MOTOR AND CYCLE

Taranaki Daily News, 27 July 1929, Page 6

MOTOR AND CYCLE

HERE AND THERE. The first woman to ride in a rocket car is Fraulein Waldenfels, of Dusseldorf, Germany. With Oto Volkart, the builder, she sped at the rate of 80 miles an hour. There Is a service station at nearly every oasis on the Sahara desert, providing re-fuelling places for both camels After considerable opposition, Liverpool City Council has accepted a tender for the supply of Russian petrol, thereby effecting a saving of £2OOO per annum; the order is for about 1,000,000 gallons. In order to stem the noise nuisance the municipal authorities of a number of towns in Poland are reported to have issued regulations prohibiting the use of other than hand-operated horns on motor vehicles. . A car studded with jewels was on view at the Cleveland automobile show. It was valued at £40.000,

Always play safe at railroad crossings by shifting into lower gear. This will nrevent stalling of the engine on the tracks. A doctor who had lived in Coventry three months and had never driven a motor vehicle before that time, said in the local police court that he did not known he had to have a driving license. For this omission, and also for not having two independent brakes on his motor-cycle he was fined 30s.

At the suggestion of the German Automobile Club, doctors who are willing to render assistance to persons injured in traffic accidents will display a distinguishing eign on their cars. The sign consists of a red cross on a blue ground, with the Prussian eagle in the centre. Motorists and others are advised that' all cars carrying this sign have both a doctor and a medical outfit on board. In one of the big London suburban thoroughfares a long queue of traffic was held up by a fire-hose which was stretched across the street to assist the fire brigade in tackling the big blaze. The owner, of a small car nosed his way to the head of the queue, lifted his front wheels over the hose, dragged the car

forward a little, lifted the back wheels safely over, and. then drove off amid cheers. Motorists are more liable to injury in traffic than pedestrians, according to a report from the State of Massachusetts. This shows that there were 42,201 automobile injuries in the eastern State last year, and of this number 23,077, more than half, were injured while riding in motor-cars. The report states that this is the first time in ten years that the record shows pedestrians in Massachusetts in a safer position on the highways than the occupants of the car. The annual report and balance-sheet < Vauxhall Motors, Ltd., has now been issued and shows a loss for the year ending December 31, 1928, of £266,340, hich is attributed to the period of reconstruction having proved longer than was anticipated, with the result that at the time the company was ready to go into full production the character and size of the market for this type of vehicle had materially altered. The report states that it will take some time to bring the factory to a profit-earning basis, as this can only be achieved by a very considerable increase in output. Practically the entire capital is now held by General Motors Corporation, which has provided a credit to revenue account during the past year of £324,800 by taking up ordinary shares at a premium of £4 per share. Recently the General Motors Corporation made an offer to the preference shareholders of 15a Od for each £1 share in view of the fact that the dividend due on April 1 would not be forthcoming. It is stated that “in response to this offer a very big majority of shareholders have disposed of then - shares.” The offer closed on June 30.

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