MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 24th NOVEMBER, 1928. Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
ILK.A.A. Dinner Dance.
CURRENT
COMMENT
both motor lorry and truck, owing to the steep ascent which has to Booking for the annual dinner be made in prder to reach it! dance organised by the Hongkong Automobile Association will open at H.K.A.A. Patrol, The Hongkong Hotel entrance on With the
December 1st. This year's event
rearrangement of
is specially notable, as it will be the parking spaces, it has been decid- first public function to be held ined to place one of the Hongkong the Peninsula Hotel. The HK.A.A.; Automobile Association's patrols dinner dance has become one of the in Chater Road between Ice House Colony's important social events, Street and Des Voeux Road. This and it is expected that a record location has been reserved for number will be present on Decem-private vehicles, and members of ber 14th. It la carnestly requested the Association can now rest that reservations be made as early assured that their cars will be
as possible, and by making the seat-under observation during their ing plan available early, members absence.
are enabled to reserve 'sents 'nc-
cording to the number of guests A Nasty Bump. invited.
Teaching From Pillion.
Just opposite the premises re- cently vacated by Lazarus and Co. there is a nasty pot-hole which re-
According to the report, a some-quires attention. It is probably what remarkable suggestion was the result of rond-opening, but made by a Police witness the other cars are subject to an unpleasant day concerning the method to belittle jolt when passing. adopted by those learning ride
motor cycles. In the Arst place, Obstructions.
it was suggested that an experi- enved rider shoald accompany a
Why is it an offence to leave a The question car unattended 7.
CHIURD
AMERICA'S NEW MOTORING ROUTE.
The Latest 1929 HARLEY-DAVIDSON
Ong of the three bridges opening up the historic region around Newport. News, Va., to traffic is this one across beautiful Chuckatuck Creek. Insel map shows the connexions made. learner, and when the magistrate has been raised because it is pos- Norfolk, Va., Oct. 12th.-Thef a half mile span across the James the opening. Governor Harry F. pointed out the dificulty of this,ible for a moterist to be pro-formal opening on November 17 of river at Newport News. It will be Byrd of Virginia will be one of the the statement was made that the secuted for obstruction and also three great bridges in Virginis, one of the largest lift spans in the principals and will have as guests instructor should ride on the for leaving a vehicle unattended. connecting the historic Virginia world.
the governors of Maryland,. pillion! Such a requirement would not only be liable to prove it naturally follows that leaving peninsula with Norfolk and Ports The second bridge in the chain Massachusetts and North Carolina. disastrous to the learner, but car in some streets does cause mouth, opened up a new area for from Newport News to Portsmouth Events of the pioneer days of n serious obstruction, but we fall motor travel along the Atlantic is the one across the Chuckatuck America, in which this part of Vir would also subject the man on the
Creek, a half mile long. Follow-ginia participated, will be reenacted, pillion to the greatest risk, We
to see any objection to a car being Constal Highway.
The three bridges joln up all ing this is the three-quarter mile Jamestown, where the first colony- can imagine nothing more reck-left on a road where no obstruction
was organized in 1007, Williams- less than to allow a novice to is caused, and where traffic is not the highways on both sides of the Nansemond river bride.
James river and close a gap in All three.bridges are of the con- burg, the site of the first revolution- heavy, such as on main roads.
what is popularly termed "The crete and steel trestle type and cost ary convention in 1769, and York- Cradle of America.””
a total of $7,000,000.
town, the scene of Cornwallis' sur- An historic pageant, both on render, are in the heart of this dis-
endeavour to start away on 囍 motor cycle with the balance com-Inadvisable. pletely upset by the additional
weight over the back wheel. The It may be mont unwise to leave immediate result would probably a car by the wayside for any be a dangerous wobble culminat-length of time, owing to the pos- ing in a nasty spill.
The Only Way.
sibility of petty thieving, but even
The longest and most important|
of the three bridges is the four and land and water, is being planned for trict.
EXHAUST GASES.
amount of carbon monoxide, or ex- exposure to that quantity of car- haust, gas to which the public is bon monoxide," adds the committee. exposed is not alarming, except at]
Measured Gas In Citles, come taxi atands, enclosed drive-
no, that is entirely at the owner's risk. As a matter of fact, many a motor cycle in for the beginner can be locked up, an innovation Problem Being Studied. ways, and commercial garages.
The only way to learn to ride of the newer types of closed cars
to receive the necessary instruc- which probably came about he- tion concerning the controls, and cause of the universal thieving then to be assisted for the first few habit. In any case, many people yards by the instructor running find it convenient to leave their alangalde the machine. A suit-car out on the road where, no ably quiet neighbourhood should obstruction is caused, and, as be chosen for the purpose, provid-stated above, we cannot see any Ing if possible, a circular route in real objection to the practice. arder that the rider may return New Members.
to the place where his instructor!
RULE FOR DRIVERS.
How to Avold Trouble.
