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AN IDEAL HOLIDAY TOUR.
The Lure of Northern Ireland. By (HLTERN.
On the "News-Chronicle”.)
CHEAP BRITISH
TWO-LITRE SIXES.
The Morris-Oxford.
excellent a
time,
DRIVING IMPROVED.
Abolition of English
Speed Limits.
A cutting From the Loudon Daily Telegraph contains some in- teresting comments. particularly in view of resent cabled reports. giving comparative traflle acident firures in Englant before after the abolition of speed limits.
#nd numinat
(By John Priolenu) There has never been a period, During the past wailli many these districts' round Cushendall motorist reader- fine written to where, I was told, the okl curfew when so wide or so
even during the wildest inom years asking for British holiday hell is still rung and round Cus-choice of British motor-cars was suggestions. Mostly, their latter heiden are the finest. After Cus-offered to a public that has grown have ended: "There tozat be heuden the peenery takes un
peculiarly discriminating (as the glorious scenery, intresting a gentler tone till one cours in what advertisements have 1) of late swiations and a complete berak is almua the most northerly point years 11 at the present
In spite of the huge total of the ustal English of bryland-- Bailyeastie, with its There are those who hold, perhaps road casualties in 1991, revealed Away from
mighly chasm and the massive rightly, that the weakness of the by Tour."
the the Home Secretary in Rather a big request, but I bes bausuktie pillars of Grey Man's Path, | Relish industry lies in its enorm House of Commons recently, stat- lieve the ideal touring ground for In the distance are the Giant's oes varicy of makes and in its ed the cutting, automobile organi- them, and for hundreds of ether Causeway and the headlands and ceaseless internal competition, but,sations assert, on the evidence of motorista. is Northern Ireland. mountains of Donegal.
whatever the facts of the case may their road patrols and other ob- Ulster's six countrieg embrace The Giant's Causeway is one of be commercially, there is no doubt servers, that there has been a gen- Three motor-tour essentials--gran- the most stupendous stone forma- that a far more interesting selec-uine improvement in the standard deur of seenery, magnificent roads. Itions in the world. How many tion of cars is to be had at home of driving since the new Road Act a delightful cople, aad, what is thousands of basaltic pillars
anywhere of than
else. Certain camp inte force, more delightful still, the traveller nine, eight. six and three sides foreign makes of historical fame, can drive on to the boat at Liver- (there are I know not, hut it is and one or two others which have pool, Heyalium, Glasgow or Stran: strikingly impressive. After the built up a deservedly high reputa- frame and land free from Customs | Causeway the motor-tourist cantion for themselves wherever fine
and travelling pass worries.
enjoy Portrush, a favourite Irish workmanship, outstanding perform-parent than real. Even gour driving licence holds seaside resort with wonderfulance, and long mechanical life are sands and a variety of one-day car esteemed. still hold their hardly- runs traversing old frish villages, won positions, but in none of the
goud.
sext
On one pecasion I went from Stranrear to Larne--the shortest passage carried out by the L. M. S. The fare for the car (over 25 ewt was a little more than E, and the time taken in erossing was 2 hr. 25 min.
Rope Bridge Thrill.
Countries where these are built is there anything like the extraordin- One ran
should certainly beary choice we have at home. made to Ballintory and to Carrick- a-Rede. This is a rock, separated While in Northern Ireland with from the mainland by a chasm 70 Miss England II,, I went over the or feet wide, through which the on the calmest route I am going to describe. sea rushes even Stranraer can be reached, aver day. The chasm is spanned by a fine roads, from anywhere in Eng-rope bridge, 80 feet above water level. Crossing this bridge is an land, and if you make the through the beautiful Galloway experience not to be missed and country in the late afternoon you the view is marvellous. will never forget it.
ter.
Lovely Antrim.
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Comparative Tests
It is contended that the increase in the number of injured--from 177.895 to 202,119 more ap-
Sir Herbert Samuel, in the louse of Commons on Feb. 4 last. pointed out that the police were able to obtain faller information through the institution of motor patrols and the requirements of the Road Traffic Act.
