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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
BERLIN SHOW.
A SPECIAL FIAT.
Automatic Gear-
Changing Device.
Attractive Two-Seater.
A smart little two seator ro-
A novelty at the Borlin Motor contly arrived in the Colony, and be seen at the Fiat tempor-
may
Show was an automatic gear-ary showroom at the Contral changing device, which relieve Motor Garage, dos Vooux Road. the driver from the necessity of It is one of the 500 modele finish
od on a roally do luxo principle.. changing goara by hand. The The colouring is Dresden blus, clutch pedal is made to serve two the upholstery toning well with purposes; if drawn quite forward the body painting. The dash. board and panelling are done in the engine is put out of gear rosewood, securing a most attrac- and it can bo rotuined in this tivo effect. The majority of ex- position by means of a small posed metal fittings aro niokol- safety catch. If the safety entel plated and a special type of bo rolaused while the engine is mudguard has been adopted. An running the connection to the ingenious arrangement provides first gear is automatically made, room for a passenger on the and when the vehicle has attain- dickey-sent. The engine romains od sufficient speed to go over to the same, of course, with the ex- the second gear, this is autom-coption one or two minor altera- atically put in. This is porocpti- tions. The general finish is ox- ble to the driver from the greater cellent.
prossure of the pedal against the
foot, and if he allows the poda,
¿
to move in response to the second to third gear. A seconr. pressure the change to second pedal surves to put out the for- | gour is accomplished; if, however, ward gear and reverse the cao ho rosists the pressure, tho car This device does away with the remains in first gour. In this necessity for frequently changing manner the driver is able to the goar by hand, and the goar control the automatic gear chang- changes and acceleration of the ing, and the same thing takes car. take placo much more place on changing from thd rupidly.
B. S. A. MOTOR CYCLES
gained the following awards in the recent English
INTERNATIONAL 6 DAYS TRIAL
SPECIAL EXHIBITION MEDAL
The B. S. A. team on 3.49 h. p. models completed the course without losing a single mark, and were the only team to complete the Trial with absolutely clean shoots..
ALSO MANUFACTURERS TEAM PRIZE
CLASS
B
Riders of B.S.A. Motor Bicycles also gained the following awards:
10 GOLD MEDALS
1 SILVER MEDAL
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
MOTOR
SPIRIT
SHELL
MOTOR
OILS
CENTRAL FILLING STATION OUTSIDE CITY HALL, HONGKONG.
Tho Aslatio Potroleum Co., (South China) Ltd., Hongkong.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
PACKARD SURPRISES AMERICAN
TRAFFIC POLICE.
58 Miles Per Hour Up Hill.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 26. 1927.
MOTOR DRIVING.
A New Danger Sign. (By H. Massao Buist in The
Observer.)"
BALLOON TYRES.
A close-woven fabric patch is usually heavy and stiff and does not flex easily enough to become unit and as a result may cause an integral part of the balloon serious injury. Special balloon tyre patches may be purchased which are light and thin, get pоBɛess great strength with supploness and flexibility.
Balloon tyres are sufficiently different in construction to require different repair treat mont, oven when making road- side repairs. For instance, a From the oarliest days of mo-
close-woven fabric patch should not be used in balloon tyres oven toring in those islands, the pro-though it is very satisfactory blom of warning drivors by sign- when used in regular tyres. posts has boon acute, chiofly bo- cause, in the beginning, looal bodies, or at most county organi sations, undertook tho work. At first there was no country-wide echomo, such as has been a foa ture of French road sign posting since the inception of the move- ment. An inevitable rosult has beah that some of the signs most indicativo of dangor have been- set up in this country where thoro is nona save in the imagination of some local bigwig who has wished his prejudices and, ignore ance "to receive full expression. Known to travellers the world Consequently many warning over, the premises of Messrs. signs achieve the offect of cryingThomas Cook and Son, Limited, "Wolf! wolf" too often, with in Ludgate-circus, are to be sold great increase of danger elsc-by auction in March. The sale where, because drivers cease to follows the removal of the head. regard a given typo of sign when offices to Berkeley-street, Piccadil- it is set up indiscriminately.
Of recent years there has been welcome. if tardy, tondancy, to, exorciso more reasonable discro- tion in the setting up of danger signs, and the evolution of our road system has removed the necessity for a number. The pro- blem, however, still remains as to what value to attacli to any given danger sign.
designed for balloon tyres which A plaster cord patch has been sorves the same purpose as a blowout patoh in regular tyres.
ly.
plications for the issue of the sign should be accompanied by a sketch plan of the site on which it is proposed to erect it, indicat- ing the suggested position and the nature of the particular dan ger of which it is intonded to rive warning.
In these circumstances the Royal Automobile Cluh is to bo DUKE OF YORK'S TROPHY. Micheltorena Street in Los Fill climbing. He asked for two the wheel of the Packard Eight for
hoartily praised for having
At the last committee meeting Angelos offers one of the longest motorcycle policeman with mistor the test. He turned unto Michel evolved an enamel iron sign, 2 ft. of the Marine Motoring Associn- and steepest grades for an auto- cycles which could climb the terena at 25 miles an hour and square, bearing the words "Dan- tion it was resolved that the com mobile in any American city stoop grade of the street at speed entering the start of the grade white letters on
ger. Use Extra Caution," in petition in August next in South- Few cars ever have climbed it in far in excess of 20 miles an hour. pusbed his accelerator to the This is issued free of charge, but the Duke of York's Gold Trophy a red ground.ampton Water for what is called high gear. For that reason there Again wise, derisive smiles greet-floor board. The Improved Fight it is expected that the Road for Motor Boats will be conducted were sage smiles when city police|ed him.
