THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 25, 1929.
MOTOR NOTES
MOTOR CONGESTION
IN PARIS.
Incrasse of Taxicabs,
The problem of traffic in the cen- tre of Paris has become acute. The number of cars in Paris, which in
"RAPID INCREASE OF CARS. 190 was only 31,000, increased last year to 230,000. It is estimated NEW PARKING LIMITATIONS. of something like 140,000 a year, that it is still increasing at the rate and if this rate of increase should continue circulation in Paris would become quite impossible in five years. There is, in particular, an enormous and steady increase in the number of taxicabs owing to the cheapness of the fares, which are only fourpence a mile. Yet even now it is almost impossible to find tween 8 and 8 p.m. A large num a taxi on the Grand Boulevards be ber of people living in suburbs out- side Paris go home every day in a taxicab from their place of busi-
The Committee appointed by the Prefect of Police which for some time has been considering measures for dealing with the problem of Paris traffic met again recently and arrived at importnut decisions about parking cars. At present al most the only restriction on park ing is that in certain streets cars may be parked only on one side. and the nymber of cars parked, often for hours together, even in the centre of Paris, is a great on struction to the trafic. The Coma mittee decided that on and after January
1 no
parking at all shall be allowed between 10 am." and 8 pm in the narrow streets or in any of the streets leading into the Grand Boulevards, and that in the centre of Paris parking should not be allowed in any street for more than half an hour except on Sundays, when there is very little trafic in the centre of the
town.
As no provision is made for park- ing cars on certain spots, as in Landon, these new regulations will mean that it will be impossible to leave a car standing at all in the ventral quarters of Paris. The Committee, however, suggested the provision of garages in which cars can be left, but not at the public expense; either garages will have to instructed as a business specala- tion or the nwners of cars will have to combine to construct them.
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SEVEN CARS IN A MIX-UP.
OLD MAN INJURED.
Seven motor-cars were involved in güllen rond at Acrefair. The road an accident at a bend on the Llan was icebound and very slippery. Tw
the other ears on approaching the was icebound and very slippery Two ears collided on the bend, and obstruction skidded in all diree tions. One car span round like a top and then shot across the road. It standing near his home, and one of strück John Andrews (70), who was his boots was torn off his foot. He was removed to Wrexham Hospital. Another car ran into a wall, while a fourth ran into a bridge. Traffic
between Wrexham and Llangoller
was held up for some time until the wreckage was cleared.
A BABY AUSTIN DIES' FIGHTING.
There was about an unusual street accident in a touch of comedy Edinburgh last month. Austin motor-car got wedged be A baby tween two tram-ears going in op- posite directions in the Lothian lead. It was badly crushed, but the sole occupant, a young man, enped injury and climbed out through the window to safety.
In the crowded hours in the mid- dle of the day it is almost usekas to take a taxi to any place in the centre of Paris, and if, for instance, one takes a taxi from the Gure de Montparnasse with the intention of going to the Place de l'Opéra, i issually quicker to get out at the Theatre Français and walk up the Avenue de l'Opéra. As for the Boulevard de Sebastopol and the feads to the Gare de l'Est, and thet rid of the Austin. It struck Boulevard de Strasbourg, which It was not so easy, however, to Rue Lainyette, which leads to the Gare du Nord, the traffic blocks in
fast between the two tram-ears, and them are such in the crowded hours futile. After about a quarter of an all efforts to ense it out proved of the day that one can prouerdoar of this "ineffective coaxing, more quickly on foot. It is not an uncommon thing to take half an of ears had collected, it was de- during which time two long queues hour or more,in a taxi to go a dis- tance of a mile and a half.
vided that more drastic methods were necessary. Both tram-cars put The fact that many of the Paris full powers with the intention streets
is. of of hacking their way through, but course, one of the causes of the the small car put up a good fight. traffic blocks, Various solutions It knocked the rear begie of one have been proposel, including un-car off the rails and smashed a lot derground roads, but the east of of glass and woodwork of the other them would be enormous, and the town of Paris could not possibly find the money for them in the near
future.
