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HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 261, 1928
Motoring Notes:
A Weekly
Review dealing with matters of interest to
Second Hands Cars Bargains and
all local motorists. Otherwise.
BY AN OWNER-DRIVER,]
THE UNKNOWN. A correspondent has asked the not unusual question. Is it better for the The water driver is greatly dithered novice to buy a new ear or a second-hand | when the smallest thing goes wrong.
is the fear of the unknown,
car?"
It is just one of those, types of ques. tions that you cannot possibly answer without all sorts of qualifications. It is almost as if a lady, rather out of fashion (in these days) with long hair, naked mere male whether he thought th would look better with bobbed hair!
However, the correspondent is anxinus ly awaiting some advice about his con- templated purchase. Maas another would.
car owner is doubtless wondering whe- ther he can, take, the risk of a second. hand car
The natural human hunger for a bar. zain makes all of us optimistic. If we -hear that there is a chance to obtain
something for less than its real value, we usually jump as the opportunity, Afterwards we may wonder whether we really were wise in our choice.
BARGAINS.
A some of us look back over our early experiences we smile at the state of mind we worked ourselves up into about a stride.
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AVLISE BRIDGES.
There has been quite" an interval. of time since the failure of the bridge at Taipo. No doußh the new bridge will be a great improvement on the old one." It may be excuseable to express the hope that it will be wide, on firm foundations and as beautiful as can be expecteil.
There are ocher bridges that need to be widened even if they now are strong enough.
Perhaps the worst in the Colony is are reviewed. Two are published in London, threw in Berlin (the Germans above tilenealy on the Robinson Road, contribute valuable treatises an applied; it is scamething of a triumph for an Lamateur driver to strer his car round science) and one is a translation.
the narrow approach to the bridge.
It should not be an expensive job to widen that bridge. The subject has prob. bly not been considered teenuse the bridge is not used very much by these who have to deal with such matters.
The following extract from the E Itgineering vóview is of interest."* TE» book treats of many matters in handy and comprehensive forms, which will give the work a special value as a treatise and review of modern methods and plant) for road construction and maintenaner “ THE PROBLEM OF SKIDDING The reviewer, who is evidently a prac tieat read engineer. finds one small point of disagreement with the author of the book. He draws attention to the chapter entitie The Skidding of Vehicles
Some striking than by cases. and he adds commenta ALTH to be noted " it
The first time that we had to change a wheel was a great trial. We might.
of course, have practised that operation in a garage. In actual fact we waited, after the first struggle, until a car with nu passengers come along.
The obliging chauffeur had a much He did in about better jack than curs. five minutes, what we had failed to do in ten
the
He seemed reluctant to
dollar offered. We began to realise the chivalry of the road when he just innghed, turned aside from the dollar note, and said Maske."
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"this
It is recorded that the Minister for Transport in Great Britain now has the power to free roads and bridges of tolls, to experiment-with "road materials" and
eliminate blind corners.
LEGAL DEPENCE.
The Association provided ingat defencra during the year under review in po leas Out of those summonses for speed numbered 134, brakes 94.. chapter. It certainly is remarkable that notfilmination of number plates 70 the coeficient of friction between the road and the wheel, which is about 0.9
arnt.
follows:-
and dangerous driving 30.
As far as most of us are, aware there
after a heavy rainfall should" drop to
[are enrolled, as such, as members of the 12 when a skidding medium is prere no owners of commercial vehicles who "Thy point of disagreement between the local Automobile Association. The time lorries and motor buses that there will author and the reviewer, is expressed as cor whara there will be so many be a Hongkong Commercial Motor Users' Another statement made is to the
Association. effect that skidding will seldom occur, if at all, on a newly laid surface, the trouble only commencing, when Ai Ler
view is hardly confirmed by experience on some of the relief and other big roads
ANTI-DAZZLE.
In this Colony the amateur driver who Of course, there are bargains to be is stuck on any of the roads on the picked up if you are lucky. There are figland is almost sure of assistance from those who are suddenly transferred from some friendly driver,
There are many instances of passengers the Colony to other parts of the Far! East, and who do not wish to take a being carried hons and assistance froskidding medium has accumulated. This periments have been continued with re-
a garage sent out to relieve a complete i stranger. The motorists are always
ear with them. They want to sell quick-
It is recorded in the report that ex-.
ference to the anti-uzzle problem. In is unfortunately only foo true that this
circumstaners, is the bold way Adversympathy of the road which is mast the neighbourhood of London.
The best way to sell a car. under such ready to help each other there is. which have bern, recently completed in problem is still unsolved.
'tis it and don't hesitate to spend a few valuable to, the amatriir. dollars in advertising.
The way to obtain a really good pries for a second-hand car is to get several offers for it. The best way to obtain such offers is to advertise the fact that the car is to be sold. The simplent, and the cheapest way of advertising in this Colony is by the insertion of notices in the local presk.
