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"SAFETY FIRST" CAMPAIGN
The Rights Of Pedestrians
And Motorists
He
In connection with the "Safity First" campaign the Rov. G. E. B. Upsdell gave another interesting broadcast talk last night. said:-
This question of "Bafety First." is a problem which not only af- fects our own Colony but is an In-
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ternational Question, and part and parcel of the world-wide use of roads, and we here, whatever our position or occupation may be are all liable
and to go elsewhere carry our habits and customs "with The other day I had an en- quiry from Czecho-Slovakis with reference to cur roads, railways. and commerce, which will give you some idea of the far reaching in- **Quenna of our incal motoring or- ganization, and the importance of our share In this International question of Safety Firat. The
black and white colours you see here ar international, and Are used in all countries which have subscribed to the International Mutoring Convention of 192A, therefore, for the short time at
may disposal, I will try and place before you some of the chief points of the International Highway Code which has been adopted.
TAKE CARE OF THE KIDDIES First of all, all persons have a right to use the road for the pur- pose of passage, and as the man- ner in which we use the road af- fects a large number of others, it is incumoenr upon us to show care and courtesy at all times and also to avoid unnecessary noise. Ac- cidents are inevitable unless due allowance is made for possible error on the part of others and at all times that possiblilty is with us. Before using the road be sure that your sense of alert ss r sense of caution is not affected by alcohol or fatigue: a fraction of a second may make all the differ- ence in avoiding an accident and If you cannot give the necessary concentration, you are risking not caly your own life but the live of others and every person who uses the road should learn 'thor- oughly those rules which apply to him in particular and make him- self familiar with those which con- cern other classes of road-users.
Remember that the faster you Fare travelling, the smaller is the margin of safety should an umer- gency arise, and the more serious must be the result of an accident. Always be able to pull up your vehicle will within the distance for which you can see the road to be clear whether by night or by day. Do not drive in a spirit of com-
petition with other road-users: 11 another driver shows lack of ente or good manners do not attempt any form of retallation. For in- stance, that withering lock which you give to the other man after you have been slowed up when going up or down Magazine rap Road is often not justified, and though you may feel like sending h'm to the nether reglank it may be entirely undeserved he may have saved you from going there yourself, and you really are not fair in being irked because he uses care and caution: there also is a children's playground half-way down, and we should hate to in- Jure or frighten a youngster-they' ure a lovely lot and we
kiddies once.
were
THE BEST SAFETY DEVICE.
We can never be certain of the movement of pedestrians; be ready for children who may suddenly ---run on to the road, and for people who may step from a refuge or footpath: give plenty of room to pedestrians and eyelists especially in wet weather. ·
Then again take special care when passing a stationary vehicle or any other form of obstruction which prevents a clear view of
ls about to stop or is stationary,
BETTER GO SLOWLY
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HONG KONG. DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 1935.
MOTOR JOTTINGS
GEAR CHANGE
A New Triumph Device
models of
1938-
The
Before describing how the War ren mechanism functions mech anically an account of its handling may be given. The controls of the car remain perfectly normal as regards gear lever. clutch pedal and accelerator In
Once again, remember that the faster you are travelling, the Io future al smaller la the margin of safety - Triumph cars will be ava.lable should an emergency arise, and atted with a new system of easy the more serious may be the ac-
gear, changing called the Triumph cident. Better to go slowly at the Gloria synchronised gear control, street crossings than to the grave- at an extra cost of £5 5s yard: keep a straight course and device is made under the Warren au not wobble about the road. "Do patents and operates on a four not lose your head in traffic, and forward speeds, is entirely automa-, probably you will never lose your tic, and responds with equal sut- cycle: on no account carry parcels cess to any method of handling the ar other articles which may inter- clutch. gear lever and accelerator fere with your control of your which the individual driver pre- cycle, or cause damage to others. fera. This is a very material Never cut out, that is, never turn feature, for the device not only out from the near side sharply makes gear changing exceedingly without giving ample warning, and easy for the man who avolds being satisfied that it is safe for changing as much as he can. but you to do so. You are a very im- it also allows the export to make portant part of the trafic problem, fancy changes, and don't change your mind and aiter your course without warn- ing. You know the saying "it is dangerous to change horses in the middle of a stream," but it is far more dangerous to change your mind in the middle of the street, Acquire the army habit when riding, it is the only habit that will never hurt you: chance-takers are the best customers of the under- takers, and we don't like to see you smashed up under a car: it is better to be careful than crippled. IT PAYS TO BE CAREFUL Lastly, one more appeal pecestrians. Cross the road at right angles whenever possible, and take special care if you have to step out from behind or ip front. of a vehicle or any form of ob- struction which prevents a clear view of the road; remember that moving vehicles require time 10 slow down or stop, particinarly when the road is wet or slippery, Safety is bought only through thought; it pays to be careful, and the more careful you are, the bet- ter it pays Where there pedestrian crossing or refuge, use
It better to lose a few sec- onds in avoiding a possible accl- dent than to lose. a month's pay by be'nx in hospital. It needs a very great mental effort to ac- quire the habit of caution; but with the definite idea of "playing the game," this can be done. The fact that the pedestrian is free, In this Colony, from any statutory powers to enforce his adherence to the "rules of the road"-that he cannot be summoned or, fined as the motorist can-surely calls for a return on his part in the form of greater care rather than less. It is at present left to the courtesy and good sense of the walking Public: most of the accidents in The street are due to thoughtless- ness. The sudden darting out in to the road, the stepping off the pavement by a pedestrian while sill talking to a friend, although it may not cause an accident, yet gives his fellow man-the on- coming motorlat-a bad moment, which is the last thng he would wish to do if he thought about it. When hurrying interferes with safety, cut out the hurry.
