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ROAD ACCIDENTS
INCREASING.
LONDON'S HIGH FIGURES.
The number of motor accidents in Great Britain is shown in the Home Office return of "1 street accidents caused by vehicles and horses to be steadily increasing The numbers of accidente, of per- sons killed, and of persons injured have all increased. In Great Bri tain the total of accidents to meohranjcally prope"ed vehicles has risen from 103, in 1927 to 117,904 last year. In this number, 40,208 were accidents to motor-cars and
taxicabs, 37,450 to motor cycles. 8,340 to punibuser and coaches, and 8,016, to efectric tramcars and trolley omnibuses. “
GROWTH IN AFRICA.
STEADY ADVANCE OF
MOTOR VEHICLE
NOTED.
Johannesburg-One of the most remarkable features about the Union's record of industrial and agricultural progress during the list few years has been the rapid growth of the road motor transport service of the South African Rail. Ways and Harbours, Plans for further extension are under con- sideration, for this service will save the country huge amount.
An example, taken Andorn, will serve to prove the economical advantages of this handy method of transport, The most of the railway, for which the route baa been surveyed, was put at head- quarters At £1,000,000 with an estimated anual loss in working. With a capital expenditure, of £10,000, the administration" is con veying all traffic that would have been conveyed by railway, and it showing a light proât.
Request for Motor Services. Railway lines in the past have all been constructed toward the castorn portion of the Union, since it has always been recognised that the western portion
dry and that
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it affords very little likelihood of traffic of magnitude being obtained.
Road motor services are being provided in the west. one area the gallonage of cream conveyed three years ago by rond service, during 12 months, was ap proximately 5,000. During the last 12 months of operation, "the cream conveyed by the railway motor That service was 93,000 gallons shows the potentialities of the hitherto despised western portion of the Union.
The dimber killed in these acci dents was 5,150, or 770 more than in the previous year. Thoro in- jured made a total of 133,431, an increase of 14,996. For every class of mechanically-driven vehicle the total of accidents has grown. The amallest increase is in accidents to motor-cycle combinations, which bave risen by only 29, in 'the year, Accidents to private cars and taxt cabs are up by 6,013; to metor- cycles by 2,380; to motor-cycles with pillion passengers by 1,374; and to
motor-omnibuses by 938. Accidents to horse-drawn vehicles have actually declined in the year from 4,922 to 4,793, and the total casualties used by them have fallen from 5,343 to 5,144, though the number killed is higher by 27,
The proportion of motoring and tramway accidents in England and Wales is much bigger than that in Scotland. The total of such acci- dents in England and Wales last year was 107,236, of which 4,766 were fatal and 4,887 persons were killed.. The injured numbered
· 191,492 Examined according to police districte, the Metropolitan area shows the biggest total of accidents of all kinds-50,453, with cream. 1,223 persons killed and 64,481 in- jured. In relation to the size of the population London's rate of accidents was above that. of lina- chester. (2,940); Sheffield (168), Leeda (1,409), Birmingham (3,891), and Liverpool (4,058). No police district except the Scilly Isles, where there are no motor cars, was without accidents throughout the year, but the few areas which had ze fatal accident include Hartle pool, Margate,Rochester, Ashton- under-Lyne, Boston, and Newark.
Accidents in Scotland were many fewer. The total of 10,758 caused by mechanically-driven vehicles, included only 588 fatal accidents. Of the total, 3,977 were accidents to motor-cars and taxicabs; 2,307 to motor-cycles: 1,193 to motor. omanihuees and conches; and 1,381 'to electric trumcars and trolly omnibuses. Persons killed number. ed 502 and 11,080. were injured. Glasgow had 4,689 accidents of all sorts, a mach higher rate in rela tion to population than Edinburgh, which had ouly 1,000. In the whole of Scotland there were only 601 acuidents to horse-driven vebieice and in them 70 people" were killed and 594 injured..
