Out and Home, Headlights and Golf.
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My Non-skid. By " The Extractor."
Speaking of electricity, I saw the C.A.V. motor headlights put to a curious use the other evening. It was well reported in the daily papers that a golf match was played by some noted professionals and amateurs late one night recently, each player being assisted by one electric motor headlight. I hap pened to be playing there on the afternoon of that Saturday so I stayed on to see this novel experiment, and it was interesting to see how this standard headlight could follow the flight of the ball. A caddie carrying the light stood loshind the player and a 200-yard drive could be followed to the finish. Only one ball was lost, that being driven out of bounds into the wood. It was astonishing, too, that the play was quite good, about one stroke over bogey.
Here have I laboured all these years to give a high-minded, serious tone to these stray notes and apparently all in vain, because now that a farcical idea strikes one of our bright young artists, this, forsooth, is considered the most suitable page on which to plant -it. True we have the Easter holiday just past, when T suppose -families have to take the domestic pets with them, and, as we are interested in taxicabs with the "extras "pertaining to them, it is, in a way, a suit_ able picture. But I hereby give notice, by these presents, to those whom it may concern, that this is not a facet page. The explanation of the editorial staff that it will "brighten up" my musings is, to my mind, insufficient ; it is easy for me to retort that I could quickly point out pages where the gloom is positively abysmal, and where surely something so electric as this would have a beneficial and most lustrous effect. But enough.
That enterprising person, Mr. A. Hoffmann, of the Ivel Agricultural Motors, has sent to me an interesting photograph of a Russian newspaper, with all its native eccentricity of lettering. The only portion of the advertisement likely to be understood by the Britisher is the illustration showing the Ivel motor ploughing. Otherwise I would make a proposition that we should reproduce it in our advertising columns occupying even more space. We have, on at least one occasion, issued a Russian supplement ourselves, when many British advertisements were given in the weird Russian character. When the time comes round for another similar incursion into Slavonic territory, our advertisement department shall bear in mind that the Ivel people will like to occupy what. is known as the " front cover space," as they appear to have done in the journal under notice, the name of which completely baffles me.
How to get out of a precise difficulty is a welcome item and one likely to be stored in one's brainbox. During this wet season one cannot always help, when driving in the country, getting into the soft mud. I was in some narrow lanes at the week-end. I had proceeded a mile in the hope of finding a proper space and at last, after a glance at a tiny bit of road approaching, I decided to chance it. My hind wheels were soon sunk deeply into mud, revolving with nothing doing. I could find nothing suitable near, then it occurred to me that the stiff brown-paper
wrapping of a parcel in the boot of the car might do the trick, and eventually I got out with the aid of this. I can learn of no one who has utilized these humble means, so it occurs to me to be worth mentioning. .
In conversation with Mr. J. Yarwood the other day, I gathered that his people at Olten, Switzerland, are concerned, for the moment, in preparing some vehicles for a great exhibition to be opened in May at Berne. This is to be a summer show composed entirely of articles of Swiss manufacture, and, as the denizens of that lovely country are most clever mechanicians, it should prove a most interesting exhibition. The Original Berna, which took its name from the town of Berne, will be well represented.