THE WOMAN MOTORIST

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 September 1927, Page 2

THE WOMAN MOTORIST

Some advice to women on the choice of a car is given by the Hon. Mrs. Victor Bruce, perhaps the bestknown lady motorist in Britain and on the Continent. Mrs. Bruce says: “When I see small girls driving big cars and obtaining inadequate visibility” through the spokes, of the steering wheel I cannot understand what their menfolk can have been about to let them drive so uncomfortably, and consequently so dangerously. For I believe that in comfort at the wheel lies safety. If it is a strain to reach the pedals, o r if one has to hold oneself unnaturally upright to see over the top of the steering wheel, proper attention cannot be given to the road, quite apart from the fact that only imperfect mechanical control ove r the car is thus secured. I suppose the extreme instances which one so often sees occur when the girl is driving a car that is not adjusted for her use; and, attractive as the prospect may be of taking the wheel of a strange car, it does not seem quite fair to the public in the present congested state of the roads.