THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 19, 1930.
MOTOR NOTES
Making Motor-Cyclists 'Insure... »,
"Motor Cycling enumerates certain points in motor-cycling insurance which need attention before any scheme of compulsory insurance could be evolved that would be equitable.
laid open to imprisonment if, per- haps in a moment of semi-conscious- neas after an accident, he apologises for his carelessness to the other party."
What Is a Saloon?
"One wonders," writes "Focus" in The Light Car and Cydeear,
It would be a shameful thing."
whether the word saloon' has says Motor Cycling, "if every rider come to stay as a means of iden has to pay 50 per cent, extra Eretifying a miniature, owner-driven mium (or risk three months' in limousine. In America, nae has prisonment) in case he ever takes heard owner-driven closed cars des a pillion rider, and it would be -cribed ng conches, sedans and equally wrong if compulsorily obsbroughams, but the word saloon, I tained policies contained clause which would make them invalid it the holder contravened some trifling technical regulation.
A case in point is provided by the clause which is often found in insurance policies which invalidates them should the holder, after 25 accident has occurred, admit that he is insured or that he is in any wny liable.
hear, is now gaining increasing ground not only in that country but in the many overseas markets which it serves.
Sixty On a Dirt Track.
Buying British.
The Johannesburg City Council was recently desirous of purchas- ing three omnibus chassis, and in view of their proved superiority under all conditions, the councillors decided that they could only se cure the best all-round value by choosing British-made vehicles. Accordingly the British tender was
On a dirt track of only a mile and a quarter circumference at Auckland in New Zealand, a Bri tish Austin Seven recently put up an amazing record by averaging accepted. speed of 60 mp.h. for six hours. The car, a supercharged 'mode of the Am design as raced by the Austin Motor Co. in the 1920 Dublin Grand Prix and the Ulster TT, stood up perfectly to the gruelling conditions.
The Capetown Council has also ordered five motor, omnibuses of British manufacture.
Adequate Service Ensures Adequate
Kesale Values,
Phil. Senbrook and R. Grierson
Purchasing a car in the early piloted the little car to this remark-days of the motor industry entail- able victory.
Despite the fact that the Austined no obligation on the part of the Seven has secured over a thousand manufacturer to the buyer beyond victories on rond and track since delivering it in satisfactory run- it was introduced to the public some seven or eight years ago, this
ning condition and keeping it so latest achievement must be conced
for a reasonable length of time. The purchaser gave little thought
ed to be at least among the most brilliant of Austin performances. To maintain such a speed on a tiny unbanked track will seem incredi- ble to those with any experience of dirt track driving. Phil Sea-
Why saloon?' one wonders, The word is already associated with a drinking establishment, a marine drawing-room, a billiards hall and hair-dressing establishment, whilst Nuttall's Standard Dictionary de- fines & saloon as 'a apacious apart- ment for the reception of company." Few motor-cara qualify for thisbrook is very well known in mo
It is unthinkable that compul sarily obtained policies should be made null and void and the holder | description."
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toring circles in New Zealand, and this is not the first occasion upon which he has distinguished himself. Motor-Boating Boom in U.S.A.
In America motor boating is developing even more rapkily than in this country," says The Motor Boat, " and Da account of the geographical advantages alone, were there no other reason, it is bound to be on a very much larger scale than can ever be possible" in the United Kingdom. An indication of the proportions which the motor boating industry has attained is given by the statement that move foor space was occupied in the re- cent New York Motor Boat Show than by any other trade exhibition, including the last Motor Car Show, that has yet been beld, and on the first two days 57,000 people at tended.
Slow speed has become entirely out of fashion. Out of 200 boats. only one had a speed of less than 12 mph and only four ander 15 m.p.h. The type of boat which gains most favour is neither the run- about nor the cruiser, but what is termed the sedan cruiser, an inter- mediate between the two classes. Whether this development will be: come popular in Great Britain (as the closed car has become popular in this country after its almost gen. eral adoption in America) is doubt ful, as the typé hardly conforms to the demands of the average cruis- ing man. The total sales at the Show amounted to. £600,000."
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the car's probable exchange. value, or to the quality and acces- sibility of service facilities for kesping it in good running condi-
tiou.
This picture, like many others connected with the industry, has completely changed in recent years. To-day's buyer is concerned hat Duly with the style and perform- ance of the new model, but also with the assurance of the soundness of his investment from a resale standpoint and of the completeness of the service organization which will keep his car in good condition.
Service, instead of a side issue of the dealer's business, has becoine a major factor in swaying the sale of a new car. It is as important as colour or quick pick-up in the permanent satisfaction the car will bring the owner.
Years ago an owner cared little about service because he seldom ventured beyond the immediate ter- ritory served by his dealer, but to-day he wants to feel that should his car require attention, he is within calling distance of a servies station where he may get genuine factory parts and well-trained men to work on his car. He wants to know that service facilities are uniform and good wherever he may travel.
In anticipation of this need the progressive manufacturer aid, his dealers in many ways to place and maintain service facilities on the highest possible plane. General Motors Export Company has ser vice supervisors who keep in con- stant touch with dealers, and ser- vice instructors who train men in the proper repair methods }} Mystery Cars for Daytona.
Speed kings from Europe and America will flash over the Day- tona Beach sands between March 15 and 30 in an international quest of a land speed récord. This is a delay of a fortnight, the dates be ing previously announced as March 1 to 15.
The drivers, will try to eclipse the 218.38 miles an hour record of Major Sir Henry Segrave, estab lished at Daytona Beach last
March.
Advance reports, credit some of these mystery cars with as much as 4000 horse-power. Speeds of 250 to 300 miles an hour are hoped for. At that speed, it is pointed out, "the machines probably would travel faster than the human eye on the sidelines could follow them.
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A car built by William vor Benz (Germany);
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WHEN YOU DON'T EXPECT IT!
Motor Cycling."
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Early reports connected three other Americans and two Euro- peans, with possibly other entries, They were:
Fred Duesenberg, of Indiana- polis; J. C. Sockwell, of Miami. Florida; Major Bernhardi, DE Italy; and the manufacturers of the European car Bugatti.
While some of the cars may cost nearly £20,000, their life may cover only a few seconds."
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11.-Gets up.
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13:-Endeavour,
17.-Symbol for radium.
18.-Insect egg.
90-Endeavoured.
21. To stroke, 22.-To examine. 24.-Demon. 23.-Commanded. 28.-Lessers,
28.-Wile.
20.-Tibs
30.To stop.
31. Retained,
32-River for Asia," 34.—Places.
35-To operate.
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38.-Possesses.
39-Part of ship's bottom.
41.-Negative.
49,--Conjunction.
43-To contrast.
48.-Waste.
45.-Negative.
48.-Reveler.
50.-Snares..
51. To breathe audibly in sleep.
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12.-Set.
13.-Pace.
16. Margins.
10. Writing pads,
21.-Part of horse's foot. 23-Spikes.
25.-To swell out.
27-To spread out:
28-Hurried.
30-Place for airplanes. 31:-Listener,
32-To swallow greedily.
33.-Earlier.
34.-Abbreviated.
35~~Frost.
37.-Shop.
30.-Director.
40.-Goddess of discord.
43.-Drinking vessel.
44.-Age.
47.-Musical note.
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