The Act makes it obligatory to
report to the police every accident in which injury to persons or ani- muls is caused.
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It is also argued that the de-
in the number killed erease compared with
1931-614-far outweights the greater number of non-fatal accidents- view which was supported recently by an official of the National Safety First Association:
controlled. The general lay-out is accessible.
The Best Points.
are very
of
Particulary is this the case with the type of car which is now pro- bably the most popular of all, the six-cylinder, which has a capacity of round about two litres, and a tax-rating of between £15 and £17. At the present moment there are no fewer than six British cars of this description, all
of them the pro- ducts of famous factories, ranging Go back to Larne by way of in price from £285 to £298, while Limavady, Londonderry, Oinagh, there are only three foreigners, Dungannon and Portadown. Most two of which have 21-.. engines, of the way lies through striking in this price class. In the smal Barne, the gateway to the won-scenery, rich woodlands, curious car category we are surpreme, of ders of the Antrim coast, is back architecture, and roads avenued course, and it is not until prices ed by a sickle-shaped promontory with vivid coloured flowers,
rise to well over £500 that our in- at the end of which stand the re- |
I have given as much as I can to dustry meets serious competition. mains of a thirteenth century cashow the lure of this land, and I e. For about 70 miles, to Port- strongly recommend it for a tour. rush, the motorist travels on
Both the A. A., which has an ex-
I have lately been requested to const, with, on the one side, pur-ceptionally fine road lack of fre-
On the road I gave highest marks plish, grey-blue highlanda, road-
land, and the R, A. C. would map try a number of these British loy- ways under cliffs, great boulders out the tour. Motoring costs are priced sixes, and as I complete the to the suspension, road-holding, heaped in quain confusion, and!
trius i propose to report ne rests steering (an immense improvement much the same as in England. The strange orderliness and on the hotels have greatly improved, and
in these articles. Each car will be on older models), brakes, and en- ail these other side, breakers and blue waif you have ever met a more charm-laken over the same course, so that gine-smoothness. In
ing, happier people than the people readers may have a fair opportunity respects this new Morris is a de- After a miles
of judging for themselves how they linghtful ear to drive. The four- I speak from, of Ulster, let me know.
compare with each other. The run wheel hydraulic brakes cele- comes Glenari, memory) brated for its magnificent park The latest street accident figures des about ten miles of London powerful, but have a really smooth and glon, and its Franciscan nu- -those for 1981-which are an-traffic; a stretch of road on which and progressive action. The side- It mastery remains. Still danked byalysed in a Parliamentary Paper any speeds up to sixty-five miles an brake was no more than adequate. Lowering heights and massive rocks issued by the Home Office, are not hour can be safely attained; one I liked the steering very much. with whitened cottages and farm pleasant reading for private mo-climb is an achievement; one short it was light and
long, trying rise, where a top-speed had no marked caster action, but decisive. The houses in the breaks," and head torists. In Great Britain during hill, culminating na grdient of springing and general balance lands stretching into the blue dis-the year 6,691 persons were killed in 7, which is taken a special the car at all speeds were very tance, travel to Carnlough (The and 202,119 injured. In 1930 the way: one hill with a gradient of good, and added considerably to Carn Lake), a quietly beautiful figures were 7,305 and 177,895 re-
1 in 5% and a two-mile stretch other factors in producing a strong stretch of water, with the country |spectively.
of excussively badly-made. road,mpression of "staunchness. The around abounding in massive
There was thus a decrease in splendour and great waterfallsdeaths when comparing the
Every portion of the run is per-engine is very well balanced, and I two
fectly normal, and representative was unable to discover more than a Beyond Carnlough the motorist
years but an increase in the mum of what a main road user is faced very slight degree of vibration. enlurs the glen and for which her of injured.
