THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 28, 1932.
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ROADS DANGEROUS, Į MOTOR TRANSPORT. alongside those of their competi- The products manufactured in
Accidents to Walkers
at Home.
"During 1931 the roade have be-
come
for the walking public at
Exhibitions in Great Britain and After.
son.
"SPEED."
speed of 27 miles per hour. "We, SCHNEIDER TROPHY hope this will be a lesson to you
not to travel so fast in future,"
added the magistrate.
After Campbell left Upping- ham, he went to Germany, where
Value to Motor Industry.
tors in all the producing coun- Great Britain must, by all prac- tries of the world,
tical means, be exchanged for The Exhibitions this
year the raw material and fooostuffs Sir Malcolm Campbell's have been held at a time when required for the population at Life of Thrills. the British Motor Industry is, home. The future development London, Dec. 80. perhaps, one of the important ex- of the Empire and the world will With the close of the year in-porting industries of the world demand increasingly
In his preface to "Speed," the he took up bicycle track racing. The answer to many people who terest has again centred in Olym- least affected by the prevailing of mechanically-propelled road bell, Mr. J. Wentworth Day, of aion. That was the beginning of motor and aviation industries of a variety biography of Sir Malcolm Camp Speed became almost an obses- wonder what is the value to the leust 10 per cent. more danger- pia, and this year possibly more world trade depression, and when vehicles for general utility pur- the "Field," says that when the his career of speed. ous," states a return of the Pedes- so than ever before, for the it has within itself the deter poses, whilst transportation cost transition from the Horse Age
speed attempts like the Schneider trians' Association on the number Motor Exhibition and the Commination and the means of oc constitutes an important item in to the Motor Age is analysed in ly tells of Campbell's amazing by Mr. A. F. Sidgreaves, the Mr. Wentworth Day graphical-Trophy race was given last month of accidents in the Metropolitan tion which followed coincided normal conditions, a position of whether it be for home consump-will stand with that of Stephen- page without a thrill: if it is not Ltd., one
mercial Motor Transport Exhibi-cupying, with a return to more the price of the finished product. future history, Campbell's name adventures. There is hardly a Managing Director of Rolls-Royce, Police area during the first nine with a period of intense and un- growing importance in the motor tion or for export.
of the most prominent to tell of speed records at Pen- figures in the industry. months of the year. So far as parulleled economic difficulty, markets of the world.
In all these respects the motor The world position is not un- vehicle is destined to play an make of one motorist in a world Treasure Island-like story of Sir year," Mr. Sidgreaves said, "all
"This is a bold statement to dine or Daytona, then it is the. "As motorists, the association claims, shared by every country in the
a result of the test this, world.
like that which followed upon the even more important part than which holds so many motorists," Malcolm's voyage to the Cocos the main components of these en- have at all changed their stand-
Indeed, this state of world long period of the Napoleonic hitherto, for it provides a flexibi- he says, "yet consider the achieve Islands with K: Lee Guiness on gines have undergone a definite im- ards of care and driving it is much trade, coupled with the political wars, and its recovery may again lity of movement and a service ments of this man.
search He has & for the woTAC
for £12,000,000 lost provement, and, in as regards pedes-situation at home, gave be brought about largets by Bri- of individual transportation that thrown the inheritance of a bril- treasure. trians.
very serious con- tiah initiative and enterprise, has, in
the life of the standard engine in a comparatively short liant brain, the creation of a Although the book is first of service will be much longer than it sideration ⚫ as to the wis-Then it was to the British Rail- time, supplemented, and in some lucrative business, the possession all a book of adventure, it shows would otherwise have been. "The abolition of the speed dom of continuing with the ar- way Engineer that it owed the directions superseded older of a large fortune, and the risk how valuable to this country have limits," It is stated, "appears to rangements for holding the an- mprovement and expansion of forms.
"From the development point of of his own life completely and been the achievements of Sir view," he added, "the Schneider have made successful police pro-nual Motor Car Exhibition, and its communications. Railways The direction in which motor without hope of personal gain, Malcolm. These achievements Trophy contest
the biennial Commercial Motor were constructed under the transport can
is almost 01 secutions very much more dif
Transport Exhibition at Olympia direction of the British Railway value to the future prosperity of driving of motor cars which have
best prove its into the building, designing and are not yet finished.
economy, because it saves so much "And this impressive tale of time in arriving at certain technical cult."
this Autumn, but it was felt that Engineer. Locomotives, rails, the world opens up an interest set up more world's land speed achievement, of danger and of improvements. It is not too much
rolling stock, were all produced ing, if difficult, problem, but there records than have ever stood to honour, is not yet ended," Mr. to say that research dustry to spare no effort to keep in the workshops of Great Bri-is no doubt that in the field of the credit of any one man bechapter remains unwritten. The past two years is what our aero. Wentworth Day asys. "The last Schneider Trophy contest over the
The largest increase in the nuta- ber of deaths was among children under 5 years of age, the return continues. There were large in- croasca in two other classes of ac- cident in which no blame could be attached to pedestrians.
have become so "If conditiona much worse in an abnormal year of reduced traffic what will hap pen when traffic, resumes
rise
to
it was the duty of the Motor In- the wheels of trade moving, and that this could best be assisted by proceeding with the Exhibi- tion arrangements.
ORDER FOR SCOTTISH FIRM.
consequence,
for the
tain, and shipped to all quarters modern and economic transport fore. of the globe.
of passengera' and goods the fac "Malcolm Campbell at the pre-final honour is unbestowed. The engine department would other- The age of railway transport tories of Great Britain has declined, but economic and spired by the spirit of initiative, unlike some heroes, he is a na-
are in sent day is a national hero. And, greatest risk has yet to be taken." wise have taken six to ten years to Olympia has become, in a very rapid transport is, even more ea- enterprise, and courage.
learn.". real sense, the motor market of rential to the prosperity of indus
tional asset an ambassador.
Much that they had learned from the world, and the international try, individual, and nation than)
not only of trade, of Imperial
the contest was capable of being ap- character of the Exhibitions on it ever was, and it is to the road
prestige, but of the spirit of Messrs. Albion Motors, Ltd., plied to their Rolls-Royce cars in TAR TRANSPORT.
manliness and adventure." Manufacturers and Traders, Ltd., to provide ganised by the Society of Motor vehicle that the world now turns
of Scotstoun, Glasgow, announce general use. The book tells the story of the receipt of a substantial order its requirements. has proved of great value to the Highway construction is vital to ultimate development of tanker when a
"For the last few years," be add- There is no doubt that the Campbell's life from the days for six-wheel vehicles for the ed, "Britain's supremacy in the once British Motor Industry, afford world prosperity, and the role transport will be dependent, to Campbell was fined 30s. in Brom
youth called Malcolm War Office.
manufacture of aircraft is general- It will be recollected that the ly recognised, and more its normal development? Iting, as it does, an opportunity of played by the Railway expert of some
is due to the which British Manufacturers are fast century has now to be adopt-achieved in the conservation of cle at what the magistrate des chased nearly 300 machines of contests such
extent, upon the success ley police court for riding a bicy-dian Government have pur- experience and knowledge gained in is obvious that immediate action glad to avail themselves, for dis-ed by the Highway Engineer and liquid temperatures. There has cribed as a totally unnecessary this type.
playing their range of vehicles the Vehicle Manufacturer,
is urgently necessary,"
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