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PRATT & LAMBERT EFFECTO AUTO FINISHES
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 10th AUGUST, 1929.
Being The Officiät Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
ALYA DUMBRIA Ova pieza OLÍA DEL
THE LATEST IN “EIGHTS” NOW
HERE,
Special
Report of the
Roosevelt's Great Test,
Refuelling the record-breaking Rusevelt ear during the endurance run which broke all pre-
vious records for non-stop automotive performance.
TRAFFIC SIGNALS RECORD SHIPMENTS. HEAT INDICATORS.
EXPERIMENT.
A New Device.
SHANGHAI TESTS.
The Trafic Department, Shanghai Municipal Police has been conduct-
Oakland and Pontiac Radiator, Type Best.
Do Well.
RECENT FIGURES.
OVERHEATING" RISKS.
While the distance type of en-
ing additional experiments with Pontiac Sixes during the first four to the car
Shipments of Oakland and eine heat indicator is a conventence danger signs along Municipal
owner who wants to
as was the case
roads, the one most noticeable being months of 1929 totalled 118,222, ac-keep close check an the engine, the the death's hend at Medhurst Rond's cording to figures just received by arrangement is not as effective in junction with Bubbling Well Road. Mr. A. J. Allison Manager of the warning te average drivers of sud- The skull itself has not been Motor Dept. of Lane Crawford. Ltd.den overheating.
seventy-five units less than March radiator capi
April shipments totalled 36,384, when the device attached to the shipments-the banner month in the company's history.
nyer.
illuminatest, but both the Chinese and English lettering have been outlined in Neon tubes, which burn day and night. Detalled attention
The reason la that the distance- is being given to this sign, and if deemed successful after one month's The record of 118,222 cars ship temperature of the water around type device registers the actual operation, this and the death's head red during the first four months of the cylinder head and thus ap- on the opposite corner, will be 1929 more than doubled the total proaches the danger zone more permanently lighted. It is possible 58,877 cars sold in the same period gradually when registeri that they will be lowered and placed of 1927 and bettered the 1928 period heating. In the case of the meters on posts, on the kerbs.
by 15,591. March and April figures that are attached to the radiator On the "S" curve on Markham are an indication of the general Road, lanes of traffte having been market trend and are a gain of 30 cp there was a big jump in the designated by concrete runners, ex-per cent, over March and April last height of the red line when steam periments with reflectors are being year.
was generated. made. The mechanism is similar in Production schedules In the Oak- Even if the distance-lype_indic-' type to those signs, which one land factories are keyed up to keep ator is pointing near the danger ates on vehicles during the day, pace with the increasing dead for line and is hissing very slowly, reflections from the sun on mirrors Oakland and Pontiac Sixes that are the driver should stop the engine lighting a glass behind. Higher meeting with such favour in the and investigate. The indicator is incandescance has been obtained in medium and low price class. the overhead lights and it is ex- pected the reflections, below will alght. answer their purpose during the | Still other means of attracting gerous places are being considered, the public's attention toward dan
SNAIL'S PACE,
Slow Hill Climb.
"DRUNK" TEST QUESTIONED.
British P.M.'s View.
not apt to jump suddenly, even if the water pump, breaks or there is stoppage of circulation.
SERMONS, NOT SUMMONS.
Considerable difference of opinton Services for Motorists. exists among judges and magis- trates
the question of matorlats capability to drive a car when under the influence of drink.
CARS BLESSED.
A novel hill climb stared by, an automobile club in Paris, demanded of competitors the lowest possible holds that the law does not require be able to go for a Sunday run with
A prominent London magistrate
Motorists in the Riviera, will now time on the hill.
a higher degree of sobriety in ajan eusy cousefence, The course was n hilly section of motorist than in a pedestrian, and place went to a Buick, which climb motorist must be so drunk as to help reduce the number of traffic ne Montmartre, 800 metres long, First before he convicts, thinks, that a France sermons are being applied to In several towns In the south of
the grade in 35 minutes 23 justify his arrest in the street for eldents. These are send at special secinds, a spil's average of 1.168 disorderly conduct. The ear, he week day services, which only car Bilognetres an hour.'
considera, does not matter.
