What to Do With the Old Cars

Sun (Auckland), Volume III, Issue 674, 28 May 1929, Page 6

What to Do With the Old Cars

Latest Problem in U.S. Motor Trade The question of what to do with worthless cars is becoming quite a harassing problem to the P ol,ce and local authorities in U.S.A. Hundreds are found every week abandoned on the roads and elsewhere. Hitherto in most cities the police have deposited these decrepit vehicles on vacant and unused plots of land, but such places have either been filled to overflowing or the laud is wanted for building. DUMPED OR BURNT At Cleveland a smelting plant like a glorified dust destructor has been built to “consume” the wrecks, and ] New York has a similar scheme , under consideration, though an alter- ; native in the latter case is a fleet of barges on which the derelicts can be j taken out to sea and dropped overboard. In one State it has been made a criminal offence to abandon a car on the road. Purchasers of land on the outskirts i of New York are often compelled to spend as much as £3O or £lO m. clearing abandoned cars from their j newly-acquired property. 1 PROVED ITSELF A STAYER LONG LIST OF A.J.S. SUCCESSES j The performance of the 2J h.p. A.J.S. machine in winning the senior tourist trophy at Goulburn, Australia, on Easter Saturday, recalls the remarkable amount of success that this make of machine has had with all long-distance races that have been held in N.S.W. over a number of years past. " The last long-distance event held was the Grand Prix of Australia, held at Marouba. Speedway, Sydney, during January, 1926. At this meeting an I A.J.S. was first and second in the senior race, which was over a distance of 150 miles. Two and threequarter h.p.' A.J.S. machines were ' placed first, second, third, fourth and sixth in the junior event, which was 100 miles. FIRST AND FASTEST The event previous to this was the N.S.W. championship and road races, held on the Hartley circuit in January, 1925. In the 25-miles’ all-powers’ championship, the 22 A.J.S. was successful, and established the fastest times, both for complete distance of the race and also for one lap. Six months before this, the biggest road race meeting in Australia up to that date was staged. This was the Australian Grand Prix, and was an event of 208 miles, over the Windel-lima-Burgonia circuit of 52 miles a lap. FILLED ALL PLACES A.J.S. machines (22 h.p.) were first, second and third in the junior class and these machines were also placed first, second and third in the 104-miles “Moran” Handicap for under 500 c.c. held on the same day. Bven before this, the first so-called tourist trophy events of N.S.W. were held at Bathurst at Easter, 1924. At that particular time, the tourist trophy lace was a 66-miles’ handicap- event, eligible for machines under 500 cc’ This was won by a 2Q h.p. A.J.S.. which also put up fastest time. Both the manufacturers and the distributors of the A.J.S. have always made a practice of using standard i machines in competition.