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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 23rd, 1928.
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MOTORING NOTES
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
Motor Notes-Busy British Factories-Another Motor Cycle Club-Hints for the Novice-
Motor Fuels and Oils-Coachwork in England.
Tyre Makers in Victoria's Reign
HEN ladies started cycling thirty- one years ago they rode on Dunlop tyres. And the lady cyclist of these days accepted Dunlops as a matter of course. You wanted a pneumatic tyre you ordered a Dunlop. A Dunlop tyre was no novelty to them. Simply be- cause even at that time Dunlop had been making tyres for ten years. To-day, of course, Dunlop have been makers-and the leading makers-of" pneumatic tyres for forty years. There's a deal of experience to be gained in forty years of tyre making for every kind of vehicle running on every kind of surface, and at speeds ranging from the 20 miles per hour of the early motor carriages to the 203.8 miles per hour of Segrave's Sunbeam.
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METROPOLITAN POLICE
MOTOR FLEET.
NEARLY 200 VEHICLES.
MOTOR NOTES.
NEW STEEL FOR CARS.
PARIS.
A revolution in the motor-car and aeroplane engine industry is foreshadowed by the perfecting of a new type of unwearable ateel, which
BUSY BRITISH FACTORIES.
SINGER'S NEW WORKS.
POPULAR MODELS.
director of the Bank of England, and, of course, Scotland Yard makes regular use of a fleet in the course of its duties.
While on
the subject of dis. tinguished owners it is perhaps per.. missible to refer to the 3 h.p. Sun- beam, a high grade car which is in grent demand at the present time. It is the choice of HM. Queen There is a very brisk demand for Maud of Norway, H.R.H. is being applied to the cylinders well known cars hailing from Mid perhaps, as Prince Henty); FM Duke of Gloucester (better known, the of motor engines. The secret of the land factories, and some makers are Sir William Birdwood, Commander steel's hardness is a treatment by Anding it hard to give punctual de-in-Chief in India, and the High ammonia, which gives it a surface liveries. The new works which Commissioner for Iraq. The Indian that cannot be filed...
Singer & Co. recently acquired in number of these cars for official
Government has, too, purchased After 000 miles running the Birmingham are, however, allowing use. cylinders of the ordinary motor-cara" very much increased _show_a_high degree of wear, and These comprise nearly half
output. tear, but cylinders made of the new ammonia steel show only 2 per cent. usage in a like test. The consump-17 tion of oil is less than one-third of that in the ordinary motor.
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In the case of an aeroplane the life of the engine is, it is claimed prolonged greatly.
INSTINCT!
TOURER ROADSTER...
H.K. $1,550.00
H.K. 1,720.00
COACH
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SEDAN
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C. COUPE
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CLUB.
PRELIMINARY RUN AND MEETING ARRANGED,
A few years back a motor-cycle Club was formed by a group of enthusiastic motor-cyclists, but in married and reformed and the Club the course of time all the members
died a patural death. They were known as the road hoggs" of Kowloon, and know how to enjoy. their meetings.
One of the members who left the It cannot often have happened Colony but has since returned has that a firm of motor manufacturers approached a number of Kowloon visitors ia quick succession as Rolls the Club. The suggestion met with have received, two such eminent cyclists with a view to restarting HR.H. the Prince of Wales, and cyclists have already promised to Royce. Ltd., did recently. First favour and about fifteen motor- twithin a few weeks, King Amanullah ol. It has been decided, weather of Afghanistan paid a visit to the permitting. to meet at the "Star famous Derby works and made a Ferry," Kowloon, at 3. p.m. on thorough inspection. Both visitors Saturday and go to Castle Peak, were previously well acquainted where, at one of the bays, a secret. with Rolls-Royce cars, and King conclave would draw up the rules Amanallah had apparently decided and regulations, of the Society. Kabul as he always understood Hong Kong and Kowloos, motor n the visit even before he left The membership is opened to both the cars were the best in the cyclists, and any rider who cares designed by Mr. F. Henry Royce, agreed to join are: Messrs. G. F. world."
to come along will be welcomed. One of the latest aero engines, Among motor cyclists who have
million square feet of floor space and, for expansion, there are also Coventry the
acres of freehold land.
company alread possesses seven factories.
In March the firm broke its pr duetion with a total of 2,079 car but it is expected that a total 140 cars a day will be reach shortly. It is interesting to. not the trend of public demand in th
-Garage Manager (to Scotch accomposition of the March figure countant): "This place is getting Thus there were
very dirty again.”
Scotch Accountant:
1,170 Sing
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was inspected as well as a number | Komor, A. Summers, G. Bond, G. Juniors," 732 "Seniors " 21 of different departments of the Lim, J. Sterling, J. Carr, A. Brett. "Righto! 117Sixes. Saloons outnumbe...works, various completed cars, and D. Davidson, R. Barnett, H. Lan-Bucaily, w
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cheli.
I'll get the vacuum cleaner people to give us another demonstration."
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IMPROVEMENT:" ENGLISH
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It is pleasing to notice says. Home motoring paper the progress that is being made all over the country with the eliminating of blind corners On rural Hedges are being replaced hy rails or drastically cut down, and in талу CASES corners are being rounded of. A few years ago, says The Light Car and Cyclecur, such operations would have raised an outery, Ratepayers would have begrudged the costs and there would have been protests against spoiling the scenery. But to-day, with almost every village linked with a bus service and all sorts of people owaing motor vehicles, pre- judice has given place to safety first, and danger spots are longer tolerated. -
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There was time when com- plaints by motorists to rural coun: cils as to blind corners were treated with amusement. Nowadays it is members of the rural council who tell the surveyor to get busy.
