Cycling and Motoring Notes.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 4 May 1914, Page 4

Cycling and Motoring Notes.

« Eroui the Dunlop Rubber Company of Australasia for the week ending April 18th, 1914.

Simply because a very few selfish motor cyclists use machines without silencers or with cut-outs wide open, tlie handy little motor vehicle is voted a nuisance and the vast majority of riders condemned as being carcless and indifferent to file comforts of pedestrians and others. The adequately-silenced motor cycle need not be noiseless; in fact to bear the muffled beats of the exhaust at some distance growing more distinct and insistent as it draws nearer is the best kind of warning that can be given and is never mistaken or unheeded. To compel every vehicle on the road to be perfectly noiseless would spell disaster, and to insist upon every motor vehicle to use the same kind of horn or whatever it might be would result in people becoming so accustomed to the one sound that, too frequently, it would be unheeded. Hence, the ordinarily muffled exhaust may be regarded as a necessary warning signal.

The Automobile Club, of Victoria with a view to affording" menil>crs information on roads and touring' matters, has opened a new department in an additional office adjoining the club rooms. As a matter of fact tlie A.C.Y. intends now to give fuller information to the practical side of motoring, and lias already established a system of local consuls in various provincial centres and are arranging for official correspondents in the capitals of the Commonwealth. The new department .is and Inter, ligence Branch,'' and the Club has secured the services of Mr Geo. R. Broadbent for a twelve montli to organise it. The new office will also be advantageous to visiting motorists, whether from other States or overseas. The Club has further considered the matter of dispensing with the entrance fee for a year in order that it will enrol a more representative number of motorists on the roll. The resolution will be submitted, and is almost certain to be passed, at a meeting to be held this week.