MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
¡SATURDAY, · 27th | APRIL, 1929.
Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE 'ASSOCIATION.
-ACME QUALITY
KEEP A TIN HANDY FOR
TOUCHING UP FENDERS
Brod and Fire Em
I pt. Tin $1.75.
`I qt. Tin $3,10.
A HIGH GRADE FINISHING VARNISH
I pt. Tin $3.20 & $4.00.
2 qf: Tin 50.00 8 30.50.
The Hong Kong Hotel Garage
25, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL,
ACCESSORIES
A Big display of "Uzidite” Bad "Luona” störuge boltocida nuilable for all motor ears and radio. Also accessoris of all kinds for motorcars and syclos stick on,
Electric borns. Hand jacks Bumpers.
Spark plugs.
Foot pumps
Wrenches
Tyre patches. Lamp bulbs
Brakellning.
und
Body polish
&.. ko.. &... &c.
All at exceptionally low pricus. Call
frapeet THE HONGKONG
MOTOR ACCESSORY CO.. Bank of Janton Building, Tel. 0, 677.
NEW CAR, JOHN? NIX, 191ST REFINISHED HER MYSELF WITH
Effecto
FINISHES.
ALL COLOURS KEPT IN STOCK
AS WELL AS THE NEW FORD SHADES.
Arabian Sand, Dawn Grey, Niagara Blue and Gun Metal Blue,
PICTURE OF SPEED TRIAL TRAGEDY.
The pictures shown above were takon just before, and during the trial itself, when Mr. Leo Bible, the American' racing motorist was killed in his attempt to beat Sir H. E. Segrave's record. The pictures showing the machine were actually taken by Mr. Charios Traub, a Pathe News Camera- man who lost his life when the machine swerved and crashed at a speed of over two hundred miles per hour. A few. seconds after the lower picture was taken, the terrible accident had occurred.
CURRENT
COMMENT
PERFECTION SOUGHT.
Rail-motor Container.
INTERNATIONAL COM-
PETITION.
An international competition to discover the best system of through
BY THE WAY
MINNESOTA har incorporated
its frame rules A Inw against standing in n rond-
goods.traffic by railway and motorway to solicit rides from pussing transport, is being organised by the motorists. International Chamber of Com- merce.
NEW
TEWS comes from Australia of This competition is the outcome of a discussion by delegates to the
a 1923 Morrin-Cowley travel- Just world Motor Congress at Rome. which has covered no less than ling over all sorts of roads, The best "container" system is 104,000 miles, and is still average sought. It must be a container that can be transhipped by the sim-hauds of a commercial traveller. ing eighty miles per day in the plest method from a fiat motor truck
4
7HAT must be regarded as a
W record collision occurred ou
to a flat railway truck, thus obvint-In this period the total cost of ing not only the handling of goods, repairs has been only £21. but their packing. Time and mon- ey can be saved by this system.
"A detailed programme of the competition may be obtained from the secretary, International Cham-borough: road near Earls Barton, ber of Commerce. 38 Cours Albert, lre, l'aria.
the Northampton-Welling-
when a thin film of ice on the surface caused no leas than twenty motor vehicles to collide.
First of all a small car collided with a Morris, then another car
STRUT'S INVENTOR, went through the hedge and sub-
Synchronised 'Plane Gun.
NELSON'S WORK.
The inventor of the "Invari Strut," now generally used in the pistons of motors, is Adolph Nelson who, during the war, solved the problem of firing machine gun bul- lets through the whirling blades of a 'plane's propellor.
Nelson's name is also known in connexion with Bohnalite pistons,
are the
sequently one car after another coming round the bend and apply- ing Its brakes skidded and hit the mass of vehicles, which remained on the road for an hour and a half
THE low tax on automobiles" in
The United States-less than
$25 a car is the means of making roads in the country the best in the world, says .Á, R. Erskine, head of the National Automobile Chamber of Com- merce. Yet this tax raises more than $600,000,000 yearly for road construction and maintenance,
*
CHIAPPE, the Parie
which same as "Lynite M. Prefect of Police, has sent
pistons: The latter are manufac- tured by a second American com.
forth the fint that horse- pany, under license from the inven-drawn and other slow-moving traf- fie may no longer use the boule-
tor.
