SILENT MOTOR CYCLES
The motor-cycle section of the Australian Association of British Manufacturers recently gave a demonstration with the object of proving that motor-cycles properly used, are a silent means of transport. Thirty-seven machines, both American and English, were used in the test, They were driven first along the flat at about 20 to 25 miles per hour, and then up a fchort hill, a large variety of silencers being used. An official observing the test remarked that he believed that a motor-cycle could be made as silent as a Rolls-Royce car, and that most of the noice created by motor-cycles today was avoidable if efficient silencers were fitted. He further stated that a good deal of the trouble was caused "by riders tampering with exhausts and through the use of "cut-outs.''
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Shannon News, 14 September 1928, Page 4
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132SILENT MOTOR CYCLES Shannon News, 14 September 1928, Page 4
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