MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 28th MAY, 1927.
Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
Lady Drivers,
CURRENT
COMMENT
bonts ply for hire, but the ques- tion of rates is most unsatisfac- Many local ladies are taking up tory. A passengers may desire to car driving this year, a fact which visit a ship not a quarter of a mile provides further testimony to the away, but invariably he has to pay growing number of owner-driven a sum quite out of proportion to cars in the Colony. In most cases, the ethning exnenses of the motor Walting time is charged the fair sex favour the light type bent.
of car, although at least one lady the same as when the boat is is occasionally to be seen speeding under way, which fast makes the in a 40 h.p. machine. It is really general rates decidedly high. The surprising that motoring. is not passenger is compelled to keep among ladies, the motor boat standing by, other- more popular because there is nothing.intricate wise he has no means of return about the modern car, and further to land, other than hailing a pass more, driving is quite an exhila-ing sampan-and even this is not The provision of rating pastime. The handy little a certainty, Austin Sevens come in for a large water taxis would remedy the share of popularity, and doserved-existing unsatisfactory service, ly so, in-view of their simplicity, and we are sure that such an The Innovation would be rently economy and reliability.. Morris car is another feminine welcomed. fancy, while the new Erskine has nlready created a wide appeal. Motor Cycles.
Trips to Castle Peak,
NEW BRITISH BID FOR SPEED RECORD.
Captain Malcolm Campbell has definitely decided to go over to Florida, USA, with his 450 h.p. "Bluebird" Napler-Lion engined car before the end of October, to beat, if possible, Major Segrave's 203 miles per hour record.
SWISS SPEED
TRIALS.
Sunbeam Success.
forbidden him to drive before October
The "Bluebird" has been almost redesigned since he captured the world's record. at Pendine" Sands, Wales-a record so handsomely beaten by Major Segrave with his 1,000 h.p. Sunbeam,
jat Pendine, it is now 215 m.p.h.
with a probability of 220 m.p.h.
The
With the commencement of a Very few ladies take up mator motor bus service from Laichikok
these cycling, although
two- to Un Loong market in the New
The 450 h.p. Napier-Lion engine wheel mounts are capable of pre-Territories, by way of Tsinwan, viding much pleasure. The new Castle Peak and Ping Shan, bath
has also been tested to give n brake horse-power of 750. Francis-Barnett is especially lers, who are without the means suitable for lady riders, being of reaching Castle Feak for a
weight of the car is being reduced, and providing the sands are in It is now good condition, there are strong extremely light, and yet sufficient swim will be able to make the
An attempt would have been
that Major Se- ly powered to attain high speed if journey there during the Summer! desired. We hear of one lady who months, at small expense, and made before this, but Capt. Camp-super-charged and altered in other probabilities has already purchased one of with a large degree of comfort. bell hurt his spine racing at ways, and instead of its maximum krave's record will not stand for these excellent little, mounts. The new buses, which are being Brooklands, and his doctor has speed being 205 m.ph. as it was a year.
operated by the Chung Mei Com- Garages,
We make no apology for again pany, are of 30 cwt. chassis, and
THE RIGHT OF THE that a 'greater duty rests on the side-road traffic; all that is meant referring to the paucity of garage are capable of carrying 12 second. class passengers, and four first in Hongkong. accommodation
ROAD.
is that the duty incumbent on the Whenever reference is made to the class. At present a bus will be
person in charge of a traffic-unit increase in the number of motorjavailable for parties or indivi
varies according to the degree of vehicles here, the vexed question duals on Saturday and Sunday
respective duties of risk and difficulty involved in the of garages always crops up. This afternoons, starting from Shang-
main roads and particular movement or manoeuvre week we were requested by two hal Street, Mongkok, Kowloon, and
The speed trials in connexion motorists on side roads (writes in which he happens to motorists to "keep on plugging one bus will enter for a party of away at the garage question" 16 persons, the return fare for
more risk involved in entering a although the seeming lack of in-that number being $22, which in- with the annual Swiss Automobile J. S. L." Edinburgh, in a letter engaged at the moment. There is Was recently main road or street from a side terest by the Authorities is, to say cludes a stay of two hours before Show, recently held at Geneva,
The trip to attracted a very large number of to the Times) the least of it, disheartening the return trip. Sooner or later the problem will Castle Peak occupies one hour and entries. Motor-car trials and hill- authoritatively expounded by the road or street than in pursuing a climbs in Switzerland invariably Firat Division of the Court ofisteady course in the direction of have be faced, but the longer twenty minutes each way. it is postponed, the greater will present there is only one bus in meet with good support, and the Session in Scotland in the case the main road or street; and there be the outlay involved. Surely operation, but if sufficient support best-known European drivers are of Hutchison v. Leslie, decided is more difficulty, involved in inter- is only natural that residents is forthcoming two more will be generally to be found competing.
