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ORDERS BY MAJOR H. B. L..
DOWBIGGIN..
Parades.
(a.) Corps Band: Until further orders the Corps Band will parade twice a week at Headquarters, namely, on Mondays and Thursdays,
at 6 p.m.
(b) Battery: There will be a parade on Thursday, August 7, at 5.30 pm, at Headquarters for practical work with directors, and laying. Uniform: Members are re- minded of previous orders re send-1 ing helmets and jackets to stores for fitting of new flashes and badges as 1 soon as possible, '
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HONG KONG WEEKLY
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CONTAINING ALL THE WEEK'S LOCAL NEWS.
The Paper to send Home
PROGRAMME OF N.C.O.'S CLASSES. August 3-Mechanism;
8.-No parade-Promenade
Concert. 19.-Indication and Recogni-
tion,
26
15.-Instruments and Theory
of Indirect Fire. 22.-E.GUD,
29-Examination of N.C.O.'s
for promotion. Flying Section.
THE MOBILE 'BUS.
ITS PLACE IN PASSENGER
TRANSPORT.
23
Mr. Pilcher is a strong believer in public control of transport. "As the necessity for transport inerenBOS the necessity for public control will increase. Transport cannot be allowed to develop" just on its own. Local authorities will Ie-
The need for new ideas, new machines, and now methods" is quite to exorciso more of the power. emphasised in the book on "Road which they have, and will require to be vested with additional powers Transport Operation; Passenger,'
to contro road passenger services. which Mr. R.' Stuart Pilcher,«gen- eral manager of the Manchester The present power are totally in. Corporation Transport Depart adequate. Local authorities should ment, has written for Messrs Sir be empowered to define the exact Isaac Pitman & Sons Transport routes run by buses, the number who Library. Mr. Pilcher discusses in of vehicles, and the times run, detail the merits and short-ther the 'busos be licensed by the comings, and particularly the com- particular authority or not. Local parative working costs of many authorities should be in a position different types of passenger vehicle to control any services supported -the electric trolley tram, the rail. by the people in that locality." less tram, the cable tram (used for- merly in Edinburgh), the conduit tram (used in London and many European cities), and the motor bus. He discreetly reserves his judgment, but one cannot help ans- pecting that his heart is with the
'bus.
The Less Eficient Tram,
Screen Training for Drivers. There is an interesting account of the practical instruction given to prospective drivers in Berlin. The man is placed in front of a white table on which is thrown, a moving picture of a roadway, full of traffic. The driver operates the" iereen with a controller handle, the
"A few years ago," he writes in speed of the screen corresponding his first chapter, there were those with the speed at which the ear. who thought that buses would travels. As the room is darkened never take the place of tramways, the effect on the driver is the game but it is now recognised by all the as it would be, if he were actually great operating authorities that driving à tram-car. He can make the less efficient tramways will have the screen go faster and faster ac to give way to the more mobile cording to the requirements of the vehicles. Most of the tramway un traffic, and he can stop it by ap- dertakings have now a fleet of me-plying the ordinary hand or emer- tor-'buses, and it is found more gency brakes, which are both couple suitable to operate all extensions ed to the screen. The driver is by motorbus Busog can also be told to start, and the instructor. used to develop cross routes. They tells him to stop at a certain point can be run on streets too narrow or station, or at a cross street, or for trams and under bridges too he may be required to apply the low for double-deck care,
emergency brakes owing to The greatest hindrance to the in-vehicle crossing his track. In this troduction of 'buses is the reway a practical test is carried out luctance to abandon the tramway, in the laboratory to familiarise. in other words, the hesitation the driver with condition, and risks to scrap an undertaking which has been thought to be permanent
or,
4.
which he is likely to meet on the road."
The chief advantage of the tram
Mr. Pilcher is equally free of has been its low operating costs prejudices for the established thing por mile, and the fact that the in the question of relations with tram on most systems was capable employees. He declares himself a of crrying more passengers. These firm believer in the five-day week are very important factors, but or five-night week where it can be quite recently the operating costs proved that the employee will do, of the bus have been appreciably the same amount of work in the reduced, until at present the costs shorter week... Greater leisure per mile are very similar. There means greater happiness, and a is still an advantage held by the more contented, and tran in carrying capacity at rush more efficient, staff," periods.
The Desire to Molex."
therefore
Piece-Work in Car-Ships.
He is also a believer in piece-
The public seem to have taker work, and recounts an experiment, a fancy to the bus. Is it the de-made presumably during his period sire to be in a motor-car? Most of authority in Edinburgh, in people "wish to ride, in a motor which it was a pronounced success. car, and many cannot afford it, There was some controversy over but the spirit scems to be there. the building of cars by direct lab- Even people with restricted in our or by contract. It was ascer comes will pay the higher fare to tained that cars could be built in ride in 'busee."
the Corporation workshops at a definite price if the syster of piec work was adopted. It was adopt nd: The Corporation saved about £200 & car, and the average wage
rose from £3 16s. 5d. to £57. Rd.. of body builders in the workshop,
(Continued on next Column.)
