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MOTORING SUPPLEMEN

MOTORISTS AND THE

POLICE.

Another campaign of

Persecution?

HOW, TO USE AN ELECTRIC. HORNA

"SAFETY FIRST

Also How Not To

Abuse: It

MOTOR SPEEDING.

Police Methods Criticised. ~The 'difficulties of the police în dealing with the overgrowing volume of "motor traffic Are A motorist writes in a Homa enormous, says a Home paper.

They are held responsible for Hullo Swhat's gone wrong with paper as follows:-During the past year or two the police have securing the safety of the public, your electric horn! A reason- shown & rather more tolerant and if tragedies occur through able experienced motorist made attitude towards motorists than breaches of the law by motorists that remark to me in the follow- there is at once an outcry: "Why ing circumstances, says a writer

prejudice that we believed to have died during the war.

than twelve miles an hour. It is

has been their wont in the past.

The natural result has been are not the police more active" in a Home paper. that motorists have been tulled This must be borne in mind when I was very slowly literal 4 into a false sense of security, they do things which seem to pm.h-rounding a corner across and bave quite wrongly conclud-motorists to be illogical and which an elderly lady was wheel- ed that the old days of police declares that motor vehicles over unknown reason she stopped in oppressive. There is a law which ing a perambulator. For some persocution and trapping had gone for good. Some, therefore, o tans in weight shall not travel the middle of the road, right in have been taking liberties and the roads. at a higher speed front of the car, Jenjoying a freedom with all the

I could have stopped dead in a zest with which most humans precisely like the law (which still yard, and she was some six yards enjoy a real novelty, only to bajexists) that no motor of any sort in front. So I gave the press)

shall exceed twenty miles an hour. batten & sharp and short "dab' pulled up with a rude shock.

These laws are dead letters, and it and the electric horn responded! In many parts of the country

is useless to try to revive them. the police are more active than

with a gentle and subdued INI. When the first Motor Car Act jever, and in these districts it

As the old lady "woke up" and was passed, there was a great moved on my friend made the generally turas out that the magisterial benches are actuated prejudice against meters. They abore-quoted remark. And it were new. People were not showed that he did not under- by just the same anti-motoring accustomed to them. They stand the correct use of an

frightened horses. They were electric horn. noisy, and on the roads of thatk In some respects, indeed, ther they raised an intolerable

When there is the slightest (dust. They were regarded by police actions of today are even horse-owners and pedestrians as doubt as to the volume of warning! more unreasonable than they

an unmitigated nuisance, and sound requisite to ensure safety, were in the "good old days when few people had any conception give plenty. When you are cer! everyone on mechanically of the developments that tain that a very slight sound is palled wheels sallied forth quite would follow their introduction. quite adequate, give minimum expecting to return with a sum The attitude of large part of compatible with the circumst Imons hanging over his head, and the public was that of the old-ances

congratulating himself as an extinse law which insisted that no Had I in the circumstance out-i

And some electric horns take ceptionally lucky individua! if he

self-propelled vehicle should lined above given a full blast twice the amount of “juice" from did not.

Only the other day the police four miles an hour, and that have been a "rad hos but appreciate that I connot give travel at a greater speed than with the horn I should not only your battery as others. You will were busy in the picturesque Sur- rey village of Shere, the whole of every such vehicle should be pre-should also have offended against Fou a list of names here!

But having got a good instru- the main street of which is cover-flag to warn all and sundry of its

ceeded. by a man carrying a red Safety First principles.

You must keep the full volume ment keep it in proper adjust- ed by a ten-mile limit. Hidden

of your electrie horn for the ment so that you get the best behind the projecting wall of a The speed limit was a com- occasions which it is really need-note with minimum consumption house, tw plain clothes men

And remember that signalled to a uniformed man far promise. Many people thought ed. And you must never allow of current.

it too high. Others, with a better yourself to fall into the bad rain driving down the mouthpiece ther down the road just under intimation of what was likely to habit of "driving on the horn of the horn is not likely to im

THE "GOOD OLD DAYS.”

JUDGING SPEED BY SOUND.

Japproach.

"VARY THE VOLUME.

2

Drivere safety signals sug- gested by the Cleveland straight out to signal stop: Safety Council. Top: arm

middle: arm out, circling for ward, to signal right turn: bottom: arm out, index finger pointing to signal left turn.

the rustic bridge, to be precise- whenever they imagined that the happen, prophesied that it would it is one of the worst features of prove its reliability, speed of a passing motorist was latter were right.

