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The Motor Coach Invasion.

SATURDAY, JUNE 16, 1928.

NOISY MOTOR-

DRIVERS

Abuse of Electric Horns.

By the Hon. Maynard Greville.]

Honeysuckle, hedge-roses, spread- ing ancestral oaks, trilling larks over lush-green meadows the ple- There is no more controversial ture of the typical English coun-topic amongst motorists, than that tryside has been the same for of the frequency with which the many hundred years. Hut now horn should be sounded. One Rural England is passing as quick-school believes in keeping up a ly as is Japanese Japan, and the continual strident hooting, walle fairer the view the larger the another would treat this most number of petrol pumps and bue.necessary warning signal with the gled bungalows, the greater the utmost respect and as if every stream of motor traffic, says time the button was pressed it was Home writer.

going to cost the driver a small fortune.

The

white and wandering

There is a happy medium in all English lane has been straighten things, but it is probably better to ed. And widened. It has been err on the side of excessive noise coated with funereal black tar, and rather than to court disaster by its corners have been made: ex-giving Insufficient warning at tremely safe and remarkably ugly dangerous points. At the same It is dotted with small; swift, evile uime excessive horn blowing ca smelling cars, Interspersed with be very irritating, and I think the huge charabance and motor"

real solution is to have two horns coaches. It is not much more on the car. There is far too much countrified than is an underground

use at the prevent time of noisy electrical holat all times of the Take, for instance, the Isle of day and night, when a warning Wight, in pre-war days a Heaven signal, giving a far smaller of country aights and scents and volume of sound, is really all that sounde. To-day it is given over is required. entirely to motor coaching Our I think that the ideal arrange- lands on sanda, blackened by re-ment consists of a large bulb horn Zuna

fuel-ell › from passing with a low tone for use in London steamers to and the old and nar- or other towns, and a really power- raw town streets filled with fleets ful electric horn for the open of monster palpitating vehicles, country, passing lorries, and for surrounded by cloude of touta. I sudden emergencies. It is really Along the now black and shiny quite unnecessary to keep sound- Leland thoroughfares one hears ating a tremendously powerful horn regular two-migub Intervals the at full blast in the London streets, thunder of pursuing charabanes, especially late at night and in the and climbs into the thorny hedges residential quarters. One has for astety. The peaceful, flowery, only to stand in, say, Harley- qualled Island of other days had street or Wimpole-street, late at vanished. It is now merely a night, to find how tremendous and Charabanc Round

quite unnecessary is the din that Both can be made by one car. these streets are very dangerous, with their numerous cross-roads, but the volume of traffic is com- paratively small, and a quite gentle hoot on a bulb horn can be distinctly heard for a sufficient distanco for safety.

A Life-Saver.

The plague commenced with the Introduction of a floot of "Star" charabanes some nine years ago. So profitable was the undertaking, so easy the method of drawing cash in bulk from the visitor, that, to-day, though the original ageless Stars still plough their way around the Island, they now; operate in the midst of a crowd of other motor-coaches. The blast of

Some people would like to see petrol has struck and destroyed..the electric horn abolishúð, but aa; Save for the remoter districts of a matter of fact it is a most neces Scotland and Ireland, the same aary instrument when properly fall work of beauty-destruction used, and has saved many lives. has been carried out throughout The great advantage that it has the whole of the British fales. It over every other type of horn is It can be would, indeed, be a hardy poet who its Instant action, would to-day sing of the aspect of brought into use far more quickly. the British countryside without than any bulb horn, and it is this mentioning the charabane and quality which makes it invaluable ram-shackle bungalow. His word in an emergency. picture would hardly be re- cognisable.

LONDON TRAFFIC,

Quarter of Population

in Greater London.

Ten years ago, the Metropolitan Area of London actually contained a much larger residential popula- tion than is the case to-day. But, at the same time, one la faced by the contradictory fact that Greater London, with its miles and miles of unbroken suburbs, has of late grown so huge that it now actually containa one-quarter of the whole population of the British Isles.

Cheap and speedy transport to

responsible for both of these new conditions. The Londoner of to- day lives in the healthier air of the suburbs, and not in the contral areas, simply because he can now reach his business quarters in the centre of the City conveniently by means of the modern network of tubes, railways, 'buses and trams. Easy transport has permitted him to do so.

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Many cars, however, put their horn buttons in the most extra- ordinary positions from the-point of view of accessibility. In some eases they are on the facia board,

necessitating a dive right under

the wheel before they can be used,

I think that the ideal method of

horn operation is through a ring

on the steering wheel, but buttons can be made to do quite well if they are placed far apart on the A central spokes of the wheel. button on the steering column is also good, but it has the disadvan- tage that the hard has to be taken off the rim of the wheel to sound I like to be able to the horn. pross the button without moving my hand from the rim of the wheel, and to be able to sound a warning while turning a corner

and changing gear at the same

time.

Selfishness.

Another form of horn-blowing fiend is the sort of person who declines to use door-bells, and sits in his car outside a house letting. everybody in the street know that he is there. Half the noisy horn- blowing in London is pure selfish- ness, but, of course; not to blow And, this Londoner has come to one's horn at all Is equally foolish. London from the provinces be- I think the best principle to work cause modern transport facilities on is to sound the horn if you feel have almost automatically and un- uneasy and uncomfortable by not knowingly concentrated in London doing so, but it is only necessary the greater portion of the indus- to use the loudest horns in the trial life of the country, not only open country or under exceptional from the trading and marketing circumstances.. point of view but also from that of manufacturing. Sites for facto a person who drives a lot of tories in Greater London are now different types of cars is the actually at a premium, despite all greater safety of the noisier stories of poor trade. The ro- vehicles. Driving a quiet car one vincial manufacturer is coming is apt to forget that other people cannot hear you, and allowance in,

must be made for this; and, the Modern motor road transport horn used more frequently. has speeded up this London con- for instance, our London 'buses. centration to an extraordinary de were absolutely silent. and all grde. Great retail and wholesale traffic noise was: suppressed, I am traders such as Selfridge's and quite certain that the number of Schoolbred's now distributo and accidents would increase collect goods daily, over areas con filously.

taining thousands of road-milies;

firm using eighty

Another thing that is noticeable

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