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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, JANUARY 17, 1931.
TRIUMPH OF COMMERCIAL CAR.
Advance in Every Type of Vehicle.
The commercial motor vehiclet
is no longer a despised, poor re- lation of the private car.
Better Brakes.
Another Arm of interest which
WARNING BEACONS, Vold of sensational or misloading
Simplicity and Real Efficiency.
[By John Prioleau.] One of the most important of the provisions of the new Trame Act In the past virtually anything has been known for many years as is the promised standardisation of was considered good enough for bulider of fine sturdy commer- rond signala, a measure of which the design of lorry or motor-conchial vehicles la Commer of Luton. provided
it was strong
announcement, as a lighthouse at
600.
The Present Futile System. All that is wanted on our crowd- ed and frequently intersecting roads is an unmistakablo call for instant alertness. Whatever the hiddon danger may be, a cross-road, a blind turning, a village street with a school in it, a steep hill, the only thing required of the driver, the only It la, in these tinys thing which can nvert an accident.
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its work. Neither though for Nearly two years ago the rni "very rond-user has stood in sore expectation of signa. futile to:
on new Hluch, while the vehicles invader and Avenger chassis are their two chief models. They are
under
cuser
often
clumsy Joyranny of the heavy, are the last word in design. The are not concerned with the incen- la often unnecessarily strongly
under the
appearance was brought into the frat large red ever since motor-traffic be
save in exceptional ahend, of the vehicle nor the comfort of British combine of motoring in-came general. The lack of system specify the exact nature of the risks the Humber-Hillman-in the design and placing of all The information is seldom read.
it in too kinds of signals, from danger partly because the driver and passengers was con- tereats,
varnings to ordinary signposts, unimpressive, partly because it is sidered, while in the case of goods Commor group.
which Britain Since then the works have been
suffers given too often and in too many unually for heavier it WHS vehicles
entirely reorganised and laid out than was necessary for its work..
For years now we have exinted
is little short of scandalous. Wo different ways, partly because it venience andured by foreigners worded, and after being warned a few times of Bone alleged visiting Britain, which must be con- aiderable, but anyine making his
turns out to be danger which
the first acquaintance with our crazy quite Imaginary,
Average methods must be amazed that
driver insensibly falls into the country with such a multitude of habit of ignoring most of the ronds carrying such an increasing burden of traffe of all kinds, fram high-apred iong-distance conches and big-capacity lorries to small family cars, to be counted in tens of thousands, should have no long borne with such haphazard ways.
began to realfan that off finished on private car lines.
revoalition
Misleading Signs,
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There is one notorious "ateep
The hill in a mild slope, with a hill" warning outside Newbury which might serve as an examplo.
nothing call for extra caution gentle and quite opon bend, and except the houses on one Aide, which are plainly visible a long way off.
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It la not so very long ago that the public
Naturally, with the high speeds was taking place in commercint
At the 1929 Commer-of modern, coaches and even transport. cial Vehicle Exhibition at Olympia lorries, the brakes are one of the conaiderations. I heard several prominent men in most important the private enr industry any that it is not generally realised the the commercial vehicles were now enormous effort required to stop taking the lead in design instead one of these great six-ton vehicles of following the private car. fully landed going at about thirty Since then matters have miles an hour down a steep hill improved still more, a powerful As an Instance I may quote depot for gon factor being the Anal disappear-certain large ance of the war-time lorry which situated in the Midlands in hilly
With a fleet of excel- We are promised, In time, the dis- was available in such numbers country. that it discouraged the develop-lent lorries of the old type their appearance of the sort of sign, nd-
So far these beacons serve ment of new ideas for many years.brake linings had to be renewens vertising goods, which is deliher- ately designed to resemble a rond-
danger-signals, but At the end of the war enormous every three days.
Many fins are making a speciel warning la arder to ensure ita be- chiefly an quantities of these forries, whien
the various study of the brakes probiens, anding read. The Act words it tact-there is scope for extending theit been used on
should, of course, take the place fronts, were reconditioned and let it is prabhin that we shall sou fally but uncompromisingly: "thelity in other directions. They They canale: hive its operation brakes of an highway authority of any given die of the absurd red triangle, which lone on the market,
trict shall require the owner of be obtained cheaply and, though entirely novel type which do not
or occupier of any innd on which has no signally failed to do its duty twenty odd years, but clumsy, were adequate for their depend on the friction of shes on
there is any traile algn or any ol for some Jeet which so closely resembles they can also be used to indicate a traffic sign that it might reason-the status of the roads on which
they stand.
