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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 10, 1931
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Elephaat transport has formed the native" method of carrying tenk logs from the forests of Burma te the riverside for generations, but this picturesque system is now giv. ing way to the march of mechanisa- tion.
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SIX VICTIMS OF CAR
CRASH.
DRIVING."
He looked much older than '17 and I thought ho was about He was a stranger to me," sui. Mr.
An incident on the road shortly before the accident was described,
Blazing Fiercely.
Police-Sergoant Halës, describing the song when he arrived, said,
The car was lying on its aide. Abbott. INQUEST STORY OF MAD and the front wheel of the motor
oycle was under the car's whees All the debris was blazing ferooly, There were three youths inside the car and Musgrave, the motor. oyola-pillion passenger, had been said that a can similar to the one The coroner remarking that no driven through the windscreen by involved in the crash, containing 108.30 m.p.h. good object could be served in try- the impact. Batten sat astride his four youths, recklessly out in and 108.06 m.p.h.ing to apportion the blame, a ver motor-cycle with his head resting passed his car. 108.05 m.p.h.dict of "Accidental death". wus on the engine of the car. 108.11 m.p.b.returned as the inquest on the six
The "Riley Ninh" now holds the following International recorda:-- GD kilometres 108.09 m.p.h. 30 miles
100 kilometres 100 miles 1 hour
900 kilomotros
9:000
3.000
4,000
1,000 miles
04.83 m.p.h. 67.80 m.p.h.
2,000
9 hours
domes
120 FEET SKID IN GĦASTLY KENTISH ACCIDENT.
by Mayaurd Bloomfield, of st George's-stroot, London, S. W., who
"I said to my wife, who was
"They were all dead when I ar-
109.29 m. pik. youths burned to death in the road 00:82 m.ph. crash at Harrietshain, or Marived except William Sherwood, with me in the car, that the driver who was lying on the roadway six must have been mad," added Mr. 60.78 m.p.h." stane.
yards from, the car.
Bloomfield. From the position of the debris After passing me the driver
The victims wors:
William Sherwood (17) Edward
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68.54 mi.p.h. Bhorwood (18) Arthur Forgete (17) it was apparent that the car had kept swerving from one side of the 68.63 m.p.h. Sidney Ernest Bear (17), all of Maidstone and that the motor-ovala road to the other! On one occasion.
been proceeding from Ashford to
was going in the opposite direction, the car swerved to within a foot of "The motor-cycle was on its near the kerb on the wrong side of thu sida. Leading up to it I found a road." 'skid mark 70ft. long.
Later he saw a car in flames.. Bernard William Bishop, o
"The car also left a diagoand skid mark 120ft in length towards the offside korb. It hit the kerb, house. Harriets-ham, describing the crash. aed away and skidded another 2011.said: The driver of the car was The cat must have carried the] trying to puss another when he saw motor-cycle along with it for about the motorcycle approaching from e 20ft. after the impact.
Apart from the difficulties nor-Devon-mansions, Tooley-street, S.E; mally associated with the main-Frederick William Batten (21), tenance of such high average of Boughton Monchelasa, Kent, speeds in a comparatively small and William Musgrave (19); of car, Eyston in securing the "first Sale Farm Cottages, Loose near six of these, had to opntend with Maidstone. unkindly elements. A thunder- Bear, Heryett and the two Sher storm visited Montlhery during the woods were in a baby saloon car progress of the run, and hoary when it was in collision with rain fell throughout its duration. motor-cycle, driven by Battan, with
In his report to the Riley Com-Musgrave as pillion passenger. pany, Eyston states that the en- gine functioned perfectly through There has recently" been launched but, and was revving in excess of * Mosor
Bont which was built 0,000 p.m. during the whole run, The performance is the best of all specially for the Anglo American
possible tributes to Riley "angibe Oil Co., as a filling station to sup-design, for it must be borne in ply Yachts. She has a capacity of mind that the 6,000 r.p.m. were 1,000 gallons of paraffin and 300 obtained without the bonent of gallons of petrol, together, pressin-supercharging, and that the engine ably, with lubricating oil, although design is the same as that which it is unknown whether Diesel Oil permits such a wide margin of afficiency to the "ordinary Riley will be carried.
