At Bexhill on Whit-Monday the Automobile Club held a very
interesting series of races and speed trials. The skill and ease with which the cars were run and managed while going at speeds in some cases of over fifty miles an hour gave eloquent proof of the way in which the motor industry and the use of motor-cars are being developed in England, in spite of the efforts of the Magistrates and local police authorities in many parts of the country to drive motor-cars off the roads. We note with great satisfaction that the Times is giving its powerful aid to the protests raised against the rule which forbids motor- cars to travel at more than twelve miles an hour. As the Times points out, the only safe and reasonable plan is to subject motor-cars to the general restrictions contained in the Highway Acts,—namely, that no one shall drive any vehicle at a speed "greater than is reasonable and proper, having regard to the traffic on the highway, or so as to endanger the life or limb of any person, or to the common danger of passengers." This is incorporated in the Order of the Local Government Board relating to motor-cars. But that Order further enacts that no one shall "under any circumstances drive a light locomotive at a greater speed than twelve miles an hour."
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