He has been interested in car en-yards and a number of other busy gines most of his life. Before the highways between the hours of 2- war he designed them, but since the | p.m. and 7 pm. This is certainly a war, the strut and alloy platons very sensible and courageous have commanded all his attention.
GOLD CHASSIS.
order, and its adoption on certain thoroughfares of London. and other big cities might do a great deal in helping to solve the traffic problem,
the first time in the his-,
Erskine Worth £4,000. Ftory of tranh courts of the
to
U.S.A., a motorist has been charged with driving so slowly as cause an obstruction. Thie case was dismissed.
CITUTZ automobiles, at the option of the purchaser, may
STU
be equipped with radio sets. The set is built into the Instru- ment board and is completely hidden except for the dists. The loudspeaker is above the wind- shield and the antenna, Is, in the top.
PARIS MODEL.
Plated in 24 carat gold, and valu ed at £4000, a unique Erskin chassis was in the centre of the dis- play of new models in the show- rooms of Studebaker (Sydney), Ltd., in Yurong-street, city. [The engine is finished inside, and out with coloured enamels, is cut away to show Its internal operation, and may be run at low speed.. Square is conveniently located, This chassis was built for the and it only requires the exercise last Paris salon, where it created a Some years
NEW rond is being construct ago, a landslide of a little common sense to insensation, and it will attract equal- near the top of Glenealy, brought crease its present accommodation, ly
ed from Llanfair Talhafarn, and incredulous astonished about the widening of a portion under the existing method, three-glances in Sydney.
un the Abergele-Llanrwst, of Robinson Road. It was hoped fold.
Gold plating road, to Bylchau on the Denbigh- on it cost £2000, and the 2031 units Pentre Voelas route. The first of the chaasla hud to be plated acction, 31⁄2 miles, to Llanesanan separately.
was opened two years ago... The
Widening Needed.
at the thne, that the bridge jead-
ing in the direction of Seth's The Beacon. I
Corner would also be inereaned to
the width of the road, but, it is beacon will he re-crected at the metal is plated with gold.
We, imagine that the trac A total of 25,149 square inches of new road to Bylchau, a hamlet
to be presumed that the expense Des Voeux Road-Pedder Street
15 PER MAN.
buse
which would have been involved, junction, but the delay is some- caused the postponement of such what hard
to understand. The #desirable improvement. Since matter of casting a new then, motor traffic has fucreased should not be aimcult. greatly, and Robinson Road has
become quite an important motor The New Road,
route. The narrowness of the
bridge creates a positive danger,
The new rond along the
about a thousand feet above sea | level, is now almost completed, and may be opened in May next. The width is 20 ft,, the surface entirely tarmac, and the steepest gradient is 1 in 12 or 13. The old track passed neuror to the vale Dublin Park Guards. of Clwyd and was barely wide enough for a single ear. The new Dublin (Ireland) has become section will allow plenic parties to
and sooner or later it is certain Reclamation in certainly a credit tired of casual car-mindors, and come from Colwyn Bay and other that it will be widened in the to the Colony, and when the com- the municipal authoritics are con coast resorts to the Denbighshire It leplete water front scheme is finish-sidering-a schemo to authoris at moors.
interests of public safety,
to be hoped that the work will jed, a transformation will be offect tendants. not be long delayed.
Parking..
ed,
Quito a large number of They plan to appoint 67 men, RUB OUT TROUBLES, motor vehicles are already using each of whom will control 15' park the new thoroughfare, although ed cars..
the surfacing is not yet completed,
Resilient Roads Suggested.
The institution of the
Rubber
We make no excuse for again the final touches yet having to be referring to the urgent need of Instituting a practical system of I given. In connexion with this, parking at Statue Square. Hong in the week, of the strewing of There Is ample widths to close Industry and Rubber Growers' As-
a portion of the road at a time, Imany motorists complained early kong is sadly lacking in parking the 'surface with a covering of either side of the road when Aur-sociation suggests that rubber pay- N, S. MOȘES & CO., LTD., spices, and it really seems absurd small loose stones. These were of facing or other repair work is ing on roads will solve the problema that full advantage should not sufficient size to damage tyres, and necessary, and the feelings of of noise, cost of maintenance, and be taken of the few locations we have been asked to suggest motorists might be studied in, this damage, to property caused by available. The vicinity of Statue that such work might be done over respect.
Bole ́Agenta,
vibration.
Enjoy the Summer
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