SPEED LIMIT.
Italy's "Autostrade."
200 MILES 'LONG. Highway patrolmen, nemesis of American motorists in their own Italy's country, are absent from new super-highways or "auto strade."
Signs tell the drivers that the "aky is the limit" on speed, but the uninitiated American, who may not be up on his Italian, often takes the placard as a warning to hold down his pace. But whether he knows Italian or not, he spon learns that the fine ribbon of Wide concrete highway. which unfolds beneath the wheels of his car knows no speed limit.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
THORNYCROFT
AGAIN.
Large Repeat Business.
A SOUND TRIBUTE.
Recent orders for Thornycroft motor vehicles have been remark- able for the number of repenta from present users, which form the bulk of the business secpred by this Company during the past
few.weeks.
Contracts have also been placed by: The War Omge; Shell Mex, Ltd.; Metropolitan Borough of Hackney; the British Cotton and Wool Dyers' Association; Watney. Combe, Reid & Co., Ltd.; Porta- mouth United Breweries; Snow- Big Italian, German or French don, Sons & Co., Ltd.; Austin cars thunder past him like rubber-Craven Ltd.,. Manchester; and tyred cannon balls. Ninety or 100 Saville Pianos Ltd., London. miles an hour is not an uncommon
speed for the bigger cars capable of holding the pace.
Overseas orders call for ship- ment of a large number of rigid six-wheelers to South Africa and to The "nutostrade" are the modern other Thornycroft. chassis cousing of the famous roads of the Brazil, Ceylon and Holland.
Roman empire. But these new
triumphs of highway engineering
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are even more remarkable, than ment without expense to it. In the those Romans built before the meantime the private company or Christian era.
ganized to build and operate the
They are straight, dat, uniter-super-highways will keep them In sected roads, reserved elusively repair. A toll of about $1 is charg- for passenger automobile traffic.ed for use of a stretch 100 miles More than 200 miles of these super- | long,
highways have already been opened The highway from Milan to Lake And a half dozen branches from the Como, the first one opened, has main arteries are under construc-proved itself sufficiently successful tion or projected.
to encourage the building of other
The new highways are not char-routes. acteristic of general road conditions On the super-highways crossroads in Italy; they are the exception. Jare separated by bridges and Italy's regular, system of road is vinduets. Strong fences along the. rapidly improving under govern- | right-of-way keep out pedestrian ment control and supervision, but traders. There are no angular the super-highways, are toll roads turns. The roads vary from 24 to built by private enterprise ander 40 feet in width. A telephone Governmiatal authorization.
ervice at fregaent, paints makes it possible for the unfortunate motor-
st to call for service,
In 50 years the tyl highways will become the property of the govern.
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115-inch wheelbase.
Oil filter, petrol filter and crankcase ventilating system.
Lanchester vibration dampener. Thermostatically controlled cooling, Double-drop chassis frame. Hydraulic shock absorbers. Steel core safety steering wheel.
Adjustable steering wheel and driver's seat. Amplifical-action 4-wheel braking. Tamish-proof chromium plating, Coincidental lock to ignition and steering
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
25 Queen's Road Central
Tel. Central 4759.
MAPPING LONDON'S BUS ROUTES.
Collapsible framework on the roof of this Chevrolet is used
for measuring the height of bridges in a series of tests being made by the London General Omnibus Fleet,
The London General Omnibus Company uses a bicycle wheel attached, to a Chevrolet Truck for recording distance in its roads condition tests.
One of the duties of the London fifth wheel is mounted on leaf General Omnibus Company is to springs. As it must never be re- map out new routes and work out versed, a special locking · devica running schedules for its bus ser- prevents this when the yardometer vice. For many years this has is on the ground.
been done by a man who pushedi A large overhead frame a yardometer, or measuring whee!) apparatus constructed to the over the proposed route. The measurements of the latest type of wheel measured exactly a yard in covered top bus, tests the clear- circumference and recorded its ance of bridges, overhanging trees revolutions ат a Veeder type and other obstructions. To check cyclometer.
for open buses, a telescopic "auge This way of assembling in measuring 18 feet above the road formition had its drawbacks, the level is used.
most important being the length; Inside the car, is a board, on of time it took one man to cover which are various recording in- any given route, and it has re-
28 a. Tepley cently been abandoned in favour struments auch
gradient meter, road camber re-
of a more rapid method.
A Chevrolet has been fitted with sister, two controlographs, an a special body and equipped with autometer and a clock. All these! various recording instruments and are highly technical devices, auto- apparatus. The yardometer is fix matically recording in graph form ed through the centre of the such things as distances covered chassis, forming a fifth wheel, and in specified times, duration. of connected with instrument stons, speeds attained, etc. similar to a speedometer, except The London General Omnibus. that yaris Instead of miles are re- Company covers about 173 million gistered, To prevent faulty miles annually with its fleet of recording through road shocks, the more than 4,000 buses.
DRIVERS SÚS. PENDED.
Manila Speed Fiends Checked.
WOMAN ON LIST.
Three hundred and thirty-eight motor car drivers have been ordered to be suspended by Mr. A. D. Wil- Hams, Director of Public Works, following a recommendation sub- mitted by Mr. Salustano Reyes, Superntendent of the, Automobile Division of the Bureau.
.The reason for the suspension of the chauffeurs is violation of the automobile law. According to Mr. Reves, the provision of the law mostly violated by "the chauffeurs is the speed limit. Of the 338 who were suspended more than half were found guilty of speeding on more than on occasion.
The war against "speed fiends"; who are operating on into-provin cial roads in the Philippines will be carried out by the Public Works
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zafe, Mr. Reyes declared,
Despite the terror an epidemic of typhoid fever. or diphtheria causes, automobiles are 10 times as deadly as the former and nearly twice as deadly as the latter) ne- cording to the California Commit- tec on Public Safety.
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HEAD OFFICE Hongkong. Bank Building, da Don Tour Roud Central.
Tel. 0. 1121-22.
SATURDAY, OCTOBER 26, 1929.
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|ASH engineers, one of America's most competent technical groups, designed and built the Nash "400"
to be today's most modern, most efficient motor caT. The "100" has to spark plugs of big aircraft type to each cylinder. These make higher compression practical, in- suring quicker ignition, smoother acceleration, 22% more horsepower, 5 miles per hour greater speed, 2 miles extru from every gallon of fuel,
Outboard mounted hydraulic shock absorbers cushion every rand. Centralized chassis lubrication oils 21 vitál purts at a touch. A new steering mechanism provides the', world's casiest driving control,"
Everything from bumpers to tyre locks is included in the one price. There are no "extras" to buy other than apare tyree. Every Nash on the salesroom floor is ready for the road. Nush efficiency is clothed with Nash beauty. Here is a charm of colour, a grace of contour to delight the most critical eye.
And because of great volume production-a car of truly moderate price-a luxury car without luxury's usual penalty.
WONG SIU WOON,
Sole Agents for Hongkong and South China, Telephone C. 1474.
21, Poffinger Street, SERVICE STATION:-76, Des Vaux Road Central,
Telephone C. 644
NASH 400"