Cycling and Motoring Notes.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 28 May 1913, Page 4

Cycling and Motoring Notes.

— —« . From the Dunlop Rubber Tjrre Co., Christohurcb, for week ending May 17th, 1013.

With tho use of paraffin (kerosene) . as a substitute for gasolene increas- ' ing, British users of heavy commercial vehicles view with alarm renewed threatenings of a tax on paraffin, which up to the present time has . been froe. Already the English authorities are "looking into" the matter, with a view of suggesting tho adoption somo such measure. The paraffin question is a difficult one, however, for even if the users of motor vehicles did not find a small tax obnoxious, it would visit n hardship ou the poorer classes who de- ! pond upon oil entirely for light. Consequently it would never do to tax it indiscriminately, and there en tors a neat little problem in how best to differentiate. hi these days of phenomenal motor speeds on the racing tracks, and I the pride that goos witfi it in the £_-!' — _1» J_ i .'l ."-

, perfection ol modern motors, it is i instructive occasionally to examine , the records of the years gono by. lAs one oonorote oxample, for instance, it is recorded (officially) that as long ago as 1908 a speed of 1'21.-6! miles an hour was attained in England in a match race between a Fiat and a "Napier. The time was made in one complete oirouit of the Brooki lands Track, and it has never been beaten to this day on the Drooklands Track ov any other. Tho Brooklands Track, bo it added, is an oval approximately 2} miles in circumference, which makes plain that at times the winning car must have Tjoen over 130 miles an hour.