THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. "SATURDAY, AUGUST 9, 1930.
*RECKLESS DRIVING MENACE.
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Kansas City, Mo., June 15th- After presiding over this city's traffic court for six years, in which he handled nearly 40,000 cases, Judge Ira S. Gardner, vacates the beach with a warning to care- less and unthinking motorists.
*The man who speeds uncon- sciously is violating the law," he admits but adds, "the man. woman or youngster who drives carelessly on crowded streets is the real menace and deserves more punishment than the person driving 40 miles an hour on a clear boulevard."
This attitude toward reckless drives as against careful speed- ers, just about, explains why Judge Gardner was one of the few. municipal judges to serve more than one term in the "vote-losing" traffic court here. Being a Repab lican, he goes out with the Demo- cratic landslide in the recent city elections.
Judge Gärdner suggests barring all. convicted reckless drivers from the wheels of their motor cars, as a means toward cutting down the accident toll.
Fines Ineffective.
"Thousands of motorists have paid fines in my court," he says. "but few ever thought a lot about the penalty a month after, they left the courtroom."
In six years the biggest proh- lem presented to Judge Gardner' wom the high school age driver.
THE RECKLESS
ORNER IS THE
REAL MENACE
ghts and boulevard halts regularly and expect everyone to do the same.
"They don't buy the cars and impose on their parents by tak- ing unnecessary chances," Gard-stop ner believes. To prove his point he reveals that 70 per cent. of the violators brought before him were between the ages of 17
and 21.
Women as Good as Men, Years of observation also have convinced the judge that women are capable of handling a motor ear and understanding the traffic Jaws.
FIAT SUCCESSES.
In Africa and Australia,
SHELL TROPHY : WON.
Fiat cars have recently scored several successes in both Africa and
Australia..
In Africa, a bit reliability trial organised by the Shell Co., was won in splendid style, and for the second time, by a Fiat car. This trial is run on very similar lines to the prin cipal European contests of the same kind (Montecarlo Rally, San Remo Meeting, etc), that is, the classification is based on 2 humber of differ ent factors, amongst which are, the distance actually covered, speed and the number of persons carried.
This year a model 521 Fint driven by Messrs. Cohen and Scali, was classified absolute first, whilst a little 509 Flat, driven by Mr. Palermo, Managing Director of Messrs P. Adam & Co., Fint Con- cessionaires for Algiers, and Mr. Cupponi, Works Manager of the Rame Firm, was awarded second place.
These two cars covered, in less than two days, the 2400 kms. (1490 miles) between Mogador-a small town on the Atlantic coast, in east- ern Morocco-and Eiskra, the rally- ing point, crossing the Atlas moun- tains, at racing speed.
Whilst the news of this success was being rabled from Algiers, from Melbourne were announced further striking Fint victories. This time it was the latest Fint Model, the "514." that focussed attention upon itself at the Antipodes, manifesting in an unmistakable manner its superior class. In the important annual events organised by the R.A.C. of Melbourne, Mr. in court is more apt to admit her. Riordan who last February shortcomings than a mou. That won the Mount Martha hill-climb is, providing she is not the weep ing type. Heaven deliver me from another day on the bench with sob sister in front of me charged with clipping over 65 miles hour in a restricted zone."
"I have found that a woman
Ar
Part of Judge Gardner's traffic I speak as a driver as well as court task has been to preside
a judge," Gardner explains. "A over cases resulting from minor
on a 509 Fiat, made the fastest time in his class for the flying half-mile, driving a brand new 614 Fiat.
The same car also took part in the Two Doys' Reliability Trial on April, 4th and 5th, over a most dif- ficult course of 550 miles, and was awarded maximum marks for its re-
few years ago I always gave a collisions. "I always encouraged gular running, and the perfect woman the right of way. Most of both parties to pay their own mechanical condition in which it them expected it, too. But of inte damages and frequently have had finished.
I have noticed they are asking no to fine both sides to make them favours and giving none. That think they were winning the de menne ley merely are observing Icialon."
THROUGH IT AGAIN.
[By Fred Gillett.]
[By Special Arrangement With the Morris Owner]
The Rich Relation. Charlie has, or had, a rich Ant certain tank-to-exhaust from whom he had expectations.
Of course (writes the Mosquito)
I had been through it before-"it" being a
after a heavy lunch, I got stuck in the jet and stopped the engine.
Breaking up the Party.
On this occasion, as we passed down the petrol pipe, I was leading by a short head, Antie lying sec- ond and Charlie a few lengths be- hind. Antie and I, being alender- waisted, got through the jet and the mixing chamber. The inlet valve opened and we were shot into the combustion chamber just as the top of the piston was rising for the compression stroke,
The spark occurred, but there was no explosion. The engine just gulped a few times and stopped.
"Where are we?" asked Antic,
trip which I made. if you remem-/ You know the beautiful fable of the dinging to the wall of the eyelinder. ber, in A.D. 1924. Only that ne-Ant and the Grasshopper: how the "Is this Brazil, where the nuts industrious Ant stored up petral casion it was merely by accident at the summer and when winter come from? Where is this combus- tion you promised us? I have that I fell into a petrol tank while came the Grasshopper found that been led here by false pretences. the filler-cap was off, and found the price of the needful had gone This is
not playing the game. myself shut in, so that my only way up-well, Charlie's own particular This is not cricket."
