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MOTORING NOTES

(CONTD.). TROPICAL TROUBLES.

WATCH YOUR TYRES.

and the slight rise of pressure caused by the heat of the sun's rays, even en a very hot days hardly likely to be sufficient to be noticeable even from the point of view of riding comfort. At the same time hot, dry weather is un doubtedly productive of more tyre trouble than is usually experienced, but the reason lies in its effect on the roada. Except in the case of ronds with a concrete or other During warm, guany "weather special surface, there is a tendency motorists whose tyres have become for the surface to become loose, and small pieces of road material are somewhat warn should watch those then more easily picked up by the accessories auxiously. treads of the tyres. In starring There is a general iden (ays. The operations frequently the gritting a sharp, thinty nature enlculated to Antarar) that tyres should not busterial thrown over the tar is of de considerable harm to prematie tyres, until it is crushed into faer form by the traffic it is meant to help. In order to avoid trouble therefore, the wise motorist will make a point of jacking up each wheel in turn and carefully examin- ing the tyres picking out all sharp stones and flints which em

necessary

left exposed to the sun when the ear is standing, beengse the rise in temperature entails a rise in pressure which thay result in a burst tyre, but actually there is no danger of this happening, since the rise in pressure is so wall as to bo negligible. The pressure re quired to burst & tyre is some high

of pounds er square inch,bedded therein.

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MUSSOLINI'S WONDER MOTOR ROADS.

ACROSS ITALY WITH NỘ SPEED LIMIT.

-200 MILES.

Italy's new motor roads are the eighth wonder of the world.

They are sacred to motoring. They have no cross-reads, no hills, and no pedestrians. There are no houses along thent, except the very few in which the keepers live.

of the first proots of his inspiring The new road will bring great trade to Venice," said, the manager genius. He urged on the engineers of one of the leading hotels of the to build motor roads joining up city of the Doges. **Mussolini Italy's most famous resorts: thinks far, and he thinks like a

Their building found work for Cassar." the unemployed. They would be of great strategic value in wartime. They are an urge to business in the days of peace.

Armed.

In Other Countries.

completed after thorough study had The pinn of the autostrada was

been made in America of the dif ferent types of surfacing material. These were used so cleverly that now schemes have been planned in The servants of the motor roads | Germany and France, where com were given an equal footing with mittees were formed to consult the the ordinary sworn police," which Italian experts, Spain. Portugal, means that they can carry revolvers and Egypt got into touch with and pistols, as well as rides; the Italy for the same reasons, while make loans to the builders; and requests for information. Only in savings banks were given power to the Argentine Republic soon ent

the Government's reward for find- England, apparently, are motor I motored from Come to Milaning an annual subsidy which, capi- roads thought unnecessary. the other day-twenty-two and a talied, means a third of the cost,

Italy's intensa -activity," says half milea--in just over nineteen is that in fifty years the Italian Piero Puricelli, the chief engineer, minutes, writes Hannen Swaffor. nation will own the roads from endis perhaps a little ahead of the

to end.

times, considering that in Italy Yes, you pay your thirty lires motoring has not yet properly de- and then the road is yours. Atveloped. We are concentrating on night it looks hideous, for, when our road-building efforts with a you travel at a lightning speed, eye to the future. The motor road your lamps light up only telegraph will soon take the place of the or- wires and the motoring advertise- dinary road for motor vehicles."

The greatness of our country." ments which line the route. In the daytime

is now Italy's dominating idea. pleasance green stretches out its leisurely flatness on either side, You are king, of the plains of Lombardy,

There is no speed limit. After paying about 6s. 8d. for the privi lege, you can drive as fast as you like along a road of which the motorist is the monarch of all he does not stop to survey.

Racing cars are charged three times as much.

If you open your exhaust you are liable to a fine of just over £. If you go into the centre of the road it may ecst you a £10 Ene.

1. Some years ago Italian roads

were said to be almost the worst in Europe. These new ronds are the best.

They already stretch from Lake Maggiore to Milan, with branches | to Varese and Como. In a week or two the road will be open from

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the ordinary road, the kerb would Whitened stones, placed where, in

be, warn and guide, even in fog. you can drive as fast as you like, purred on by the car in front, hastened forward by the car be hind.

When, after going at seventy-five Milan to Bergame. Then they will les an hour, you slow down to start the road to Venice.

sixty, you think you are loitering, it seems so slow. When you pass car going at fifty miles an hour, you leave it standing still.

36 Milas An Hour

This means that a motorist will be able to travel from Lake Mag- giore ly Venice, almost right across

SENDING THE NEW CAR BY RADIO.

PICTURE AND DESCRIPTION THROUGH SPACE.

The speed at which business can be transacted nowadays between the ends of the earth and, inciden- tally, the immense possibilities of the new Empire wireless co-opera- tion, have been "demonstrated afresh.

Pilaged Road Fund. England was to have roads like Italy, or about 200 miles, in three these, they tell, me; af Lord Mon hours, going, if he likes, at seventy tag of Beaulien's scheme had been five miles an hour. Other roads will soon run from Rome to Ostia carried out. He wanted a motor and from Naples to Salerno. road built from London to Brigh

The ather day I drove along the too, I um told," and one from Lon and West from New York as soon

don to Manchester. The sum of £50,000,000 was mentioned as the cost.

great autostrada, as they call it motor street, it means-touching, for a few minutes, eighty-one miles, an hour. On the previous nights while going at seventy-five miles an hour, we killed an owl which flew against the car's body, blinded by the light. Soon after we ran over a dog; fortunately it was already dead. Some other motorist bad not stopped to pick the body up. When we had done treaty moths were dead on the front of the car. Accidents are very rare, although the first night I drove along this road, with Mr. Clifford Whitley at the wheel, an American girl over turned her car and Fractured her arm in three places; her two brothers escaped injury by a miracle.

Mussolini WAY have many enemies. Although difer from him seriously in politics, T hasten to say that the autostrada is one

In order that their latest car mode! might be copied by their agents all over the world with the least delay, the General Motor Cor- porntion of Detroit, U.S.A., sent a radio-photograph of the car East as it was ready: At the same time a full technical description was Alas! the Ministry of Transport transmitted by wireless. has been crippled and the Road The radio-photograph was trans- Fund has been pillaged. New high-mitted to London and from there ways meant to link up England's duplicates were sent by aeroplane towns are uncompleted, and even to Antwerp, Paris, and Singapore, these, where they are finished, are Europe and Scandinavia.

as well as to agents in Central. subject, of course, to the ordinary ward the photograph went by radio laws of the land."

to Honolulu, and from there by boat to Australia, New Zealand and Japan.

West-

By this means over a week's time

Less than two

The autostrada has po dust. It has no mad. It has no level cross- gs. It has no police traps except for those who go too slow. Its few bends are widespreading curves. was saved in conveying the instruc- It imposes a rond discipline on its tions to Europe, and over a fort users. It excludes the passage of night as far as the Pacific countries all unauthorised persons and were concerned. vehicles. It has a smooth, homo- days after the first of the new geneous, and resistant surface, and models had been completed in De troit, similar models were being every now and then you come across motor outât stores, each of constructed at the Collindale depot. which has a first-aid station in case of General Motors. you break your neck or you want an aspirin.

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