DELIBERATE SKIDS.
Searching For Safest Road
Surfaces.
London, January 9.
Expert motor-car drivers will skid to order all over the main roads of Britain in the next few weeks. They will drive machines.' specially made to skid on the slightest provocation. All skids will be carefully recorded and compared. These operations have been decided on by the Minister of Transport in the hope of discovering what are the safest road surfaces in all weathers. Experiments have already been going on quietly in Yorkshire with a specially constructed machine, the first of its kind. It resembles a motor-cycle and sidecar, with the difference that the sidecar carries recording instruments, while the near side wheel can be set at any angle. Pioneer skidding tests' have proved so successful that the Minister has ordered four similar machines.
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Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 352, 5 February 1937, Page 5
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134DELIBERATE SKIDS. Taranaki Central Press, Volume IV, Issue 352, 5 February 1937, Page 5
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