Just one
more thought. The man who will not l'sten to safety
falk may sooner or later listen to
to
order
to
change gear, either up or down, all that has to be done is to depress the clutch pedal deinitely down extent. and then to its fullest
Ove the Gloria remste control gear lever across to the desired position in the gate. The lever can be moved gently and glowly, or snapped over as quickly as can be; it makes no difference the gear 18 positively and quietly changed.
So far as the actual changing of the gear is concerned the post- tion of the accelerator pedal more or less immaterial. It is possible to change down on a closed throttle or up on an open mind, though the engine and the throttle; the gear change does not
car may not be exactly pleased at any
reversals of normal, violent procedurel
MAGISTRATES, PLEASE
NOTE!
What About The Police Exceeding The Speed Limit?
In several recent police court cases at Home It has been obvious that magistrates have failed to understand that a police car which is following another veh.c.e may. in order to keep up with it, some times have to travel at well above the legal limit, although the vehi- cle in front may never exceed the statutory 30 m.p.h. Unleas. this possibility is realised there are bound to be many injustices unin- tentionally inflicted.
The explanation of what at first sight may appear an impossibility is simplicity itself. Let us assume that a police car with normal ac- celeration is following twenty yards behind a car travelling at 30 m.p.h.. The driver aliead, for some obstruction, slows to 20 mph. When the road is clear he acceler- ates to 30 m.p.h., and the driver of the police car, which has also slowed and maintained the twenty yards separation between the vehicles, tries to follow suit. But the car ahead has exceptionally good acceleration and can increase its speed from 20 to 30 mp.h. in, let us say, three seconds, while
ing away from it. At the end of five seconds both cars are travel- ling at 30 m.n.b., but the gap be- tween them has widened to, say, thirty, yards. In order to get back to his station twenty yards behind his quarry the police driver must exceed a speed of 30 mph. He has to make up ten yards. Now, if the police car could instantane- ously jump from a speed of 30 to a speed of 40 m.p.h., it would have to travel at 40 m.p.h. for appro two seconds ximately
before it had reduced from thirty to twenty yards the gap between the vehicles. As the police car's acceleration is not instantaneous, but gradual, the t'me occupied in reducing the
gap will be more than two seconds. It may be as much as five acconds,
And throughout those five sec- onds the police car's speedometer is showing between 30 and 40 m.p.h. Yet the car in front has never exceeded the legal limit Will magistrates, please, try to un- derstand this?
the police car takes, say, five sec- TEST OF JUMBO'S
onds.
(These figures are used merely to explain our point.)
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At the end of three seconds thr car in front has resumed Its speed
has nat; in other words, the car nhead has been, and still is, draw-
MAN-POWER
of 30 m.p.h, but the police car What London Experts
Think Of Tokyo Experiment
BRAKES, TYRES AND
ROADS
Linings Tested Under Strenuous Conditions
pressures
the
While it is generally recognised tance was 2651t, but after an ad- that brake lining manufacturers justment of tyre follow out most elaborate systems stopping distance was repeated of laboratory tests it is not so well five timest consistently, between known that they subject their pro- 201 and 208ft, which shows what ductions to very searching road an important factor in braking is tests in addition, for the "proof of correct pressure in the tyres
After each stop the heat of the the pudding" adage applies in this
brake drums was checked, and a an in other matters,
very typical reading was 182 deg. and 164 deg, on the front and 170 the rear deg. and 185 deg. on
The test vehicle was a Morris Commercial larry carrying an overload which made the gross weight slightly over five tons, and tests included pulling up from high speeds
appreciable gradients, on a variety of road surfaces, and then finally running the brakes hot and checking their
the ambulance gong. Co-opera- effectiveness in this condition.
WHAT CAUSES SQUEALT
On the chassis in question the
heels
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An elephant can. If it tries, Spring more than a little sur-
brise
It "ean thift trees, and lift
trees.
Or chase you and place you, Right up in the air by its
eyes.
Miss Hana, a Stamese elephant now in Japan, has been doing, her best to vindicate this English nursery rhyme; but English ex perts complain that her best is not as good as it should be.
