MOTORING
Unnecessary Disturbance,
CURRENT
COMMENT
SUPPLEMENT
cars pulling up at the entrance to
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 24th. April, 1926.
(Being the Oficial Organ of the Hongkong Automobile Association).
IMPERIAL TRADE,
RAPIDLY INCREASING.
Recently published statistics show that the British motor in- dustry as a whole la rapidly in- reasing the bulk of its trade with the Hotel when required, provid-Singer & Co., Ltd., of Coventry, the Empire overseas. Messrs. That parking facilities in Hong-ing that the drivers were in- kong aro not plentiful, must be structed to drive as quietly as report wonderful business with freely admitted. but it is never possible, and not to sound" the the various Dominions and co- theless unfortunate that the main horn unnecessarily. Unquestion-lonies, and state that Australia parking space should be in such ably, something should be done, alone is taking every week a real- close proxmity to the leading because it is not merely transient substantial number of Singer hotel, as is the Pedder Street who are concerned, but business cars. At present the export stand. Even in ordinary times.men who have to rise early in consists principally of the popular when the hotel is able to provide the morning and fill their respec-10-26 h.p. 4-cylinder model, accommodation for several hun-tive roles in the Colony's commer.which, in its improved form, pro- dred guests, it must be remem-cial life. Surely they have a right vides a really roomy and comfort- bored that the majority of those to expect some consideration!able 4-seater at an extraordinarily living there are local residents
who find it more convoniont to A Bad Practice. reside at a hotel, and it is for these
moderate price. Recently ship- ments have begun to be made of the new 14-34 h.p. 6-cylinder mo-
the recent Olympia
SOUTH AFRICAN
POLICE..
that we have pleaded in the past,| There is at least one had prac-del, which first came before the and do so again now. Regulations tice among many local owners public at should be drawn up which would who are able to afford the luxury show. prohibit the nightly disturbance of a chauffeur which ought to be brought about by the starting-up stopped. We refer to the practice, of engines, and the merciless and of paying the chauffeurs finos unnecessary sounding of motor when they are dealt with at the! horns Wo have received several Magistracy for the infringement requests to plead the cause of of trattic regulations. It is com- these poople whose rest is inter-mor knowledge that when a rupted every night, and in gladly private chauffeur it is his om- doing so, we earnestly hope that ployer who generally pays up for official action will at last behim, and thus what ought to be taken.
the salutary effect of the fine is utterly wasted. Any men who Details of an important innova- can offend without cost to himself tion in South Africa have just There can be no objection to a fisn't going to be very careful been received by B.S.A. Cycles regulation which would prohibit about offending again, and we Ltd. This relates to the moun!- car parking within a certain appeal to owners 10 discon-ing of members of the South Afri- distance of the hotel after 10 p.m. tinue the practice of paying can. Folice Force on motor nightly, or before. 8 a. in the for chauffeurs who are fined. bicycles. morning. The people who, un. Perhaps a better way of douling
Restricted hours.
·USE B.S.A. CYCLES.
wittingly create the nuisance aro with motor drivers who are found East London led the way by in all probability residents who guilty of attending the regulations mounting a policeman on a 9.86 have a perfectly quiet bedroom would be the temporary suspenofficial patrol by the South Afrienn b.p. B.S.A. combination, the first awaiting them elsewhere in the sion of their licences. Abolish Colony, and who would quite the system of fines altogether and Boiler in any town in the Union. rightly protest if even one motor make the penalty a graduated son- Johannesburg them followed
WORLD'S BIGGEST MOTOR BÚS.
GIANT VEHICLE 100 FEET LONG.
The illustrations show the exhibit of Dodge Brothers cars
car awakened them for several le of suspensions. In this way the suit by mounting three police, largest motor bus ever built, a and Graham Brothers trucks. It consecutive nights within a relawner, liable to lose the services again on B.S.A. Motor Bicycles, very giant among motor busses, has a capacity sufficient to hold tively few foot of their bedroom of his driver, wo id take a little but the machines chosen this time, that might find room for opera- 124 Dodge Brothers touring cars the annoyance suffered by people conformed in every way. Only to the present the motor cycling but would have difficulty negotiat-above the boxes for a few hundred window. How much greater is more care in seeing that the man were B.S.A. 1.03 h.p. solos, Uption on the wide pampas of South and eight Dodge Brothers chassis America, where it was designed, boxed for shipment with room who are awakened nightly, not when drivers of vehicles are non-police have concerned themselves ence, but probably a dozen times pelled to obey rules and regula-chiefly with offences against the ing the streets of New York or spare tyres. between the hours of midnight tions, will our public streets motoring law.
and 1 or 2 a.m.?
Why Not Connaught Rd?
fi
become less dangerous. In any case, chauffeurs ought to be minde to pay now.
It is surely not too much to ask New Members. motorists to park their cars on
the Connaught Road Praya a fow
Since hundred yards East or West, published, the following have the last list was from the Post Office. In fine joined the.Hongkong Automobile weather the distance to be walked Association:- would only be a few hundred yards, while in wet weather there would be no great objection to
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THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE
ASSOCIATION
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A. Brearley
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Kwok Chan
M. W. Lyons
R. E. Lindsyll
G. Mollis
F. E. Mash
H. K. Woo
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Foreign Motor Taxes,
NOVEL DEMONSTRATION.
