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28TH, 1926
Motoring Notes:
A Weekly
Review dealing with matters of interest to all local motorists. The cost of running a car-500 miles a
[BY AN OWNER-DRIVER.]
YOU CAN AFFORD A CAR.
Many hesitates
owns n
would-be owner of
wage-earners are
·
month for 850.
UTILITY AND LUXURY, Of course, if you are a wealthy taipan to consider the subject in you would be foolish not to have the Nobody detail. He is always afraid of the ex-luxury that you can afford. pense. He may not know that in North supposes that you can buy the same America practically every working man luxury for an initial outlay of less than cat. In England the artisans 32.000 and a monthly expenditure of 360 a month that you get when - you pay weekly and other awakening to the fact that a car is $9,000 for a car that costs you 8950 a within their means, They are buying month to run. cars and not regretting their enterprise.
Let us consider the items that make In this Colony there are very few up the monthly bill. The most obvious Europeans who cancer afford to own and costs are petrol and tyres. Both of run a car. Amongst the Chinese there these commodities vary in cost according, is turious reticence which can only be one supposes, to the demand for petrol explained by the fact that the very idea | nad rubber, or the local, exchange räte of machinery is new to them.
or to other factors that are not obvious.
However, the prices do vary from time to time, but we will try to take as a fair figure for petrol in this Colony nicety cents a gallon. The cost of petrol per mile obviously depends upon the number of miles the car runs to the gallon of petrol,
It is not a fact, at any rate in the
motor industry, that the demand creates the supply. The big motor manufactur- ing firms in Europe and America have always helped to create a demand and have been ready with the supply.
Some people cannot realise this simple fact. Whatever the sacrifice may be, if you do buy a car it is well worth it. The CBF is worth try joy of having a sacrifice..
The Coué system for a time had
TOTAL COSTS,
So our total costs for petrol and tyres for four persons works out at less than five cents a mile..
There is lubricating oil, cost of license, insurance, repairs, and the garage. We will consider these items in detail
next week.
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In the meantime we have come to the
conclusion that motoring in this Colony need not be very expensive.
"If it costs us a total of 10 centa a mile we can do five hundred miles for 830, and very few people do more than five hundred miles a month. After all, that! means twenty-are trips to Repulse Bas. at least, nad many owner drivers can get i much better agures than those quoted above for a light car.
Why you save that in doctor's bills and in the money you pay, the chemist, The ladies would be able to save scrie ! fraction of the cost by cutting out the
cosmetics. It is much better to have the real health glow on the check that comes after you have bad a drive out into the clear atmosphere pf the South
side of the island.
There is now nothing unusual in seeing PETROL CONSUMPTION..
in lady driver in this Colony. There are Te is said that shermen have a failing Chinese ladies who drive very well in- about the size of the catch which they deed. I is dícult to understand claim to have made during a day's fish- why the wives don't insist upon owning great vogue in England and no doubting. It must be owned that there are a car if the husbands have the luxury many people found themselves in better motorists who deceive even themselves of a club" health because they continued to repeat on the subject of petrol consumption per the formula" Every day and in every. way better and better."
mile..
The driver of a small car in England Many more people found a great in who did about 14,000 miles of rough provement in health when they trans-country gave his cost of petrol at just lated in action the words: "We must about one half-penny per mile. He gave uwn a car: every day we will find the the total cost per mile for petrol, tyres feel better and better and stores and repairs at one penny and oar farthing per mile. It should be stated that he was the owner driver of a very small ear.
way to better."
FALLACIOUS FIGURES. Jones is a Hongkong man. He is married and has a child. He explained that once he had hoped to have a car but the first man he consulted so alarmed him about the cost that he had never thought it possible for him to run one until his ship comes home."
Under cross-examination, Jones owned up that the man who frightened him runs a big car and pays a driver.
He told Jones that it cost him $250 a month to run his car.
He might also have told Jones that it cost him #1,500 a month to run his house. It does not cost Jones anything like 81,500 a month to run his house. You cut your cost according to the cloth."
If you are a wealthy man you can afford to own a big car and to hire falmost be owned by) a driver in nice
Raiform.
"in the old days in this Colony if you a wealthy man you could afford
were
to have a four-coalie chair for yourself and another one for your wife.
PETROL PUMPS.
A correspondent, commenting upon the
Note that appeared on this subject Inst week. informs me that a new addition to the number of petrol pumps in the Colony will be available for the public established by the A.P.O. (the Shell" ́in a few days. This pump is being
oil rendors) in Douglas Street, behind the General Post Office. Douglas Street runs from Des Vaux Road to the Praya.
It can be said at ouse that the public The average running conditions in will appreciate this convenience very England are more favourable for petrol much indeed, and I would like to con consumption than in this Colony, espe- gratulate the "Shell" people or their
enterprise. on the island: There are no long cially
uns which give the engine a chance to warm up thoroughly.
If we take a very fair figure, for a small car carrying four up, as thirty miles to the gallon in Hongkong, the petrol costs us three cents a mile, or less than a cent a mile per passenger. The most favourite expedition, during the summer months, is out to. Repulse Bay or Deep Water Bay, although there are many cars on the Kowloon side that do longer runs.
Suppose, however, that we consider a trip to Repulse Bay and back and say that it is a total of twenty miles. Then, on the basis given above. it costs us sixty cents for petrol.
"
It must be understood that this ques- tion of petrol pumps is not one that con- cerns only the oil companies and general public. The police have to con sider the problem of traffic..
the
The police authorities of this Colony are, in general, very good indeed about the trane regulations. Occasionally some over-zealous officer may, in his desire to do his duty, irritate a motorist, but on the whole the pelise are fair.
