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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 3, 1929.
ARMLESS MAN DRIVES CAR.":
Tribute to Nash Steering.
Cleveland, Ohio-The fact that O. G. Zak ban his left arm of five inches below the shoulder and his right, one inch and one-half below the elbow, does not prevent him freun completely enjoying the new Nash Special Six. "400" Sedan, which he purchased recently from the Revke-Nash Motors Comparty of Cleveland, Ohio.
YOUR CAR SHOULD CARRY AN AUTO-TOTAL. THE BEST MOTOR CAR FIRE EXTIN-
GUISHER IN THE WORLD.
· Prices from
the Sole agents,
KELLER, KERN & Co., Ltd.
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A. J.
J. S.
Mr. Zak, who has driven Nash cars for several years, ja particularly impressed with the steering ease of the 400" Series which he says in the easiest stcering eur yet produced. The armless driver is a familiar sight on the streets of Cleveland and spectators marvel at the case with which he handles not only the steering, but also the gear-shift lever which he manipulates with his right foul.
SEGRAVE-THE BOY.
Peter Pan of the Wheel.
4.
STIFF TRAINING IN LONDON.
L.G.O.C. Drivers Put Through Severe Tests.
Psychologists have said that to index governing the most suitable participate in some game with a size of men, having rogard to the person is to find out that indiv driving controls and the height of idual's real character.. Mr. C. J.
Bartlett, managing director of Gen the omnibus, the personal interview eral Motors, claims that to sit in is calcunted to furnish the selector] a car beside the driver is one off with certain information. With the best means of learning that regard to previous experience, it has 'driver's disposition. The munner)
in which he reacts to various altu- been proved in practice that this! atlons which confront him in drly need not be confined to motor trac ly his vehicle gives a fairly action, for the ex-driver of a heavy eurate poluter to his general per steam waggon, or, indeed, of a pair sonality.
of horses, usually becomes a very The "back-seat driver" is often suitable motor omnibus driver. It a severe trial to the actual steers is considered that the man should man and the man who can maintain have a degree of sympathy with an unruffled demeanour in spite his engine, and in the engagement
of suggestions regarding his driy of drivers, whilst mechanical know- ing from someone else in the ear ledge is not considered essential; (i undoubtedly possesses a placid tem- is certainly looked upon na desir perament. How a man handles his
able. Sa far as is possible, u car in heavy traffic indientes the driver's previous record is probed control lie has over his nervous for neeftient. Certain men it is system; the manner in which he
reacts to a breakdown in some re- found suffer with what may be mote spot will show something of called an accident complex and
whatever sleps are taken to im his temper and his behaviour in
prove matters, the fact remains that case of accident gives a line on they are continually in trouble. hia sympathetic nature.
CHRYSLER
-above.
all others.
A driver must not possess'
preferably. he Selecting and Training Drivers, temperament,"
must not be ensily upset. It la by It is interesting to learn the observing, at the initial personal methods employed for selecting and interview the reflex action of a man training drivers and conductors by a questions which are asked him, the London General Omnibus Co. find some assumption of his men- which operates the world's largest tality in this respect is arrived bus fleet.
at; the movement of the fingers, In a recent issue of "Bus & the twitching of mek and eye mus Coach," the operator's journal, Mr. eles, and, indeed, a number of little Geogre Shave, chief engineer of the physical maneriants, which, after; 160.C., has some illuminating re- all, are only the outward and visi- marks to make on the subject of the Jute signs of a passing mental state, Labour Bureau and Training Cen- are watched by the selecting offieid. SOLE AGENTS' tre of the operating staff, which
He left Sandhurst at the age of seventeen, was wounded in France a year later, and became a major In the Air Force at the age of nineteen. After the war he decid, ed to take up motor-racing, and be describes as one of the most Anticipating Service Conditions. important departments of any large
One very interesting aspect of asked Mr. Louis Coatalen, of the transport undertaking. The satis Sunbeam Co. to give him a job, factory running of a vehicle mainly the training of a L.G.O.C. driver A HARDY IRISHMAN. Contalen refused. He said he was depends upon the skill of the driver is that which takes place on the and the sympathetic interest which, grease-covered instruction ground always being pestered by young he takes in it; a careless and in. Et the Chiswick depot. This is! Heury O'Neal De Hane-Segrave men who thought they could brenk | different driver can, in a very short known as the non-skidding text and| is thirty-three years old, the son reports and only succeeded in time, ruin the finest vehicle ever takes place upon a surface which for Mr. Charles Segrave, an Irish-breaking their necke, iman, and calet of the old baronial family of Segrave, of which Lord Mowbray and Stourton is the head,
"Justify Yourself,"
"Go and justify yourself at your writes 1. W. D. in the Daily Eown expense in your own ear," he prees. There was a barony of Segrave centuries ago.
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said. "Then come back."
Segrave did. He bought a second-hand Opel-it nearly clean-, ed him out of funds-and won enough with I to cause Mr. Coutalen to think again.
Since then, he has never looked back, and all the world knows why.
But it is not Segrave the motor-
ist that I remember most. It is
Segrave the man, the schoolboy
has been specially prepared with produced.
In the case of the L.G.O... the mixture of soft soap and grease. standard which has been set, hath Upon this the "traince has to carry out certain evolutions with his bus, as regards physical iness and general character, is a very high such as palling up at a fixed point.
and negotiating obstacles placed on one, and the selection officials have the skid patch. The value of the to be satisfied on certain essential test lies in the confidence IL points regarding age and height aspires in the man when he finds before training is commenced.
The Perronal Interview..
The Republic Motor Co.
of China.
(Successors A. LUNG & Co.
1
Auto Dopt,)
30 32, Des Voeux Road
If
The man's service with tho com- himself in such a condition on the pany is, in fact, purposely antici public streels, which is only In apated in a general way, due to tho amall way comparable with that desire to illustrate the manner in As apart from the standards under which he takes the test dur- which prevention of accident is which have been laid down as an ing training.
catered for.
ARRIVING NEXT WEEK
with the irreprosable joy in life. THE WORLD'S LOWEST PRICED
the schoolboy who hates cats and
| hunts them with an airgun in his
garden in a dressing gown and slippers before breakfast,
The man who wants to break the world's motor-boat record, but who is always seastek, in a yacht and hates the sex, He cannot even swim.
"Why do you want to do it,; tken"
"Well, it's
new form of speed," he replied, "and I haven't tried it, yet, and the Americans hold the record so far. That's the main reason. Now watch me.
Magnificent Shot,
And he cocked an air pistol, aimed at the envelope which I had just stuck on the dobr, and put a alug smack through the postage stamp on it.
Segrave is a magnificent shot. Shooting is one of his favourite sports. He likes wildfowling on his native Irish bogs best of all, Each season he shoots in Norfolk at a certain lordly house where they kill pheasants by the eart- load; but his joy in life is to kill a right and left at snipe with one foot in the water and the other on ju bog-tussock.
And he collects weapons and armour. Two of my most prized possessions are a harem dagger: with which the ninth Caliph of Bagdad was stabbed by his favour- ite wife, and a demi-suit of Crom wellian armour which Segrave gave me. His father owns one of the finest private collections of armour and weapons in Europe.
Segrave never drinks and sel- dom smokes. He is a scientist and a business man, and leaves noth- ing to luck. He has no nerves and ал Immense sense of fun: Cynicism and sophistication are words whose meaning he has never learnt and he will never grow
up.
STRAIGHT EIGHT
Roosevelt
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