THE WAR AS MOTOR TUTOR

Evening Post, Volume XCI, Issue 107, 6 May 1916, Page 12

THE WAR AS MOTOR TUTOR

Returning to London for the first time since tho war began, says a writer in the Motor, a decided change is noticed in the quality of driving of motor vehicles, both public and private. Traffic is just as orderly as ever, but at least a quarter of the drivers appear to be permanently at war with their gears. It is obvious that our best motor drivers have gone abroad. As everybody is aware, the war has been responsible for the creation of many thousands of motor drivers. Not only is the Army training vast numbers of men, but hundreds of people who never took much real interest in motors have of necessity undergone a thorough training and become more or less expert. In France, where the calling up of men for military service is on a greater scale than in England, the motor schools have never trained so many drivers as during the past twelve months. By the end of the war there will probably be at least ten times more people capable of handling a car intelligently than there "will be cars. Thousands of these people will have little hope of ever possessing a car, but they will have strong motor sympathies, and in consequence can be classed, with active motorists.