THE HONGKONG, TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, MAY 19, 1928.
DRIVER'S EYESIGHT. MOTOR ACCIDENTS.
WHERE FOUR JOY-RIDERS DROWNED,
Economical Transportation
Four Wheel Brakes
** CHASSIS TON
HONGKONG DELIVERED PRICES.
SERIES A. B. "NATIONAL"
8.A.E. Horse Power Rating 21.7 PISTON Displacement
170.9 Cu. In.
NETT
WEIGHT
Brake Horse Power 35 at 2200 Revolutions Wheelbase 107 inchoa PACKING
F.O.B. EXTRA FACT: NETT
BHIPMENT NETT CABII DELIVERY HONGKONG
1765 lb.
G$375
G$214
G$184
G$ 580
** ROADSTER 2 Passenger
2100
495
56
219
770
* TOURER
5 Passenger
2160
495
56
219
770
COACH
5 Passenger
2430 T
585
45
270
900
* COUPE
2 Passenger
2305
505
45
270
910
11
2340 "
665
45
270
980
2505
675
45
270,
990
11
2475
715
45
270
1020
카
**QABRIOLET 4 Passenger
* SEDAN
5 Passenger
** LANDAU.' 5 Passenger
11
*** Hongkong Price'includes spare riti Lira & tubé, Right Hand Drive.
Hongkong Price includes spuro rum. Fire & Tube, Bomber, hath Horn, Drab Deck Top, Right Hand Drive, Hongkong Prien includes spare tim Tire & Tuls, Bumber, bulb Hárn, Right Hand Drive. „
SERIES
L. 0. "CAPITOL"
8.A.E. Horse Power Rating 21.7 Braku Horse Power 35 at 2200 Revolutions Piston Displacement 170-9 Cu. In. Wheelbase 124 inches.
2130 lbs. Chassis 1 Ton nett waight Chassis 1 Ton with Cab weight 2500 lbs.
Hongkong Price includes sparo rim, Tire and Tube and 4 fendors
0$495 610
G$40
40
Q$185
185
G$ 720
860
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
25 Queen's Road Central
Tel. Central 4759..
Tests in America. More Haste Means Less
Speed. New York, April 16.-The eyes of America's 25,000,000 motorials will be standardized.
This is the project before the BROOKLANDS FEVER. Eye Sight Conservation Council of America, with the purpose of har- As usual, it is suggested that a monizing the existing state regu-majority of the road accidents dur latlans governing visual tests for Ing the recent holiday were due to automobile drivers.
the presence on highways and by- The council, announces General ways of a fresh draft of relatively Director Guy A. Henry, will as Inexperienced drivers, and I sup semble data from the require-pose there is a great deal in that ments of the various states and suggestion, says the motoring cor- from these shape standards by respondent of the Evening Newes which the eyes of the motoring But what are we going to do about public may be tested with uni- it? We all have to begin, one must formity and fairness.
remember, and nobody begins with "Experience," anys Henry, "has an intention-with, indeed, any convinced traffic directors that a very clear realisation of the likelf- visual test should be required of hood-of gotting piled up.
✡ driver's every applicant for
The averago newcomer to motor.. license.
ing errs on the side of nervouṚNESS, "Hundreds of thousands of Only a very few novices are care- automobilista nre now examined less, dashing sorts of persons, and for defects of vision annually in I think it both illogical and unkind this country, but without proper to suggest that the newly-fledged relation to a standard scientifically motorist of to-day is any more fool- reached and uniformly applied. ish or irresponsible than was his
"What is Wanted is a visual
prototype of, say, a decade since. acuity norm for motorists. We
It is perfectly true that only a must find out where the danger long apprenticeship can make either line in motor vision lies."
man or woman a thoroughly depend. New York state, it is asserted, fable driver. To attain the stage at la progressively increasing eye-which nothing can daze, or scare sight requirements and is about one, at which one will instinctively to put into force a regulation that do the right thing when confronted Jovery 'driver must have bu per with an emergency, one must have cent of normal vision to obtain a driven very many thousands of licence.
miles, under all sorts of conditions,
After careful survey made at But one has to get about to attain the wheel of an auto with differ- that stage. It is useless to prac- ent fogging lenses it has been dis-1ise in one's own back-yard or some covered in the New York experi-suburban back-water. ments that a person with 50 per eent. vision would be able to see safely and to judge distance while driving. Previously the require-dition of our roads to-day and that ment was two-fifths.
More Safety To-day.
The difference between the con-
obtaining ten years ago is merely
Four persons in a two-passenger coupo; sleet and rain; a joy-ride on a slippery road; death. That is the tragic story of this picture, showing how an automobile plunged into a mill stream near Wilmington, Delaware, and caused the death by drowning of two girls and two youths, The water was only a fow feet deep but the car turned on its side and Imprisoned those within.
