MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY, 23rd. AUGUST, 1930.
Being The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
HONGKONG MOTOR ACCESSORY COMPANY
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The above pictures taken on the Upper Tai Hang Road, reveal picturesque scenery equal to any in Hongkong. For some five years or so, motoring has been forbidden along this route, although we understand that, occasional per- mits have been granted to owners of "baby" cars. A water conduit carrying water to supply a part of the city rung' beneath a section of the road, and it is understood that motor traffic might damage this. The road Was of course.
originally built as a motor road.
CURRENT
COMMENT
No Motors!
To-day, we publish
Less true that when trees are sa HISTORIC ANTIQUES.
placed that they do cause a danger
to motorists, in the intereat of pub-;
He safety, they must be sacrificed. First Car Round World.
We would suggest that whenever saplings are planted along our roadways, they should be placed a sulficient distance back to allow Jany future widening which may be
“RICKSHA". AXLE FITTED.
Hupmobile cars were shown. Each had a remarkable recorü.
One was a 1909 roadster, and was the first car used by the De- troit. Police
The Department. other, a 1910 Phaeton, was the first car to travel round the world.
MOTOR UNION
INSURANCE C? I
Incorporated in England
((Under the auspices of the Automobile Association)
LIBERAL BONUS FOR CAREFUL DRIVING,
LOCAL AGENTS,
THE UNION TRADING Co., Ltd.
York Building.
AUSTIN IN U.S. Body on American Lines.
SNAPPY BANTAM. The American Austin: bantam automobile, made its first public appearance on June 29, when it was introduced in distributers show rooms throughout the country.
It was driven by T. J. Hanlon, This long-awaited little car, who said that some of the best similar in motor and chassis to its
pictures needed, or to ensure that their At the annual spring meeting of. taken on a Hongkong road which is branches will not grow out and the American Society of Automo- probably unknown to the majority cause obstruction or danger as the tive Engineers in Detroit, two old roads encountered on the journey British namesake, is the product of of motorists, for the simple reason trees mature. It is noticeable that
that they are not permitted to use in some cases. planting is done ing from the Monument in
Phone 27798.
THE BUICK WAY.
Keeping Up-to-Date.
There are about 500 men em- ployed in the engineering depart- ment of the Buick Motor Com pany, including the staff of en- kineers many of whose names are known throughout the automotive industry. These men originate and design the advancements that are built into the car from year to year..
Working under the engineers in were in Australle which the car the American Austin Car Company Corps of mechanical draughts- the visited twice-and in New Zealand. of Detroit. It is described as dismen. Two score of them are kept it. It will be scen that it within but a few feet of the road- direction of the Police Club, abould In Japan an axle broke, and as tinctly an American creation, fin-busy laying out designs. A bat- is of ample width to allow
way itself, and it has to be remem- also be removed.
epare and even tools were unavail-anced by American capital and built tery of blue-print machines sup- motoring, and yet, since bered that the majority of our Car Thefts.
able the drivers had to convert a in the company's plant at Butler, plies the necessary working copies was built
five some
for the production departments. or six roads are without footpaths. This In view of the number of pettyjinricksla axle, which they turned Pa years ago, the entrance by the junc-fis an important point, and we trust thefts from cars parked in the on a potters' lathe, using a screw The little Austin, priced at $445.
The engineering department is tion of Bowen and Stubbs Road that it will be borne in mind when City, especially in the Chater Road driver, chisel, file, hammer, and at the factory, is declared to be self-contained unit for when an has been barred and locked. We future planting is considered. locality, it is hoped that more pliers, as their only tools. The able to do forty miles on a gallon experimental car is wanted to believe that the original intention Yet Another!
motorists will use the space out-chisel was made into 10 different of petrol and to travel from 20,000 demonstrate the advantages of was to carry the road through to We have been requested to sug-side the City Hall, where super-tools before the job was finished, to 40,000 miles on a set of tyres.
certain.features, it is built by the a point in the vicinity of the gest that the large tree on the com-vision is exercised by one of the but the makeshift axle lasted till A feature of the car is its sturdy engineering mechanical staff. French Hoapital, and as a matter or of the Morrison Hill Road, turn-H.KA.A. patrols.
the journey was completed.
little power plant, a mechanical Given the raw materials these duplicate of the British Austin,, engineers build automobiles by which is said to have won more hand, fashioning many of the than 600 cups and medals in com- various parts at their work petition abroad during the past benches. The sheet metal work in ' eight years.
these experimental cars is done The body, however, is built along with mechanics' hammers and American lines. It is low-hung and shears. Hand-made cars are not streamlined. Furnishings are in the a novelty to the engineers; scme modern' mode, with wheels of the five or six of them are built every disk type.
The Austin is the smallest Amer- One floor is devoted to testing Ican car. In rests on a wheelbase rooms equipped with intricate of seventy five inches, as compared machines used to determine the with the Ford's 103 inches. The strength and power of the various Austin is said to be sixteen inches units of the experimental cara. narrower than any standard car An electrical machine tests and now in production in the United rates the horsepower of the States, with a total width of only motora.
of fact, a considerable portion of the route has been completed, ob- viously at heavy expense, and yet motoring on it is forbidden. Quite) apart from its scenic beauty, re- |sidents of Upper Broadwood Road are greatly disappointed at being denied such a pleasant journey home, in fact, we understand that some have actually erected garagen, which they are unable to use until this Upper Tai Hang Road (as it is known) is thrown open to motor traffic. We certainly sympathise; with such residents, and at the same time, cannot understand why so much money should have been expended in huilding a road, and then seemingly locking it up as omething forgotten. A walk along its picturesque windings re- veals many unusual and beautiful! views of the harbour and the Peak, and it is to be sincerely hoped that this reminder of its existence will) have the desired effect Those Trees.
.
The long overdue removal of the trees along the Wong Nei Chung Road will be most gratifying to motorista regularly using that thoroughfare. It is perhaps op- portune to point out that motorists! generally prefer roads which 'arc partly shaded by trees, and it is 8. MOSES & CO., LTD., naturally agreed that a well tim-
Bele Agents,
bered avczne la most attractive and pleasing to the eye. It is neverthe-
“SAFETY FIRST” ALONG WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD.
The above picture, taken when the work was commenced of removing the trees along a portion of the Wong Nei Chung Road, clearly indicates that the work was necessary. The motor car is seen proceeding in the direction of Craigengower, with but little space between the tram-car and the trees. This happened to be an ordinary five-seater car, the danger integ passing being greater when larger cars or lorries were concerned. A long-needed improve- ment will be affected when all of the trees have been removed.
year,
fifty-three inches and a tread of There is the cold room used to forty inches. Its ground clearance demonstrate the efficiency of mo- is eight and three-eights inches. tora in sub-zero temperature. It weighs only 1,130 pounds. Refrigerating pipes line the coil- Declaring that the bantam caring and walls and the test cars are marks a departure in automotive rolled in through air-tight doora transportation in the United States, that resemble the doors on an ice AJ. Brandt, president of the com-box. Inside the temperature 18 pany, asserted;
"The bantam car comes as the 10 or 20° Fahrenheit below zero. Arat practical solution to the prob. During these frigid tests the en- lem of road congestion by providineers wear fur-lined boots and a type of individual transportation suits and aviator helmets. that makes it unnecessary to use
the family car except for family transportation purposes. It solves
the problem of waste transporta tion evident when a five-passenger
AUTO TURNTABLE."
Automobile
turritables
have
car la employed for two-passenger been installed in numerous DAR- service.-N. Y. Times,
[row streets in Paris.
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