MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY 28th JULY,
Being The Officiat urgan of
1928.
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION,
30 DES BLIN BEIM GEL DESA BESS INELLA DESA DOS DIA SEJA EIN GESA DELA MIA 35
REMARKABLE PHOTOGRAPH OF A DEATH SOMERSAULT,
CURRENT
COMMENT
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'Garden Road Control,
be encouraged as much an поне
sible, for even with heavy loads
We note with pleasure that they do but a the of the damage new device for controlling traile indicted by others,
has been put into use at the june-
tion of Garden and Queen's Roads, | Drivers' Signals.
There is a "Go" and "Stop" sign
The
at
Our attention hus been called to'
of the
which, if it is found to be patia-the lack of uniformity in tho factory, will do away with the signals given by local drivers. present scattered light signals. We remember that sometime ago The old lights were erected seven the Trafic Department issued a or eight years ago and although list of such signals but an. they have doubtless served a se ful purpose they have lately been doubtedly much confusion arises found to be unsatisfactory!
because present intention in setting up the new variety of algns one sees given control sign is only to control indicate the same thing. There traffic turning up Garden Road are standardised and recognised from the west and traße turning is going to pill up, to turn right-
Įsivunia to be given when a driver, enst out of Garden Rond. The new signal will do away with the handed, or to wave a passing car hand signalling by day and will be, and It is the duty of every illuminated
driver 'to familiarise himself with nt night. Trale coming down Garden Road and them. They are given elsewhere
in this issue,
Lurning westward to the City Hall'
may continue on its way aven Stopping on Corners." though the "Stop" sign is against them (the signal in such cases will
When drivers are forced to pull
The above photograph is of the fula) racing-car crash which took place recently at South- post in which Misa May Cunliffe was badly injured and her father was killed. The picture
was taken while the car was overturning; a unique photographie feal-and shows Miss Cunliffe's head projecting from the car as it rolled over in a cloud of flying sand.
WOMEN MOTORISTS' DRIVERS' SIGNALS. "EXCUSE MY DUST!”
only stop traffic that intends crošų-jup, either owing to a puncture or in the road and turning east-fis some mechanical troublo, many wards), The same rule of no of them seem to think that they Interference will apply to tramolcan pull up just where they are at entering Garden Road from the the moment, irrespective of enst. The whole Blon la to con- whether they happen to be on a trol trafé afely without un-dangerous bend or not. The other necessarily stopplug traffe as at day, on the Stubbs' Road, a car had present. It is a valuable experl-pulled up with a puncture, and ment and one which we hope all another driver, full of solicitude Fastest Race át Brook- concerned will find satisfactorily for the stranded one, had pulled, workable.
Unnecessary Stopping.
up in the oposite side of the road,'! with the result that collisions were
TRIUMPH.
lands.
Barrowly missed. It doesn't hurt The first evening race meeting to run a deflated tyre slowly for a jpf the Brooklands Automobile Ruc- In connexion with the above few yards until the car is on aing Club, which was held recently, be straight airetch where the line of was a great success, and the fastest emphasised that there are several vision is along one, and all Pare of the evening was run by the places in the Colony where cars drivers should swim to pull up, Women.
acheme, it - must.
stop without any real necessity, when forced to do so, in a place of Just before the race, an unfor- just because a red light is showing absolute safety. The frequency tunate accident occurred. Misa their way. Such a place is at the with which one meets stationary M. M. Houd, who was driving in Junction of Stubbs Road and ears on corners is an indleation practice, apparently hit a bump in Morrison Gap. All cars travel that this point is not recognised ling from the direction of the as well as it might be, Naval Hospital to Happy Valley
can carry on, without stopping, the Parking at City Hall,
track and came hurtling down
How They Should be The Cheek of the Baby
Made.
Car.
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As there is a great lack of unl It is a curious fact that com- formity in this Colony regarding paratively few motorlata can re- the way in which motor car drivers main totally unmoved and inactive igual their intentions to others, we while the car they are driving is produce here, by courtesy of the being overtaken by another. It Traffic Department, the followay may very well happen that a driver No. 1-am going to Stop". fa in no particular hurry, and Is out on the road chiefly to enjoy the fresh air. Yet when a warn- ing horn note in heard behind and A car shows signs of passing or actually goes by, it is fairly cer- tain that the overtaken driver willi press down his foot further on the accelerator, and try to demonstrate that he, too, does not always keep strictly to twenty. Without in any Hold the right forearm and hand sense involving a race upon the vertical, palm turned to the front public roads, this competitive spirit is noticeable among owners No. 2" am going to turn to of all types and even ages. If the overtaken vehicle be of the sports :
or hot-stuff variety, caught in a moment of inattention on the part of the man at the wheel, it is a thousand to one that the tempta- tion to speed up for a mile or two will be too great to be resisted. Particularly amusing are the In- stances in which a saloon of the 50 hp. class is passed by Austin Seven or other miniature Extend the right arm and hand car. Should this take place on she was unable to catch the first horizontally straight out from the an up grade-as happens not in three, she lapped at about 112 miles foffaide of the Vehicle, palm turned frequently in these days of the
efficient small cars the expres slon on the faces of the drivor of No. S.-I am going to turn to the big car and its passengers is usually a study in astonishment and incredulity.
the banking. Her car turned over twice, but she was thrown clear and Rustained only slight injuries. red light being intended to apply We are glad to say that there been instructing Miss Bond in driv- Captain Malcolm Campbell had only to eastbound ears which are has heen
#1 little Improvement ing during the morning, and he told turning up into Stublis Road. Yet luring the past week as regards a Presa representative that he was there are many drivers keeping to the Pedder Street stand, and that must surprised to find that her car the straight who pull Vehicles going into town from there for long periods of the day.
