ROAD'S STRANGE TRICKS
PUZZLE TO MOTORISTS. The curious experience of having to apply their brakes when travelling uphill is a daily occurrence with Scottish motorists on Croy Brae, the well known incline between Ayr and Girvan. The road extends over a distance of 400 yards, and the only solution the puzzled motorists ran offer to the phenomenon is that the Jaw of gravitation ceases to operate in that particular area. They find also that when heading downhill they have to accelerate hard if they want to travel at all. When they stop their cars and get out to investigate they have to dash back to prevent them running uphill! The funny thing about it is that the phenomenon of Urov Brae. or. as the call it. the ‘‘electric brae," is not a mystery at all, and is subject to quite the simplest of explanations. It is merely an optical illusion, for Croy Brae has been carefully surveyed by experts, who have found that owing to the peculiar configuration of the surrounding countryside what seems to bo a Steep hill is merely a slight gradient. “ I
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 73, Issue 413, 3 November 1930, Page 11
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