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THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, JANUARY 31, 1929.
AV THE
THE MOTORISTS' PAGE
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"ZIG-ZAG” CONTESTS
By their driving ye shall know In the "Zig-Zag" hill climbing them. Or ye shall not know them. contest organised by the Royal There ought to be some connection Automobile Club of Victoria at between driving ability and gen-Melbourne on October 6, Flat cars eral ability, between good man entered and driven by private ners on the road and good man-owners gave a good account of nera everywhere else, but, so far themselves.
as my own observations have gone, In addition to its natural difficul there is попе. Thus writes the ties, the road was rendered parti- "Evening News" Motoring Corres-cularly dangerous by reason pondent.
recent rain and some of the com
of
There was once 2 school of petitors ran into the bank four thought in Big Business which times In one scent.
had a theory, that the way to On a time basis a Fiat car own- choose a new Head of a Depart- ed and driven by Mr. H. Drake. ment was to study his behaviour Richmond gained first place in the during a round of golf. What Open Category, Class A, taking happened, if the candidate did not 2 min. 16 sec, to make the ascent. play at all, or was a member of The final classification was cal the Walker, Cup team, I do not 'culated on a formula, Mr. Richmond know.
Drake's Fiat being placed first in
But recently I heard a sugges-classes A and B combined, while tion that a man's way of driving another Flat belonging to Mr. a car would tell you at least as; Riordan was classified first in Class much about his character
A for standard stock carz. round of golf with him.
Other competing ears were Probably this is perfectly true;}Swift, Graham Paige,
as
it would tell you whether he was Oldsmobile. Reo Wolverine, Alley, heavy-handed or neat in his move-Austin.and Darracq.
'menta, whother, in fact, he was a
good driver or a bad one.
But because he overtakes the car ahead on a blind corner with an inch to spare nobody. has any right to belleve him the sort of person who would dash in and corner the world's tin-tack market one morning on his own respon sibility,
Off-hand I can only think of
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It is being realised everywhere among motor-coach proprietors that the new legal limit of 20 miles en hour is a deadly blow at the system of motor travel throughout the coun- try.
two, drivers who have seemed to me, sitting miserably beside them,
When it was first imposed on conspicuously reckless. One was October 1, motor-coach proprietors an artist, the other an actor who who had built their schedules and specialises in villain's parts.
their services on an average speed One of the speediest and most for over twenty miles an hour from enthusiastic motor-cyclists of my terminus to terminuer which meant acquaintance has written authorien occasional speed of thirty-five or tative books about
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THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
25 Queen's Road Central forty miles an hour on the open road
theory. Perhaps miles per hour to compensate for the slow speeds are his concrete idea of four through congested areas said that dimensions and the spatio-temporal the new speed limit of twenty miles
interval.
letter as
It is not even true that the an hour would be as much a dead. people who are fond of driving twelve miles an hour.
the old speed limit of
are good drivers, or that good drivers are fond of driving, though it is partly true. Nor are professional drivers either good, or bad; as a class.
42 Miles an Hour
DOGS
SHOULD MOTORISTS KILL THEM?
At last a common-sense judgment
Tel. Central 4759.
ESSEX SEDAN
་ | has been delivered concerning a
A series of prosecutions, convie- tions, and dines has now convinced them that the Government really London bus drivers are, almost latends to enforce it. One pro- without exception, magnificent. A prietor has been fined for travelling number of taxi-drivers are amazat 42 miles an hour, his schedule ingly bad, not merely rude or from York to London showing an subject which has, during recent years, aroused very great contro- dangerous, but wildly inefficient. average rate of 30 miles an hour.
These convictions have spread- versy. Most of these are oldish men who started with horse cabs and have something like consternation among
This decision, which was recently
A natural loathing and contempt the proprietors. Some of them say given by Judge Haydon in Ashby- for machinery; they never want that they cannot retain their public the result of an interesting case in de-la-Zouch, County Court, was ed to drive cara, and it is a thou-if such slow speeds are insisted sand pities that necessity forced upon.
which the owner of a valuable
them to earn their living by it Mr. Dobbs, an Acton proprietor, whippet dog claimed costs from a
and simultaneously earn
oppro- and a leading figure in a new asso-motorist under the wheels of whose brium for a class that contains far ciation which has been formed to car it had been killed. 'more excellent drivers than we fight this and other plecer of ad-
The Judge gave his decision
London motorists are accustomed verse legislation, told "The Evening against the owner of the dog and fald it down that motorists cannot
to admit.
