THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1931.
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City of Vilna had more than one hundred homes destroyed and nearly two thousand persons made homeless when the Koscherga River overflowed its banks. Two army Buleks and an ancient Cadillac take government ofeinls on it tour of Inspection.
FUTURE TRANSPORT
Motoring on Water
Under Cities.
[By Jack Frost.)
by this means, and have done for
years,
Now two enterprising men have) nut half dozen motor-boat "taxis" on the Thames, operating between Chelsen and Westminster, and intend to extend to Tower Bridge. They are being fairly
LONG TRIP.
Motoring to Monte Carlo.
CAR'S DASH IN RAIN.
T.T. Lap Record
Beaten...
81 MILES AN HOUR.
A dappor little man, in mauve trousers, terra-cotto jumper, Imulti-coloured seart and rubbor
breastplate. who amtoked
cigarette whon driving at 80 miles
an hour, Ave, times bant the Inp record (13% miles) for the Ardh circuit recently during practice for the Ulster Tourist Trophy. He then returned to the pits to toli hle friends that he was not going very fast as the rond was still very wet.
4
Bent Caracciola.
Nuvolari is probably the best road racing driver in the world. lie, Campari, and. Borzacchina, ropresent Italy ns drivers of the Alfa-Romeo cars officially entered
by the factory. Nuvolari fully
lived up to his roputation.
Cara were going round in a con.. tinual drizzle, and the constant Apray from water pools on the side fof the read blinded more than one
driver, but speeds wer
Were very much higher in all classes.
Nuvolari's best time was 10min.
118cc., an average of nearly 81 miles an hour, and 21 seconds faster than Caracciola's record on the giant Mercedes last year.
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Nuvolari scema to be a certain winner, but he will not have things all his own way. alout, smiling compatriot Compari |ll lap from a standing start IN ALL-BRITISH CARS. in 10min, 518cc., an average, of
more than 76 miles an hour, In a few years' time we shall be well patronised, but of course
There is nothing harum-searum Sir Henry Birkin, England's speeding to our offices in motor their boats hold only a few people.
about the venture on which six mo-only hope against the Italians, did bonis at 20 to 30 knots an under-ench.
Sir Samuel Instone, director of torists-four women and two men 4 lap in 10min. 2680c.. but ground canals leading from. the Thames, the Trent, the Merse, Imperial Airways, has long hnd awho arrived in Sydney from Mel-although he is driving an Alfa the exact replica of Nuvolari's ho and so forth, having come by the scheme for placing on the river a bourne recently have set out. same means of transport along the number of bonts holding 30 or 401 The party, which styles itself thencks the benefits of factory back- rivers themselves from our subur-people. He is willing to spend Riley Touring Company, comprises ban homest
money on building new
Campari Averts Crash, piers, Mr. R. Beatson (Australian repre Campari had a narrow escape This is no sudden flight of the enlarging existing ones, and so on.sentative for Riley cars). Mr. when following
of the P. S. Morice, an Adelaide jour Belfast
Noble the the co-operation imagination, but the serious con-Only
driver, whose cor- tribution of a big figure in the authorities is required to set such nallat: Miss Jean Robertson. of motoring world to a discussion enn scheme in motion.
spectacular. Noble, Mount Mitchell (Vic), Mias Kath- Underground Canals.
cau Howell and Miss Joan Rich-turned round three times, and Mill Corner fast, skidded. the solution of the traffic problen
My motoring friend goes further mond, of Melbourne, with Mrs, finished up half across the road ih London and other congested
than this. He suggests that while Chas. Coldham as chaperone. cities:
broadside on, Campari was but a feel it will be more than a auch services can commence from years before this can come to Kingston, or even higher up the pass, but we are working in the river, and passengers be picked up their ultimate destination right direction. The co-operation all the way down to, say, Grave-Monte Carlo Rally-the Continen- he stopped level with Noble's at those responsible for our water-send, or even Southend, and vice tal reliability race held every year Riley and but
is urgently desired to verse, the journey need not end at for which they have spent the develop the transport of passen-
or the other business Speaking about their wardrobes, spot, convinced that there must centres.
Mrs. Coldham said they are bebe a crash, but Campari, with a He suggests the construction of ing very strict. Shorts are tabbo, rear, was away and Noble soon underground canals, electrically for it is considered, white natives after him. lighted. artificially fed with air, shield their women from the public and having two or three under-gaze so carefully, it is not for Aus- ground stations between the places tralians to lower the prestige of gabardine tailored sult, with where they leave the river and white women.
pleated divided skirt. She also word where they enter one of the exist Mrs. Coldham was smartly but a grey woollen jumper, odged with ing canals,
soberly dressed in, ·AL grey black and white, and a black beret.
T
few
waya
in three Riley all-British cars few yards behind, but Instantly is the changing down and braking hard
gers from home to office by motor-tminster, Blackfriars, London last 12 months in preparation
bout.
The Water Taxis. The London County Council ran steamboat services before the war, very. fast but they were not Parisians in their thousands travel
foot away.
Police, medical attendants, and officials wore about to rush to the
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