MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY 31st MARCH, 1928
"
Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE, ASSOCIATION.
CURRENT
COMMENT
Mra, J. B IL Dayle
D. W. Morley
R. P. Dunlop
Mrs. M. E. Chappell dlerbert Chambers Horace Lo
:
Douglas Thompson A R. Atkins "Musica?" Horn;
A Note of Warning.
This is a note of warning. to private owners, who employ native chauffeurs, against what is slated to be a growing practice. There are many drivers of private ears who have a share in some public hire vehicle-six or seven of them! will form a syndicate, buy a car and run it in the hire service.
There is at least one motor horn And it is asserted by those who say they know that it often hapin this Colony which is not of the pons that the supplies of petrole desired. It is displayed in and oil for such public car will front of the radiator and appears to be double-noted-allegedly
be furnished by the syndicate out musical. There is far too much of the supplies, that should horn sounding in Hongkong, some wholly into their employers cars, vehicles being fitted with as many A little from several private cara will make an aggregate suficient as three or four warning devices. to keep the publle car going. We The ordinary electric horn with which cars are equipped, plus a
it is the duty of motorists to keep down the quantity of that noise as much as possible. Traffic Control.
REAL MOTOR TOY.
A toy automobile at the British Industries Fair at the White City. Owing to its low power (derived from a pair of batterica), it stops immeditely on contact with any object
1,829 MILES IN A "BUS."
Round Britain in Six
Days,..
BACK TO THE PETROL TAX.
Big Support for Petition.
THOU SHALT NOT HONK!
Proposed Manila Law.
do not know whether this practice bulb horn for alternative use, are is as widespread as our informa all that is necessary and we de tion would have us believe, and, further, we have no desire unfairly precate the use of any more, aa well, as those of an undesirable to impute dishonesty to anyone. The only way to safeguard againstype. Modern traffic has brought such malpractices; if they exist, is great deal of noten arith it, and for all private Owners with chaufleurs to keep a close check upon the consumption of petrol and ofl and insist upon a reason= able mileage for. the stores for
We notice that white lines aro which they pay. We are told that the evil is a real ong and that it is being placed on the roadway at à growing: The best remedy would number of the bends on the Stabbe be drastic prosecution for theft in Road and these should prove to be a any proved case, and all motor useful guide. A good driver hard- owners have a duty to themselves y needs white lines but they are and their fellow motorists of this undoubtedly a help to all and Colony to take proceedings against should prove a much-needed check
Colonel John Green, chief of any servant who is discovered com-to those who habitually take risks
police, has submitted The determined
a proposed when rounding corners. A white. milling an offence of the charac-ne has also been placed at the journey has just been completed by Automobile Association to make ed to regulate the blowing of auto- effort of the measure to the city board intend-1 Function of Mount Davis and a single-decker omnibus in six days demand of motorists for a change The measure reads as follows:
known to Parliament the united mobile horns or whistles, in Manila. The vehicle, which normally cats in the system of taxing mechanical- We are asked to draw the atten- coming out of Mount Davis Road 33 people, carried 8 passengers and ly propelled vehicles is meeting with motor vehicle shall blow an auto- "Sec. 1. No persons operating a tion of the authorities to the fact to keep well to the left before completed the tour of 1,829 miles ready support, and already a very mobile horn or whistle passing a that the road between Castle Peak joining up with
the main road.according to schedule without a large number of car users have public or private hospital; pro- and Taipo is getting sadly in need erected at the top of the Dairy
An additional triangle has been mishap.
signed the forms with which every vided, that the said hospital is not of repair. It would indeed be a
On the first day the omnibus, PA.A. member is provided. Many on the intersection of two streets, pity it this fine stretch of motor Farm Hill, Pokfukim, and we now which started from Southhall, Mid- thousands of signatures are being rond were allowed to get out of gest that the one situated near dlesex, reached Land's End, having received by every post. good condition, and it is to be the Pokfuium Police Station be negotiated Porlock Hill, Somerset, hoped that the necessary work will removed. Two triangles in auch with a gradient of one in four bo authorised and put in hand driver rather than assist him, Aalong the weat of England on the elose proximity tend to confuse a Glasgow was reached by a route without delay. Whilst hoped that the one remaining un-foot of the hill, and this would third day.
serve the purpose of showing that surfaced portion of the road to
ter outlined above.
