MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY, 27th OCTOBER,
Being The Official Organ of
1928.
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
Headlight Glare.
CURRENT
COMMENT
ears wishing to drive along the Kaferring again to the question Barker Road, must first obtain of dimming, it has been suggested "pecial permission, and there ean that we emphasise the need for areely be any objection to this drivers to refrain from looking rule. Besidents wishing to une directly at on-coming houdlights, thermal for the purpose of taking This aspert la certainly an impor-ja patient to hospital, should first tant one, because the majority of all secure the necessary per- experienced drivers will know how mission, which we are sure will be anwise it is to risk one's vision immediately granted. Of course. becoming blurred as the result of in special and urgent cases, there the dazzle from another car's might not be time to communicate lamps. As a matter of fact, dim-with the police, and in such ming becomes unnecessary provid-extreme cases, we think that police
ing the driver does aut endeavour officers on duty in the neighbour to ascertain the position of the hd. should exercise discretion
提 The road is before ordering vehicle appronching cur.
sufficiently wide for two cars to return.
1.
In any case, it is quite
pass, it should be the business of easy to report a car using the each driver to keep his eyes, to the rand,
when the subsequent left of the road which will be enquiry would reveal whether. adequately illuminated by his own there was adequate justification lights. The other car's lamps for acting without the requisite will then in no way confuse him.uthority. Peak Tram Station,
An Improvement.
Work has been in progress for Following on a suggestion by some time now on the improve-the II.K.A.A., a much needed in- ment to be effected on Garden provement has been effected at the Road in the vicinity of the lower junction of Park and Robinson Tram Station. AA mentioned Roads. Hitherto, a narrow wall previously in these notes, by has divided these thoroughfares widening the footpath immediately where one turns into the other, below the Station, it will be possible and drivers have experienced for motor cara bo put in off the trouble owing to the fact that it 800 other main flow of traffic in order to was impossible to
for the vehicles taking the turn, and at 4incharge passengers
A Light Needed.
the horn.
The
HIGH AWARD SECURED BY BRITISH TRACTOR.
The Latil T. L. Type of tractor climbing a steep bank.
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An award by the Royal Argicul, Briefy this tractor has a 4-cylin-'thres minutes to put into or out of tural Society of England is an event der engine of 17.9.h.p. Special at action. tram. When completed, the work the same time, the wall had the of considerable importance and intention has been paid to cooling For use on soft ground the tractor
most which is effected by pump; a large will render Garden Rond a much effect of deadening the sound of now only made after the
capacity radiator is fitted with belt is employed without ballast and as The wall has been searching Investigation. This year driven fan. The gearbox unit is its weight, approximately 37 cwt., safer thoroughfare.
taken down for a certain distance, there were four awards for new im- most ingeniously arranged into two is distributed equally to the four At the junction of Garden Road and in its place railings have plements, one only being a Tractor compartments, the forward of pneumatic tyred wheels, the crush- and Kennedy Road it is almost been erected, thus giving drivers award. Referring to this subject which contains three forward and ing effect to the sub-soll is minimis- impossible to observe the traffic a clear view of the corner. constable's signals by night, alteration will be much appreciatat the time of the Society's Show at one reverse set of gears, the rear
thus giving a total range of alx averages about 2 gallons per hour. owing to the luck of illuminationed by those who use these roads Nottingham, "Motor Transport" ex portion a high and low ratio set, ed. Petrol consumption on the land preced the opinion that the speeds forward and two reverse. Obviously bealdes ploughing such a and the erection of an overhead frequently,
RA.S.E. silver medal, for instance, Further, power is conveyed from machine, could very usefully be Right would be of the utmost assis- Caution Needed. tance. The constable stands out The utmost caution should be might be compared with an honours the gearbox by an auxiliary shaft to employed on a variety of harvesting 'and haulage of such havy crops as in the centre of the roadway, and exercised between the Wanchal degree in engineering at London a capstan or pulley mounted at the operations as well as mole draining even although he Wears white Market, Queen's Road, and Stubbs Univeralty and must not be classed rear of the chassis.
Steering is on all four wheels, sugar beet. armbands, motorists, have the Road. Rond improvements are with the showy medals and diplo
For road haulage the Latil “TL"! greatest difficulty in seeing him being effected, but some drivers mas often distrubuted broadcast giving an extremely small turning
radius and rendering the machine type tractor, ballasted with 25/30 Much traffic passes this point, and display such recklessness that it faby exhibition promoters,
It is certain, therefore, that any particularly easy to manoeuvre in cwt., according to the load, will haul effective lighting would minimise surprising that serious accidents
Until implement or machinery to which confined spaces. The back and useful loads of 10 tons on "give and the present risk of accidents have not been recorded. occurring.
the work is completed, fairly slow this important award has been front differentials can be locked take" roads at an average speed of given a well worth close examina- simultaneously by a single control; 11-12 m.p.h, and at a petrol con- ILK.A.A. Dinner.
driving is desirable.
tion. At Nottingham this your lever from the driving scat sumption of 51⁄2 mpg. The annual dinner dance of the Borrowed Cars.
