DARING MOTOR TESTS
SCORCHING OYER GLASS,
LONDON, August 31
Does the sudden bursting of a tyre cause, a motor to skid and overturn? The French newspaper L'Auto intends to settle the controversy (says the correspondent of the Daily Mail, at Paris), and is arranging for destructive tests with daring drivers, forcing cars equipped with old tyres at full speed over a road strewn with broken bottles, ensuring the irregular bursting of the tyres. The paper maintains that a burst tyre only causes a oar to slow down, and asoerts that the frequent fatal overturnings attributed to that cause are actually the result of the driver becoming alarmed at the noise of the explosion, and steering badly.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19277, 15 September 1924, Page 8
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