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“Fast driving is not necessarily
TRAFFIC AND TRADE rts (around Lin-khan four-wheel- ors for bauling stone)" "onrried; cer- ROUTES IN HAINAN.tain types of freight, doing most
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~Motors on, the Roads.¦
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a great deal theag days. In Kachck of the hauling at night, The market some seventy or eighty cari spueak of the wheelbarrow and the are owned. Of these shy ten are ox-curt seems to be nu integral regularly on the run south to Vang It is a well-known fact that the
part of thom, never to be mitigated nong, but that road is often blo USSR are purchasing motor gond driving a good drivor may It is approximately forty-five any way Thoro carts, by theed by Communist disturhanous. vehicles from most European coun-travel fust, but only does smiles from Tun-ngat to Kachok by are a great til to the market days a number of curs tries, and it is significant that an with a keen sense of ibility the old rond. A horse, and rider motorists. Their narrow wheels cut local trips back and forth to order has just been executed for a and full confidence that he can could if necessary muko it in one deep into the road, which they oross villages, and on-off-marke quantity of Morris Commercial meet any emergency,
long "tiny" Chair
carriers took a
nt frequent intervals, and wasting haul rico frowood, lime, light rigid sixywheeled chassis,
day and a half or two days. Fasto love on the swifter chariota, pigs, or whatever local products. freight carriers could do as well but
are being moved. The others go to the usual freight schedule was two
Hoihow, the better cars, making the days and a half. The streams of
trip out and back in one day. The Carriers pouring into Kachek market
companies who bought used : cara from Singapore and finding it did from the river used to be a moat
not pay-now chrs mre much quickor The annual London to Cowes picturesque and interesting sight,
and need less repair. Tem gallons Race for ongoing motor boats fur- Now we have the sound and the
of gas will more than make a round - nished another Thornycroft well of the Forde and Chevrolets
trip if the roads aro good. coss, for the winning cruiser Kit takauke was equipped with two Thornycroft engines.
The District Commissioner of Northern Turkhana, Kenya, re ports that his 10/50 Humber is the first car to have reached that par- ticular spot, which is between 300 and 100 miles from a railway sta- tion or town, near the Kenya Sudan-Abyssinian borgar.
A can readily be imagined, the car hind to be driven over some exceedingly rough country on ita way out, but it arrived none the worse, and is in constant uso.
TRIUMPH IN JAPAN.
In the Far East, British motor oycles are supreme, and, in Japan, the enterprising distributors of the Triumph have organised: sever- nl. aceial functions. amongst their large number of
In sever al parts of the
There was a splendid muster of, machines in the "All Triumph Rally at Tokyo on Sunday, May 17, on the occasion of the 70 miles Tua from the capital to Nagatoro No fewer than 60 Triumph owners took part. The run proved to be an excellent occasion for fostering the club spirit, and opportunity was taken of exchanging motoring experiences in the Land of the Rising Sun.
MODERN CRUSADERS:
Twelve young Jewish athletes are engaged in a "sports crusade" on motor oycles in order to foster interest in Europe in a huge Olym piad which it is proposed to hold next summer at Tel Aviv, Pales- tine;
A fast driver without this sanae of responsibility and knowledge of his car capabilities is little short of erni.Standard Car Review.
She made the paadge of 180 miles,
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groaning up the steady riso into Kuchek market, and the small farmers, who eked out their living by carrying, have not that addi-
they apparently delight in cutting the auto track us deeply and as often as possible, diagonally and place. R straight and at every conceivable
Boads and Bridges. With the advent of the auto, The soil here in many places makes roads became a paramount necessity
The license costs $30 a month. Chauffeurs are paid at least 81 i a good road, needing only a littla
bainage. A long to the road enn day, and all passengers picked up follow the upland, well and good. along the road after the car lon vas
Causeways arrose rice fields are Kachek or Hoihow pay their faros: mande where necessary. Bridges hro to the chauffour who may or may at an average speed of over a knots, tional source of income. When the more difficult. The splendid mas not divide with the company. despite atrocious weather condi-freight reached Kuchek that destin-sive stone structures with their big second man is always carried on buttresses were strong enough for the var, phid from $10 to $15 per tions. So bad were they that outed for the south-Vang-neng and motor traffic but were so narrowmonth, who nets as mechanic of 14 entrants, and 11 actual star. Leag-tai-was put in small boats that cars either could not cross is also taught to drive. The ferry ters, only one other bout completed that ply the Kachck river, taken at all or else with str only thred Lee is 81, one crossing between cro
down to Bak-ja, around the bay into inches to spare, in which case pan and the port, the course,
other rivers or down the Coast. That sengers preferred to walk, across With expenad for oil and repairs. for Loh-hoe and upriver regions went upstream in smaller boats. To considerable extent this Kachek river traffic still continues.
18-YEAR-OLD LORRY - IN TIERRA DEL FUEGO.
