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BY OVER 200 Succran FUL MAKERR,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JUNE 22, 1929.
MUSINGS AWHEEL.
Idle Thoughts Upon Motoring Matters of the Moment.
[By Milcator in the Morris Owner.] ·
Cheap Travelling.
road which screams at
you: "Danger! Though I have been motoring for There is no turning of any kind on
Concealed Turning ja good many years now, I never the right-hand side for a matter
ccase to be surprised at cheapness when I come to work out drive not concealed at all but its of half a mile, but on, the left is a the cost per mile at the end of perfectly visible to anyone with long run. Early in the autumn eyes in his head. It is high time did a tour round Devonshire in that this question of private rond my Morris which totalled seven signs was gone into by those faj hundred and thirty-five miles. nuthority. The greater part of it was over excellent ronds, but not a few trips were made through narrow lanes
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A Debatable Point,
There has been some recent dis- over hills with gradients up to cussion with regard to the off-side one in four. The actual dis-rule." It was taken up in the first bursements for the trip were place by the Automobile Associa Petrol and oil, £2 6., garage fees, tion and Inst autumn a daily papar 180.-total £3 ds. This works out started in to boost I wholehearted- to 766 pence for 720 miles, or ar. There followed a storm of cor. tiny fraction over a penny a mile. respondence in both lay and motor- As there were two of us in the earing papers, some folk proclaiming the cost of the journey was as roundly that the universal adop nearly as possible a halfpenny ation of the mile, per head.
more
off-side rule would solve all dimeulties, whilst othera were equally emphatic that it would make things worse than ever, Myself, I don't believe that
The Depreciation Question Some will have it that to these costs should be added an allowance rule will reduce traffic to for depreciation. But honestly 1
perfect orderliness or do away raunot see why one should do so, entirely with the necessity for the for depreciation I
than point-duty fan. The off-side rule offset by the enjoyment that onere exses where its adoption might fis certainly a useful one, but there derives from driving and fromke matters a little difficult. being able to go exactly where on Take for instance the case of al- feels inclined, without being tied most any main road with a number to any absolutely definite route.of smaller ronds crossing it. If Don't forget, ton, that even if the the off-side rule were put strictly fear does depreciate you do exactly into practice we should have to the reverse yourself whilst usingproceed in a series of jumps aut it-use your Morris each day and forks, for it would continually be keep the doctor away,
necessary to give way to ears
Marvellous Modern Tyres. joining the main stream from turn- ings on the right. Whatever other In the early days of motoring rules we do have, I hope that it tyre running costs were quite con-will remain the duty of a driver aiderable, for tyres were dear and who is turning on the main road' they didn't always last very long. to slow right down and not to Have you ever worked out how proceed until he is sure that the remarkably little is the cost per way is clear,
mile when using the splendid tyres.
that we have nowadays? Supposing
that you fit four brand new 27 by
To Charge or Not to Charge.
4.40 covers, the cost is £10 1s, or I meet quite a lot of people who, 2412 pence. If by some astonish-fondly imagine that the more they in stroke of bad luck the whole charged their batteries the more set lasted only 5000 miles the cost full of life, zip, vim and so on will would atill be under a halfpenny they be! One fellow, for instance, a mile. With reasonable luck com with whom I took a hundred miles bined with proper treatment of drive the other day, insisted upon one's tyres running costa come out charging the whole time, Knowing at a small fraction of a penny for that he never drove at night, I each mile run,
asked him at the end of twenty miles or so whether he had found his battery on the low side that Sonie people make a praktice of reason. "Ah, no," he said, "but I morning for some unexplained keeping a brand new tyre on the always keep the switch in the spare wheel and never using it charging position when I am driv until a puncture renders a change ing, for I do like to have necessary. This is rather bad batteries well up." practleb, especially if, as often tonished when I told him that he Ile was no- occurs, thousands of miles are run was not doing the battery any without the necessity for changing good.
The Spare Wheel.
a wheel, Exposed to the effects of
light and never given any work,
ja tyre is apt gradually to lose its
Danger!
A Handy Hint.
my
resiliency, for the rubber tends to Ideally, of course, one should harden. By far the best tip is to take the specific gravity of the make a point of giving ench tyre ces with a hydrometer at frequent its fair share of work. With all intervals, but this is seldom five tyres in regular use you are necessary with Lucan batteries if likely to get a much bigger mileage ne bears in mind one or two out of the set than if you don't points about accumulators. The. use the fifth until the original effect of charging is to bring about four have seen their best days.. a change in the chemical coni- position of the plates. Placing the battery under load undocs, no to Some day my feelings will get the charging process. Once we speak, this change, for it reverses the better of me. I shall place a have charged for so long that the little axe in my car, and as I pre-maximum possible chemical change) eeed along the roads I will stop has been effected, further charg at intervals and hew down everying is not good for the health of one of those private danger boards the plates, though a slight amount that are rapidly becoming such of overcharging will not hurt them. common objects of the countryside. If the battery is used for starting Everyone who has a drive debouch-purposes only, as it is during a ing on to a main road has apparent-daylight run, it is a good plan to ly the right to erect a board war-charge for a quarter of an hour: ing all motorists to drive slowly be after each use of the self-starter. cause of somo unspecified When all the lights are on, the "danger," though why we should ammeter will show the actual dis- all be asked to crawl past an en charge rate. Put the switch in the trance gate because the owner's charging position and ascertain car may emerge once a day or so whether with the head, side and is rather beyond me. It is entirely tail lights switched on, the battery up to the fellow coming out of the is losing er gaining on the deal. drive on to the main road to see Should the needle of the instru that he has a clear course before ment remain in the zero position,: ho does . The worst of it is the dynamotor is supplying just that the presence of these as much current as the battery is ridiculous signs in such numbers delivering. If it is slightly on the Noise Taboo in Paris. tends to reduce one's respect for charge side the battery is losing warning signs in general-another nothing and the suplus charge is example of the folly of crying usually so small that there is no "wolf!"
need to worry about it. Suppose on the other hand that it shows a net discharge of two amperes. Then Every motorist must be familiar for every hour that you run with of silent night, if the Police Com-with instances of the absolutely the lights on, the battery is two. missioner has his way, but his way futile signboard.
SILENT NIGHTS.
POLICE CHIEF'S THUD.
Paris will descend from its pori- tlon us the gay capital to the city
Glaring Instances.
One that I ampere-hours down. With a 'normal)
is made difficult by existing laws. know is outside the gates of a charging rate of eight amperes In a recent pollee regulation the house that has been empty for this means that you must run with Commissioner prohibited the usa long time, another is at the gate the switch in the charge position of any form of motor horn after of a drive leading to a house whose a quarter of an diour in daylight a.m. All motor drivers instead owner does not possess so much for every hour that you have must slow down to a crawl, and as pony cart. But the worst of all travelled in the dark, to maire switch their headlights off and on is one situated on the right of the good the loss, when approaching cross-roads or
alde turnings, he ordered.
Most of them did, but some did 1 a.m. To the surprise of the of-misioner had no right to establish not and one was summoned for fender, the ease was dismissed, as a regulation which was contradic- having made a-warning nolec after it was held that the Police Comtory to French road laws.“
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