MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 28th. November, 1925.
(Being the Official Orgun of the Hangkang Automobile Association),
CURRENT
COMMENT
BRIGHTER BODIES.
A MULTI-COLOURED MOTOR PLEA.
SPEED TURNS A CORNER.
Ambulance Service.
gress is now being made in gett- ing the hill face dressed and the rond level cloured for traffic. This is a very important road improvement and one that should have been hastened with Justified Protests,
(By Cynicus.)
I notice that there appears to be a "Brighter Colour" movement in Europe for Automobile bodies, referring to conch work, of course,
and not Associn- tions. An excellent move- ment, and one with which I am in entire sympathy, for after all, why
We sometimes wonder if some of our Officials ever make the slightest effort to investigato complaints which are all too fre quently made concerning some of our important public services. The public has evory right to cri"
We are glud to notice that cor- there's no carthly reason ticise essential services and to
ears should take on the make suggestions, but although respondence has been published motor
sombre hue as motor perfectly legitimate complaints Protesting against the unnecessame are published from time to time sary obstruction on the footpath hearacs. How much more cheery in the local Press, it is only on outside the lower Peak Tram our thoroughfares would be with Station. At this particular point n few flesh coloured flivvers fit- rare occasions that notico is taken. We are almost tired of drawing it is difficult to see how the road ting about. Think what a bird's attention to the slipshod system can be widened, a fact which eyeful the "Hermes" people would of 'first-aid service provided inmakes it all the more necessary get of Pedder Stivet for example Hongkong. This last week or so that the small amount of space-a sort of rainbow pudding effect has soon many expressions al-available for podestrians, should calculated to bring the most most amounting to censure, and not be encroached upon. If the flighty folk back to earth. Some- deservedly so, when it has been footpath is Crown proporty, we thing of the sort really is neces- officially admitted that no ambul-have little doubt but what action sary, because anco was available for a serious will be taken. But, if, on the little individuality about motor 13 they are at present. roadside causalty when required. other hand it belongs to the Peak cars There would have been some ex-Tram Company, we can only hope When I select a new suit, I obtain the assurance of my tailor that cusu had other serious cases
every Tom, Dick and Harry will noeded attention at the same
not pass me on the road garbed in time, but apparently such was not the case. When an ambul-
the self-same style, colour and ance is sent out urgently, there
material, and yet, should my pur-
is no means for the driver to, as-
that the directors will be willing to forago whatever small income may be derived from the rental, in the interest of their patrons who have every right to expect the provision of a safo approach to the station. After all, we imagine
there is precious
Worshippers of the Demon Speed turned a corner on a highway at Monterey, California, and were stopped like this. Six of the wooden guard rails at the side of the road rammed through the radiator and body, pushing the license plate to the roar and injuring three of the four occupants.
chase happen to be one of the EXHILARATING SPORT. latest crooked eights, nobody will
sert his right of way over all other traffic, and avon the traffic that very few Peak residents exclaim as I pass, "There goes police take no stops to signal patronise the stall in question. Cynicus! agn't he a topping
ordinary traffic to the side of Motoring for All. the road to enablo first-aid service
to pass. Surely it must be under- Prodictions have been made stood that life or death may de-from time to time concerning the pend upon but a few minutes, and dawn of the
promised era of the fact that an ambulanco has to cheaper motoring. Before the take its chance with other traffic, Great War, there was consider shows deplorable indifference on uble talk of the revolution in the part of those reponsible for prices which was impending. the provision and control of the Subsequent events called a halt in service. After months and months the progress, but during the last of criticism, two new motor am- year or two, the welcome signs balances wore provided, but ap-have reappeared that manufac parently those who ordered turers all over the world are alive them think that the mere provi-to the vast business to be done in sion of two comfortable vehicles, moderate priced satifactorily settles the question. There is however a gront differ- The donor that illusion is shat-enco between the low priced cars tered the bettor.
That Overloading.
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motor cars,
1
taste in bodies" in the same tone THE JOY OF A SPEED BOAT.
of admiration in which they refer
to my sartoria! peculiaritica.
gest an additional refinement in
countered by fitting an emergency
car).
Ask the 'motorist, either of the
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or to be up-to-date, she, will cer- Show is an erinual event in London. THE GASCON MOTOR COMPANY.
Chiswick, London. It is 20. ft.
long, and complete with an Ailsa
Craig "Kid" 10-14 h.p. 4-cylin-
covered-in tops on double deck
DEPENDS ON DRIVER'S INTELLIGENCE.
