MOTORING
II.K.A.A. and the Tax.
SUPPLEMENT
CURRENT
COMMENT
Lamount of petrol consumed, and
years,
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 11th MAY, 1929.
Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION..
AIR TAXIS.
Shilling Per Mile.
IN LONDON NEXT MONTH
which
to assure themselves
must
no
be can
and come, doubt but
there what
OUTBOARD MOTORING.
Famous Motor Hore.
18
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WRONG OF THE ROAD.
Greatest Accident Cause.
SELF CONTAINED UNIT. the greater the amount paid under London will have air taxis in
CRASHES ANALYSED. We have received a number of the petrol tax scheme. For good-June, when the new air park will Hongkong, that the "Col. Green" News has just boen received In enquiries during the week asking nese sake, let us have progressive be opened at Hansworth, 12 miles Cup, the highest award for out-recorded in the State of California Of a total of 20,622 motor crashes what the Hongkong Automobile legislation! Association is doing about the Mistaken Impression.
from the West End, containing board racing, has been won recent matar taxation proposals. }
two aerodromes.
Miami, Florida by a Johnson out half 10,609 occurred at street at (U.S.A.) during 1928, more than Members may rest assured that A few local motorists appear to
One will be the headquarters of board motor. Winning the Col. and road intersections, and 3229 their intercats are being "keenly be under the mistaken impression 16 light planes, which will fly all Green Cup means as much to the of these happened because one of studied and we are able to inform that the application of a tax on over the country for a shilling a outbroad racing pilot as winning the drivers sought to cross without them that a special sub-committee the horse-power of motor vehicles mile, and which will also be used the Indianapolis motor races, to having the right of way. has been appointed in deal with would prove of grant assistance for instruction, tests, and demon-the motor car racer,
To reckless driving 2879 were at- the matter, with a view to placing to the British motor car industry stration lights, the Association's ophton before in this part of the world, for the with lock-up garages, and will be produced in the
The other 'drome will be equipped The Johnson outboard motor is 2240, and driving on the wrong side {tributed; speeding accounted for the Government. To those who simple reason that it would in the equivalent in aviation of a coun- factory for this type of Marine of the road for 2030 others. "Cut-
world's largest have made a definite enquing re crease the maintenance cost of the try club, possessing residential ac-engine, and is known universally in 1252 cases the car left the road. [ting-in" caused 1364 crashes, and the attitude of the ILKA.A., we majority of foreign vehicles. commodation, a ballroom and ten-as the fastest and most reliable Mechanical defects were blamed for can say that the horse-power sug-While this is quite true as far annis and rackets courts.
outboard in production. gestion does not ad favour, but Hongkong is concerned, it is to
only 922, and "that tired feeling" that the petrol tax is considered China that British manufacturers
This engine has many unique resulted in 208 mishans, to be quite reasonable,
should look for trade expansion,
features, such as the release At railway crossings 368 acci- 'One Basie.
this Colony merely taking the facturers are sending their direct
representative. American manu-charger, which releases
com-dents occurred, while 431 cars were Local mutorists nre keenly place of a clearing house and sales awaiting the Government's pro-centre for the big trade which will representatives to this Colony inpression from one cylinder super-piled up against trams. Wot roads
order
charges the other, and double the were the cause of 1246, and drunk- nouncement on the Report of the be done with Chins in the future of a large share of the trade park intensity. With this com-en drivers amassed a tally, of 74. special Commitice appointed to If British manufacturers secured
bination motor starting explore the question of motor the whole of the orders for cars
extremely simple. Another COSTLY CHANGE. volicie taxation. We have made to be used in Hongkong in the their efforts will be most success-special feature ja the under- many enquiries, and without ex-next five years, the amount of ful when in competition with tes exhaust noise and gnca. From Changing Plant.
water exhaust which olimin- coption, whether the opinion of business would he relatively small. the British trade, in no small the trade or the private owner, Britain's Mistake. the, unanimous view is that the
mensure due to the great difference The Johnson has magneto Igni-.
A decided advantage over The Ford Motor Company lost There is not only fair basis is the petrol tax doubt
the slightest in the power of their vehicles Bation, that the horse-power compared with British. If the battery Ignition. There is a good £15,000,000 last year, mostly aga There should really be no occasion tax which has been in force Committee which recently advised range of models to choose from result of its factories being closed to emphasise the fact, but unfor-ne Grent Britain for minny the adoption of the horse-power tax every requirement being cared during the changing of the models. tunately the, man in the street has proved of the greatest for the Colony hoped to assist Bri-for, from the single cylinder 14 which controls manufacture in Aus The Canadian Ford stock issue, no voice in public affairs, but assistance to the American motor tish trade, they apparently over. h.p. for dingy use, to the racing merely has to accept whatever the
iralla and Egypt, also suffered Government may deem desirable.car industry in the world's lead. looked the fact that China is the cylinder 32 h.p. model.
heavily from the idleness last year, We do not auggest for one moment turers no modelled their cars that | The H. K. A. A.
ing markets. British, manufac- potential market, not Hongkong.
