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the "Austin Seven" is so popular in Hong- kong is because it is cheap to operate and can be stowed away in any little corner, thus saving garage blij. Futrhermore, it is always ready for service,
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An
SATURDAY OCTOBER
1926.
SEVERE TYRE TEST.
PROTECT PEDESTRIANS. the pedestrian are bound to come. It may be that, as many have AND REDUCE ACCIDENTS. predicted, most sidewalks will be on the second story level with Protect the man on foot and a foot-bridges at strand interaco Automobile tyres for govern- majority of automobile accidents tione. This is a practical pos- i mont uso are given a rigid test will be prevented, says Edward sibility for large cities and some by the United States Bureau of S. Jordan in a special report of snch development is bound to Standards. The tyre is mounted street traffic conditions filed with come soon.romedios miles an hour rim spoed. As It over a tread that turns at 30 the directors of the National! "The fact that Automobile Chamber of Com-which do not bear directly upon moves, the tyre hits thron oloats the protection of the inan on foot set in the rim so that onch turn. Mr. Jordan beliaves that the are of only secondary import of the wheel gives three humpe street crossing is a source of the ance,"
to the tyra principal dengers and moons should be found to oliminate the common vehicle and podestrian Intersection.
merce.
"Since sidewalks have been ao-| cepted for generations as a public necessity," says Mr. Jordan, it sooms strange that we have been so slow in the adoption of orose- walks..
"When you build a sidewalk that stops at the street intersec- tion, the job is incomplete, and in the age of motors it is. loss than half done.
"Overpasses or underpasses for
JOIN
You may have noticed, or you tell them something about the may not, that while the over-vehicle under review, we must It is true that a crosswalk can obliging Press bas given us get on with our trip. We sped not be built across a street write-ups" of every car on the along Oxford Street, and then, satisfactorily at the same level. market and the scrap-hoap, so anxious to know how the The most primitive step, of far no motor scribo has dealt with gallant well, all right then course, is to paint the foot cross- that commonest of all vehicles-the polite little engino would ings on the street pavement and the taxicab. It is somewhat puz-perform on a stiff gradient, we this is being found helpful as a aling to know why this laxity instructed the driver to essay the primitive measure.
Hill, should have been perinitted, the slope, of Notting more especially when we consider acclivity with which all keen that this type of vehicle, at any-motorists in the London district rate, is familiar to the average will be familiar. writer on motor matters. I will hot think that any sordid con- sideration of advertising enter Despite the fact that we wore into the question; because we all badly baulked by a motor bus, we know that the Incorruptible Press took the sharp rise, at the foot, gives & "write-up of any car near the Tube station' on top, and that it is asked to, irrespective of travelled some yards before com- whether it is advertised or not. Ing down into second. The You have only to turn over the driver's efforta here indicated pages of the motoring journals that there are many cars and notice how seldom the "writ-which the gear change is mort ton-up" cars feature "in "the ad-difficult, only they would want vertisement pages to prove this some finding. for yourself. :
Top Gear Performance.
on
Near the summit of the hill, Well, thinking that some of from which the Crystal Palace. you bloated "Morris-iets" would would be easily discernible on a like to know what the People's clear day but for a certain motor car is like, I have, at colos-archectural carelessness in the sal expenso (3/8 and a 6d. tip, cash disposition of intervening build- dept. please note) taken one on aings, we had to come into bottom tost run, in order to secure its gear. But even so, we succeeded long-delayed inclusion among in overtaking a builder's handcart write-ups," and have the job which, when we consider that there was only one bore and stroke apiece the cylinders, was The sun was shining and the not a bad performance for the birds were singing in Piccadillyall-for the sturdy little Circus as we entered the west-
engine. ward traffic stream in the 15.9 h.p.
ALEX. ROSS & Co. (China), Ltd. more or less complete.
BANK OF CHINA BUILDING.
"Kowloon 'Agents:-
The Motor Car & Cycle Exchange taxicab, kindly placed at our dis-
DOUGLAS MOTOR CYCLES
Twenty reasons why you should choose an "E. W."
