THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
ATTENTION
FORD OWNERS
Arrangements have now been completed whereby Ford Owners are enabled to purchase
GASOLINE and TYRES
AT REDUCED PRICES.
ANDREW HARPER
AUHORISED FORD DEALER
Tel. C.4895.
6, Queen's Road Central Chatham Road, Hunghom... Tel. K.1216.
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GENERAL AGENTS & DISTRIBUTORS FOR SOUTH CHINA
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DAZZLE, HEADLIGHT PROBLEM:
"PRACTICAL HINTS ON HOW
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT
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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 11,
OLYMPIA UYGLE SHOW
which is the as ciation real sponsible for organising thos annual shows of the industry
Invitations to visit the show have been dispatched to all dation Continental and Dominion buyers vhose names appear upon the
OPENS XT MONTH.
Applications ofgoed at the TwelftInt Oyele and Maten Oy which will
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Particularly heavy is. and for accommodation in the Main and New Hall Galleries, where the Component and Ag cossories Beotions are housed.;
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of exhibits, which will insiudo an Historical Exhibit of Cycles. It is unlikely that any space in arranged by the Cyolista Touring the galleries will be available Club. It is expected that interest- except to members of the British ing rolics of the past, from 1818 Cycle and Motor Cycle Manu- facturers and Tradera Union, onwards, will be included in this L'd The Towers, Coventry, historical exhibit.
SPEEDY TRIALS FOR SPEEDERS.
night one met nothing outside. the Metropolitan limits" excopt a fow market-garder carts, with USEFUL DEVICES,
the drivers nearly always asleep, cone was once There is no real excuse, how and when ver, for anyone to complain of passed one might run 40 or 50 TO AVOID MISHAP the blinding affects of the dazzle miles without seeing anything. by data abe Han pinch produced by headlamps. There except cats and lonely polled The increase during the last are special goggles, cheap and men. Now-a-days one mosts as fyear or two inthe number of easy to obtain, in which one-balf many motor vehicles, apart from motorchidles which are driven of tho aperture is loft, open, the overtaking them, on a 50 miles at night is remarkable On the other half being made of green journey on any road outside any one hand, there are the pleasure colluloids a driver has only tp of the big towns in one night soekers who frequently go into incline his head slightly down as would have been met in one London or other large towns for wards or upwards, as, the case month 15 years ago. The more an evening's ontortainment and may be, and the green half of the the roads become crowded by day drive back to a country home 30 aperture entirely outs out the and inva few years they will or 40 mlios away between dazzle of the approaching head be very ordwded. Indeed the midnight and the small hours of lights. Then there are discapf greater will be the tendency for the morning. On the other hand, several types, made either of heavy and fast motor traffic to there is an increasing number of groen glass or green celluloid, travel by night. Some day, per- heavy commercial vehicles which which can be fitted on the wind- kaps, wo shall have motor-vehi- make regular journeys between screen of any car and serve the bles in which there will be sleep suneet and sunrise, often taking same purpose of Webminating ng accommodation, like the rail way sleeping-cars of to-day. And loads between the ports and the dazzle... wholesale distributors in towns, There are also various devices that will make the problem mors whose drivers prefer to travel by which the driver can moderate severe. The Tronics when the road is comparatively to alter the beams of light from free of traffic, Moreover, the his own headlights, such as putt conveyance of goods by night has ing the electric bulbs out of focus commercial advantages. Lozries in relation to the reflector behind can be loaded up in the afternoon them, or, dipping the, headlamps or evening of one day and, the so as to throw their light down. goods delivered at any distance wards, leaving an unlighted ares up to 120 miles away early above. Many years ago, long be next morning. The main roads of fore these devices existed. I used this country and headlights have to train my eyes to follow the now been so improved that night nearside edge of that road, and driving is much safer than it by concentrating on that and used to be. Except when fog ignoring altogether the approach, prevails the average speed of all ing light. I never had any serious types of motor vehicles is nearly difficulty in passing even the as great. by night as by day. fiercest of glares. Nowadays, Still, there is not the same howover, when about half the Fisibility at a distance as by day, drivers on the road have had and the roads and unexpected little or no experience of night dangers constitute a somewhat driving, and probably not more than one or two years of driving greater risk.
at all, there is an element of risk From time to time accidents on the road. To some such drivers happen on account of dazzling there seems to be a fatal fuscina- headlamps, though not nearly sotion in the ligh: approaching frequently as some imagine. Thotham. Terrified of driving off the word "dazzle" is an entirely un-road on their own side, they scientific term. The eyes may be unconsciously turn their steering slightly affected or totally though wheel towards the vehicle and momentarily, blinded (for in light approaching, them, and the some cases nothing can be seen result is either a dangerous except the bright light in front collision or a bare escape from by brilliant light both real and accident. artificial. For example, no one The Ministry of Transport has who has driven towards an un- been wise in not issuing up to clouded sun at sunset can have the present time any Orders on any doubts as to its dazzling the subject of haadlamps, for it affect, and accidents are recorded is not beyond the powers of which have taken place solely in scientific experts eventually to consequonoa of drivers being eliminate most of what is called temporarily. blinded in this way. dazzle.. But I repeat that there Reflection of the sun's rays from is really no necessity nowadays the sea, rivers, or lakes has the that anyone should suffer from some effect. Unduly powerful dazzle or risk an accident on that headlights confronting a driver account if only the methods I are like miniature searchlights have recommeded are adopted.
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There are some critics who declare that no motor vehicle should be driven at night except at a very slow speed, that there is no necessity to have lamps brighter than those carried by the average horse" vehicle, and that in those conditions there would be no accidents at night. Apart. from the impossibility of enfora- ing a general speed limit at night; when we know by experience that a limit cannot be enforced by day, it is: af counsel of per- fection to suggest that motor-cars should over be confined to 10 or 12 miles an hour during night journeys. Even if they were, there are certain dangers on the road which to a motor vehicle even at 10 miles an hour might be formidable.
ENLIGHTED TRAFFIC.
As long as cyclists carry no- roat lights and pedestrians walk. in the middle of the road, head- lamps of considerable power are I wanted, in order that the risks caused by these unlighted types of road traffic. may be reduced. In the country and on the open road one often meats badly as lighted motor-vans, as well hozzed carts whose lights are merely a glimmer, while now and again the motor drivor is confronted with cattle, sheep, or horses wandering loose or lying down on the road," drunken men prone.in the middle of the highway near a public- house, and hand-carts and por- ambulators entirely unlighted. Then there is danger of packages dropped by some other vehicle, such as I once, encountered, when thore suddenly loomed up before me OD a winter night a large sack of wheat which had de cidentally fallen from a motor. lorry, and which, had I not scen it, might have easily wronchod the steering wheel out of my hand and caused a bad accident, There is also the danger, in the winter especially of running into flooded sections of the road, of suddenly encountering snow- drifts, or of having to pass road works in operation where the lighting of the barriers is bad.
To sum up, it is certain that if the lights of motor vehicles, wRIO severely limited there would bo's large increase in accidente, and some of them would be serious. In other words, such a restriction would tend to increase, and not diminish, danger Loan tamem- ber the time when on any main road out of London after mid-
JUSTICE COURT
The authorities tried this roadside Court system at Inglewood, California, and it proved
excellent means for disposing of traffic cases quickly.
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