THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 19, 1931.
NEW "SPEED COPS." SHOWING THE FLAG.
Experience of Motorist
Who Was Chased.
I have been chased by a "spee.i sop," writes the motoring corres- pendent of the Evening Standard.
It happened to-day on one of the main roads leading from the north- west into London.
I was driving at my usual "going. to-business" speed and had just ac celerated to pasa a tram-car, when I received a very knowing wink from young man standing on the pave- ment, I took it to be a tribute to my collection of motor-club badges.
But as I went on I noticed that more and more people were taking an interes in me.
I was about to pass a point-duty policeman when I happened t glance in the driving mirror. Just behind me was one of the smartest little motoring outfits I have seen on the road. It was a blac two- -seater car, all chromium plating.
Cars Sent to the New World.
SPEED RECORD.
NEW HOPE.
THE CHINA MAIL.
For British Bus Exports.
During the past 10 years light motor buses with primitive body.
At Rootes, Ltd., recently in work suitable for passengers or Devonshire House, Plecadilly, W. goods have come lato general uso there stood two exhibita destined to in almost every country of the "show the flag" of British motor-world. They operate, especially in ing In the New World.
the less-developed countries, throughout India, the Near East und Middle East, Africa, South America, Japan and China, Austra- la, etc. Due to our troubles of industrial re-establishment after the war, American manufacturers entered all these markets and made tremendous sales.
One was Captain Malcolm Camp bell's "Blue Bird" in its latest form, which is to defend for Great Bri- tain, on Daytona Beach, Sir Henry Segrave's land speed record of 21 miles an hour.
The other was the fleet of Hum- ber cars which the Prince of Wales and Prince George are taking to] South America. Thore ware four Humbers, three "Snipo" saloons and "Pellman" limousine, while there was also a Commer luggage van.
There are indications now of change in the attitude of the opera- tors of these "Jungle-bua" services which may make an important dif-i ference to oxport statisties in the next two years, states The Com- mercial Motor.
Like A Plane Fuselage. The Blue Bird, the racing Ten years ago not one in a hun- Napier-Campbell car resemblen andred of these inexperienced, illiter- In it were two stern-faced young aeroplane fuselage on four wheels, ate bus operators understood either men in blue.
spick and span.
An 'skilfully as any naval boʻsun the driver brought his little crat: alongside my car so that I was hemmed in close to the pavement.
It weighs 31⁄2 tons, and is driven by interest or depreciation. To them, a 1,450-h.p. supercharged Napier therefore, the cheapest vehicle ob "Lion" engine of Schneider Trophy |tainable seemed the best oroposi type.
{tion. Successive failures, due to The original car was built ir ignorance of operating costs, have "Excuse Me, Sir..."
1925. This latest form of it is an gradually brought into the field a At once a crowd collected, eager adaptation designed by Mr. R. A. better type of man, and the statis- to see the "speed cops" at work. Railton, of Thomson and Taylor's ties of British commercial-motor One of the "caps" aprang from Ltd., who tune a big proportion of exports of which considerable de- his car and ran over to me.
British racing cars and built this tail was given in the Outlook Num- I was wondering which of the 123 one in their works at Brooklands. ber of The Commercial Motor- clauses of the new Road Traffic At Mr. Raillon has had two particusuggest that appreciation of the I had broken, or which one of the ly ingenions ideas. One was for better,class chaasia 18 spreading 30 unwritten-but printed-rules keeping the front of the car down throughout these seml-developed of the Highway Code I had trans- by carrying the radiator right countries as though a mist of ignor- gressed, when the policeman salut-front of the actual nose of the car,ance were being wafted away. ed smartly in best guardee style. which slopes sharply down. The Now is the time for our manufac-| "Excuse me, sir," he said, "but air stream, after passing through turers to drive home the truth, to! if you are not careful (I trembled? the radiator, strikes this sloping exploit it with redoabled energy in that attache case on your luggage nose, and tends to force the front their sales campaigns overseas carrier will fall off,. We have been axle downwards.
Advertising literature printed in the trying to catch you for a mile
vernacular should stress the value to tell you.".
of such points as sturdy shafts and The other iden was for keeping turge-size bearings, emphasising the car ag low A possible. Mr.the long life of the British vehicle. Railton has done this by building It *akew-eyed." The driver sits be-
I breathed freely again, secure in the knowledge that nur "speed cop." although he wears leggings and
Driver's Low Seat.
goggles, is really just the old courteous, helpful, London "bob-side the shaft, much lower than if by."
racing colour, but the disc wheels are brilliantly plated.
One of the most conspicuous oh jects on the car is a little dial on the nose. It is an engine revolution counter. There is a big one in the
he had to alt above it as in the or- dinary car. His seat is only ten inches above the ground.
The body is a beautiful piece of workmanship, aluminium panels on
a framework of steel tubes, built by
ROAD SIGNS?
