Autos: The Irish Driving Scene.An Instructors Perspective.

The Irish Driving Scene.An Instructors Perspective.

Written by Robin Piggott

Continued from page 1
New Technology The development of technology over repparttar

last number of years has had a big impact on repparttar 146985

driving environment both positive and negative. Better roads and road markings make repparttar 146986

driving experience much more pleasurable especially on major thoroughfares; however despite repparttar 146987

millions of Euro spent on repparttar 146988

main road infrastructure, Irish country roads will probably remain as they have always been, difficult and full of danger for repparttar 146989

novice or Tourist Driver. Legislation, most of which has emanated from Europe, has contributed to better maintained cars, that are more Eco-friendly and more easy to drive. Having said that, a car will quite easily go off and do its own thing if repparttar 146990

driver has not got repparttar 146991

ability to control it under all kinds of weather and road conditions. Cars are much better insulated than years ago so repparttar 146992

impression of speed is nothing like what it was thirty or forty years ago when you really knew you were travelling at 70mph.Wind noise and vibration kept you alert and aware! Even small family cars today have repparttar 146993

ability to travel at 100mph (or 156kph) without too much coaxing .Back then a much larger capacity engine of say 1500 cc had a top speed of around 75mph (120kph).This ease of speed gives new and novice drivers repparttar 146994

opportunity to far exceed their capabilities without realising it . Employment In today’s Ireland we have virtually full employment and many sectors are suffering from a lack of skilled employees, repparttar 146995

commercial driving sector being one of many. More jobs and repparttar 146996

need to get to those jobs on time has created a society that is flush with prosperity and awash with an ever increasing number of new cars on repparttar 146997

road. The opportunities now being created for younger people with full Driving Licenses are many. Indeed most occupations now require you to have a full driving license and it certainly looks good on a C.V. especially if you are in repparttar 146998

younger age bracket. So get to it all you young ones and don’t leave it till later on in your career…. Do it now! Accidents Most of these new cars on repparttar 146999

road are being piloted by Learner Drivers, a good proportion of whom, do not take driving lessons professionally. Unlike most of repparttar 147000

rest of our European Neighbours, we do not yet have mandatory tuition for learner drivers, although it is being proposed. Therefore we have a situation whereby learner drivers can buy a car and just head off into repparttar 147001

wide blue yonder without repparttar 147002

necessary skills to control what is essentially a lethal weapon. Our Accident statistics bear out this point and it would be of great benefit to repparttar 147003

whole community to see a reduction in these horrific figures Recent E.U. Directives have extended repparttar 147004

scope of

Driving Test and not before time. There has to be at least a basic knowledge of instruments and equipment before you can pass repparttar 147006

Driving Test today but there are still many areas of driving expertise that do not come within repparttar 147007

remit of

Irish Driving Test. An emergency stop; country road driving; high speed carriageway experience and a greater emphasis on hazard perception would go a long way to improving standards on today’s roads by being incorporated into repparttar 147009

Driving Test.

About the Author. Robin Piggott is the owner of Astral School of Motoring which is based in Limerick, Ireland .He has thirty five years of Driving Experience and has driven Professionally for most of this time, including teaching in – house, before setting up his own Driving School. http://astralmotoring.blogspot.com http://www.astralmotoring.ie

The Waterloo Boy Tractor: Beginning of the John Deere

Written by Dave Cole

Continued from page 1

While Deere and Company had been experimenting with various tractor designs since 1912, nothing had proven itself to be a seller on repparttar market.

After much consideration and despite repparttar 146904 consternation of certain board members, Silloway believed repparttar 146905 Waterloo Boy Model N was repparttar 146906 second best tractor on repparttar 146907 market, repparttar 146908 first belonging to repparttar 146909 International Harvester Company.

Sales in 1919 did hit a slump, mostly due to Henry Ford's introduction of repparttar 146910 Fordson tractor, but repparttar 146911 board members of Deere and Company did take an option to purchase repparttar 146912 Waterloo Gasoline Engine Company.

On March 14, 1918, an agreement was reached by repparttar 146913 board agreeing to purchase repparttar 146914 Waterloo company for $2,350,000.

On January 20, 1920 Deere and company were officially in repparttar 146915 tractor business. The acquisition gave many more sales opportunities to repparttar 146916 Waterloo Boy tractor as Deere and Company had an already established dealer network across repparttar 146917 United States.

The new John Deere Waterloo Boy tractors were to be painted John Deere green, except for: hub caps - red, gasolene tank - red.

The Waterloo Boy decals were were still used, however repparttar 146918 John Deere decals were placed on repparttar 146919 front.

In March and April of 1920 repparttar 146920 Model N had repparttar 146921 privilege of being repparttar 146922 first tractor tested at Nebraska under repparttar 146923 new tractor testing law.

The tractor exceeded repparttar 146924 advertised 12 - 25 and became also repparttar 146925 first tractor to be certified.

The Waterloo Boy Overtime Tractors

Export of repparttar 146926 Model R began in 1917 with tractors going to Denmark, England, France, Greece, Ireland and South Africa. Most of these exported to England were purchased by L. J. Martin, head of repparttar 146927 Overtime Tractor Company, London.

Upon arrival these tractors received a new paint job, decals and serial number and a new name....Overtime.

In Great Britain, repparttar 146928 Waterloo Boy tractors burned paraffin, repparttar 146929 British equivalent of kerosene.

For a complete history of all the John Deere Two Cylinder Tractors, visit our tribute to the Johnny Poppers and also see pics of our working 2 cylinder tractors, along with a whole bunch of Cool Green & Yellow stuff

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