TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS.
50 PER CENT. AVOIDABLE: PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT.
NEW YORK EXPERT'S VIEWS,
[United Press.)
Loadon.-Fifty per cent. of tra!- fic accidents are avoidable; in the opinion of Mr. Barron Collier, trat fic control expert, and advertising mar, guardian angel of the New
York pedestrian for
whom be
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 30, 1929.
MOTOR NOTES.
TAVERNS AND TAXIS.
originated the idea of painting“ MOTORISING " ENGLAND.
iales, of safety in the middle of congested streets, a
Handling traffic," he declared in an exclusive interview. with the United Press, "is largely a' ques- tion of paychology. This must be taken into consideration if the. problem is to be tackled success. fully
THE CHANDOS ARMS.”.
[United Press.} London. The oldest tavern in England has been modernised and motorised. Tourists now stomp through the halls of the old inn that once sheltered Dick Turpin, the bold bad highwayman who preyed upon travellers in the days of the stage coach. The tourists o'clock motor coach for, Whipsocket on-Thames, for the famous old
tour company, become a booking office for a motor
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through their conversion into CAR WITH ENGINE
betels The English habit of load- ing the golf clubs into the ear and leaving the joys of home life at: home for the week-end has created a demand for more and bigger hotels, with recreation facilities, and situated away from the smoke and dirt of the city.
AT THE BACK.
SEATS WHICH CAN BE
ACCELERATION TO HIGH MAXIMUM SPEED,
In the designing of vehicles in tonded for local-delivery work, and. particularly in those instances" where the calls are practically from house to house, it is of the utmost importance, says The Commercial Motor, to remember that the ac celerating power of the vehicle con-
"That,” said Mr. B. Monk, the GETTING UP EARLY IN THE | cerned is of infinitely greater mo-
managing director of the firm, om- Trane bodies many advantages. mission is direct on to the back wheels. It means, too, the elimina- tion of sound, there can be no escape of fumes to the inside, and the driver and passengers will not suffer from the heat of the engine.
Higher Speed.
"The car will be distinctly fas ter than our present car on the road"
The new saloon car, which is the latest thing in elegance, is a five- seater with an average touring
A hot-water pipe will, subject to speed of forty-five miles per hour.
body so that in cold weather the quired beat.
is there any anxiety en the part are booking seats in the eleven home of the golfing motorist, or be less than £200-probably "sub-order, be inserted in the saloon
MORNING...
inent, so far as the average speed is concerned, than the maximum speed which could be attained in a straight run.
Prof. AM. Low, the well-known Makers are rather fond of recom- scientist, explains his method of mending the high-speed yan, but, ensuring early rising in The Motor in our opinion, whilst, admittedly, It embodies, as the specifications this is a most useful transport unit would say, a device which all ean for a wide variety of purposes, it make. A common, or even garden, i cannot compare, when many stops alarm clock is attached the foot have to be made, with a machine end of a bed and booked on to the of relatively low maximum speed alarm winder is a bag of shot but capable of getting off the mark carrying a tape clipped on to the with expedition. top of the sheets...
When the bell rings the weights
will fall Down will come shot, sheets, }
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DONT'S FOR DRIVERS.
The Light Gar und Cyclecar in a recent article draws attention to common but little recognized driv-
run over by the average motorist. Chandos Arms, at Edgware, has becoming modernised and Lord carried beneath the driver, the com- turning of a tap will distribute re- little ingenuity can add a deviceing faults On the subject of ob-"
For instance," he added, you don't think for one moment that there is any particular desire on the part of the average mctorist to knock down the average pedes triz, do you? Of course not. Nor
of the average pedestrian to be
the psychological aspect of the On the contrary. If you will study "thing, you will find that there is a real desire on both sides to avoid accidents. This fact should be carefully analysed and made use of in attempting to cut down the number of street accidents,
It was that very willingness on the part of motorists and pedes trians to avoid accidents which, in duced me to try the isles of safety idea. It is only human psycho- logy."
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FOLDED AWAY."
The idea is to get away from
-“SOUND ELIMINATED.” town, to spend a day or so on the
Probably the missć, revolutionary Thames, at the seashore, any place
city residentides shown at the Motor Show at where the average may be surrounded by good clean Olympia, London, which has just ozone. Every important holiday closed, was the new Trojan, on sees ad almost unbelievable exodus which the designer and makers had from the cities. For this reason been working in the for me the What looks like the luggage car many large estates, which had terier is the engine housing be broken up due to heavy taxa- tion, have become the week and The price of the new car, will
stantially leBL", the motoring golfer.
