THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1932.
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE MOTORISTS' PAGES
To Hoot Or Not To
Hoot?
When To Sound Your Motor Car Horn
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CREATING BAD FEELING
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SIR MALCOLM "HELD" More Stock Car Races
FOR LOITERING.
Mock Trial Of Speed
King In London.
AIR HERO'S "CHARGE.”
London, July 18.
Sir Malcolm Campbell, entertain- ed at dinner by the Junior Aero Club recently, was afterwards made the defendant in a mock trial. The charge was that he was guilty of bitering at a speed of 254 miles an hour on Daytona Beach, and the chief witness for the prosecution was Flight Lieutenant G. H. Stain-! forth, the holder of the world's air speed record of 407.5 miles an hour.
Wing Commander R. L. Mariz,
During 1931 Tests
Makers Take Renewed Interest In Racing
CONTEST BOARD'S PLANS
RAČE TRACK AS LABORATORY OF AUTOMOBILE ENGINEERING,
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track, with a strictly stock model. Ernie Triplettset more new The car covered 1834 miles at an.
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London, July 20,
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LARRY GROWS LONGER BUT SHORTER
Strange Paradox In New Machine.
Every motor car must by law be to give way to such an impatient equipped with some kind of instru- driver.
Perhaps the greatest mistake is ment so that the driver may give the manner in which the horn is audible warning of his approach sounded when a pedestrian is on
New York, July: 12. ' -[try's most famous peaks with suc This fact is, of course, known to the road. "Discourteous" is a mild the judge, in his charge to the jury, The year 1931 witnessed notable cessful results. Later in the year: every motorist. But the question term to use to describe the driver said that "an offence of the sort, if expansion in stock car trials and Studebaker at Dry Lake, Murce, who sounds his horn and makes a proved, would probably merit the testa. This expansion, combined established new records with the which every driver should consider pedestrian jump out of his way, severest punishment, and an appro- with the large number of stock or speedway model roadster for the 30228 OR TO CALL FOR A NEI CHUNG ROAD HAPPY carefully is how and when the horn; Foot travellers have an equal right priate sentence might be that the near stock entries Into competitive one kilometer to 100 miles, includ- should be used.
to the road; they do not obstruct defendant should be taken for a racing," is an extremely significant ing the record for the one hour A DEMONSTRATION.
Flight development, since it affords proof run. The hooter is the most misused motoring traffic more than they can ride, and "bumped off."
Stainforth's evidence of a reawakened interest on the and over-worked component or fit- help, but they certainly object to Lieutenant
Marmon Makes Time: ment on the car. Excessive use of being forced to leap to safety, was that he had been obstructed by part of the car makers in racing On October 14 a Marmon 16- the electric or bulb horn not only There are some drivers who sound the defendant, having given audible and of their belief that the race cylinder sedan captured the Stevens causes a great amount of bad feel their horn when in a traffic block, warning of his desire to pass and track continues to be the laboratory Challenge Trophy for the 24-hour ing between pedestrians and motor-so that they can call attention of a having had his signal ignored by par excellence of automotive en-speed trial over the Indianapolis ists, as it does among motor-shopkeeper or some friend in the defendant. After the defendant gineering.
themselves, but (writes house. It is annoying enough to had failed to secure an acquittal on E. T. B. th the "Manchester those in the neighbourhood during the ground that his speed had been records for the 5, 10, 26 and 50 average speed of 76.4 mies per MOTOR CAR MARKET Guardian") in many cases in the day it is far worse when it wrongly given in the charge and had! the direct
of accident happens late at night. The police entered a protest against the pro- mile distances. Triplett's speed for hour. Each of the cars entered by was 88.72 miles per Marmon bettered the record for this | A driver who uses his horn exces-are not nearly so severe on this coeding as unworthy of British the 50 miles
houg, which bettered the mark of event established in Stutz in 1927.” sively, not only too frequently but misdemeanour as they should be justice, he was found guilty.
From the standpoint of engine] for too long periods, proves corélu- The Considerats Driver.
