MOTORING NOTES.

Digger (Invercargill RSA), Issue 11, 28 May 1920, Page 14

MOTORING NOTES.

THE MOTORIST'S TEN COMMANDMENTS. The Coburg, Ont., Motor Club recently awarded 1st prize to Beulah Garland, aged II years, for the best essay 011 "How Children May Help to Avoid Motor Accidents. " The essay was in the form of teu commandments, which are as follows : 1 - T'hou slialt not play upon the street. 2.— Thou slialt not cross the street only at crossings as there thou hast the right of-way. 3. — Thou shalt look before crossing the street. 4.— Remember, after getti.ng out of a car, thou shalt not cross the street behind a car. . 5. — Thou shalt. not get in or out of a car when it is moving. 6. — Thou shalt not interfere with cars, as thou may'st put them out of order and eause accidents. 7, — Thou shalt not drop nails, glass, or pins upon the road and cause motorists to have blow-outs and perhaps accidents. 3. — Thou shalt not light matches near gasoline. 9 — Thou shalt keep the motor rales when riding on a bicycle. 10. — Thou shalt help old people across the street. THE CANADIAN FARMER. "To look at the advei'tisements of any English. motor journal one would think that dukes were more plentiful than farmers — but Henry Ford knew better long ago." This is taken from an article in a Sunday pa per. The author of that article had been writing about farmers. He said that a census of motor -cars in the province of Ontario showed that farmers ovraed 37,753 passenger machines i A CO-OPERATIVE TRUCK LIN E. Convinced that the time is now ripe for extending the usefulness of the truck in the field of short-haul transportation, 80 111311 representing business interests in Chicago and cities within a radius of fifty miles west have formed what is belived to be the first co-operative motor truck freight line in the LTnited States- The

truck line is giving a freight service much speedier than is possible by any other form of transportation. This is. true, especially with shipments of less than carload lots. Frequently freight is placed in the hands of manufacturers within a fow hours from time of shipment whereas if consigned by other carriers it might be day-^ in transit, A terminal station or depot, similar to those maintained by rail- j roads, has been established in the heart | of Chicago's sliipping district. This building is a large one with 25,000 square feet of floor space. All trucks load axid unload at shipping platforms arranged in station order. MOTOR WLN E TANKERS. Old-fashioned methods are more persistent among the wine growers of the Scuth of France than among any other members of the community. But The motor vehiele has now invaded this oldworld ngion, and arrangements are now being made to collect wine from the difierent growers according to the most modern and rapid methods. A big company of- wholc s ile wine merchants in the South of Frar. . e has put into service a number of j -n ton lorries fitted with a steel tank r ,ving a capacity of 1320 gallons and engine-driven pump with four suction pipes, two 011 each side. The lorry is 1 u into the grower's yards, the pipes are dropped into tho barrels ; in a. few minu 3 these are emptied, and me lorry on i - way again. The tank is fitted with ra indicator showing the quantily of wine, and has a big manhole for cleanin.g purposes. This lorry also hauls a two-wheel trailer carryin-g a tank with a capacity of 66-0 gallons.