MOTOR ROAT RACING.
In the District of Columbia, in-one of degree. There are more Major Segrave Takes
vestigation has demonstrated that motorists than ever, we can see;
Up.
it
Packard Eight, but who do not desires the extra luxuries of s custom built ear. The Standard Eight completes the Packard line by providing a car priced betwoon
the Packard Six and the Packard
Gustom Eight. With It Packard now. has .53 different models from
which to choose.
50 per cent is the lowest safe but I doubt if there is a higher per- deufty standard because "a 50 per centage either of inexpert or reck
Major O. D. Segrave, the British cent, daylight acuity is se reduced less drivers; und the cars and tyres
The Standard Eight has the by darkness (average lighted of to-day are so very much more racing motorist, the first to exceed streets) or by the presence of rain, dependable that the odds are on a speed of 200.m.p.h. on land, is same powerful chassis that has.. snow, clc., on the windshield as to our enjoying a higher standard of reported to be arranging for the made the, Packard Eight outstand- 40-ft racing ing among motor cars used for lower the effective acuity to 40.7 safety to-day than ever was enjoy-construction of a per cent, or in the event of a com-ed previously, in proportion, of Motor Boat, to compete for the travelling the open highways. bination of both to 32.9 per cent? course, to the enormously increased British International Trophy in Standard bodies also have the 1929, for boats of unlimited engine (traditional Packard ideals of com- So far as the council can de-volume of traffic. termine, colour blindness is not From time to time the wiseacres capacity, captured by America fort, beauty and distinction and |standard equipment goes consider Bumcient to debar a motor vehicle say that "there is no danger in after the War.
ably beyond the usual. In addi- operator. Neither is blindness in speed per se." This is true. But
It may be recalled that the pretion wire or wood wheels with one eye, provided that the aculty it is one of those truths which can in the seeing eye and the field of prove infernally mischievous if in-sent speed record afloat is just extra wheels and tyres set in over 80 m.p.h, which will have wheela in the front fenders, trunk vision are adequate.
terpreted other than literally.
Change Oil Every 1,000 Miles Reason Number 1-Benzine
Your engine oil after a period of use becomes mixed and diluted with benzine. Proof? Make this experiment. Drive for 500 miles or even less. Then drain off the crankcase oil. Touch a match to the used oil and it will go up in flames-positive proof of its danger- ous benzine content..
Your oil becomes mixed with benzine because today's benzine does not burn or evaporate com- pletely. At each stroke of the en- gine pistons, some of the benzine remains in liquid form. Drop by drop, mile by mile, this raw benzine seeps down past the piston ringe
Expect Many Tourists.
Changed
Qil
Recently
GARGOYLE
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Mobiloil
© Make the chart your guide e
and into your crankcase oil. Benzine thins out your oil, per mits friction, causes wear and loss of power. A motorcar operated with benzine-diluted oil is being blindly and swiftly driven to the scrap heap.
Make sure that the life and power of your motorcar engine is always protected by fresh, undi luted, full-bodied oil. Drain the crankcase oil every 1,000 miles. Refill regularly with Gargoyle Mobiloil. Changing oil repays you many times over in lessened wear, in quieter, more powerful operation.
VACUUM OIL COMPANY
Drivers' Tests
A Nation on Wheels
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Speed may not spell danger; but to be exceeded by Major Segrave,
it certainly provokes it, if only be should this remain unbeaten by rack and other de luxe equipment cause the higher a car's speed is the any competitor during the current is optional. less' time its driver has in which to year.
A broad selection of standard paint designa iB offered од
do the right thing to avert trouble. It is interesting to note that in- both the open and enclosed
On Easter Monday 1 drove from creasing number of well known cara my home to Brooklands and back, British motorists are turning their car is enhanced greatly by and appearance of tho a matter of 20 miles. Each jour-attention to the possibilities of a nickel cowl hand and cowl lamps. ney occupied half an hour only motor beating, standard types Enclosed cars are upholstered in But it was one endless succession of offering a much more congenial fabrics exclusively woven for Pac-
hair's-breadth escapes..
The Packard Eight motor, power plant of the new ear, develops 105 horse power on the dynamometer. With its eight cylinders in line it
So very many people seem to form of travel, than that of a cat kard, and open cars in leather. extremely excited by the mere and racing types, even greater notion of going to Brooklands, and thrills than are obtainable on the Ho very many more seem to be post-racing track, with greater safety. lively unbalanced by the fact of Duchess of York's Cup. huving been at Brooklands. Folk who normally drive most consider- ately and nicely, aeem to see red-racing motor craft. it will be re- plest of automobile engines. or yellow, which is just as bad for membered have competed for the has nine main hearings, counter- their visions whenever they are Gold Trophy presented by H.R.H. balanced crankshaft, aluminum alloy pistons, full pressure feed going to or coming from the track, the Duke of York, since 1924.