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LONDON'S FIREFIGHTERS.
By their latest order, which calle for's Dennis 60 h.p. Fire Engines and 0 50 h.p. Special Dennis Motor Fire Tenders, for the use of the London Fire Brigade, the London County Country have brought their total number of fire, appli- aners of this make up to no less than 175.
It would appear that the Tram vergus Bus controversy is by no menns confined to England alone, In many parts of the Empire, re sidents in the larger cities and towns are clamouring for the aboli- shment of the Tramway system, and its replacement by flect of modern busex, At Bendigo,
Dennis five engines are, of South Australia, where consider- able agitation is taking place courso, a familiar sight in many on this subject, the local paper parts of the world-Boghdad, expressor the hope that it will Babia, Bangalore, Bangkok, Bara. yet see the day when a modernised caldo, Basrah, Benoni, Bergen, bus service will put Bendigo "on" Biano, Boksburg, Brakpan, Bria the map as a modern provincial bant, and Bundaberg, are some of city. The last few words of the the overseas communities that de foregoing sentence sum up the situ-pend upon these machines.
ation very aptly, for a city cannot claim to be modern or up-to-date it it passenger transport service is antiquated or obsoleta.
The high efficiency of the multi- stage turbine pump used in these Are engines leads to a great saving in weight, while the all-gunmetal construction gives immunity to the action of a-water, an additional advantage to coastal towns.
Leylanda for Overseas. Leyland Motors, Limited, whose passenger vehicles are operated by more than 6 per cent of the 360 MILES FROM A RAILWAY: Bus Operating Municipalities of Great Britain, are finding that
STATION.
Overseas Municipalities also are The District Commissioner of showing a vory decided inclination Northern Turkhana, Kenya, reports to use Layland vehicles to replace that his 18/50 Humber is the first (their trams. `This is very gratify-car to have reached that particular ing" to a firm which has been con- spot, which is between 300 and 450 centrating on establishing a claim miles from a railway station or of thoroughly modern Service and town, near the Kenya-Sudan- Repair stations throughout the Abyssinian, border. As can readily world, so that its users should have be imagined, the car had to be evory facility which is available at driven over some exceedingly rough the home factories. It is only a rived none the worse, and is in con- country on its way out, but it ar- ting that the Empire should decide stant use. Lose British buses, and it is t ting that, the Titan and Tiger, which predominate in British Transport Services, should predom A Leyland Bull-Terrier chassis, on inate in Transport Services Over- test at Durban, South Africa, dis
distinguished itself by performing a Sens. The authorities have had rather remarkable feat. A six-ton every opportunity of judging the loaded steam wagon had run intó capabilities of Leyland vehicles, soft sand and had sunk axle deep. Before its driver could release. his for there are a great number of brakes, which were full on, the private companies throughout the Terrier pulled it out on to frm world owning Leyland vehicles ground with the greatest of case, and without finding it necessary to which have to operate under ex- use the auxiliary gear-box with its tremely difficult "conditions.
lower range of gears.
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Hired Car.
The County Coroner, Mr. A, H.
the opposite direction. He braked Nove, who sat with a jury, said it was not easy to understand how
bard and skidded to the off-side Mr. Augustus Abbott, "gurage kerb. Then, after wobbling in the the accident could have occurred, i because the roadway where it hap Shepherd's Bush, said that Bear middle of the road, the car swung proprietor, of Uxbridge-road, pened was of ample width, and all the conditions seemed to favour the hired the ear from him for the round again into the off-side kerb avoidance of an accident..
and the motor-cycle struck it!".
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