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[By Israel Klein.]

MORE VICTIMS THAN THE WAR.

Toll of the Car in the United States.

137,000 DEATHS IN

EIGHT YEARS. Enough...men. women, and children to populate a city the size of Nashville, Tennessee, have been

SATURDAY,

NOVEMBER 5, 9:1927.

July 16, according to Department CONCRETE ROADS.

Reduce Petrol Bill.

One year of highway paving in

of Commerce figures, show a 7, per cent, increase over last year.

The trouble," explains the Colombus Dispatch, "is that as those fatalities have increased we have unconsciously allowed our North Carolina, over 1922-1923, selves to become calloused to them. When any considerable proportion reduced the average gasoline con of the people become startled by sumption of automobiles on the these figures, a decided improve-paved roads from 521 to 454 gallons ment will at once sot in." In New per car per year.

This is reported by B. C. Frost, York City, for example, automa- biles killed 514 persons in the first state highway engineer, months of this your.

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Five years ago, the all-steel body More Important is the additional was such a novelty that only one ares of vision the narrow corner ear in every twelve on the roads posts afford. That they are sa harrow, despite their job of hold was equipped with it.

Ing up the front doers and the By the end of this year, we are roof, is all the more remarkable. I killed by automobiles in the United automobiles has come to be pri-14ge of 2.4 cents a mile for a dealer!

promised, every other automobile will have discarded wood in body construction. except as floor boards and seal frames.

The all-wood body, today, of course, is an antique except in the case of the flexible fabric body that is being tried out on many cars in Europe and on one or two in this country. Most bodies are either all steel or consist of wood frame construction with a layer of sheet steel or aluminum.

Thus the steel body is brought before us in the automotive field, just as steel has won its place in railroad ear and in other fields of construction. That it has reached this height by sheer superiority over wood from all angles, is the contention of L. E. Ruehlmann, engineer of the Edward G. Budd The strength of the composite Manufacturing Company, which body of panel steel and wood started the practice of steel body" frame, however, still lies in the wood, the steel covering offering building back in 1914.

Steel Used for Finish..

A. J. Eddy, another engineer of The New York Evening World, Berkeley, Calif., also reports that in fact, is convinced that "killing by concrete highways saved an aver- vileged." Accordingly

to

this

If in the last six months 514

who rented out his automobiles.

Furthermore, we read in the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. "these grue- some figures should impress the in- dividual driver with hla. respon- sibility at the wheel."

States during the last eight years

states the New York Literary paper- Digest), or, as the National Automobile Chamber of Commercs people had been murdered in this is paid to the 157,000 who have been puts it, more than the total death city. it would be concerted that killed by automobiles since the be lists in the American forces during society was in a state of collapse. ginning of 1919. "This is a sad If 514 people had been killed by commentary on our state of civilisa- the world war.

Specifically, 187,017 persons were subways, the entire country would tion," declares the Pittsburg paper. killed in the United States by be shocked at the record. If u "automobiles between January 1, many as 614 people had been killed 1919, and January 1, 1927, while by falling brick or timber where the total deaths in the American construction is in progress, special armed forces amounted to 120,060, legislation would be passed at once

The moral to be drawn from the In those eight years some 8,500,000 to meet the grave peril. But ajnce persons have been injured in the 614 people killed in New York total number of deaths "ie clear automobile accidents, and 26 por City during the last six months enough" to the Manchester Union cent. of the killed and injured were were killed by automobiles, we take This, we are told, is "the need of children under the age of 16 years, it lightly as something to be ex-care, and still more care, on the "part of the public." The chief pre- Last year it was estimated that ported."

The whole world was aroused caution, thinks the Washington 23,000 persons were killed by automobiles, an increase of pver our participation in the war Post, should be to keep automobiles thousand oyer the previous year, and our losses from accidents, In good condition- brakes, horn, Fatal accidents in 77 of the largest buttle, and disease, remarks the lights, steering mechanism, cities during the four weeks ending Pittsburgh Post, yet little attention rear vision mirror.

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These photographs, taken from exactly the same point, compare the safety, factor of the steel and wood bodies. Notice the wider range of vision froth the steel interior at at right, due to the narrower corner post.

