THESE PEDESTRIANS
COMPARATIVE INTELLI GENCE OF ROAD USERS.
Some anti-motorists resident in Bristol have recently founded & Pedestrians League which is ap
MOTOR-CAR PROBLEM.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 22, 1931.
SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
CAN, 'A' PASSENGER BE IN CHARGE?
Whether motorist seated" "in"
CHEVROLET'S JOB. 1d. A MILE BABIES." NEW THROUGHBRED. And then, on this nasty incline,
HIGH SPOT IN MOTORING
HISTORY.
Among the high spots of the auto. motive year of 1931 certainly must
I started again. That was a hard thing for any little car to do." I NO DISAPPOINTMENTS
expected her to kick and to splat- FROM THE MORRIS MINOR. tor, but she did not Shy shoulder. od her burdan and took me to the
pealing to the public on a meat stationary car awaiting the return de classed the achievement to date give family motoring A lu. pr8.V. Minor by Momra. Johnson of the Chevrolet Motor Company
A NEW DEVICE
TRACTION POWER AND DRIVING WHEELS.
THE NEW FAMILY MODELS.
TWIN TOP GEARS,
The motoring correspondent of top of the worst section of road
I have been privileged (writes invailable for test in town. "Big baby care, which will the Cape dron, invited to test an
the Daily Telegraph •Moteri Then I spun away to Napier less a mile in running costs, and Motor Co., Ltd., Morris DistribuStreet with a higher opinion of the Correspondent) to be the first per fitted with a new type of differ are to be completely ablished legallya in charge of the vehicl' Inon drab: and, to many, unhappy with "miens twin top" "gears for tors for Cape. Colony, recorded his little aide-valve engine than I hit son to have a run ip a motor-car
expected to hayo
Mential. This permits the car to be year, Chevrolet holding its produe more plesannt traffic driving and impression, as follows: tion close on demand, has managed better hill climbing, will be the drove through Cape Town, anobos Hid the High Lovel Rend to driven under the most severe zond
"Napier Street, which one to show a rising output curve month features of British cars for 1032, after month, with the single excep. During this month makors of side-valve Morris, Minor, the new Sra Point runs down a hill which conditions.
preposterous ticket. Motor oyelos
Speed limits are to be reimposed
with a maximum of 6 m.p.h. in town and 12 mp.h. in the country.. This precicus manifesto set " group of us discussing the com- parative intelligence of various typra of road user, writes B. II. Davies in. The Anto-Car
One of our disputants has a flat in Paris, and is a great admirer of that rather ruthless logic for which the French are deservedly famous. He took the Parisian.
of his chauffeur can be said to be
was the point raised in a case at Bow-street Police-court.
William West, 30, a daslar, of | Riverhall-street, Clapham, was
the car while under the influence of drink to such an extent 'as to ba incapable of having proper control of it.
abort of the January As a matter of we sbalt. quoto
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and then over a test course, in the
would send & driver's heart to his
As motorists ure aware, the dif-
charged with being in charge of tion of February, which fell slightly | popular cars will make a succes car that, Sir William Morria pro mouth if he wore not certain that forentini fitted in the back axle. 9th Just sion of official announcements of mised us when he was here last year brakes werd perfect. But I felt casing permita ona rear wheol tú"
It is the cheapest little car that Bir William's gunrantes pro. South Africa Jat me tell you howtected me as I approached the 10 it runs.
He was said to have been sitting
WOS.
| Chevrolets record, new modele..
Agures for For sportsmen the most interest year by ing information will concern months: January, 70,703 Febru- make which has figured prominoot- in the driver's seat while the carry, 87,318; March, 19,603; April, ly in races this year.
stationary in Wellington 100,000; and May 113,859 street, Strand. On the approach At the same time that Chevrolet of a constable he put his hand on was lifting the curve of its new car view of the whole matter. Whe- what appeared to be the self-star-production and sales, it was actu ther we like it or not, the presentter, but did not set the engine inally reducing the stocks of used trend of civilisation sats a high motion. The officer had to threa
This ten hint with his truncheon before cars in its dealers' hands. prenium on fast transport, France he could induce him to leave the latter class of merchandise has been realises this unquestionable, fact, care d
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"I was prepared for a few little disappointments as I snuggled into the driver's seat and set out down Burg Strees
A completely new model has been added to its programme. This will have a 13 h.p. (1,270 c.c.) six cylin
"I pulled up sharply behind a der engine with overbend valves of proved morit.
