ONE omission from the new draft Highway Code, which has
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been published in connection with the Road B18 Traffic Act, 1930, is to point out the object of signals. Motorists who have been in the habit of giving signals fOr some years do not realize, in many cases, that they are intended to indicate a driver's intentions and are not given as orders to other drivers or road users. This point
should have received prominent attention when the recommendation was made that pedestrians should give signals.
The present position is that drivers' signals signify intentions, whereas policemen's signals amount to orders. If the pedestrian attaches to his signals the importance of orders, it would seem that there are I engine has became transformed unpleasant possibilities
and New Year festivities, of accidents, INTERESTING suggestions have been made recently regarding the depreciation to be charged against commercial vehicles: One of them is that it should be heavier during the early years, because the newer the vehicle the more money it is likely to earn ; apart from this, running and maintenance costs are not so great. Actually, of course, depreciation is charged on a descending scale when it is done at a percentage on the reduced value each year.
IT is almost cheaper to take a taxi in Germany at the present moment than to travel in one's own car, for the various taxicab companies are competing energetically for popular favour. Among the 9,000 Berlin taxis, the Kraftag, one of the biggest concerns, returns coupons enabling travellers to draw a discount of 5 per cent. Another concern, the Berlinia, followed suit by fitting up its meters so as to give back to the passengers automatically 10 per cent. of their fares. Some taxicab companies even give discounts of 30 per cent. Aa these price reductions are printed on little coloured flags flown from the radiator caps, the cabs lend quite a festive air to the capital, whilst at the same time delighting those who in the past weeks have been busy buying Christmas presents and New Year gifts. Possibly the latest and most ingenious development of this bonus system was the action of a Berlin taxi driver who gave each of his fares a fresh egg.
THE gentleman who looks after the advertising side of this journal has had many cards of Christmas Greeting, which have cheered his heart, inchiding a very characteristic one from Mr. Edgar Stafford, of Willys Overland Crossley, Ltd. In addition to a photograph of himself, looking his beautifullest, and some good wishes, Mr. Stafford has " dropt into poetry" "The Motorist's Prayer.
"Lord, give me grace to make a trip So fast that even I, When talking of it to my friends, ' May never tell a lie."