THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
13, 1932,
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Idle Thoughts upon Motoring Matters of the Moment.
By "Milcator" .......
to
mo just after the War, and which, I bellove, was advertised for a short whilo. Probably it falled to take on because it was before its time; marketed to-day a different fate might walt it. It consisted of a gauntloted glove On the back. for the right hand.
wero fastened two small
bull's-
eyes, one red, and t'other white." Either could be illuminated by the simple process of doubling the middle finger so that a metal disc on the finger-tip made contact with
one or other discs in tho
paim. Dutch
Without approving of them, I've actually known men who drove all
better for a little Room that large aunts are spent the on unnecessary work in one part of courage. It gave them decision, the country, while other parts, tightened up their nerves and im- where improvement is urgently parted that touch, of devil which needed, are neglected. ket-
Please Spare the Hills. NVERYBODY, I suppose. wants lny
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wny
good roads, and every they nrt
better. And host nuisance is almost
in every ting better
The for-
gotten; surfaces are, on the whole, excellent; dangerous corners and obstructiona are fast disappear- and many ronds are now ing.
For all this I splendidly wide. am grateful, but I hope zeal for will never induce our improvment rulers to start levelling the hills. i love driving in hilly country and am bored to death in fint districts. It is true that nowadays hills have lest mart of their sporting charac tilatien. A few years ago a real hill provided all the thrill of an adventure. Your car might not get up it, and the result of an at- tempt depended to a great extent on your skill, or the lack of it.
To-day any car will climb any hill likely to be met with on real roads, but whether you
Incompetent drivers so often lack. Take for instance the London-In fact, I sometimes think that the Oxford road through Uxbridge.man who takes one over the eight Work has been proceeding there
in often more dangerous next for many years, and there in no denying that, eventually, it will morning, when suffering from his bit
wonderful thoroughfare, past alus, than he is when actunily Almost
throughout its entire under the Influence." length corners are being cut off and benda straightened,
which
On Inviable Cyellsta. Modern motorists do not realise will make it possible to drive a
deal Kreat
faster than was how vastly altered are road con- formerly the cune.
what they ditions to-day from Thin in all very nice, and may used to be. Nor do cyclists; but possibly be worth the rent, but that is another story, and they I am by no' means convinerd that
the construction of the new Draught to be devoutly thankful for This speed-tracks such as their ances- wood I was essential. must have cost an enormous im tors never dreamed of. owing
Would
to the work required to that. In return, they would take make the cutting. The arw hill little more trouble to brighten has an easy gradieni, It is true, their backs up in the dark even-
hut the old hill was by no means ascend
them fast or crawl painfully up ON bottom gear still depends Jargely on your skill as a driver.
I suppose some people are con
eventually tent so long as they arrive at the top. but to me there is great exhilaration in climbing at speed, whlie a well-timed and silent change of gears fills me with a feeling of satisfaction: which is hard to describe. When all the hills are made easy, if they ever are, half the pleasure motoring will be destroyed. have no wish to return to the days of unreliable and inefficient cara, but I would hate to think that driving was no longer an art, and had become purely a mechanical procesa,
The Work Makers.
of
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I am a grateful as anyone for the vast improvement in the reads which has taken place during the last few years, but I sometimes wonder whether the money which or less a motorists, more we, cheerfully contribute is spent as It would wisely ns it might be.
WHY SUCH POPULARITY?
UNLESS you are a Buick owner you probably wonder why the Buick Eight enjoys such tremendous
popularity everywhere.
The answer is simple. Just drive the Eight as Buick builds It.
Notice how quietly and gracefully it glides through slow. moving traffic. How quickly and eagerly it responds to the accelerator when you want real speed. How casily and noiselessly the gears shift. How roomy and comfortable it is.
You can relax and enjoy life in its beautiful and luxurious Fisher Body. And as for motoring excellence... Buick's thrilling performance knows no peer.
