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Planning for that touring trip abroad
THE holiday planning season begins with the New Year. For those who are thinking of going Continental this year the Dover Harbour Board where the majority of such holidays start, have produced a most helpful guide, useful to the experienced as well as those who may be considering going for the first time.
this 120 page booklet gives all the informa tion that is likely to be needed, both in plan ning such a holiday and when on it. Seven million passen
At a modest 40p,
gers and one million cars pass through Dover each year, though the other ports should not be forgot ten. Some are be tte r situated for northern
motorists or cut down the mileage between the Euro pean port of entry and one’s destination. This can be well worth working out on a map. The south western ports can be more direct in going south and specially for Spain, while the eastern ports are easier if the destination is this direction. But even if the main
holiday is your aim, it could be a good idea if the
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Continent is new to the family, to take one of the bargain mini-holiday trips that most of the organisa tions are offering at this time of the year.
instance, give a 5-day return for the price of the single fare for the car and its passengers until March 31st, a date when most of the car ferries begin to put up their prices towards the summer season peaks of July-September and v the weekends. For those who have a
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caravan there is perhaps the even more attractive offer of P & 0 Normandy
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Ferries to take this free of charge up to March 31st, which is in effect a saving of nearly £70 on the Dover- Boulogne fare. There could also be a one
in a million surprise for a t r a v e l le r . A F ren ch woman and her family hap pened to be the millionth passenger using the Dun kirk West port. She dined and wined with the Cap tain of the ship and all the family got commemorative gifts when they reached
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Dover. More ships than ever
will cater for the cross- Channel passengers and that also includes the “sur face-ships,” the hovercraft with bigger vessels giving smother crossings.
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the Dover Board guide, which also gives many of these details, outlines the characteristics of the vari ous countries and the basics of planning, still continues to be of use. It underlines the important
Once on the other side,
differences of “right” driv ing which is simple on a main priority road, but has its little subtleties. The black on yellow diamond lozenge marks the priority of a route and the normal British “give way to the right” at roundabouts is just the same in Germany,
and different restrictions in Europe than ever before. In Portugal, for instance, parking on any bridge is forbidden. Swit zerland and France forbid children in the front seat of a car. Austria demands that a first aid kit be car ried in the vehicle. And in Belgium, France and Spain, seat belt wearing is mandatory, usually outside city limits. But in Spain it is an offence to drive with dipped headlights in towns. Sidelights only must be used. If this does sound a bit complicated, at any rate, you have been warned well in time if you get the guide and study it in the next few weeks. Other constructive infor mation it gives on camp ing, caravanning and even how to use the in te r continental telephone and the dial-numbering.
There are certainly more
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IT IS not much good looking at your tyres unless you know what to look for. Goodyear’s expert, Mr D. H. King, development division manager,
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the edges of the tread, it is and has been suffering from under-inflation. There is too much tread on the road with the outer tread ribs having to work too hard with more flexing
the centre of the tread, the reverse is the case. Over inflation has caused the tyre to ride too high on its tread which is not making full contact with the road. It increases the risk of skidding.
and heat build up. If there is wear only in
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ing and the ribs have taken on the appearance of feathers, this is caused by incorrect toe-in or toe-out alignment. Or there is cupping.
Bare spots or cups appear in the tread. That, says Mr King will be due to out-of balance wheels, worn shock absorbers or ball
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Greece, Hungary, Yugos lavia, Poland, Romania and Malta. But in all other countries the reverse applies, traffic entering a roundabout has priority, over cars already circulat ing. As the guide says, and it could apply everywhere: “Always give way to those who look as if they don’t intend to.”
VIDEO cameras watching motorists on M4 and M5 have revealed that one in every three vehi cles following a vehicle ahead leaves a gap time of less than two seconds, the very minimum recom mended in the Highway Code to avoid running into the rear of the leading vehicles. Worse still, half of these close followers had a gap-time of less than one second, a near hopeless situation for avoiding a collision. Although the video and
time recording of traffic was on two-lane sections of the motorways, it was at a time of medium traffic flow where there was no need to leave Such A perilously small gap. Even at highest traffic flow it is possible, in theory, to have a four second gap between vehicles.
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out in fine and dry weather by the Transport and Road Research Laboratory. They made fair allowance for the possibility that some of the vehicles might be wishing to overtake, but discovered instead that many vehicles, light and heavy, had formed them selves into what they described as “Platoons.” In lane one, nearly as many lig h t vehicles, which included cars, were leaders as were lorries. The evidence of our experience, however,
This study was carried
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WORN IT’S a closed shop for FI and fans are banned but skirts may be worn.
amply confirms the more scientific findings of the
TRRL. A driver closing up to
s e n t e n c e ma y be expanded. Firstly, those who are allowed to drive in the Formula 1 Grand Prix teams this year and com pete for the World Champ ionship have been limited to 27 named men. Sec ondly, the use of fans to give as it said, high ground adhesion as was adopted by the Brabham team, has been banned but the suc cessful Lotus skirt bridg ing the gap between the ground and the car may be used with some modifica tions.
That possibly cryptic
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overtake overlooks the fact that he is then in a worse position to see if it is safe to do so. Hanging back gives him a wider field of vision, especially where a large vehicle is in front. He can then select the right gear for the over taking maneouvre and the difference in overtaking time is marginal or non existent.
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joints. When an outer rib or
shoulder of a tyre wears down faster than the rest of the tyre it is a sign of excessive camber with the tyre leaning too much to the inside or outside of the tread.
good one to follow, though it should be doubled in wet weather. It is, of course, .... ........ equ_____ distance wnich is actually quoted in the Highway Code. Namely that the gap should be one yard for every one m.p.h. Another way in whicn it can be phrased is that one should be able to visualise one car “inserted” in the gap for every 10 m.p.h. of your 'speed. Or the driver can make his own time calcula tion by noting when the car ahead passes a particular point, then counting a slow “one . . . two” by when his car should have reached the same marker-point.
The two second rule is a
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son will be split in to two equal halves. Points will be awarded to drivers and constructors as usual, but for the championships will count only for the best scoring in four of the races in the first half of the sea son and four in the last
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