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 * and trials, English and Continental, in motor vehicles, 402-408
 * Railway level crossings, dangers of, 335
 * Rain covers, mackintosh, for cars, 95
 * Reading system for steam cars, 246; engine for steam cars, 268
 * Reminiscences of motoring, 361; mechanical traction on roads long delayed by obstructionists, 362; the Hon. Evelyn Ellis's introduction of the Panhard car to England as a police test, 362, 363; Mr. and Mrs. Koosen's enterprise, 363, 364; extracts from Mrs. Koosen's diary of experiences with a motor-car, 364-366; Mr. T. R. B. Elliot on his early motor-driving days, 366; Sir J. H. A. Macdonald's experiences on the motor, 367-372; Mr. Butler on early motoring, 368; Mrs. Coleridge Kennard's story of parsonic simplicity, 369; Mr. Carr's anecdote, 370; Mr. Sturmey's confession, 370; an adventure on the London-Uxbridge road, 370; a contretemps on the road to Gloucester, 371; Mr. Edmunds' hastily accredited skill in a side-slip, 370; account of a punctured solid tyre, 372; Mr. Graham White's conduct in an accident to steering-gear on a long run, 373; Mr. Rolls' pertinacity in calamities on a Paris-Havre run, 373, 374; Colonel Magrath's story of the old peasant woman, 374; Lord Edward Churchill and his daughter's relation of a sad time, 375; the Thousand Miles trial (1900), 375, 376
 * Renault 5-h.-p. voiturette, 43; shaft transmission car, 204-206
 * Richter Oil Economising Co.'s self-contained oil reservoir and pump, 90
 * Ripolin's, Messrs., paint for motor engines, 93
 * Roads, different types of surface of, 323, 336, 337; at night, 339; English, 341-345; the 'nerves and sinews of the land,' 347; their vast importance in the national life, 347; beauties of English, 348; competition of motor traffic with railways on, 348; illustrative case of superiority of reaching the seaside on road by motor to the use of railway, 349; highway improvements required, 350; decay of villages arrested by resurrection of the road, 350; improvement required in the approaches to London, 351; Roads Improvement Association's plan commended, 351, 352; effect of better roads and cheap and fast motor traction on town populations and small agriculturists, 352, 353; value of a good road system in France, 352, 353; compelling electric tramways, light railways, &c., to increase