How To Drive A Motorcar
A Key To The Subtleties Of Motoring
År: 1915
Forlag: Temple Press Ltd.
Sted: London
Udgave: 2
Sider: 138
UDK: 629.113 How
Written and illustrated by the Staff of "The Motor"
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USING HEADLIGHTS IN TOWN
with an electric-lighting outfit. It is ludicrous, of
course, to use electric headlamps in such a place as
London, and it is a considerable annoyance to other
people, and does one but little good. With suitable
qualification, such procedure might be reasonably pro-
hibited. A very occasional exception in which the
writer indulges in the use of his headlights in town is
in going through certain streets which are known for
their extraordinary danger, through the multitude of
children living and playing therein, and in such cases
headlights are undoubtedly a safety medium, being an
additional warning to any children who are in the habit
of rushing from the path into the road. In all ordinary
circumstances, however, refrain from using the head-
lights for town work.
In summer, when passing a car which is making a
great cloud of dust, one should also slow down, as this
may be sufficient to impede one’s outlook for sorne few
yards. Remember, also, that if inclined to indulge in
speed work one should always make a point of choosing
the right spot for so doing. Never go fast down a steep
hill, or for that matter down any hill ; the extra braking
effort necessary to stop the car in case of emergency is
enormous, and is rarely understood, whilst tho fact of
an engine turning at its highest possible revolutions
when running downhill is anathema to a mechanical
mind. The real charm of power is speed work up a
gradient when the engine is really working and not
merely turning at high speed.
A common fault met with is that of overtaking a
car on an ordinary road where there is only. comfort-
able room for two vehicles abreast, and which is curved.
Under the circumstances, if a car suddenly appears
coming from the opposite direction when one is in the
act of overtaking the other car, a position fraught with
much danger is at once brought into being.
Never under any condition overtake another car
on a bending road, until such time as ample clear
road is actually visible ahead in which to pass the
other ear and get to the proper side again.
Similarly, when overtaking another car do not cut
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