The sentence passed upon him 88.389 established by Arnold in a
Syracuse in "1930. development, one of the outstanding Duesenburg at was that he should be reduced to sively that he is either lacking in
does not commit any of these faults. Invested by Mr. Geoffrey Dorman, tice Day, are to the effect that all After qualifying at 96.871 miles an The careful, considerate driver the ranks, and he was forthwith Late advices from Oakland, where performances of the year was that the second race was held on Armis-of the Cummins-Diesel machine. When overtaking, for instance, he the gaoler, with the jacket cap, and
Is it possible to alter a thing so The expression is seldom used to gives one short, sharp sound when badge of a taxicab driver. The de records up to the fifty miles in the hour, the Cummins Diesel entry at A very interesting feature of the that It becomes longer yet shorter day, but there is no doubt that the nifty to a hundred yards in the rear fendant sought leave to appeal
bracket were again lowered... Indianapolis completed the gruelling home market analysis issued by the "road hog" is still with us. Road the distance depends upon the re-against the verdict, and his appeal,
Chrysler Gets Inning. run of 500 miles without a single Society of Motor Manufacturers than before? These paradoxical hogs are encountered frequently lative speeds of the two cars heard by the women
Chrysler sent two cars to Daytona stop, the first time In the histor and Traders is the forecast It gives requirements can be met if effective during the course of every day's that the man in front is aware of the jury, was allowed.
Beach where Billy Arhold and of the track that any car hunglöf the number of vehicles which will length and actual length are con run. One can, perhaps, forgive the his presence and his desire to pass..
be in use quarterly and the probable sidered. ⠀ Among those present at the trial Harry Hartz established new stock up such a record.
Stutz Climbs Peak, novice driver using his horn ratherThe driver of the overtaken car were Lieutenant-Colonel F. C. Shel records for Class B cars for
sales during the year ending Sep-
Take as an instance a motor more often than is necessary, but should acknowledge the warning by merdine (Director of Civil Aviar from one kilometer to five miles of man and material, yielded not dom.
straightaway distances ranging „Pikes Peak, that. veteran" testar tember, 1982, in the United King- the novice soon becomes more or sounding his horn, while he should tien),
lorry. Its job is to carry goods; Mrs. Shelmerdine, less expert, so the excuse only holds also pull over to the near-side of the Kathleen Lady Drogheda.
Over the one-mile distance, the once but twice in 1931 to attacks This annual analysis, an elaborate therefore, its effective length is the good for a short period in the
Imperial Roadster, driven by Arnold, on the famous hill climb--the first statis..cal investigation covering length of its goods platform while.. motoring career of each one.
set a record of 90.418 miles ar time to a Schultz Stutz Special every licensing district in the coun- its actual length is, of course, con Giving Warning.
When a pedestrian is crossing, the
CAR WITH FIVE
hour, while to the surprise of and the second time to a Hunt try, deals separately with private siderably greater. If the overall roud and is not likely to get out of Even experienced drivers are
many, Hartz established an Iden-Special, the latter holding the re-cars, commercial vehicles,"" and guilty of certain mistakes in giving should slow down. Sounding the the way in time the motorist
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length is reduced and the platform tical record in a closed car of the cord for the twisting, tortuous 12.4 hackneys. From past experience extended, the lorry becomes effec warning of their approach. Many horn may prove dangerous under
same make.
mile climb at 17-minutes and 10.3 it is possible to forecast with a very tively longer though actually shor- drivers when wishing to overtake a
Last May, Eddie Hearn, racing, seconds.