A WISE COURSE.
If you can is quite sure that you are obtaining tair value for your money, then by all means hug a second-hand car if it is your first ear.
Only it is a well to remember that you may be sold a "pup," In this Unlong, however, it should be fairly simple to trace de history of any car,"
The seller of the car may be lucky
After a time you will find that your enough to find two or three people who ambitions will soor; especially if you want to buy a seond-hand car and bedrive the ear yourself. 'may be able to get quite a good price. What, then, is a good price for second-hand ear?
THE MILEAGE.
You will want a more powerful car and you will want the car to look
1 smart
The owner-driver takes as myth in One of the most prominent motor-carterest in his car as does a jockey in his manufacturers in Great Britain, told the WOUEL writer, dating his last trip homes." that very few articles "depreciated" in rulir as rapidly as a motor car.".
That car will sell for £350 in the show-room, where the tyres are brand new and the body-work done up, to please the Inilies. Take it for a 300 mile run and you have also taken twenty-five per cent, off the value of, the car."
SMALL CARS,
1 is as well for the higinner to have, as a first er a fairly small one. The big cars are more difficult to manteurre,
Two Braters are sometime called Disobligers and perhaps they deserve the name. "They are, however, easier to handle chain the large seven seaters.
The very large cars, after having run several thousands of miles, have a ten, doney to "eat" petrol,
The experiments have been made with We must leave the experts to argue tinted lamp halbs. That may bring the At present the this matter out. No doubt they will as much needed solation. cumulate data. The sparks that Ayal method is that of dimming" from a technical controversy often burn the head-lights. up old ideas which have become current
hüt have no scientific foundation,
THE LOCAL ROADS. Our chief concern is the state of the local roads. We gratefully acknowledge the efforts made by the authorities 10 minimise the risk of skidding. Septe times we wish that the sand throwers would arrive on the scene of action inmediately the rain makes the roads difficult.
There is, however, never any danger for the very cautious driver: The novier is strongly advised to use the low gears when he is going down hill or round sharp corners on a very rainy day.
COMMERCIAL VEHICLES.
The anal report of the Comunercial Motor Users' Association, which has just reached us is a reminder of the rapid growth of this branch of the motor industry. "Among many itenis mentiourd in the report are the following which ara of local, interest.
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Urgent representations are being mad- that derelict or wrak. bridges should b strengthened and widened to meet modern
He went on to explain that it was a difficult matter to sell a new car that was of last year's make. For there are There is a five seater car in this Colony fashious in motor-cars and some wealthy that, having rui about 60.000 miles, was people insist on being always up-to-picked up " for $500. New it cost traffic requirements. That itens reminds date.
24,000. It is said to consume petrol at us of some of the unsatisfactory bridges
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They will have the latest model of the particular car they fancy. When they Lell last year's model you may pick up a bargain.
the rate of a gallon to night miles.
It is as well to advise the beginner not to worry too much about petrol con. sumption and other economies until some
The first thing that any would-be pur-expericuce has heen gained. It a great chaser of a second-hand car should be mistake to be always making adjust- aure about is the mileage run by thements...
car. ? THE AMATEUR.
What the correspondent probably had
The one thing that each beginner, should learn to do is to clean the spark- ing pluga. It is an easy task. With
much more rapidly than with a new
in mind was this problem. As I know second hand cars the plugs "soot up nothing at all about motor-ears and as I must learn drive on the car I pur chase, isn't it safer to obtain a rather cheap and old car rather than a bränd new one?"
car.
In gruer it may be said that it is quite a good plan for a beginner to break. in his prentice "hand in a second-hand It usually is better to do so.
Most
car. It is to be hoped that the corres.) people who are learning to, drive, or
pondent who made the enquiry will ob bave driven only for a few weeks,
tain a real bargain. manage to bump into something or Father
The garage is the favourite place for! crumpling up the mudguards of a car.
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PRACTICAL · ROAD
ENGINEERING.
·Mr. H. E. Goldsmith has every reason
The tail-lamp sometimes suffers if there to feel satisfied with the reception given.
is no bumper at the back of the car. by the press to his book on
You cannot have it both ways. If you Road Engineering."
Practical
pay a much lower price for a second- The local newspapres" gave it a good hand article than for a similar article deal of fully merited praise. The latent when it is new, you take something of is of the widely circulated technical A risk.
journa! Engineering (London), devotes the place of bonour in the section Literature" to this book. It is some- thing for a technical author to have his work noticed in this journs which
A second-hand car will almost certain. ly cost more for repairs than a new čar.
There is more likelihood that it will "let you down."' If you are wealthy selects only the more important, books enough to have a chauffeur that may not matter so much.
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in this Colony!
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