"No, it's grasshopper." I said. of escape was to go right through Ant was reputed to have a consi-
ness being to supply Ant's eggs for and is acting as a cork." goldfish.
Meanwhile the driver was puzz- Well, anyhow, Charlie, introduced led as to the cause of the stoppage. me to his Ant, and it was his idea He kept cranking up, and every that it might accelerate the fulfil-time he cranked the valves opened ment of his expectations if we and shut, the spark sparked and tank Antie, for a day's outing (or Antie and I were rocked up and To start with, what has a mere an hour's innings) on that little down on the piston top, like the
the boy upon the burning deck. insect like myself to do with motor-circular, tubular tour from
around and tank, via the carburetter and com-
No Laughing Matter. cars, except to hum take the part of a hypodermic bustion chamber and so home by
the entire embustion system and derable nestegg put by, her busi-"Charlie has got stuck in the jet
make my exit by the silencer. I Suppose I am the only insect that ever got mixed up with a petrol tank and lived to tell the tale.
The Petrol Habit.
syringe at pienle parties?
exhaust pipe expres. Charlie's . The driver kept tickling the car- You Ant was a sport and agreed to as-buretter, and every time he tick- uld think that, having once been company us after some persuasion. led it we could near Charlie mut
I described in glowing terms the tering, Stop. that tickling!" for joys of combustion, the lightning it was a very ticklish position for flash from the plug, the suppressed Charlie while it lasted, and every thunder of the explosion, the uptime the driver tickled the car- and-down of the piston and the buretter he tickled Charlie. down-and-out of the exhaust,
However, all things come to un Wishing to do the thing thor-end, and so did Charlie. After a
up
inside a cylinder and having es- caped by the skin of my teeth, should, like the raven, say, "Never more."
But there really is something fascinating about petrol. Having once tasted it, one acquires the habit. Besides, I feel I owe a duty
the
oughly, I selected smoothly run- vigorous cranking to motorists (and a thing of dutyning car and invited Charlie and driver's part Charlie suddenly seem- is a joy for ever). One good turn his Ant to a spot of lunch off the ed to explode internally, as though deserves another, as the starting driver's ankle. We sat on his silk pricked by an invisible float needic. handle said to the crankshaft. Once sock and, with the brief toast of A rush of extremely rich mixture thousand "Cheers, deurs!" I inserted my pro---consisting of air, gas and Charlie bitten, twice--nny. times have, I bitten the fatted calf boscis. I have never sampled a-suddenly filled the space of the tasted combustion chamber with a kind silken-hoyed tougher proposition. He twice-shy, of the
return motorist. In'
for these like wood." "Corked," I concluded. of mayonnaise consisting of petrol
Fortunately for the success of vapour and green grasshopper.. favours I am able to supply what every motorist wants but none can our expedition it was not long be The spark occurred. A terrific get (until transparent steel is in-fore he unscrewed the filler-cap to explosion took place. The piston vented) and that is a view of the make sure he had enough juice in shot down and up again, the ex- working parts of an engine seen the tank. We made a rush for it. haust valve buzzed open, and Antie from its inside during its working I flew, Charlie hopped and Charlie's and I found ourselves travelling ht Ant ran-running being. her chief speed down the long tunnel called accomplishment.
the exhaust pipe. A moment's de-
Hours.
.
The Way of It.
"Fall in and follow me!” I cried, lay while we dodged the baffle plates It happened thus. I chanced to Before the driver had time to re-in the silencer and we were out make the acquaintance of a fellow place the cap we had all three in the open air. A small bundle insect, a green grasshopper named plunged into the tapk and had of greenish fibre, without a chirp Charlle. It may appear to you reached our journey's beginning. left in it, accompanied our exit, that Charlie is an unusual name
"Meredith-I mean, Charlie- "I fear Charlie has been jettison- for a grasshopper, yet, after all, we're in 1" I exclaimed. "Nowed," I anid. even insects are called names, (I we're off, I added, as the driver often am, and have even been given pressed the starter and we were
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short address.) Talking of all drawn by an irrestible suction
names, there was, for instance, my late demented friend Meredith, the glow-worm, who paled his foeffec- tual fire by becoming luminous paste inside a gearbox..
down the feed pipe "Next stop
the ailencer," I told them.
But I was wrong.
The Why of It.
But Antle did not stop to reason why. She gathered up her skirts
in her antennze and ran.. For all I know, she is still running.
Our next stop or rather Char- As for me, I tried a final refresh- lie's next stop was the jet. Iter on the driver's leg. Then I However, it is of Charlie, the vas also the engine's next stop. I realised that he not only wore grasshopper his decline and fail-had forgotten Charlie's bulk. How artificial silk socks, but an arti that I would a tale unfold. Or ra- he bumped through the gauze and ficial limb. So I tried the other ther it is not so much of Charlie then the float-cha-iber is a marvel, leg, which proved to be the right aa of Charlie's Ant that I would I ought to have remembered my one. Then he gave me a name and -wag my narrative.
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