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THE
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WOMEN MOTORISTS
A Plea for More Consideration
HINTS TO THE DESIGNERS
AL
KONG DAILY PRESS
UARY 21, 1933.
SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
pair of shoes for driving-which is rut as it should be. Men, with their nuch heavier footwear, do think of this.
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FEWER DEATHS ON MOTORING IN MALAYA
BRITISH ROADS
But More Accidents
564 HURTS AND 18 KILLED
PER DAY 1932
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Thousands of women drive motur cars in Britain to-day. Practically half the total number of cars on the
London-Preliminary figures is the road have a woman at wheel. A private census in some Window winders that are easy to sued by the Ministry of Transport odd half hour on the road will, operate-many are most definitely regarding highway accidents confirm this. Yet the woman dri-not-brakes adjustable from the Great Britain show that:
There was an increase last year ver, except to be slanged by some, driving seat, direction indicators, male motorista and stunted by a reversing light, good bead lamps of 3,191 in the number of accidents, certain section of the Press, prac with dippers, all help to reduce the but the number of persons killed tically ignored in motoring mat-strain of modern motoring for the was lower by forty.
Woman There are many such The total number of accidents ra Designers of motor cars are points to which I will refer later. ported was 184,288, in which 6,651 I have always thought it a pity persons lost their lives, and 206,410 80 are the coachbuilders, and thes publicity and the sales departments that women are debarred from the were injured. This means that the of motor firms are in nearly every "classic" motor trials of the year toll of the highway was equal to case staffed by men. Even the ex-the events organised by the Mo- the occurren every day of the traordinarily good and impartint tor Cycling Club but men only" year of: rond test reports carried out by my has been such a fixed rule with the friends of The Autocar overstress, Club that it has now earned the 1 think, the importance of perform (I think) unenvitable distinction of
elve-not being an anti-feminine organisa love everything that I suggest for one moment that tion. performance is not important. But Tho I am-not anxious to start Those fittle things about a motor an argument,
mon peraue women enr which have a definite appeal trials" I must say that, with to the woman driver are usually nearly every sporting organisation neglected or the wrong construe in the world now accepting women tion is put upon them by the male on their merits, it would be fairer if the M.C.C. were to give, women critic.
a chance. After all, any prospec: Live member, man or woman, can be blackballed" by the election committes.
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Experiences of a Chinese Lady Driver
IT WILL MEAN YOUR DEATH
Picture fifty or more boys and two-seater men running after a sporter driven by a Chinese girl. what is there to see "you and I would say. That is exactly what the driver was thinking. Ah, this is Malaya!
Amid humming noises and shouts in Malay, Tamil and Chinese, all of a sudden there came distinctly a warning "Don't try to drive the motor car into the forry. It will mean your death? Heedles of the words of ill-omen the driver steered the car through the planks sale the ferry which was to ship
worth on the main land..
sudden showers. You never know when you are going to get caught. There is no warning for you to pụt up the hood, by the time you have fixed the covering the rain will be
no. more.
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You do not meet the Sakei, thei uncivilised Malays, on the roads, they live in the out-of-the-way jungles and they are quite tame
Arable Sultans.
HIGH AVERAGE SPEEDS
HILLMAN MINX IN AUSTRALIAN
The size of the proverbial "Ash
nd to the motorist's tale of over-
503 accidente, involving injury to it across the Penang from Butter nien have obtained driving licencesi would talk to you about horse rae fully laden saloon car of only 0.5
564 persons and death to 18 perse
1931. 1032 1932.
Increase or decrease. Accidente
reported 181,077 184,268 +3,191 - Persons
injured 202,110, 200,410 +4,291. Persons
No one dared to come near the
A comparison between the acci-moving thing. "They ran after it, dents last year and in 1831, when however, anxious to see some mis. hap perhaps. They crowded round the New Rules of the highway wore first enforced, may be gained at a the whom the car was stationed in the proper place and I was just glance from the following table:
oing upstairs to find a comfort able chair on the upper deck. See ing that I was a mere girl, and Chinese too, they wanted to know how I had got there alone with the ear, writes Mise Wong Tu Ha, The people B.A., to the "Motor." There are so orthodox and conserva. tire where their womenfolk are concerned. I was told I was the firet Asiatic girl to do such a thing. The
Can you ever think of a girl dri- Lumpur to Yg from Penang, a distance of about 2001 miles, would cause any excitement at all on her way?
