MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 16th APRIL, 1927.
Being The Official. Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
SKETCH SHOWING CONSTRUCTION OF
ין
WORLD'S FASTEST CAR.
REAR 800 1N
3-D
AFRO INGIZ
GRĀFU DOA
FRONT 800 ME
ALSO
COINE
REAR ENGINE
25-GALLON
RADIATORS
FRONT ENGINE RADIATOR.
TANK
ALUMINUM SUMA
CHLADI DOUVE
ENGRIE COUPLING
КРОСТКИ
SHAFT BEVEL ORASU
در
KOOLIZEMAN CLUTCH
FRONT WHEELS BRAICES
KITARO
(Baviusire to The Hongkonf Telegraph).
a mile.
Here is the first sketch made. The racer is a ten-horsepower¡ painted red. It is 12 feet long and { was found the tail tended to rise off and 140 miles an hour in second public showing the construction of affair, costing 20.000,and built & fort wide und weighs more than the ground when the car went too year. the English Mystery & rurver | with two 12-cylinder engines joint 700 pounds. The engines con- | fast.
Everything must be perfect on that has been designed to po 220 | by a shaft. It is the pronet of the sume more than four gallons of miles an hour. The aur was taken fantas Suabeon Motor Ch of gasiting a minuts, or about a gallon the chassis is made of heavy steelance for errors, to make it safe for
Although the body is aluminum, this car, for there can be no allow to the United States where it of England. tained a speed of over 200 miles Mugjør H. 0. D. Pegram, its
The tyres ore of special designers to resist the tremendous the driver. It takes about four-
strain of speed and wind. pur hour along the Ormont-Day- driver, is an English rucer who has and have to be attached by some fond Beach in Florida, a wide won several speed medals and has special armingement do krep them Calculated to go, 220 miles on stretch of hard-packed saul, Goa | broken many records.
on at high speeds. The centre or hour, the Mystery § is said also to jeet wide and about 7 wiles long, The car is like a huge elgur grurity had to be shifted when it reach 76 miles an hair in low gear
SUNBEAM AGAIN.
On Speeding.
CURRENT
COMMENT
ill effects. The Speed demon is
and the public.
FOR BETTER CONTROL.
Traffic Signalling in New York.
tenths of a second for the driver's hand to act on a message from the brain. In that time this car, going at the rate of 200 miles an hour, would travel 40 yards.
COMMEMORATION.
It is proposed to give the nume Gordon Bennett to one of the Faris streets. This will be a fitting commemoration of the lase James Gordon Bennett, who, in addition to many other activities,
Le Mans 24-Hour Race. Bugatti is reported to be think- ing of entering for the 24-hours race at Le Mans on June 18th Probably no city in the world with one of his Grand Prix cars,
mattor of traffic control by signal lights than New York. Tried out This car will be sold after the ternational racos named after at first on a single avenue, the race with a guarantee of 190 him. Each country was permitted system has reached a point of de-k p.h, that is, noarly 119 m.p.h. to enter three cars, overy part
the velopment where
main Tho Sunbeam-Talbot-Durrace of which, down to tyres and destination meant a matter of representative visited the Colony
artorios of traffic are lighted and concern is also thinking of enter-plugs, had to be made in the life or death. As it subsequently last week in the person of Mr. Aco-ordinated: When traffic towersing for this raco.,
country of entry. The series was discontinued after 1905, transpired, there appeared to be. Aubry, sales representative of were first set up each was mat- ned by a policoman; now all tho
an economic waste to himself has given more attention to the fitted with a four-seater body instituted the series of real in-
Travelling to Repulse Bay the other afternoon, car shot past
the writer of those notes at a Trade Visitors. speed which might have been pardonable had its arrival at a
Another American trade ro-
no particular cause for the hurry the John N. Willys Export towers on Fifth Avenue aro-under RULES AGAINST HORSE. for upon reaching the junction Corporation of Toledo, Ohio.
the control of one man. Indood,
where the new road joins the old. Speaking to a Telegraph repre- towers are no longer necessary,
at the Repulse Bay end, the sentative, Mr. Aubry stated that all that is necessary being lights
AN AMERICAN VIEW.
