NOT A MENACE.. „
ENGLISH MOTOR-CYCf T. . X I MOTOR AUTHORITY'S VHJI-,® “The motor-cyclist in Great I^ air is regarded not as a menace but s n
fellow traveller," said Sir Stcson Cooke, general secretary to the A* 0 ' mobile Association o( Great Bri-in. who is making a tour of New and this week, visited Hawera. The high accident rate of ni-*>r-i cycles in New Zealand was referi’ 1 to. Sir Stenson, who, though he did | criticise the Minister of Transput (he I Hon. R. Semple, said that was n( the | experience in England. ; Thousands of motor-cycle coni nations were in the service of the -jito-1 mobile Association of Great road patrols, said Si r Stenson, o jhd I every satisfaction had been founc v |th [ them. More than once the “tei,i||C tion” to change to small cars had beet resisted. Members were very prn u < of their fleet as it was. Small cars were gradually replacing the private motor-cycle in Britain Fifteen years ago the association hai 40 per cent, of its members as keei motor-cyclists. Now they were onl 10 per cent, or about 70,000 of a tote | membership of 650,000. J| a X
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 77, 1 April 1938, Page 6
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195NOT A MENACE.. „ Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 80, Issue 77, 1 April 1938, Page 6
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