STILL THEY COME
cd touring ears by two, to one.
The Standard Company's Coven try factories, too, are very busy, for the new "Nine" has caught on and is rapidly increasing in popularity. The well-known 14 h.p. models are certainly remarkable value at their just before Easter: As an example, new prices, which were announced the Stratford tourer is now priced at £250 yet the all weather " equipment is far above the ordinary touring eat. The side curtains are actually windows of the pull-up type but are made of celluloid instead of glass. For £60 there is the "Fairham" fabric saloon, which previously cost £45 more.
week sees more labour being taken "It is good to learn that each on at the Standard works in order to cope with the demand for the various types.
The Talbot.
Farther South, the makers of the 14/15 h.p. B-cylinder Talbot look forward to the biggest output.since the inception of the old-established Clement Talbot Co. sources of the arm are concentrated All the re- on this one model which is making. a big name for itself both at home and overseas. Only recently a pur- chaser in Southern India took de livery of a brand new car on dis- Judging by the rapidly expand-embarkation and drove it home. ing membership of that virile or This journey included 16 mile ganisation the Automobile" Associa climb over the Ghaut in the course tion, the ranks of British motorista of which the road rises from some are likely to be augmented very 400 ft. above sea level to a height considerably during the coming of over 3,800 ft., while, in addition, summer. At the March executive it is never straight for more than committee meeting 3,899 new mem- 100 yards at a time. However, bers, who had all applied during thanks to the special attention which the preceding four weeks, were has been paid in the design of the elected as against 2,850 for the cor- cooling system, the water showed responding period last year. The no signs of boiling despite the total membership of the A.A. is newness of the car. now 335,000.
During the Easter holidays the
Some Distinguished Association issued special holiday At home there are a number of route details to members aggregat well known names among the owners ing the colossal total of 18,200,000 of this successful Six." They in miles; while the patrols, working clade, for instance, the Marquis of on over 20,000 miles of main roade Salisbury; the Marquis of Clydes- in Great Britain, answered 244,500 dale and Hamilton; Mr. H. 0. enquiries for road information, Wella; Eur Robert Kinderaley, pad assisted 6,802 members, follow- ing mechanical breakdowns.
service, and then there are 18 prison vans, developed from the old Black Marias" and each carrying 12 prisoners. Tenders, Buch figures as these afford some including special Flying Squad indication of the extent to which vehicles, amount for another 24, the roads are being used in 1928."
There can be no doubt that a and, finally, there are four store great part of the high efficiency of
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vans, one of these being a 30-cwt. WHERE DO RACING MOTOR to-day is amazing to anyone who the Metropolitan Police, is due to and the others 25-cwt; -
It is of the utmost importance
CYCLISTS GO!
The absence of mechanical trouble
the extensive employment of motor
has grown up with the motoring vehicles, including cars, vans and that every police station within
movement. Although, says The tenders, and it may surprise many the Metropolitan area be kept in
What happens to motorcycling Light, Car and Cyclecur, the statis of our readers to learn that the regular communication with bend riders when their racing tice of the motor organizations at mileage of the fleet amounts to ap. quarters, and to enable this to be career is over?" asks a writer in holiday times reveal that help is proximately 2,000,000 a year. The effected what may be termed a
Motor Cycling. That is a question still needed, the number of unfor- number of vehicles, employed totals Carter, Paterson, system has been that one often hears asked, and the tunates is infinitesimal compared About 120 and up so vmmer organized and every station in conve provincial motorcycle agents with the hundreds of thousands of cial vehicles 110 cars of various
twice a day by a despatch come ears on the road makes
regards the feet of vehicles van, and as there are about 900 and settle down to make their for It is probable, too, that those re- of these stations, distributed over tune, or lose their all. It is not quiring assistance include many this includes, Bays The Commercial a district the radius of which is so with every one of them, however, people who, because of the re Hotor, three ambulances, one of approximately 16 miles from Char- for there is one who edits the most liability of cars, remain novices in which is employed solely for siting Cross and the area 700 square popular schoolboys weekly fiction all but driving and, consequently ting, coaca, whilst each of the miles, it is easy to judge what this paper in the world. He was well are helpless when a slight derange others has two stretchers. These rabicles are solely for the use of mileage, which is approximately Cycling. It is not surprising that to be not only an engineer in order system involves in the way of placed in a pre-war .. and once ment occurs. What a contrast with reported T.Trace for Motor conditions' years ago, when one had police officers attending hospital, 100 per day for each van. the sitting, ambulance being used One of the taaks undertaken by the fiction paper he now controls to take out a car, but also chiefly for massage! casos. Of the the vans in the collection of lost enjoys such a gigantic axle. What paycho-analyst capable of puz
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vehicles, 23 Bre 10-cwt. property, which is all conveyed to better training could any man haveling out, what was amiss among despatch vampaizare 2-ct. vans the Lost Property Office, in Lam-for such a post F
score of probabilities and then employed on the Wootton-lantern beth Road.
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