Averages.
133 3h. 35m. 37.1 m.p.h /
125 3h. 18m. 87.8.
84.2. 2h. 25m, 34.6
Towns and the rutskirts in Maid friendly people. They have layn are well plaaned, and the light brown skin and wiry hair, and black skin. They are not very many miles of Isterite role pro- there are others with woolly hair that got away" is frequently liken vide beautiful drives. It is re- tall and have high cheek bones, age speeds. A duly authenticated freshing to see as I passed by, the Many of them can be seen in Ke record of a first run is a precious thing, to be compared only with the fish that is actually exhibited European houses and bungalows dah and Ferlis. dotted about the slopes each with large compounds, red paths cutting
I have interviewed the Sultan of in a glass case something tangible. off the close-cropped green grass, Jahore, the Sultan of Perak and Many motorists keep careful re and luxuriant and well-kept hedges the Sultan of Perlis. They are cords of trips of which they are and the beautiful prom trees and just like ordinary educated Asia- particularly proud, and one such sun fowers of the garden city. It tics. There won't be the horror of log has just reached the Hillman is still uncommon to see cars dri- excitement of being compelled to Motor Car Company from a Minx ven by ladies. The one usually join the Sultan's or the wild chief's owner in Australia who recently meets with are mostly Europeans. harem even when you do meet them went from Sydney to Melbourne 38° m.p.h.-not bad going for a Although quite number of wo face to face. The Sultan of Perak: 570 miles, at an average speed of they are seldom seen in busy traffic. ing and pola perhaps. He told hp. The details of the journey are
Motoring Through the Home of
me he used to ride every morning..
as follows:---- the Elephant and Tiger. He is medium height, but slightly.
Milles Time I expect you heard all about the deaf. He is easy and cheerful ini mystery of the Malay Peninsular conversation but under all this lies Sydney to Goulbur I did not expect the human beings an unusually active brain, every there to eye me so curiously but thought and word uttered being Goulburn to Gundagai
He speaks English I did expect to motor through the mesauring. jungle of the impenetrable variaty. Coming back to motoring in a the home of the elephant, tiger lay, I must say that if you expect Gundagai to Holbrook rhinocerous, seladang and wild to and all the charms and beauties buffalo and so on. People natural of Malay as you motor along the Holbrook to Albury ly exaggerated everything over open roads from state to state, you thore-said that tigers might jump will be disappointed. But if you across the road in front of your have a guide or if you are adven, Albury to Avenel motor car, and monkeys drop nuts turous enough to enter the out-of-
head and the way places you will see Ma- Arenel to Melbourne' snakea stick to the wheels of four | layn's strange phenomena of in- (London St.)
secte, birds and beasts, white ante.. car and such exciting things.
1h. 50m. 39.3 even contemplated the horror of moving bushes (sensitive plants), Light Steering.
break-down and having to tackle moths bigger than deer, fighting This distinction belongs to Mrs.
370.6 15h. Olm. - Total av. We want cars that have light M. Lord, well-known before the
1.38 m.p.b. steering and a good turning cire? War as Miss Muriel Hind, wno
these strange things single-handed fl, and eggs of the female male And really I was so disappointed bird as big as the bird, and croc when nothing even mildly exciting diles in the rivers of Penang, and:
Seventeen gallons of petrol wers Good springing and road-holding rode a Rex motor cycle with sue
happened on the way except vil if you would talk to the people consumed-an averago of 33.5 naturally reduce driving fatigue cess. In those early days there!