In a recent "tug-of-war in the Tokyo Zoo, she was able to hold her own with only 56 man, and that by collapsing on her knees.
From Inquiries made by a re- presentative of the "Morning Post" it appears that, while it is not good for an elephant to th dulge in such direct trials 01 strength, a higher standard would be expected of any large. full- grown elephant.
An official of the London Zeo that 55 men was. mot
On another slope of 1 in 18 with a tarred surface a stop of 115ft. from 40 m.ph. caused long skids, thought due to the tar melting under the many-but added that the history wheels. Fully half the distance of the Zoo threw no direct light was a slide with locked wheels, on what might be. expected of an and the brake temperatures were elephant in this way. only 65 deg. and 140 deg. (front) and 122 deg, and 115 deg. (rear)........... the figures indicating that the
Mr. Bertram Mils
Mr. Bertram Mils thought that
t'on and courtesy are the ingre- dients required for Safety First, and we appeal to all sections of the community to contribute their brake operation is through the surface in this case was the limit Miss Hana did not look a very bik quota: a thoughtless moment may Lockheed hydraulic system, while cause an accident which a lifetime the linings were Tenaid "A" an ing factor in the stopping distance elephant. From her photostop asbestos fabric without any metal- and that the brakes were more llo content. It is the maker's effective than the friction between contention that the usual type of tyre and road, which latter, al
though it looked good, could lining, into which brass wire is
cannot repa'r.
THE QUEEN'S NEW CAR
*(Specia). Ale: Mail Service)
- London, Nov. 6. The Queen's influence was felt as the Motor Show, which opened
woven with the asbestos, is far caly, be classed as highly danger "more. llable to score brake druma,
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he stated, he would guess that she was about 22-25 years old and only about three parts grown.
men
"I have seen elephants," he added, "that 100 men could not gets going I doubt if 500 could stop her. Obviously it de has a lower retarding exect, and, ". SMOKING AND SMELLING pends a great deal on both the in addition. Its coeficient of friction varies during the rise of Finally, the vehicle was driven size of the elephant and how the pull started. an elephant down a long, gently falling grade temperature associated with brake application, and that this varia for 4.8 miles with the brakes on may weigh anything from one to five tons, and a tug of war » 15, tion is one of the causes of shud- At the end of the run they after all, very largely a matter of der and squeal. A higher (and temperatures of 300 deg, and 325 weight against weight.
smelling and smoking and showed
deg. (rear).
pedestrians and oncoming traffic. Before overtaking a tramcar which at Olympia for her new car which constant) coefficient of friction deg. (front) and 302 deg, and 292ME MAIS also considered that. he would like to be assured, that was on show there was a woman's and a better resistance to wear are claimed for the non-metallic type.
the "proper ·ttig-of-war rules, 23 An immediate stopping test on Tests were made in the Baton the level from 42 m.p.h, was made;
followed at the Military · Tour- and Ashopton districts of Derby and the distance was 95ft. This is obeyed before any precise, value nament at Olympla, had been shire. First of all in descending equivalent to about 19ft per sec the Snake (1 in 157 & stopping per sec, and it is evident that was attached to much & perfor distance of 111ft from 40 m.ph there had been no loss of friction
watch carefully to see if passen dream of all a car should be, gers are about to board or alight: the tramway platforms are very helpful in eliminating the dangers to passengers, but even so, go slow or stop as the circumstances re-
It is, large and roomy. The in- terior is upholstered in smooth, fragrant leather.
There are two dashboards. One in front of the two armchairs, in
mande.
quire. The best safety device yet which the King and Queen it, is was obtained, and the tempera- due to grossly overheating the Mr George Sanger, also of cir
invented for a motorcar la a care. ful driver. When turning left, it is the accepted practice in this Colony to filter in, and obstruction is sometimes caused by unneces The dark blue colour of the in sarlly stopping; but remember that: terior is the Queen's own choice, any corner may make a mourner The coachwork is finished in of a careless driver, cyclist, or maroon picked out in vermilion, I pedestrian. And now for the and the door handles are gold
cyclists.
cus fame, added the view that a bla e'ephart ought to be able pull 100 men with ease,
furnished with a clock, a second-ture of the four brakes was taken ings, speedometer, ashtrays, pockets for in order to make final adjustments The test showed that brake lin papers and à peat notebook and to the control p
ing makers investigate the action pencil.
Next, a wide road of good non of their products under conditions skid surface was selected and a of ordinary usage, and that even series of test stops was made on under serious stress the Tenold falling gradient of 1 in 126. In linings retained their emciency; it Boy: "If I had a million dollars seven testa from a speed of a to 18. to be regretted that road en- do you know where I'd be? 54 m.ph the average stopping dis- gineers are not s so exacting in
"Yes, you'd be tance was 2211t. The longest dis their surfacing materials!
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