The Automobilist Abroad

The work combines practical enthusiasm for automobile travel with hands-on guidance about driving, vehicle care, roads, routes, and lodging. It outlines touring itineraries across France, Britain, Belgium, Holland and Germany, offers regional chapters on areas such as Touraine, the Pyrenees, Provence, the Rhine, and British long-distance routes, and discusses motoring culture, jargon, and the pleasures and hazards of driving. Extensive appendices provide warning signs, accounts of road races and trials, route maps, speed and hill-climb data, map-making notes, club and customs information, and regulatory and practical tips for continental touring.