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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY,
PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATES AND MOTORING.
Washington, Sept. 80th-Who- ever of the two leading presidential candidates takes the oath of office next, March, the American motoring public will not want, for extended co-operation from the
White
House.
For both Herbert Hoover and Al Smith are motorists. Peculiarly, neither sits at the wheel and drives his car himself. In fact, Governor Smith recently remarked that he doesn't even know how to drive an automobile.
Sitting behind their chauffeurs, however, the presidential candidates have been in position to know what troubles automobiling to-day_and to learn what remedles are needed.
Hoover, for instance, is best known in motoring circles for his sponsorship of the First National
Our motoring presidential candidates are shown here
In their favourite touring positions-behind the driver. Gov- ernor Smith, at top, lo shown in his own car, while in the
lower photo is Herbert Hoover.
Conference on Street and High-in France for General Porshing, Contrast as Motorists. way Safety, This is popularly and made him New York state high- termed the Hoover Conference, for way commissioner. By the end of he called the highway experts to-1927 New York had 3800 miles of gether for that meeting in 1924. concreto reads and 7000 miles of
other types. Adopt Hoover Code.
Many alates have already adopted the uniform motor vehicle code that
there is promise of its curly adope tion in the rest of the United States,
Millions for Good Ronds.'
|and bridges, Local units in the state will spend an additional $40,- 000,000 for the same purpose.
Hoover called n aceond conference
Governor Smith, has fought for for further study of municipal the elimination of railroad" grade traffic and for standardizing city crossings and has opposed the motoring. This group also has operation of toll bridges. Safety drawn up a system of regulations especially has been his greatest which is being submitted for adopconcern, os it is.Hoover's tion by cities throughout the coun- Both Smith and Hoover have been try.
members of the American Automo- What Houver has done nationally, bile Association for a decade. And Governor Smith has more than dup-both have worked with this organi- ilcated in his state. For New York zation for the improvement of mo- is considered one of the beat motor- toring conditions. ing atatea in the country. It is ono Yet neither has called upon this of the few tint require examination organization to any great extent for
less motorists from other states.
of drivers before issuing a license help, report officials of the A.A.A. and its strict patrol of the highways Hoover has gone so far as to call I brought home to the more reck for routes to fishing points where he could follow his favourite apart, When It came to building high- And that is about the extent to ways, Smith got Col. Frederick S which Smith, or rather his chauf Greene, who bullt the military roads feur, has gone.
traffic.
Fishing is his hobby and he likes to get to his favourite fishing re- sorts by motor.
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THIS YEAR'S MOTOR SHOW.
Latest Gear Changing Systems.
CAMPAIGN AGAINST STREET NOISES.
London, Oct. 4.
NOVEMBER 10, 1928.
LADY DRIVERS.
a car which was not in perfectly good condition, that, la one which doos not answer instantly to the Polish A. C's Event, controls and is generally tricky
to drive, would the results be equally as good?
FIAT TRIUMPHS. These reflections are conjured up by the reliability trial for lady Motoring, is rapidly gaining drivers recently organised by the ground in all social classes. The Polish Automobile Club, and which woman at the wheel is no longer took place last month over a course a rarity. Every day thousands of of 752 miles. This being women's the fair sex drive cars both on biggest event in Europe, the quiet country roads and in the Poland, but of every country where aporting element not only of The value of the recommenda- thick of elly traffic. One by one interest is felt in feminine aport, The campaigns against street tions are enhanced because they Man's prerogatives Bro being noises are now likely to have a represent the current practice of usurped by Woman; she is no
displayed great enthusiasm. definito result since the Home the majority of manufacturers, longer content to drive a motor.
The ladies showed an admirablo Office has just issued a statement and it may be confidantly assumed announcing immediate action, that, in those cases where models aspires to vie with the opposito feated in various ways; in Intensa ear for brief joy rides. Now she esprit de corps, which, was mani- Sir William Joynson-Hicks and do not incorporate these rocom- the Minister of Transport, Col. mendations already, it will be only sex in the force and nerve rack- curiosity, an eager interest in fol. Wilfred Ashley, are proparing a matter of time before they do competitions of road and lowing every phase of the trial,.
Are feminine nerves cap and in a most onthusiastic recep draft regulations which will be
ation for the winner. enforced by the police. They are the Society's recommendation are strain! Judging by what has The start took place on the
The Importance and value of able of withstanding such likoly to affect motor cars more
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track.
gathering of spectators. · · Tho“ numerous competitors left in the direction of Lemberg, the end of the first stage, amidst the on- couraging choons of the crowd. After a run which, by ita longth and the state of the roads, had neverely tested the cars and the skill of the drivers, a little Fiat. triumphantly crossed the winning line, first in the general classifica-
tion,
than any other vehicles, since the still further enhanced by the fact already been accomplished, they morning of September 8 in the Increase in the volume of noises that identical recommendations are, but the question arises, If a presence of the leading sporting la said to be largely due to the have also been adopted, or are in woman were called upon to drive authorities of Poland and a large Incronae of motors and of the uses course of adoption, by the appro to which motors are put and to priate authorities in France, Ger- the abuse of various types of many and the United States..
