MOTOR-CYCLING.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18673, 23 April 1926, Page 6

MOTOR-CYCLING.

NOTES. Cyclists and—presumably—motorcyclists in parts of America render themselves liable to arrest if they ride without both hands on the handle-bars. Colonel Lindsay Lloyd has now submitted for • confirmation Marchant's 101.08 m.p.h. figure with a 350 c.c. CUater-Lea, as a British one-way record. Visitors to a well-known club's dance in London were greatly amused by the institution of white lines on the floor, Brooklands results covering the walls, and an exhibition of old machines. Though lie is 71 and has only three sound fingers, Mr James Parker, of Maree (N.S.W.), is planning to start this month a ride round Australia on a motor-cycle and side-car. Mr Parker, a pioneer of the New South Wales North-West, lost several fingers when forest clearing some years . ago, vet he handles his machine with dexterity. A TALLY. TRAFFIC OVER SELWYN FORD. With a view to ascertaining how much traffic passes over the Selwyn ford on the Main South road, the Canterbury Automobile Association took a tally at this point from noon on March 22nd to noon on March 29th. The figures, which are required by the Ellesmere County Council in respect of an application made to the Main Highways Board for a greater proportion of assistance than that body is at present prepared to give, are as follows: — March 22nd-23rd 115 23rd-24th ... ... 110 24th-25th 17!) 25th-26th ... ... 150 f?6th-27th ... . ... lot 27th-28th i 204 28th-29th - 207 Total ... 1119 It was found that 60 of the cars were from the North Island, 23 different districts being represented among that number. Another tally, carried out at the Ellesmere bridge over the same period, showed that 111 l vehicles used the bridge.