THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, MAY 31, 1930.
Big Car Performance
Small Car Economy.
CONSTANTINOPLE'S WOMAN TAXI
DRIVER
MOTOR HIGHWAY. nearly 400 miles through districta
Italy to Abyssinia.
400 MILES PLAN.
where trade has been restricted by lack of transportation routes.
The vast project is a most difi-**** cult one. Bridges must be built and many culverts used as a safe- guard during the rainy season. Work is to be started in the dry season and continued over a terr The building of a highway from of months. It remains to be seen the Eritrean port of Assab into the whether any of the existing cara- interior of Abyssinia will soon bol van routes can be used as a basis undertaken by Italy. This new for the highway. If not, another artery will replace the caravan 6,000,000 lire will be added to the route and it is estimated will cost estimated cost. Experts feel, bow- 15,000,000 lire. The road will ever, that although the coat of con- parallel the railway between Gibuti struction is very heavy, the expense and the Abyssinian capital of Addis will be more than justified by the Ababa but will pass through the benefits this new road will bring, mountainous region, with Dessinot only to Abyssinia but to the its terminal.”
Danakil country stretching through
In the undertaking, Italy is en the Italian colony of Eritrea, thusiastically supported by the which is badly in need of trans- King of Abyssinia, who is keenly port advantages. The territory interested in the new road, which which will be served has 4,000,000 will be built in five sections in all, inhabitanta.
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The Unapproachable
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BIG CAR SAFETY-Using the finest mechanical brakes yet developed. Four- wheel, internal expanding, Noiseless. Unaffected by weather or temperature. Sturdy, resilient, hardwood-and-steel- body construction. Full tread axles, front and rear.
SMALL CAR ECONOMY-Out of 996 automobiles of 33 different makes operated during 1928, one large com- pany found Pontiac to be least ex- pensive, with a saving of one cent per mile over every other low-priced car used!,
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353-7 HENNESSY RAOD, (New Reclamation)
Tel. 20406,
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Prices from H.K $3,350 to H.K. $4,200
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
25. Queen's Road Central,
Tel. 24759.
Mouamer Hanoum, eighteen-year-old Turkish giri, recently caused Ansation in Constantinople by applying for a chauffeur's license. She is shown here ready to transport passengers in her Chevrolet
th taxicab,
The old adage, "It's a man's physical examination and in a world," is fact becoming obsolete business-like manner asserted that even in Turkey where feminine she was prepared to enter the rights, as such, have only recently driver's tests. She displayed such begun to receive attention. There unusual skill at the wheel that are few fields that seem less fitted she completed her course in rècord and captured highest for women, even in the western time world, than that of taxi-driver yet honours. in Constantinople a young con- As a full-fledged taxi-chauffeur, vent-bred girl recently proclaimed Miss Mouamer's first considera- her emancipation by taking a tion was the choice of her vehicle. chauffeur's test and embarking on She selected a Chevrolet which a career of taxi-driving.
has been specially equipped for Mounmier Hanoum was just taxi work She is now happily! eighteen years of age when she employed driving passengers startled Constantinople by around Constantinople and enjoy. intention ofing the distinction of being the taking a chauffeur's course. She first Turkish woman to enter the subsequently passed the severe chauffeur's profession.
announcing her
PUBLIC TRANSPORT. Ethyl Petrol is used in them.
They very truly remark that the danger from carbon monoxide in; badly ventilated garages is very
How Long Will Trams serious.
be Endured? :
The coming on to the roads of the new types of pneumatic-tyred omnibuses raises once more thei question, how long shall we endure the now obsolete tram? It is ra-i ther amusing to see the admonition "Travel by Pullman Tram," and to find that some of these vehicles have actually been equipped with upholstered seats inside and a pad of hard leather on the outside seats to justify the term "Pullman!" And, of course, we all know that the London tram has eight wheel brakes:
But surely, apart from the mono- polistic use of the centres of our town roads by trams, and the dangers and appalling congestion occasioned thereby, nobody who has travelled in one of the latest buses would ever, from choice, prefer to travel by tram. Unfortunately, our present Minister of Transport possesses a tram mind as fixed as the permanent way itself. In spite of this fact, he is a young man and we venture to say, if spared, he will see the passing of the tram, the rooting up of the lines and freeing of mobile traffic from the thraldom of an intolerable incubus. -Exchange.
ETHYL PETROL
Precautions in Use.
the
GARAGE VENTILATION.
In the final report of the Depart mental Committee on Ethyl Petrol, the defnite conclusion is reached that no danger is to be anticipated from the use of a motor spirit of this fuel, provided that the terms of the contract between the pro- prietors of the fuel and the dis- tributors in Great Britain secure the continued observance of certain precautions. These are:-
1. That cans and pumps ahould be labelled to indicate the presence of lead in the fuel and to warn the user to avoid spillage and not to use the fuel for other purposes than motor fuel..
2. That the fuel should be dyed ab an additional check against its use otherwise than as a motor fuel.
3. That the amount of lead tetra-ethyl in the fuel sold for ordinary commercial purposes should not exceed 1 part in 1,300 parts by volume or about 1 in 650 by weight.
The Committee take the oppor tunity of emphasising the great Importance of proper ventilation in all garages, whether or not
MODEL No. 20 TWO-PORT.
The introduction of Twin Port NORTON modali makes the 1930 range quite complete. Here is a machine of the New NORTON design-Model No. 20 Two-Port-which will certainly be the choice of the Connoisseur. The additional exhaust arrangement on the timing side of the machine gives a balance and addad air of distinction which has never been surpassed. CHROMIUM PLATING throughout..
INSPECTION, CORDIALLY INVITED,`-
THE SINCERE Co., Ltd.
SOLE AGENTS.
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UNION BUILDING.
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