SINGER
JUNIOR-SENIOR-SIX
A Car for avery Pass and Purpose,
Incrediate Delivery
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 10th, 1928.
WILLYS KNIGHT.
STANDARD SIX
JDZ-09
H.K. 81 750.
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
MOTOR NOTES.
UNIFORMITY OF TRAFFIC CONTROL WANTED IN
ENGLAND.
GODRER
MOTORING NOTES
SAFETY-FIRST:
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
Local Motor Notes-Motoring at 3d a Gallon-London to Cowes Motor Boat Race.
Writing in The Light Ca and Cyclecar, Lieut. Col. J. A. A. Pickard, D.S.D., General Secretary of the National Safety-First Association, says: There is hard- ly an elementary scbook in the country now at which safety in struction in some form or another is not given. All our local com- mittees inake this the chief activity their district. Our London
A very real need which is ap- parent te every motorist who covers much ground is uniformity of trade control remarks The in Motor There can be no real text-Safety-First Council led the way son why a London motorist should in this respect. find it necessary to interpret an. The value of safety-first in- entirely different set of signals it, for instance, he Chester, and should again find himself puzzled by another variety of arm wagging in Birmingham,
Kridi su on.
LOCAL MOTOR NOTES.
CONGRATULATIONS TO
TRAFFIC DEPARTMENT.
NOT AN ACCIDENT, DURING
THE TATTOO DAYS,
***SEDAN "
Hong Kong $3,300.
Distributors:
Service:
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KOWLOON.
MOTORING AT 3d.silently and extraordinarily steal LONDON TO COWES MOTOR was the only beat to complete the
A GALLON.
TEST OF FUEL TO OUST
PETROL..
Are we on the threshold of a new era in power production for motor transport
ly. He also noticed a smell which he likened to burnt varnish exud ing from the vehicle,
I have never heard lorry move so silently-it was as quiet as alimousine," he said to me.
The tests by the R.A. C. are being carried out by the club's ob- nerver, Mr. R. W. Sprague, and he is paying particular attention to the following points, which the makers of the engine claim give the engine a superiority over the ordinary petrol engine:
The fuel is inherently safe, being
BOAT RACE. THORNYCROFT TRIUMPH IN ROUGH SEA.
The manual long-distance race for cruising vessels famous as the Cowes Race, always London to erentes in motor. boat diretes in
Tests are being carried out in Special praise is due to the England by the R.A.C. into the
Jasses through ter exemplified than by the fact for their, exceptionally good work Diesel crude oil engine, which it is ordinary Ere it will put it out.
struction in schools caunot be bey Traffe. Department of the Police nowers and capabilities of the non-inflammable; if poured on an to weather conditions calling for
that the yearly number of street" fatalities amongst London chil dren has not increased during the past ten years.'
Why," again, should not the traffic policeman be dressed the same everywhere! At some seaside towns the constable might be mistaken for a bandstand attendant, and Another at Portsmouth, to ame place, he might well pass to which stranger ny a naval officer.
The traffic policeman easiest of all to understand is the London constable, and it would be well if
CHROMIL PLATING
DEVELOPMENTS.-
Every car owner will be pleased to learn that chromium pinting, through, which rust does not begin to peep after exposure in dair weather, is beginning to obtain a definite, hold. Sinall cars are like-
does not Tarnisa
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Splendid accounts are given of the performance of the lorry chosen for the experiment, from friend who followed it when it made its first test along the main London-Oxford road.
claimed does the same work as the during the three tights of the ordinary petrol engine without the Not a single teassistance of carburetter, magneto, Grand Tattoo. cident is
the or sparking plugs. recurd for period in question, and all arrange- ments went like clockwork. Every public vehicle available in the Colony must have made three or four trips to the grounds each night and not a car could be had in town after 7.30 p.m., all the taxi-cah ranka being empty. The
My friend was between Gerrards Cross and High Wycombe when he came on a lorry and trailer mov- ing at the rate of about ten miles an hour, and was at once struck by weight about whose total twenty tons, was moving unusually
It is cheap-between 3d. and $0. per gallon-aud is aot subject to
tux
The engine has a wide range of speed and will tick over "well and surely at low revolutions.
