PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXIX, Issue 230, 25 September 1908, Page 5

PREPARED FOR EMERGENCIES.

A DANGEROUS SPORT. HIGH SPEED MOTORING. j 'Received 5.20 a.m.) | I j LONDON", September 24. ■ Thirty-sis ears have started in a race for -4-h.p. 4-cyiiuder motor cars on the ■ Isie oi Man over a course 33S miles ] long. i There are no restrictions as to con.sumption of petrol, and the cars are being , run at their highest speed. I Ten ambulance stations have been esi tabluhed along the route, and many j medical men are or. duty. ' The race had not long started at the ■ time of cabling, but a'ready several accidents Lave ovcurred. The Isle of Man is ih' one spot where high speed road contests can be held in the British Lies, no speed limit law having heen passed there. The limit of the horsepower to 24 lessens the danger to the racers, the great speed of the unlimited contests, such as the Florio Cup, being unattainable, but with cars passing i each other, up hill and down, at a forty 1 mile clip, the danger of accident is quite j sufficient. There has been an outcry in j Britain recently against high speed | motoring as a result of many recent , fatalities both in Europe and America, i and it is sought to limit trials to tests ,of reliability under ordinary service con- ! ditions.