TOURING TOPICS.
ODDS AND ENDS ABOUT PEOPLE, PLACES AND SCENERY.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.
MOTOR NOTES.
A daily newspaper recently de- voted a short leading article to the fast ear is slow, but there are subject of lying up one's yar for hold-ups galore where rond widen the winter. It gave some usefuljing is taking place" advice, but the gist of the matter
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By far the pleasantest, prettiest was that the practice, is now very and quickes route is to take the Watford by-pass, which lips along I wonder if it is half so 'usual as behind Hendon and Mili Hill, The writer went d'to think. After leaves busy and growing Watford ali, because winter comes round it on the left, and joins up with the does not absolve anyone from keep-Fold Watford Berkhamsted road one-time quaint, narrow High about a mile north of Watford...
designed to take the four-foot-sight track of my war. And there it stay ed pincidly till, I called for it in the evening, and I hoqie-my friends at the Rover will forgive me if used valuable space free of chargo, In Coventry centre--Broadgate the renovators and improvers have een busy with a vengeance. Gone are the queer old buildings abutting Hitrect, and in their place is a huge | red brick and 'white-stone black and offers, which appears to be strug gling to dreide whether it most trembles a Ronan temple in a now medium or a very modern super ciarma.
Wale. 1 gazed in awo there chanced by an old friend, a bazi- ress man whose family have been associated with Coventry for gen
rations
ing, business and social engagements Thereafter it is rather narrow n and down the wantry, 11 and winding till Berkhamsted and have to go to Coventry' From Lon-Tring are left behind, but mid-week don at stated intervals, I do not traffic on this section is very light, and the scenery is delightful. Once eswapo,zny obligations because it free of Tring, which boasts happens to be Decruder instead of modern ina with one of the best June
designed and snost plasing front clevations l'know of anywhere, the rond salves itself into a speedway flanked with some of the fairest "I don't know what to make of to the right, is the slopes of the ing bank and must have cost in lat views in the Home Counties. Away it," he murmured; “it's a fine-lçok Chilterns rises Ivinghoe, dawn the to build, but the trouble is that sides of, which the new sport, of [o one's got any money to put into gliding has made such progress of it to-day." fate, and nearby lies Whipsnade, where a Zoulogical Society is working wonders. with the new open and natural type of country zaki,
By next summer believe that Whipsnade will rival Hindhead as week-end objective for Landan norists who do not wish to go for
held.
Today, very, very few cats are 18o purely for pleasure transport, -What they do is to frausform ming 2 puroly business grip into at least lity per cent, pleasure one. The car helps to make our working life,
pleasure instead of a drudgery, and that is all to the good because the more pleasure we find in the work that we have to do the better and more thoroughly will that work Da dono,
It is de Fashion to describe an English winter as all fog, main, cold, ster and snow. It is no inore tra than to say that a Riviera winter is all bright skies and warm Kunshine. Anyone, who cares to
Good Roads and Little On Them,
Then bowled into Aylesbury, keep a diary knows perfectly well that elegant, antique, unspoiled that Charles 11's distum that town, where such pleasant things land experienced more days when it is possible to be out of doors in as ducks and milk and butter are mfort than any other land he produced, and where quite a deal if high-grade printing is carried knew of is still true.
John Hampden must have looked on very much the same scene in his day as his statue confronts
this hour.
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He sighed, and opined that times were not what they were. Of course, like Punch, they never were Yet everyone looks prosperous, and most of the factories seem to be turning out a good deal of stuff, and you see the big motor vans of the great noxessory firms dashing Intout delivering goods to various works. And more cafés open, and the streets. look brighter and the shops more prosperous than when knew them well, now many years When evening falls, and will the electric lights come on, right up in the sky, towering about Gosford Street, nove every other building, blazes in thousands of lights the word Morris. Below the lights, Jan floor below flour, till you come After Aylesbury you pass through 10 the road level; engines and other Bioster and Bunbury. When I parts for Morris ears are pouring went that way the other day in a conseless flow to the waiting found the roads deserted and in lorries which bear them off lo marvellous condition, with the re- Oxford.