with at any time, Antrim is famous; a land of wood-
August was the worst month for
Hill-Cilmbing ed slopes: fuchsias growing in pro-accidents. Vehicles, to which fa- fusion, and fascinating gorgestal accidents were attributed, show The first car on my new list le I should not regard this comfort- faced with waterfalls, mighty and the following totals: Private cars the Morris-Oxford 16 h.p. Six, able family car as fast or notice- small; an area endless in subjects 1,813; motor vans, Corries, etc., This, in its pressed steel untoon ably powerful, nor do imagine 1,399; motor cycles, without pillion form, costs £205. The bodywork that its mukera intended it to be passengers, 980; motor-cycles, is unusually roomy, and there is either since they have in a very with pillion passengers, 461; mo- plenty of leg-room in front and be praise-worthy manner avoided the Red Bay, with its girdle of old (tor-buses and coaches, 736; motor-ind. It io neatly finished through-new fashionable horror of cramped 42 full-sized red-sandstone clifts, and Water- cycles, with sidecars, 184; electric out, the unholstery being of leather couchwork. This is foot, the entrance to Glenariff-trams and buses, 118; motor-cabs, and the
well upholstered. car. Maximum speed, with littlo the most charming of Antrim's 165; pedal-cycles,. 632; and horse Draught-shields are fitted outside or no wind alt, wais Afty-five eight glens is one of the show vehicles, 103.
each of the six windows, and al- miles an hour by speedometer. though I noticed a slight trace of The long hill to Burgh Heath
ΟΠ climbed mostly
third engine-amell after a spell of hill-
at a minimum of twenty-two climbing (with one window open),
Pebblecombe the ventilation was excellent. The miles an hour-and bodywork was remarkably quiet, (with the 5% gradient) brought practically no drumming being the speed down to fourteen on bot- noticable on any gear or at uAY tom gear, about fifty yards from speed. The car had duno about the top. The 1 in 7 hill produced 7,000 miles, I was told, and was a minimum of fourteen miles an therefore well run in.
hour on second gear, starting on op gear at twenty miles an hour. We were three in the car. The day was wet and the roads heavy.
The engine has a plonnant degree of flexibility, picks up smartly, and makes very little noise. My main
for the camera.
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Successful A.A. Appeal.
The Automobile Association haa Hyst successfully appealed to the Mich. Pourt on behalf of a men-
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place of Ulster, Here there is a The abolition of the speed limit 300ft. waterfall; the Lurigentham, is the only new road feature, It is Crackanugh and Trostan moun- curious fact that Britain, with tains dominate u land full of an- no regulations regarding braking Liquarian interests such as the efficiency, is almost top in the scale old fortress of the McDonnells and of vehicle accidents, while coun- the grave of Ossiun.
tries with regulations enforcing a braking limit are lowest.
In all this highway of delight
agree.
The Morris-Oxford Saloon
Beats
brought an action for compensa ferocious animals, and therefore The engine is a wall-planned job, tion, but the jury were unable to the owner of the dog was not embodying the now familiar Morrie In taking the matter to responsible unless the animal was features, such as the combined air- the Appeal Court, the A.A. asked actually known to have acquired heater and cleaner over the cyinter for Judgmtat to be untered for vicious habite of which the owner block. This also serves to collect the motorist, maluly On the was aware,
fumes from the crank-caso brea-
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grounds that there was no evid The decision in favour of the thor, Cooling is by pump, and the Impression of the new Morris-Ox- enco that the animal was danA.A, member virtually means that radiator has thermostatically-con- ford is that of an eminently com- gorous;
the motorists can koop dogs, not trolled shutters which, by the way, fortable, smooth-running, roomy, and consequently
dangerous maintained the heat-lavdi vory long-lived car, that has been design- motorist was entitled to leave the known to bn of a dog in the car.
naturo, In thoir cars without in Btoudily. "Ignition is by coll and led to give its owner the least pos Lord Justice Scrutton in giving cuering liability should the animal the carburettor is an 8.U." The alble amount of trouble in main- Anygma Want instructiono.
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