MOTOR NOTES.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXVIII, Issue 3601, 23 November 1905, Page 4

MOTOR NOTES.

An attempt to run motor staffs* tween Homestead and Whitaker, Pa., has failed.

Robert Allison, of Port Carbon, Pa., 75 years old, is probably the most enthusiastic chauffeur of his age in the world. Between April 30 and and October 9 be rode 1,170 mliee in his machine.

Between 700 and 800 automobiles in Paris are capable of traveling better than 19 miles an hour, and, aeeording to the law, are required to placard their machines with large-figured numbers.

The first project of touring the world in an automobile has been made. An English resident of Paris would make the journey In a gasoline machine of five-horse power. If the French Automobile club will furnish him with the requisite gasoline at the stations on the route he guarantees to make the trip within a year. Automobiles in Gamut, France, have been restricted to the speed of s horse walk. The mayor invites the citizens to assist him la carrying out ths ordinance, even to the extreme measure of ‘‘drawing across the streets on the approach of offending vehicles chains, ropes or solid w*rs; w Auto tourists would better; leave Oannat oil their calling Uste- ;!