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[AP.2]
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 22nd,
MOTORING NOTES SECRET CAR FOR
(CONTD.).
|_ COMPLETE_SERVICE STATION.
PRIVATE LOCK-UPS AND REPAIR SHOPS.
DURO MOTOR COMPANT'S ENTERPRISE.
|
WORLD RECORD.
CAPT. CAMPBREL'S WIND- CHEATER.
AN "ORDER OF THE ROAD."
AND SOME OF THE EXPRES
»"SIONS OF OPINION IT
HAS INSPIRED.
1928.
qual festions The annouaesment
tr
that careful
A
A MOTOR RIDDLE.
“Is a steam-roßer a motor-car i was the middle the Hampstead Bench was asked to solve.
Hebry Edward Milier, of Lime
of the inauguration of the "Order" has brought farth ridicule, and "the" worst kind of cynicism is that IS A STEAM-ROLLER A CAR? which has the scheme as an all- mission-by-the-whole motaningcont munity that it is time they, set about seriously to put their own house in order." That is a daning- Last week we published an aping, a dangerous and a most unde- WINGED TAIL TO KEEP IT Presintion, somewhas ideastie per rable frame of wind to have e-ho was summoned for driving aps, of a Road Fellowship League, couraged. Underlying most of the out two independent brakes and a steam-roller at Hampstead with STEADY.
which had been proposed by the comments adverse to the "Order" National Safety First Association, there is The following account of the ear
some thought such without a driver's licence The following extruct from The this: with which Capt. Malcolm Computer shuns the ine which
Is it necessary bell beat the world's record of criticism of such schemes is taking motorists should be, encouraged
p.b, held by Major Segrave, will be of interest
Press opinion has taken vory
to regard themselves as a class much the lie we anticipated.
especially entitled to pride and It will be remembered that Major There is very little of whole-heart- respect Members must five with two 300 hp. aeroplane enception where there is an approv Segrave's giant Sunbeam was fitted fed approval. Alarost without ex- clean licences and precise car. A steam-roller if gines, while the single engine. in
conduct themselves considerately have a hern or bell and an efficient silencer, nad always work Why is a dis in a forward direction. Captain Malcolm Campbella Blue Bird is rated at 900 h.p.
tinguishing badge required to in- dicate anything of the kind! Should not every motorist, be so queEfied, and should not the law be enough to impress the impor- tance of good conduct on bad ¦ drivers without an attempt to attach the savour of chivalry to ordinary decent behaviour i
There are many novel featurus in the design of the car, as well
in the engine, which still re- in a secret of the Air Ministry. The oli tank is situated at the front, over the ront axle," and behind this is the engine. The driver's cockpit is almost over the
rear axle.
One very novel fenture is the
of
there ing adte
in the future.. are damaging (Guntínued on 'next Columni)
I am able, writes a correspondent to the Daily Mail, to give addi-, tional details of Captain Carp bell's car. The engine is similar to that used by Lieut. Webster," sub- jeet to modifications necessary to adapt it for cat purposes. It des velops as much horse-power as pawerful locomotive.
LTL
Tho Duro Motor Company, Ltd., of Kowloon, have adopted a very go-ahead policy for the near future, and if all goes well there will be big changes at their Nathan Road premises in the next month or two,
The old Club de Recreio premises and ground, situated immediately behind the present garage and ser- vice station, bave been leased and cxtensive additions to the .Com
We can well imagine that similar pany's buillings will be made here.
questions would be asked if some Lock-Ups.
zealot suddenly conceived the idea dual
of establishing radiator, The development of most immed-which is placed over each of the
"Order of one part
Morality for the entire com- iate interest to motorists is the back wheek The radiator is con
Built Like An Aaroplane. imunity. Although there is still a erection of lock-up garages along-ested to the engine by pipes. The The body, modelled on acroplace throughout the land, it has not considerable mount of crime side the present building. At first end of the car and above it is aa serica of elaborate tests by badges for honest men to wear as petrol tank is right at the rear lines, has been constructed after
been thought necessary to issue à line of ten lock-ups for small cars large tail for directional stability. Messrs. Vickers in their experia mark of special distinction The is to be built, and a 90-foot concrete
ln spite of this bowever the car, montal wind tunnel. Wind resist approach will be laid down. Later her travelling at 210 m.p.h. in a
ance has been reduced to a nini. further lines will be put up, and it gale turned roadside on, but taum,
If the body originally fitted is estimated that in all the ground Captain Campbell, was somehow
to the chassis wore used 1,100 horse will be able to accommodate as able to wight it again.
power would be required to reach many as 50 lock-ups if necessary. In addition to Captain Camp-a speed of 230 miles an hour. With These garages will be substantially bell's Blue Bird two American the new wind-cheating body, 700 built of brick with concrete flooring, ears were to have made an attempt horse power should give this speed. and in all probability iron roofs, and upon the record. These wore Frank will form a thoroughly efficient pro- Lockhard's 400 h.p. Stutz and Mr. tection of the ear in every way. White's 3 engined, 1,500 h.p. car. The first ten to be erected upon The latter car however was dis which work will be started almost qualified owing to the absence of immediately, are expected to be clutch, differential and reverse rendy for use in six weeks or two gear. months. The monthly rent will be an extremely moderate figure. They have already been hooked in ad-
vance.