Out of total of 9,200 drivers employed by the L.G.O.C. in 1928, 5,390, or 67 per cent, received awards in connection with the London Safety Firat Council Freedom from Accidents Competi tion fat that year. The presenta tion of these awards was made by the Lord Mayor at the Mansion House, recently.
FORD'S INVASION OF FRANCE.
The Ford Motors Co. of. France bag, adnounced that it is increasing ite cipital stock by a considerable amount and plans an immechafe programme of expension. . The increased capitalisation, scheme involves the sale of 52,000 additional shares in the company, a subsidiary of the Ford motors organization of the United States, at 100 francs euch.
Paris dispatches outlining the company' expumu programIENT indicated that a majority of the new shares are expected to be taken up by French buyers,
Requeste for motor services are heing received daily from all over There are now 340 the Union vehicles in commission in various' parts of the country, carrying some 330,000 passengers. 50,000 tons of gallons of goods and 220,000
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 22, 1929.
MOTOR NOTES
NOISY MOTOR CYCLES.
HOW TO REDUCE NOISE IN TOWNS.
NOVEL SUGGESTION.
So many attempts have been made to reduce the noise of motor cycles that it might well be imagin ed that the problem had been at tacked from every angle. But there is yet another way in which a solu- tien inny be sought. The suggestion is that all motor cycles should be fitted with a device that provides means of reducing the exhaust noise for town riding, in other words, a cut-in" restricting the exhaust outlet.
When a motor cycle is being
driven on a small throttle opening, ns is the case in towns and villages, there is not the slightest objection to the back pressure of the silencer being high. Therefore, an Ox- tremely efficient, device can be em ployed without fear of the engine being affected It is only when. large throttle openings are being used that small back pressure. is essential, so the suggestion is quite practicable.
As the law stands, the use of silencer cut-outs of any type are illegal. Although the suggestion is that "cut-ins"-reversing the usual order should be permitted on our present day motor cycles to render them more silent in towns and villages, fresh legislation would be necessary to achieve this object.
THE MOTORIST VOTER AND DRAMATIC MOVE BY FORD.
.....THE GOVERNMENT.
The explanation given by uns official Tories of the defeat at Eddisbury is that the motorists have turned and have given plain wärn-" ing to the Government, that Mr. Churchill's blind and provocative reply to use their own words-to the important motor industry' de- putation last month and the present: attitude, of the Government about
motor taxation will not do. Their theory is that there are Port motorists who are Conservative than motorists who are Liberal, and even with their bookmaker allies the Labour party have many fewer motorists.
There has been great activity in the motor-ear tride, particularly by motor agents, to combat the injur taxation on motor transport, and tice of the present burden of
it is said that many Conservative with the motorists, disgusted
Chancellor of the Exchequer and fearing his Budget, are putting on the screw by refraining from voting in the by-elections.
The Automobile Association, which is, of course, a non-party organisation, has issued a letter to all members of Parliament asking for support in its efforts to secure remission of taxation, coupled with the adoption of a new policy in rond development. The Motor Agents" Association are sending out posters to be displayed at all by-elections calling on people to do everything The contention, it should be em-to remedy this grave injustice in phasised, is that motor cycles, even the coming Budget," A question- with the cut-in out of operation, naire on the subject will be put be should be as silent as they are fore all candidates. Already, it is to-day. The suggested fitting | said, the Labour party "have given would be an addition, easy to ap- | instructions to hold off answering ply to existing silencer.
until headquarters have drafted a "Unless some scheme is adopted useful reply..
there appears little hope of the
Of course, the Motor Agents' As- problem being solved, at all eventssociation's intervention cannot be until multi-cylinder engines replace carried on into general election the type at present in use.
times. There is no doubt, however, that the Tories have been gravely disturbed by Mr. Churchill's henry snubbing of their claims. "We never expected it from a Tory Chancellor. If we are to expect Secondly, it would be difficult for nothing from the Tories, we shall the police to prove whether or no have to try and make terms else." the cut-out was in operation.where. That is the view among Nevertheless, the suggestion is in many men who always voted for the genious and worthy of careful con- Conservative" party, and in a very zideration by the authorities as a short time the Tory party author- means of silencing motor cycles in ities will be anxiously awake to the a practical manner.-Motor Cycle.' danger.
