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MOTOR NOTES

CONTROL OF MOTORISTS.

LORD CECIL'S STERN, MEASURE.

The motorist had a bad time of it in the House of Lords recently. Boorishness, recklessness, and ignor-

noo were freely imputed to him, and his doings ware called a dis- and wings in aluminum. This has grace to civilisation and an outrage

on humanity.

proved one of the sensations of the Salon.

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Equivalent strictures were pro Isotta Fraschini has several out-

inconsiderate standing designs. One, a road-bably.."passed on ster-coupe, with right hand chariot drivers along the Appian" drive, was sold the first day of the Way. On the other hand, it is Salon to a Pittsburgh department

This notable that the Assehbly respon- store magnate for $18,500. Showing a wide variety of altra car is finished in majestic grey," sible for these latest censures itself luxurious automobiles, many

is of cylinders, 125 horse-power, uses motor-cars most to a man. them foreign made, the 24th an-

with a 146-inch wheelbase, the hody built in Milan, Italy. The grey nual Automobile Salon WAS held in the Hotel Commodore, body is set off by aluminiam ar- New York, last month, as a pre tillery wheels. It is a low rakish lude to showing the same group of machine, with a gently sloping cars in half a dozen of the prin rear, and giving the appearance of ciple cities of the United States.superb power. The engine hood is It is considered the most fashion4a long as the rest of the car and able automobile

in

show held

the inside is finished in esther.

Viscount Cecil's Road Vehicles Regulations Bill, the purpose of which is to diminish accidents, struck the Peers as a mixture of freakishness and sound sense.

Into the first category went the suggestions to fit every chassis with a mechanical check on running highway danger spots that would not only slacken trafic, but break its springs and axles.

America, and is devoted entirely The windshields are split, add, and to sink potholes neat

custoin-built bedies an made regulation chassis, costing from $5,000 to 890,000 and even

more.

the best justable, and give ample vixion. The rumble seat fits snugly into the curved back and compartments are provided for golf clubs and cocktail shakers. Most of the in- terior hardware is finished in gold and silver plating.".

Later in the season the regular Automobile shows devoted entire ly to factory made bodies and cars will be held for the particular. benefit of the more than 20,000,000 automobile users of the United States, thousands of whom will be purchasers,

The Automobile Salon," how - is held for the especial benefit of the relatively few purchasers of ultra-automobiles, although it is attended by thousands of users of cars in the $1,500 class who get laure from inspecting the cost

ly cars in the $13.000 range.

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Bat the provisions for examining into the skill and health of intend- ing drivers, for compulsory insur ance against third-party risks, and for frequently suspending the licences of the dangerous and in- competent, gained a good deal of

favour.

Another Isotta Fraschinin crea tion, the Derham-Floyd sport con vertible four-passenger, costs

This is a magnifi mere 16,800. cent automobile, finished in scarab yellow, the hood of hand-hammered aluminum, mud-guards of elkhornblue, is a magnificent automobile tan, without stripes. The body is combining both power and utmost hand-built throughout and presente comfort. n racy, luxurious appearance.

maroon This model is extremely low and long, the engine hood being 56

for inches long from bands to radiator

$6,600, A convertible coupe finish- tip. It is a peculiar design, in that its milders claim it is an opened in rosetan with wire wheels, a automobile which can be closed rather than a closed one which can

on the front dashboard and on the back of the front seats for valu- ables or liquids. It is the sort of automobile one would expect to see royalty use.

It sells for 87,035. The Victorian-Dietrich combina tion phaeton-touring-sedan for four passengers is finished in with red wheels and sells

Cadillac present an all-weather phacton in combination light and dark blue, upholstered in blue to match, with wire wheels and cost- ing 86,475.

The salon is held to be the criterion of the American autemio

neat and compact body, selling for 35.770, attracted wide attention. tive world, inasmuch as every im portant chassis development and he converted into an open one. It All of the Packard line are in eight- every new design and style ini apholstered lavishly, in colonial cylinders, with speed ranging up Packard coachwork during the comparative grain brown leather, the inside to 85 miles per hour.

also had several town cars and short history of the automobile hadware ly

finished in antique,

luxuriously It has sedans,

upholstered industry, have made their debut at hand-hammered silvers.

