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MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS
John Public And The Colony's Transportation System
Shanghai's Even Worse
By James Logan
The Shanghál
A short time ago I attended Publie Transportation Comber of passengers, this number is service to the public and a good Shanghai was involved in a but the sponsors a private showing of a film en,|panies are not what they should nearly always exceeded by a wide roturn to the owners. titled "Progress." This flm be, Judging by the letters to margin-too wide for safety.
picts the origin and develop ment of the Rootes Group and the historic and famous com. pantes controlled by the Group,
Humber. Hillman, Sunbeam Talbot, Commer, and Karrier- and takes in glimpses of 60 years of the motor industry, In- cluding war work undertaken during World War 1 and 2. The sub-title of the film is 'A Bercon record of British enterprise,' and It certainly lives up to this, being an excellent story of the wonderful development of one of the largest organisations in Britain's motor industry. I understand that Gliman & Co.
the papers on this subject, old John Public is really up in arms this time, so what I said last week about having to wait for confusion
Some busses have long seats along both sides, In order to accommo- date more strap hangers. Then tho drivers seem as if they enjoy the when they brake or
By Our Motoring Correspondent
I
Municipali Sante Fe going through South- Police Bureau today announced east Nebraska. There is an that one of every 11 cars in anti-noise campaign every year enn't mako traffic accident in the first alx themselves hoard, ‚¦ months this year which proves Military cars head the list expressed a wish that the AA been sald of Shanghal traffic.
Many private car owners have my point that not enough has issued today with 449 accidents should get organised again, es
in the first six months, usually minor cones such as colliding A few months of it and my with trams and side-swiping pecially their road patrols. Seems such
a pity that motorists in hair has bogun to turn grey, my Hong Kong should be so poorly nights filled with wild dreams in pedestrians, served in this respect when all which rickshaws. and, pedi-cabs count the times the military over the world automobile clubs swerve in and out of my disor blocks rame by beating up a-bus driver trying to collect fares and associations åre being re-or- dered · brain, and great red
from military personnel. ganised to give members so many busses with wood-panneled aldes facilities.
loom up like Loch Ness mon stors.
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There is always the experience of a friend of mine who speaks Chinesh and rides podi-caba, A
If you are riding in a taxi great army truck swerved in so life is a series of crises each close he could feet the heat of
the engine. worse than the last with your
"Pao kal, pac kal," he yelled driver whipping in and cut and
to the pedi-cab driver, meaning with blasting past street-cars horn, doilging past a man and set over Ch
"Ngat Ching Pi-chi-tal" the blcycle, pullod-past-vehiclca-by!
Many years ago there was „motor cycling club in Hong Kong. There are number of new ma- chines on the road now, and I ahali bo pleased to help form a motor cycle club I sufficient mo tor cyclists are interested. Week. who are distributors for the the Municipal Council to chase stop suddenly, throwing standing and runs could be arranged, and Rootes Group, are making ar- things along might not be passengers off their feet..
same club house fixed for meet rangements to show this im in their motor showrooms in Kow-necessary, For a city the size If it must be a monopoly, then ings where one could swap yarria, the thousandth part of an inch, driver replied, meaning: Shut
or repairing loon. It will certainly be worth of Hongkong, the number of it is up to the holders to provide etc., besides pealing facilities for curring out from under busses your eyes."-United Press.
maintaining ma- by a hair's breath and taking reckless chances one and while seeing, and I shall let | busses provided is totally in-❘ really, adequate services, with chines. Will interested persons readers have the dates on which adequate.
more and bigger and better please write and give their vows limb at every intersection. it will be shown as soon as I
It is almost impossible to get busses. If they cannot
to me, c/o the "China Mail"? Any And out.
a seat on any bus without three then someone who can should be suggestions will be most welcome. is terrifying unless you have of four strap.hangers almost alt- given a chance. Surely with all ting on top of you. Although the money available nowadays it Pub. there is a notice that buses are should be possible to buy and run
that licensed to carry a certain num-la fleet of busses
to give good
It now seems as if John lie hus suddenly realised
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If you are young' it is almost
absolute disregard for danger, understand ∙that further
marking paint cunning born to those who have suppiles of road have been received from England. scrambled for their lives and a It is hoped that a complete pro- "What the hell, its got to happen gramme of white lines and pedes- sometime" attitude. Every-in- trian crossings can be carried out tersection is a Rubicon for des- with proper signs denoting their pite cautious looks in all direc. use. Incidentally, a pedestrian
antons you are borne down upon crossing is going to be laid across by a pedi-cab driver, his fect the middle of Pedder-street so
as to enable people to pass its pedalling furiously, his bell safety through the line of cara ringing like a telephone at 3 and trame without having to go a.m, while he motions you, to to the junction.
Jump que way or another and onarls at your indecision,
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The number of new cars which wore Reenced in July totalled 900. This is one of the highest figures to be recorded since the liberation although the last for months have shown steadily
a Increasing number of applicants.