A Showroom,
These lock-ups will relieve the over-crowding of cars in the existent garage, and it is intended to turn the harbour end of the building into
a showrooms for Overland Whippet and Singer cars, for which makes the Duro Motor Company is the service station and Messrs. Gilman & Co., Ltd., are ants.
Workshops.
There are already workshops of rather temporary nature behind-the garage, but the old premises of the Club de Recreio are to be converted iato up-to-date, shops, after exten- Hive alterations, such as the replace. nent of the present wooden floor by a concrete floor at a lower level, allowing cars to be brought actually into the-shop.'
These shops will be fitted with all the latest repairing plant, and will include facilities for painting and enamelling coachwork, end for repairing or renewing the upholstery of cars. These facilities will be used entirely for repair work as it is not intended actually to assemble new cars of to do any body building, in the shops.
A Live Concern.
It certainly seem that on the completion of such a programme the Euro Motor Company will be one of the most up-to-date repair and ser- vice stations in the Colony.
With
its fine and convenient situation it should reap a good reward for this very live policy of development. especially because Kowloon appears to be essentially the side for the owner-driver, for whom the Com- pany have always made 2 very definite effort to cater.
OPENING UP THE FAR EAST.
ENGLISHMEN'S UNIQUE .. FLYING VENTURE.
After struggling amid snow and floods for ten days and being de layed by 70 mile an hour gales, two airmen, who will shortly be arriving in the Far East on an im- portant survey fight, have at lant been able to get away from Stag Lane Aerodrome, London.
They are Flying Officers J. B. Newalk and Nevill Vinternt and they have set out to study, local. conditions with a view to running passenger services between dracoes- sible centres; to demonstrate the possibilities of air survey by photo- graph; and to show how aeroplanes may be used for spraying and. dusting crops with insecticide from the air.
They are flying in two. D.H.s machenes fitted with ordinary Dun- lop motor tyres instead of acrO, plane tyres, so that the risk of puisture will be reduced when landing on the desert, stretches of Mesopotamia and Arabia where came thorns work their way into the tyres
A photographer and a mechanic complete the crew; and a lady, Mrs. Wiseparker, is accompanying the expedition is passenger to Cairo. Their route, after leaving England and France, is by way of Naples, Brindisi, Tirana, Athens, Meso- potamia; then over India and Burma into the Malay States and Singapore.
The venture has the full support. of the British Air-Ministry, and the Directorate of Civil Aviation'
is particularly interested.
The car was shipped to Florida in the Berengeris on February 1st, accompanied by a staff of ex pert mechanics, who will see that none of the secrets of the Schneidert, Trophy engine lank out. This en- gine is still on the Air Ministry
Mecret list.
For months past United States motor- manufacturers have been preparing a converted attack on the land speed record of 203 mile hour held by Major H. O. D. Segrave and a British car, and it
more we consider it the more we are convinced that the pretext for any such scheme in the case of motorists is of the flimsiest descrip- tion. The well-behaved motorist, it is best to believe, is in a majority and does not therefore need to label himself to show that he is cautious alone has led to a saving of no lesan virtue to be well behaved in or The stream dining of the wheels and considerate to others. If it is than "SD horse power. Detachable dinary Bfe, let us practise it with wings are fitted on the tail of the out ostentation as motorists. enr to give greater directional stability.
The inherent danger that we see in anything of the kind, whether Tyres have proved one of the Road Fellowship League" or Captain Campbell attain a speed the driver who is neither safe nor most dificult problems. Should an Order of the Rond." is that of 220 miles an hour the tyres well-mannered is likely to take ad- would make 9,040 revolutions a vantage of the opportunity of die. minute or 34 each second. Every playing a sign which will give him stances is hammered between the undeserved, in his case and in- portion of the tyre in such circum- a mark of distinction that may be rim and the road and is compressed vidious to the driver who justif and released 34 times each second. ably hesitates to display such a As a piece of iron is made red-hot badge. There are not,, suficient by continual hammering,
asafeguards against this in the case of either scheme. In one mere racing tyre tends to get hot.
It is estimated that in a good promises are relied upon," and in the other it is distinctly laid down that the onus of supplying the necessary evidence regarding the applicant's past driving career lies entirely on the applicant."
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is due to Captain Malcolm Camp-drive at gulf the ball travels 200 bil's soñal enterpris that yards in five seconds; Captain Britzin was able to mort the Campbell's, car, if it travels at 220 American challenge...
miles an hour, would take only 1.93
(Continued on next Column)
seconds.
Parkes, solicitor to the Automobile Association, défend. ng: If you say a team-roller is a motor-car, then you must also say that a towing machine pro- paled by its own power is a motor
a motor-cur
For the police, it was urged thing had the driver taken his wife and family to Brighten, for the day it would have been considered a car. Driving it at Hampstead amounted to exactly the same thing,
Mr. Parkes said it was impos- sible for a steam-roller to have two independent brakes, as required by the Act, as a steam-roller had only two wheels, and not four as in the case of a car.
Miller wd that he had been driving rollers for 30 years, and had ever held a licence.
The Bench dismissed the sun-
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I expect to have another car shortly to offer you. I will be at the back of it and I will only offer you a TRIED OUT CAR-Something Good. .
I will give you the same service in the future as I have given you in the past and you can rely on my keeping all the spare parts you require.
ANDREW HARPER
MOTOR CAR DEALER.
721, Nathan Road, Mongkok, Kowivon,
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