Even if he has no use for any of these privileges,
the wonderful system of signs and danger sig-

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nals is worth the six francs yearly subscription.
The Motor Club in Great Britain is doing useful
work, so is the Touring Club of Italy, which
issues its riiaps in convenient form bound in
board folders. It was almost impossible to get
road maps of Spain a few years ago; now the
Carte Taride in a single section covers the entire
country, and a good guide to Catalonia is pub-
lished by Larrosa y Hidalgo of Lerida.
Some knowledge of the languages will help
the motorist in keeping his expenses down.
With English and French one has little difficulty
in the larger towns, but a careful study of the
automobile vocabulary in the Touring Club's
Annuaire des pays etrangers will prove to be of
the greatest help in the remote sections of Italy
and Spain.
There is no duty to pay on entering England,
but there is a tax of $5.00 for registration and
others of $1.00 each for the owner and driver.
