Students and Instructors of Driving Need This Book
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ALTHOUGH pleasure motoring in this country is a thing of the past, many thousands of men and women are being trained as drivers in the many Services. It is with the primary intention of helping these learners. to acquire proficiency in the' art of driving and their instructors in the task of imparting the knowledge required and of developing in their pupils the necessary skill, that " How To Drive a Motor Vehicle " has been produced.
It is a handbook dealing, from first principles, with the safe and efficient handling and understanding of all types of motor vehicle, excluding lighting vehicles and motorcycles. It is actually the 16th edition of its predecessor, the title having been modified to include heavy vehicles. Copies can he obtained from all principal booksellers and newsagents as from September 7, or from Temple Press Ltd., Bowling Green Lane, London, E.C.1. The price is 3s, 6d. or 3s. 9d. by post.
About 60 pages are devoted to the general subject of driving, and, as viewed from the car angle, this section may be regarded as an exhaustive handling el' a comprehensive matter. Drawings are freely used to explain the text or to impart the information desired in a graphic manner. There are actually well over 50 pictures in the complete _work.
For the whole. of this section, also for a glossary of motoring terms and an index, the staff of our associated journal " The Motor " is responsible. Its wide resources and extensive experience have been brought to bear on the work involved to excellent effect. Furthermore, certain of the ideas used to help in explaining some of the fundamentals display a degree of original thinking. As an example, a bicycle with remote steering control
may be nientioned as a means employed • for conveying to the non-motor-minded the principles of car steering.
Of chief interest, however, to those concerned with learning , and teaching
• how pr) drive heavy vehicles, is a chapter, running to 16 pages, entitled "Commercial Vehicles." It has been written by the Technical Editor of this paper, and deals, in the main, with all those matters—which are numerous— that concern th.e.heavy vehicle and are distinct from private cars.
The author of this section is in an almost unique position to write authoritatively and broadly on this subject, and he has considered, throughout, the inter-relation of driving and design with the underlying idea that if the pupil knows what the mechanism is for, how it works, and what it is doing, he will be able to ' exercise more intelligence in handling the vehicle and the dontrols and thus learn to drive more easily and become a better driver.