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SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 6th. February, 1926. :
Being the Official Organ of the Hängkring Automobile Association),
Parking Spaces,
CURRENT
COMMENT
Road Improvements.
An owner-drivor asks us to take up the question of car park-hai,
As in Hongkong, so in Shang-
motorists aro often in ing in Kowloon, on the grounds convenienced by the carrying" that the present regulations out of road improvements, in connection one coin pertaining to unattended cars are which
too severo. The case in point is mantator, writing in the columns that a Kowloon motorist may not of a newspaper, says it seem leave his car outside his own, or that Shanghai is condemned, like a friend's houso, for any length Alice in Wonderland and the of time, without running the risk jam, to have good roads, only on He says the of being called upon to face af alternate days, magistrate on the charge of plans upon which the improve leaving his motor Car unattended. ment of the streets aro carried
excellent in -Such regulations do appenau little out
severe when the roud in which particular but one, and that is the offence, is committed is other that they seldom allow the public than a main route. No doubt the to use the streets, as they are police have very good reasons for without sufforing any amount of
Reference being strlet in this matter, but in inconvenience.
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the absence of authorised parking then made to the treatment of places, the motorist is curtainly certain roads in the Hongkew in a quandary, the only solution district, one of which was render- Lo which appears to be not to use ed impassable for about twelve his car if he anticipatos sponding months; and the writer goos on a few hours with friends. After to say that when the threat -is all, very fow houses have suitable made to the main thoroughfare" accommodation for motor cars in of the town, is is time soothing this Colony, and it seems rather was said. unfairtoimpose restrictions which harass owners, when it cannot be said that their action constitutes either a danger or a nuisance. The Hongkong A. A.
Mr. Paul Hodgson informs us that he will be absent from the Colony for a period of about one month from to-day, when all com- munications should be addressed Treasurers, the
to
Messrs.
Linstead and Davis, Alexandra Building,
Membership Privileges,
Those Trenches.
THE SERVICE OF THE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION AT HOME.
The above is a photo of ons of the new roadside service stations of the Automobile Association in the British Isles.
UNUSUAL OCCURRANCE.
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MOTOR BOAT'S EXPERIENCE,
GLARING HEADLIGHTS.
DANGEROUS® DRIVING.
Association has no sympathy with
manner
Pointing out that for some days, gangs of workmen hávej been busy digging pits in the middle of Szechuen Road and Kiangse Road, and making trenches from those pits to the side of the road an indignant. Shanghailander' describes these an attempt to
AMERICAN STATE'S LAW..
LORRY DRIVER CONVICTED manoeuvres as wreck the Settlemont. Not con-
AT HOME. Iowa U.S.A. is conducting an in- tent with making a big hole in! the middle of the road, he says: The remarkable power of the
tensive campaign to eliminate glar-
The fact that the Automobile they dig a trench right across the modern small marine motor was road, when they find that the well demonstrated recently, whening headlights from the highways. The late law provides that the
is motor drivera inconsiderate Hongkong motorists going on big hole is a nuisance which can the owner of a heavy 42-ft, motor undiiTused rays from headlights
well illustrated by a recent "somewhat shall not rise to an elevation of leave this year, should remember be avoided. A passage, about ten cruiser met with a
instance. the advantage and courtesy they feet wide is allowed for traffic unique experience. This boat is more than 42 inches at a distance
At Epping the Association has will receive in the British fales, proceeding both ways, including fitted with two engines, the one of 75 feet.
Test stations have been provid- just prosecuted the driver "of a if they carry with them an intro- cars, rickhias, wheelbarrows, and
lorry for driving in a duction showing that they are railless trams. And then people large slow-running 26-30 h.p. members of the Hongkong An-are surprised if there is conges. motor, as the main power unit,fed where autoists can have their dangerous to the public, and also
cars, headlights tested to insure compliance with the law.
The law regulating headlights
The evidence showed that an will be strictly enforced and
A. A. member's car was passing special efforts will be made to apalong the Epping main road at prehend all offenders..
night, with headlights, when the defendant's lorry approached from the opposite direction. number of cyclists were on the road, and the motorist considered it inadvisable to dim his 'lights. When about 40 yards away the driver of the lorry drove his' vehicle to the off side of the road, a serious collision only being averted by the car being When re- suddenly pulled up. monstrated with, the defendant replied that the lights should! have been dimmed.-
tomobile Association. We have tion. heard several motorists speak in A Familiar Cry approcintivo
and the second an Allsa Craig "Kid" 10-14 h.p. 4-cylinder marine motor, made by the Ailan Craig
terms .of tho There appears to be little or no Motor Co., Ltd., of Chiswick, privileges extended to members system in this tearing up of the London, as an auxiliary unit. of the H.K.A.A. visiting the Qld stroots, says this writer, as many
When travelling under the Country. Those who are not ua Hongkong motorist has said of ready members should apply for local road improvements. It is power of the main 26-30 h.p. an application form to the granted (he adds) that the growth motor the little 10-14 h.p. engine Honorary Secretary, Mr. Paul of Shanghai has caused the earth was started up and inadvertently Hodgson, at his office in the Bank beneath the Settlemont to be put into reverse, with an un- of China Building, Duddoll Street, threaded this way and that by expected result. In spite of work- or while he is away, to the Trea- pipes, cables and hawsers, each ing against the large 25-30 h.p. surers, Messrs. Linstead and having their own purpose, but engine of more than twice its Davis,
each equally a mystery to the power, the "Kid" brought up the mere man who wishes to use the boat practically to a standstill at streets as a means of getting from once....
