CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXI, Issue 99, 23 November 1916, Page 3

CYCLING AND MOTOR NOTES.

It is reported from France that immediately after the war some of the leadink Preucli motor manufacturers will combine bo produce a car which will be capable of competing with the cheap American cars on a price basis. Arrangements are said to be in hand for the formation of a £100,000,000 company in Lyons for this purpose.

The Renault and Bcrlict concerns are said.to.be interested in it.

A Frenchman lias successfully designed a means of enabling those who have lost both legs to drive a motor car. The Clutch pedal is coupled up to a wheel mounted on the steering column, and the brake, which is usually applied by the loot, is operated by the back of the driver's seat. He has only to press hard against the back ol the seat to bring it into action.

'IV French Government being disss'/dsfted with the poor petrol consumption of the American lorries fitted different carburetters to investigate the problem for themselves. Wiieu this data was scented,.the authorities held a competition among French carburetter manufacturers, and three firms competed, Claudel, Zenith and Solex. The winner was the Claudel. The statistics showed that the 3J ton "Reo" consumed petrol at the rate of one gallon per 1.52 miles, with the Claudel the consumption was only 7.36 miles per gallon.

One way in winch the motor car is helping our Russian Allies is by relieving the strain on the railway between Archangel am! Petrograd. A service of military lorries is now in v operation on the 000 miles of road between the two places, all of which was newly constructed for the purpose. • } • , [' The sum "of , £3,Ul f J,l-12 was paid last year,by Motor Car owners of the United States in regisLiution ices alone. ' The- latest public "horror attributable tf> motor cars is that they are an incentive to betting. A party of men were recently charged at Newcastle (England), with 'having loitered on theXpublic highway for the purpose of gaming." The evidence proved that the gaming was upon the registratam numbers of passing ears—odd or even. A nonstable, hiding behind a hedge, heard the following conversation: "Half-a-crown it's even and '.'Hhlf-ft-crowu it's odd." When a car passed

he heard one of the men say "it's a seven, that's odd." .Money changed, and the men were arrested. With thy exception of two ol" the men, who successfully pleaded that they were merely discussing a dog, the party of law-brcuxers were fined.