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DRIVE SAFELY.
The Simple Rules of
the Highway.
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USEFUL HINTS,
By-Israel Klein
No motorist is so good a 'driver that he
few doesn't need a polaters now and then on how to drive safely. Highways change. Rond surfaces are being built of different material, necessitating inoro careful driving. Cars them- selves are of different construc- tion every year, necessitating fa- miliarity with new mechanism.
All of these factors make it im- porntive that the motorist keep up to the times in his driving, Influence Several factors
the safety of drivers. In a recent ad- dress John A. C. Warner, secre- tary and general manager of the Society of Automotive Engineers,
Following reviewed them. polnis in his review:
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"When travelling a main high- way, do you make allowances for the negligent driver who shoots out of a side road unexpectedly?' Of course, the right-of-way is yours und you can prove it, but what good will that do if you die in an cident!
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"Are you a fair-weather driver
on wet and slippery pavements, or
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MAKING THE ROADS SAFER.
Lessons We Can Learn from Abroad.
night-should be fitted to every car, Thirdly, her more important roads should be divided up a section for horse-drawn traffe, another for pedestrians, and a third for motor
cars.
These suggestions are drastic, but the situation calls for a bold course. They could be supple- By Gordon Sheridan of the French motoring authorit-mented by more white lines, road ies is the "cassis." This is a dip surfaces on which a car is not so The Home Secretary has recent in the highway at each end of the liable to skid, and devices at cross- do you adapt your driving to ad-ly published the latest figures main village street. It is no ronds such as grass plots to slow
showing the number of persons sharp that any car that does not down traffic. verse conditions?
killed or injured on the roads of approach it slowly is damaged. I do not think a return to the Great Britain. They are enough Road signs worn motorists of the speed limit would be of the slightest to stir everyone-motorist or presence of a "casals." pedestrain-into some form action, so that this ghastly toll of the roads may be reduced.
of
set "When approaching a glaring headlights, do you forge #head near the middle of the highway at full speed while look ing at the lights, or do you drive moderately at the side, where you belong, with an eye for pedestrians at the edge of the road?
"Do you observe the simple rules of highway courtesy, or do you drive as if the roil were all yours?
"Do you keep your car in good with condition, or do you drive four wheels and no brakes?
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With roads bullt for high speed
and of good construction, and with
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as much as a small war. What la
use. It was always ignored, and
In front of level crossings and moreover a fast driver is not al- corners the French usually have ways a dangerous one,
army of
"donkey's back"-a steep arti- So much for the technical side-of- ficial hump in the road which the problem. There is a psychologi- necessitates slow driving for its cal one too. The vast
Britain's motorists are maligned proper negotiation.
for the idiocy and shortcomings of the bully and the fool.
and
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CAR PROGRESS.
Greater International Interchange of Ideas.
We do not bellove that this i terchange of Ideals will lead to the production of stereotyped chassis the world over, because the tastes
of different nationalities are suff ciently, diverse to ensure that a British car, for example, will re-
It is particularly interesting toj mala distinct in character from notice that many of the new models car produced in France, Germany
Nevertheless, show in their design the influence or America.
Every day, the figures inform us eighteen people Bre killed in motor accidenta. During the last six years 37,000 people have been
Italy and Germany are also fond killed and 998,000 people injured. And the figures are on the in- of the "cansis" and "donkey's crease. In 1926 the number of back" as speed deterrents. They By some queer whim of nature people killed on the roads was too, insist on a driving test, and certain ordinary, law-abiding, good of cars produced in other countries, world-wide sales are to be achieved, 4886. Last year 0891 people met impose speed limits in towns. A natured members of the community writes a correspondent to the certain degree of standardization The free wheel, foris inevitable, and the encouraging have undergo a revolutionary change "Motor." "Is your vehicle wel! shod, or their deaths in motoring accidents. German motorist has to
automatic signala attached to his when they sit at the wheel of a example, which was fouted in Eng-export figures recorded by the are your tyres overdue at the
This cannot go on. Motoring is car which indicate which direction car. They become selfish, short- land when advocated some four or British motor industry are scrap heap? Have you decided in
sighted, ill-mannered. Every motor-five years ago, has, in the mean-doubtedly due in aeme measure to advance what to do if a tyre blows costing the country in human life he is going to take.
is time, made great strides in the the fact that the cars now being and in pounds, shillings and pence
ing maneuvre they resort to out?"