Struck Off the Strength.
field, The Battery, as from July 23, No. 1274 B. S. Major E. P. Streat-
No. 948 Q.M.S. G. Davidson,
[a week-
finitely made to commence flying Arrangements having been de-
instruction, all those who have sent 1930. in their names to join this section Headquarters at 5.30 p.m. on Thurs-24, 1930. are required to attend at Volunteer Machine Gun Trcop, as from July painting of cars. It saved twos day, August 7, when details will be explained.
Any further names of those de sirous of joining the Section must be sent to the Adjutant without further delay.
Parade Attendances.
(Sgd.) W. H. G. GOATEE, Capt., Adjutant, H.K.V.D.C.. Hong Kong, August 1, 1930.
NOTICE.
Promenade Concert,
(.)-Engineer Company: There will be no miniature range shoot on 0.8C. Companies, etc., are re- Monday, August 4. A team shoot minded that the compilation of the with 40th Co., R.E., will take place Corps. Paratic Attendance Roll is, on Monday, August 10, at Kennedy through the rendition of their re- Road Range. Team will leave Head-turns, their own responsibility. quarters at 8.30 p.m. sharp. They are requested to check, as (d)-Corps Signals: Signal Class soon as possible, their Company, will parade au Corps Headquarters etc Attendance Registers, with the at.1.30 p.m. on Thursday, August 7 Corps Register to ensure that all (e) Machine Gun Troop: Parade attendances have been recorded. on Thursday, August 7, at 5.30 p.m. This can be done at any time on at Causeway Bay: Stables.
application to
present, the Registration intant and the Corps Sergeant Clerk, in the absence of the Ad-
Major....
(f.)-Armoured Car Company Car Section. The following will parade at Kowloon Railway Station at 5.30 pm on Friday, August B, for driving instruction on No. 2 Armoured Car C.Q.M.8. A. E. Kew, Bergt, E D. Labrousse, Lce.- Corpi J. 8. Flegg, Pte. E. JRJA Spradbury, and Pte. A. G. Clarke.
The system was extended to the
days (out of nine or ten) on each car painted, and the average week- By wage for painters rose from £3, 168. 3d, to £5 31. Ad. Subsequent- ty, it was extended to other de partments the machine shop, the overhauling shops, and the paint
A further metting of the Pro-ing of buses. There was no com menade Concert Committee na de pulsion. Rates for certain jobs tailed in last orders wilt be held at Headquarters at 6.30 pm on Tues were offered to the men, counter- ben cuopted on to the Committee. selves, and finally a mutual rate day, August 5. C.S.M. Padgett has offers were made by the mẹn them-
A Promenade Concert will take was agreed upon. Some of the em place at Volunteer Headquarters on Friday, August 8, at 9:30 p.m. H.Eployees wanted to give the scheme the Governor and Lady Peel will be a trial. They were informed that if they did not like it they could at Volunteer Headquarters.
Admission tickets can be obtained go back on the ordinary.wage rates. Gradually the men tried the system, B.E. Shoot,
liked it, and later the whole shop The following scores were obtain
adopted it." Captain H. R. Forsyth, Scottished by the members of the Engineer Company, from August 7 to 20, 1930 Company at the Royal Engineer Rifle Meeting on Sunday last, July 27-DA
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200 500 000 To-don Divisions of the Territorial
thoroughly up-to date, our success Motor Cycle Section: Parade at taken on the strength and posted.. 35 yds, yds, yds, tal. Army is greater than in any other attained by making out customers Headquarters at 5:30 pm. on Fri as under:
Spr. Boss 25 24 20 .69. day, August 8, for instructional ride
division in the country, The Cityfuleret our first ims. The expert Spr. Smith 20 20 17 68 Division is 3,050 men below strength, diferent
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buying, with weather cermitting) Should wer Rostuguerzi Company from lutym Between them
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lock 104 aficers Since the ber
giving our customers all the idran- gun instruction WIT pe lo
Fie, AY GoBano, g Coo
ning of May: 1,000 recruits have (5)Machine Gun Company: Portuguese Company, as from Jaly Spr. Strange 18-18841 joined the various divisions of the N.CO.'s classes will be held on 29, 1930.
FL/Cpl. Hooper 23 15 8 038 Territorial Army, which, however, Tuesday, August 5, at 5.30 p.m. at No 1876 Pte. H. 8. Clippingdale, Spr. Boas obtained the highest | is still 2,001 men below last year's Headquarters in mufti. There will No. 1 Platoon, as from July 30, 1930 | aggregate for the Volunteers and total. Strength is best maintained be no parade on Friday, August 8. - (Continued on next Column) received & prize of a silver spoon. in the west and north.
their requirements being rightly mp-
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