USE BRAKE
INSTEAD OF HORN.
SAVE NERVE AND LIVES.
Professor H. J. Spooner in the Nineteenth Century (London) writes: The bad driver on approaching a cross-road usually sounds a loud, prolonged blast and proceeds at a dangerous pace, whilst the good driver slows down, as the horn can never be safely used as a substitute for the brake; as the pithy couplet reminds us:
“They are gathering up the fragments with a shovel and rake, Where he only used his horn when he should have used his brake.”
In many towns drivers of all motor vehicles sound their horns in continuous chorus in the hope of speeding traffic. This insane practice is perfectly useless, but it i nerve-racking din which tortures th strangea who hears it for the first time; the natives, having become so well used to the deafening noise, are apparently unconscious of its harmfulness. i
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Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 297, 1 December 1928, Page 13
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148USE BRAKE Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XVIII, Issue 297, 1 December 1928, Page 13
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