News" that they were going to press
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As for the professional chauf- for the immediate withdrawal of be expected to watch ceaselessly for feur, he is a little liable to be a this speed limit and the substitution stray dogs which might unexpected- Jekyll when his master is riding of one of at least 80 miles on bour.y jump within reach of their in the car and a Hyde when he
Owners of dogs to vehicles. For Power of Brakes isn't. At least he knows his busl
expect such action was, he said, ness, but there is an exception to strict tests before they are allowed putable fact that car drivers have "All our drivers have to pass quite unreasonable. It is an indis- every ruk.
In this case it la&to drive. With modern braking and infinitely graver responsibilities. Belgian chauffeur, a clumsy and inartistic driver who, with all his the mechanical superiority of the In these days for instance, the faults, prided himself on the years for these tested drivers to go at 30 tremendous number of things to modern motor-coach, it is as safe motorist using the roads has a work without an accident of any miles an hour as it is for most of consider. Other cars both ahead of kind.
This man had the bonnet of his the casual private motorists to drive and behind him must engage his car open one day when the engine at 20 miles an hour.
every effort of watchfulness. Pos- was ticking over.
We want a co-ordination, asible concealed crossroads, from He put his finger on one of the rationalisation of the whole long-which totally unexpected motor-cars sparking plugs, leapt back in distance motor-coach industry, in- may suddenly emerge, constantly obvious amazement, and exclaimed:cluding a revision of the restric threaten him with disaster. Traffic "Oh! I got a shock." My own tions on plying for hire, and the polica in numerous spots require his eyes and ears witnessed this per- new association intends to press undivided attention. Pedestrians formance.
strongly for these things.
beth at crossings and, in crowded Most racing drivers set a mar "In it there are already about 70 city streets compel him to keep his vellous example of carefulnas firms 40 of which are London firme eyes glued upon them. While last, Surely it is not unreasonable to ex- when the only son of Mr. Rafael' and consideration on the road.. It is called the British Motor Coach but not least, the stream of horse- test that a dog owner should keep Sabatini, the celebrated novelist, On the other hand, I could show Service Association, and we hope drawn vehicles and cyclists with his dog on the leash when heavy was killed, and his mother severely you the remains of a tree a few that it will be a means of bringing entirely different speeds and move- motor traffic is about if he thinks I hundred yards from Weybridge long-distance motor travel to a high ments from those of his car neces- likely that the animal will dash into station. A well-known Brookland pitch of firmly established pros-sitate his complete concentration on driver took the corner in front perity."
of it about, three times as fast as
thair activities.
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injured in a smash resulting from his efforts to steer clear of a dog. danger. He has to do this even in Cases de occur, of course, where public parks ja valatı dini motorists, driving on open roads, In addition to all those, he must Motorists keep themselves under without any traffic distractions to road's' co-efficient of friction per- and artist's models, who might be wis own car, in which, furthermore, conditions. Pedestrians, including / and either from 'abeor callousness or keep all his wife about him to drive leash in having to drive under these monopolise their thoughts, kul dogs, mit, and hit it tall frat at over 50 expected, to have in their minds a there may be anything from one to the dog owners, also keep themselves abject fear of the consequences fail m.h.p. The same driver overtook fairly constant fear of death or ve valuable buman lives for shoes on the leash inasmuch as they do to stop. Such action: is beneath me once at about 60-mph, down-disfigurement.
the laws of dynamics and the
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hill, in the dark, right on his wrong If there is any profession which safety he is directly responsible. In not rush blindly into motor traffic contempt. side of the bend in Roehampton- ought to be of great technical as view of these tremendous calls made with their backs turned to oncom lano opposite the Convent, when sistance in driving a car it is play upon his brain, without even con- ing vehicles, and expect to escape the road was crowded with traffic. Ing the organ, Organists are sidering the sheer physical strain of death. Therefore, even the dogs There is some connection be practised in the skilled co-ording driving a heavy motor-ear, it is should be kept under control, and If tween driving manners and pro- tion of different simultaneous obvious to everyone how fair is the they are not, then owners cannot ressions, according to the insur movements of hand and fout, and judge's dictum that be cannot re-expect their lives to be considered ance companies, who ought to they must be assumed to have a sonably be expected to try to save before those of humané: * know. Jockeys, undergraduates, good-ear for music, which is un- the life of every dog which chances Far too many "valuable · human licensed victuallets, and R.A.F. questionably a great help in the to leap in his wayne lives have been risked, una cessarlly, ofcers are "professions on their exact timing of gear changes. But Unreasonable Crities ⠀⠀ and lost in tira, manner. Families black list of bad risks.",,. On the I never heard of an organist win- other hand, is never heard of any ning the Targa Florio, or even owners ready to pillory the Harassed breadwinners. One of the most Company which offered specially gold madal in the London-Edin- motorist for the heinous crima or tragic of such bereavements occur- favourable terms to undertakers burgh, rum
occasionally killing: á stray dor. red not long ago near.“ Moumouth,
Yet there have always been dog - have been berette bf only, sons and.
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