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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 13th. Jaue, 1925.
Being the Oficial Organ of the Hongkong Automobile Associations.
A Danger Spot.
LOCAL MOTOR NOTES & NEWS
work. It wouldn't take long and it wouldn't cost much. Confusion of Names.
In conugation with the motor smash which took place on Sunday fast at the junction of the old road to Repulse Bay and
Only a few years back com- the now road via Wong Nai Paratively few people know any- Cheong Gap (just at the corner thing of the Jowett car, but its by Mr. A. H. Compton's house) game is now quite familiar It is a wonder that a serious throughout the world. Mistakes, aacident has not taken place wave, are not common owing there before. If a driver is com- to a similarity of the name of ing from the Deep Water Bay the Jowett to that of the Jewett, golf course back to the town by The Jowatt is of course, a British which is a popular American'car. the short road he has to turn a particularly bad hairpin bend car remarkable not only for ite an keep his car climbing a stoop horizontally-opposed twin cylind- gradient all the time, his range er onging, but also for its bigh of visibility bolog extremely tandard of performance under limited owing to the high en-rough overseas conditions, coup- bankment of the cutting. Should lad with the low price.
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happen to be coming Morris. Cars. down the new, road and be wanting to turn round towards
Both the Morris-Oxford and Deep Water Bay the danger of a Morris-Cowley cars have found a head-on collision is indeed great. ready market in the Colony. This That was precisely what happen- was only to be expooted perhaps ed on Sunday. "Either the bank when it is remembered that thes should be cut down as to give a excellent little machines have better range of or an "i-lund more than held their own wherever should made at the junction they have been introduced The around which oars would have to demand in France stone warrant take a left-hand course. At the ed a factory being specially built present time the corner is a in that country 10 cope with the distinct danger spot.
great increase in orders from that market. When one realises that Road Banking.
Franco hau herself specialised in small cars, a British factory
French soil.
i splendid tribute to the excellence appearing on of the product concerned.
And whilst writing of danger it is pertinent to ask whether spots on the way to Repulse Bay
car
something cannot be done with the banking of the road where Still Progress," Stubbs' Road branches off from the Morrison Hill Road... It is The community at Aberdeen distinctly dangerous. for a and Apliobau is to be having come from the direction congratulated upon the latest of the Naval Hospital to addition and improvement turu into Stubbs' Road at any to the Hous kong Aberdeen thing like reasonable speed, motor bus service. It is said wallst in the case of motor buges that the company has been run- the utmost caution has to be ning at a loss, although, judging exercised. The banking is all by the number of passengers the wrong way, though for a car carried ample revenue should be elimbing up from Happy Valles derived to show a profit. How it is all right. There is sufficient ever, the four new buses, which room on this.corner (now that sore from the famous Dennis large a part of Morrison Hill has factory, and supplied through hoen ramoved) for improvements Lossrs. Alex. Rose & Co., Ltd. to be carried out and it is to be the local agents, are capable of hoped that our roads authorition carrying a larger number of will give this point their early passongors, and are certainly splendid types of vehiclos for euch work.
attention.
A Kowloon Complaint.
There is a little matter on the
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TAXICABS FOR JAPAN.
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Taxi rides in Tokyo are cheaper Kowloon, side which deserves than in London. The fare on the
athor strong comment. The road from Kowloon to Laichikok per mile. A large number of
new Trojan taxicabs will be od crossed at several points by Trojan of nasis, on solid tyres, darrow quage truck lines, the were recently shipped to Japan, same thing applying to the road and fitted with bodies of local from Hunghom to old Kowloon manufacture. City, Ono realises that it is in- vitable at the moment that such ines should cross the roadways as so many of the reclamation works are dependent on earth. rom neighbouting hillsides and he use of track trucks is un- voidable. But users of the road have a right to ask for auoh rabke to be laid down flush with he roadway. In many cases thoro as bean commendablo aken to avoid the creation of a bump in the roadway, but in others thore has been a consur- blo lack of thought. There is no particularly bad example and it has existed for months) on the hill just before ranch ng the junction of the Talposad Laichikök roads, whilst nother is to be found just this ide of the Laichikok hill There re some bad ones on the run to Kowloon City, and it would be in bd interests of public safety to ay nothing of the comfort of passengers if our P.W.D. could pare a man one day to check up heso bad points and mako con- ractors carry out the necessary
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So close was the finish in the 25-mile dirt track race at Atlanta, Ga., batween Ed "Pop" Daly of Tampa, Fla., in his simplex of ancient viutage and Sig Haugdabl in nis special Daytona Cyclone, su, posedly the world's fastest car, that the judges called it a tie and ordered 15 run over. But that was before they saw the picture which clearly shows Daily winning by dobes. Daily got the prize and 100 points toward the dirt track championship of 1925,
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Just lately the Ailsa Craig Motor Company have given already received sufficient re- eponse to warrant a start being The Peak to Hongkong Hotel the load in a new directio by made in the formation of this motor, bus service is not re-engine rated at 16/20 hp. This standardising also a six-cylinder new unit. As was then stated, celving.
