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Show i ENGLISH WILL Ho,yal Automobile Club Declines ! i Sanction Motor Competi- tion in United Kingdom. l! '! ASSOCIATION CRITICISED Iff feg F0R DETERMINED STAND I 14; industry May Suffer as the Re- jVjjj suit of Ban Placed on pi!:! ) Contests. 'The Ro.yal Automobile club of Eng-land Eng-land is being taken to task in more quarters than one for its refusal to help SflJ in tho proposition to hold a road race if! (J on thn Jslo uf Man next year. It is w'jjl pointed out that autoinobilo competi- yjji, tions, with tho exception .of those held at Broolclands, havo practically been WW. abandoned, in tho United Kingdom, and that the industry will suffer in conse- IfEfij f "We cannot help receiving with Kliffl ' mixed feelings the decision of tho R. ffijjjfi A, C. not to assist in organizing a race mm in the Tslo of Man next year." said mm the Field, "Of laic, as our readers are g no doubt aware, tho J?. A. C. has with- ffinjjj drawn more and moro from tho com- Hmjjl petitivc class of automobile functions, jijljff mainly on the grounds that they are Jljf inadvisable at" this stage of the indus- 91 III try, or likely- to conflict with legal ro- aKjlj nnv rate, there is now not a Wjjj single road race of louring competition JH in England, Wales, Scotland, Ireland, or EM If reputed legislative and protective mo- IHBu toring bodv. Even hills climbs came fijjjjj undor the Tt. A. 0. ban not so Jong ago fflSjj ;; for which, indeed, something may 9eJ "feut surely tlic case is different in Hjjnt the Tsle of Man. where the Manx people Etjjnf themselves ask for a motor rncc on their Im own gruunu. ,'i.nu uy approacinng r.ne jjj Ji. A, C. they rcall- offer it a gre'at com- jj plimcnt, tacitly recognizing it as the HI leading authority in the aulomohiling 1(1 world. But now that tho R. A. C, on the ground that the Society of Motor HI Manufacturers and Traders thinks tho m enterprise without commercial values, ill docs not see its. way to accede- to the n Manx people's request, tho way is open HI for another enterprising body to step HI inr indeed, it is a fine opportunity for Bj private motorists who arc sufficiently alive to the value of maintaining a rep- utation for vitality to show that they I) at . least are ready and willing to assist j in organizing a competition of this sort. "And if it is only to repay in some H small measure the kindness of tho Manx U authorities for allowing us in past years 1 the use of their county for the dcvcl- U opmcnt of our own industry, wo should j at least appear to bo grateful for this tj recent assistance. Morcovor, as the oc-I oc-I easion is tho fiftieth anniversary of the I granting of local self-government to tho tt town of Douglas, the competitors in the race would not bo without their adver- tising value, as there is certain to be a 1 large concourse of critical and experi- I . enced onlookers. To rest on our laurels is a, fatal policy, yet one to which wo as n nation arc only too prone, Rnn it as a nation nrc only too prone, and it must be checked at" tho outset, even if it means some temporary self-sacrifice and trouble." |