the hend. the ceruleun shares of this jolly)
Anyone wha old stand, what!
Keeping Company, Occasionally I am foolish enough
to
Engineering itself has so many branches in its application to the uses of mankind that any particular section of it requires a knowledge of a wide range of subjects. This upplies equally to the trained auto- mobile engineer. He must know doubts the azureness of our home-to agree to keep company" with There was a time when all hotels both the practical and theoreticul isle should reassure himself by go-another car on some trip. The that wanted to attract motorists sides of his profession, and mutat ing to Devonshire and standing on practice has nothing recommended to advertise that they owned a combine with these, to be success- the top of those glorious red cliffsi It is far better to fix a rendez-nit. I know one in the Midlanda the ful, a sound knowledge of its com-
discomforts of which I even used mercin) business organisation. that encircle Babbacminbu Buy like yous and travel independently.
Roth Mesars. John L. Thorny- wreath of rosen.
Even If the two cars are of the put up with in order to use its
loomy excavation for my carcraft and Co., of Basingstoke, and Than Haze down into the depths same make and model, it is ex-Nowadays I doubt if one out of the Daimler Co., Ltd., of Coventry and study colour. Azure! There tremely difficult to keep together,
especially in traffic. The leading ndred hosteletes have one in use. and ir they have I warrant are peacock blues and cobalts and ear takes advantage of openings, that it is full of old tyres and such for premium pupils as well as ap
prenticeships. Indigos and ultramarines and every which close up before the following long ago far-off unhappy things,
In both the pupils serve in nil de them, which often But let me be inst; I have used renches possible variety of blue, from sky-car blue to starch, from Oxford to Cam-rann hard driving if the latter mine for blanching chicary, and onepartments of the works besides at bridge, all blending with violets, wishes to make up for the delay year--when a coal strike was paid fending lectures. The course is of Kreens and purples into something while even on the open rond ane car to be framinent Alled it up with three years, and pupils have also may overtake in perfect sutely fire logs. So it has bad its uses. opportunity of sitting for the where two can only do so with cou-but I am very frightened of it. all examination of either the Institu
of Civil Engineers, the siderable risk.
Anybody enn have it for tion nothing- if they will take it away. [Mecburlend Engineers, or the Auto-
mobile Engineers. Autographs.
"Won
rich and strange by way of a nea elange.
and
the Having ratlivet. beauty prize (for chrs), one can then with a clear conscience parade the explanade with an independent
Recently I tried to follow behind enr considerably slower than my own, and my efforts to keep it in sight made the drive, which in-
the same.
run well-conducted training schools
the
Time In Works,
air, and with the added antisfaction cluded a good deal of fairly heat the pegulation known as Demos schons of the various Universities,
of having not only abstained from breaking the bank at Monte, but alas saved all the expense and in- convenience of breaking the pence and quietness at one's own particu- lar pet banking areobut at home.
itse
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I wonder what causes the strange
Then there are the engineering desin on the part of that portion traffic negotiation, abfdlui pur-
in places which give more attention to the gatory. I swore then, as I have to write their names
theoretical than to the practical and sworn before, that I would never where they are least required. dy it again, but nooner or later 1 most every object of interest in mechanical side of training: expect I'll be weak enough to agree the country is defaced with the that students who obtain engineer when
suggestion is again autographs of the undistinguished, ing degrees frequently find they and these nones and initials are, Lave to spend some time in un eri brought forward,
whenever possible. Indelibly carved,gineering works to complete their
education Apart from anything else, no two with or without date. Manners from the Minors.
drivers have the same methods, and
Laindon alun offers the I have a commercial traveller to adapt oneself to the pace set Criend who probably spends more by somebody else leads to acute thereabouts, feels impelled to an-mobile Engineering Training in a
To drive with munce to ulf and sundry that he two-year course, than half of every day at the wheel mental discomfort. of him car. I haven't the foggiest any enjoyment, one must be con-visited a certain monument in 1931 idea what his annual mileage is stuntly regulating one's speed to passes the understanding of any but it must look like one of those suit the ever-varying conditions of normal person, especially since he strings of figures which we usually the rond, and any other considera-advertises himself as an individual associate with the National Debt tion is, to say the least of it, a dia without much sense of decency. or the circulation of our dailyturbing influence, paper.
A chat with him is alway« illu- j minating, for he is nothing if not observant. I was interested, there- fore, to hear that, in his opinion, women drivers no longer deserve the criticisms which we males are My at them. friend asserts that they are more courteous and considerate than the average masculine driver, and that they give clearer signals-and, want is more, stick to 'em.
