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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY, 23rd. MARCH, 1929.
}} Going*Thì ̄Official Organ óf.
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
MODERN ROADS. CAR NUMBER TOO
Reduce Motoring. Risks.
SAFER TRAVELLING. New York; Jan. 26th-Modern highways, improved by years of engineering research, have cut the death ratio caused by faulty road construction from 18 per cent. in 1020 to 11 per cont. in 1928, saya Charles Upham, secretary-director of the American Road Bufkiers
Association.
In 1927, Upham says, 20,618 per- Bons were killed on state, county and city roads. Of this number, 3,586 met their death through "nd- verse physical conditions," such as narrow, defective or neglected. roads and atreets.
LARGE.
Driver Fined for Plate
Too Easily Seen.
"We consider that the polico should have something better to do than waste their time over theso petty details. This is only another example of one of these technical worrying
offences
brought up against motorists."
This statement was made by an
allicial of the Automobile Associa
tion when discussing the case of Frederick Dyatt a motor driver,} who was fined us. because the letters and numbers on his front identification plato were an Inch and A half longer than the prescribed size.
The Magistrate at Tower Bridge Police Court, who fined the driver, said: "I cannot see what objection there is to the letters being too large, though there may be objec- tlon to their being too small.”
"The problem_to-day," says Upham. "is not so much a matter of adapting design and construc- |tion to traffic conditions as it is to
persuade officials to adopt the "It is a curious point," said the modern type of construction, with Association officia). The law. crowns reduced and curves bank drawn up about 1901, states that ed, for all roads whether of the numbers must be 31⁄2in, high, primary or secondary importance. but it allows for nothing below "Our need has long been for or nothing above that size, paved highways. That need is be- Although the larger numerals may ing supplied. At the present be construed as a breach of the time the necessity is not only for regulations, no sane person could paved highways, but for wider suppose that any harm could and safer highways,”
result."
Examples of engineering im-
provement in road construction dust nuisance; roads widened; that eliminate the death risk are elimination of grade crossinge; given by Upham. Among them are underpasses; pedestrian tubes and the elimination of crowns; walls, re-routing of highways no, as to or railings ut dangerous points;['take'the motorist out of congested | grades reduced; elimination of the districts.".
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Thoughtlessness,
CURRENT
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During the Inst
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GREAT CHANGES SINCE 1900,
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Automobiles still run an four close family resemblance to the wheels. And that fact is about cars of to-day. The engine was put the only thing in common between under the hood, spark controls present day motor cars and those were on the steering wheel and of the early days of the industry. the general lines of the car show- The marvellous changes since ed the correct idea had arrived. 1900 are strikingly depicted in But the designers and engineers the history of the automobiles yet had a long way to go. Emerg- that have succeeded in keeping up ency brake and gear shift lever. with the times. •
were located over the right run- concerna-under other names and The one-cylinder, curved dashning board. Carbide lampe and Now that the hoarding has been became more famous this was dis-was considered quite a finishod considered refinements.
transfers but as the name Norton Oldsmobile of 1900, for example, hand-operated bulb `horn were Those erected around the Hongkong continued in favour of the produc-product as compared with the first hardly pioneers scorned a top but Hotel site, a system for the pro- tion of the real Norton. Strange Oldsmobile completed in 1897. by, thin timo arangements" had tection and guidance of as would appear the pedestrians appears to be urgently Energetto to-day, this machine engine was under the seat and more effete. And it would be cruel Norton The single cylindered, two-cycle been made to supply tops for the needed. When proceeding from actually embodied many of the rear deck. Power was transmitted to compare the smoothness and Queen's Road towards Des Voeux principles of design that are now to the rear wheels by a chain and quietness of the engines of then Road, the hoarding suddenly cuts standardised throughout the in- off the footpath, making it neces- dustry.
steering waS accomplished by and now means of a tillor arm. The driver sary for pedestrians to step out on!