Miller McClintock, traffic ex-
There are now about 675,000
driver turned round, and bogun he had been sent to the Bast to attached to polos, the lights them-pert for the Chicago Chamber of the journey back to the city at investigate conditions, in order selvos being controlled by a Commerce, recommends that the private cars in Groat Britain quite a normal spend. Possibly to gain first-hand information re-
the driver desired to demonstrate garding the possibility of future policeman stationed in a booth.
his ability to the passenger, or trade. Mr. Aubry, expressed tho maybe he was merely lotting belief that the present uphoaval
China's history, and that the out-
horge be banned from the streets says the Boston News Bureau, of the metropolis as a means of but according to the statistics of speeding up traffic. "One team wealth thero should be nearly of horses makes 100 motor trucks twice at many. The same journ- slow down to the pace of the al also remarks that the whole come will be that a saner policy kong's Summer souson, car-own- McClintock.
With the approach of Hong-animals at a walk,"
Says Mr. industry is kept back in Britain will be adopted in China's ro-ers will be thinking of the happy
by oppressive taxation. lations with the rest of the world.picnics ahead, and probably mak The "Whippet" car is one of the ng plans for bathing parties after most popular specialities of thoa hot day at the office. Bathing organisation he represents.
Kowloon Buses.
her out" for his own pleasure will prove the turning point in Moter Picnics. Whatever may have been the reason, the road was not suitable for the excessivo speed attained. The Advantage.
facilities are, unfortunately, most inadequate in Hongkong, and at- though a Commission was called
It
The only advantage to be gained from spoeding is the thrill there is in it. The man who maintains a steady pace at a safe speed reaches his objective) only a minute or two later than Complaints have been received together in a formal manner, and the public asked to submit sug- the speed fiend, although he has from Kowloon residents regarding lost the thrill of passing the the service during the rush hours,estions for the provision of suit- "snails. " He has gained in the it being alleged that the number able arrangements, nothing ap- knowledge that he is driving of vehicles available prove inado-Pears to have been done, and safely,
and he has gained quate for the heavy traffic. It many rosidents aro again bo- economically by conserving his has been suggested that extra meaning the fact that they will gasoline and putting no undue busos bo put on the road during here without being able to onjoy have to pase another Summer strain on the car, for it is well- certain hours. The trouble might Nature'e compensation for the known that milouge goes up under be overcome by adopting a special trying climato......the sea. a steady spoed and that a car route during the busy hour. was while discussing this unsatia- lasts longer when no strenuous This route should commence from domands are made of it.
the Star Forry, thence to the factory state of affairs with a Orient Tobacco Factory, via Na- made that car-owners in Hong- motorist that the suggestion was than Road, and vice versa. It Furthermore, the atendy driver would only be necessary to adopt kong who do not possUSS C has gained morally in maintain- this system for 6 hours out of the solves with a portable tont ar- matshod, should provide them- ing the good-will of his fellow 24, and besides helping to solve motorists and in not being sworn the problem of coping with the rangement which can be erected against the car: At Home, those at. The greatest good goes to heavy demand, should prove pro- have become most popular for the metering and walking public, fitable to the Companies. Many camping partios and picnica, and for steady driving is safe driving people travel over to Kowloon the whole equipment can bo whereby lives and property are every day for tiffin, and it is most packed into a very small space. not endangered. There would be annoying that they should be with so many attractive little little regret if a sudden spurt of hindered on account of the inado- beaches in the Colony, the sug- speed in an unsuitable neighbour- quaay of the bus service. Tho hood wore disastrous to the Companies should give the matter gostion should be widely adopted, driver responsible for it, but it is their careful consideration, and for it in quite obvious that unless specially favoured, realdonts must
Good-will,
usually the innocent pedestrian endeavour to give the public provide their own bathing facili or nearby motorist who gots the satisfaction.
Itios.
IF THE CHILDREN WERENT
STRAPPED DOWN TO THE REAR SEAT-
WHEN OL TRUSTY WENT
OVER A ROUGH
SSTRETCH
THIS IS WHAT WOULD HAPPEN
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