The Air is Free

Sun (Auckland), Volume II, Issue 540, 18 December 1928, Page 6

The Air is Free

There will be hundreds of motorists on the roads during the Christmas holidays, but an absurdly large proportion of them will not take full advantage of their opportunities. Too many of us go out merely for the ride. We have a closed car, and, were it not for tne stuffiness on a warm day, we might keep all the windows shut tight. We just keep on riding until it’s time to return home and use our legs just to go from the garage to the back door. We seem to be immured by our sedan seats. We take advantage of the country only to the extent of riding over the roads that cross it. The only scenery we seem to enjoy is that of the new cars that roll by, or the attractive signboards we pass. Instead, we ought to get out of our cars. We should stretch our legs, and walk a mile or so. We should crocs country by foot, enjoy the woods and the flowers, and the crooked streams. We should get the breath of fresh air under the full glow of the sun. Motor-cars, we should remember, are only the means to this end, not the end in itself.

i I A S next Tuesday will be j J Christmas Day, the next I ! “Motordom” notes will appear I I on Monday, December 24. 1 )

5,000 CARS A DAY FORD WORKS BUSY Production of Ford Model A cars is approaching 5,000 units daily, according to Henry Ford. On August 9 the company manufactured 3,951 completed cars in the United States factories alone. The Canadian plant made 500, and overseas plants produced nearly 400 cars. This gave the company a world production on that day of 4,800 cars.

“Although one-third of our capacity is still applied to the manufacture of parts for the old Model T car our production is increasing gradually by several hundred cars daily,” said Henry Ford.

GREAT ORGANISATION With a membership of 378,846, the English Automobile Association, or the “A.A.,” as it is generally called, is easily the largest of its kind in the world. Entrance fees and subscriptions last year reached the huge total of .£680,820., This organisation accomplishes an immense amount of good work for the benefit of motorists, and anyone who has travelled on roads throughout * Great Britain keenly appreciates and marvels at the wonderful system of patrol work and service extended to road users. The thoroughness of the enterprise and its ramifications eats Tip nearly all the huge income—the surplus over the cost of last year’s operations leaving a balance of only £5,670.