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A Reader Gives PubA READER from Exeter licit), to Unjust Law 1-1. draws attention to a news Administration . Paper report of a recent acci dent case in which a police constable, giving evidence, said that he had tested the brakes of one of the vehicles involved and had found them satisfa`ctory, stopping it from 25 m.p.h. in 11 ft. As a result our reader wrote to the paper, pointing out that the figures quoted represented a brake efficiency of 189 per cent., which was absurd and proved the test to be grossly inaccurate. We commend his action. If more users of motor vehicles did likewise, there might be less injustice in administering the law. We have many times urged the need for a proper braking standard and for confining tests to qualified examiners.
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Drivers Asked to A PLEA for consideration for
Give Consideration 'horse s and their riders has to _Horses . . . been put forward by Brigadier General T. H. S. Marchant, secretary of the Institute of the Horse and Pony Club. He "points out that a horseman has not the same control over his animal as has a motorist over his vehicle, and it is often difficult to prevent a horse from swinging its quarters from the direction in which it is facing, whilst it dare not turn or move quickly on some roads for fear of slipping. He, therefore, asks all motor drivers to slow down when approaching horses and to give them as much room as possible, to avoid passing close to their heels, to reduce the engine noise so far as practicable, and to refrain from using a warning device.
Leeds Corporation to THAT the people in Leeds Provide Two New A like tramcars was the Tram Services . . . opinion of Mr. W. Vane
Morland, general manager of Leeds Corporation transport department. The transport committee is seeking powers to construct two new light railways to serve estates at Seacroft and Belle Isle. It should find little difficulty in acquiring rolling stock.
THE suffrage movement was sufficient to show that women possess a fighting spirit of no mean order, and it is a matter for some speculation as to whether their efforts on behalf of the road-transport industry also might not prove of very great assistance. After all, it is the womenfolk who have to suffer if the breadwinner cannot find employment, loses his job or has to pay fines for offences which, in many cases, are purely
Increase in Road Transport Interest Shown by Women . of a technical nature. A.R.O. has already shown encouragement in this direction with a suggestion of membership for women, and now we find that talks, sponsored by the B.R.F., are being given under the auspices of purely feminine organizations. There is no doubt that sponsors of meetings would have far less of which to complain were it possible to get the wives of members in some way interested.
Moscow to introduce THE transport department of Some Freight-carrying I the Moscow Soviet has de
Trol ley buses . . signed two new types of freight trolleybus, one closed, the other open. The chassis are the same as for passenger vehicles, the only differences lying in the bodies. One type will have a platform for the motor, with two or three other platform cars coupled to it. The other will have a roomy closed body with wide doors. They will be made by the Yaroslavl Automobile Works. This development is of great interest.