The Johnson is an entirely self but for the first three months of that the Government takes advan the very minimum of horse-power
contained unit, strongly construct this year, it is rumoured, there was lage of the impotence of the com should be required, excepting, of
The Membership List for 1929ed, but so light that it is easily a profit of £300,000 a month. munity it rules, but it is quité
handled by one man. It makes an new stock inave 'was over-gub- possible that in the absence of course, in the cnses of the more of the Hongkong Automobile As-ideal auxilary for yachts and sail-scribed twenty times,
|sociation ban just been published, whereas, spirited protests demanded by costly vehicles, particular proposals, as in the American manufacturer decided and shows that the number of ng bonts. It is possible to alow in a very small present matter of horse-power to embody greater power. The motorials who have joined is well the motor away
on the way to the six hundred mark space, ready for use at a moment's taxation, harsh legislation juight result has been that low-priced
notice. These motors will aland be enacted from time to time. By British cars have generally failed Touring Abroad.
up to long continous periods of unc. making a petrol tax the sole menus in the outside marketa, simply
In a race recently held off the of distributing part of road costs from the angle of lack of power.
opened an Office in Paris for the American coast the course was 200 over motor vehicle owners, British Ability.
benefit of members touring on the miles long, and the Johnson was an whether public or private, an as-
Using the Bergius process, the easy winner at an average speed British manufacturers can pro- Continent. Carnets des Passage en of over 35 m.p.h.
huge Leuna plant in Germany is -surance is given that every vehicle|duce motor vehicles equal,Dousanes, Triptyques etc., will be
producing a motor fuel from coal contributes to the fund according if not superior, to any foreign issued in special cases, and ship- Many of these motors are in use which resembles petrol no closely. to the use it makes of the roads.product. And one has only ping arrangements will be under- in Hongkong and Coast Ports, all that it is entirely acceptable for Surely that is quite fair. The Lu remember the remarkable taken for membora. The address giving good service.
Last month the purpose. registration fee might be varied triumph for British mator is-20 bis Rue Lafayette, Paria. in the case of heavy vehicles, but engineering as represented by Sir Telegraphle address Fanum 22 even that should not be extor- Henry Segrave's feat to be as Paris. Telephones Provence 67-62, tionate, because the heavier the sured that British workmanship is | 57-63. car, bus or larry, the greater the of the highest possible order. It
In Spain, is all the more deplorable there-
The Automobile Association is fore, to know that in spite of the unquestiond ability to build motor officially advised that the four vehicles of equal power of those of months exemption from taxes on other countries, British engineers motor vehicles accorded to Brillah have been faced with the unfair tourists in Spain, is dependent on handicap of the iniquitous horse the production of an International power basis of taxation. Had there Travelling Paas issued by a duly merely been a tax on petrol, it is authorised body in Great Britain. quite obvious that મ very The Pass in question can be obtain- serious challenge could haveed from the Automobile Association, been thrown out to foreign manufacturers in the many vast markets outside the British Isles. As It Is, manufacturers of low priced cars have concentrated, on the Home markel, and the propor- tion of foreign trade secured hun been miserably small.
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The Automobile Association has
In Austria.
The Automobile Association is Informed that foreign motorists visiting Austria are not required to observe the regulation which pro- vides that if the rear red light can be switched off from the driver's sent, the 'driver must have an in-
The suggestion to impose apecial taxation on vehicles equinned with solid tyres in quite a good one, be- cause it does seem probable that such tyres cause greater damage to road surface than pneumatics. It
It is not too late for the British dicator light that will warn him Government to assist the Home In-of. ita extinction. dustry in a really practical manner Solid Tyres, by removing the power basis of taxation, thus removing the m businesslike and shortsighted policy which hus proved such a problem in the past. If British manufae Larers were able to offer China motor vehicles of similar power to those built by other countries, in to be taken for granted that the there is not the slightest doubt that Government holds a definite opinion a large share of business would on the matter, und auch being the go to Britain, but it is positively cause, we cannot understand why so absurd to blind our eyes to the fact many Government, lorries should that as long as the existing state be fitted with solid tyres, P.W.D. of affairs exists, Hongkong will see lorries must put up a very high vehicles increasing their turnover them being regularly employed in the manufacturers of foreign mileage figure in a year, many of as every month pusses, as China transporting material to repair the buys more, and yet moro motor roads which they themselves vehicles. This aspect of the ques- damage!
tion is a most unpleasant one, but New Members,
in fairness to British manufac
turers, market such as Hongkong Since publishing the lost list, should not remain silent, but point the following motorists have join- out the existing weakness. Wo ed the Hongkong Automobile know that the Federation Association:
of British Industries 18 TC-
N. S. MOSES & CO., LTD., presented here, and we should
Bolo Agents,
like to know that that in- fluential Body has had the true position placed before it by its local
Ming. G. M. Cotton.
Miss M. Watts.
S. J. Jordain;
N. S. Ellis.
R. G. Groundwater.
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COAL FUEL.
German Plant Successful.
A
un old aeroplane float equipped with During 1928, 70,000 metric tons a Johnson motor, and dingy also of coal were treated and this Johnson equipped, made the trip amount is to be trebled during from Macao to Hongkong und 1929.
buck.
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grade steeper than 1 in 16.
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