THE MOTOR WORLD

Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 11 September 1926, Page 14

THE MOTOR WORLD

To veterans of the automotive industry a series of articles now toeing printed in an English motoring magazine on the happenings of twenty-live years ago, will bring a smile. One oi the "reat difficulties that motorists ot those days laboured under was the all pervading dust clouds that rose from the flimsy roads of that time to confound the hardy enthusiasts who rode in the unprotected ears that were then the rule. So troublesome was this unpleasant feature of ancient motoring that the Royal family made it a rule to drive only after a rain. Naturally such a condition brought forth many brilliant'suggestions for alleviation. Most of these took the form of water sprinklers to be attached to the car. One glowing invention fitted a pad which kept the tyre's moist. Another helpful suggestion urged the fitting of huge dust screens all around the body of the car. Finally, some genius suggested that- the real need was a new type of road, which would not project dust clouds on every possible occasion. To-day we are trying to euro, traffic congestion with about the same type of palliative that the Water sprinkler represented in that early period of the motoring era. A genius is needed to suggest doubling the width or the number of the speed possibilities of our roads.