roving bores-cart. The little. Mor ris four-wheel brakes were smooth.. The chassis, with a wheelbase, ot over 7 fort is extremely low, and The tyres are smaller than those
oline. The carth fell away under the car's front wheels. I took the plunge and found that I could check the car at several points down the hill without fear of aliding or the foot brake alone! of the wheels failing to lock with
tura fastor or slower than the other when the car is rounding benda or turning right or left., THIN satein, however beneficial, has the fault of losing a certain amount of driving power in which one wheel spins and the other remains stationary.
The new patentypo, of differ aatial automatically compensates Now for the most strenuous for the loss of traction of one rear test-across the broad, pat-holed
A Thoroughbred,
and her legic complex ber to peis West declared that he had never reduced to a position where sales the body is streamlined. Accelera on the Morris Minor, but the STIP face of Green Point Common at 90 driving wheel by transmitting ad alise the pedestrian. His place is driven this "car in his life, and officials do not have to worry about tion, road holding ability, and pang surface is ample for a car in Trailes an hour, wditional power to the other -
on the side walk, says France; and if he invades the roadway he dong at his own risk, and must
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shoulder a heavy responsibility.
None of us Britons went quite far as that. This is a transi- age. The reade originally bo longed
to horse and foot traffic. We have not yet ronched a stage
did not know how to drive it When the police approached he was awaiting the return of his chauf four, whom he had just sent for some cigarettes. He admitted hav- ing a driving licence, but said that this was for another car of his, which he sometimes drove him self.
it, which, ne every automotive exocutive will testify, is a condition devoutly to be desired.
maximum speed will be excellent.
It will probably be named "The Magna.
"Six Cylinders,
£12.
on
Easy Changing,
-driv
As I approached the hill The free relative movement of the driv
of
Ling: wheelt, or they have resulted
or about the 1,000 lb. class.
a. The "I should lose my reputation for the gears are small but of standard veracity if I said the Morris S.Vng wheel
truvelled over the jarring uneven Automobile engineers state that pattern. I slipped from low to
neezes like a 21,000 limousine. She the new differential is an improve second and from there to top within did not. It was a nasty test for Three years ago Richard H.
40 yards, in which distance the car her; but she took it like a thorough- ment on provious efforts to correct Grant, then vice-president of the
In Conventry and Birmingham had to do a sharp turn to the left bad. I did not have to slow down, the shortcomings of the ordinary company in charge of sales, said the chief reported decisions taken We made our way through the The willing little fellow went at it
turn and draw back to the road, diferential under conditions that his company felt that it was by an equally famous associated Malay quarter to the foot of the cheerfully and won over withont unequal wheel traction. Previous The chauffeur, George Frederick Cooper, and a passenger in the offering the new Chevrolet Six at firm concorn a medium powered steppest hill in Central Cape Town any suggestion that 20 miles of this strompts have generally been in the
would not be to its liking, were called to corroborate this a very reasonable price, the anxi medel and the firm's baby "the upper stretch of Longmarket "When I returned to the show-diretion of either Introducing
mum in transportation. People Instead of a four-cylinder erst Street.
rooms in Burg Street I had utterly friction elements, which, unfor at which either can be banished
The magistrate said that the ex-
failed to find any little disappointtunatly, restricted the necessary pression in the Act being might care to pay more for their ging of 1,380 c.s. capacity the first
ments from the roads, though such an
motor-car," charge of a
was a cars, but the extra price would be one will have a six-cylinder
"A Top Gear epoch is visible not very far ahead. le dificult to determine at In the meantime consideration intimes.. Сроп the evidence he paid for greater luxury, for more gine of approximately 1,630 c.C.