It might even be said that they temper justice with mercy. They will not allow any flagrant breaches of the regulations, but they do not. systematically persecuta the unwary.
They must however, take precautions about the traffic of to-day and they must consider, problems with an eye on the to understand the difficulties about placing traffic of to-morrow. It is easy, therefore, petrol pumps in central positions in the city.
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It is only fair to the driver of this parti cular "bus-it was either. 308 or 508-to
THE RETURN JOURNEY. On the journey back to town the driver and the one passenger were the only occupants of the vehicle.
It may be possible, however, to per- suade the Trade Department to allow a add that he seemed to be very reluctant
It to collect any fare at all. pump to be erected at Aberdeen, THE COST OF TYRES.
would be a great convenience to many motorista to have one there and it could This is a more difficult matter to If you were not wealthy it probably paid you to have a two-coolie chair to be castitate. The roads of the Colony have easily put well bäck from the main rond. There is a garage at Aberdeen and used by yourself and family rather than excellent surfaces. Despite that fact we there seems to be any amount of space always to be compelled to hire a chair. have to pay more dearly for tyre-mileage, whether this suggestion is car On wet nights and at other times it was than, in many other places. Not only is ried out immediately or not, it is a plea much more convenient to have your there a much great proportion of steep sure to be able to record the fact that family chair, rather than to be entirely gradients, but there are so many corners
You dependent on the hired chairs. to negotiate. were, at any rate, always saved the worry of sending for a chair, the uncer tainty of getting one, and the repeated demands for "cumshaw."
.
Experience leads one to suggest that
a total mileage of 6,000 for a set of tyres is a cautious figure to use as a basis for tyre consumption on a light car-say a car weighing about 16 cwt. abd carrying four up most of the time, the four being of average weight for
adults.
there soon will be another petrol pump in the central district. One owner-driver gives his promise to use it.
LOCAL BUS SERVICES.
run
On this occasion the passenger had. nothing less than a dollar bill.
The driver was very sorry but he could not change that. The passenger wanted to get out near the cricket ground and the driver obligingly opened the door near to the driver's seat. He really did not seem to mind at all whether payment were made or not.
inore.
Finally he (the driver) produced seventy: cents and explained that all the search- There are many roads, in Hongkong ing of pockets possible could produce.no where it would be impossible to
In the end the driver, had the dollar bill electric tramways, hut where petrol It most certainly does not cost $250 a
'busea can supply a demand for a cheap and the passenger had the seventy centa
The passenger did not grudge the ten- month to run a amall car in this Colony.
and rapid transport service.
The latest route to be so served is along that any rickshaw puller would do the cents extra, although it is quite certain If you want economy you must be
Caine Road. The 'buses run from Statue It costs ever contcht with a small car.
Pier to the University Western gate. The journey for twenty cents.
What worried the passenger was the so much more in petro! and tyres to run
The inner tubes will last longer than service, was commenced a few days ago thought that the service may fail. It
It is said to be on trial for a month but a huge seven-seater weighing 1 tons than it does to run a small runabout several outer covers. Indeed, we might that seems hardly long enough for a fair would not be possible to make the Fest almest neglect the cost of the inner estimate to be made of the possibilities tramway pay handsomely if such methods were used. They don't do that sort of that weighs just about 16 cwt/
There is a considerable amount of hill tubes. So excellent are the roads of this
It would be impertinent on the part thing on the electric trams.
It is hardly fair to judge the possibili- climbing to be done in Hongkong. If Colony that the inner tubes seldom paper, al à passenger to attempt to dictate to ties, of this service unless there is some you have to lift a car up, to the Peak itture. They may blow out if you wear the managers of this survice, but it is check on the receipts,
The one great need of this island is note about improvements that seem pos the replacement of rickshaws by petrol means doing three times the amount of the outer covers down too much, but by possible that they may care to have a litting if the car is three times heavier carpally watching the outer covers you, sible.
driven vehicles and public bus services than that owned by the other fellow, should get the full mileage out of them
nuisance Petrol services, however, muit is petrol driven took a joy ride in be efficient. This service runs along Caine There are, moreover, other things that and remove them before the canvas trial one keen supporter of anything that are to be encouraged. Rickshaws are a
one of these huses. count besides the mere lifting of the twenty perforated.
or thirty hundredweights up to a height A set of four outer covers for wheels of, say, fourteen hundred feet. A heavy the size of a Ford car works out at just car is much harder on the tyres when over ninety dollars. Let us, for the sake starting or getting up to speed, and of round numbers, say that the car will also when the brakes are put on. The run 6,000 miles at a total tyre cost of brakes have to be put on much more $100. In order to be conservative and frequently in town traffic with a big car safe, we will estimate two cents a mile then with a small one. It cannot get for tyres for our owner driven light four through so easily.
of this route.
lo order to give the new enterprise” n
There was no conductor; probably that Road every quarter of an hour and should is inevitable. The driver collects the be a great help to the Chinese and Euro
A word of praise should be spared for twenty cents, which is the authorised fure. Pean residents in that western area. That was quite all right on the journey the general comfort of the buses They out from town, because it so happened that the passenger had twenty cents. He roll along easily and without shock. The A comparison of this form of transport rather expected a ticket. In his innocente seats, are most comfortable. he began to wonder how the shareholders with a chair or rickshaw makes one realise could be sure that someday some driver that motor traction is much more plea might not accidentally put the twenty sant than the older methods. Gradually we shall find that rickshaws will dis- cents into his own pocket.
appear.
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