UPfewer private cars have been left had left the track. Stubbs Road have, similarly, no The City Hall parking space in evening was the third, which was
The most exciting race of the the Right" need to pay attention to the traffle being used to an even greater the two-lap women's handjeap. light, for they are keeping in close extent, and it would be of great The winner was Miss M. J. to their left the whole way. At Jassistance to all If drivers would "Maennechie, who was accompanied the University corner, at the june-park their ears in proper lines by her brother, in a Salmson. The tion of Pekfulum and Bonham and not "all over the shop" as heroine of the evening, however, Roads, the Bonham Road traffic some of them do at present. The was Mrs. W. B. Scott, who took her travelling west has clearly an un-supervision of the A. A. Patrols is Sunbeam round the track as if she interrupted right of way, and no being more and more appreciated, bad been racing at Brooklands for stopping is necessary. The anme and there would be ample room thing applies to trame travelling for all cars if they were parked straight up Garden Road and pass carefully in lines.
ing the signal box opposite the
years. She attained a speed of over 120 miles an hour at one point and though, owing to her handicap,
an hour,
to the front.
Volunteer Headquarters. At pre-At Repulse Bay, sent quite a number of unneces- sary stops are made. In Kowloon, Adverting to the question of Curiously enough, the first three there is the Nathan Road and parking on the lower road at in the women's race had had no Saltabury Road junction at which Repulse Bay, there is still con- experience of motor-racing before, the Left" care or buses going from Salisbury siderable obstruction caused by Miss Maconochle told me that she Road Into Nathan Road need not cure parking alongside the road had had no previous experience on pull up, but often do so. Drivers instead of on the spaces provided, a rnen track, though she had had of vehicles ought to use a little We are asked to point out that several "brysher" with the pollee more thought in the matter, even when the spaces are far from on the road.. though we admit that some of the full, lines of cars can be seen on
About Roads
No. 7.
No. 3.
DIRT TRACK RACING.
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riders are in England la demon- strate exactly how things should bo low done. The thrills of the new sport are probably unequalled in any any other form of motor cycle rac- Ing.
traffic lights often show red when the road, and that this is an A machine gun, hot from steady
Dirt track racing on motor it is not at all necessary. Per-obstruction regarding which - the fring, will often stick and jam.
cycles, a sport which has been hupa a set of simple rules' could police would have every Justifica- And in automobile engine, hot
popular for years in Australia and be drawn up in English and tion for taking action. We under- from heavy pulling, will also tend to
the United States, is now a working Chinese and distributed among stand that a traffic policeman is to tighten up and run less freely. Ex-
proposition in England, and, ne- local drivers. It is obvious that be on duty there in future in order plosions in the gun propel the bul-
Extended the right arm and hand rapidly enpturing the imagination cording to The Motor Cycle, is educating in this to see that people park in a rea-eta, while explosions in the engine, horizontally straight out from the of the British public, Tracks have many need matter.
sonable way, and that although no shaft and gears, propel the car, offalde of the vehicle, and then been constructed in all parts of
through the medium of pistons, uction has been taken hitherto there is likely to be some unless Both gun and engine utilize the carry them forward and towards London and the provinces, and car owners and drivers get their force of rapidly burning fuel, and the near side with a circular sweep about thirty first-class Australian Queen's Road East, near the vehicles off the road. The present at the same time generate heat on a level with the shoulder. Dockyard, is getting very bumpy habit of leaving a car out on the which must be dissipated if gun and In places, this wear being doubt road as near as possible to an engine are to keep on working No. 4-"I am going to less caused by overladen trucks. owner's shed, rather than take it modern cars are not only designed
smoothly. Cooling systems on down" It is remarkable that such heavy in few yards along the road to the for average use, but with an extra loads can be carried on soine of nearest parking place, is a lazy margin of safely to take care of un- these vehicles, and in the summer one that ought to be stopped. The usual conditions. Thus the better timo especially these trucks causo speeding evil, to which we recently cars will climb mountain grades, great damage to the roads, not so referred, has lessened consider cross sun-scored deserta and pull much because of the actual weight ably, but there is much room for through muddy detours without of the load as by reason of the improvement in this matter of causing the engine to heat execs~, narrow trend of the widels. We parking. And for ourselves, we kively. Older cars, however, or think the time has come when con-hope that the police will take those less carefully designed, y sideration should be given, to this action if it is needed to educate puff, steam, and boll when the matter, as has been done at Home, motorists up to a sense of reason-pulling is heavy or the fan belt Pneumatic-tyred vehicles should able co-operation.
allps.
'No: 4.
but with the palm, turned down wards and move the arm slowly up and down.
No. 5.-"Come past me on the | Right", "
Extend the right and hand below Extend the right arm and hand the level of the shoulder, and move horizontally as in Nos. 2 and 8, them backwards and forwards,
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