Members of the Society of only a basis for a more attractive Automotive Engineer's heard and smoother inish than the wood fuchtmann declare that the steel body was able to afford. body is stronger, lighter, quieter

and safer than that built around

The all-steel body has the same

wooden frame, and they watch appearance as the composite body et him prove the difference by and yet offers additional strength hanging equal weights from a block and safety, in fact, the thinner of wood and from a strip of steel posts enable the body builder to

Lu show how much more the wood design a car that looks sleeker and lower than the cars of steel sagged under the same strain.

land,,wood construction.

Thinner Posts Possible.

broad Today, in place of the

In addition to this there is the wooden posts at windshield and doors, there are thin, hollow steel advantage of greater roominess in frame members that are just as an all-steel body, Ruehlmann points The smaller sectional area of sturdy, if not more so, than the out. wood and that afford a neater and the steel body leaves that much

room for the occupants. more snappy appearance.

MOTORING IN FRANCE.

sibility till you find your hand on the steering wheel and your foot on the self-starter,for your tour in France. One shipping regulation is, that no car shall contain petrol. Your remaining petrol is drawn off shoved by strong arms on to an iron "If you think of taking your bed or platform; it is roped firmly motor to France, don't! In trouble to it, lifted by a powerful crane, and expense it will coat. you more and all, swung on to the boat, than if you were to buy one second-wung off on the other side, supplied with petrol, and the car, now an hand in France, and sell it again automobile, is ready for the tour. before coming home." Such was Right hand driving of course! the verdict pronounced to me and For the first ten or twenty miles others with emphasis and apparent-you move very cautiously, obsessed ly with authority says a correspon with anxiety lest you may by force dent in The Scolaman.

of habit or forgetfulness, slip to "Keep My experience after a fortnight's the wrong side of the road. motoring in France proves, I think, to the right" rings like a warning You soon find, that such an opinion is entirely mis-bell in your car: taken: Nobody can tell, of course, however, that your anxiety is super- what may happen in motoring, for fluous, whether it be that driving the motorist may be the victim of on the right side is more natural the mistakes of others as well as than on the left, I cannot say, but his own.

"Always drive," Lord the experience of most motorists Kingsburgh used to say, "as if there who go to France is that the change were a foot round the corner:" but is surprisingly easy and effortless, for the competent, careful motorist, less difficult, indeed, than returning nothing is simpler or easier than to left hand driving at home. Of thu taking of his car across the my present tour in France only English Channel. For inexperience half finished--starting from Caen, ke mine there were, of course, passing through Deauville, Trou-. difficulties. For the surmounting ville, Lisieux, Evreux, Dreux, on of these difficulties I am absolutely to the precincts of Paris anti. and gratefully indebted to the through its lovely suburbs, of my Automobik Association. The celer visit to Barbizon, and the little ity, punctuality, and completeness of hotel in which R. L. S. wrote his their arrangements could not be Forest. Nutes, and met his future Burpassed. For these arrange- wife for the first time, of the old ments, however the obtaining of gardener Jules Filliou, now 87, the necessary papers, passport, car and what he had to say of his two net, membership of the French great masters Rousseau and Millet, Touring Club, driving test, &ca of the delightful run south by Sens, fortnight's notice at least in es- Chalon-sur-Loire, Lyon, on to Aix- les-Bains--that I must keep for on- sential.

other day.

Some Practical Advice. by the agent of the A.A., the car is

The total expense, moreover, of return tickets for self and motor, curnet &c., le only about £15. deposit of £50 must be made with

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French Roads. Knowing, however, as I do, that island home the A. A. against the Customs of many motorists who know their

France; a suin that would be for-look feited if the car were disposed of

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perfectly and to for дет realms

because

advorse Channel

of in France, but is returned with the conquer hesitate to cross the opinion, I feel sure that some notes of present conditions will be useful. Transporting the Car..

Roads in France vary remarkably, With these hurdles surmounted, almost incredibly, in quality-from You the very best-as good as anything. the path is simplicity itself. run your car to Dover or Newhaven found in Midlothian-to the very or Southampton to the office of the worst. The remarkable thing is A.A., and there you are finished that best und worat may be found. with it and free from all respon- on the same clans of road.

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