Rond Repairs.
the
Pokfulum Roads to direct traffic
A remarkable oil-round Britain
Our third shipment of the famous Harley-Davidson Cycles 1928 Models SOLD OUT.
Fourth shipment due Hongkong
APRIL 9th. per S. 9. President] Pierce,
We have also
Harley Singles, O.V.E., Twin Port, coming. Due bere April 29th, per S. S. President McKinley..
Two Reserved. Book your order early to avoid disappointment.
THE GASCON MOTOR CO.,
REPAIRS UNDERTAKEN ON ALL MAKES OF MACHINES. Tel:K. 1242...
2, Kwong Wah Road, Kowloon. (Opposite The Steam Laundry)
A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF SPARE PARTS AND ACCESSORIES IN STOCK.
QUESTIONS FOR THE
THOUGHTFUL MOTORIST.
No Blowing While Parked. The principle which has been advocated by the Association for "Sec. 2. No persons operating a extreme. The suggestion is that while the vehicle is parked in any seven years is simple in the sarity an automobile horn or whistle motor vehicle shall blow unneces-
.subject of roads, it is also to be triangle should be placed at the second day, and Inverness on the the basis of taxation shall be restrect or public place to the an- moved from the vehicle to the noyance of other persons, or while The return journey was by the petrol it uses. There would, in in motion shall produce unneces Shak-O (the third mile) will be the whole hill is a controlled area. const road, through, Aberdeen to addition to the tax on the petrol bearily a sound of an unusually foud, dealt with in time to be of benefit There is a triangle a few yards Edinburgh, and thence to Newcastle pointed out that the tax. was or. Buch that will tend to frighten | a small registration fee. It is! annoying or distressing character, to the many summertime users of away from the junction of Victoria and Southall,
Road and Pokfulum Road which, In Scotland the omnibus passed for road costs, but that the sys
originally proposed to raise money pedestrians or animale. It In summer this road is subject | to very heavy traffic, demands-apparently, is intended to serve through snow drifts in places a foot tem of taxing-every vehicle on a
If you are looking for long life for your car, and low cost per there are two bathing beaches at Victoria Rond is in control as well wide enough to allow it to pass.regards the extent of road use,
Itwo purposes-denoting
"Sec. 3. Any persons guilty of that deep and through roads' only just lump sum basis entirely dis-1a violation of the provisions of the mile, here is a question which you should ask yourself about the 'oll Shck-O approachable to motorista.
foregoing sections shall be punished that is poured into the crankcase of your engine. To encourage the use of these us the II. But this should be
There placed just inside the Victoria
by a fine of not less than P5 or more beaches by those who have cars Road where its purpose would be is the suggestion, and we pass it their cars occasionally, such later to hold the measure
arc many people of moderate means who can only use
than P50." -would do much to leave', the
Repulse Bay beach free to non- We remember that some little time thorities concerned,
It was decided at the session held much more clearly understood. on for consideration by the au- week-end periods. and the like,
in motorists. The Shek-O road is
ago when an owner-driver was
They pay the same rate as the abeyance until an opportunity le one of the most beautiful scenic
owner of cars of equal size which afforded the members of the board Is the oil you use, made by lubricating specialists who know roads in the Colony and It ought Prosecuted for speeding in the Kowloon Danger.
are seldom off the road. Many to study the proposal thoroughly. area on the lill heRecently, in Kowloon, there has people in such a position are ade. It was explained in the session that how to cope with the 1927-28 problems of engine design and driving. pointed out that the sign, at the been a wrevival of the practice of barred from the pleasure of the proposed ordinance is somewhat conditions? bottom is now very misleading, and vehicles cutting over to the wrong road because they feel that the indefinite inasmuch as it does not we have heard other motorists side of the road without giving expenditure involved would be out of an automobile horn or whistle speak on the same subject.
plainly define when the "blowing adequate warning to other motor of all keeping with the pleasure may be considered as unnecessary." ists travelling behind. Several derived..