Danger in Speed.
F
1 ltro International Class has been called one of the sim-
;
Motor Craft in Showrooms.
It
and twenty times at least in both Now motor boat racing has re-lubricating syetom and among its my outward and homeward jaunta ceived further Royal recognition other important features it has an 1 heard brakes squealing, tyres in the presenting of a cup by auxiliary cylinder lubricating sya- screeching, and horn-notes whose I.R.II. the Duchess of York, fortem which supplies oll directly to very sound made clear the fact that "Outboard" motor, boats. The the piston when the choke is pull- they were produced by the highly-race will be, organised by the ed out for starting. As with Pac- fevered use of button or bulb. British Motor Boat Club, and willkard cars now being manufactured take place on the Welsh Harp, the chassis is automobically lubri cated, simply by pulling a plunger All this excitement, however, af. Hendon, in July.
located near the steering wheel. fected not only the novices. Over
The Standard Eight is being and over again I saw people whoso
body Certain firms of ear agents are made in nine different handling of difficult situations re- vealed complete control letting exhibiting motor craft in the models, including seven passenger themselves in for the very predica London Showrooms, these being in touring, four passenger coupe, five ments out of which they scraped so most cases the products of pro- passenger club sedan; seven pas- cleverly-all because they had, for grossive British firms who are senger sedan-limousine, four pas- standardised aenger runabout, five passenger the moment, forgotten that there specialising are times when most baste makes models, of a type that shall appeal phacton, two passenger coupe and least speed.
to the everyday motorist, at a the two passenger convertible- In spite of what the wiseacres price the everyday motorist is pre- coupe. The local agents are The say, there is an appalling amount of pared to pay.
Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
ed
danger in speed, unless it is indulg- One of the most attractive dis- In under circumstances plays is to be seen at Arthur favourable to rapid going, Bray's Baker Street Showrooms, The Intrinsic
80 pace,
to opened recently by Viscount Cur- car matters very zon, where one of the Brooke Run- speak, of a little. It is the relationship of that abouts is to be seen in a promin- pace to the puces of all other vehi-ent position, by passers-by. yarda cles within a hundred
Here recently Major 0. D. that will and does import danger. There are disasters created by Segrave, the well known British erawling, certainly, but they are racing motorist; and Mr. Gordon only one in a thousand. The other Selfridge, each placed an order for nine hundred and ninety-nine pro- ja 50 m.p.h. standard motor boat, eeed directly, almost invariably, with which it is expected they from going more, rapidly than is will race in motor boat oventa safe, with due regard to circum-round the coast during the coming stances easily identified, but season. beyond the, control of the in- dividual driver,
ANGRY PEDESTRIAN MAKES THREAT.
A NEW PACKARD.
The "Standard Eight."
Knoxville,
More than ordinary Interest line 26.-This Feb. thoughtless running down of Inno-been shown in the announcement cent pedestrians byamotor cara has of a new eight cylinder car, made to stop. And it will stop, if every- by the Packard. Motor: Car Com- recently. The Packard one doos as an irate "Citizen". of pany
Standard Eight, as the car is call- this city threatens to do.
In a letter to Safety Director od, has attracted unusual atten- tion because it enters a field among, Old Gentleman (engaging a new Spence, Mr. "Citizen" says:
classification car sales "Dear General: If you can't fix motor chauffeur): "I suppose I can write Officials of Yosemite National A. A. M. Manson, attorney-gen- Figures compiled by travel or to your last employer for your it so a person can walk across the which had not been occupied be
streets on Sundays and other days fore, Park are expecting a record run feral in British Columbia, plans to ganizations, motor clubs and other character?"
Packard executives say it will Chauffeur: "I'm sorry to say, without going into a deep run from of visitors this year. Already, sponser a bill requiring each sources indicate that nearly 40,- with the season just starting, the driver to undergo a physician's ex-000,000 persons in America will sir, each of the last two gentleman being hit by autos, I'm going to take care of the thousands of
automobiles during
sprinkle tacks over, Gay street at attendance is 30 per cent. greater amination before accuring his use
their I have been with died in my ser Church, Clinch, Wall, Union and People who want all the perform-1 driver's license. than that of last year.
ance, beauty, comfort and pres- Commerce-A Citizen.",
tige that has characterised the
vacation this year,
vice."
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'A RÉMINDER,
Resting on a permanent foundation of stone is this battered automobile-a warn-· Ing to tourists on the road to Lima, Peru, from the seaport of Callao. It was put up by the Rotary Club there. The inscription reads; "He who goes show goes farther.”.