THE RED CAR

Hokitika Guardian, 17 March 1930, Page 8

THE RED CAR

Earl Howe, better known, as Viscount Cur so n and for his unbeaten record of convictions for exceeding the speed limit, is a humorist (says an English paper). In the House of Lords lie moved as an amendment to insert a limit of 40 miles per hour in the Hoad Traffic Bill. Lord Russell, who is in charge of the .Bill tartly replied that unless the noble Earl would promise to observe that limit it was an impertinence to propose it. Earl Howe’s real trouble is that of most of our speed merchants. Tie honestly believes that in his case skill is sufficient to qualify him for exemption from the rules which should be imposed on ordinary drivers. But the pedestrian’s trouble is that when he sees a. sports ear swooping down on him at 60 miles an hour he has no means of knowing whether the man at the wheel is Earl Howe, who is clever enough to avoid him.- or some smaller hustler of the kind, for whom Earl Howe proposed a driving test. In the hunting field they tie a. red ribbon on the tail of a kicking, horse. Why not insert in the new bill a provision that every motorist who has been convicted of driving to the public danger shall have his car painted fire brigade red?