Morris Minor:
the duty of all road users.
thought it was fair to draw the in of what we might term the mathewith aide valves. The tax will be ference that West was in charge tiebs of motoring. Adopting this as our basic of the vehicle and lie ordered hiru principle, we went on to classify to pay fine of £5 and #1 Is costs. He was aleh automatically die- a pedestrian's rights on VETIQUE qualified from holding a driver's types of road. In towne his place licence for 12 months, is on the sidewalk. He is dir Le., matter out of place on the carriage-way of any city stront, and should only be allowed theroon for necessary crossing, which should be protected as far as possible. On rural roads, devoid of side-walks, he has the same rights as any other road user, but it is desirable that even ou rural roads he, should be relegated to a protected side walk 24 soon as possible, aliko in his own interests and in those of the community and of traffic. The Man Who Walks for Pleasure,
This entails go hardship. The
qualities which make a good mo- torist. He exhibits marvellous control of bis top-heavy, Bimsy vehicle; he cozen foresight and in- telligence. We have met stupid cycliste, just as we have onecun tered stupid motorists; but the stupid, cyclist is usually young and inexperienced, and rapidly de- velops into a very astute and wary
person.
But when it came to analysing the mentality of pedestrians, we could find very little to praise. We are frankly terrified of them. In the towns they step off the pavement without a glance, and seem to be sunk deep in their own private reflections. They dart out into the traffic stream from be man who walks for pleasure bas hind parked buses. They moon. never frequented our chief high-about in the centre of the fairway;, ways in any numbers; he always and just as they enter the fairway' preferred the lanes, and byways, without prudence, so they com
pletely lose their heads when traffic which for centuries have been far startles them. We all felt that if more interesting and lovely we drove cars with the aame idiotic Flack of forethought, we could each have killed several dozens of ne destrians without risking any more severe verdict than that of "accidental dentă,'-','
Having thus defined our attitude to the pedestrian, we proceeded to discuss his mentality. There are "black" cheep in the "motoring" fra
tornity-eads, fools; and rogues; but, as experienced road usore with well over a million miles at the wheel to our joint credit, or discredit, we awarded very high marks to the average motorist for prudence, foresight, intelligence,
From the remarkable, record of this company in the difficult year of 1931, we can only gather that great many hundreds of thousands
changed from top to second and the Natal Advertiser, a real in the locking type of differential down to third (an unmechanical surprise. There is plenty of leg with hand control for the driver rahm, plenty of side room and The chassis will have a wheelbase woman could change down in this plenty of performance. Once in theThis latter system has proved un and track allowing an extremel; car even though she failed in a car one forgets that, one is in a practical, as it complicates the mo comfortable body to be fitted: The luxury limousine). The car con- baby.
chanism and because of the human "Getting away from the catalo car will have a silent twin toptinued up the one-in-six slope. Atque and coming to the actual por element in operating it, of poople in America and abroad gear for easter driving in traffic. the steepest part of the incline-formance on Natal roads, the S.V. agree with Mr. Grant.
to
The Chevrolet organisation is be congratulated on one of the outstanding jobs of 1931 to date.
FRANCE AND THE
T.T. RACE.
WHY BUGATTIS WERE
WITHDRAWN.
RISK WITH MUDGUARDS
TOO GREAT.
The withdrawal of the team of French Bugatti cars from the Tourist Trophy Race on the Ards, Circuit, Ulster, was not unexpected by thote. closely c connected with motor rac ing
These specially prepared powerful five-litre cars made their debut in the Grand Prix d'Endurance at Ls Mans on June 15. Great trouble
The important change relating point so high above the town that to the "baby" lies in the extension one looks down to the flat roofs of the wheelbase to over ft, per of the eight-storey buildings and mitting a body of an imposing away to Woodstock and to Milner size which will make it a fine ton-I stopped.
baby family car.”
This, as well as every model of the firm, will be fitted with a silent twin top gear.
Direction Arms.