The approaches to Italian right. Everyone else's is wrong. United States, and is now reap built in England accord more class- the solution to the problem?ages are purposely kept in bat They snarl when another motorist pearing on certain new British with the ideals of the overseas
rut passes them on a bend, yet they cara. Conversely, features in the buyers than was once the case. Obviously this is a time to pocket condition. Tot-holes our national pride and profit from soon slow a motorist down after laugh when they break a funda-development of which British de- the examples and experience of he has been cruising in a smooth mental canon of the road by passing signers haxe excelled auch
special gearboxes and small, high- our Continental neighbours, whose main road. The Italian police a car on the crest of a hill.
ethelency engines-have undoubted- figures of rond deaths and have authority to stop an érring
ly been influencing designers in accidents ure nothing like so motorist and fine him on the spot. The Reckless Minority
The automobile is the heaviest Fortunately, there are not many America and on the Continent.
X-braced heavy, as ours.
Again, Holland van toach us quite a
chassis taxed non-luxury article in the accidents are due to mechanical I have driven in almost every lot in the matter of road safety of this type of motorist, but every frame, developed on the Continent country, the Automobile Club of failure of automobiles, experts
many years ago, has quite sudden-Southern California reparta. Six- say. That leaves the remainder country in Europe, and have been All her highways are skirted by rond user knows they exist
levied on it is the United States. éhalked up against the drivors. Impressed by one outstanding footpaths and by special tracks for Imperii human life. Severe finely "taken on" both in America and teen different forms of taxes are
ench form of and terms of imprisonment will
in Great Britain. The solution seems to be more difference between the foreigner's cyclists. Thus
road and traffic system and ours. traffic has its particular part of weed them out. The European motorist is con- the road. Reflecting mirrors and trolled and restricted when he is direction indicators on the move, whilst here the pulsory, motorist only seems to be under control when he is standing atill or "crawling."
automobiles built for durability and anfety, the responsibility for accidents is entirely that of the driver, Warner contends.
Only two per cent. of highway
alertness at the wheel.
The fellow who gives no thought to the condition of his tyres is bound to run into a blowout samo day that will throw him none too gently into ditch and rudely in- terrupt his dreaming at the wheel. The driver who neglects to lubricate his car regularly will some day wake up in a hospital to find an axle had broken or the steering gear had cracked up
[hour.
are com.
and
Then there is the fool. You must have met him-usually young and dashing, crazed by the love of Hungary has similar road legisin-speed and desire to show off. Often tion. Her roads are constructed he can driye brilliantly. His hand- with special surfaces, the centre being of his gearbox is perfect. But, A motor car that is stationary is Ing for motor traffic, and the soft las! be has no restraint or com- considered "over,there" to be track at the sides for horse-drawn
it be- vehícles. harmless enough. Once
gins to move it is subject
to the keenest control and Mind and Mud! rogulation. Not 80 Britain.
while he was doing 60 miles an You know as well as I that you are Denmark, unlike most European much more likely to be "pinched" countries, still imposes a speed "An ounce of prevention is for parking your car on forbid limit and forbids overtaking
den ground than you are when cross-roads and bends. Sweden la
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monsense.
If anyone passes him his dignity is outraged, his honour at stake. He must overtake the offender even
If it means swerving round that corner at fifty miles an hour, even
if it means crumpled wreckage and accidente (although he never thinks
worth a pound of cure," tis said, roaring down the straight at fifty-surely the most solleltous about the of this), as uually it does. Again
out in the ease of automobile care. through a town at thirty-five.
Have the old bus inspected re- gularly. It may save a few broken bones and wecks in a hospital.
MUST CARRY FLARES.
Truck operators In, Indians now are required to carry red flares to sat up on the bighway in cade of
Safety Devices
warns motorists to reduce speed in order to avoid bespattering pede- strains with mud.
Such are the methods of a few
to punishment of the utmost severity.
I am convinced that the majority of road users are good, safe drivers, who tako overy precaution to avold endangering human life.
Take France. Every driver has to pass a test before he can Continental countries. What can Take away the bully and the fool, obtain a permit to take out a car. we learn from them? It is obvious adopt the more enlightened Con- In, Britain you can buy your that some of their road legislation tinental safety devices, and the toll but of Britain's roads will be marvelled licence before you even touch the would do Impracticable here, wheel of a cart You are legally many of their safety devices are at for its negligibility, not shunned
for its gravity. entitled to drive before you know sound.
the clutch from the foot brakel. First the system of enforcing a The French driver has to sound driving test before a motorist is
A Sunday paper sald recently. his horn at every cross-roads, and allowed to take out his car might turn, and he has not, to overlake well be adopted Secondly, Britain that the dying squad will shortly to warn motorists appoarching in certain circumstances. One of might well insist that mechanical possess fast cars with steel bodles the stalled vehicles in the dark.. the most important safety devices direction Indicators Illuminated at capable of ramming any vehicle.
stalling at night. These will serve
the
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AND MORE TO COME!
LONDON'S MODERN FLYING SQUAD.
The London Flying Squad is famous throughout and in addition to the fleet of cute capabis 81 extr speeds, a number of B.9.A. motor-cycle comble recently baon commissioned, equipped with W117888
as seen in the above picture,