THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPIL. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
Musings Awheel
EARLY MOTORING.
Amusing and Serious Experiences.
MAGISTRATES AND THE POLICE.
In the later nineties I traveller over most of the muude ronde in Troland on a motor tricyclo and came across many instances of the of the Irish con- sportsmanship
Idle Thoughts upon Motoring Matters of the Moment. posts, like great white mushroom tables and of their nazioty to in-
By "Mentor"
Heft there by the airles, spake
silently yet eloquently of the trihu.terpret the Irksome motor restric- lations and sufferings of the tians us Iberally as possible, n Various tollers In the Vested Power,
nighttrait so andly Incking, unfortunate мікна
an appalling situation in L
ly, on In those days, every
the part of the Engliabi watches. NIE first truffle rignal in this
likely to arinc.
knight of the road knew his light-policeman, who was always out for country
Several times lately I have seening-up times as well as he did his his "bar" writes J. W. Snocka to (worked hy pedes drivers do this, and on one ocen-chassis number or the size of his la homeaida motoring journal. trans them elves) came Into operation in Manchester.
sien in particular a nasty smash Lyres-and if he stayed out late, There were times, of course, The wan narrowly averted. street selected
there was good reason for it. Oldham WBX.
when the motorist deserved all he Street, busy shopping centre, al The trouble is that the system;
And now we care nothing for got and I must shoulder the rea- one-way street.
On the opening is being installed in many towns times we just awitch on when it onsibility of creating quite a day pedestrians were rather shy for the first time, and drivers who is no longer easy to nee. Temparaturbance in the Fen country of venturing to press the masele do not know of the bustallation are mutuatur.
late in the 19th century. It st The button, seeming chary of taking sometimes taken unawares.
happened that being Interested in on the immense responsibility of light standards are not always
the cycling industry I was anxious suddenly holding up a queue of placed in the most conspicuous
to secure the 12-hours cycling positions, and, masked mayhap Tired vehicles. The man ou the pave-
by
and disappointed with
record
on one of the machines ment
ent could not realise that by the bulky vans, are not seen until too the great majority of many manufactured by my firm
powers and pastes for cleanin pressure of a button such power, of touch-and- was put into his
most Importnat whra
the hands after a dirty job, everyganized an attack on this record ithen held by another make). Eands the constabulary privilege striving through strange towns to one of them guaranteed to art
at RL that time WH? "like marie." 1 have at last hit of enlling a vehicular armletle, 11e, keep a sharp bok-out for them.
the neighbourhood of 40 Bomethin that really 14 felt like Joshua telfing the sun trị By the way, I am never quite on
The cycle rider 1 are whether our is justified in "male" it is nothing more nar. R. Gondwin and he was succes
deserving of the stand still.
description miles.
chore for this attempt Was That was only on the first day, taking the right-angled turn tu Next day the public had eaned the left when the red light is than ordinary salad oil.
"ul in covering no fewer than 211. Auch confidence in the game that huwin
The other day, having done a miles in the 12 hours, and was the
late,
You Should Try This.
the signal was regarded as a public Procedure stems to differ |2|complete decarbonisation, includ- | first man to ride 20 milles per bour Plaything. People who really variona towns and a definite ruling | ine valve prinding, my hurts were for 12 hours on the rond. It must wanted to cross the street croped would be useful. Anather pro- the usual condition--covered in | be remembered that the apeed just any old where--and still do blem arises when the light changes thick, black, greasy slime, which limit for motorcars at that time Ag-dodging between vehicles rom vreen to red just as you pass was, of course, worked well into was 14 miles per hour, and police with their old-time agility. But-fit, and before you have time to the roots of the nails. I took traps were act all over the coun- ton-pressers watched the light pull up.
about a dessertspoonful of salud try to "net" motorists who un- change and the truffle stop and
It into the mailm of the wittingly exceeded this speed. ofl. poured amiled and walted to do it again.
left band and then rubbed it well The First Motor-paced Cycle into the skin and nail beils, A ond wash with ordinary soad and water, using the Bilbrush hot
a button-pressing nation.
It appears that we are not really
Coloured Lights,
safer.
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is clear, and if though reckleRA. Each morning those little heup ness or lack of observation one of spent carbide that appeared driver ignores the red slange mysteriously by night ander lamp-
One Good Turn.
Record Ride.