Following the brief cabled story, that the car was swung sideways. Not once in the 440 hours and of the wonderful non-stop run of on the south turn of the Famous 40 minutes did the ear or its engine the "Reusevelt" car during June, race course and continuance of the stop. Refuelling was the following account of this epic run was made physically impos motion from a "mother" ear and done in performance will be of interest tosible. An entire building was off and water likewise were added Hongkong motorista,
picked up by the wind and placed on the run, The forces of nature overrsnej in the middle of the track, the airfthe A.A.A. stayed "on the apot” Representatives of the forces ul man in sensational was filled with gasoline cana and twenty-four hours each day and fashion at the Indianapolis Motor flying debris, and the track was the record-making Roosevelt was Speedway to bring to an end the strewn with timbers mal shattered under their constant observation, longest non-stop endurance test in svetions of fenees Bail granit- The last record to be braken by The world's witomotive history stands,
the Roosevelt was the sustained 440 hours and 40 minutes,
Shortly after the fury of the light mark of the airplate Fort This remarkable record, never storm subsided, Marmon oficials Worth-172 hours, 32 minutes and Before approached on land ay inand A.A.A. representatives visited second. This was accomplished the air, was accomplished by the spegilway and, after survoying in the afternoon of June 19, after Maemon-built Roosevelt, picked at the scene of destruction, agreed to the ear had been on random, from the assembly line infring the test to its orial or slightly more than a week. There- the truck the Marmon factory by Americanclusion. Inmediately the task of after, ach additional haar piled Automobile Association represe compiling oilleial reconsis was up by the enr was adding only to tatives, and run under the official started. The merk now held by the record it had already mile. absorvating of that body.
the Roosevelt is subject, of course, Two solid weeks brought the total The finish of the test, after to confirmation by the A.A.A, and to 336 hours, and the 400-hour eighteen days, eight hours and 40 also by the International Associa-mark was reached at 2 o'clock in CORRESPONDENCE, minutes of continuous renting.ion of rame at the zenith of one of the Clubs before being declared cobejati
Recognized Automobile the morning of June 23, worst storms experienced in year in the eyes of those two organize the airplane Furt Worth's record When the run was completed, In central Indiana. A sixty mile
tions. jan kour pale, accompanied by a
was exceeded by 268 hours or more cloudburst, desrended with little) The Roosevelt car was entered than ploven days. The previous warning on the Sprodway early in in the text June 12, after being automobile non-stop record, estab the evening of thể ninetventh day taken directly from the Marmanlished during a const-to-coast run of the test and, after demolishing factory in the Indianapolis speed-'in 1925, had been excceded by 278ment, mention was made of the Marmon pil headquarters, tearing way where, each year, the munif hours.
1.
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To The Editor of Hongkong
Telegraph.]
Sir, In a recent motoring com-
fact that the white lines on the roofs from grandstands and filling 500-miles ruce is held on Mémorial The car used in the test was a
malo road corners have recently: the track with debris, brought an Day. With little reretnosy, it was stock Roosevelt sedan, standard in een renewed. Attention, how- unwelcome fund to the record, started on its way,
Pit head-every mechanical detuil and ever, was not drawn to the fact nuking run.
quarters had been established in equipped "ready for the road" with that they have been so designed Not only did torrents of rain | the speedway inficki, timing two extra wire wheels, tyres, tubes as to give more room to a cur on obliterate the vision of, the delver devices made ready in the judges' and--covers-shock absorbers, the inner carve than on the outer. and his riding companion, but the stand and all preparations con- bumpers front and rear, and trunk that it is far easier to make
I think all inotorista will agree velocity of the wind was so great|pleted for the run.
left-hand turn than to round a right-handed corner. In the former case one can bug the curb while in the latter one has to work against the camber of the road. This means that more room is inevitably required to perform the latter operation, and, of course, the white lines should be designed ecordingly, but the reverse is actually the case,
CURRENT
COMMENT
Courtesy Wanted!
