"Solid rubber is incapable of allaying vibration." So say the
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Michelin Tyre Co., after exhaustive experiments, and they recommend the Michelin twin-pneumatic tires for commercial vehicles. In a later issue, this problem will be examined at same length, and some tests will be reported. Meanwhile, it may be said that, in France, many business-vehicle owners are already convinced of their superiority, and a good start has been made in this country.
A friend of mine, who sells pleasure cars as well as motorvans, assures me that the occurrence related below is true in substance and in fact ; I give it because it strikes me as being interesting and out of the way. The wife of one of their pleasure-car customers recently expired, and her last dying wish was that their little 14 h.p. Blank car should follow her to the grave as it was the best friend she had had for years ; it must here sorrowfully be admitted that the husband, in addition to having alcoholic leanings, "hopped about a bit," as the phrase goes, with other ladies, and even when the funeral was due he did not allow it. to interrupt some high jinks which were in progress ; he gave most.precise instructions to the makers of the ear (who also garaged the same) to see that one of their men drove the wife's faithful friend in the cortege to the cemetery. This was accordingly carried out, and I understand that the hearse and the motorcar composed the cortege. which is sad enough. The point of the story, however, is that the husband now indignantly refuses to pay the bill for the man's time be cause, although attired in black', he wore a LI leCh. tie.
Matters are not standing still in the case of Halley's Industrial Motors, Ltd. 1. ran across Mr. George H. Halley, at the Motor Club the other day, looking very
spry. 14c had no desire to rush into print over the split with the B.U.R..T. Co., Ltd., but I gleaned that, since Easter, an application by the B.U.R.T. Co., Ltd., for an injunction to prevent Halley's from selling had been heard and refused. We had much talk about this, but it is not for publication. For years I have promised myself a day or two at Llandrindod Wells, but it, is such an out of the world spot that only an Easter or a summer holiday could encompass it, and so it happened that I was attracted there during the recent glorious Eastertide. What a picturesque spot it is, and, as the railway posters say about Skegness, "so bracing." One never seemed to tire, and one's appetite for food was positively devastating. The altitude of the town is high, some 700 ft. above the sea level, and the golf course is still another 300 ft.. higher. A slight accident to my hand drove me, for a couple of days, to an old recreation-cycling ; I had not been on a bicycle for seven or eight years, and I was enchanted to find that I could right away do between 40 and 50 miles a day, even on hilly, but lovely, roads, with absolute comfort and enjoyment. It was in the hiring of cycles I came across that personage who seems to be known by everybody, both in and out of this famous Welsh watering place, Mr. Torn Norton. What a marVellous business he has built up ; it is an education to walk round his palatine premises, the Palace of Sport as it is rightly called. Everything is here for the sportsmen, and particularly the motorist: he sells a large number of caxs and has two great garages with every modern convenience, and his famous Notron stoves and other specialities, through his extensive advertising, reach all corners of the globe.