MUCH EXPERIENCED

Evening Post, Volume CX, Issue 11, 12 July 1930, Page 25

MUCH EXPERIENCED

Tho folloiving is extracted from a letter sent to an English motor journal from tho backblocks of Queensland: —

"After ten years of British and colonial driving experience in 47 makes of ears, 12 of which, including EollsBoyce, I have owned and driven in England, I have taken to 'motor-cycling for a change, although I still drive every day as well. Would you believe me, sir, I find myself going faster than I ever thought was safe before, laying the bike over on corners at an angle which looks positively perilous from the car behind, so I am told, and generally doing things which made me mutter, 'Fool, asking for it?' when I saw other chaps doing them six months ago. Don't think I cut in, or take liberties with other people; I don't, but I do see now that tho beautifully balanced motor-cycles one can buy > nowadays are a hundred times safer' than they look to tho uninitiated, and when I sit at the wheel 'I smile tolerantly at the chap who passes me at 50 on a good road, because it is probably what I should do myself if I were on the 'twoport o.h.v.' »■'

"Well, after driving 47 makes of cay, Eolls-Boyee included, all within ten years, it is not surprising to find a man taking to a motor-cycle. In another ten years possibly he may have graduated' through the push-bike to humble Shanks's pony. A more_ pleasing graduation, ono would think, in the big spaces of tho Australian back country would be the aeroplane.

It is related that the police o£ Constantinople in a recent raid made wholesale removal of mirrors attached to the windshields of taxi-cabs, which a new regulation forbids. It seems that a number of drivers had been so interested in watching their passengers in the mirrors that they neglected tho operation of their cars and so sometimes crashed into other cabs.