At prech ably be taken to le such a sign, to
through Now at Inst most of
The Cammer concern has made
"adding the penalty are red, a colour
its The words or excessive over-use bas lost all vehicles have gene to be broken a special study of the brake quer for disobediences.
a warning. The only up, and the result is that from altion, and in addition to fitting very reapier" ars of obvious importance value as
are green and over the country and from over-arge drums, they have
in the case of properties on which colours necessary eas there is a demand for new genus system of couples the the lodge-gates bear that most un-yellow, green for "Proceed," yellow
When the vehicles to replace them.
shoes on the back axle,
lestr rable of warnings, "Concealed for "Caution." Red should
used very sparingly and only in Arm which has once taken to foot brake on the largest vehleleDrive," by which the innocent user motor transport does not give it is depressed It pulls on the addi-of the high-road is led to think that emergency cases. up easily, and most of the buyers tional shoes coupled to the aide private roads have a priority right who were formerly satisfied with brake, so that on the back there wer the King's Highway. It wil old vehicles are now demanding are eight shoes in operation at the be the duty of the tenant, as much they could be painted in prominent
to replace
distributing the me time, thus
as of the landlord, to take the of places with green for main roads base and column on which, the inditions, these beacons should give (directions, except signposts proper, every information needed instantly showing the way to places, con- up-to-date machinca
and yellow for aubeldiary roads,dicating colours are painted. them.
load far more evenly.
fending sign down.
"lood-light" thrown downwards So far, then, as actual warnings and unmistakably and by their tribute very greatly to the publis A further contribution The industry has responded
transport Ample powers seAMIR commercial nobly, and the modern motor conch Lethelent
to have from the lantera, illuminating the go, of no matter what road con- sweeping simplification of all traffic safety. or goods-carrying vehicle is facilities is in the new Chevrolet elven to the highway authorities, who are defined as any person res
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"Road Lighthouses."
I have heard of one or two cases The 1930 "Bedford" model whichponsible for the maintenance of the where the manufacturer of the has just made its appearance con-rond-a very welcome simplification and "irame nign" is to be taken commercial vehicle has been con-tains some striking Improvements.
warning sulted by the manufacturer of As a aix-cylinder 30ewt. lorry to mean all signals, war
£212 and economical to run, it posts, direction posts, signs or other Praticular problems.
cars about
promises to be very popular for devices for the guidance or direc Now that the commercial vehicle light work, comparing favourably tion of persons using the roads, There is little room for legal quib- Improved lo such unwith other trucks of this class. been extent,
ent, the public are naturally The most outstanding modificables in this--or, at least, it seems so taking more and more interest in tious on the new model are defach- to the hopeful lay mind. it. That they like to see the new able dine wheels and Internal ex of coaches is proved the panding four-wheela brakes. stondances at recent exhibitions. Another feature of the modern It will probably be some time yet Unfortunately the Olympia lerry or coach is the provision that before this almirabe measure can mercial vehicle exhibition is held is now always made for the can be put inte full force, as time must only once every two years, but the fort of the driver. In the old days be allowed not only for the different Scottish exhibition at the Kelvin any sort of cab was put on in a county authorities, if they are the Hall, Glasgow, has a commercial sort of position, while the controis actual responsible heads of sections,
number
of section in the intermediato year. were a heavy that it required a to procure the necessary and this proved a great attraction strong man to work them. Now the new sealed pattern warning- the controls are just as light as in signs but for the Ministry to select jany private car, and comfortable the approved type. From time to cabs are provided for the driver time I have had opportunity of see-
this year.
Time That is Money
The modern commercial mana-se that he can go through a reallying various designs of new danger facturer has to go into every detail long journey with the minimum of his chassis to ensure that its of fatigue, operation is as near perfect na
human ingenuity can make It.
Diesel Progress.
signals, but to my mind there has not yet been made anything so use ful as the beacons which have been feature of many of the Home in the Ho must think not only of such
As the builders of the omni-Counties reads and of some
North during the past four years things as comfort and mechanical buses of the London Genere! Con-
These are the "road light- excellence but also of running pany, the Associated Equipment or sn.
