WOMEN DRIVERS.
MRS VICTOR BRUCE'S ADVICE. Some advice to women on tho choice of a car is given by tho Hon. Mrß Victor Bruce, perhaps the best-known lady motorist in Britain and on tho Continent. Mrs Bruce says: "When I see small girls driving big cars and obtaining inadequate visibility through the spokes of the steering wheel I cannot help wondering what their menfolk can have been about to let them drive so uncomfortably, and consequently so dangerously. For 1 believe that in comfort at the wheel lies safety. If it is a strain to reach the pedals, or if one has to hold oneself unnaturally upright to see over the top of the steering wheel, proper attention cannot be given to the road, quite apart from the fact that ODly imperfect mechanical control over the car is thus secured which one so often sees occur when the girl is driving a car that is not adjusted for her use; and. attractive as the prospect may be ot taking the wheel of a strange car. it does not seem quite fair to the public in the present congested stato of the roads."
The largest motor-bus in all the world lias ju.-t appeared upon the fctreets ot London like some invention out of a talc by Jules Vernes. It is made ot aluminium and it has two decks and six wheels. For the comfort *:' the passengers, and to lessen the weui and tear of the streets, the usual solid tyres have been discarded in favour of Dun'op pneumatics and the tipper deck of the bus is covered in to protect the occupants from rain. There are seats on the two decks for 66 people and the vehicle is 29} feet long. It is being tested now with another huge bus some four inches shorter and made of steel. Whichever of the twin monsters proves to be the more reliable will be selected as a model for a fleet of others to ease the traffic problem on the streets or London.
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Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19173, 2 December 1927, Page 5
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339WOMEN DRIVERS. Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 19173, 2 December 1927, Page 5
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