SPARKS

Shannon News, 11 May 1928, Page 4

SPARKS

No pedestrian lias to be told that this is Leap Year. “We stand back of every auto we sell,” says an advertisement. Finel The front end is the dangerous end. This may go down as the year of the great war —between low-priced cars. • An eight-cylinder bus chassis of Belgian make has made its appearance- in Great Britain. It is a low hung sixwheeled with pneumatic tyres. The § cylinder engine is rated at 35 h.p., but it has a maximum output of 100 h.p. No British maker has yet offered a straight-eight bus chasis, although seven English factories are turning out six-wheel passenger vehicles. A man who has appeared recently in the streets of Southampton has set the slogan “Safety First” to music. He is a pedestrian with a walkingstiek, on which he has fixed a noisy auto horn. When he is about to cress a road he sounds several blasts, which informs drivers that he has as much right to the highway as they have, and that he intends to exercise it.