Norwich bulletin., 1913-07-04
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That women should be praised as drivers of automobiles rather than criticised is the opinion held by A. B. Morrison, western sales manager of the R-C-H corporation. MT. Morrison bases his views on investigations made recently in Los Angeles. He says, Ninety per cent. of the women hand ling automobiles in Los Angeles are as capable of driving their cars as men who have had similar experience. So many men pilots ridiculed the eff forts of feminine drivers that I thought the subject might prove an interes ting stury. I had so often heard men say thatThey liked to keep their own ma chine as far away as possible from one driven by woman, that l finally kept tab.
 "In exactly 92 per cent. of the acci- dents recorded in Los Angeles during the past six weeks, men were to blame. Perhaps the period of time chosen did not represent the average, but 1t shows that the fair pilots have been maligned. The percentage of women handling cars here is placed at IT per cent, so you can easily see how they are out numbered by careless or incompetent drivers of the opposite sex.
 One thing that has given the wo- man driver confidence has been-the marvellous growth of the electric au- tonobiie business. The cars are light and their easy control permits of those driving them to traverse the downtown streets at the busiest hours of the day without fear. Many women graduate from the electric to the big gasoline car and they prove that their electric apprenticeship was we'll spent"
 All automobile economy records were shattered by s. G. Averell of New York when he drove Franklin car S6.6 miles on one gallon of gasoline Friday. June 20. on Long Island. The test was made under the auspices of the Automobile Club of America
 It was made just to show what is possible in the way of mileage of an automobile on a given quantity of fuel. The result was the most remark able record ever made by an automo- bile, far exceeding anything yet ac- complished in the way of ecenomy operation The car covered S6.6 miles before 1t finally came to stop, prac- ticalIy doubling the former world 5 gasoline economy record of 46.1 miles, also made by a Franklin.
 The car was driven by it's owner, s. G. Averell.. who was accompanied by Herbert E.. Chase, laboratory chief of the Automobile Club of America, under whose direct supervision the test was made The car was a four cylinder Franklin of IS horsepower.
 With it's two passengers the car We1ghed 1,955 poundS, or lltlle less than a ton The result, therefore, showed efficiency of S6 ton miles a gal lon, which has never been approach ed, even by a motor truck, under the most favorable circumstances. The gasoline was furnished by the Auto mobile Club of America.
 "lf France, with about four times the area and four times the population of New York state. can adequately and economically provide and maintain from a centralized source q national roads system of 24, ,000 miles, it is not unreasonable to contend that the same thing can be accomplished for the whole United States" asserts Lewis R. Speare, of Massachusetts. who served as chairman of the resolutions committee of the second Federal Aid Good Roads convention called by the American Automobile association.
 France admittedly has the best