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Identifier: enroutedescripti00trev (find matches)
Title: En route; a descriptive automobile tour through nine countries & over nineteen great passes of Europe
Year: 1908 (1900s)
Authors: Trevor, Roy
Subjects: Europe -- Description and travel
Publisher: London : E. Stanford
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
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escended to help the driver; and once Kenand I had to lend a hand with a horse fresher thanthe rest. Each time the occupants, recoveredfrom their alarm, scowled at us as they climbedto their seats, but seeing how we behaved, theirfrowns changed to smiles and thanks, and we partedthe best of friends. What had terrified them aboutour particularly peaceful appearance we could notguess, and continued to speculate without hittingupon a satisfactory explanation. At one place the road descends in a series of verysharp zigzags, and here it is steeper and narrowerthan at any other part. I think I mentioned before,that Mercedes had an exceptionally long wheel-base,the turns were so sharp and small that we had somedifficulty in screwing her round. Unlike the Stel-vio, we had practically no room for manceuvring,only a few inches at either end of the car. Dennisand his useful block of wood were requisitioned.Backwards and forwards we moved upon a break-neck gradient, at one moment threatening to82
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x; a BEAUTIFUL TIROL plunge over the road-edge, the next to ram therocky bank ; by dint of tedious and somewhatanxious work I at last got Mercedes round and weslid down to the next turn, equally bad. Had wemet a carriage here, it would have been very awk-ward, being practically impossible to back up thehill, round those wretched elbows. The thick firshid from view the road we approached and we werequite glad to reach the bottom. To be on a mountain road, no matter how steep,narrow and intersected with hairpin turns, is not theleast dangerous if you have it completely to yourself(providing you keep your head, and the car holdsgood, hien entendu) : the chief danger lies in thepassing or meeting of horse-drawn vehicles. Whenone approaches and the horses look askance at thecar you instinctively ask yourself, Is the driver manenough to control his animals ? if so, well and good :if not and the horses get out of hand, you were saferon a moving avalanche. Unfortunately, many ofthe drivers do
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