The Bicycle and Motor Car 



I fear some of those who use it do little 

 more with it than rush with demoniac speed 

 through the country, seeing nothing of it be- 

 cause looking for nothing in it. It is a pity 

 that when Parliament determined to fix the 

 legal speed limit at 20 miles an hour they did 

 not enforce their decree by making it obliga- 

 tory for every car to have what is known in 

 engines as a "governor" attached to the 

 machinery, which would automatically have 

 prevented the car travelling beyond the fixed 

 speed. 



This would have saved motorists hundreds 

 of thousands of pounds, extracted from them 

 by magistrates bent on getting much of their 

 own rates thus paid. 



It would have enforced irresistibly upon 

 all a reasonable though quite adequate speed 

 upon the public highway, and it would have 

 abolished the insufferable hog who roars 

 down the reads at sixty miles an hour, bring- 

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