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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 29, 1931.
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Mr. Herbert Morrison, the "Perfect nonsense" was the Minister of Transport, talked comment of our friends when it the new force of mobile was suggested that we, two police which will come into being women drivers, should jour- with the operation of the new Roadney alone to Oxford from Cape Traffic Act.
Town, and when we further sug-į The greater part of the Act gested that the trip should be came into force in mail week and made in our 1924 Morris car,; arrangements are being made which we had bought second- throughout the country to or-hand, our project was regarded ganise and equip the new police. purely and simply as a joke. It Normally, the mobile police will was indeed quite an appreciable na in uniform, but this will not time before we could convince our prejudice the right of the police friends that we really meant; to wear plain clothes when in pur-business, and that, come what solt ef bandits and criminals. might, we meant to journey from "I do not believe," said Mr. Cape Town to Caird and across Britain in our Morrison, "that the abolition of the Continent to the speed limit on January 1 faithful Morris, which already will make any material differencs and 25,000 miles to its credit. 'o the speed of the traffe; but |
The Start. nevertheless it makes it more However, nothing daunted, we than ever the duty of the State set out on April1 on our long trek and the local authorities to see northwards. Our car, a Morris- that the police. are adequately Oxford four-seater, was an old and equipped for their task.
trusted friend and rejoiced in the name of Bohunkus, which means if ever a cal "It is probable that there will"a tramp," and be round about 1,000 mobile earned its title that one did after policemen, of whom two-thirds having covered over nine thou will in all likelihood, ne motor sand miles across some of the The cycles and the remainder motor-worst country imaginable. cars. These vehicles, financially car, although heavily laden, ran aided out of the Road Fund, will on standard equipment, and ex enable the police to deal effective- cept for a few minor adjustments ly and decisively with drivers such as raising the exhaust pipe who are a positive danger to other and battery to give more clear- drivers and to pedestrians.
ance, it remained exactly as when
attack unless wounded, and in Our last day in Uganda yill This kind of driver is of no it left the Cowley Works six years our case they proved to be only always be remembered use to motoring in general and ago.
Like the hosts of count of the unfortunate incident Everything on every decent motorist will share
the expedition curious.
Midian, they prowled and prowled when Bohunkus fell off a point my desire that in clear cases of was British, as we ran on 710 around, growling as they went, into a river. The approach was dangerous and reckless driving 90 Dunlop tyres, used Shell petrol there should be prosecution and an oil, and followed the All-Red and even coming close up to the extremely steep, the point and that the magistrates will no: Route across Africa. We staked car to discover what was inside gangway hesitate to inflict really effective everything on British goods, and the tent, which was run off the two facts combined proved our side. Once their curiosity was undoing. Bohunkus went head they never let us down.
Much might be said regarding satisfied they trotted off into the first into the stream. Luckily mobile police pursuing their the tracks which are euphemis-bush and we were left to continue natives were at hand, and after duties in 3 merely vindictive tically called roads. Our feelings somewhat broken night's rest. much hard work Bohunkus was Caught in rain while still eventually dragged forth, and was зpirit. I have never been to about the Great North Road grew Amerien, and I cannot speak with more and more bitter as vainly we among the mountains, our trou- little worse for his unexpected Not content with ry authority as to the practices searched amid the ridge and fur-les began in real earnest. The immersion. of what are known as speed cops' row for some sign of Africa's track, such as it was, quickly be having escaped one peril, the very came a mud slide, and it was not next day we were to see Bohun- in America.
great arterial highway.
The Karroo was our first taste long before Bohunkus became kus go up in flames, when we Stern When. Necessary, "But in making the new provi- of the conditions that lay before axle-deep in mud and water were far out in the bush and over we dug, the deeper a hundred miles from the nearest sion I have no wish that the police us, bad corrugation and
A backfire at a should act in a vindictive or bridged dongas making the lot of Bohunkus, sank in. The hit was white
off-loaded a corduroy way was crucial moment suddenly caused bullying spirit, that they a motorist anything but a happy made with poles cut from the the carburetter to burst into should, so to speak, invite or lone. stimulate trouble among drivers. Tanganyika, however, was to bush, and after hours of work, a flame, and for a few shattering band of natives shouting and moments it looked as if nothing The job of the mobile police, as 1 provide us with a far conceive it, is to aim at getting gruelling battle against mud and singing levered Bohunkus on to could save the car.
it, and we were free to pursue How thankful we were that the order, considerateness, and decent impossibly steep gradients.
our watery way. Bridges there ronds of the Soudan are sandy, as conduct on the King's highway. Waiting for the Weather.