Complaints have reached us of the lack of courtesy shown by some drivers on the road around the New Territories. The complaints deal with the question of allowing care to overtake slower moving vehicles, it being pointed out that some Fences and Walls,
Lesisted impacts as high as thirty-drivers, usually of public hire cars, five tons. On the road to Stanley, refuse to take notice of the repented Some very interesting experi- just past Repulse Bay, it would ap signals given by motorists desiring nents have been carried out by peur that various experiments have to pass ahead. Our information is State Highways Department of been carried out in the past in rond thoroughly reliable, and we gladly Connecticut, U.S.A., in order to de-fencing, and an appropriate type give publicity to the matter in the termine which particular type of which should possess 11 certain hope that passengers riding in road fencing is the most desirable. amaunt of the necessary realllency hired cars will remember that it in So many serious accidents have is in the form of an iron and wire up to them to instruct their drivers
instructions frum the Traffic been recorded of motorists being fence. Although the question ap to give way to others when the usual Department. severely, and often fatally injured, pears to have received the attention form of request is made. There
do not have to record
Will the ILK.A‚A, take this up with the Authorities?
Enclosing my card,-Yours, etc.,
CITIZEN. Hongkong, August 8th.
as the result of curs crashing into of our Roads Department, the old are many localities in the New Ter- Peuk Sérvice. fences and walls, that investigation method of erecting granite walls is ritories where a little speeding may was inaugurated, and various re-still followed. Due consideration of he indulged in, although we do not Peak motorists will be interested commendations were submitted by the new system would appear to be suggest for one moment that the to-car that Meaara. Lane, Craw the experts appointed. The ques desirable."
complaints emunate from motorista ford, Ltd. have instituted a special ffon is of great importance to Hong-Salisbury Road.
who delight in speeding. On the service at the Peak Garage where- kang, where It Is the custom to bor-
Rond re-surfacing work has contrary, we happen to know that by cars may be left there whenever ALL COLOURS KEPT IN STOCK True, we
der roads with small granite walls, recently been carried out on a the owner-drivers concerned are repairs, adjustments or overhaul. many serious accidents by cars portion of Salisbury Rond, from particularly careful drivers. There ing may be needed. If the work is crashing into these walls, but it is Canton Road to the Fire Station, is no reason why cars should not auch that the use of the machinery main service stalion at wise to consider the question from and although part of the work be driven slowly, if the passengers at the the point of view of greatly in-appeared to be completed, the unso desire, but when drivers main Wanchal is necessary, the car will creased motor traffle in the future touched for some five days or so. fase to move over from the centro when ready to be handed over to Anished job was roped off, and not tain a speed of from fifteen to twen-be taken down to that establishment, ty miles per hour, and obstinately and returned to the Peak Garage The fence of the future, according to the experts referred to above, It may be that it was necessary to of the roadway, in spite of repeated the owner. Minor adjustments will be cable strung between up leave the work at that particular rights with resiliency enough to juncture for a few days, bat requests, their action, should be can, of course, be carried out at throw back the calliding car, bouring in mind the busy anture punishable. One motorist was com- the Peak, but for any intricato Dangerous turns have been used for of the locality, auch work should pelled to follow another car for work, it is naturally necessary for over eight miles on Sunday last. It be carried out of the workshops the experiments, and it has been be completed with all possible It certainly seems that publie hire where every modern appliance is found that some cable fences have speed.
drivers need comprehensive road avallable.
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In motor laws this problem should drivers are supposed to attend. inner, so that no doubt shall be left us to the tests of those charged with obtaining evidence.
be dealt with in a most explicit
the procession of cars to the central After the service the bishop loads
square of the town and there blesses them.
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