1. Encinaed valves.
2. Cioan, crankcase,
3. Mechanical pump lubrication
11. Mud and waterproof wheel bearings 12. 3 inch tyres
13. Large auction mudguarda
4. Induction pipe heating jacket
14. Flat rudguard stays
15. Patrol tap Alter and drain
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15. New type fork shacklo bolin
6. New type gear box englosed kickstart 16. Two tool bags
8. Enclosed kickstarter
7. Gear box air vent.
9. Low pressure brakes
10. Taper roller bearinge
17. Low saddle position
18. 3mproved footplates
10. New exhaust system
20. Control wires through head
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Proceeding to Queen's Road, posal by the driver--at the ordin- Bayswater, we were given an ary furo. "As its pilot moved off excellent opportunity of judging' the rank with a few terse and the efficiency of the brakes. A well-choson spithets to describe a point-duty policeman at a "cross- confrere who had, attempted to road was making an evening take his turn, we were intrigued engagemont with a nursemaid, to notice the taximeter, conveni- and had not noticed that he was ently placed on a level with his bolding up a quarter of a mile of left ear. This ingenious, instru traffic, until the gentle tinkle of ment may be described as a cross our big-ends brought him to earth between a speedometer and a gas with a rush. He waved both his meter, and cleverly combines the arms at once and the dormant inaccuracies of both.
column of mixed vehioles came suddenly to life as we reached Perhaps the first thing that the corner. Our driver put his struck us, if we except a banana foot down and, despite a speed of skin that had served its purpose, anything up to six miles an hour, from the top of a passing "bus, the taxi atopped dead, us instant was the ease with which the gal-aneously as the late lamented lant little engine took up the Mrs. Lot on а well-known: drive on first. Except for a series occasion.
of jerks, causing us to lose our
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pipe and sit on the floor moment- Now, in this age of progress, arily, and a noise somewhat good brakes, are no novelty. Even resembling an earthquake in a 'pushbike" brakes have been Chine shop, to use. a homely known to have a certain amount similo, there was little suggestion of retarding effect. But it is one of fuss. Moreover, it was parti- thing for a brake to go on, and cularly noticed that when the another for it to stay on. So driver took the side-brake off, excellons was the example on the things were, if anything, smoo car under discussion, that it took ther; and, without wishing to be the driver and myself a quartor critical, we would suggest that of an hour with a King Dick and users of these delightful vehicles a hastily-borrowed coal hammer would do well to bear this little to get it off again. point in mind.
Thereafter our run to the Long Bar at the "Troc" was without As the gallant little engine pur-incident, except for a tyre that red its way on three eylindere burst with a loud. report in Park along Regent Street, & bonuty Lane during. our somewhat spot well known to southern foolish endeavour to overtake a motorists, wo could not help speedmodel, "Toden" However, noticing a rythmical "click" on
as the ensuing wheel-changing the off-side brake-drum. The operations enabled us to try the bevel, too, supplemented the working of the taximeter by musical feast, and those twain, bringing the flag to a vertica- coupled to the subdued crackling position unnoticed by the drivert of the bodywork, produced a sense this little incident was not with- of latent energy quite apart from out profit. and in addition to, the efforts of
and a cirolo of friends made up
Altogether, to those who are the gallant little engine. (Hore, looking for a mildly exciting you can't keep on saying "gallant vehicle on well-tried lines, who little engine-Ed. Yes I can. Have ample time at their disposal this is a write-up"-Mileatór.) " for getting from place to place,
Costly Upholstery.
| exclusively of deaf mutes, we can Quite early in our run we were confidently recommend the impressed with the interior oquip taxicab. ment of the taxicab. The up- It was with a feeling of grea holstery, in place of the cotton roluctance (Yes, we know tha wool and horsehair customarily part,--Ed). employed, was stuffed with lumps
of coal, its colour and firmanose clearing indicating this original stop on the part of the coach- builders. When one considers! the price of coal, one can only
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WIPERS NECESSARY.
wonder how the makers can All motor buasos in South Caro afford this refinement at snch a lina must be equipped with autor moderato price,, whatever it may matic windshield wipers, accord- ing to an order issued by But, lest readers should get the Chief Highway Commissionet impression that I am trying to McGowan.
be,
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