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A sortation has made arrange. with #be Jockey Club. 443 weharreko a telephone at the en- frame to the Stands will members available to MA phone for their cars from the ear park. At the latter place, one of the patrols will be on duty auswer call, and send ears to the owgers as required,
Annual Meeting.
The Annual Meeting of the Hongkong Automobile Association. will take place on Friday, March 20th. It is hoped that members free. Fur- will keep this date ther details will be given Text wrek
fur Lighter Tickets.
The H.R.A.A. arrangement under which members have been enabled to secure books of ticketa at a apreial concession in rates, for the transportation of cars! across the harbour, has been re- | vised. the charge BOW being $15.00 per bok of ten tickets. This revision Wan reluctantly adopted, but the scheme proved to br IL dreidedly expensive Inasmuch as a few members used very many more tickets that was ever anticipated by the Committee, Killing Progress,
MOTOR
BOATING IN
U.S.A.
1Speelal Report to the Hongkonft Telegraph by Pau? Harrison.)
New trends in the motor boat industry are indicated' by the crafts pictured above. The 50-foot cruiser shown upper left is one of the two largest boats exhibited at the National one of the Mator Bont Show in New York, and the 22-foot vessel seen upper right is smallest cabin models, There is a vogue for the new-style family boats, like the 24-foot deek enlin type with a semi-enclosed bridge shown left centre. Below is a 48-foot cruiser built on the Pacific coast and shipped to New York by rail.
with
Prices Reduced,
The serious dispute in Canton involving the authorities and the omnibus companies, is an unfor tunate air. 11 appears the
New York, Jan. 00.The mo, commuting and extensive pleasure Government servants, for som
tor boat industry at last has come trips. Consolidated, present last abisenro FORMON, consider
a 65-foot erasur, is that
in the realization that power craft year they have the right to use public
an be made for the middle-class showing a 50-foot this season to motor bases without paying fares.
millions as well as for rillion- tie with Elen for the honor of ex- and although the companies con-
aires, and that ernisity can be a bibiting the largest stock model. cerned are apparently willing to
employees in quiet family recreation as well as They have double cabins, fore and Government
aft cockpits.
enclosed fully erry
a speedy sport. As a result, at uniform free, they object to carry- ing
official employees in plain the National Motor Bojt Showbridges, and can maintain 20-mile
Well they might, and we clothes.
now opening in New York, the sprests, ramnot even see that they should public is learning that it can do provide free transportation for its Sunday pleasure driving and
The outboards, sensation of the uniformed people, excepting police spend its vacations on the water on duty. Enterprise must be pro-at no more than the cost of roam- last two years, when they provid
ed such a variety of boats and mɔ- leted, and surely the Canton ing crowded highways. authorities realise that citizens, The outstanding feature of the
tors and brought out an electric who invest money in providing exhibition this year is the trend of starter, now have been made stil public transportation, and who virtually all manufacturers toward more compact and efficient. The pay taxes for the privilege. have the small cruiser class of boatinropds these madr on the run every right to object to carry Tom, selling between $1500 and $5000. about field were responsible for Dick and Burry free, just because No fragile shells are these, but the latter's prices being lashed they happer. to be clerks in a
The well-powered, miniature floating below $1000 for the first time in Government department. people who
cumshaw cottages, marvels of compact de history. demand rides have a collosal check, and sign, with living and sleeping ac or more the sooner the authorities stop the commodations for four practice, the better for the city Ford Exhibition,
!
persons.
made.
on
Johnson is offering an inboard model with outboard advantages it drives and steers by the pro- peller, which also can be tilted up in shallow water.
Seven well-known
"runabout
Shipped by Rail.
A 48-foot cruiser built on the Pacific coast b S. Clyde Kyle was Pipped to New York by rail when steamship companies refused to Typical of the new-style family transport it because of its size.
24- fout deck cabin type with a semi- bout is the Elco Marinette, enclosed bridge, open cockpit for- ward and fitted with complete liv. for four. ing accommodations Selling for about $2300, it can bai operated, it is claimed, for $1 a annual of an day, on the basis average of 1000 cruising miles.