The U. S. Public Health Servico recently made an exhaustive study of exhaust gases in 14 large cites
to and mechanics
follow," average carbon monoxide content New York, Sept. 29th.-A group the committee advises, "is of the air at the breathing level of of organizations Interested in to avoid, as far as possible, pedestrians was eight-tenths of a motoring and highway safely have
the unnecessary elimination part to 10,000 of pure air. Indi- organised a point committee to study the pollution of the atmos of exhaust gas and to avoid ex-vidual samples ranged from three- posure to exhaust gas whether in tenths of a part to 20 parts in phere by automobile exhaust gases, the thoroughfare or garage, com- 10,000. The highest proportion
"A general rule for all drivers of the country and found that the
is awaiting him to assist, if neces- Since we published the last list, to inform the public of its dangers, mercial or private. If such a was found in unventilated taxi cab- sary, in dismounting, We cer- the following motorists have join-encourage research and investiga- simple rule were followed the fa- stations and long tunnels, tainly agree that only certained the Hongkong Automobile ton of the problem and discover tal cases of carbon monoxide pol Besides the street, there is the
means toward its reduction.
The joint committee is headed by soning would be very few, and al- unloading platform which increases so many of the less serious but dis- the amount of exhaust gas in the Professor Alexander Silverman of comforting situations would be re-air, says the committee. In addi the University of Pittsburgh, removed."
tion, polluted air has been found in presenting the American Chemical
The U. S. Bureau of Mines has buildings adjoining congested Society, as chairman, and consists
A. E. S. Alves.
F. J. Easterbrook.
localities should be used by Association. learners, but the thought of a machine starting out with an in- experienced rider carrying a pl flon passenger, would be really humorous were it not for the danger caused.
Those Trucks!
W. Harper.
A. C. Botelho.
J. Riecken.
R. Y. Harris.
H. G. Sheldon,
P. Wright.
P. S. Stewart.
AILSA CRAIG MOTORS.
Five for Canadian
National Rlys..
Although the much-needed re- surfacing of the road along the Praya west of Wing Lok Street is being carried out, the presence of excessively laden coolle-drawn trucks will very soon reduce the surface to its previously bad con- .dition. These vehicles are sup-| posed to carry loads within set] limits, but daily observation proves that the regulation is almost totally ignored. Trucks are often so heavily weighted, that
The S.8. "Lady Hawkins," the the coolies have to resort to a zig-socond of five steam turbine ships, zag motion in order to move them which Messrs. Cammell Laird are" at all, and the tyres may be seen building for Canadian National cutting inches into the road sur Steamships, Ltd., which is the face. The most drastic steps marine branch of the Canadian Na- would be thoroughly justified in tional Railway, was launch- order to remove this constant ed recently. Each of these source of damage, and we auggest
yosocia
being equipped
to the authorities concerned that with a motor boat, the power some very definite action be taken plant for which is being supplied by the Allan Craig Motor Co., Ltd., of Weighbridge Wanted.
Chiswick, Londen. This plant con- We have previously drawn atten- sists of an Allsu Craig 20.24 h.p. tion to the urgent need for a 4-cylinder over head valve murine weighbridge at a central point in motor engine of the most advanced the city itself, and it must be por design with everything in one self- fectly obvious that the cost of contained and enclosed unit. These such an appliance would be more engines are designed on the same than saved by the effect it would lines, though, of course, not so large have to saving our roads from the as the engines used in the Royal prosent abuse. At the moment, National Lifeboat Institution's there, is a weighbridge at the motor lifeboats, and are themselves Central Police Station, but it is used extensively in the mercantile utterly impossible to employ it for marine for similar serviço on ships the purpose of weighing Inade, boat.
of delegates from the American found that seven per cent. of the streets, even to a height of four or Automobile Association, the Amer automobile gases is carbon monox-five floors.
“It would be well for municl- ican Medical Association, the Mo ide, but even this small amount, al- tor Truck Asociation of America, though deadly in itself, is diffused palities to enact legislation pro- American Public Health Associs quickly, into the air so as not to hibiting the running of engines in tion, American Petroleum Insti- prove dangerous.
alf automobiles, houses and trucks
tute, National Association of Taxi In Paris, where traffic is quite during parking or during prolonged Cab Owners, National Safety Coun- severe, it was found that there traffic tie-ups," the committee sug- cll, Society of Automotive Engi never was more than .66 of a part geats. "Since it has been clearly neers, United States Bureau of of carbon monoxide to 10,000 parts established that satisfactory auto- Mines and the U. 5. Public Health) of air.
matic deviceca are now available Service,
"It is improbable that any per- which do away with the dangers According to present Informa- son would notice any physiological of cranking, such legislation would tlon, the committee reports, the effect even after six or eight hours prove timely."
|AN ATTRACTIVE MODEL SHOWN AT THE OLYMPIA SHOW.
The above picture is of the Hiliman "Fourteen" Tourer. Lane, Crawford, Ltd. are
the local agents.
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