While the countryside is thus The engine has previously been Byng's campaign against night partment under the honnes being clubs of a doubtful character has reserved for the tank and carburet caused many of them to leave ter. The engine has now been hour cur. Tank, carburetter, and every London and disturb the peace and ed right at the back, outside the quiet of the Thames valley. Lon- den has revived one of the oldest thing are there methods of transportation, the stage coach. And when anything is revived in London, it is brought back with that sacred love for de- tail that is the pride of London's pageants and displays. The stage that passes majestically couch. through Hyde Park today on its way to Oxford is as much like the standard coach and four as it can be. It starts from a West End Letel with a blare of trumpets and shouts of Tally-Ho," and all the aniformed footmen, starters, driv ers, and other attendants are in their proper places. The passen. dressed in the fashion of the day lived at the Canons as conductor when a stage coach was a snappy of the Duke's musical concerts. I form of locomotion. Handel visited the Chance: Arms very evening for his mug of beer. Tourists who are not too busy
The Chandos Arms dates back to the days of William the Conqueror. It was part of the estate of the Duke of Chandos, and near the Casons, the fabulous palace built by the eighteenth century million aire. Dinner was a real event at the Canoss. Each new course was announced by a flourish of trum- pets. The Duke often dined in public, with an extra flare of the trumpeta for the beseft of the countryside.
Visited by Handel,
London's Problem. Asked whether he thought his plan to reorganise New York City's
The old ion still maintains many traße would work in London; ho replied that he did not know the its famous characteristics. There "geography of the town" well is a marble replace from the enough to be a judge in the mat- Canoss. Not a stone of the palace fer. All he knew, he said, was that itselt is left standing. The old the letter in which he described Handel, the famous composer, who his proposals to relieve congestion in New York by barring heavy traffic from the streets in the day- time, allowing them to use the roads only at night."
"Jimmy Walker never answered tavern was a favourite. spot with pers on the first jcarney were
"New York," he said, is the ideal place in which to carry out scheme of this kind, on account of its straight streets and avenues It's a cinch. I'd stick a million. dollars to a penny that it would work if they adopted is."
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getting a centre scat in the 30- GARAGE IN A CHURCHYARD. seater charabanca may see corner where Handel did his early
evening drinking. He first met the WEEKLY RENT FOR PARKING blacksmith, whom he immortalized, at the Chandos Arms.
I the ghosts of the faingos At this point he recalled how he people who frequented the Chandos tad proposed that from 72nd Street Arms still prowl around the old down, first and twelfth Avenue building, they may well he borrified be reserved for four lines of heavy by the petrel fumes and the rear commercial trafic. to be separated of the charabance that make re- by four white lines painted in thegular stops there en route to and from the north of England. Dick street. The two centre lines, he turpin would probably be disgusts zaid, were to be for
express! traffic only. The two other lines ed with the possibility of holding were for local" trafic, "just like up one of these monsters, en the subsidy"
"Besides," he concluded, the scheme would enable the New York polite to practically annihilate ban ditry. With traffic running all right, it is hardly likely that things would have much of a chance, is it?" he asked.
Mr. Barron Collier, after a visit to Paris and later to what he describes
his 13.
#continental heme" in Baden Baden where he recently purchased the famous villa which belonged to the Krupp family, plans to return home.
Edgware is about nine miles from the West End of London, and the dandies of another day used to go to the Canons in the evening, to hear Handel's composition. Today the entire length of Edgware Road is packed with hooting omnibuses and à mass of other vehicles that would discourage the musical inclinations of even the Duke and his friends.
White Elephants, : Many large country houses which were white elephants in the real estate market shortly after the war have become "valuable property
PLACE.
Part of a churchyard has become garage in the City of London. Billingsgate fish porters and office clerks now leave their motor-cycles and sidecars in the west court of St. Dunstan-in-the East, Goe of the famous churches of Sir Christophica Wren. The cycles stand there be hind the church railings during working hours, and their owners pay a small weekly rent to the church funds.
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"It all began," said an official of the church to a Daily Express representative, by a few of the clerks in an insurance office asking. if they could leave their motor-eye les in the Churchyard.
The rector gave his permission," and now the practice has grown until the whole small courtyard is packed out. We have a motor-car We which parks there as well. charge i. ed. a week for the park- (Continued on next Column).
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ing, but it rather difficult to col fect the money. Some people, 1 am afraid, park and do not pay." A room belonging to the church has been set aside for the use of the fishmarket porters, where they can change their clothes for werk, and a little alcove in the church wall has been let to a coffee-stall keeper, who pays a weekly rent.
The engine, which hitherto has been horizontal, will be vertical. engine revolution has been doubled, It is claimed that the speed of by the innovation.
There are two exceptionally wide doors, and the seating arrangement is as novel as the rest of the car.. The seats are of the camp-chair variety, and can be accommodated
to individual likes or dislikes.
The back sents of the car can'
be folded back by unhitching a steel bar, thus giving ample space il only two persons are in the car, for luggage. There is, too, all the empty space in front where the en- gine usually operates.
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It is perfectly effective and a
for working a cigaretto lighter un- order that water can be boiled for with another vehicle which is al- der a methylated spirits kettle instruction it saye a prominent cause of obstruction is leaving a car level
ready" stationary on the opposite Nothing can express the irritaside of the road. In the average
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tion of grabbing at receding sheets with a hand too weak from sleep efforts of the shot-filled bag. GO cope with the gravitational
Evidence as Bow County Court: He has champagne tasted with a gingerbeer pocket.
Man, at Marylebone: He was not drunk, so far as I could see, Magistrate: How far could you
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The greatest parking.crime of all is stopping on a blind bind or sufi- ciently near to one to block the view of approaching drivers. In this case the inconsiderate motorist not only cause obstruction and in- convenience but very real danger.
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