London..
"Due to the novelty of the Julio Ferre, Dodge Brothers and exhibit," Mr. Favre writes, "It is Graham Brothers dealer in Buenos only natural" that there was an Aires, Argentina, built this most constant stream of visitors
| 20 MINUTES PER MILE. colossus of burses as an exhibit passing through this giant bus for the big automobile show re- throughout the entire time of our cently held in Buenos Aires, andig Argentine show. The fre- it was not only, the sensation of quent praise of the ability and the show, but received wide exceptionally satisfactory per- From time to time one hears of publicity in the newspapers formance of Graham Brothers various tests being invented to de- through all South America. The trucks expressed by visitors is con- monstrate the flexibility or slow wheel which is shown in the vincing evidence of the good re- running of particular makes of picture is nine feet ten inches in putation of these sturdy trucks in motor car.
An old favourite was diameter, the head-lamps were South America.
The increase in popularity of the running of a driverless car four feel one inch; the height of round and round in a circle with the radiator was eight feet five Graham Brothers trucks in Argen- the steering set rigidly to full inches; height of body, 26 feet, tine is typical of what is happen lock and the gear lever in top. 72 feet; over all height of bus, 37 Take Lima, capital of Peru, for width, 27 feet six inches, lengthing throughout all South America. But even this test loses its novelty feet; over all length, 100 feet one example,
when compared with a trial recent-
ly described by a Welsh owner of
inch.
Lima purchased 348 Graham Brothers 1-ton and 11⁄2- ton trucks. And, motor busses in
a 14-30 h.p. Armstrong Siddeley, From the outside, the bas is an 1925, against 270 for 1924. He selected the promenade of a exact replica of the Graham fact the
In well-known seaside resort for his Brothers street car type bus, like Brothers total business in South
of growth Graham test, and then in top gear without the 148 used in Detroit by the America for 1926 shows an in- touching the clutch or brakes pro-municipal street car lines and like crease of 98 per cent. over that of ceeded to cover a measured mile those which are used in many 1924.
by stop watch in the remarkable cities in North and South America, time of twenty minutes. The and, in fact, in many cities in all motorhusses
slow running of this
car is re- parts of the world.
are
"Grahan Brothers trucks and пож being. shipped to 80 different countries. Mr. Fevre used the interior of Total shipments oversens in 1925 may be plenty of cars which may the bus during the show for his exceded 1924 by 179.4%.""
markable because, whereas there
give a momentarily speedometer
reading in the neighbourhood of
The Secretary of the Automo-which can be throttled down for 5 m.p.h., there cannot be many
bile Association (London) sonds so long to 3 m.p.h.
us the information that under a
new Swedish Customs law
rate of 15% ad valorem is to be
recently passed, a duty at the The Belgian Frontier.
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NO COMFORT CHART.
70-80 SWIFT MILES PER GALLON.
We are pleased to announce that by the
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Wo received two models of the famous HARLEY-DAVIDSON SINGLE CYLINDER
OVERHEAD MOTORS
.
Model AAE-Equipped with a hand operated clutch, footrests and speedster type bandlebars, Model AA-Equipped with a foot operated clutch, foot- boards and the touring type handlebars,
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BOYS POOR DRIVERS.
Manufacturers and dealers who
Youths under the age of 18 years
put so much stress upon the riding failed to prove their ability as autó qualities of the autoa they sell have drivers in America. Junior opora-
BABIES RIDE IN AUTOS.
NEED NEW ROAD SIGNS.
Mombership otc. to
MR. P. M. HODGSON, Hon. Secretary,
Bank of China. Building.
imposed on all motor cycles A new special reciprocity
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The automobile has caused the There is a general, need for the
entoring Sweden. The date when tax is lavied on the Belgian made little effort to develop instru-tors' licenses were issued last year the tax will come into operation, Frontier on tourists' cars coming ments for scientifle measurement of in the rural districts of New York. bottom to fall out of the baby car replacement of signs on our rural however, has not been fixed. In from certain countries. British riding comfort. Practically all other There were 40,000 applicants and riage market. Parents find that an highways. There is also a need for the meantime, therefore, the old oars are exempt from this tax, 80° acalo applies, viz., solo' motor that A.A. members, if called upon parts of the machine are tested and 5627 licenses granted. The junior automobile is a good substitute for clear signs along the roads leading oycles 60 Krouer each," motor to pay it, should refuse to do so, measured accurately. Riding quality operators were the cause of 118 with sidecars 15% ad valorem, on the grounds that it does not depends not only upon the eqn-accidents during the year, one of the old-time perambulator-and it to important cities. Weather cons plus 1.50 Kroner per kilo for apply to motorists usually 40struction of the machine but also every eight of shiloh resulted in gives them a wheel carriage that delions during the winter have rubber tyres.
the whole family can ride inf
sident in Great Britain.
upon road conditions.
the loss of human life.
erased or destroyed signs.