Just above the rear spring, the The recommendations are:--- horns. Such regulations will be
other midway at the propeller tube, the subject of consultation be- The clutch pedal should remain and the third just behind the tween the Minister of Transport on the left of the steering column, gear box, leaving the bodymaker and the motoring organizations the footbreak pedal to be imme-remarkable freedom to supply pas- and representatives of public diately on the right, with throttle songer comfort. Models of cara authorities, whose views will be control on the outside.
generally are now being built with The layout thus auggested such low frames that the steps or carefully considered. After the regulations have been made the should go far towards minimising running boards are done away police will be advised by the Home the risk of accidents through a with, the passengers just stepping Secretary as to the steps to be driver inadvertently accelerating off the pavement into the car. As The large crowd which had taken to ensure their observance under the impression that he was a means of sight-seeing, these cars gathered to see the finish gave with a view to decreasing the applying the foot-brake.
must be very monotonous, for in Mme. Regulaka, the winner, a Simplification of the nuisance from which so many
gear some of them at least no passen rousing ovation, to which sho people now suffer. Any decrease change position is also suggested. gers can see the landscape over the modestly replied that the, morit in road noises will be more than Another recommendation is that top of the smallcat hedga, was not hers but the car's. welcomed by the public and the ignition and throttle levels Another innovation la, cars which Besides winning the first place, especially by patients in many of should be 'so placed that, when it look as if they had no radiatora. Mme. Regulska also won the prise the large hospitals in big towns. is necessary for a driver to retard Instead of the widespread expanse offered by the president of the The motor trade, however, does the momentum of his vehicle, he of plating, the bonnet is brought Automobile Club for the best per- can draw them towards him. forward over the radiator until formance in the hill climb, and the not seem to be perturbed.
only a beading of the radiator, prize given by the President of the Revolution in Springing,
plating showa. It is 4 new Sporting Commission for the best. There is also a suggestion for fashion-American-but does not result obtained in the kilometre
appeal to all.
state:-
yenra. A British motor engineer
This is a clever
This Year's Motor Show. As motorists, the two candidates have little in common. Hoover
The Motor Show at Olympia is likes to take things easy. Entering his motor car he relaxes, and his approaching and always creates a new departure in car-springing drives even from his home to his an enormous amount of interest in branch of motor construction offico are leisurely planned. He this country, not merely amongst in which surprising little progress came out of this conference and $95,000,000 alone for sinte ronda gets little thrill out of the rush of amongst ordinary private owners has devised a system, which it is This year, New York will spend doesn't hurry and he apparently the big business people, but has been made during the past 20
and as the latter increase year by
unsprung year it is easy to understand the contended, reduces
idenspringing adjustable to the load increased business at the Show weight to a minimum; makes the There are always new and inventions at every Show carried; takes the strain out of Smith, on the other hand, likes and the small man is never neg-steering; prevents wheel wobble; the feel of the wind as he sits back lected. Meantime we are having provides suspension that needs no in his open touring car and his far-reaching Innovations. For lubrication; allows greater space chauffeur drives him along the the first time in the history of for passengers, and assures even, highway well up toward the speed motoring an attempt is being and less, wear of tyres. Problems limit. He hasn't been known to made to standardize the positions which have hitherto defeated the exceed the limit, but he likes speed and movement of control pedals best brains of the world, he de- neverthelesa..
and levers for private care and clares, have been overcome..
This year at the Show we are The governor's auto, always with commercial vehicles. The Techni the top down in good weather, bears cal Committee of the Standards promised a crop of now models license Lag number 2, with the gov Department of the Society of and new prices A special feature there will be a specimen at ernor's insignia and that of his Motor Manufacturers and Traders is to be the gearless car, of which state. In front, beside the chauf- are responsible for the move. four, almost invariably sits a mem- They issued recently standards for Olympia-a car fitted with the ber of the state highway police, rims and valves for pneumatic R.A.Y.S. gear. while Smith sits comfortably at the tyres. The technical committee of adaptation of the friction drive, back with Mrs. Smith or his gucata. the Society of Motor Manufac-which makes the engine itself for the work in hand, so to speak. Both Smith and Hoover. carry the turers and Traders in their report select the appropriate gear ratio. emblem of the A.A.A.
The gear has been well tested on the machine, but it is not yet an the market. A second Invention that will also be on show doca not abolish the gear-changing job, but does render it child-like. Suf- ficient intelligence is demanded of the driver to know that a petrol engine needs a low gear for heavy work, like hill-climbing or starting from a rest, and that it will drive; the car fastest on the lovel in high gear; otherwise all he has to do is to move a pointer on a dial nfixed to the steering wheel and then press a pedal hard. With this device there are still oppor tunities to use the wrong gear; but the actual business of gear- changing is pretty well fool-proof and noise-proof. This has been adopted by a firm of carmakers, tho Armstrong-Siddeley,' and la actually in production. For the present It will be supplied (to order) on two of their old models only, not on the new £250 six- cylinder. It may seem paradoxl- eal that alongside these efforts to abolish gears (as far as the driver is concerned) there is a patent tendency towards multiplication of gears. At this show, will be seen the first American car to boast four forward speeds, and the excellent little Swift is now given four instead of three. Four speeds, however, actually make gear-changing easier, if the ratios are well chosen. Double clutch- Ing is not necessary, and in prac- [lice bottom gear in ignored: it is an emergency gear, only used on freak hills or when starting on a sharp incline.
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