That one can show a great deal of courtesy to other cars and to general traffic on the road is assured, but that few people do is also a fact. Here is a case worthy of attention. Every motoriste has or will experience it. On the road in front of you is a covered car with noisy engine. It is a landaulette or limousine which rattles more or less. The noise of the engine is also magnified by being closed in. The car is taking up the best part of the road [Illustration: _Photo H. W. Nicholls._ THE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION SCOUTS WILL, IF NECESSARY, STOP YOUR CAR ON THE ROAD AND GIVE YOU INFORMATION] and though you are anxious to pass it you cannot, because of the noise, attract the attention of the chauffeur and get him to draw out enough for you to make a safe pass. It is very annoying and may go on for some time. See to it, therefore, if you have a closed-in car, that there is a mirror attached to the dash-board so that the chauffeur can see what is behind him and instruct him also to keep a watch, from time to time, for coming-up cars so that you can extend to them the courtesy of the road. One other matter may be included in “Motor Manners” and that is, leaving the car on the road or in the street unattended. In the first place the law says that you cannot leave your car unattended whether the engine is running or not. It is within the discretion of the police to summons you. They, however, do not interfere unless the engine is running noisily and the exhaust is smoking. But in leaving one’s car unattended on the road or street, care should be taken, as an act of courtesy to general traffic and pedestrians, that the car does not block the way. If on the curb in town, and it be possible, leave it on a side-street or, if in front of house or shop, give other people a chance to drive up to the front door. At the same time do not stand your car deliberately in front of some one else’s house instead of your own or your friend’s, if you are visiting. [Illustration: _Photo. H. W. Nicholls_ THE ENGINE WILL START EASILY If YOU FIRST FLOOD THE CARBURETTOR SLIGHTLY] CHAPTER VIII TIPS--NECESSARY AND UNNECESSARY Motoring now so general that an Owner of a Car is not any longer considered to be necessarily a Millionairess--Tipping should be on a sensible Basis--While the Motor-car has emphasised Tipping, nowadays the modest Shilling receives quite a Welcome--When to tip and when not to tip explained from Personal Experiences If there is one thing more than another which the motor-car has revived and intensified it is the habit and practice of tipping. I need not give a lecture on tips. All of us agree, more or less, that the present-day tip is one of the banes of existence. But there are two sides to the question--one we as the givers of tips know a good deal about. Few know much about the other side--the side of the worker for and receiver of tips.