To Stop Motor Cars.
The secretary of the Automobile Club has an interesting exhibit at the club's rooms (says the "Sydney Daily Telegraph.") It consists of a board, studded with nails, which was placed on the Western road, two miles on the other side of Parramatta. It reached across the road, from one side to the other, and was carefully packed with sand to kee. it in position. A car could not nuss it. It was •'found" by an unsuspecting motorist, a member of the Automobile Club, who baa handed it over to that body, and it is probable that it will be forwarded on to the pnlice. Whoever laid the trap —which might have maimed a horse or other animal—will, perhaps, be disapnointed to loam that it did not have the desired effect. The nails used were too lone\ Instead of penetrating tho tvTcs thvy wore bent over flat on tho board. "Had the nails been half the size, they would have punctured the four tyres.
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Press, Volume L, Issue 14919, 18 March 1914, Page 8
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