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"NEW CARS FOR OLD."
THE LEGEND THEY KNOW IS TRUE.
A London correspondent writes: One of those remarkable "anow- ball" legends, like the war story through London, is of the Russian troops passing
Now current
among motorists, who seem to be as credulous a tribe as anglere.
of a famous make of motor-car (the A man owned a very old model
story runs). One day the firm which made the car saw it, and, after inspecting it surprised the owner hy offering him a brand-new saloon model in exchange for the. ""antique."
The reason, it is said, for this remarkable transaction is that the old car was the first ever made by the firm, and that they were to secure it for their
axious
museum.
The Moterist Who Helped."
knows the story is true, because he. Nearly always the raconteur
lucky owner-a pal of mine, old is personally acquainted with the boy."
stors. There is a fine romantic Sometimes it is a story within a
ring about this version,
It describes how "the friend" is breaks down. A passing motorist out driving one day when his car! helps him with the repair, and thea, because he takes such a fancy to the car, proposes an exchange.
Thus the "friend"
parts with his original car plus £20 and obtains the other, which is to prove such a lucky bargain for him.
of the manufacturers provides fur- How this ear comes to the notice ther variations.
Variations,
recognition by a reprezentative of Sometimes there is a dramatic the firm, who sees the car in an auction room; sometimes it is sent to the makers to be overhauled or repaired.
Then, again, cometines the car is the first ever made by the firm, and--another good touch this sometimes the second of the first
Latch turned out, the first and. third of the series already being in the manufacturers' possession. But always there is the happy ending with the firm instal same ling the old car in their museum and the motorist joyfully driving off in a new super-luxury saloon.)
The firm mentioned in the tale deny that they have effected such an exchange.
It seems almost tragic that such a story should be spoiled. Is there not somewhere an owner and a firm who can come forward to supply the miesing links to a tale which threatens 19 become
classic legend?
SAFETY. FIRST ROADS.
13-FEET BYWAYS ON THE HIGHWAYS.
New subsidiary roads for motor-
PENNED IN
QUYAS WILDARE
SURVEYS THE WORLD THROUGH THE BARS OF HIS NEW PEN.
TAKES A CRAWL ROUND THE PEN TO SEE IF THERE'S ANY EXIT HE OVERLOOKER,
DOESN'T LIKE THIS IDEA OF BEING COOPED UP TRIES UNSUCCESS- FULLY TO GET HIS HEAD THROUGH THE BARS.
MOTOR TRADE'S NEW STEP.
WELL, HE'LL HAVE 'TO CRY UNTIL SOMEONE COMES AND TAKES HIM OUT OF HERE.
IMPORTANT MISSION FOR INDIA.
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by British car manufacturers in The big push now being made
connection with the overseas mar Erts is to be carried a stage further.
the sending of an important trade Arrangements have been made for
mission to India at an early date. India is one of the strongholds of our foreign competitors:
This new move is instigated by the British manufacturers section of the Society of Motor Manufac turers and Traders. Representa- tives of this body will explore pos- will probably open sibilities of trade expansion, and offices for assisting individual activities of British car manufacturers..
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Similar offices have already becu opened in Australia, New Zealand, and South Africa, largely owing to the vision of Lieut.-Colonci A. Hacking, D,S.O., a director of the British manufacturers' section..
Colonel Hacking, brilliant or- ganiser, with firm faith in the future of the British motor-ear overseas, has during the last year or so been mainly responsible for the society spending some £50,000 on the British car push. He is a new and energetic personality in the motor industry.
car owners living on the bypass PILING UP THE DOCUMENTS and for tradesmen's vans only, run- ning parallel with the main road, is a new and striking development now taking place on the Kingston
-pass at Tolworth.
The sign "Tradesmen's Entrance" on the gates of suburban villes might well be supplemented by the noticeTradesmen's vans only" on certain roads.
