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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 9th, 1927.
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A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
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Motor Notes-London's Car Park Problem-Mussolini's Wonder Motor Roads-Sending the New Car by Hadio-"Hush, Hush" Order for London-Tropical Troubles.
MOTOR NOTES.
MOTOR COACHES OVER THE ALPS.
HUSH, HUSH!” ORDER
FOR LONDON.
EXPENSIVE FUTURE FOR THE NOISY MOTORIST.
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Streets full of smooth, allent traffic-motors with soundless ca- gines, motor-cycles with hardly a whisper coming from them.
PARK
LONDON'S CAR P
PROBLEM.
ROOF GARAGES NOW SUGGESTED.
2,000 NEW CARS PER WEEK.
That is what the great London
The proposal to construct under streets-roaring and crowded nowa ground garages under London days with noisy streams of traffic
should be like. It is because squares in order to relieve traffic | they are not that Sir William congestion caused by stationary Joycson-Hicks, the Home Score
vehicles again, focuses attention' on a problem
of over increasing trgency a
As a result of important motor testa now being made over high and narrow Alpine passes it is hoped that the Swiss postal charabane service will soon be carrying pas sengers, parcels and mails across the Alps all the year round. The summer organisation is already the most important mountain service run by any Government. It began 73 years ago with 408 coaches To-tary, has ordered a rigorous police
campaign against noisy motorista. day it numbers 3,008 coaches and
The parking and speeding laws 1,551 sleighs. There are still 818, are also to be tightened up. horses used, but the arrival of the motor has revolutionised this moun tain traffic. At first the coaches wore just taken over from the army. They had solid tyres and they were few in number. To-day | the old solid tyres, have largely given place to Dunlop pneumatics; the coaches themselves have been equipped with scoops, picks, axes and other appliances; and there are now 19% of them (63 of 60 h.p.) in the service of the travelling post, with 182 others for heavy work.
These coaches now ply at greater height than any in the world, and the extension of their work to the winter months will not only be an achievement of impor tance to the Swiss Republic, but a pioneer motoring experiment.
A ** SHOCKING
PERIENCE. -
EX-
A curious experience befella member of the editorial staff of The Motor the other day when, wishing to ascertain the tempera- ture of the front-brake druins" of his car after a braking test, he re- ceived powerful electric shock. Not only was the sensation nearly as strong as if he had grasped hold of a high-tension lead while the engine was running, but he dia tinctly heard the crackle of the spark leaping from the brake drum to his finger. This" unusual ex- perience serves to show that a con- Biderable charge of static electri city can be generated by the fric tion of the linings on the brake drums. In the case in point it is probable that the drum was in-
culated from the rest of the chassis by a layer of grease round the steering pins, etc., while, of course, the wheel could not be directly earthed owing to the dry rubber
tyre.
A secret of the new anti-noise
With new motor-cars coming on campaign is hinted at in the off- cial warning issued by the Home the road at the rate of 2,000 a week Office. I peeps out in the phrase and a prospect of the number being observations.
which speaks of Jix's personalargely augmented in the next year,
the problem of where to leave the car is going to be one of the greatest confronting motorists and the police.
Warnings Ignored. "He has to travel about the country a good deal, and in the last year or so he has seen for him self that the noisy motorist is an Office chief to The Evening News are difficult to find, as there are In London the public car parks intolerable puisance," said a Home
His own experience coupled no direction signs; in number they with the mass of information which
are hopelessly inadequate to meet has reached him from other sources
take the needs of the thousands who has determined him to action."
want to leave their cars, and the
Hence the warning: Motorists are therefore again warned that if they desire to escape liability to the fine of £10 provided by the law they must see that their niachines are effectively silenced, and that they must use and drive them so as to reduce the noise of their exhausts as far as may be reasonably practicable.
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Listening To The "Pop.” The people who motor at the top of their voices" have been usleterred by the previous police efforts. Although there were 5,700 prosecutions against them in the Metropolitan District alone in the first six months of this year, the streets are as loud as ever.
Scotland Yard's traffic authori ties-will-from-now-on haten in with the utmost care to the traffic sounds, and a noisy exhaust will quickly land its owner in front of
magistrate,
time limit of two hours is so short that they are almost useless to those who dine out or go to the theatre.
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Vision Of The Future.
Turning many of London's 363 squares into underground garages, may go a fair way to relieve the present disabilities, but in the next ten years everybody will be motor- ing everywhere.
There is nothing for It - but garages being considered an essen- tial part of all big stores, restaur ants, hotels, theatres, and so on. Some atores have special parks and garages now, but the idea will have to be extended, for London streets do not lend themselves to parking like those of New York.