"That's why more than 50 out of every 100 men and women who buy cars in Buick's wide price range choose the Eight as only Buick Builds It.
difficult, compared with hille ing and so save themselves from other parta of the country, and suicide and motorists from over- could have been widened frould it? blood-pressure. -Ed.) and resurfaced nt a frac tion of the cost of the new one
rence:
Women are not so bad, their pale stockings betray their pre- it is the subfuse son of returning from his day's with his garments, often road exactly matching his gloomy Bur- roundings who is the danger, and the more polite and courteous and up-to-date our lighting apparatus, the more insidious and parlous is his risk.
The fact is authorities are more concerned with the iden of making toil work for the unemployed than with labour
the actually improving generally. This is all very well from one point of view, but it seems a little unfair that one class should have to bear so large a pro- portion of the burden.
Maybe some advertiaing genlus The Drink Question.
will one day endow him with a The advice never to drink| life-saving and legible jacket, on it an inscription re- when driving is perfectly sound. bearing Even the most careful and com-commending somebody's soap or petent driver may become involved even the name of the machine on in an accident and the merest which he is plodding his weary whiff of alcohol. in his breath may way homeward. Until then some havo serious consequences. Were of us will prefer to be brutal and It not for this risk, I would look blazing. feeling that it is better upon the matter somewhat differ- that cyclists should be blinded for minute than dead for the rest ently, for I am no teetotal fanatic and, on occasion, find a little drink
of their lives, very comforting during a run.
A Signal Success, There are, I know, men and wo- Electrically-illuminated signal- men with very weak heads wholing devices are slowly coming only need to smell a cork and Im- into favour, but the percentage of mediately become as fuddled as a cars so fitted must be very small goo many teetotallers normally so far. Yet there must be many are, but, thank goodness. I am drivers who will agree with my them not one of them. Most of my sentiments when I class ancestors were three-bottle men, amon the most useful of acces who died of gout or apoplexy, and sories. I write, feelingly on the blood will tell.
subject to-day, having narrowly
I can't afford that sort of death escaped disaster last night from which cut right myself, even if the bottles are only a charabane. battles of-Bass, but if any man acrosa in front of me to take a suggests that my driving is affect-side road. ed by a glass of beer I can only say? I was Instinctively reminded of little device which was shown that that man lies in his teeth.
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If one wanted to turn to tho right the red bulb was illuminated,. the hand, of course, being ex- tended so as to be visible to on- coming traße. A left turn was. indicated by switching on the white light and waving in the re-
A cognised manner,
small: packet-lamp battery, housed in the gauntlet, supplied the current. Commercial Coniderations.
I don't know how you feel about. It, but whenever I stay at an hotel. and find out that commercial tra- vellers are getting oil with a lower tariff than I have to pay myself, I get piqued.
hotel
It seems to me all wrong that there should be a 25 per cent, dis count off the price of a room lo a gentleman who has to stay some- where in the course of his. business, while you and I have to pay the full price. The reason for this reduction, of course, 18. obvious. The commercial travol- ler is the backbone of the leas over the pretentious hotel all country, and the sensible keeper is going to take great care that he does not fall out with a desirable and withal discriminat ing body in the community.
From my point of view, how- ever, I feel that if I am spending. my time and money in the good company of these gentleman I want to be there on an equal footing: I don't fcol that I should pay for the privilege morely ba cause I normally make a habit of If the sleeping in my own bed. hotel kooper can pay his way on the profit ho gets from commer- cials, then he should be satisfled to treat us all aliko,
Of course thore are places where the lower tariff only gains. admittanco to the commercial room, but as invariably the only food worth having in Buch esta- blishments gravitates to this room, while we of the coffee room have to pay a longer price for an under- sized table d'hote, and then go out to dinner, It is not much consola- tion. Let me tell you that I am seriously thinking of buying“a“ pair of apata and a sample casc.
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