MOTORING LAW CURIOSITY
The Crown Proceedings Bill, which was read the third time and passed with amendments in the House of Commons
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This goes for the sidewalk too. Fore there you struggle like -a salmon going upstream to spawn, fighting your way post hawkers wliose wares cover most of the availablo space, shrugging of? beggara who specialise
and on*, foreigners, easing your way past sidewalk noodle joints. Constantly you must cope with unpredictable pedestrians who appear carrying ECONOMICAL REPAIRS two baskets of strange looldag qualified automobile engineers. frult at each end of a pole,
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You can't forget the traffic lessons given by experienced Friday, raises many subsidiary allence in your lonely room, astractors at moderate tees. questions of intercat to privato phrase turned out by some song writer who apparently has citizens.
One raised by Mr. L. W. never been in Shanghai. From morn till night there is a steady Joynson-Hicks (Conservativo) particularly concerns motorists. blast of noise that rises to a As the law stands at present in crescendo at the rush England. though not in Scot- which seems any hour between 5 a.m. and midnight some land-while the public authority: is responsible for repair and honking. continuously day in and
THE USED CAR PEOPLE day out as they crawl anall-like maintenance of the highway, through the maddening man- 3A. Tak Shing Str., Kowloon. lability attaches to t for
hour
This is the now Standard Vanguard six seater saloon now being produced by the Standard Motor Company in Britain. The car will sell for about 1400 overseas and 1500 in England, damage or injury lucurred by pulled traffic or hurtle down four cylinder 18 H.P. engine, petrol consumption of 27 miles in the gallon and top and the public as a result of failure Bubbling Well Road like the
Rear locker contains aniple space for luggage, spare otherwise carry out its obliga- to maintain the highway or
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Motorists who are "ditched" and austain injury because the ditch is overgrown have no re- dress either against the public authority or the Government. The cost of damage, caused by
New cars, to the number of chasers. Most of the new cars France, fe no less important. In potholes due to wear and tear 110,000 will be needed in Aus. that have so far been received] England, and such exhibitions on roads must be borne by the tralia before the end of 1847 in by Australian distributors have might go a long way towards immotorist and there are many order to supply those who must come from British factories. proving our national amenities. have a car for business or profes
alonal reasons, according to the inlest estimate of the Australian
Department of Transport. ' In ad- The 1946 agreement between!
The only Allard entered in the
other instances. As regards Scottish law, under which the public authority is Rable · for Buch matters of "non-feasanco", Mr. Joynson-Hicks pointed to the anomaly by which, a motorist meeting with an accident due to disrepair on the English side of
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dillen, thousands more new cars Eire and Northern Ireland all-Automovel Club de Portugal's will eventually be required to re-thorities providing facilities for pince the many worn out vehicles Northern Ireland motorists to Rallye Lisbon made the best per in that continent. In spite of a obtain supplies of petrol for their formance out of an entry of 173, the border has no recourse 10 CWT, LIGHT VAN, substantial rise in the prices of cars while holidaying in Eire, has including cers made; in, America, against the Crown, whereas, if populai ears Australion distrs since been extended, so as, In-Canado, England, France, Ger. ho falls into a pothole 10 yards. butors are hard but to it to meet cludo motorists from Gt. Britain many and Italy. Not only did the further on he can sun the the demands of would be pur and elsewhere. it is no longer Allard lose no marks during the appropriate Minister.
necessary for a British tourist to register his cat in Eire before ob. 1,500 mile road section, but driven toining supplies of petrol in that by A. Godfrey Imhof, made the fastest time in both runs in the country.
eliminating texts,
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New president of the Royal Swedish Automobile Club, suc. ceeding his brother Prince Gustár Adolf, who was killed in an air plane crash at Copenhagen In January, is Prince Bertil, a well known national racing driver.
If you store petrol for use in a car but not for resale, the AA polat out that the following con. ditions must be observed:-1, Leak-proof metal containers must be used. 2. The storage place, un less in the open air must be pro. perly ventilated, and have an en trance direct from the open alt.
An expert e estimates that during, Proper means of extinguishing 1947 some 3,800,000 carn will be a patrol fire, such as a supply of built in the USA excluding the sand for, earth-must be readily strike factor, Including commaer avaliable. dial vehicle production, this would alderdik. river's total figure of 4,700,000 | 100% AME units which compared with 8,100,000 unlis-produced in 1946 Hot on the and 4,800,000 produced in 1941: Italian Volpe Last year the USA. manufactur. engined 250 ed:144,000 cars for export, or, 0.7 by the
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The Attorney General, Sir Hartley Shawcross, was sympa- thetic to such arguments. The absence of such lability was survived from times and cir cumstances,ANI
„The purpose, of the Crown Proceedings Bill, however, and Sir Hartley, was not to reform general principles of law but simply put the Crown in the same position as a subject under Όπο existing rules of law. could not start altering a general principle of law in relation; ta particular defendanta only.
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