Even the Automobile Association admitted that although the day of Wast End Garage Charges. soundless traffic is bound to come, it has not arrived yet." There has
"We have tried to persuade the teen vast improvement in the last Ministry of Transport to extend Commenting editorially "on this two years," declared one of its offi- the car parking limit of two hours experience, The Motor states:cials" but there are still some
Definite evidence has been obtain-motorists who like to hear their with a view to helping those attend. ed from time to time that a car engines.
ing theatres or dining at hotels or can become charged with statie
In the residential districts they restaurants," said an official of the electricity, which may be non are a perfect nuisance.
We wel technically defined as electricity come the new order, as long as it AA," but the Ministry has been
The two hour limit for parking in the crowded central areas will be still more rigidly enforced.
At rest. To the scientist the con- does not mean, persecuting, the dition is a specially interesting average motorist." one, and it is certain that much has yet to be found out concerning this remarkable phenomena. At the outset it should be made clear that the static electrification of a ca has nothing to do with the electri cal equipment or its operation. A circumstance which decounts for
Here
ONE ESSENTIAL DRIVING SIGNAL.
much is the fact that a car is elec In an article on driving methods trically insulated from the earth The Light Car and Cyclecar mays by its rubber tyres, provided these it considers that there is only one are in dry state. is an interesting instance of the essential signal-namely, to denote conversion of mechanical energy by turn to the right; it is given by friction between metal and fabric extending the right arm horizontal into a powerful static charge, and and a quite unmistakable is probably a very, Frequent copdi. manner. When turning to the left tion in the ordinary everyday use down, conditions are very differ
when stopping or when slowing of a car."
cut, and any of these changes of driving tactics can be made with out regard to other road traffic, providing they are carried out in a common-sense way. The control of a car on the toad should be
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WATER MAY RUIN YOUR ENGINE.
A leakage of water from the ecol- ing system of a motor-car engine to the sump, even if, the leak be made as simple and safe as possible, minute, is most likely to produce and, affirras our contemporary serious consequences; the detection multiplicity of driving signals de of the trouble, however, is by no feats rather than helps to attain means simple, and quite a consider this object. able quantity of water may drain through and do untold harm to the
STUDEBAKER
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unable to accede to this, the point they rightly make being that the public streets cannot be used as a substitute for garages.
"Car parks are only for those who wish to leave their cara ten- porarily while they do business. car for more than two hours there For those who want to leave their
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"We Lave had allegations that charges are excessive in the West End garages, but we have proved. them to be exaggerated. The aver age charge for a small car for six hours is ; for the biggest cars it is more naturally.
Abusing A Privilege. The London polico do their ut most to help motoriste and give them reasonable latitude in leaving
their cars where no obstruction is likely to be caused. Rightly, they COMMANDER are severe on those they find abus bearings before it can be detected. Repenting, within Afteen days, ing the privilege of the street, car It is not at alt usual, says their performance at Atlantic City parks and trying to make them The Light Car and Cyclecar, on September 5th, Studebaker
for an engine to leak oil from Commander Sport Roadsters won cheap substitute for a garage. its". Bump in alarming quan- the 70-mile race for stock cars Visitors to London would be tities, but some small decrease priced below $2,000 on the Char
in the level of the lubricant is lotte, N. C. Speedway, September told the nearest car park by any generally to be detected after a few 20th, and, were placed first, second, constable, and I do not think mat hundred miles usage of a ear. If and third. The race was won by
the oil always appears to be at a Ralph Hepburn, who crossed the ters will be greatly improved by constant level in the sump, and if finish line after averaging 88.56 having signs on lamp-posts saying the unsatisfactory running of the miles per hour for the 75 miles. where the adjacent parks were, for engine haa given cause to suspect None of the three Commanders en- the visitor would still have to ask the presence of foreign matter with tered made any stops. in the pils the lubricant, it should at once be and all finished the 75-mile
bis, way to
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drained into a clean container. In in perfect condition: HALL | all probability it will then be who piloted the winning Commst. The problem is a tremendously found that there is quite a con- der, in the Atlantic City, race in- difficult one, and after years of siderable quantity of water (with creased his average speed by 2.01 thought and considerat on we are ritst in surgersion) upon which the miles per hour-from 85.95 miles firmly convinced that underground libricant fa. Boating
per hour to an 88.56 miles per hour
garages are, the only solution."
(Continued on next Oolumn.)
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MODEL "70" 8 CTÍ. DOUBLE SLEEVE VALVE TOURING CAR-G.31,600;
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An Owner writes: "My Willys Kright has gone 140,000 Miles and has never given one minute's "trouble."
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which showed no wear at all."
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