Stimulating Sights. sult that, scept for a slight stop
I like these sky signs over indus beyond Blender to thread my way through, mert of the local hounds, try. They have a heartening and and reason to use the brakes, stimulating effect on the mind, and
favourably and hardly any to close the trolle, must.
impress Pave in villages and towns, till I stranger in the land. Even if drew into Lenningian exactly two times are not what they were, this band a half boars after leaving my [bluze of light is good businesa. I It is a mystery to the why so many home in NW, London. I made it would like Lore. Coventry, and other manufacturing towns, do people journoying between London.2 miles
“And this in, winter, a time in Intore in thly line. The Americans and this Midlands take the' Holy- head road. Not only is at over. which we are sometimas told it is knew what they were about when worked thoroughfare | so infested good to lay up our cars!
they made New York scrape the sky and in it all up at night. It is with lorries that progress in even
{good advertisement, and I like to one that Gosford, Street bencon. It took my mind back to the Champs Elyséeg night, when the Eiffel Tower tells the world the name af the Citroën
Best Way to the Midlands, Recently
wo have had some wet weather and fogs. But we have had some exquisite days as well. A week or two back I had to visit the Midlands, and my run down on one day and back the next was just about as jolly a trip al have had for month.
The roads were dry, the sky, undged with ferey, wool
ke clouds, was blue ver rast expanses, and the trees still eneried wonderful amount of foliage. It was quite pleasant to have the kid ing roof open. The car ran magni fcently.
See Europe from an Armchair
The road between Leamington and Covatry, whether gi· Köni} worth or Stoneleigh, is sti!) one of The prettiest in England. No other part of my Find seems to me so Essentially English as the aures round Stoneleigh Park. It'in diffi- cult to think at one is within a
the
I came back to Town through inile or two of a big manufacturing | Weedon, tarned left to Northang- | Town -- For Coventry is hovoming ton, and thenes through. Newport
a big town. It looks in parts, Pagnell, where Salmons make one notably is strange and one-time of the best of the all-open-all-elesed rather dirty Well Stret, to have bodies, and joined the Holyhead koon subjected to a Big Bertha road nt Hookcliffe Corner, bombardiment. They tell me Well
I took my place, perforce, in Street will rise Eke a phoenix and queue of lorries, from which! will inke the form of a fine boules genreely emerged till I had passed vard with splendid shops. VeryFt. Albans and renched the Burnet nien, na ilonht, but somehow I by-pass at Bignell's Corner. faney the old. Well Street will
Then I found a set of fog. "But. always seem most homely to nung despite that and the lores. I am of us who remember it.
sure that he who lays up his ar doctor.
on your next leave! Parking your car in a bit of a problem in Coventry, but I found Conalder Motorways' method of travel,
place at Inst a good deal nearer Motorways" unique service makes it Meadow the official spot on which 10 the centre of the city ahan-Pool possible for you to tour Europe or the was advised to put my ear. British Isles at your case in luxuriously was passing down Victoria Berid appointed motor Pullman Saloons, ha, on my left, in Garfield Road, rented in your own armchair, at your spied a lot of cars with from own window, at a moderate cost, wheels cross the kerb and radintos which includes first-class hotel andrestling close against the Rover steamer accommodation, all meals, factory walls. gratuities, and the services of a courier They were not all Royer cars, só I enquired of a passer-by if it was
con and off the vehicle.
Some of the countries visited byarking place"No," said he, Motorways-France, Switzerland,
Germany, Spain, Imiy, etc., etc.. You be met at Marseilles if you desire.lt.
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44, CRANBOURN ST., LEICESTER SQ. So, thought 1, why shouldn't I have LONDON, W.C.2, ENGLAND.siness with the Rover? There was a nice gap in the rank," just
in winter-well, be ought to see a
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By this tino The only just suki- cient strength lolt to crawl back! into the driving sent, my right paha blistered and my left' wrist aching from the incesant krásy of the wing lamp, whidi, netw na ang an- chorage against my torque on these Occasions. I was determined" not " to stop the engine again until the ear was enfch garaged.
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