Cycling Notes.

Cromwell Argus, Volume XLI, Issue 2209, 22 August 1910, Page 3

Cycling Notes.

Mr Henry Sturiney, one of England's foremost motor experts, writing on the subject of the little road clearance allowed by many ear manufacturers, touches on a subject that is of special interest to motorists and in tending motorists in this country. Mr Sturmey writes, ,: The absurdly low building of chassis which has boon customary of lato years has always appealed to the more thinking of us as undesirable in many ways, and as be ing actually poEsessed of very little merit. I believe the stock argument if its advocates is that, by lowering the centre of the gravity, it increases the safoty of the car in regard to up setting and that it renders getting in and out of the car much easier. I admit the latter but really do not see why, because the car is in question, we should all suddenly become so languidly lazy that we cannot lift our feet a couple of inches higher in getting in and out of a car, whereas, had we been using a horsa vehicle, we should have thought nothing of climbing twice the distance up into the seat ot a dogcart, climbing over the wheel in the case of a Stanhope and gener ally performing more or less of an acrobatic feat, by comparison, to reach our seats. This sort of thing with n horse vehicle is accepted as a matter of course, but some people would appear to want to roll into their seats when a motor car is in question. Ho far, however, as the first contention goes, I do not admit for one moment, except as a purely theoretical calculation.'