THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
B. S. A. MOTOR CYCLES
gained the following awards in the recent English
INTERNATIONAL 6 DAYS TRIAL
MEDAL
PECIAL
مریم
EXHIBITION
The B. S. A. team on 3.49 h. p. modaly completed the course without losing a single imark and were the only team to complate the Trial with absolutely clean sheets.
ALSO MANUFACTURERS, TEAM PRIZE" -
HB CLASS
Riders of B.S.A. Motor Bicycles also gained the following awards:
10 GOLD MEDALS"
1 SILVER MEDAL
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
SOLE AGENTS..
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
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SATURDAY, JANUARY 15, 1927.
SINGAPORE TO LONDON IN A “TROJAN.” | when they were negotiating the
Wonderful Motor Record Of Three Gentlemen From Singapore.
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COMPLETION OF LONGEST MOTOR JOURNEY EVER UNDERTAKEN.
To travel for nearly 15 months unces amounted to 55 Singapore in a solid-tyres Trojan car dollars, equivalent in English from Singapore to London, and money to about £6. Those
down hill slopo of a boulder- abrown mountain. The merost touch of the car whools was suf ficient to sond a boulder hurtling down the 1 in 4 gradient over a mile long. In its headlong light a boulder would cannon into othor, and before the "Trojun!! was half way down the gorge, it had become the centre of an avalanche of rock.
Sand, unsympathetic travell- ing
material though it bo, specially when it gets over the running-boards, yields pride of place to the plastic mud of thus to covor 12,000 miles through said they, "were our solo assets, Baluchistan. 14 different countrios, has boon apart from 3,000 printed post At Padak, in Baluchistan, the wonderful kaleidoscopic ro- cards of ourselves which we hoped whore, the rainy sunson had a cord of three intrepid travellers, to sell during the trip trip, treat in store for them, they took who reached the winning post of incidentally, which, breaks two 24 hours to travel 8 miles. Mud Westminster motor travel records, ono, that of mixed with plasticine and treacle, thoir journey,
being the longest road journey and watered down with liquid Bridgo, on Tuesday last.
On Wednesday they wore the evor undortakon by any self-pro- guests at a duncheon in London pelled car, the other, of being the pitch would be but a poor sub- given in their honour at the Hol-only car to have ever completed my, plastic substance they on- born. Rostaurant by the Directors the 2,100 miles separating Cal-countored. Every faw yards it of Leyland Motors, Ltd., the cutta, from Kamchi, which in-was necessary to remove by hand cludes the hitherto unaccom; the "mud" which had filled the makers of the "Trojan" car."
Their autograph album, which plished feat of crossing the dan- entire spaco botween the whools they proudly showed us, bears gorously wild and appalling Sind and the wings, giving the car the testimony to their encounters Desort.
appearance of a, steam-rollur. Al- This is the ronto that was though the car sunk in a great with no loss than 25 hunma languages, but this fades into in takon:-Singapore through Ma-many places up to its axles, it significance when compared with lays and Southern Siam to Pon-maintained slow forward pro- their own mental records of hu- ang; thence by boat to Calcutta, gress. man experiences and sufferings, through India via Delhi and the
BULGARIA
TURKEY
stitute for the 10 miles of clam-
Mud has boon shown as one difficulty, money was another. Arriving on the Persian frontier they had no money to buy food or petrol, so our resourceful travellers, under the guidance of their financial genius, Mr. De Silva, decided to make a threa weeks' stay there. One of them, Mr. Scully, the engineer of the
•Washed
Baghdad
PERSIA
AFGHANISTAB
Supdad
BURKAN
INDIA
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They have endured the ex-Sind Desert to Karachi, Jacoba-party, undertook the repair of a lorry tromes of cold in Baluchistan and bad, Quetta, through Baluchistan 23-year old motor lorry; another of hout in Mesopolamia; often to Duzdab on the Persian Front-struck a bargain as, a they have been starving, and atier; then through Northern Per-driver, while the third raised the other times craving for life-giving sia across the Northern boundary wind by lecturing and by selling water amid the sweltering heat off of the Persian Desert via, Mashed post cards to sceptic Parsians.