A lorry fitted with this engine will climb steep hills on top gear and without any undue strains
There is no need to warm up the engine at all, as it is fitted with electrically-heated plugs fitted into the combustion chamber, so as to warm the contained air up to the required temperature-thus. lorry driver in starting up his (Continued on next Column).
over
Great Britain a large amount of interest, and it not infrequently hope that the loney imposes on the vessels participating a pretty severe test of their ability the expenditure of the maximum hardihood on the part of both boats and crews.
The race this year took place on June 30th, and Taormina, a Thornycroft 40-foot cabin cruiser, which, incidentally, (Continued on next Column),
was won
course, all the other starters giving. up through stress of weather.
The prospects before the start were such that only six boats com- peted, and although the race, from a competitive atandpoint, proved almost a fiasco it was, in effect, a most convincing demonstration of the seaworthiness of the inning cruiser, and of the supreme reli ability of her two 25h.p. Thorny croft four-cylinder type marine en... gines embodying the well-known Thornycroft reducing reversing"
gear.
They stood the gruelling test of 180 miles without faltering in spite of the gale conditions which pre- vailed throughout and which were at one time so severe that it took byten and a half hours to travel 36 miles. A word of tribute is due to the perseverance and pluck of the erew who persisted in navigating the boat for upwards of twenty- seven hours to fesch their destina- tion when all their competitors. Many other advantages over the had made for harbour.
The winning boat is
of ordinary petrol engine are claim- ed, and those who are handling the Thornycroft's "Standard Class" engine in this country believe that craft, of which they have a wide it will not be long before the range for pleasure or commercial
man in the street will be on the| which enable them to be supplied market.
at extremely favourable prices.
engine first thing on a cold morn ing..
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the provincial police authoritiesly to appear at Olympia with parking of the cars outside the the fact that the combination, coming the usual difficulty of a Diesel-engined touring car for the service, built to standard designs
would take him as an example, standardizing bis signals and adopting, as far as possible, his dress.
TALIE SECOND TO NONE.
chromium-plated bright work, says
grounds also worked out most satis. The Light Car and Cyrlerar, busfactorily, while some 200 odd cars there will be at least two compara
were parked side by side along the tively inexpensive medium-powered British ara
so finished, whils: Jockey Club stable. American manufacturers are show- ing a keen interest in thromium and are already adopting it on at very extensive scale.
The motorcycle industry bas, out-
Where chromium plating is of stripped all others in the provision of value for money. In doing so, very great value is for parts like it has followed a policy that has doar handles, side-screen sockets, been markedly sucessful mctor windscreen frames, bonnet eatches and similar fittings which are ex- cycling having become vastly more popular in all parts of the world tretely difficult to keep in a pre- within the past few years-Motorsentable condition when neglected.
(Continued on next Column). Egeling.
...
The Trafic Department intend to work a similar system during the forthcoming race meetings
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4,834 PASSENGER'S. POPULARITY OF HONG KONG.
HOTEL 'BUSES."
The new 'buses of the Hong Kong Hotel arrived in the Colony at a most appropriate moment. They were put on the run from Blake Pier to the Tattoo on all three nights of the display. Our repre- acntative enquired the total number of passengers carried during the three nights and Mr. Pearsons, 'of the Hong Kong Hotel Garage, re- plied that a minimum estimate was 3.99-41. There were twelve 'buses Of the run, 25 sesters and the farger 35 seat Vulcan basen.
The Egures returned for each night show that the attendance in- creased nightly, and on Saturday 52 passengers had to be brought back from the ground to Town as there were no seats available at Soakun- poo. The figures were as follows:- 1st night. 509 passengers and night
3rd night
1,500
2,2-15
Total
..4,834.
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FINES ON THE SPOT.
The majority of motorists in England realize the fatility of pleading not guilty" when sum- moned for motoring offences of the more common order, and it is therefore doubly irritating to them to have to attend to the details of the proceedings which follow the the scale of suminens; moreover, fines varies in different courts, the amount depending upon the whim of the particular beach before which the case comes up for con- sideration-another very unsatis- factory feature of the whole affair, Finally, the time of every police court in the country is being taken up unduly-not by the careful con- sideration of motoring offences, but by the mechanical procedure of dealing with one after another as rapidly as the day's liat can be tackled. There exists, says The "Light Car and Cyclecar, a feeling that there is a case for adopting scheme which has found favour fines on the spot in cases where there is obviously, no defence such na exceeding the speed limit. The amoant of the penalty for particu lar offenocs is fixed, only the special road police are authorized to collect the fines, and any motorist involved has the right, if he wishes, to take his case before: the courts.
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