The figures, applicable to all cruisers of this class, are these: six months' storage-$100; paintį and varnish-$100; gasoline and oil for 1000 miles $60; marine in- surance $87.50; total-$347.50.
It was only 20 years ago, when the first motor boat show was heldi here, that an artificial lake had to be constructed in old Madison Square Garden to prove to sсepti- cal customers that engine-propell- ed small boats actually would float and run. To-day, according. to the national association, there arc more than 1,450,000 motor beats operated in this country.
Open New Field, "The demand has always been here," declared
oficial. a show but the fuellilies have been lack- ing. Potential buyers found they would have difficulty in storing and mooring their boats, so they didn't buy them..
Built For Comfort.
Not all of the mutor-less boats The family cruisers are shorter The Exhibition of the 19:1 Ford models, now iming held at than cabin boats have been in at the show are propelled by sail
Hampton is showing B the premises of the local agents, other years, ranging in length Leg Messrs. Wallace Barper and Co., from 22 feet. They have sacrifie- strange-looking craft made of two pontoons joined by a cockpit seat Ltd., Nathan Road, Mongkok, ised part of their speel for economy an event of much interest to local and stability, and can be operated in two persons. The operator, in A number of the at a total fuel cost of 6 cents a rowing fashion, pulls and pushes motorists.
on a plunger geared to a flywheel latest types are shown, and ane mile at 12 to 15 mile speeds. is impressed with the transforma-Manufacturers are pointing out which in turn drives a propeller tion from the old Ford to these that the midget enbin craft enni in rated ut 8 miles an hour, but
Many improve be transported
automobile if that isn't fast enough provision Current models. ments have been effected, and trallers during vacation trips and is made for both a sail and an out- from every aspect, the modern that it is even possible to live in board motor. Ford is in every way a most de them while portages are bel builders are entering the cruiser country there are sores of water- "Now, however, all over the sirable vehicle., The Roadster la a particularly attractive car
Heretofore the industry has market for the first time this sea- front reclamation and develop for those who prefer sporty types, been going.in for extremes-tend son, most of them with low-priced ment projects. California will while the other family inodels offering toward the fastest, the largest models of lose than 30 foot. Sen spend more this year and next excellent value. As recently re- ported, & representative of the or the most luxurious boats," a sled is making one of the smallest than was been spent in the entire Telegraph tested one of the 1931 show official explained. "But nu of the type, a 22-fopt cruiser with United States in the past ten ed bridge or cockpit and raised and gulf city in the country has models from the foot of Garden turally these appealed only to the optional power and a domi-enclos- years. Practically every
wealthy, and to sportsmen who
built, or is planning, plers and Road to Robinson Road, and the fact that this steep and gruelling wanted to skim the water at high forward cabin.
Dec Wite, formerly, a builder harbors for small privately-owned ascent was negotiated top, "Now it's apparent that there only of outboards and runabouts, motor bonts. St. Louis is going to speaks well for the reserve of
fa showing 24 and 32-foot.cruisers. apend some $25,000,000 on two of It should be are thousands of families
Chris Craft makes its first move
Cleveland, power available.
these developments. noted by those who intend to visit enough to rivera and lakes and
Detroit and Chicago have exten- the show, that special care will be bays to enjoy these low-priced from the all-mahogany field with available at the Taxi stand, Kow-cruisers at about the cost of buy-four models of the conventional sive programmes. Boat clubs are loon, to convey visitors to and fro.ing and maintaining an automo- crufser up to 24 feet. Ludington, booming In dozens of inland river
formerly an outboard specialist, cities,
"Manufacturers are finding thai Even the sporty runabouts, with is present with a 30-foot cruiser. speeds up to G6 miles an hour, The Hucket Boat Company comor an almost entirely new fold IA be-
with a have entered the low-priced field out
cruiser-commutering opened up by these improvo
225-horsepower ments. For the first time they this year with smaller and aamo- driven by two
motors and capable of 42 miles an seo small boats as a real rival of what less finely finished models, But all of these are in addition hour. It has a galley, washroom, the pleasure ear, and are oven offering time payment plans to the' to the established lines of large, lockers, an open cockpit aft and a luxurious craft built for fast driving cockitt forward.
nautically minded."
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