No radical change may be ex- pected in the firm's other models, but Coventry exports would not be surprised if, when the modela are ready for distribution to agents next month, all were found, to, be fitted with direction indica-" tors, electrically illuminated, u the semaphore arm type operating on each screen pillar.
popular
A Coventry firm with "baby" will also be found to have adopted the "silent third" in their four-speed gearboxes on all models which have also a lower chassis with a finer centre of gravity, botter lowperiodicity springing and
The Drivers of Horses, Turning at Inap to horse drivers, we recognised a stupidity, even greater on the average than that of
pedestrians but we recognised was experienced with the tyres, all-round superior read-holding it with more sympathy, and come and eventually the whole teain was power. doned it. Stupidite on the part withdrawn from the race, after Bost All are much lighter, and thus, of horse drivers in practically limited to the men in charge of had burat a tyre and run into the with amino alteratione in the en heavy horses drawing wagons or crowd, with, unfortunately, intal regio producing enhanced maxi- and for resource in h tight corner. carts. Their honranro, usunity sults.
mum power, give, an exceptional- We felt conscious of a special ad abominably long, and the job itself
ly good power-to-weight ratio," in destructive to all finer mental
M. Bugatti thien stated that tnd with a livolior road performance miration for cyclists, and a special qualities. Possibly the key to all mudguards not been atted the tyre for all models sympathy for cyclists. Unlike the theso comparisons is that in the would have flung itself free. The Humber Limited havo issued the podestrian, the cyclist and the very nature of things that rules of the race called for mid-pfipial announcement of their 1932
forms of transport automatically main reads of special value to serve us poorer brains. A man guards, and the Bugatti racing great ditanation in design, pedi
models. In all three branc him. They offer him (or her) the with intelligence and character managers announced that their cars Ecation as price has been made. easiest riding, and the most expausually makes money, and ends would not compete in any further becoming a motorist. The man tious route to his destination, Un with a lower order of brain re races in which mudguards were, ob like the pedestrian, le le not al maina limited to walking, oroligatory Attings. lotted any private track, but must driving a heavy type of horse. If
take his change in the maelstrom
life gives a cleverer man no chance
to rise, he will possibly satisfy hit instinct for adventure and, move menthy buying a cycle, and be coming an expert cyclist, or tak-- ing a post as some sort of chauf feur or professional driver
Victory Montihery.
At the time of the Le Mans conere temps the care were already led in the Irish race, which Shortly afterwards these cars gards, and does not permit purely for sports cars equipped with mud of motors which oddies around him
ma at twice or thrice his own speed.
achieved a sweeping victory in the racing machines to run. French Grand Prix, at Montihery, An unusual technical point in tas Motoring has vastly reduced the
when they ran stripped and in pure car is that cast aluminum wheels. fet design of "thens particular. Bugatti eash and pleasure of liis lot in
There are, of course, a few pus, racing, shape,
with integral brako drums are used like. He complains: very little, He
sionate, pedestrians of fine intel. This ovent was interesting in that. The immenso heat, however, set up, adapte himself to the trying con ligenes men and women wits PES
by hand, beaking t speed in sad sing sense and for to walk and tho walk with the Bugatti curs man on äkilist to be
collation humour. Moreover the disprimination and sorso. But Dunlop tyres in place of the French the tyres with this system
they form a tiny minority, and Michelins used as Le Mans,
struction that their, thekWalways Jays
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the general," "argi- (Continued on acri Column.) - mentés
(Continued at fout of next column Vory Deverein racin
For Service
In this now high-traction" dif-
takes Borca Road on top easilyferential it is claimed that the She will also take Mayville on top.
Run in the S.V. should be what same end is accomplished without is known as a top-gear car.
introducing unfavourable charac of 35 to 40 miles, an hour, with all teristics, by using peculiarly sha
"She has an easy cruising speed.
ed teeth in the gearing.. the comfort of a big car."
ARRIVING SOON
FIAT 522C
6-Cylinders.
A fast car, a brilliant hill climber, and with its marked acceleration capable of keeping up high average speed. Separate hydraulic brakes for front and rear wheels. The four speed gear box is fitted with a silent Third, thus eliminating one of the most annoying noises.
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On the open road the silent Third speed affords the most pleasant possibility
ibility of driving on hills, curves and when overtaking
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