Yest The "Brighter Body" idea 2 or 4-wheeled category, and he, is a happy one, and I would sutainly reply, "Why, motoring, of it is only once in every two years the way of perfumed petrol (The course!" So it is, and one of the that. the famous Exhibition Hal
is to be experienced on the water. motor vehicles. Such a show takes Wanchai elluvia could thus be most thrilling forms of motoring houses a display of commercial exhaust through the floor of the There is no sport more exciting place at the beginning of Novem- that tearing along in a speed boat. her, and from advance Information The social aspect also, should Time was when this sport was con- received by Motor Transport pro- not be lost sight of. How much fined to the rich man. Now, how mises to be of a most instructive more interesting it would read if ever, that is happily of the past, nature. In omnibus and conches the newspaper report of the most for it is possible to buy and own a the principal lines of development notable Wedding of the your really fast launch at a coat oven are the production of low, light (weekly feature) stated that the less than that of many a light car chassis, especially designed for Such a speed boat has been de- of to-day, and some of the pro-bride arrived at the Church in a place cheap machines on the crush-strawberry couple creation well-known and old-established buses. A very large proportion of ducts of the earlier attempts to charming 1926 model 70 h.p. signed and standardised by that Passenger work, and the fitting of We don't know whether the market. In the first place, the by Madame Ford, with bonnet to firm of marine engineers, the the exhibits will be fitted with
Ailsa Craig Motor Co., Ltd., of pneumatic tyres, authorities have taken any action chouper car was really in the match. to prevent the motor cars used nature of an experiment, an effort in the hire servico between Unto build an automobile that would Long (in the New Territories) give fairly dependable service," and Kowloon so over-loading as but an automobile from which too to cause the dangerous projection much was not to be expected. of over-banging baskets, but, That unsatisfactory reservation
from what
no longer exists, and to-day, there judging saw on Sunday last, they have are numbers of extremely low certainly taken no effective priced machines with réputations stops to prevent these vehicles for service which must satisfy the carrying passengers far in excess most critical motorist. The recent of their recognised capacity. Onu Motor Show at Olympia has de- wonders whether there is any at-monstrated the keen competition tempt ever made to limit pass-which exists in the automobilo engers in Chinese garage hire trade, and it is more than manu- vohlolos, because
facturers dare risk, to allow the frequently be seen passing along inclusion of any doubtful feature the streets, especially along the in their respective products. In Castle Peak Road, hopelessly this respect, one of the most overcrowded. When
seven or amazing valuos offered is that of eight passengers are jammed into the Essex six cylinder coach or a five-seater and when baskets of touring car at the extremely low produce are slung over the sides, figure of two thousand Hongkong in addition, the car obviously be-dollars. Equipped with a most comes a danger to all concerned efficient and economical power and especially to other road unit, provided with body work of traffic..
an exceptionally high standard, those cars represent value which was undreamt of whon low priced There seems to be the prospect cars were predicted. The Hudson of the road improvement at the revised price is equally attractive, junction of Nathan and Corona- and it is such examples us these tion Roads, Kowloon, at long last which really do give the assur- being completed. The work of anoo that motoring, one might say removing the hill and straighten luxurious motoring, is no long- or the privilege of only the ing up the road has been going fluent.
Welcome Progress. ·
cars can
on for many, many months, and
the Government (or the conractor
doing the work) has made the
site into as one quarry with little FAULTY BRAKES COMMON.
or no regard to haste in clearing.
Stone breaking and stone dross-
ing has been moro in evidence of
Thirty-eight per cent. of the late than sito clearing, and wo brakes tested by the Hartford wero pleased to note over tho (Conn.) police were found to be weak-end that some actual pro-faulty. Several fines resulted,
der engine, is capable of a, speed QUICK BRAKE ACTION. of 16 knots, while the cost is only £185. Surely no one can cavil at such a moderate outlay.
The amount of fun and good racing that can be had with such craft is endless. So stable are Motorists react within half a the Ailsa Craig boats that they second to sudden driving com- can be turned with ease at full mands, is the finding made by speed in practically their own F. A. Moss and H. H. Allen, length with prefect anfety, while Bureau of Standards, engineers. the simplicity and easy control of This conclusion is the result the Ailes Craig "Kid" motor of tests made among numerous brings the sport within reach of drivers, on their speed in reply- man, but also ing to the command to stop their 'How far am I from Wanchai?" not only mere
women owners, who, be it noted, cars. The average difference in "Don't know."
are becoming in the motor boat time between the command and "Where is the nearest Police world serious competitors with the complying action when the
the so-called sterner sex.
brake pedal is applied, the en- Station ?"
gineers found, was half a second. The reaction time Was not appreciably affected by the speed of the vehicle, nor was there any appreciable relation between the reaction time and the age or sex - PASSENGER AEROPLANE..
of the individual. But the ex- The largest passenger Beru-
perimenters discovered that there plane in the world has recently was a marked relation between been passed over to Imperial Air-the reaction time and the intelli ways, Limited, for the augmenta-gence of the driver. tion of their fleet. This is a
"I don't know."
"Am I near Wong Nei Chung? "I don't know."
"Do you know anything?" "Well, I haven't got to ask a
littlo boy where I am!"
IT'S ALL RIGHT TO
DISPUTE THE RIGHT
OF WAY WITH THE ENGINEER, BUT NOT WHILE HE'S IN HIS
TRAIN
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in
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