Lighting-Up Details. Whenever I pass one of those
hting-up time clicks
To obtain the above record it garage window, my thoughts turn The coloured light traffic signals to what they stood for in the days frente, completed the business. was necessary to have pacemakers have proved their value and nave, of acetylene gue, when #ghting And I might say that I duly donned to shield the rider from the wind undoubtedly come in sing. Taeyjup time implied a solemn rite, my lad raps that evening and and, metaphorically speaking, pull have released a large number of unalty with incantations of one loved myself, feeling comfor-him along. I therefore provided police
from traille control duty fort and another, if not both. In table and hanya thing I have a number of my friends with motor und have mage traffic driving memory, the phantom stench of never before done on the evening, tricycles and, in, turn, they paced him on the various stretches of aestylene menit my nostrils, and of a decabonisation.
road he had been set to cover. In one respect, however, they there comes into my mouth that Salad of 1 nd, too, works constitute a new danger, for they sickly disgusting taate of thequally
well in removing paintIt must be obvious that to obtain
this are efficacious only so long us they none-too-clear rubber tube down toom the hands.
record the motor tricycles would have to break the law aro universally observed. When which, from time to time the most the green light appears, drivers fetidious among us used to have
every yard of the way by travelling over 20 miles per hour, and it is take it for granted that the wayo blow,
Some people are forgel ut possible that even this might have autoriously plumbers' mates and been winked at by the authorities renewers เป็ drivers licences had not the pacemakers. In pro- Mnemonics and, for a start, it is cecding to the various places not easy to remember has many where they had to pick up Goond- M's and N's there are in Mn-win, driven recklessly to see what What I said. Anghow a friend of their autorcycles would really mine told me that a friend of his do. A paper dated September, was one dark night walking home 1899, snyYN: from-I forget whence-his offler, we'll walking against the wind and wighing to light his pipe, he turned his back to the hurricane to shield The fame of the match. Ifacing Fit 4 Baldwin's mouthpiere, he walked on. And it was not till he found himself lick at his offic. Pour that he remembered that be had forrotten to turn round again
"As a result the tale of casoni- after lighting his pipe!
I know a helfer
ties of one kind another is A friend of mine was driving home appalling. To say nothing of the one dark night with a strong laughtering of dogs and fowls, were frightened, following wind. The radiotor got several horses very hot and, ne there was no and vehicles overturned. One of water available, he turned the car these was a waggon with a lond face-to-the-wind. When the cool- of corn, with two shire horses in and these taking breeze had reduced the ten- the shafts, perature in the water jackets, he fright. the whole turn-out was
over into a ditch. started the
In engine and drove off, toppled And it was not till he had driven another case a brewer's dray was I forget how many miles--thit standing unattended outside B e remembered that he had for-blic house. A motor tricyclist, otten to turn the car in its.home- who was acting as a reserve pace- zard direction!
maker, whizzed by the dray and frightened the horses, which im- mediately set of at u
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at times
"The leading pace-making en- zine was an eight horse-power Panhard car" (driven by my old friend, S. F. Edge), "which went along
at twenty-eight miles an hour, even, it is said. through Wastech and other places. Moreover, there was a string of motor tricyclists which were equally injudiciously managed.
pilling the barrels on the road.
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After nil this one cannot wonder net undergone marked im-nes bills amounting to over £100 my company having to foot rovement of recent years-tyr the following week. But one doca batteries, bulbs. plugs-the list wonder at the gross injustice of ould be expanded indelinitely with ease. Öne point-s. very
ne of the magistrates in Aning
+mall one it 12 truc-impressode after I had proved a perfect tself agon me a few days ago in course of a ride on a seven-year- ld the driver of which, although eund and rational enough In all the things that really matter, hat
wear that I was miles away from ibi by bringing witnessos, to
the allowed Inwe he scene of breaking at the time it was sup. posed to have been committed:
The magistrate was apparently
3 most irritating habit of con- tinned that I was not the cul- stantly hooting quite unnecesit on this occasion, but decided sarily, on his bulb horn.
that "if I wasn't doing it there was probably done the same
faw Donnels and my Folicitor
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and
told
At Inst I asked him-more or
facetiously how many horn *king somanchero else." bulbs he reckoned; to consume i Ghed. it
Rather togs, the course of a year. my surprise, he replied that the *hu maristrate that it WAR one now in uwe was the original us The Frentest travesty of justico supplied with the car when it left It had boys: his- lot to witness. the Works Rome seven years He was rebuked for, so doing. previously. And yet, come tp think of
it, how
how often does on see a patched horn bulb nowadays?
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Rarely. And what was the life of restaurant and were served with the pre-war bulb? I don't profess "mall portions of anchovy toast to know, but I do remember quite and coffee. So far all was well. But whan we were "fined" ten clearly that the unpatched horn bulb was something of a rarity come time for the party to recover for the snack it took shfilings excepting, perhaps, on the brand-
from the shacks
new car.
Money for Fishpaste
Now there is no sort of doubt but these new caravanserai are good thing and serve a very real The other evening I learned a need. I am quite prepared to i lesson, Four of us comprising boliave, moreover, that synthetic the complement of a brand now anchovy paste In-worth.Its weight Inis pulled up at one of those in aliver. attractive-looking filing-station- Nevertheless, it la necessary to "um-cafen that are springing up worn unsuspecting travellers that ali over the country at the prosont it is woll to inspect a menu before time.
giving an order at any of these We were late for ten but too minces, and in the interests of the Carly for dinner, albeit some sort wkoła motaring.community
flight repast was needed. Wo should see that one pays fair coin ¿critéred a most charming! Bijou” för value received.
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