TEACHING BY EXAMPLE.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXV, Issue 10713, 14 November 1913, Page 7

TEACHING BY EXAMPLE.

'Hie principal motor-'bus company in London is going to considerable trouble to make its drivers both careful and skilful. The management's latest idea was to send out a new motor-'bus carrying a cinematograph outfit, to seek adventures in the most crowded thoroughfares. The operator was. under instructions to obtain pictures of tlfe most exciting scenes he witnessed, arid-the pictures Were to be employed in lessons.given to:.the' company's <.. The* people in tho a.d venture-seeking 'bus had all" the 'excitement they wanted. In Fleet street another moter-'bus was instructecl to pass on the wrong side, and the cinematograph promptly "took" the dreadful example. On Ludgate Hill "a .postman, whose attitule indicated that lie intended to wait on the pavement until the omnibus had passed, suddenly changed his mind and narrowly escaped spending his Christmas in hospital. His frightened look will be one of the features of the pictures." In Cheapside the operator cinematographed many trials of the driver, such as boys reading "penny dreadfuls" while carrying baskets and parels, old people alighting from vehicles, and traffic on its wrong side of the road. Further on, One of the company's employees ran ahead and attempted to board another moving 'bus bv grabbing the rear rail with one hand. The result was that he was pulled off 'bis feet and dragged i along the-ground, the conductor and an alarmed passenger coming to his rescue. The picture, says the, Standard, will not only be useful for instructing conductors as to what they must be'always <>» the watch for, but also may be used as a warning picture to be olaced inside the company's omnibuses for the education of passengers. A little later an employee alighted from an omnibus with hifi face- to the rear, and he lost his equilibrium, as animated pictures explan afterwards in greater , detail. The most exciting incident ! was a pre-arranged - exhibition of skidding by a well-loaded 'bus in Kings-way. The driver was instructed to take a x corner at a good pace and then put the brakes on hard, a proceeding against which driven* are cautioned in the company's rules. The result was a glorious "skid," which would appear in the film as a warning to drivers.