MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 15.0. August, 1925.
(Being the Official Organ of the tougkong Automobile Association),
เมล in Situte
Lady Motorists.
LOCAL MOTOR
NOTES & NEWS
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Įring's House" and there are some spring trying undulations when
PROPER CAR CARE.
REGULAR INSPECTION
VITAL.
The maintenance of an automo-
bile at the same high standard at dealer may be made almost as which it was purchased from the
simple na winding your, watob.
Driving back from Repulse Bay going through Cheung Sha Wan the other evaping, a local re- Suraly, those things cau bo sident told us that he counted novoided. If our D P. W. was a man winds his watch every less than five lady drivers on the user of the Castle Peak Road we road. Perhaps such a number are sure there would be action within a short space of time con
taken. stitutes a record for Hong- kong, but at the same Hongkong's Motor Cars. time there ig nothing vory remarkable in the fact that
The number of mator cars in cars should be driven by the fair Hongkong is certainly increasing rapidly. Whoa, the writer of sex. In other countries no more: notice is taken of a lady at the these notes want to register a car steering wheel than in the custom
were to
night and forgets about it, know- ing that it will-rua-another- twenty-four hours without atten- tion. Howavor, should he forgat such simple thing, as regularly winding his watch or paying his gas bill, the resulting difficulties may be very inconvenient.
in April of last year the number The same routine applies to way aming the thirteen hundreds, motor car maintenance. Certain
of less resent times when memat when sp at the licensing things, simple in themselves, but bars of the "woaker sex' be seen roining a dashing steed, be a few daya oge he saw a of far reaching importancs if par or even driving a four-in-hand, umor plato baing issued formed or neglected, either aid As a matter of fact, it is a far which was over the savanteen-years of life to the car or baston
hundrad mark. Orar 400 now it to the scrap basp. care in 16 months: That's not bad for Hongkong. Registration,
safor procedure to manage an automobile than to control a spirited horse, either from the seat or saddle.
Driving as Recreation.
Slight mechanical defects im possible for the man in the driver's seat to observo, may at a The slight expense be corrected if s And while talking about num-practice is made of having the Driving a car a few years ago draw the attention of all local There is a great similarity b
bar platas anl licensing, wa mustarinspooted as regalar intervals. before the age of selfstarters, car tainly had its drawbacks as far asriate to the fact this thay tween the human body and the hivo to reas their ragistratious automobile ongins. Either will lady drivers were concerned,
and licencos right away. Those stand up under s groat, dos) of because considerable musçular effort was usually required for the anewals fall das on July 1st abuso, and bath will go to pissss granking process Now, however, Colony has been in the thries of too long. Any ailment, humin bat owing to the fast that the if the punishment is ooitinusd all that is a labour of the past, strike the Traffi Dapartment or mechanical if tended to in and the modern motor car requires his wisely take no strict view tim, may be averted from ba- practically no effort to either start of thi szt. With ova-six weeks' coming ohronis, and in order to or drive it. As a healthy rоCION- tion ontailing the minimum of cachiving baan givan, havor, guard against minor trouble b exertion, motoring has no rival, wanast fsilat to renew aither mobile, every owner should havo thira is now no exase for a man coming chroni with the auto. and it is therefore not to be won his parsonst driving licence or his car inspected and taned up dered at that the number of lady the registration of his vebicle by rallable specialists every two drivers is increasing.
whether that be only a one thousand miles. Motoring Schools,
lunger cycle or "multi-cylinder
In Europe, there is hardly a city of any standing which does not boast of at least one reliable and well managed school inaugurated solely with the object) of catering to those desirous of becoming proficient in the driving of motor cars, Many people take advantage of those schools with- out any immediate intention of owing a machine, but who never- theless obtain much enjoyment] in occasionally bling, or, if they happen to have generous friends, bormwing
motor DAT for a few hours. We imagine that were it possible for respon. sible persons to hire a car in Hongkong, & large number would) gladly pay the necessary feas to' be taught driving so that they could book & car sometimes for the wook-end. What about a motoring school for Hongkong? Dangerous?
