Cycling and Motoring.

Free Lance, Volume XVIII, Issue 957, 14 November 1918, Page 23

Cycling and Motoring.

Many of the American car manufacturers run a scheme of small payments, which enables their employees to become owners of the firm's cars. The terms are said to be favourable. Tlie shortage of taxi-cabs in London has become worse, 200 more of these vehicles having been withdrawn by the proprietors, the reason being that it does not pay to run them under prevailng conditions. The latest advantage claimed in favour of a much-written-of American calls that when it hits a tree wheal going at full speed, it merely bends, whereas any other car would be smashed to atoms.