close degree of accuracy the number such conditions, because if the
ter. slower-moving vehicle begin tootling
champion of 1923, drove a Willys While no complete horoscope of of commercial vehicles on the road their horn long before it is necespedestrian be nervous it may cause
Six roadster in a new series of the future of racing can be essay-at the end of each quarter. In the An interesting example of how sary, and by their persistence in panic and then there is no saying in
trials ranging from one to 500 miles ed at this time, there is every in-12 months to September hackneys this can be managed is afforded by Bounding it they annoy the skilled which direction he will move. The
London, July 20, at Dry Lake, Muroc, Calif., where dication, that the activity will more are expected to show a further de one of the latest models produced by driver in front or upset the novice only time when the born is neces-
Many tradesmen require a vehicle he attained a record speed of 70.69 and more become stabilised on the crease, and it is estimated that the Albion Motors, Ltd, the well-known driver. Instead of doing good they sary is in the case of a "jay walker,"
over the one-mile basis of a rounded out series of new sales of all commercial vehicles Glasgow commercial motor manu- often defeat their own object, be someone who is wool-gathering and which they can use for business miles per hour
facturers. Their standard : 40/45- cause the man in front is reluctant must have his attention called to the purposes during the week and con-course, thus winning for Willys the tracks at various strategic points will be 67,380.
vert, into a passenger vehicle for, Class C record for the mile throughout the country: At least, In spite of a drop of 7,124 in the cwt. lorry-is 19 feet long and carries risk He is running. But even in this case one blast is generally vehicle could be used as a shop or
private use at the week-end: If this straightaway.
all signs at the present point that number of hackneys it is expected a platform 10 ft. 9 in. long. They The Studebaker Corporation, long way. In fact, the Contest Board, that the total number of commercial have now produced a model embody- sufficient.
show-room, as well as a delivery committed to such tests, in conjunc-under its three-year programme, has vehicles in use on November 30 next ing similar components but with the If a car be stationary and it is van, and for a caravan as well as a tion with the American Oil Com-adumbrated plans looking toward will be 467,781, an increase of 6,150 driver's seat placed alongside the seen that someone is tinkering with passsenger vehicle, it would be a pany, sponsored a series of hill the creation of a championship cir- compared with November 30 last, engine, so that the space taken up the engine or changing an off-side very sound commercial proposition climbs with a Studebaker President cuit which would include with the At the same date 1,029,290 private by the cab is saved. wheel or performing some similar to the man who is in business on stock roadster driven by Ab Jenkins existing high-grade tracks a series cars are expected to be in service,
and negotiated some of the coun- of one-mile banked dirt tracks.
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| duty a single hoot is advisable, But his own account.
when a stationary tram is discharg- Such a vehicle is actually in pro-
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80 per cent. of which in 1981 were
Jan increase of 25,891. New sales, DIESEL CAR AT BROOKLANDS.
A Good Impression Created.
ing passengers. It is useless. It duction in England, according should be realised that the passen- "Motor Transport," and, in addition TAXATION REFORM served a very useful purpose in at 199,000, a reduction of 5,000.
gers will get in the car's path, so to the above, it can be converted slowing down or stopping is essen- into an ambulance. The conver tial. Hooting in these circumsions are carried out by means of stances only tends to frighten interchangeable fittings to panels in nervous people.
IN BRITAIN.
the side of the body and an alter- Important Debate On A
Tax Scale Proposal.
Existing
native dome-type roof.
be modified at a bodies, too, can price of well under £20.
but "SAFETY COACH IN
After Dark. The horn should be sounded dur ing the hours of daylight when ap proaching blind crossroads, but doing so does not give driver the right to continue at the same speed. There are some who do this, for they consider hooting all that is necessary to clear their path. Sounding the horn is necessary, but at the same time the speed of the car should be reduced to an extent
HOLLAND.
Emergency Exit In The Roof.
deed.
for replacement purpose, are put
It is added that the market for Paint Stressed.“
entirely new entries into private Captain Strickland stressed the car usage is now small when come point that in 1922 the average duty pared with only two or three years
MOTOR NOTES AND NEWS.
Petrol Price War In Durban
per car was $15 55., and in 1981 It 480. had fallen to £12 5s., a decrease of 19 per cent. This country was the ALL-ROUND REDUCTION. most heavily taxed in the world under the horse power system The
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In the early part of last year
quite a lot of interest was aroused
[by the fact that a car with a Diesel | engine --recorded a speed of 100.75 mip.h.› at Daytona. A little later this car took part in the 500 Miles Irace at Indianapolis, and completed the course without refuelling at an average speed of 86 m.p.h.