"What was the nearest to your tho desert sands. Constantly and Teheran, down to Baghdad; within Bight of the end of their and then along the Euphrates to over giving up"? The answer modest exchequer, they were Aleppo; through Anatolia, reach-was to hand us a photograph novor beaten: "And we attribute ing Constantinople by forry across showing the "Trojan" hanging. " said Mr. Cana- the historic Bosphorous via Ad-Jover a precipico, but luckily it eventually rosoued with gasbey, the originator of the von-rianople to Bulgaria, through was
On one occasion a 1,200 mile ture, "to our determination to Jugo Slavia, Italy and France, scarcely a scratch on its body. got through at all costs; and completing their catalogue of neither wild beasts nor wilder weather experiences whon cross-stretch had to be negotiatedwith- out any possibility of obtaining Shell," and the little peoples, nor the howling tempests to Dover in the recent fog.
Out of the 12,000 miles of land further could stop us so long as our brava
were over car was loaded, in addition to its littlo "Trojan" stuck it and travelling, 8,000 stick it she did. And so, thanks country which either had no three passengers, water supplies to our determination, to the "Tro- somblance of road, or the merest and kit, with 68 gallons of petrol. In this 1,200 miles stretch they jan", and to the uniform goodness indications of donkey and camel
Our success
of the "Shell" spirit and oil upon tracks. Sometimes they travoll- nearly ran short of fuel owing to which we ran, here we are at od all day, sometimes the heat a defour of some 106 miles on Westminster Bridge, with all the was such that they had to travol which a Turkish Patrol insisted; outward appearances of a ship-4 night, relying entirely on the The patrol, on the look out for One part at the car three Kurd murderers believed wrecked. crew but with no som-compass.
only had to be roplaced, the front to have oscaped in a motor-car, blance of a wreck."
The experiences related with axlo; this was due to the kindly insisted, on the journey to head- characteristic modesty are made attentions of a falling boulder, quarters with. the. pleasant in- the more astounding by the fact weighing about half a ton; the tention of carrying out the much that theirs was no sciontifically substitution was effected at a delayed execution, but, happily thoir prepared expedition: there were Baluchistan Railway Depot by for our harassed travellers, thoir no pre-arranged food and fuel moans of a boiler tubo 1 This alibi was established..
The three travellers, now rest- bases: their equipment was of the boilor tube has hold up ever since scantiest, including neither fire-and was still doing duty as afing in London, intend to see the armis nor, spare parts-in fact, front axle when the car crossod sights bofore returning, this time their kit would have discouraged Westminister Bridge.
by a more conventional route, to The mishap to the axle took their boma and starting point a party of holiday makers from touring Wales; their total, fin-place in the Sheik Wasil Gorge Singapore.
ELIABILITY TEST. a distance of 45,000 miles. Dur
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ing these journeys its propeller! and crankshaft rovolved some 51 million times without a failure, and in so doing consumed some- thing like 9,000 gallons of patrol. The remarkable reliability and stamina of the engine are evid-
"Pillion" riding is listed a enced by the manner in which it survived the extremes of heat one of the most prevalent causes encountered in both fights over of motor vehicle accidents in the equator, the freezing cold of England.
A "pillion" rider is one who the Alps, the terrific dust storme
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English officials are consid- built in September, 1925) this on- this air-cooled engine differs gine low Cobham's D.H: 50 from little in principle from the ordinering, a law making "pillion". London to Capo Town and back,ary air-cooled unit as used on a riding illegal or else require that motor cycle, although, of course, special "pillion" spats with the and having completed this 17,000 its power output in relation to its rider sitting astride should be milos' journoy almost immediato. weight is very much groator and used." ly set off again for the 28,000 naturally renders the attainment miles flight from London to of super reliability more difficult. Tho Jaguar develops over 400 Australia and back from which it
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