-annual-show

cigar lighter armrest, folding and finished in blue, tan and black

for five passengers." From these especially designed single windshield with a front seat and expensive types spring the adjustable four inches for driving body-building styles in the less comfort. Two cabinets are placed pensive standard-make cars, which are turned out by the hundreds of thousands in mass production. The bodies of the cheaper cars are, of course, copied to some extent; the cost of producing, one of the All of the Isotta Fraschinis are latest bodies for higher-priced cars capable of 100 miles an hour. They alone usually exceeds by two, or range in price from $18,500 to three times the cost of complete 815,000. The sedan and convertible standard-make artomobile.

i town cabriolet are the last word The outstanding characteristics in luxuriousness, the sedan finish of the latest in expensive coach- ed in dull grey-bine and upholster- work is to be found in the smart-

ed in blue-grey. leather to match. zess of the lines, the rich colour Nickel and silver are lavishly in schemes used in cars for formal evidence all over the body. purposes, of scintillating brilliance for sport usage, the interiors with Only Twenty-five Thousand Dollars, upholstering. linings, hardware. inlaid wood or road lace panel-

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Lincoln had a convertible coupe in black and orange with black

popular. upholstery, which WLS This car priced at $8,000, has a rumble seat and can make be, tween 75 and 80 miles an hour,

Pierce Arrow's semi-convertible coupe done in alpine green with wire wheels was one of the most popular modela. It sells at 87,100.

the

Rolls Royce had the usual lavish" display of expensive machine, and some of the body colour designe this year were outstanding at the show. The bodies on all Holls Royees are done by Brewster. The special sports speedster was most unique, finished in sea-for bine with room for Bix раз sengers provided by sin extra folding seat between and ba

front

can for

the rumble acat, which covered by the bood rainy weather. This car sella for $18,855. The brougham is another Enely appointed Rolls Rolls Royce, finished in black, with the back of the ear designed in basket-weave

tan and the car has auxiliary opera seats, inlaid redwood panels and wire wheels.

Gold ! Lancia-Castagan has a beautiful ling and general fittings artistical-convertible town brougham on dia- ly designed with seat springing play, but no price could be obtain

the ed on it, although it was one öf and tuffing arranged for

the finest appointed automobiles in maximum of comfort.

the entire Salon display. It will Changes In' Coachwork.

probably cost between $20,000 and Two outstanding changes are to $45,000. The machine has not the be found in the new coachwork racy appearance of some of the styles. The Srst is a general trend ether cars shown, but is outstand- toward the convertible type of ing in completeness. The body is body, the second, a successful effort of dull grey with wire wheels, and toward securing greater passenger grey plush upholstery. The two comfort. Designers of the new lock seats are individual for com colour effect. The upholstery in bodies explain that it was once fort. It has an exceptional low the practice to design a beautiful centre of gravity, although it body and then arrange the seating seems to be a somewhat heavy car. inside it. They may this has it is powered with an eight- A Holbrook enstom-built con- changed now; the seating is frst cylinder, valve-in-head motor, de vertible coupe on & Franklin arranged and the body designed veloping a high speed of about 80 chassis finished in cream colour around the seats. The result, miles an hour. It has a left-hand with pinseal leather upholstery was they say, is a much higher degree drive, electric signal device for extremely popular. Black lines of riding comfort.

low. fast, stop, turn around, running stream-like along the body

left, signals Other new features have been in-

"and car offset the cream colour and gave is corporated in the latest body de right,

ries six passengers comfortably. speedy appearance. It has wire signs for further passenger com Cabinets are provided for glasses,wheels, air-cooled motor and sells fort. They include narrow pillars mirrors, combs, brushes, perfumes for 85,795. and wide windows for increased vision; various ventilating de vices; adjustable and form fitting seats; art rests both stationary and folding in the rear seats, which are stuffed with sponge rub-less quietly toned in colour effects, Dr. Weiss, of Manchester Univer

although the interiors are up-sity; addressing pupils of

ber,

and powders. Metal parts are From New York the show will finished in silver,

go to Chicago, Los Angeles, and Renault and Minerva attracted San Francisco. unusual attention with their latest designs. The Renaults are more or

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All types of closed body designs holstered beautifully Minerva Strand Grammar School discounted are represented in the show-town was striking in colour creations the idea of memorising to the ex- cars landaulets, broughams, im- and the long, low, speedly designclusion of thinking. The univer perials, sport sedans, limousines, they present.. couper and cabriolets each dis- played in models ranging from conventional richness. to luxurious", splendour,

Some Sensations Of The Show, Many new novelties are display

com.

130 Miles An Hour. Stutz created a sensation with a new Blackhawk four-passenger roadster at $10,800, the most expen- sive of the line, and with a pact, light blue broughan with ed on the new machines, such as bright red wire wheels at 87,800, snake-skin upholstery, auxiliary The roadster is cream coloured, tonneau seats with adjustable high with black stream lines. It is long back, raised crest panels on doors

and round door knobs.

It would be impossible to describe even briefly all of the various acw body design on display at the Salon.