The roads are being built to solve a trafic problem peculiar to the new by-passes.
Without necessarily accepting the principle of compulsory insurance, The Statur criticises some of the detail points of the tentative scheme that has been put forward. Our contemporary remarks:-
The motorist to-day carries a revenue licence on his car, a driver'a licence in his pocket and stores a Registration Book at home. If any such scheme as the one outlined is
Rows of new bouses, most of them legalized he will have to carry for with garages, are being built on either side of these arteries. When document. Failure to produce this production on demand another the owners want to take out their certificate, which can easily be left- ears they are faced at the busiest entirely by accident and without in- times with streams of high-speeding tent-in the pocket of a suit left vehicles, sometimes travelling three at home, will render him liable to and four abreast a more than fiftya penalty of £20! It is not fair! miles
In fact, the proposed penalties are excessive.
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hour.
No Waiting..
To endeavour to cut into these streams would be highly dangerous, and would also intensify the con- gestion that prevails during the peak hours. The only alternative is to wait for a gap in the traffic, and that would mean much wante
of time.
If they park their cars outside their houses the by-pass would, be dangerously narrowed.
Tradesmen's vans stopping at these houses constitute a menace on o day when thousands of fast moving vehicles are hurrying to and from London.
We suggest to those who may have the opportunity of represent- ing motorists at any later confer- ences that, if the scheme should be accepted in Laodified form, the carrying of yet another document should be opposed. The form of the revenue licence could be alter- cd and, if necessary; slightly en-. larged ob as to allow of the brief but essential insurance details being inserted thereon: If a certificate. is. necessary it could, be produced to the licensing authority with the application for the licence, and the issuing office should enter the de "The building of these new tails on the licence to be carried houses, most of which have garages, on the car. Alternatively the de- constitutes a danger to the through tails could be inserted on the dris. traffic," said Mr. W. P. Robinson, the country surveyor of Surrey. Un- fortunately, the original sheme of making the by-pass 120 feet wide was altered to 100 feet, so by ar- rangement with the builder of the houses we are making these sub- sidiary roads for the use of local traffic. These roads are fifteen or sixteen feet wide and arc sanatated french min Toad by wide strips of land
ing licence, but we think the first suggestion is the better one, because there is still the risk of the driver's licence being accidently left be hind."
An Erskine Six recently carried the first white woman into the Ver acuk Pan, a barren territory in the Africa ITV, féferð), dayi journey from Johannesburg.
By GLUYAS WILLIAMS
TRIES OUT THE CHANCES OF GETTING OUT OVER THE TOP NO LUCK.
BUT NO ONE COMES EXPRESSES HIS DISPLEASURE BY. THROWING ALL HIS TOYS OUT.
WONDERS CAN HE SHAKE IT DOWN. FINDS IT'S "TOO WELL BUILT.
RELIEVES HIS FEELINGS SOME- WHAT BY SUCKING HIS THUMB.
(Copyright, 1729, by The Bell Syndicats, Inc.) //-29
HUMOUR: ANCIENT AND MODERN.
Wife: "Shall I repair this rip in your golf knickers?"
Hubby: "Yes, do sew by all me- ang."
Teacher: "Give me three proofs
says so, Dad says so, and you say that the earth is round."
Pupil "The geography book
so."
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"Have you over driven a car?” the lady applicet for license was asked.
"One hundred and twenty thous and miles" put in her husband, who was standing near by, "and never had a hand on the wheel.”
It strikes me," said a young man to his Irish valet, "that one of us was drunk last night."
It strikes me that was so, sir." "Well, you rascal, and which of us was it
Algernon (reading joke): "Fawncy this, Percy, a chap here thinks that a football coach has four wheels."
"Well, sir, far be it from me to many wheels has the bally thing?" I envied you."
Perey. "Haw! haw! And how cast reflections, but I must say I
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42.-Part of body. 44.---Thus.
48.-To perform
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