Sports Models Come In. Hongkong Hotel Garage oncoming traffic.
to the roadway directly in front of Remarkable Successes,
sat on the right side, with the This cannot
throttle control at his right. The following year, 1908, a very well be prevented, but a
The little crank directly, under sport roadster model was. Intro- warning notice should certainly Norton motor cycles havo annexed the scat was not a monograph at- duced. This was featured by Its be erected..
a remarkably large number of Lochment but the means by which turkey-wing front fenders, urten lubrication. Consider these facts, trophics in almost every part of the engine was started, providing alon of the cowl and the appear- the world. Speed trials, read the driver had strength and en-ance of a single rumble seat. This races, and reliability trials of durance. The horn attached to was also equipped with a fost ac- A local motorist has complained every description have found Nor- the diller was extra equipment, celerator, thus giving more free- that he narrowly avoided a colll- ton machines always to the front. Tops were not included, but a rub- dom to the young ports of that sion on Stubba Road the cther One of the main qualities is speed, ber blanket with holes for driver's period.. night owing to the thoughtless and for those motor cyclists who and passenger's heads could be In comparison with its ances action of the driver of a car which love to ride a truly aperly and ho was following, it appears that exceptionally speedy machine, the
purchased.
tor the modern automobile lo a marvel. 'Its after travelling behind the offend Norton has a very strong appeal.
equipment, which ing vehicle for some considerable The Sincere Company, Ltd., has
would not have been found on the distance, the complainant's car recently been appointed agents for The Influence of carly European earlier cars, Includes rubber engine followed on around a sharp left- South China, and the demand since motor car design can be seen la mountings, automatic spark con- hand bend, to suddenly find the we made the first announcement the two-cylider, two-cycle tour- trol, air cleaner, oil filter, gaso ather vehicle at ionary in order clearly indicates that many of ing Oldsmobile of 1905, A dummy line pump and niter, crankcase to allow one of the occupants to those excellent mounts will be hood was used, but the engine re ventilation, four-wheel brakes, alight: A sudden awerve was seen on our roads in the future, mained, under the seat. The horse-shock absorbers, chromium plat- necessary, and although such
power was increased to take care ing, gasoline gauge, engine tem-
thermometer on of the extra weight of the car by perature.
darb, automontic windshield wiper, The warmer days which have adding another cylinder.
A regulation steering wheel had rear view mirror, atop light, twin- boen descending the Peak abreast recently been experienced, remind of the stationary vehicle at that us that within a very few weeks, replaced the tiller, but the right- beam non-glare head lamps, wire particular moment. Motorista summer motering and bathing hand drive was continued. En wheels, front bumpers and rear It is trance to the rear seats was from fender guarda, both chromium should always remember that it is parties will be the vogue. most dangerous to stop on a bend, gratifying, to note therefore that the back through a small door be-plated, and radiator shutter.
the seats, Wonderful In addition there where their position may cause an the parking arrangements at the tween obstruction which cannot be seen premier bathing resorts, Repulse lamps of gleaming brass formed smooth, quiet and powerful "per- formance and case of operation | untli other vehicles are practically Bay and Castle Peak, have been head and alde light. up to them.
considerably improved and extend-The rapid strides made in those and riding which make the cars ed. The lower road at the former early years is depleted in the of to-day so outstanding when The Old and the New.
place has been provided with seven-passenger four-cylinder compared to those of the earlier additional parking stands, while touring car of 1907. This had a days of the industry, Those "old hands" who meraber motor cycling In its affected at Castle Peak by the time great improvement will have been earliest days will not need to be the season is in full swing, reminded that the name Norton Castle Peak, there will also be the was associated with the industry! at is very outset. As far back Bathing Pavillon erected by the Arabian Sand, Dawa Grey, Niagarens 1898 the late Mr. James Hongkong Automobile Association
Of each 100 pounds of Bnlehed, for its members. This will with- Norton had established in Birmingham a small factory and out doubt prove a much appreciat-stcol in 1928, the authomobile in
'ed and popular facility,
dustry usod 17,70 pounds, rail- was producing the "Norton Energette" a machine that, even To-day's Maxim
ronds 17.28 pounds and the build N. S. MOSES & CO., LTD., to-day is recalled as a pioneer of
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