MODERN WILLIAM TELL

Hokitika Guardian, 31 May 1929, Page 3

MODERN WILLIAM TELL

MAN STANDS BEFORE RACING CAR. ;

A remarkable net was staged at a Wellington Motor Garage on Friday night before thousands of spectators. With his back against the garage wall stood a burly figure of a man, cool, patient and .confident, while a murmur of tense excitement went through the throng. Away at the other end of the garage one heard the murmur of a motor car again—the projectile which was to be aimed straight at the waiting figure. Suddenly the noise of the engine swelled until with a roar the car was’seen careerin’g towards the human target. Twenty, thirty, thirtyfive miles an : hour—until bnly a car’s

length separates car from figure. Then follows the tip of rubber tyre on concrete as the brakes expertly applied bring the car to a standstill.

There is a gasp from tlie crowd—a few, trembling, turn away.. It was a hair raising stunt,carried oqt to impress the public- with the safety braking of tlie modern car. Time and-time .again the .feat .wa# repeated, a sqperb .test qf efficiency ip hydraqHc brakes. All present agreed that it was a still more remarkable demonstration of the sales manager’s confidence in his expert’s driving.