What Sound is Unlawful
to be put into better condition. "Whitewash Needed,›
controlled
The use of whitewash on stones and trees to indicate turves and corners to drivers at night has Pedder Street Parking, 'been a much-appreciated' feature
such instances have been seen
The motor trade suffers from
Probably not. Only a small part of the oll offered to-day is made by refineries specialising in the production of lubricating olls.
Gargoyle. Mobiloit is made, by the organisation which has
On most of the main motor roads space in Pedder Street set aside warning being given and, in others; would otherwise do so from keep-what sound of the horn, under a devoted the longest and most intensive research to lubricating matters,
In view of the fact that the lately, in some cases not sufficient this course, and also because the of the Colony, and there is one for the use of private cars, namely, no warning at all. On at least one ing a second or reserve car.
present system debare many who Neither does it clearly specify further spot which might be so treated, much to the beneficial between Queen's Road and Dea accusion an accident was narrow-
tion 2, may be considered as "of an guidance of drivers who do not every automobile-plant, determines the qualities that the differont Voeux Road, is usually fall toy qverted when a car cut across affort is above all parly considera-ing, character, or such that w The Mobilol! Board of Engineers, in constant personal touch with
The A. A. point out that their unusual loud, annoying or distress- often pass the place. We refer to and that many private cars have motor cyclist who was overtaking one spot on the hill between Deep to go farther afield for parking narrowly escaped being caught be the support of all motorists, no animals." Water Bay and Repulse Buy. When descending this hill, and space it in suggested that the toen the car and the lamp post. mattre
matter. what their political views rank between Des Voeux Road and Only a very quick and forcible
RADIATOR ORNAMENT.
It was argued that should it be grades of Gargoyle Mobiloll should have, and the Mobiloil offere enacted into a law, it may become to-day is produced specifically to meet to-day's driving conditions.
a source of constant misunderstand- ing or trouble, between motor car drivers and traffic policenion,
The board, it was intimated, will ask the police department to clear: measure is acted upon by that body. ly define these points before the
just before reaching the last curve the Praya, now occupied by public application of brakes on the part of by Deap Water Bay, there is a hire cars, should be reserved for the latter saved the situation. In Jine of trees on the left-hand aide private cars until after 7 pm. It addition, the buses which now. run which might, with very great is between the hours of 4. p.m. along Jordon Road and cross Nathan advantage to the driver, be whiten- and 7pm. when private cars most rond, are offondere insofar as they ed. To any but a driver who has need parking space in the centre seldom, if ever, give warning of ornamental radiator caps now Chrysler wings, first of the
· had great experience of this road of the there is a tendency to keep too far leaving their offices or visiting sions these buses have been econ productions
town when men are their approach. On several occa- generally used, are faithful re- over to the left a tendency which such rendezvous as the Hongkong to pull up with a scraping of tyres examples of the head dress worn A.A. NIGHT SERVICE FOR
from museum would be checked if a clearly-Hotel and Lane, Crawfords. It is and screeching of brakes as they by ancient Vikinge. These hardy séen white-splashed line of trees argued that there would be no are about to enter Nathan Road, Norse adventurers fastened winge were there to guide him.
New Members.
The following have joined the Hongkong Automobile Association aince the last list was published:
G. L, Fox
M. A. Xavier
resulting inconvenience to public in order to let other trafle go by. of wild birds on their helmets as
di
MOTORISTS.
The Telephone Enquiry Bureau
car users, who could then as now Points like these should be watch symbols of endurance and speed at the London Headquarters of the engage a car in Chator Road, or by fed for by the traffic police station- They made them equally aB the Star Ferry. After 7 p.m., byed on the Peninsula. A few pro familiar sights on the Seven Seas Automobile Association (Regent which, time most of the private accutions and possibly fines would as their modern duplication has 8,000) which is available to mem- care have left the town, the Praya soon put an end to this danger, become in all the world's con- pero at all hours of the day or ond of Pedder Street could be which Has noticeably increased tinents with the steady growth of night, is widely appreciated and opened to publie hire cars. Buch during the past few weeks.
Chrysler sales.......
* used by A.A members,
Mobiloil
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