Yours or any other leaped away up the 25 por cont. Authority will undertake its under a new system of points. were appealed to by Mr. E. C. car will do well to climb the hill grade with the two traffic officers erection and maintain a suitable Thereby the Trophy will be Anthony, automobile distributer, at all in high gear, he was told in pursuit. At the top of the hill post. It must be understood; too, awarded to the country of origin for special permission to excoed but he obtained two mounted it was making 38 miles an hour that it will not he provided until of the boat gaining the highest the 20-mile-an-hour speed limit mon with special high powered The street flattens out at the top on the street.
a full inquiry into the circum-average of points in a series of motorcycles.
of the grade sharply and so great stances convinces the club that its three races, for each of which 4 was the speed of the car that it leaped into the air all four use is absolutely justified by ren-points will be scored by the win- wheels off the ground.
son of the source of danger being ner, two by the boat gaining hidden and its being of an excep-second place, and one point by tional character.
Mr. Antony explained that ho wanted to test the capabilities of the Improved Packard Eight in
WHY CARS CATCH
FIRE.
Petrol On Hot Exhaust Pipe Not Enough.
By Capt. E de Normanville
in The Daily Chronicle.
Mr. Frank Randall, service man- ager for Mr. Anthony. Pacific Coast Packard distributor, was at
CENTRAL EUROPE
MOTOR-ROAD.
To Link Up Industrial
North Italy.
The final details are being dealt with by German, Italian, and Swiss oxports for the building of A toader who had the misfor the great motor-road which is to tune to be indirectly connected ink up industrial North Italy with an accident in which a car with the chief industrial countrie caught fire raises an interesting of Central Europe. At Milan tho.
query.
"Would it not bu better," he road will branch off to Gonsal asked, "to arrange the vacuum and to Venice; and the Venetian' food petrol tank well away from section will sub-divide at Verona the exhaust pipo! In this case to join up with Bologna, it, was right above it, which is considered tho cause of the aci cident."
At first Austria obstructed the plan from political reasons, but The suggestion is sound, though her own people in the Uppor har objections were overruled by I am personally not satisfied that Tyrol, who exprosted themselves! such a position would be the
caust of fire in an accident. But very decidedly in its favour. So much was this the caso that as such a position would only en- Austria is now planning two tail a few extra inches of coppar main motor-roads, one to Vienna pipe, it is a reasonable one.
and the other running south into Styria.
In cases where cars or aero- planos catch fire in an accident, it is always a matter of extrome difficulty to say precisely" how the fire started.
ROADS VEHICLES BILL. "I hope to have the opportunity of introducing before long a Bill The popular belief that potrol with the object of amending, and failing on a hot exhaust pipe will to a large extent consolidating, cause a fire is quite errondous. It the law relating to road vehicles, does not.
and at the same time repealing a I witnessed some experiments number of older enactments," in an engine-testing shop some said Col. Ashley in the House months ago, when petrol was of Commons the other day when poured on a glowing hot exhaust answering á question. Such pipo It aizzled like wator and would not light.
Light. Essential
The danger of such a thing is found in the highly inflammablo fumes which are thus generated. But it needs a light actually to
legislation has long been overduo, and, although talked about for some time, has as yet failed to materialise. What will 1927 produce, wo wonder?
SKATING RINK ROADS. Sir Henry Maybury, speaking fire petrol or patrol fumes. Whon at the annual luncheon of the thor is a mystery as to the cause National Federation of Granite of such fire, the answer will and Roadstone Quarry Owners probably be a spark from a short- at the Grand Hotel,
London,
ed electrical wire, or a "flaming," rominded the quarry owners that] pop back to tlie carburetter." in 1924 they had sent out some
Consoquently I think it is thing lika 11,000,000 tons of rather in these directions than in material for the highways of this the position of tho potrol tank or country. The number of addition- subsidiary tank that more pre-al vohioles put upon the high- caution would be beneficial.
MOTOR BUS USE.
ways in ten months of this year, Las compared with the correspond. ing ten months of the provious year, was 300,000
Sir Cooper Rawson, M.P., said that some roails paved with granito had boon down for nearly Europo has 30,000 motor busos thirty or forty youra.
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we
"If in oporation in comparison with have such roads as those," he 80,000 in the United Statos: In nakod; "why go round hunting the United Kingdom the number for the skating rinks which are of buses is estimated to be 18,000, called roads at Loo of which 5,500 are in London. timo "
presunt
at New
Inspecting the work Welfare Scheme at Nelson (Glam.), Mr. Finlay Gibson said that its site was the prettiest of the 180 achemes in South Wales.
Thorefore such a sign will not be issued to indicate danger that would be immediately apparent to a careful driver, as at ordinary cross-roads or at side roads. Ap
the third boat home, Thus the races will now be confined de- finitely to three days, whereas undor the old regulations racing took place from day to day until one country had won two events.
Beauty
that will endure
Exceptional beauty of line and finish -roomy comfort-munket smoothness of operation.
Qualities characteristic of Dedge Brothers Special Sedan, which is nota- ble also for the same sturdy construc. tion and reliable performance that has distinguished Dedge Brothers Motor Cars since their inception. For those who desire an impressively luxurious closed car, finely ventilated and cool in summer, which offers pro- tection equally from cold, heat, dust and rainstorm, this car is ideal.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone C. 1246 or 1247
33, Wong Nei Chung Road, Happy Valley,
Special Sedan
Do Luxo Sodan -
Delivered
G$1,386 G$1,615
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