all the Bupport it is marketed either with or without) only those prepared to provide deserves. The half hour trip roduction gear, so as to be suitable their own motor cycles would be down to town these mornings is for pleasure and commercial work eligible to join, and & number an exhilarating tonic with which and for use as an auxiliary in have already come forward to to start the day, and is about the comparatively large sailing craft. offer their services. ·
best fifty cont "pick-me-up wel The members of the motor know. cycle section will be primarily
trained as signallers and scouts, Rudge-Whitworth motor cycles ROADLESS VEHICLES.
but a proportion, if not all, will can now be purchased in Hong- be required to handle the Vicker's kong. A report of a record break- gun. The rapid transport of ing run by these machines ap- machine guns by motor cycles pears elsewhere in this suppli- and sidecars would without doubt ment. provide one of the most mobile
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INTERESTING
DEVELOPMENTS.
There have recently been many interesting developments in the manufacture of what are now called "roadlees"
and effectively armed units of Mr. Gascon, the agent for the commonly the Colony. As regards the rest 1925 Harley-Davidsons has re-vehicles; that ie to say, vehicles of the training, the section will ceived a shipment of new models in which the driving wheels are conform to the ordinary routine which may be inspected at his replaced by endless tracks. An of the Corps as for as qualifying establishment in Kowloon....: interesting adaptation of the for officioncy is concerned.
principle is to be found in its op- There is no doubt that a Motor
The motor bus service between plication to the British F.W.D. Cycle Section in Hongkong gives the Peak and Repulse Bay is A roadless vehicle of this make wonder:ul scope for interesting proving most popular. In all has recently been supplied for work. The Colony now has a probability the hour of departure the baulage of mining machinery sufficient mileage of roads to from Repulse Bay Hotel will be over long stretches of sand in the as it is in other Eastern porte, this bo dons next week, a notice wheels are in this case. make motor cycling as popular put back an hour or so. Should Sudan. The fact that the front and this fact is beginning to dawn will apear in the buses stating driven has an important bearing on the youngergeneration who altoration in time. are now realising that this means of transport is well within reach providing an enjoyable" facility | for getting about.
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on the suitability of the, machine because, whatever the position in which the front wheels find them- The little Austins" are still selves, the engine power con- finding a good market here.
tinues to be applied to drive them Orders are being booked against forwards and upwards out of In connection with the above, it may not be out of place to give
future shipments.
their difficulty, a short description of the arma-
The British F.W.D. is also mont already in possession of the
being used in South Africa on Armoured Car Company.
which contains "one Vicker's gun, the Dutton rail track. The This Company is at present revolves in a complate circle on vehiolo.is of 36 h.p. and has prov about 60 strong and is capable of roller bearings, is of heavier ed capable of drawing twenty putting several machine gun metal and weighs 640 lbs. alone, tons of useful load. It is fitted teams in the field. It poa80580s This car has" provod most with the Parker Producer Gan s one ton truck with mountings successful both from the point of Plant, and the consumption ef for two Lewis guns, à fioid telo- view of running and as a gut charcoal works out at about 116 phone which can be run on whilst mounting. It has shown itself pounds per mile. Comparative the car is travelling and also a capable of doing about 35mph tests show that the corresponding comprehensive medical outfit. and has gone from
Statuo consumption of petrol was, Recently the Government very Square to Doop Water Bay over gallon to 4% milos. thoughtfully sanctioned, the pro- the new road in 35 minutos, no economy of the Producer Gas vision of a fully armoured oar mean climbing feat for a vehicle Plant is clearly demonstrated by which it is hoped is only the of this description. A small these figuros. precursor of several more. This searchlight is fitted, and zavol: The 'róadless" principle basi our, No. 1. was built by the ing with the turrot, is capable of also boon lately applied to the Hongkong and Whampoa Dock throwing a beam quite effectively "Spor-Sentinel" steam tractor, Company on a 30 hp: Dennis "up to a quarter of a mile,
the now machine being known as chassis. The full weight 18 44 With regard to the motor the "Sentinel-Roadloss". The tons complete with armour, about cycle auction, a meeting of those pressure of the tracks upon the 1 tons, short of its loaded interested will be held at ground does not exceed about ron aapacity. The armour is 7.20 Volunteer Headquartore on pounds per square inch, and the high tensile stool and tests at 50 Monday next, the 16th. at 6 p.m. tractor can negotinto practically Bervice" made when the ways and means will any obstacle and sen climb banks yards with a very small impression. The turret | be discussed.
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