MOTOR SPARKLETS.

Timaru Herald, Volume XIIC, Issue 13648, 16 July 1908, Page 7

MOTOR SPARKLETS.

During the hearing of" motor ca.*s in London recently roiiio ainuciug n--.>spaper reports weie quoted. Mr Ernest dc Itodakowski. the mauag-.T of tho racing track at Lmoklamls wa> cross examined by counsel, "ho called attention to this- comment in the " Tinni.-.'* in connection with a race-meeting : "The engine was rislarted in a. clap of thunder, and with a six-foot htaiih of yellow flame that car ria-hed away booming like a minute gun long after it «•;:.,.

.Might, of sight." Mr Rndakcuvski observed that this was a poetical and somewhat coloured description, but admitted that il wae. u>>( inaccurate. '.the "Times-" added: "And the residents of the district may lie pardoned if they are iniprif-.se. I 1.1 ii bv Ihe grand aspect of the business (call it CvclopeHii, 'titanic, gigantic, or wha.l von will) than by the horrid and Tartarean din which has invaded the formerly iniii'iuil neighbourhood," Wiliitxs r. tort.-.1 ilmi, Ihe writer did not know what'he was talking .about. Another report referred to—•"A long low car .standing quivering in the sunlight emitting a. conl iinioes deafening rat fie punctuated by formidable d<tonafioi.v;, and wreathed in blue t-moke." .Mr Kudakowuki admitted that tin's. wa« true.

Mr Buekmaster: Then another newspaper, in au article iieaded '"Battle Among Monsters," speaks of—•■ " Members of the motoring aristocracy clustered round Ihe oil-dripping asphyxirating Gatling-gun like monsters, whose steel skeletons were exposed to the sun. and the breath of whose nostrils was a blue Hammond vapour. Such a snorting, a hissing, a banging, and a duelling 1 have never heard. (Laughter.) Mr Rodakowski : None of these articles which -were written in July la.sl represent in any way the present condition of things- 'There has been a, gi-cal improvement..