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prone level
Liaison.
Why "W. Smith, Hoxton," or
Auto-
The Society of Motor Manutac- turers and Trades have given this i
was Tranded specially to meet the college their strong approval. It requirements of the motor industry good education. for young men of and gives them a wide experience of practical automobile engineer- ing and a sound knowledge of its commercial side. Thus, its gradu-
tive positions.
are trained to take administra
I suppose sobie sort of desire for immortality is at the bottom of it. This desire, whatever it springs There is a railway station in my from, is unfortunately born in a build large proportion of the inhabitants neighbourhood which owns ing that points a moral. It is no- of the British Isles, and the paint-ales
day by thing more of less than a six stalled work of goodness knows how many garage which, built for the com-cars is scratched every pany's use in the beginning, but some wretched infunt who in im- proving a white elephant, has since polled to write his or her one in been fet to private molor hiring the dust or dried mud adhering to firms and is now permuently full it. I speak feelingly, because only of private cars and very seldom the other day found one of my available for the chance visitor, front wings covered with hierogly- phies, scratched well and truly into especially when in a hurry.
the cellulose with the point of
Now, if that railway compally | land pencil, had known better it would have built it at the next station where
Education. I suppose, is a very
engineers.
mny
It is also the college af neronauti- cal engineering, providing earn- prehensive training in civil avi
2394 ground tion, so that its students qualify for positions
Lieutenant-Colonel F. C. Shel- merdine, Director of Civil Aviation, Air Ministry, has stated that "with the rapid growth of commercial vintion, the demand will naturally increase for ground engineers, staff, supply services, and technical
rades of all kinds."
The improvement is due, in his opinion, to the advent of the small car. In days gone by ladies learn- ed to drive on the Fatnily bus,
no such facilities exist, and I will desirable thing, but I often wish which was usually a heavy vehicle,
on the demanding most of their strength, warrant it would not only have paid the schools would teach decent be-
its way but would even have at-haviour before starting nu certainly all of their concentra-
tracted travellers who ROW nsere R's. Dens will assuredly tion, to handle. Consequently rond
reply to this criticism in pointing courtesy did
out that the craze for unnecessary not get a great deal other points of departure. of thought. Nowadays, however, a Coalition and liaison are in the advertisement is not confined to the amall ear
is generally to be found air; a combined use of road and rainwashed classes. He will say thation of commercial na an adjunct to the before-men-cat
great trouble-naver crank religion enthusiasts fasten tioned family four-seater, and it is especially for business trips to their tracts upon trees, while tem- the privilege of the ladies of the London), and here is an opportuni-perance folk are not above deliling hosthold to drive it. So ensy isy to reap the advantages of bath. the glories of our forest bolts with
tling, and so small demand does it make upon their attention, that they have every opportunity to
A. PI for Sale.
I have a "pit" in my garage. I take in what is happening around I found it there, I never have occa
It is impossible to over-estimate #f the "grounů the importance
fast" in connexion with the opera- nir services. Reliability, safety, and economy depend on their efficiency.
The college of Aeronautical En- gingering and Automobile En- words of warning to those who holdgineering aim to provide their different opinions from their own students with that training and and I am afraid Demos will be efficiency demanded In both ser- Fright.
vican.
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I have personal knowledge of all the engineering training schools d have inspected them from time
to time. They are all excellent in their respective spheres, but, in these days of strenuous competi- tion.
I should prefer the intensive two-year course at the Automobile Engineering Training College,
It is not possible in a brief ac- count to touch on such sperkalised sides na metallurgy and chemistry as applied to the motor industry. The Universities are the proper source
of such appointments, al- though all the schools to which I have referred give general instruc- Lion in these.
and
the
My advlee to parents guardians is: Write for hyllabus of the three schools I have mentioned. These will astonish them-even if they are trained en- gineers themselves by the large number of subjects, both practical and theoretical.
But auch training offers the individual student the opportunity to develop the particular side of nutomobile or aeronautical en- gingering he is best suited for.
inally, there is thehin is in the Institue of Motor Salesmanship. London, and students are taught how to avoid the mistakes of sale- manship which so often rob a com- pany of its rightful share of busi-
It would bo worth:
while taking a short curso, if only to obtain Its "Students Reference Notes,
пена.
The course deals with every pon- siblo. "anag" which salemanship has to overcome, bo:ides inculcating courtesy and politanoss under most trying situations.
SATURDAY, MARCH 19, 1932.
1907-1932 WILLYS-OVERLAND Silver Anniversary
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