While there are still on the roads The Old Way,
Passenger traffic dopended on in various part of the world
the river boats, as has been men- number of commercial motors. itioned, on the sedan chair, occa- from 15-20 years old, there must signally on horses though that was be very few of these which have cosined mostly to the foreign mis been working under such arduous sionary, and principally on the foot path. Around the city and in conditions as the aton Albion, Vun-sio wheelbarrows carried both which is owned by Sociedad. Ex freight and passengers. Big lum- plotadores do Tierra del Fuego, bering two-wheeled wooden buffalo Magdalloues.
* This company is one of the lar- gest sheep rearing concerns in the world, and owns vast ranches in Tierra del Fuego. Their Albious have been used mainly in connec tion with the transport of wool and stores, but the road conditions When they were in England they tock the opportunity of paying are particularly arduous and the surprise visit to the Ariel works fact that this 3-ton Albion sup- where some of their mounts woreplied in 1013 gave such excellent originally made. There they dik- played great interest in the moving service, resulted in a assembly track, and other modern production methods before setting forth again on their self-imposed task.
DURBAN'S FIRST DOUBLE. DECKERS.
A few weeks ago, the first double- decker motor omnibus to undergo a really exhaustiva trial on Dur ban (S.A.) roads, was placed in service by the Corporation for a six month's trial, The bus is a Leyland Titan of the latest type, and was supplied by the company's Natal agent This handsome blue vehicle immediately aroused a great deal of attention and many hun- dreds of residents enjoyed zides on it during the first few days.
The Town Council's object is to make a thorough test of the vehicle over a long period, and to dater. mine how it compares with the trams in ourning per mile, operat ing costs, ete. The authorities are already extremely satisfied with its capabilities, and state that on the Overport route, where the most difficult bends and, sharpest gradi ents of the whole Durban systein are to be found, the Leyland is operating with complete success.
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for a 6-ton model in 1929, and for & further machine of the samo type, which is in hand at present,
A QUEER MUSEUM,
In a little room off Piccadilly, Laados, is a very queer museum, The exhibits include a crumpled hora (cow), and a crumpled horn (deer), stuffed pheasants, partridge, a duck from Regent's Park, and a swan, horseshoes stones, apd selection of golf balls The cura tort of the museum is Mr. Re giliaid Dalpech, Bales Director of Triplex Safety Glass, Ltd., and the exhibits are objects which have crashed into the windscreens of motor cars, and have been sent by | grateful owners who might have been seriously injured if ordinary glass had been fitted to their cars Mr. Delpech is proud of hi musetim
**MOTOR MINDED BRITAIN,"
Commenting the reduction in the number of street accidents in the London ama during the first quarter of this year, The Light Cür and Cyslecar says: "We feel that the recent increase in road safety is the culmination of years of gradual education in highway. behaviour and it marke, we hope, the beginning of a new," era in which every road user will, at last come to realize his responsibilities
Many a man who goes home on leave from Overseas would love to tour Brithin but hesitates to buy the moderit scheme of things: a carpet Bads the cost of hiring The dibeulty in the past has prohibitive, for an average weekly Bran that the motor vehicle has hire rate is £11 108 with an ex bean a newcomer an interfopor, in cess of perhaps 11d. per mile if fact, in the minds, of many its the distance covered Laxresda 250 presence has been resented and its milos This mounts up into big speed distrusted. As a result, other money when the weeks run into road, users have been inclined to mantas, while a fairly heavy do'stick up for what they have term? posit is also required,
ed their rights, irrespective of whether these so-called 'rights were consistent with either "cour tesy or safety; and so long as you have all-feeling on the road, so you will have dangor. Now, how ever, the mind of the public, has begun to catch up with the “in-
A wiser alternative is there purchase system sponsored by Messrs Rooto Lid of Devonshire House, Piccadilly London, under which they undertake to buy back aear at a guaranteed percentage of its list priss at any time up to six months from the date of pur croans in trato, and, with the pro chase.This plan has several exminent symbol of the Road Tratio
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These bridges have in some cases to be considered too it is not to been widened by planks hid a few be wandered that the number of very autisfactory reinforced concrete cars is decreasing but the quality bridges have been built. Small cul- improving. Passengers pay from th- Į vorta are the delight of the commu- to 84 for a one way trip, depend. nists, who tear them up periodically, ing on the type of car (touring cor The matter of roads is not yet on a or bua) and the number of people satisfactory basis. Between Kachek travelling, Freight runs about 89.50 and Boihow three companies main- to 43 per hundred reatties. Motor tain the road Each company, traffic, in Hainan has come to stay, collects toll, at the rate of thirty and roads, streets, and everything cents per person, figuring six per else aro being adapted to it with sons to a car. Of course, a bus marvellous rapidity, considering. usually has from ten to fourteen the proverbial attitude that “you passenegra Freight cars pay at can't hustle the cast. Man could practically the same rate.
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