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The A.A.'s General Knowledge Paper. The following is
11 selection from many thousands of peculiar requests for information received and answereal by the London Headquarters of The Automobile Association, during the recent touring season,
1. What is the mean average temperature during the month of August at Biarritz7
2. What is the strength of the current of the Rhine at Godea burg?
3. Is Rugby played at Heidel-1 berg?
4. Are passports necessary for a visit to Scotland?
5. What clothes must I wear for touring in Spain during the month of August, and are woollens necessary?
6. My dog has 'Blank' blocuits. Are theso obtainable in France?
7. At what time does the sun set in South-Western Germany, Southern France and Southern Spain during the last week in September and the frat iz October?
8. What is the cost of running
a car from London to India?
9. Should I wear a Hun helraet
in the Canary Isles?
10. What is the best powder to take with me to deal with vermin in the Balkan States?
11. From what seaskle town in France did William the Conqueror set out?
12. Can I take a pet parrot with me into France and Italy?
1. What is the Republic of
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY, 2151 NOVEMBER, 1931.
Boing The Official Organ Di
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
FREE OR
INDEPENDENT WHEELING?
French motorists have to be shown, so Citroen cut one of his products in half and dis- played its features in the form shown above. Two examples of the snappy new products are above thin, at left a sketch of a custom coupe, a Bucciali front drive chassis, and at right a Peugeot,
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Paris, Oct. 14. fits appearance with a 12-cylinder piston oll engine operating on the improvements in the
Coming engineering and body model. The company is holding true Diesel system. world were heralded here in the the
automobile its six, however. The engine of The new Volsin "21" is a light
new six is aluminum Paris Auto Salon, just finished at nitralfoy
with car having a new mechanical gear the Grand Palais.
liners and crankshaft. arrangement. It has In the
four-speed 12. each group of three transmission, two Possibly the three most out-eyinders is fitted with an exhaust changed mechanically
деата being standing features on display were manifold--four in all.
and operated by electro-magnetic clut- 14. Can I travel from Southend aluminum engines
Independent wheel suspension, Another new 12-cylinder crea- cles, from a button on the steering to a London suburb using arterial engined passenger
and a Diesel-tion in the fine car class is the column. The maximum speed of ronds with wide grass vorges?
ear. Free Lorraine Dietrich, the technical this small car is about 80 miles Wish to deliver a hunter.
I wheeling. also, was well
repre- points of which are copied after an hour. sented. 16. Can you assist
jaircraft engineering. Various me in French manufacturers were in melais used tracing my husband JB-a the majority at this, one of the been employed in this car's con- in aviation have chauffeur living somewhere in three great auto shows
The tiny Peugeot is another car London?
of the station. It has full pressure featuring independent wheel world, but American makers were brication. oil radiator, twinpension, having this
Andorra noted for?
ROAD MANNERS.
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Aim at Lower Coster
in strong force, having 20 repre-ntion and four-speed transmis the front wheels. sentatives present. Five English ion. models, six German, one Austrian and four Italian hibited.
sus
HEITA
lowering
feature in
While the engineering features Foreign manufacturers are try-are not sensational, the price re- also were ex Ing
to cheupon the front-wheel duction in some lustunees in, In- drive creations to bring them stead of radical makeup changes; Discussed at Safety-shown toward decreased
in all models
the tendency within reach of every one's pock continental manufacturers
weight etbook, The Dounet Company is to he concentrating on First Congress.
and simpler construction to at-one manufacturer putting out this production coste. Lain a cheaper productio: cost type of car, and it sells for about! and thereby reduce retail price. $1200. This is notably true of the Italian Fiat products. This company. In- cidentally, has produced
RECKLESS DÉSIRE.
One of the most important and having a rear mounting of engine sorious subjects taken up at the and transmission. recent safety congress at Chicago concerned road manners,
Courtesy on the highway, con- sideration of one moterist for another, a feeling of responsibility on the part of a driver and the eaution necessary for safe driving were uppermost considerations among the traffic experts.
Independent Suspension.
One of the interesting displaye at the show was the Mercedes new light six. This model has an engine mounted in a rigid chas is playing up front-wheel drive the rear and allowing an Inside th car Burela in the high-priced field is with very high frame mem- bors made as wide as possible at models, having constructed them In both eight and 16-cylinder
body width of 50 Inchen.
The types. These cars feature nlao Car has four speeds, with a si- were in independent suspension of front ent
third, and independent aux- greater numbers than ever before, wheels by means of transverse
pension of all four wheels, running from alx to 16, with the springs. eights and sixes most numerous, Le Zebre is the car which has Three men get a line on the new
That staid old car, the Hispano-adopted the Diesel engine Suiza, holding to one line--the year.
this styles and incorporate them into It is a small car, and is the lines of coming
More Cylinders. Multi-cylinder
KATE
The Paris show found many American body designers present.
All this was summed up in three six-for years, has finally made i powered by a single-cylinder, two- United States.
words by C. W. Bergquist, presi- dent of the
National Safety Council, when he pointed out that one of the underlying causes of the whole accident problem was "power without responsibility."
Put a person behind a powerful engine and that alone is enough to lead him into an almost reckless desire to clear the road for him! self, to push ahead with the speed and thoughtlessness that cause many an accident.
Add to this the fact that most state highway inws fall to fix definite responsibility on a driver for his netions, and there's no telling what this double dose of taotoring 'oplates will bring,
"In most states," saya Borg- quist, there la no restriction on who may operate a motor vehicle, The motorlat may have a mental age of ten or leas, or he may hava:
exaggerated arrolsm which makes him a menace despite more than average intelligence."
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What is the result? More and moro nccidents. Not until the states realize the importance of placing definite responsibility on the motorist, not until the law forces a feeling of good manners and mutual consideration amous motorists, can there be any hope of reducing traffle accidents.
INSPECTING NEW YORK POLICE CADETS.
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Inspector Edward P. Mulrooney of the New York Police Force, in a slowly-driven Cadillac, Inspeats 250 police cadots who became full-fledged policemen at their graduation at. the end of June. The piature was taken in training quartera at Pelham Bay, New York.
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