MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
SATURDAY, 19th MARCH, 1927.
Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
Motor Show.
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CURRENT
COMMENT
MOTOR CYCLE
NOISE.
Silencer Trials at
Brooklands.
The police war on noisy motor- cycles has led the Auto-Cycle Union to hold a series of motor- cycle silencer trials at Brook- lands.
It is hoped that they will result in an arrangement between the polico and tho Auto-Cyclo Union whereby some uniform basis will
NEW HEADLIGHTING SYSTEM.
a heavy motor lorry collided with a car travelling east along Chater The suggestion
of-Road, Had the suggested rule casionally heard that Hongkong bean in force, the accident would should organise a Motor Show, have hoch averted. In such col- but although much an event lisions, it is sometimes most difli- would prove invaluable in foster-cult to judge which driver is to ing trade, the post careful con- biane, in the absence of a general sideration would have to bo given rule for guidance. Owner-drivers In such a project. In the first would no doubt welcome such ations may be based in future. place, the financial outlay would regulation and professional driv The silencers were tried while hoadlighting is all wrong, and as
ors could soon be instructed by the ongines were running at 2,000 long as we contemplate improv means of a printed notice.. revolutions a minute. In addi-ing those lights in their prosent Dangerous Practice.
tion, a reading of r.p.m. was position, the system will romain takon at a definite opening of the all wrong." throttle. Each silencer Was
be heavy, and a fund would necessarily have to be guaranteed to meet the cost involved. Tho present time is not opportune however, but with normal con- The practice of carrying pass" ditions re-established in South engers on motor lorries is still) China; there should be ample sup- indulged in, especially over in the port forthcoming should such an New Territories, and it cannot be exhibition be proposed. As we too strongly emphasised that stops have so often pointed out, China should be taken to check it. Lor presents wonderful possibilition ries are neithor licensed nor con- in regard to the development of structed for passenger carrying, the automobile industry, and and with regard to the licensing when once order has been ro-question, they unfairly compete stored, the number of motor with the bus companies who have volicles should show rapid into pay a heavier fee, while their crease. Assuming that happier construction makes them danger- relations existed, the holding of ous means of passenger transport. a Motor Show in Hongkong The question of arrangement and should appeal to every manufac- weight of load also requires atton-1 turer who is alive to the potentiation.
lity of this market, and we be-Road Obstructions. lieve that a preliminary sounding
by the local agents would show!
All road obstructions should be
that the various factories would illuminated at night by means of gladly render overy possible as-red lamps, and although this is sistance. If a suficiently large generally done, obstructions are. matshed could be erected on a occasionally, encountered which central location such as the are not so indicated. Rond repairs Marray Parade Ground, and a and alterations are necessarily really representative exhibition numerous, and it would perhaps arranged, good business should be a good idea if not only wore be recorded. However, as we red lamps, employed, but that mention above, the moment is green lights be provided to show scarcely suitable for action, but where the track is clear to traffic. the suggestion may well be held it may be claimed that powerful over for future consideration.
Road Courtesy.
headlights should enable motor- ists to see, any obstruction, but it sometimes happens, that head. ights are anything but powerful,
It has been suggested that whonor that trouble has developed
be established on which prosecu-.
weighed and the space it occupies
measured.
CURRENT HUMOUR.
Voice at other end of phone "Is that Mra. Hooper? I re- gret to inform you that your son has been arrosted for joy- riding."
Old Lady (in pight clothes): **Thank goodness! He's safe in jail"
"Does your father keep the Ten Commandments?" asked the Sunday school teacher.
"I'm not sure,” replied little Mary, but I'm afraid it's all ho can do to keep up with the traffic rogulations."
An American firm has pub- lished "The Story of the Mo- tor Car." Sort of an auto. biography, as it were.-Pres ing Show.
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Hudson-Essex Plant.
driving cars approaching cross with them whilst on the road. HUGE EXPANSION. roads, motorists should make it a During the wook & motorist rulo to always give way to other collided with an obstruction on motor traffic on their right, as the Island Road. It happened to this rule, if observed, would lesson be a wretched night with visibili the danger of collision. The sug- ty bad, but even so, had the gestion has cropped up as a rosult danger been properly illuminated, of an incident which occurred the accident would not have recently in Jackson Road, when] happened,
SMALL CAR TRIUMPH.
Winner in a Difficult Climbing Test.
STRANGLED
MOTORIST.
$17,000,000 Scheme.
To make ready for the now Hudson-Super-Six and Essex Super-Six models which it is dis- playing at the show, the Hudson Motor Car Co. has just completed one of the largest building pro-
Scarf Entangled in the grammes the automobile industry
Machinery.
bas known, it is announced by a Hudson official."
