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CLIMBING TEST.
While the Morris Minor is offer--
ed as a touring vehicle pure'and'] simple, it is interesting to note) that free of these little cars recently gave a very fine account; of themselves on an interesting !! climb. promoted by the Transvaal Automobile. Club, ati Moulders Drift Hill, not far from Johanneskirg, The
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entered by Messrs. Connocks S. A. Motor Co., the locul Morris dealers, and were piloted respec-, tively by Messrs. W. A. Granthan and G. High and Mrs. E. Millin. In class A and B, for cars up to a 1000 ce.. they swept the board, securing first, second;, and third Blaces.
"Mr. G. High put up the best time in the, class namely, 1 minute 40 secs, while Mr. Granthan was de- clared the winner on formulu, We may mention that many of the Jarge six-cylinder cars failed to accomplish the climb in so good a
time as Mr. High's Minor.
Following on his success at the Hill climb, chronicled above, Mir. High has put up a record for light
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY, 19th DECEMBER, 1929.
Being The Officini Organ of!
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
LARGEST LAND PLANE LAUNCHED.
A Christmas Gift
That Gives Pleasure!
The new Pakker F-12, which carries 11 passengers and a crew of 4 at a speed of 140 miles an hour, recently took the air near New York. The size of the giant transport 'plans which Col. Lind- bergh piloted in a series of test flights, may be judged by comparing it with the 1930 Buick in the fore- ground. In die photo fieft to right) are Capt. Eddie Rickenbacker, prominent World War Ace, Anthony H. Q. Fokker, noted airplane doalguer, and W. A Whalen, vice-président and gunern) manager of the Fokker Aircraft Corporation.
cars of 12 hrs. 20 mins. for the cord is all the more creditable intensity that at times he actually enthusiastic crowd of local motor- journey from 'Durban to Johannes- view of the fact that the driver en- had to engage second gear to drive ista assembled to witness his burg, some 460 miles. The re-countered head winds of such in-the car downhill. A large and arrival.
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SOVIET PLANS MORE HIGHWAYS.
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The Soviet republic, realizing the Motor buses are becoming pop- need for good roads to open up Its ular. They were first used. in Mos- interior to trade and markets, has cow in 1925 and by the end of 1927 formed an automobile nasociation there were 160 in the city. known as the Avtodor, or Society year an appropriation was made for one of the new Morris-Commercial of Automobiles and Ronds. 25-ewt. Jorries made motoring his- In this great stretch of land, buses to furnish transportation in
the purchase of 200 additional | * Once again
tory by climbing to Mow. Cop housing about 150,000,000 persons, the city. Within the next three white lines dividing off the Castle, a famous bill on the there are only 21,000 automobiles. years the number of buses in opora. parking space for" ench
car borders of Cheshire afid Stafford-This is attributed to the lack of tion within Moscow, will be 1400, have been painted in Pedder
good ronds.
the transportation department esti- shire, with a load of two tons and Street, and once agala it is marrying two men in the cabin, for a road-building programme of taxicabs will also be in service by But plans of the Avtodor call mates, and more than 2,000 modern phasised that were they placed with weather conditions wholly 16,000 miles of paved highways the end of 1929. little more obliquely, there would not be nearly the amount of trouble unfavourable, it was all the more and 75,000 miles of modern sur
faced roads within 10 years. When As part of the large transporta- | in either approaching or leaving the meritorious that the four-cylinder these roads are constructed, theretion' scheme a subway, for which British torry, having an R.A.C. will have been created a kreater $20,000,000 has been appropriated, stund. Congestion is frequently rating of 15.9 h.p., succeeded in market for motor vehicles, because will be constructed to relieve con- enused while cars are taking up position, and it would surely be equalling the performance recently of agricultural markets that will Kested traffic caused by narrow worth the experiment in changing rated at 26.33 h.p. The lorry was tal in arranging plans for an auto-use in the Soviet Republic now are
strects in the city, recorded by a six-cylinder truck open up with these rands.
The Avtodor is also instrumen- Nearly all the passenger cara in the parking angle,
a standard machine from stock, mobile plant in Moscow. It is really surprising that Re-and the two-ton load was made up of 100,000 light passenger cars and predicts that the Union will be A goal for official use. But the Avtodor gulations are not enforced making of Government-atamped 56-lb. atomobilea has been set. In addi-fully motorized with a network of it necessary for every car on the weights, and affixed to the lorry tion, foreign money and plans have bus lines and privately-owned plea- road at night to have its registra was a Corporation weight certi-
been solicited.
sure cars within the next 10 years.; tion number clearly illuminated. fleate, showing the gross weight to There are many ears to be seen on be 3 tons 13 cwt. 3 lb. the road, the number plates of which
are scarcely illuminated at all, Severe Test.
being. almost impossible to read The test lorry was subjected 10 them. The matter is quite an im-the severest possible trial, for the portant ene and should be taken fattempt was planned to take place up without delay.
directly following the run to Mow
A most peculiar method of re-Cop from the Pieçudilly Garage; gulating truffle is in force in Kow-Hanley. Accompanying the tent loon at the end of Nathan Roud by vehicle were three other Morris- tho Peninsula Hotel. As it is at Commercials, together with other present, the constable holds up cars, all gallantly decked with vehicles desiring to turn left into flags, and the procession attracted Nathan Road, when other vehicles much attention during ita brisk are proceeding towards the Ferry run through the Potteries towna. from the direction of Holl's Wharf. Arrived at the foot of the actual Why this should be necessary is be- yond all understanding!
hill, the leading lorry inadvertent
Tours from Paris.
ly took a turning to the right off |
J the route proposed for the climb,
The HKA.A. has received par- with the result that it struck the ticulars from the Automobile As-summit at a point some distance sociation, London, of seven day above the station. To have eut out drives which have been arranged, the section below would have radiating from Paris. The tours meant missing the worst portion cover all points of the compass and have been specially selected in of the lower hill-formidably sleep each case to make some definite in places, and with a surface of appeal historie, architectural, rutted sand and loose alones. In kong Automobile Association may their climb to ascend from the scenic, etc. Members of the Hong-order to carry out the letter of obtain details from the Honorary station to the Castle, and despito Secretary, Mr. C. P. Marcel.
the fact that violent rain had now | fallen, the organisers nevertheless
decided to turn round the bonnet:
N. S. MOSES & CO., LTD., Notable Climb...
Bole' Agents,
British motor engineering scored of the Morris, return to the level,
a notable triumph recently when and take the hill from the start.
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