The Ailsa Craig "Kid" is n The first shipment of the latest!
one place to another. Those pipes," model Fords is due to arrive here cables hawsere, etc., need atten-modern high-efficiency overhead on the 24th, inst. Mr. W. Harper tion from time to time, it is valve unit, and its efficiency may informs us that a strong demand known, but why the attention is be gauged by the above perform has already arison, so much so, not given to them all at once, ance. Alone it can drive the that over half of the coming ship-instead of causing the roads to be cruiser at a speed of 5 knots, even ment has been booked. Early taken up time and again is about when towing a 14-ft. dinghy, applications are advisable for the de groat a mystery as. the pipes, remainder.
etc., themselves.
The New Fords.
Fleet of Fords?
The Procedure,.
BATTERY WARNING.
for failing to keep his vechile on the near side of the road.
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In defence, the lorry driver stated that he was dazzled by, the brilliancy of the headlights, but the Bench decided that he had Fond Husband: "You fool of a acted deliberately, and imposed chauffeur! Don't you know the penalties of two guineas for driv- rule is to koop to the right !" ing dangerously, and one guines
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for falling to keep to the near. alde.
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indignant an interesting letter which has above-mentioned been received from the Ford Shanghailander, the procedure In the interests of motorists Motor Company of Japan in appears to be this: dig a deep generally, the Automobile Asso- which it is suggested that the hole and then ask what you have ciation advises that lighted Hongkong Police Force is to dug it for. No one will know, matches should never be brought
SAFETY AT NIGHT. emulate the example of the Now but someone will say, "Don't you near accumulatore used on ears York Police Department, and think we might lay a sewer here?" for lighting and self-starters. employ a number of Ford run-Another says, A ripe scheme. It is not generally known that
ILLUMINATED WHITE LINES. abouts for varvious duties. The It will mean tearing up the whole while these batteries are being APPLIED TO MOTOR BUSES.
The Autocar records and illus lettor roads as follows:---
of the road."
"Then let's do it," charged, and for a period after
Super-charged engines made trates the first illuminated white "From our Manchester Office says the other. And they do.
charging ceases, a highly inflam wo learn that Mr. E. D. C.. Cold Comfort.
mable gas passes from the cells. their appearance on touring cars line to be laid down in Great Wolfe, Chiof of Police for They say, of course, that it is
Recently, while a car was halted some time ago. Now, according Britain. This has been installed Police Hongkong, who was a for the good of the city, says the with the engine still running, and to Motor Transport, it is suggested in a North-West London suburb, recent visitor at the British writer, but it seems to be that charging the battery, a motorist that they should be applied to and is the invention of Mr. F. Empire Exhibition, informed Shanghai is being treated like the handed a lighted match to a motor omnibuses, the principal Brown, of Clacton-on-Sea. It is
FAKE MOTOR CLUBS. GOOD ROADS INCREASE. them that he was very favour- small boy who was constantly friend across the car at about advantage in this case being that doubtless the forerunner of many ably impressed with the good being dosed by his parents for his 18 in. above the battery, which weight could be reduced, as a similar Installations which can-
Motorists of the United States The mileage of surfaced roada work done by Police in Now own good. He did not like the York City with the use of Ford medicines, but found comfort in was located under the front scat, smaller engine would suffice, not fail to make the white line runabouts. Mr. Wolfe soes that the tale which was told him that The gas from the battery, which The suggestion was made at a at dangerous points even more annually pay out more than $30,- in the United States is nearing
WAS uncovered. immediately meeting of English municipal effective at night than by day, an they could be put to similar use they would make him a
Ignited and blow the acid into the omnibua managers, who, at the it cannot wear out and is always000,000 to fake motoring organl the 500,000 mile mark. In addi- He grew
promoters of these organizations derable mileage has been g
graded in Hongkong and stated that strong boy by-and-by. he was thinking of establishing up and was always being dosed eyes of the passenger, who has same time, expressed the opinion bright. It consists of grass and zations. It is difficult to convict tion to surfaced roads, a const- a fleet of about 200 runabouts for the by-and-by... which never practically lost the sight of one that four-wheel braking should be white tiles lit from beneath by as they always claim that they and drained according to engineer:
standardised on buses. on his roturn.”
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had good faith in the project. ing standards.