Latil Industrial Vehicles Ltd., were enabling the tractor to +x-1 With the four-wheel drive and Hongkong Automahlle Association In a recent English, newspaper, awarded a silver medal for their triente
itself event in the four-wheel braking the maximum will be held at, the Peninsula we read of a remarkable decisionTL" type tractor, which is full of most difficult groundi. Diac adhesion is obtained both when Hotel on Friday, December 14th.awarded in a case of car borrow interesting features making it parti wheels filled with giant pneumaticf pulling and overrunning, while the This will be the first public funcing. It appeared that a young cularly suitable for agricultural tyres are used for road work, but four wheel steering enhances the tion at the Peninsula, and it is man had taken possession of a car purposes in Overseas districts be the tractor can be mounted with capacity for manoeuvre, of the expected that a large number of which did not belong to him, idea timber hauling and ordinary folding spuds, or adhesion blades, tractor and it following trailer members and friends will he pre-driven it some miles out in the road haulage.
which take only between two and load in confined areas. sent. Booking will open shortly matry, and there abandoned it. at the Hongkong Hotel, where "The incident was accepted as a seating plan will be on view.
foolish escapade, and the culprit Trame Lights.
allowed to go without suitable There appears to be a generaluulshment. It is surely logical misconception with regard to the that a man who takes unauthorised trame signalling lights at the foot possession should be charged with of Garden Road. It should be stealing, there being absolutely clearly understood, that trac no reason for the police to assume descending and turning to the left that the car was only borrowed into Queen's Rond, need not observe the signals. As a matter merely because the thief abandon- ad it later. According to such
'seem
of fact, the same rule applies toegal reasoning, it would any road where cuiting aeross a line of traffic is not necessary.hat there is no reason why a pick- The other evening, we noticed packet who extracia a man's wallet Hne of six or seven cars, needless from his coat in a crowd should ly waiting at the foot of Garden plead that he merely intended Road, because, as it so happened, a borrow The money and contem- every one turned on the left into dated returning it! Queen's Road, Owners should make a paint of instructing their chauffeurs to this effect. Traffic Police.
It would be a good idea if traffic' policemen were detailed to the same post daily, for the simple
EIGHT-YEAR LIFE,
Average for Cars.
reason that they would then GOOD ROADS BOOST. become hccustomed to the parti-.
cular problems arising at that.. How good ronds decrease motor. particular locality, and the re- costs in statistically shown by gulating of trafie would become he report of the American Rond standarised. Motorists would find Builders Association, which de- Buch a system beneficial in that the lares that the average life of a car method of control exercised by the in that country has been increased same constable daily, would be by 14 per cent, as a result of good
roads. better understood, and to some extent, anticipated, Inaccessible Roads.
During 1927, a total of 1,825,581 motor vehicles went to the scrap heap. This was 12.05 per cent, of We have heard complainta con- the total registration at the begin- cerning the dimeulty in transportening of the year, and indicate that, ing patients to the Barker Road-hould this average be maintained. Hospital by car, it appearing that the entire stock of ears would be two cars were stopped by the replaced every cieht and one-fourth police because the drivers were years.
not in possession of a permit to The average life of a motor vehi- Bac the road. It is therefore as cle was formerly estimated at seven well to mention that all private youra.
NO NEED OF HEADLIGHTS HERE.
No chanco for a traffic accident on this street. It's pro- bably the most lighted street in America, for it consists of 40 different systems on as many circuits. Yet it's an out-of- the-way street in Cleveland, O. The National Lamp Works of the General Electric Company maintains this street to de- monstrate various street lighting systems to city lighting en
gines.
The Latest 1929 HARLEY-DAVIDSON
A NEW WONderful 45 TWIN.
HERE IT IS THE 45 TWIN, THE MOTOR-CYCLE MAGNIFICENT, THAT THE WORLD HAS BEEN WAIT- TING FOR HARLEY-DAVIDSON TO BUILD.
AND SUCH A MOTOR-CYCLE! GREAT ACCELERA- TION-SMOOTH GLIDING POWER-QUIET SPEED THAT LEAVES THE PARADES OF CARS FAR BEHIND. ABÓVE ALL, A MOTOR-CYCLE EASY TO HANDLE, A COMFORT EVERYTHING YOU AND A PLEASURE TO RIDE. WOULD EXPECT IN A 45 WITH THE HARLEY- DAVIDSON NAME ON THE TANKS. FEATURES GALORE THAT STAMP IT THE PEAK OF MODERN MOTOR-CYCLE ENGINEERING.
THE GASCON MOTOR CO.,
REPAIRS UNDERTAKEN ON ALL MAKES OF MACHINES, Tol, K. 1242
2. Kwong Wah Road, Kowloon. (Opposite The Steam Laundry) A GOOD ASSORTMENT OF SPARE PARTS AND ACCESSORIES IN STOJE,
New Address of
WOMEN SPEEDSTERS Universal Motor & Supply Co
Long Motor Race.
WINNER'S 43 M.P.H.
The first motor road race, ex- lusively for women was staged re- ently in the US.A..
The route, from New York to Chicago, was 931 miles, and the time of the winner, Miss L. M. Wil 'ard, was 22 hours 48 minutes, an verage of 48 m.ph. She drove a Butz, Black Huwk.
There were thirty competitors in the race, which was sponsored by the New York Women's Automobile Club, and all completed the journey.
THROUGH THE NIGHT.
Tractors Lengthen
''Days.
Though it Beems ип offence against the ideals of a 44-hour work, farmers in Pennsylvania (U.S.A.), have over-ridden the anti- que idea that work should stop at sunset, and now toil on long after dark
Motor tractora have superseded horses for faran work, and by equip ing their tractors with powerful headlights, farmers now plough and harrow and reap until mid- night without asking favours of sunlight.
Kayamally Building,
No. 22, Queen's Road, Central.
Telephone No. C. 4915,
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