Generous Offers.
lagers staring and shouting at me you would hear all sorts of queer m.p.g.-while 4 pints of oil were to a minimum, and another factor were three women members, but Police district show a decrease in
and running away from the long beliefs and the magie power of the added to the sump. Strong head- which tends towards the same re-Mrs. Lord is the only one who has the total number of parsons in-
Immediately an my arrival in sult is lightness of controls. Most paid her subscription regularlyjured, as well as a decrease in the
number killed. In 1932 there were this pretty island on the South Seni road before I got to them, which women. You will see the jungle winds were; however, encountered,
was nice for fast driving.
folks whose weapons are the blow- and weather conditions were not of important is it that only moderate every year and is still a member.
Italian motor car firm wrote
The most exciting thing motor-pipe and kris. The men wear, o the best, as heavy rain frequently pressure should be required to
When I learned this I started on 1,283 parsons killed and 52,456 in- operate the clutch and brake pos little detective work of my own. jured, against 1,326 and 84,300 in and asked me to drive a Fiat twoing through this ever green coun- diminative loin cloth and the wo- fell
seater for them in the reliability try bathed in sunshine and refresh men are attired in a girdle of dale. Servo-operated brakes give Apparently there is no rule of the 1831,
(Continued, on Page, 12.)'.. sure; swift action, combined with Club actually debarring women
Amongst the cities and boroughs trial, and private owners of beau-ed by heavy rains is perhaps the leaves." light pressure of the pedal..
from membership of the M.CC..ir England and Wales, Birming tiful cars and Chinese millionaires Easily adjustable driving state fut long ago the committee passed ham again had the highest total of said they would like me to drive. which really do adjust without one
a bylaw to the affect that women killed or injured, namely, 6,050, an their cars in the trial for them. having to get out, of the ear to pull riders or drivers were ineligible to increase of approximately 300 over Unfortunately this trial, which was and strain at them are another compete in the Club's events. And the previous year. Liverpool, with an annual affair, did not come off necessity for easy mootoring, Aso, of course, there is no incentive a total of 4,197, showed a decrease that year. long, fat pedal hinged to the floor for women to join.
of about 150 compared with 1931.
I was wanted for another relia board which fits over the sun A strong, virile club like the Manchester also showed a decrease, bility trial in Kuala Lumpur: The M.C.C. should not stick to aid from 3,848 to 3,385, while Leeds Hupmobile motor agent was to pay fashioned ideas such as this, which had an increase of about 60, to the expenses, the Shell agent to might have been all right in the 2,428 persons killed or injured dur-supply oil and petrol and the Dun- early days. And there is the pre-ing 1932. er dent in the person of Mrs. Lord.
I have not the slightest desire to open up that worn-out controversy men r. women motorists. Let me, instead, try to tell male read- FTN of The Autocar, motor manu- facturer, and bodybuilders what we thousands of women motorista really want.
small "foot-aching" accelerator pedal saves the sole of one's shoe from the dent which is made by a round accelerator pedal,
Shoe Consumption.
Whilst on the subject of shoes, f manufacturers would only fit n soft pad on the floorboard to rest the back of one's heel on when driving what numerous pairs of shoes would ramain unspoiled Most women drive have a special!
The Other E.0.0.
But I have discovered the guilty secret of the M.C.0-they have a Awoman, member!...
3
-40
killed.**** 6,091 €,051 In England and Wales the total number of accidents resulting in
personal injury death or
Wis
168,014, an inrease of 2,902. total number of persons killed or injured was 194,538, an increase of 2,784, and of these the number kill ed was 5,016, a decrease of 85.
The figures for the Metropolitan
Won't you let us come in, please, men drivers. 31.C.C. members? I have ridden May ask some friendly dispos as a passenger for so long in Loned member of the M.C.C to raise don-Exeter and other M.C.C. trials the question at the annual general that I want a chance of a wheel meeting! Mrs. Elsie Windon, win. myself. And so do many other wo-tier of the 1932, 1,000 mile race, in
(Continued on next Column) The Autocar
Public Works Authorities Prefer
Kuala
lop a free set of tyres. Things were arranged and I was quite pre- pared to drive in the 450 miles trial. But on account of local cus tems and I being an Asiatic girl, I was obliged to give it up.
However, I sent my car in for someone else to drive and it was given a first class medal.
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