AN IMPORTANT DETAIL. soon, fall into disnetude. The mad-bogging.

Nobody now Un all occasions when you are

Then there is the push button more than 10 m.ph.

argues that a twenty mile limit certain that 3 very reduced quite a minor detail you think? is of any practical use. The old sound is adequate file, when you On the contrary, it is very im- Assuming that these two plain principle of road users, that no bave ample control of the situa-portant especially in regard to ite jclothes men could judge the speed person" shail use the roads to the sion even if the warning sound location.

of a passing vehicle at all accur danger of the public, is the right fails to achieve the desired end) You should always have it tely, the victim would have no

one. There are circumstances in you should only wake

handily placed-in the real room for complaint, for he would which twenty miles an hour, or roinimum of noise.

and most exacting meaning of know, or he ought to know, that even ten, is a criminal pace. But And my friend should have the word "handily. The was in a ten mile limit, and

over lonely roads suited for appreciated that I was so doing "You should not have to take if he exceeded it he would motor traffic-great stretches of in the situation referred to in your hand off the steering-wheel, ido so at his own risk, But the countryside, and especially stead of thinking that the born and move it down to say, the

is very easy to demonstrate that in this case, as in so many West-there is no denger in fifty

steering column, in order to work open reads on the moors of the had gone wrong.

the horn. That is all wrong. others that have come before the miles an hour. except to the

The push button should be su courts, the police really judge the occupants of the vehicles them to select a really good electric is normal driving position you It is however very important placed that when your hand is in speed of the vehicle by its sound.selves, who may be left to look horn. Never be tempted to save can operate the horn instageONS. By coasting silently one may en-after their own safety. ter such a trap" at any speed[

the odd shillings between an in-You must not require two-fifths up to about 30 m.ph. and nothing eases that have been exciting pu- !

If we apply that rule to the tument of known quality and of a second to get your hand from will be said. But drive into it on blic opinion in Cornwall, dur- The chief requirements are batton.

one of unknown reliability. the steering wheel to the push an indirect gear at about 15 ing the last few days we shall tone, penetrating capacity, and m.p.h., and you will be pulled up,

iser that the action

At 30 m. p. h. your car travels taken reliability. Simplicity of adjust-18ft. in two-fifths of a second. immediately!

I spent half an hour, one tine relation to it. They summoned and one which

by the police has only a remote meat is also an important point And in many emergencies you Sunday evening watching the

POINTS TO WATCH

working of the ten mile limi: the drivers of a number of charse stupidly overlook.

a-fanes which had fallen into a control at the entry into Guild" police trap" Abuse day was ford from the London side. Many selected, when there were large a cheap, rattling American crucentifies of heavy traffic on the' and many a poor motor-vvelist roads. A measured course wa was pulled up, while big silent taken and the times of departure Daimlers and Rolls-Royces swept and arrival of the vehicles were. through at twice the speed un telephoned from one end to the challenged.

other, unknown to the victims of

The motorist has no redress"p" The cars were found to when his case comes before have covered the distance at magisterial bench. Nothing that

he says will make much differ.peed- which varie i between six- ences as witness a recent day teen and twenty miles an hour. work at Horsham, when, irresteer more. Their drivers were all convicte«L It is pointed out by tive of the defence they put up. a large batch of motorists was fined the owners of the chare-a-banes on a scale according to the size of the authorities to limit their!

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The police reply is that therej has been a great deal of reckless driving: that these enorm us vehicles, travelling fast narrow roads, are a peril to the public and that the "trap" is) the only means by which the police can bring them to book.! Something is to be said for this! point of view. But in this in- stance the trap was not of the right sort. If the police had kept] watch on the cars on some not- ably dangerous point, through some towL or village, om over; ¡some difficult piece of road with many "blind" corners, they would have been perfectly justifi-¦ ed. But a trap ser between towns a considerable distance apart is no criterion of the ques- tion whether a car is drived to the danger of the public or not. A man may drive sixty miles in an hour and a half, and yet be most cautious at any point on the road where there is danger. A man may take three hours on the same journey and yet be guilty of reckless driving at danger points. The safest way for the protection of the public and the general con- venience is for the police to take action under the common law and ignore the regulations of the Motor Car Acts, which were made before modern conditions arose and contain much that would have been left out if they had been drawn up with greater }nowledge and experience.

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