One of the outstanding ercations is an acro-phaeton, a four-passen ger affair, by Lebron on a Lincoln Chassis, done in aluminum and green costing $10,000 and capable of travelling 80 to 90 miles a hour. It is designed after an air plane, the back forming a rudder

sity, he said, did not welcome boys and girls who were stuffed with knowledge but did not think. There was evidence of thinking in scholars when they asked questions. They should be constantly asking the why and wherefore of things. Examina tions were bad if they only tried to find out how many facts the schola had learned; they were good if the? and low and looks the part claim- tried to get out of a scholar the ed for it-130 miles an hour guar-power of thinking. Dr. Weiss en- anteed. It has wind reflectors in couraged pupils to remain at school front and one for the rumble seat.in "the interim between matriculat Lebaron designed the body, but ing and entering the university, but there is not too much leg room in deprecated narrow, specialisation. the rear. However, it is low, and There was now the general opinion, speedy looking and has been a he said, that it would be better to favourite at the salon.

broaden the subjects and that it Packard has some notable crew- was essential that those who were Lions. The convertible sedan for going to take up scienes and chemis- five passengers, finished in Devon- try should study the German lan- shire cream, upholstered in green-guage, before they went to the

(Continued on nézt Column), university..

through the face of the most beauti-

300,000 Accidents Annually. To prove that motoring had betul country, and then," frowned credible seriousness," Lord Cecil Lord Buckmaster, "prevent others recalled that each year brought using them." 300,000 road accidents, that ten persons were killed a day in day. fight hours, and that every succeed- ing minute saw some mishap to per- son or property.

"So," he added grimly, "several accidents have already occurred during my speech."

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His phrase about cowering in ditches" invoked a swift picture of the roads which. he insisted are barred to many of the King's subjects. I heard, said, with that high-pitched break which comes in the voices of each of the three Cecily when indigna- tion visits them, "of a car that can go 190 miles an hour. It is an outrage.'

The former supreme bead of the Judiciary has had the misfortune to be fined £1 for an inadequate number plate. Lord Buckmaster contrasted his penalty with the £3 fine on a drunken man who drives down Edgware-road. The Peers shared his indignation. They felt it monstrous that

Railing down the Ratcliffe,

Highway,

Drunk, and raising Cain.

can be managed nowadays for only fa, if the ralling is done in a motor-

car,

Government Decision. Lord Banbury, with regretful memories of his coaching days, owned that he walked about London in hazard of his life-a hazard

With the authority of the A.A., the Society of Motor Manufacturers which one-way trafic had aggra- "and many other organisations bevated; and then the Marquess of hind him, Lord Denman, a Liberal. Londonderry summed up for the asked the Peers to reject the Bill. His remedy lay in stiffer penalties "For bad driving."

Incidentally, Lord Denman gave a free diploma to the London "bus driver as the best on the roads, and assessed the taximas as highly skil ful, but rather rash.

Lord Buckmaster, another Liberal, had quite a different tone: be it ready to fry the motorist in his own petrol.

The average car-owner's notion that pedestrians must scurry cus of his way" like black beetles, from a' broom the ex-Lord Chancellor denounced as a fantastic perversion They cut of Common Law rights. ugly black scars, called motor-roads,

Government.

He refused the Bill, not becan its ends do not command sympathy, but because its means are un suitable. The Government, however, are alive to the problem and giving it attentior,'

and he re minded the House that a Royal Commission is sitting, whose advice it will be best to wait for certainly nothing can be accomplished in this firal Session.

The Peers decided to allow Lord Cecil's Bill a second reading on the understanding that its drastic clauses are examined by the Royal Commission or a Select Committee. Safety First" is the motto of the Upper House.

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The Borrowing " Of Motor-Cars.

Once again the plea that a cor“ was only taken for a joy-ride " has been successful. Two young

A QUESTION OF ETIQUETTE chauffeure were acquitted at Liver

The car was

pool Assizes of stealing a motor- car, the jury delivering their ver "I find it a little hard," writes dict without leaving the box. The "Motorist to a London paper. two men in question took a doctor's "to master the etiquette of dipping car from a parking-place in Liver- headlights. I don't do much driv- pool, and were eventually discover ing at night; but when I do I'med six miles outside the town em- ready to dip to anybody without bracing two girls. anything in the auture of a formal near by. No doubt these two men introduction. Now, though most had no other wish than to impress drivers dip or dim in reply before the girls, but what was fun for they pass me, there are others; and then might conceivably have been if you dip without elisiting a reserious for the doctor's patients sponse you are in the very dance Joy-riders in other people's of a hole. The other man's head-property should receive a sharp re- lights nearly blind you, and if your minder, in the form of a fine, that own are turned down as the road they cannot make free tise you can't see half a dozen yards with what that does not be- Ahead.

lung to thern. The "joy- ride' defence should be discourag- ed because it can be so easily abus- ed by real thieves. Theft of motor the police cannot stop it cars is rapidly on the increase; and while

"In the gloom there may be a cyclist or a pedestrian, and the only thing to do is either to brake hard or to put your own light of again. I have found that some of the worst offenders are drivers of } judges, magistrates, and juries are cars with very light and powerful so ready to believe that cars are lamps; but perhaps their nas of taken in joke and not with

felonious intent. of ominion are more noticeable."

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