John Arnold
_The Evening Post_, 2 May 1924:
             THE SPEED HOG
STOP-WATCH TRAPS CRITICISED
 AMERICA’S MOUNTED PATROLS [1/2]
  #Hutt road #traffic control is a lively topic of conversation among regular users of the road, among motorists generally, in fact; and there is a good deal of speculation as to what form the supervision as proposed by the #bylaws now being drafted will take. Motorists will not be satisfied… if the stop-watch and the measured distance system is to be applied.…
  In any case… speeding was not the only danger.… it was when fast and slow, right and wrong side, straight ahead and corkscrew traffic made a mixture of it that smashes occurred.
  America… had greater road control problems… than any other country, and almost invariably the practice was to mount control officers upon high-speed motorcycles.…
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             THE SPEED HOG
STOP-WATCH TRAPS CRITICISED
 AMERICA’S MOUNTED PATROLS [2/2]
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Perhaps as a result of super-serials and ultra-exciting road romances upon the screen the general mental picture of an American traffic officer had as one of its high lights a large-calibre automatic, spouting a stream of lead into the rear off tire, thereby bringing about a fine acrobatic performance on the part of the racing car, a double somersault and a ricochet or two, and the due apprehension (or escape) of the unscrupulous (or thoroughly justified) speed maniac. The idea that America regularly relied upon such tactics to keep her motorists within bounds was merely another proof of the educative value of the moving picture.
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