Cycling and Motoring Notes.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 November 1912, Page 4

Cycling and Motoring Notes.

From the Dunlop Rubber Tyre Co., Ohristchurch, for week ending October 25th, 1912. * * ft * ft The military value of the cyclo and cyclist is now fully recognised by ilio British War Ollice and tho English Army is numerically stronger in this branch of the service than any of the groat Continental powers. Hut their superiority docs not lie only in numbers. Efficiency

counts for something in the serious business of modern warfare, and the ■ English cyclist soldiers are second Ito nolle in this respect. During the recent Knglisli manoeuvres over rain rodden country the cyclist battalions greatly added to the reputation they gained last year. Their mobility has been a revelation and their general knowledge of road craft, their skill in scouting, and their adaptability to all kinds of service ami all conditions of transport, have shown in a convincing manner that no detonsive force of the future can be contemplated without its quota of trained cvclists.

I'\ H. Jveefe, the well-known Tasnianian road crack, is keen on making an attempt on L. Meredith's 100 miles out and home unpaced road record of Ihr 52 in in 51 1-s,sec, siccoinj)lished in England in 1910, and ere this is in print be will probably have made an attempt to win the £20 and ,C 5 5s gol dmedal offered by the Dunlop Rubber Company to the first, Australian who betters the Englishman's time. Keefe, whilst on a racing visit to America last year, made an effort on the Californian roads, and whilst missing 'Meredith's figures, succeeded in establishing a new American 100 miles out and home unpaced record, by riding the "century" in shr 2min, alter losing time owing to Uiree punctures. Keele's ride will be checked by oflicial.s of the League of Tiasmanian Wheelmen.

One of the biggest schemes for making a good transcontinental road is being engineered from Indianapolis. the idea being to raise £2.000.000 amongst motorists and allied trades for the purchase of road metal for constructing a first class highway from New York to San Francisco. The road i.s to be .'WOO miles long, but only 2,200 miles of now road need constructing as there are many patches of good roads spread along flie suggested overl-and route. It i.s proposed that the road tnelal shall lie delivered to the various country and state authorities along the route, who will build the road under the supervision of the engineers <>l the I iiited States War Department. An effort will be made t<> have the road fini.shefl in tOlo, in time for the opening of tin l P.anama-Pa'-ilie I'.xhiliition at San Francisco. Should tins hope lie fulfilled, it is expected that many thousands of motorists would use the route and visit the exhibition.