Too Many Bad For All.
I have no hesitation in saying
Mesara. Gurney Nutting. There are that the present multiplicity of aluminium fairings to streamlin, the wheels. The whole car is paint-road signs a bad for the motorist
cockpit, but at high speed Captained saxe blue, Captain Campbell: 2nd bad for the pedestrian, and 1
Campbell will not be able to look down at it,
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(Continued at foot of preceding Column.)
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MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY,Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
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BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co. Ltd., 33, Wong Nel Chung
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CADILLAC Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. CHEVROLET. — Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
31759.
FIAT MOTOR CAR.-A Goeke & Co. China Bldg., 7th floor.
Tel. 22221.
MARQUETTE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nei
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, Tel. 24759. OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 83, Wong Nei
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228. ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24769.
STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24759.
Tel.
Tel.
WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS-Gilman & Co.,
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OUTBOARD MOTORS.-Ridolf Wolff & Kew, 54' Queen's Road
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MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS., CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
24759.
G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Ne! Chung
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228.
DODGE South China Motor Car Co., 33. Des Voeux Road. C.
Tál. 25644,
MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24769. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
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TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES-Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road.
247697 ACCESSOR.The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Tel. 562h8.
Tel.
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ope that when road signs are cverhauled under the new Road: Traffic Act they will not be used too liberally, writes a correspond- nt in The Light Car and Cyclecar. Road signs make us Incapable of using our comraon sense-they des troy initiative because they ruin cur self-reliance. Most of us go out on the road to see the beauty of our land and we do not wan that beauty obstructed or broken by man-made signs. More import ant still is the fact that the exist ence of road signa makes us all saume that if there is no sign at a given point there is no danger.
When approaching a corner, we cannot see a warning sign wo Fre apt to assume that it is per fectly safe to swoop round. Gen. erally speaking, this is a correct rssumption on a main road, but when we got on to the by-ways where fewer signs exist, such an rssumption is frolish and danger
AUA.
I will admit that some signs are rseful and necessary. A warning of a school is a necessary reminder to keep a sharper look-out, and the existence of cross-roads sometimes needs indicating.
But, as a careful road user, I dó not need informing that a. corner ties before me, nor that the hill I am about to descend is a steep one, nor that the large signpost I can ree in front stands at cross-roado.
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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Ye gentle motorists who hear
Telephone 30228.
33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.
Of that new, force that will ap
pear,
•
י.
I beg of you to have no fear.
Although the ranks of the polica On motorcycles may increase, These with the just will be at
peace.
For after all, these lads in blue, Although they have their job to
do,
Are motorists the same as you.
As Shakespeare puts it, you will
find
A fellow-feeling is inclined Ever to make us wondrous kind.
And he who whirls along the road Must surely have a kindler cod Than his hedge-lurking comrade
- showed...
:
Who fingers throttles must, in-
deod,
If he be human, feel the need Of just and reasonable speed.
But reckless hogs who dodge and
swerve
Or try to pass upon a curve. Will surely get what they deserve
Even pedestrians, who lack
A sense of humour when the tack Receives an unexpected smack
Will rise and brush themselves
and say,
"Ah! constable, it's you. Good-
day,
Hotel Cannot Be Blamed I'm sorry, I was in the way!”. for Owners' Negligence.
-Touchstone in London Morning
Post.
NEW YEAR RESOLUTION.
London, Jan. 23. A case of great importance to Inn-keepers and car-owners was bo fore the King's Bench Division, when Mr. Justice Swift reversed at decision of the Northampton Coun- The new motor laws seed causo ty Court and decided that an inn- keeper was not responsible for neither nervousness nor apprehen- damage done to a motor-car belong, ston to anyone who has always ing to a guest, which was placed in been in the habit of realizing his the hotel garige.
responsibilities and who has treat The County Court Judge awarded ed other folk when driving on the damages against an hotel proprietor
to a Woking accountant named road as he would have others treat Winkworth, whose car was damaged him, says The Light Car and by frost while in the Garage, of Cyclecar. It is generally agreed the Grand Hotel, Northampton,'
Mr. Justice Swift held that the that the Road Traffic Act containa Inn-keeper was not an insurer of many wise provisions, and although the person or goods of a guest and a thorough mastery of them may was only responsible for negligenc prove irksome, It about the only as an Inn-keeper quale fra JS
Furthermore, an Inn-keeper in real persons! obligation for which Bured that a guest's car would not the Minister calls from courteous be stolen, not that it would not be and considerate drivers, Resolve, damaged.
Now then, to do this conscientiously and He was only bound to supply suci do net let the resolution share the accommodation as he possessed. It fate of so many others made was the business of car-owners to for the New Year: the latter let the water out of the radiator: 19 may generaly be broken with im- frost was anticipated, punity; to break the former may The hotel keeper whose appeal bring morious consequencer Jf its was allowed, was awarded costs. Itrall.
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