The 1927 trials were remarkable on November 25, 1926. should expect some assistance in placed in the service as quickly the matter of providing facilitica as possible, and a schedule time for the very high speeds attained, which are common enough else table maintained. The bas, a including a new Swiss record of The two motorists weMorris, now running, was recent 129.3 m.p.h. in the big car class. mentioned above. complained that ly tested when it was found par- in the 3,000 cc. sporting class, the their garaging bills amount to anticularly comfortable, and capable well-known Swian sportsman, M.
month of maintaining a reasonable speed. Hurlimann, finished first on his decisions, that there is a greater must-with the circumstances in of $30.00 per
where:
average
At
2-litre super-sports
Sunbeam,
The motorists
מם
be
rupting the main stream of traffic by a crossing or turning movement than in following the main In that case the Lord President stream, The more risky and dif- (Lord Clyde), who gave the lead-ficult the movement or manœuvre In other words, ing judgment, referred to the the 'greater the 'duty' incumbent the duty varies in degree-as it principle enunciated in previous on the driver
duty on the motorist approaching which it has to be performed.
each. This is obviously a serious The body was built locally under hindrance to the development of police supervision and the chassis the motor trade here, because was purchased from Home, although there are many people Kowloon Signalling Device. who would gladly buy a small car for use during week-ends, they Motorists on the Peninsula will object to incurring a heavy charge have noted with satisfaction that In respect to garaging. Public signalling lamp has been erect-trees and shrubs are growing to garages should be erected coed at the junction of Chatham a height at which they obscure taining lock-up sections which and Nathan Roads, and the re- the vision, just at spots where a said this:-"But when it is said using the main road.”: could be rented for about $10.00 sulting improvement is too ob clear view ahead is most neces- per month. Surely it is not bevious to need commendation fromsary. On this side of the har- yond the ability of the P.W.D. tus. Formerly the trafic police on bour there has been much beneft- draw up designs for buildings for duty at this junction were none cial work done in cutting back the purpose.
too alert, especially at night when obstructive roadside growth, and The White. Line.
it was difficult to see their signals. we think the B. and F. Depart "The value of the white line is Now, however, one has only toment would earn the gratitude of generally acknowledged to be con-glance at the lamp and be able drivers on the other side if they siderable" says a corresponden. to tell in a fraction of a second carried out a similar campaign on in The Times. 11s use has, indeed whether the road is clear for the the Castle Peak Road. reduced a certain type of road turning of the corner or not. The Road Improvement. risk, and it is an obvious exhorta-erection of this signalling device
Last week-end, motorists going tion to do the right thing, and its at a spot which has always been adoption is rapidly becoming recognised as one of a rather dan out to the New Territories were wider.
new stretch of roadway, from the throughout the world. gerous character is a step in the pleased to negotiate an entirely Read and Hongkong has adopted the system right direction, and gives motorjuntien of Nathan
M. Hurlimann has previously made several very fine perform from a side road; and pointed to "But this is a very different pro- ances on the same ear, notably in the mischief that arises from
position from saying that main- the Klausen hill-climb, the out-general principles of common road traffic is in any way absolved standing event of the Swiss auto-sense being mistaken for rigid from the duty of, avoiding collision mobile season.
rules of law.
with traffic from a side rond, or that side-road traffic has no claim In the course of his opinion he to consideration from vehicles
at several points, and it sists a feeling of security which is Prince Edward Avenue, at Mong- gratifying to notice that the extremely re-assuring when driv-kok, to the Taipo Road (past the majority of drivers obey the silenting at night. command to keep to the left of the
line. There are yet a number of Roadside Trees.
temporary home of the Diocesan Boys' School)-further evidence that the authorities are slowly con-
turnings where this warning ays- Recently in this column we call-tinuing the scheme for straighten- tem might be employed advan-ed attention to the fact that the ing up the road out to the junction tageously.
rond to Castle Peak is becoming of the Talpo and Laichikok roads. straight stretch Water Taxis.
more and more beautified by the The
new
It has been predicted that New rapid growth of the many trees eliminates. two sharp corners and. York City will make considerable and shrube which have been plant- also renders unnecessary the use use of water taxis in the future, ed along it by the Botanical and of the narrow roadway which to transport passengers from Forestry Department. When this formerly ran from Yaumall to the It also lower Manhattan to different coastal road was first opened Home for Aged People. sections of Riverside Drive about eight years ago it was, gives one a good idea of what the These water taxis will be motori necessarily, very bare and un- completed road scheme will be in boats capable of carrying from six adorned; but the Forestry Depart this area. It is a pity that the to ten passengers. ftates will be ment has been carrying on a con- railway track lower down makes comparable to those of a land taxi.sistent work of planting and the negotiating the join up with the The suggestion is of particular road to-day is in many parte very old road a rather tricky bit of interest in Hongkong, where quite beautiful indeed. But wo would driving calling for extra care, but a large number of passengers are like again to suggest that on some it should not be long before this carried on the harbour dally. At of the corners especially out part of the road is widened and the present time, many motor towards Castle Peak the roadside made safer.
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