Some time ago in this column,, we drew attention to the serious danger. presented to motor vehicles by the fact that when light rails are laid across a main thoroughfare here in connection, with the removal of earth from one part of a development area to another, those rails are not ∙laid flush to the roadway. We fool constrained to revert to that sub- foot, because matters are going from bad to worse. On the road to Taiso (which is still olosed by the way) or Castle Peak. just after one has passed the Mongkok Polico Station, in Coronation Road, two of those rail tracks occur in very close proximity and both of thom are unnecessarily high and at a'different level to th road. Motor buses on their way to Bhumshiupo and Lalohikok wobble ominously as they go over thoso bumps, and buses to the latter destination also have to endure many other wobbles and bumpa before they roach the Standard Oll installation. There is that bump whilst climbing the hill on which stands the building. always referred to as " Mr. Gold-
car...
DAY AND NIGHT.
STOP
Day and night, motorists In Kansas City may see. clearly the warning stop signs put up on "cross streets, boforo main boulovarde ara resohed. The word "Stop" on these signs is made of glass and is reflected sharply by the rays of the motorists' handlights at night.
ALWAYS BE READY
FOR EMERGENCY
USE OF MOTOR HORN.
NOT A MEDIUM OF AMUSEMENT.
To blow or not to blow-that is the question which the motorist often has to consider.
There may be a pedestrian on the highway ahead. Perhaps if the driver of the approaobing car gives his horn a blast it may startlo tho walker, cause him to become confused and jump direct- ly in the path of the oncoming, machine.
On the other hand, if the driver does not sound his horn the man on foot, not realizing his dangor, may suddenly obange his direc tion and put the driver, to the severe toat of avoiding an 'ao- didont.
Some people soom to consider. a horn as a medium of amuse- ment which makes it possible to frighten innocent travellers" on foot in the suburbs and along the countryside by an endless sorios of blasts. They are a nuisance in the motor world.
ITALIAN AVIATOR COMING EAST.-
AVOIN
We are indebted to the Asiatic Petroleum Company for. the above photo, taken at Bagdad, of Major D Pinedo, the intrepid Italian aviator who, after having successfully fwn from Italy to Australia, is now en ronte to Japan. Major Pinedo, who, incidentally, pays great tribute to "Shell" patrol, bas most probably a ready "hopped off" from Thursday Island on his way to this part of the globe.
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MOTOR TRIPS ABROAD At Shakespeare's House FIRST OF A SERIES OF TRAVEL TALKS
Shakespeare's House
now, and as it was in 1700
Photo Courtery Chrysler Mazuelt Maloe, Corporations
at Stratford-on-Avon, about 100 miles from London,
O country offers the combi-list can be continued.
nation of perfect highways, beautiful, restful scenery and places of historical faterest that England does. For example, there is the motor ride to Stratford- on-Avon, where is to be seen Shakes peare's birthplace and
and burial place. Enroute to Stratford from Lon dou one passes through quaint Eng- lish towns, such famous places as Oxford, the home of Oxford Univer- alty, Blenheim, the home of the Duke of Marlboroughs and so tha
But it is Shakespeare's House, la Henley Street, thist attracts the tourist first. This house became national property in 1847 and has been carefully restored. The room in which the poet
is said to hav been born seems to have undergone but little charige sines that day, "and the antique fireplace can scarcely be. of later date than the time of Eliza beth. In another room there is a small mute of Shakespearlan curiosities...
STREET. CARBUS.
Muah blowing of the horn may be a characteristio of the owner who is operating his car for the first fow timas. The somewhat nervous beginner may not fool quite sure of his control. Ho por- haps tightly calculates that poo-
Twenty autos were recently-Auto busses sigued for ple who may be parading on the sold by the Los Angeles Polica Kansas streets will be built highway will be more cortala to Department, bringing total of almost like the street cars. get out of his line of procedure if $58.62. Automobiles were sold There will be a fraut entrance he gives his horn plenty of tooting. from $1 to $9.
and rear exit.
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