THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, AUGUST 28, 1926.
LOCAL ACCIDENTS,
A SMALL NUMBER
Leaky Tyre Valves.
MEMS. FOR MOTORISTS, the carburettor and finding their of voico, as by so doing you will way into other places where they, create a very much more favour- have no business to be. When able impression on the police than decarbonising it will be found ad- the man who shonta and accuses vantageous to polish piston heads and gesticulatos. to ne smooth a surface as possible Valve Grinding. the formation of carbon deposité Ing in valves to know whether the for a minimum period. Fine valve le seating properly all round. omery cloth and oil followed by To ascertain, make marks radially ordinary metal polish should be on the seating with chalk, font used for the purpose.
In view of the figuras relating to root accidents, in Shanghai siruple method of dealing if this be done they will Festste is often diffeult when grind which were recently published it in interesting to be able to give, with a lenky valve on the poor for purposes of comparison, the table below. It will be noticed to slip á plece of rubber tube over that the total number of persons injured in vehicular accidents for it, to it tight over the valve, turn the first six months of the year was only 152, and that the number the tube down as in the case of the football bladder, and tie it of killed amounted to 17.
again. The tabe used should be thin enough to permit the replace- ment of the valve cap; otherwise the pressure of the leaking air might cause the tube to balloon.
Total number of accidents
Motor Truck Tram-car
Motor
Truck
Tram-car
39
Total number of porsons killed
January
0
2
February
Total number of persons injured
Decarbonising,
Trump Cards
A well cared for clean car is a trump card to play, in a stoppage due to an accident when the police are on the scene. It is almost The motor owner who does his impossible for them to avoid as. own decarbonizing, frequently suming that of two cars the omits to clear out of his bonnet ricketty battared dirty old shand- the fragments of farbon which be-dredan is more likely to be in the come scattered about during the wrong than the other one. process on the engine and acces sories. This should always be dont so as to avoid the risk of tiny fragments being sucked Into
Two other trump cards are the ability to produce your visiting card at once and to discuss. the matter in a calm and even tono
brakes.
Brakes. When a car has been brought When brakes aro not gripping to rest by traffle, by application well, some drivers use them vary of the brakes, it is well to release sparingly in the belief that they them again. If the machine is not are more likely to last the day out, on a slope by so doing there is if this is done. The reverse how- less risk of damage, if another car collides with it.
likely to grip tightly if they are
Oll Draining
ever in. true, as they are mare Many drivers approach the top thrown into action several times of a hill at far too great a spoed a day, but a very little trouble and as a result have to use brakes talton occasionally to rough up the or eight marks may be made with before they reach the bottom. It brake lining by means of a fle advantage. Then grind, a few saves the car and the brakes I will obviate any necessity for times, and note the effect on the speed be moderated before com caution auch as this, linea: If each of the lines is mencing the descent. Some cars the valve is scating it all pointe. upon the propellor shaft, but it is with kerosene; it is impossible to broken it is safe to assume that are fitted with emergency brakes The extent of the break is a men- agreed that use should not be drain it all out and what remains sure of the exten; of the seating made of these except in cases of has the effect of diluting the surface.'
emergency or merely to see if they lubricant which you put in. By ars fa good condition, on account far the best thing is to put in a of the strain caused to the trans- quart of fresh clean oll, which mission gear. The brake may be should have the reault of getting used as a hold-on brake after the rid of every drop of the old oil, car has bean brought to a dead and a good deal of the dirt which stop by means of the service has accumulated.
Worth Remembering. To save clothes it is wise to carry in the car a sleeve of an old overall or cont which can easily be slipped on when carrying out any adjustment on the road.
Never flush out the oil system
Ricksha
Motor
Truck
Tram-car
Bicycle
Motor
29
Truck
1
Tram-car
March
23
0
2
1
April
Bicycle
May
Motor.
41
Truck
Tram-car
Ricksha
June
Motor
40
Truck
Tram-car
Ricksha 2
Bicycle
Summary.