"One of the most expensive items Company is known to a large nun: houses" to be met with in t Its new sh-Essex, Middlesex, Hortfordshire.
expenses.
of people.
in coach, omnibus, or lorry opera-cylinder engines, as fitted to the Surrey, Norfolk, Hampshire and, in tion is not the cost of repairs alone latest omnibuses and in its com- yet fewer numbers, in Edinburgh but the money lost during the time mercial vehicles, have made a con- and Dundee. that the vehicle is laid up for this siderable name for themselves, but
of these work. The reduction periods will result in a tremendous the firm's greatest step forward pioneering of the has been the waving.
Diesel type of compression ignition
"Esperanto of the Rond." They stand about 10 feet high, and white are painted in black rings, and have perpetually flash- For many years Sir William engine. Morris has boen engaged in the The A.E.C. 95-horse-power, ing red lights. To a driver like manufacture of light commercial high-speed oil engine has just been myself who is constantly crossing vehicles, but it was only last year
sensibly that he decided to enter the held produced after extensive experi- and recressing England by all sorts
ments. The design finally reach of roads, name more or leas
Changing Engines.
writing.
driv
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in the really large class. This ed is a six-cylinder engine with a "ghted" (in the sea sense), some he did with extraordinary sureshore of 110mm. and stroke of indifferently decorated with a mass with vehicles for from two tons 142mm.
of condicting and confusing an- The Acro system is a combina-nouncements, few following a gen- upwards. Two coach or omuibus chassis were extremely successful, tion of the pre-combustion chau-oral and recognisable plan, these These are known as the Dictator ber type of engine and the open-beacons invariably appear as signs: and the Vicoroy. One was a 2-combustion chamber type. Com- of common sense and safety. They seater and the other a 20-senter.
pression in carricut 20th. to the and they give the road-user precise. to the very are the simplest form of warning, high figure of square inch. This compression cisely the information he wants in A most important point about automatically fires the oil fuel language which does not even call these chasals is the speed with when it is injected without the use for a knowledge of reading and which they can be handled when of any electrical Ignition. repair or overhaul. is necessary. In various tests made by the
They render superfluous all "Cau.. By an Ingenious mounting of the company the saving of fuel was
whether he is on an "A" engine the whole unit, including clearly demonstrated. In one of tion" highway notices. When the testa comparisons
were the front wheela, can ho with these
road, sees one of drawn at once after undoing a few made between an oil engine and n bolts and, disconnecting the con-
petrol engine doing the same work these-and, so far they have been An o properly visible to drivers on all trota.
in a similar chassis. this In way the engine ca
sidesides of them he knows that be run out of the chassis in
been fitted to very engine which had short time and another engine run lorry in place of a petrol engine from that moment, he is in a zone of
other
road in so that the vehicle can be on gave, over many months of opern- potential danger, and, what in at the road again in a few hours tion, an average consumption of least as important, that
users still invisible to him, and un- instead of a fow days, and the old 9.7 miles per galion as against 6
Are in the engine left behind in the shops for miles per gallon for the petrol aware of his approach.
preparedness. The same state It must also be remem engine. overhaul at leisure.
may give warning of The Morris light vans, as dia-bered that the petrol was about beacon
danger-point, of anything calling from the vehicles already three times the price per gallon or careful driving. It does not matter what its message may be, on every driver is instant and safety-promoting. Aately often driver may, and unfortunately does, ignore even the signs
od, are
produced to carry of the oll fuel.
of 5 and 8 cwt, and are Other firms are developing oil admirably designed for parcel engines of the
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the effect compression. in Ignition type Britain and delivery
They too supply an example of have had considerable success. the progress of recent years as There is a certain future for this representing an ever-ready means type of power unit,
of transport on account of thoir The British-built lorry or coach extreme rollablity under all road is able to compote with any foreign conditions and the ease with product in any part of the world which they can be manipulated innd this trade is an ever-growing congested traffic.
one.
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and "Cross-roads" printed across the road, but he must be something very special in the way of a road- hog to ignore that oxcellently- designed beacon, which is as clear and simple in its meaning, as de
their lights
be
To indicate the status of roads
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