MOTOR NOTES.

Putaruru Press, Volume VI, Issue 241, 14 June 1928, Page 7

MOTOR NOTES.

I NEW ORDER.

SAFER HIGHWAYS. Badge for Three Years’ Good Driving. A new motoring organisation has been established in England: The Order of the Road. Are you a skilful driver, having driven for at least the last three years, and covered 10,000 miles in that time ? Are you “ careful, capable, considerate, courteous ?” If so, you are eligible for membership of the Order of the Road, which has been instituted “ for the purpose of encouraging skilful driving with the object of making the roads of the country safer for all users.” Subscriptions.

If you are elected a member of the order, and on payment of the annual subscription (10s for a car, 5s for a motor-cycle), you will receive a certificate of election and a handsome badge at a price up to 10s, to be placed cilher conspicuously on the front of your motor-car, on yv.ur dashboard, or at the back ox the vehicle.

Sir Arthur Stanley, speaking at an inaugural luncheon recently, said:— “ Everybody is down on the bad driver, but now comes the day of the good driver. Let him be known on the road.

“ Let it be said, as people see his badge, ‘ That driver is a good driver.’ He has a badge of merit. He should be encouraged, on the road. He is a man of courtesy. By his badge it can be seen that he, at all events, has endeavoured to do his duty by all the other users of the road.” It is determined by the exec/itive committee, of which the famous motorist, the Earl of Cottenham, is the head, that nobody shall have a badge who* has not fully earned it. There are in the first place ten obligations that have to be agreed to and kept, referring, among other matters, to signals, correct driving, and observance of the rules of the road, overtaking, junction crossing, dipping and dimming of lights. Questions. When you have filled up your form undertaking these obligations, a number of questions have to be answered. These require to know the length of time a license has been held, if the applicant has been convicted of driving to the danger of the public, if the license has been endorsed, if there is any physical disability, and the mileage covered during each of the last three years. Additional information is required from paid drivers. The Order of the Road movement ! is a distinct 'step in the direction of encouraging wise and proper use of the roads by motorists. The Home Secretary has given the I Order rf the Road his blessing.