"January
February
55
March
April
May
*June
49
Total
300
GHON
19
24
27
152
Ford
THE AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
ANNUAL MEETING,
boxes, which are illuminated at night.
WES
The Home Touring Department had established another record; the total mileage of the routes issued during the year equivalent to going round; the The twenty-first annual meet-world 5,000 times. 1,400 miles of ing of the Automobile Association prepared routes had been issued. was held at the Savoy Hotel on 14th July. The Rt. Hon. the Earl of Donoughmore, P.C., K.P., Vice-President of the Association, presided.
in every minuts of the working day. It was interesting to notice that quite an important change had occurred in the kind of routes The asked for by members.
In moving the adoption of the association was continually being annual report, Lord-Donough-asked for cross-country routes of mora stated that the Automobile] all sorts and kinds, and of course Association had attained its they were able to supply them majority. The Association was satisfactorily. This side light on started in 1905 with 100 members; "A A." activities showed that the on the previous day they had motor car was doing what" it 301,951 members. On the occasion ought to do-enabling us to know of the annual meeting last year, our own country and other held on the second Wednesday in countries vory much better and July, they were just over a quar- very much more intimately." ter of a million strong, so that The Foreign Touring Depart they had made a good, net ad- ment had created another record. vande since that time last year. TheA.A. not only did ita On the 30th April, 1926, the work officiently, but it was on total membership was 286,333; aplondid torms with the officials (69,681 new members having of the countries visited by “A.A." joined during the financial year mombers.
ending 30th April, 1926). Their With regard to motor taxation, experience was that, as in pre- the Association continued to ex "vious years, members joined in press dissatisfaction with the large numbers during the winter present basis on which the taxes months. It was perhaps interest-aro collected. No sourid motor ing to mention that even during tax could be imposed unless it the strike motorists joined at the was based on the principle that rate of 250 daily, showing that the man who damages the road whatover... inconvenience the most should make the greator, public may have suffered in other contribution towards the repair ways, they were still as anxious of the road. The prosent horse as ever to join the "A.A."
power tax does not do that, and The "AA" road, service had the "A.A." would not cease in its been greatly extended. Increase efforts until something on those of membership, of course, would linos is reached always mean more patrols on the The Association's wireless road.
broadcasts had been valuable in Perhaps the most interesting bringing hond to novices the way way of illustrating "A.A." pro-they should behave on the road. gress would be by mentioning.one Lord Donoughmore moved the or two round figures. 143,000 adoption of the report... members came in contact with: Two members complained that the A.A. "patrols during the the funds of the Association had Easter vacation, showing that been improperly used during the their prime bbject-helping mo- General Strike, and that the torists on the road had been action of the Executive in this woll maintained. A great many respect was ultra vires. After more people are motoring at considerable discussion the report 'night than need to do so, and was adopted by a very large. thereford the AA." night road majority. service had been extended they Mr. McWhirter, Chairman of were now rondering aseistance to the Automobile Association, and thousands of mombers every wook between dusk and midnight. The mittee, in moving the adoption of Chairman of the Financa Com-
"A.A." rond organisation, on Balanco Shoot and Account for bicycles, motor cycles, day and the year, said that the Associa night servich outfits and station's financial position was on Toara, covered over 181 millión
miles last year. Every beat was exceedingly sound one. They had patrolled seven days a week. He spent £427 523 on the road. The would emphasise the fact that the Area Offices were distributed all Association retained complete over the country, from Aberdeen to Exeter, and from Bristol to control of its road organisation Norwich, and the costs of those Every man was paid, equipped, and clothed entirely out of "Offices amounted to £88,409. The funds. They had never been aro, carried to reserve, WAS
surplus of income over expendi subsidised out of,public funds for £14,820,
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any traffic control work. The accounts-were adopted by 46. additional roadside tele- the mooting, and a vote of thanks phonos had been erected, also a to the Chairman terminated the number of now "super-telephone" proceedings.
Such Supreme Found only in
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Authorized Dealer
Chatham Road, Hunghom, Kowloos, 6 Queen's Road, Central
HONGKONG.
Telephone: C. 4895 and E 1216
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