MOTOR ORGANISATION

Shannon News, 2 March 1928, Page 4

MOTOR ORGANISATION

Although hotel concessions and insurance benefits make it possible for the motorist to save in actual cash more than ,he pays for membership of a motor association, it is in times of flood and sto-'m that the value of organisation is most aprcciated. The car owner may pay £l/1/- for membership and secure £2 in rebates which are the privilege of members. He has then saved himself £1 in cold cash This may be gratifying, but it is. the simple word of road information saving a night in a bog that goes so far with the touring motorist. During the recent floods and snowstonus in England the Automobile Association of Great Britain performed services for its 350.000 members which aie mo.o exhaustive than anything offered clscwheic in the world. Out on the road the patrols were warning traffic of the dangerous 01 impassable places, working out alternative routes where feasible, and giving aid to stranded vehicles As there wn an unusually large amount of traffic on the roads during and after the Christmas holidays, the danger, confusion, and delay would have been very much greater for travellers but for'the assistance of the Automobile Association. Mote than a hundred cars were found embedded in deep drifts on one of the main roads between London and the coast. Despite warnings, many d ivers persisted in going on, only t-j add to the number aheady. imprisoned in the snow. Small cars wholly disappeared in some of the drifts, and it was rather amazing on the following day to see people probing the depths of snow with sticks in the endeavour to find their ears. One motorist chartered a men to dig for his car, and Sror much toil an explorer called out that he had struck it with his shovel Further digging b ought a milestone to light! A fanner in the west country made money cut of the snow by charging half-a-crown toll for each car which drove across his field in order to make a detour around an iinpassabK drift in the roadway.