THEY DON'T LIKE IT

NZ Truth, Issue 1213, 28 February 1929, Page 18

THEY DON'T LIKE IT

Motorists Who Step On It At The Sound of A Horn THAT COMPETITIVE SPIRIT It is a curious fact that comparatively few motorists can remain totally unmoved and inactive while the car they are driving is being overtaken by another.

IT may very well happen that a driver is m no particular hurry, and is out on the road chiefly to enjoy the fresh air. Yet when a warning horn note is heard behind, and a car shows signs $&Ettt,X%S'JSS£-<££ will press down his foot further on the accelerator and try to demonstrate that he, too, does not always keep strictly to twenty. ...... . . ... Without m any sense invovmga race upon the public roads, this competitive spirit is noticeable . among owners of all types and even ages. If the overtaken vehicle be of the

sports or hot-stuff variety,'caught In-a moment of inattention on the part-of the man at the wheel, it is a thousand to one that the temptation to speed up for a. mile or two will be too great to. be resisted. Particu,.r,y amu.ln, ,r. «,. !». stances m which a saloon of the 40 h.p. class 13 passed by an Austin Seven or other miniature car. ' ' • Should this take place on an up grade—as happens not infrequently m these days Of the efficient small carsthe expression on the. faces of the driver of the big car and its passengers j s usuany a study m astonishment and incredulity.'