With the aid of a scarf, at the
This programme included not "An idea of the difficulties of inquest at Cambridge recently, on only 310,000,000 body plant, which the raco over the Lake Garda Dudley James Handloy-Seymour is so far the largest single body- an undergraduate of Clare Col- building unit in the world, but circuit, which is organized an-loge, and son of Major James about $7,000,000 more for ad- nually by the Automobile Club of Burke Handley-Seymour, of Wadditions and improvements to the Broscia (Italy) may be gathered a policeman demonstrated how enlarged by new construction, and ham-gardens, Hampstead, N.W., main plant. The latter has been from the fact that out of fifteen probably Mr. Handley-Seymour has had its inaching assembly startore" only four succeeded in was strangled by his muffler be facilities so re-arranged that 1,600 covering the full distance. The ing caught in the machinery of Hudson-Essex cars can now be his motor-car while he was mak- built in a nine-hour day. This is race was held on October 17 on aing somo adjustment with the en-more than double the daily caps- circuit about 7 miles, round, to gine running,
city possible before the expansion. P.C. Holines said that ho found The result of those expendi be covered twenty times, giving Mr. Handley-Seymour outside his turos," said the Hudson official, comprising difficult winding roads garage in Chesterton, a suburb of "is that we have developed one and a climb on the road named Cambridge, leaning over a motor- of the most officient and low-dost
car with the bonnet up. His bead factories in the whole industry." "Z".
was down in the engine and his The winner in the,1,500 c.c. face was discoloured. A long was Ferrari, who drove one of scarf was round his neck and one the smallest cars in the ranco, a and was faut in the machinery. Fiat 509 of only 990 c.c. with They had to cut the scarf to get which he covered the distance in the body away from the car. Ap- 3 hrs. 3 min. 59 sec., thus paróntly he had boon in that maintaining an average of 14.7 position all night. miles an hour. The second car was a Chiribiri, of 1,500 c.o., which finished in 3 hrs, 27 min. 13 soc.
a total distance of 152 miles,
ITALY. RUNS AUTO CLUB.
Tho Automobilo Club of Italy
Dr. F. B. Parsons said that is under governmont control and when to saw the body life had all automobile owners aro-ro- beon extinct for 6 or 8 hours. The quired to become mombors, ac-jr suddon pressure on the windpipe cording to reports from Italy. In the 2,000 c.c. olans the win-and bloodyossols as the scarf Tho presont status of the club is nor was Count Maggi, driving wound round the shafting caused said to be the result of an order
Bugatti, with which he averaged
53.6 miles an hour. Another Bugatti, handled by AntonoHi, came in second.
asphyxiation, and death was by Promiór Mussolini, who plans practically instantaneous. to use the organization as a gov- |
A verdict of Acoldontal Death eramont auxiliary, was roturned. Ex.
Prosent methods of automobilo
With this conviction, Mr. Arthur B Nock of Cleveland, U. S. A has decided to tackle the problem in a revolutionary manner. He has stripped the car of its headlights at the front and devised a double light to be placed directly above the wind
shield.
Mr. Nock has tried out this light in all sorts of ways, and has decided it's the perfect form giving good illumination to the driver and helping, rather than hindering, the approaching
motorists.
"Automobile lighting," he says "has developed from the point of the barn lantern beneath the family rig."
LIST TEN ADVANTAGES. The advantages of his now form. of light, are listed as follows:
"It gives a soft diffused strong light, showing roadway and curb for a distance of 250 feet.
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"2. It does not have the usual effect of oye strain on the driver, 3. The power of this light to
RUINED ROADWAYS.
How the invention of Mr. Noch would look, apparatus shown in photo, Mr. Nock at right.
penetrate rain, smoke or fog is greater than any yet known for automobile lighting,
"4 Due to its elevation and diffusion, rute, holos and other obstructions are clearly visible.
NO DIMMING, NO GLARE. 5. The front of the car is lighted so that oncoming drivers can distinguish it easily.
"6. The correct angle of light- ing is assured, eliminating use of dimmora,
"7, Glare is practically elimi- nated.
"8. Variation of loads, spring action, hills, and so on, have no effect on the light beam.
"9. The light is out of harm's way in case of accident.
* 10. " Elimination of front headlights reveals the full aweep of body linos."
Cyclecar, a section of road that was reconstructed at great ex- When gas, water and other un-penas to ratepayers two or three dertakings word first given power years ago. Since then gas and to break up roads, local authori Water concerns have been busy tice were very vigilant at seoing and the road is now crossed by a that they complied with their series of shallow depressions. legal liability to put them in pro- The effect on the surface in be- per repair again. It is to between has been disastrous, for feared that in some places this watchfulness has been rolaxed, buses and Heavy lorries bouncing with the result that repairs are over have worn a succession of being done in a perfunctory and waves in the road and it is rapid- ly going to ruin. Yet, a little slipshod manner.
way beyond the laat depression
Focus in The Light Car and it was reconstructed. Ί bave in mind, writes the road is as smooth as the day
TRUSTY'S TOO SLOW FOR THE CITY,
AND TOO FAST
FOR THE
́C'MON WITH
THAT ARK, NOAM, ER I'LL YANK, YA FER BLOCKIN'
TRAFFIC
"TH' SPEED WAITĖ COUNTRY = TEN MILES AN HOUR
AN' YOU Wuz
SPEED LIMIT 10 MILES
AN HOUR
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