Recently Mr. Cumming demon- strated this car at Brooklands, 'and made several laps at a speed of About 74 m.p.h., higher speeds being
The question of a revision of the object of the proposed new
new scale was to dzcourage the manufacture scale of the horse-power tax has of the higher-powered cars, as not A petrol price war raging in been the subject of debate in the only were we losing through the Durban is said to have forced House of Commons in connection lack of demand for such cars at several garages out of business. with the Finance Bill.
| being able to place on the foreign An American engineer has de-Impossible owing to the fact that In our advocacy__for taxation markets the higher-powered cars veloped a system of injecting water a lower gear had been fitted for reform, writes a British editor, which were required.
into the cylinders of an internal ordinary use, with rather tighter
home; but we were debarred from
London, July 20. which makes it possible to pull up A Dutch coach company has re- we have contended that there The question of motor taxation combustion engine, which, he claims, pistons This car has a four within a few yards.
cently. taken delivery of British should be an all-round reduction so reform received the strongest pos enables him to get substantially cylinder engine developing 118 b.h.p. Sounding the born at crossroads built coach for touring in. Holland soon as the economical consible support from Sir Robert twice the thermal efficiency of the at 2,800 r.p.m. and in its present after, dark is never necessary. The and Switzerland, says Motor Träns ditions admit of
This Horne, a previous Chancellor of the ordinary engine. The Motor condition. It has just completed a 4,000-miles' tour of the Continent, safest plan is to trust to the bead-port. When touring in Holland proposed newscale is in Exchequer, who laid great emphasis Cycle."
averaging 36 miles per gallon, and lamps. A driver may not hear a there is the danger that should the fact, a compromise, as it does on the hopeless disadvantage of blast on the horn, but, he cannot coach leave the road it will become not commence to operate on the British car in competition over car Tics through the streets with a total fuel cost of less than fall to see the beam of light coming submerged in water. For the safe vehicles below 12 h.p. Its effect seas by reason of the fact that the of Douglas, Isle of Man, on the 22. from one of the roads at right ty of the passengers in such cir- would be that on a 16. hp. car, for British manufacturer had been cir lines of the annual Monaco Grand At the track the engine started from cold quite easily, and could, of angles. A plan which is adopted by cumstances, therefore, there is an instance, the tax would be reduced cumscribed in the type of car he Prix, is being discussed.
course, be driven straight away many people is to switch off their emergency exit in the roof consist from $16 to £14; on a 20 h.p. car has produced to meet the situation headlamps if their own road being of a square of balloon silk £20 to £16; on a 80 h.p. car it would at home brought about by the A photo in "Motor Transport" without being warmed up The clear and then instantly switch them fitted with a ripping device. be reduced from £30 to £18, and on horse-power tax He advocated a gives some idea of the scope of a characteristic noise of the Diesel on again, this being done when Another interesting feature is a 44 h.p. car from £44 to £224 system of taxation upon motorcars modern road transport frm. It engine running light was noticeable, some forty or fifty yards away from that beside the driver is a seat for There were no high expectations that would leave the British manu- shows a large lorry carrying not although it was not very marked, the corner.
a courier, who has in front of him entertained as to this proposal facturer free to make the type of only all the furniture from house, and when idling ther Switching off call the attention a microphone connected to a loud being accepted by the Govern car which would be of anyone on the side roads in an speaker built into the back of the but it certainly led to unmistakable way. Of course If a coach. By this means the courier speaking in the cou beam of light be seen crossing the can make announcer en route to debate, and in that road at right angles speed the passengers without Jeaying his moving should be reduced.
the clau
universally but also toying behind it "the tinct smell from the competitors owner's 80ft. motor boat. The boat also a small am kera re was loaded on to the trailer at the engine, howev
of harbourside, at Scarborough and sistently and ity unloaded-into- the River:
were
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