HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 15, 1930.
MOTOR NOTES
MOTOR TAXATION:
SHOULD CARS BE TAXED
ON WEIGHT?
A suggestion frequently put to by readers, says The Motar, is
FORD'S OFFENSIVE TWENTY M.P.H. MOTORISTS
IN EUROPE.
NEW GERMAN FACTORY
OPENED.
Coeln. Out, E.--Mr. Nenry Ford
WHY THEY ARE OFTEN A
NUISANCE.'
A man who seis aut for an after.
noon' jaunt and follows bis pro grammo of maintaining a steady
FINES FOR NOT SPEEDING! | all the motor vehicles in the United
40 M.P.H. MINIMUM ON SOME
U.S. ROADS.
'BUS CONDUCTOR'S DEFENCE.
Stater. I gave the department a number at random and by means of a card index I was supplied with full, particulars of the car and its "SIN" TO LEAVE PEOPLE IN
THE RAIN. owner in 0 seconds-an amazing performance when you think of the millions of ears in the country:
I
3
|to leave them where they were than
to take them on board..
Superintendent Myth said the bus conluctors wero setting the Court at deßance. I was a serious.. thing for the 'busca, to bo over- crowded, and if there was an accid-- At Formby recently, when sight jent probably the conductor would. 'but conductors were summoned for brought before the Court for
manslaughter.. allowing their buses to ba ovor.
(The Chairman (Colonel Forme crowded, one of them said he was (by) said the Bench thought there. seat from Liverpool with one of was a good deal in what this de-
a number of extra 'buse, to pick fendant had said,, but they could up passengers from Southport. Atct have buses overlosed. He
would be fined 108.
Six of the other defendants were
Sir William Jowitt, K.C., the Attorney-General, who, with other members of the British Bar Asso- We in England have no con ciation, has been visiting Canada ception of the traffic problem in and the United States, is greatly America. It is really terrible, and impressed by the American methods | they attempt to obviate it by means of crime detection.
of traffic tunnels. We are about to In the police department in abolish the speed limit in England. New York," he stated, "I saw in. but the Americans have gone a step that weight should be the basis of himself to-day laid the cornerstone 20 mp.h, often imagines that his struments which enable them to further... moter-car taxation, not the sum of of hip frat continental factory conduct is beyond criticism and dentily not merely the particular, “There are certain roads and Freshfiold he came to a group of the bore of the cylinders. One where Ford cars will be built by that he is, in fact, behaving in an is red, but the actual weapon from type of revolver from which a bullet vious answer is that both are wrong German workmen of German mate exemplary fashion, says The Light which it is discharged. • and that the tax should be on use, riat and which, apart from supply-Car and Cyclecar,, not on possession. A tax on owner-
ing the German market, is to serve
"Another department classifies ship is derived from the old con- ruption of a motor-car as a luxury, whorean it is now far more of a necessity as incans of transport.
Car and Lorries.
Fellow motorista will agree, pro
ns the base for Ford's conquest ofvided that the potterer confines bis Scandinavia, Poland and the Bal kans.
In his dedication speech, the motor ear king expressed optimism Let us, however, consider the regarding Germany's economic question of weight as an alterna future, declaring that in his tive to a horse-power tax. We have opinion the present difficulties of in the first place a parallel provid. ¦ the country wore only temporary. ed by commercial goods vehicles Furthermore Mr. Ford plended for which are taxed not on horse-power, international co-operation on ↑ but on uniadon weight. It seems national basin which in his opinion a method which is as fair as any would be the best guarantee for method of tax on ownership can, peace. Cocln's Lord Mayor, Dr. be and the procedené should- rulo | Adenauer, in his address referred out of court any suggestion that collection, would be impracticablo, or even difficult. The local authori ties do not measure ongines to test the accuracy of data given them on application forms for licences but accept the manufacturers' figures. The same would apply to the weights of vehicles if that were į Germans as well as Americans. the basis for calculating a ta
journeys to ronds of lesser import- nnee. Nevertheless, there is growing tendency for potterers, or nervona novices, who drive in much the same way and at the same
to comparatively speed, to take narrow main roads and thereby to unke thorough auisance, of them.
selves.
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Selfishness on the Road. Their attention should be drawi to the fact that there is such thing as selfish pottering; a car pro.. to the German Government's financeding at 20 mp.h, on n' Darrow cini reform plan and pointed out in road may be the means of that the Reich was making heroic holding up a whole stream of traffic efforts to deal with the situation, anxious to push on. If this were thus demonstrating its determina- not enough, the selfish potter causes tion to honour all its obligation.
even careful drivers to take undue The ceremony was attended by a risks in attempting to pass, large number of prominent guests,
Bettor for Private Ownera.
of high power, low weight and Would taxation by weight be an low price, which will afford greater advantage to the majority of pri- flexibility, easier handling and an vato owners? We believe that it increased measure of economy. Why would. The weight and the price should a vehicle of low price be of a vehicle are in much closer roundicapped by high taxation t lationship than the horse-power and The present horse-power tax has the price as a little reflection will dong more than anything else to show. In the near future this will prevent the development of large bo even more apparent, for the Bri-outputs of big-engined cars for tish motor industry is developing home consumption which would the type of car popular in America, make possible chonp production of
(Vontinued on nezt Volumn.) this type for overseas trade.
Coming in the same category is the new car being driven con- scientiously below a fixod maxi mum speed of about 25 m.p.b. The need for this is not questioned, but, as a rule, it is easier and far more pleasant for the driver-to choose roads on which there is little traffic. In these days of crowded righways consideration for other road users by potterers would lead
to a great deal more enjoyment, comfort and safety all round.
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which it is an offence to travel at tunnels in the United States people with children who were fined £1 oach, and another, who drenched with the rais, and he was fined in July for a similar a speed of less than 40 miles no hour."
thought it would be a greater sin cffence, was fined 308.
Good new day
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