Streams had, to be feverishly we hurled on sand. the "There will be cases where the For seven weeks we were held were none. police must be stern and pro- up waiting for the dread Bahora crossed at break-neck speed to At last Bohunkus rallied, secute with all the vigour of the Flats, which is low bush country avoid sticking-it was not the flames dickered and died down, Saw. There are other cases where surrounded by high hills, to dry. moment to consider springs. Our and the car was saved. the,note of warning, and of en-Heavy and late rains had trans one thought was to get up the the
The Soudan was to provide us couragement will be more appro-formed the Flats into an inland next gradient, which In
cases was atrewn priate.
lake, and seventy miles of mud majority of
with plenty of excitement in one in for and water lay between us and the with rocks and boulders and all form or another, but once "Although there is room
Egypt, all our troubles were at criticism of British motorists, my comparative dryness of the hills, but impassable,
An Admirable Climate.
an end. With excellent roads and bolief is that in the main they de- At long last they dried suf
Starting at five in the morn
a police escort to show us the sira to do the right thing and ficiently to enable us to cross, al- that they will co-operate with me though the road in places had ing and continuing until five in way, we could give ourselves up and with the police in evolving a been completely washed away, the evening, some days we were to the enchantment of the land of high reputation for good comrade-Even though the Flate may only able to do fifteen miles. If ship and good conduct in the use strike terror to the heart of the thirty miles had been accomplish- of the high way,"
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It was with a real thrill that motorist, they have certainly ed we felt that we were well on on September 16 we saw, a little proved a paradise for birds, and the way to Cairo. However, the before midnight, that Cairo lay the whole bush is alive with them.worst of roads must end, and, before us ALL-QUIET GEARS.
Briefly to summarize our jour. Birds of Paradise with the most once in Kenya, it was compara- gorgeous plumage flash hither and tively easy going, over open coun-ney, one great factor made it pos While it is broadly true to say thither, while every variety of try where buck, zebra and wilde-sible for us to cross the African that motor cars have to-day reach feathered creature, from an eagle beeste
herds. Continent, and that was Bohun- ed a point of development where to the tiniest of humming birds, Giraffes are also to be seen brow kus. With his speedometer regis further substantial progress in de is seen.
Jing amongst the tree tops, and in sign la difficult to foresee with any
Felis Leo At Home. certain districts elephants may be tering over 38,000 miles he was game all through. Our lives de- real assurance, like many another
It was while in this vicinity encountered. substantially true statement it is that we encountered lions for the'
In Northern Kenya the climate pended on him, and nobly he per
formed his task. really only half a truth (says a first time, although later we were is admirably suitable for farming, to make their still closer acquain- and the country is richly culti- Mostly it is coffee, but Most cars, even the least expen-tance in Kenya. To hear a lion vated. sive, are fitted with quiet, smooth roar behind bars is one thing, but stock-farming has also proved a running engines fres from periodic to hear them roar in the bush success.
Uganda, although A native vibration over a very wide range within a stone's throw of your
writer in the Autocar).
SECURITY ON HILLS.
When leaving a tar unattended,
to
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on a hill it is advisable not
of crankshaft speed, and equipped camp is quite another. We car protectorate, provided us with rely solely on the hand brake. with, to all intents and purposes, ried arms in case of an emer-some of the best roads that we silent back axles. But, with a few gency, but were always very loath encountered throughout the trip, safe plan to adopt is to engage honourable exceptions, cars do not to use them, because in their na-and we were able to do well over possess gear boxes that exhibit atural surroundings the big game a hundred miles a day withouting down the hill degree of silence in conformity ore so fine that it seems an act of the least fatigue. with the rest of the chassis. wanton barbarity to shoot unless
Native Gallantry.
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the wheels into the kerb. When' re-starting, if the car has been loft in gear, do not forget to move On one occasion we were en- the lever to neutral before press..
ing the starter button.
reverse gear when the car is fac
and low gear when the car is facing up the hill, Although there are very fewn all probability the engine com- A few cars British small car obliged. A lion will very seldom white people, and the natives pression will hold the car castly,
more especially of the north-are but even if it should move was a notable, pioneer-present their owners with two quiet gears, feature on many Eritish cars for completely raw and unsophisti- the switch be left "on" the engine top and its next ratio, while dur-1931. This development will prove, cated, they always proved friend- will not start, as It will be rotat-: ing this year a French car, com- perhaps, the greatest advance in ly and courteous, and never ed in the wrong direction. lag from the factory wherein the automobile, construction since the once did. we have the least dif- additional precaution is to turn original sliding gear box was de- general adoption of multi-cylinder ficulty with them. veloped,, has been offered with a engines,. for not only will it ron box fitted with four silent gears. der the use of cara more pleasant, As soon as such a box becomes but it will enable much of the tertained at a kraal by a thief, more generally available the car-nerve-racking, noise in a modern who was so perturbed at secing turing public will undoubtedly de largo city to be suppressed. In- two white women alone that he mand this refinement as an abdeed, it is to be hoped that, when summoned five of his warriors, solute essential to pleasurable motor car manufacturers in the and posted them outside our hut motoring when choosing a motor bulk adopt this long-awaited.de-all night long to keep watch and
News has been received; from vehicle. S
viec, constructors of heavy com-see that no harm befell us. Advance Information regarding mercial and passenger carrying When we emerged from the the Dodge Factory that the Dodge now models which will make their vehicles, particularly motor omni-hut In the grey: light of early Eight Marathon car, which left · dawn we all but fell over a dusky Detroit on June 27 to be driven appearance at, or just prior to, buses, will not lag behind. the next Olympia Show indicates When the all-quiet gear box is warrior atretched across the en-round the United States until 19 that the "ali-quiet gear box is anlyetsal mankind will have causo trance, so conscientiously had literally falls to plovéa, has JustTM likely to form a much appreciated to bless the men who brought they carried out their chief's completed 45,408 miles In 115
command regarding our safety. days. (Continued on Next Column,) into being
DODGE MARATHON.