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    You Have Been Warned - A Complete Guide to the Road
    You Have Been Warned - A Complete Guide to the Road
    You Have Been Warned - A Complete Guide to the Road
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    You Have Been Warned - A Complete Guide to the Road

    By McCullough Fougasse

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    Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRead Books Ltd.
    Release dateNov 29, 2011
    ISBN9781447496151
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      You Have Been Warned - A Complete Guide to the Road - McCullough Fougasse

      addressed.

      SECTION I

      CODE IN THE HEAD

      O, to be in England, now that April’s there.

      CODE IN THE HEAD

      THE intending road-user, to get the fullest enjoyment from his pursuit (as it usually becomes), should begin with the study of the Highway Code. This is the Road-User’s Statute of Liberty and Magna Carta of the Road, price one penny. It is also the little blue book that used to lie on the hall table.

      It begins with the warning that A failure on the part of any person to observe any provision of the highway code shall not render that person liable to criminal proceedings but any such failure may be relied upon to make it so hot for him he won’t know the difference.

      There follows a Foreword by the Minister of Transport, beginning: "When in the course of human events—— and ending ——life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"—or words to that effect.

      You’d hardly know we were moving.

      On pleasure bent.

      We then have The Code itself.

      To Drivers of Motor Vehicles

      (especially Motor Cyclists)

      1. Never do anything unless you can see that it is safe to do so.

      To Cyclists

      2. Never do anything unless you can see . . .

      To Pedestrians and Drivers of Horse-Drawn Vehicles

      (and also to the horse)

      3. Never do anything.

      Finally there is an illustrated Appendix entitled "Signals that every Road-User should know." This portrays the progress of a weak and not very estimable character who is for ever changing his mind as to where he wants to go. His contempt for the law in driving a car without the statutory mirror shows that he will be up to no good if he gets there. This, however, is doubtful in view of the fact that he has neither windscreen wiper nor spare wheel, and that his car is quite evidently on its last legs.

      Sorry, but I’m a stranger here.

      SECTION II

      SIGNS AND WONDERS

      The haunt of the seamew.

      SIGNS AND WONDERS

      BEFORE embarking on the road, the novice should of course be familiar with the signals likely to be made by other drivers.

      So far as we know there is no book that gives anything like a complete list. The Highway Code, good as it is in every other way, only prints nine examples, eight of which are merely such as would be given by an experienced driver under ordinary circumstances. Thus they represent only a small proportion of the signals actually used, and, to the driver who wishes to know the meaning of the signals sent out by the car in front, they are not much good. We are therefore giving a version based upon the Highway Code, but with the additions that are nowadays essential.

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