RELATIONS WITH POLICE

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12609, 20 November 1926, Page 18

RELATIONS WITH POLICE

FRIENDLINESS PAYS

These arc best maintained on a friendly looting not by any cxhfoTiion of haughtiness. The police are where they are to do their duty. If sometimes their directions are rather vague and confusing, it is better to regard the fact patiently, from point of view that traffic signalling Is as yet only in the development stage. The motorist should make clear to tTTe policeman on point duty what he intends to do, and proceed only when sure of the constable’s directions. Policemen aro apt to feel their responsibilities keenly, and the best plan is to .assist them in carrying out their duties, to the advantage of all concerned.

ROAD-HOGGING

When another driver wishes to pass, he should he allowed to do so. No decent motorist could be guilty of speeding up in such circumstances^ There is no need to assume that the other man is “blinding” just to show off. He may have a long distance to travel, and wish to get home that night. On the other hand it is not expected of him to pass, and, having bagged a victim as he thinks, settle down in front, stirring up the dust for lire consumption of thoso behind.

Many years ago, one of the greatest automobile engineers remarks! that the sliding gearset was barbarous engineering. Iwenty years have passed since then and the sliding selective gearset is still standard equipment on all cars except one. the Ford, which uses the planetary transmission, which is certainly no better engineering than tlie selective type. While other and more necessary developments demanded attention, the gear-box has had to wait, lv always happen* that real need finds its answer in tho brains of inventors and developers. We have* had the self-starter, electric lighting, and a dozen other improvements which have made the modern motor-car what it is to-day, and still th© old-time gear-box retains its place in the mechanical unity of the car. Mrs It. N. Stewart, a British ladv rider, was conspicuous in the French (’rnrnl l’rix. where astride a J.A.P.ongined machine she gained third place in 3AO c.c. class. “A doctor.” writing recently in ft I/ondoti paper, put. forward som# strange theories on the subject of m*. 1 tor-cycle accidents being tho result of i ‘ air” intoxication,” caused bv the rider’s swift passage through th# air. A man who has bought a particular kind of motor-car ran alwnvs explain why he did it. oven though he dn«* not huv a <if the same kind* It’s the pride of ownership.