The suggested arrangement is net, however, without its objec tions. In the first place, opinions would differ as to when and where the cut-out should be used.
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The first round in the inter- national battle for the motor-car and airplane markets of the eastern hemisphere has been won by Mr. Henry Ford.
The Turkish Government have
given to him and his organisation a free zone within the limits of the "port of Constantinople for the con- struction of a factory to build or assemble motor-cars, tractors and, most important of all, aircraft,
By the terms of the concession all machinery and plant are to be exempted from the payment of all duties and taxes.
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BRITISH PETROL PRICES.
The petrol combines could not have struck a harder blow at British industry than they have done by their latest price incrense. Coming at the beginning of the amotoring season, it will have a disastrous effect on the motor trade and all its allied trades. Motorists must have thought that Mr. Win- ston Churchill's Budget joke last. the climax of their year » was troubles. This needless and un reasonable increase in petrol prices is, it is thought, the last word.
POLICEMAN'S ATTEMPT TO ABREST A SUSPECT.
Remarkable disclosures of policeman's attempt to arrest a young man in a motor-car which travelled at times at a speed of sixty miles an hour, were made at Court, when Liverpool Police Leonard Morris, aged twenty-two, of no fixed home, was remanded on charge, of stealing a motor-car worth £350.
The Turkish Government will allow the free import of material for the factory, only claiming the
It was alleged that Morris took normal customs duties and taxes on the manufactured goods introduced the car from outside a city office into Turkey from the free zone.
and drove towards Aintree bound The Government will in additionary. He stopped when signalled by pay to the factory a bonus of £8 on every motor-car, tractor, and air- plane imported into Turkey from
the free zone.
Tophane has been selected as the site of the free zone, and the con- cession is for a period of twenty- five years.
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a policeman, but as the policeman was taking particulars Morris ac celerated and drove off with the policeman hanging on the running board.
Bixty Miles an Hour, He reached a speed of sixty miles an hour through a busy main rond and zigzagged in an effort to shake to crush him against oncoming the policeman of He also tried vehicles.
oppor
Not only have many people at home decided to postpone the pur- chaos of new cars, but they have also determined not to use their present car until petrol prices are brought down to a reasonable level.
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While nobody expects the petrol combines to express widespread grief over the loss of orders, it is thought that thousands of car owners will make similar decisions, and the cumulative effect on indus. try will be enormous,
"NAVAL OFFICER CEN
SURED.
A verdict that the death of
Turkish labour is to be employed to the extent of 80 to 90 are will and the daily output of cars start at fifty and subsequently reach nearly two hundred.
A young woman in the car be The Ford Company have decided come frightened, and threatened to to transfer their large works at throw herself out, and Morris Trieste to Constantinople, which slowed down while he jumped off. Thomas Kelly, aged
ex-roldier, AVIS caused by the will thus become the great distri- This gave the policeman an buting centre for Italy, Russia,tunity to lean through the window, negligent driving of a motor car by Greece, the Balkans, and Egypt, grasp the steering wheel, and try Lieut. Commander Rowley Ken-" as well as other countries in Asia to shut the throttle, but Morris nedy, R.N. (retired), of The Bea and Africa.
quickly accelerated again, and con, Farncombe, near Godalming, Mr. Ford's latest action is more touched sixty miles an hour,“ was returned at an inquest at Fir- than a mere commercial move. It
The car was passing over a rough ham recently. The car did not is a signal triumph for American road three miles from where the stop. diplomacy. The Turkish army policeman boarded it, when Morris The jury said they did not find will have a ready means of gave him a push and he dropped criminal negligence, but they con- mechanising their military forces off in the road, receiving hip in-sidered that Commander Kennedy and keeping their air force well juries. The car was later found should be severely censured for supplied with airplanes.
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