MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
1
SATURDAY 191H MARCH, 1932.
Being The Official Organ of THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
CURRENT
COMMENT
Dangerous Gloom.
The
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vicinity of the Penk School inst of week-end. Happily, neither these mishaps emused serious in- Jury to any of the occupants of the velleles concerned, but it has to be borne in and that at cer tain points of the route, appalling accidents might be recorded i driver missed the road and shot Government's desire over the site! It is cause of economise wherever possible, must,the hazardous nature, of the road the Peak that every nicet with the approval of all
awendilug taxpayers, providing the applica means should be adopted to en- the decision to tion of the axe does not use sure safety, and
id Hghting, has, un- public inconvenience really, economise
it danger. During the recent foggy fortunately, the opposite eTeet weather, many matorists have rx- would be interesting to know the Raved by introducing pressed the opinion that it is must amount unwiso
to extinguish the rand shorter lighting hours, and it is lights on the Stubbs Road, and to be imagined that the sum would
The not appear very impressive. from personal experience, the
the Government's writer of these note entirely gesture of
serve as a nightly agrees with that view. Although policy it may
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on a clear night, headas rereminder that money is not what- Alar road-lighting unnecessary,ed, but that will prove of poor in
drivers consolation
to
it
to the motorist hravy
han the misfortune of motor cars and the absence of who
fogky road lighting great source of come to grief during the
senKol. As a matter of fact, the anxiety. The standard lampes dosent
ін misplaced under net as a guide in fog, especially word
eronomy when it is remembered that heads the circumstances, for there can beno justification for saving a lungs are Invariably died on der such conditions, and the exfew dollars to the danger of the
that is what perience of "feeling" one's way public, and without sufficient guide, is amounts to. decidedly unpleasant. We know of two instances where drivers have mistaken the roud during foggy conditions, in one cand n car being driven up the Craigmin Road, and Bnly crash-pand entrance to the lower Peak ing over the side. stunee
oretirred
owner-
Anather. 1a-
it
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Pavement Needed.
Without a doubt, one of the most dangerous spots for pedestrians in the city is the stretch of Gar- den Rond from the Cathedral Com-
to Cross over.
Tram station. When, as is often the the case, trafic up and down the road is heavy, it is literally taking me a life in one's hard to attempt Moreover, people walking either ap or down from the Volunteer Headquarters cor- ner to the Cathedral compound are always in danger of being run into by downcoming cars. Al this points the need of a pavement being constructed on the southern side of Garden Rond. The dis tance to be covered is not great; so the cost should be very little. There is plenty of room, since the rund near from the Cathedral com- pound to the Volunteer Head- quarters corner is quite a good width. May we suggest that this little piece of essential work be put in hand at an early date? Diesel Ferries.
Sole Agents:-- HONGKONG MOTOR ACCESSORY CO. Bank of Canton Bldg. 1st floor. Kowloon Branch:~~~
446, Nathan Road.
Further evidence that Hongkong is not lagging behind the rest of the world in the modernisation of has been transportation facilities, revealed during the week by the news that the vehicular ferries are to be powered by Diesel engines. The well-known "Gardner" engines have been chosen, of which three on order. of some 400 h.p. are These will be the biggest Diesel unita in operation locally.
Your Motor Cycle
for 1932.
FOUR CYLINDER
The Amazing Motor Cycle.
ARIEL.
NOW SHOWING AT THE
The
ASIATIC MOTOR CAR CO.
445. Hennessy Road.
AT
LAST-A PLACE TO PARK!
Forty-eight automobiles can be parked in a space ne larger than that taken by an ordinary two-car garago by means of this novel parking machine installed on downtown Chicago, The machine is an endless chain of-platforms, and the plat- form on which the desired ear is parked is brought to the ground for unloading. The structure stands 105 feet high, weighs 60 tons and occupies a ground space of 16 by 24 feet.
PRIZE BUSES.
BABY GIANTS. Small Cars Built With Super-Strength.
7 TO 70 H.P.
In these days when attempts at record breaking in the air, on the land, and on water are so com- mon, it is strange that there are still to be found so many people who cannot decide R te their futility or utility.
Progress ha always been preceded by pioneer work that has not often been appreciated at the time.
The fast, comfortable moter-car of to-day has been brought to Ita prenent state of efficiency and safety largely as a result of ex- perimental work carried out with a certain amount of risk and dan- ger on road and race tracks.
Good engines, good brakes, com- fortable sarpension systems have been developed largely as a result the lessons learned under the conditions imposed by
driving.
of
high
It spite of the great advance that has been made, however, there in still a huge field for de- velopment. The science of stream- Jining motor-cars to reduce wind resistance, thus saving power and increasing speed, and the learons learned during high-speed act- tempts are already being applied to the ordinary motor-car with grent benefit.
economieni This simple and method of saving power and in- obviously of erensing speed is great importante where a motor- car is driven by an engine of cont- paratively small horse-power. Great Britain leads the field where the small ear 3 congerned, and there every indication that the industry means to hold and in- eranse its already strong lead.
High-speed attempts with the small motor-car have stimulated an enormous advance in the c- ciency and safety of the "baby" car with an engine of only seven or eight horse-power.
Little Glants
In the earlier days of the motor- car inant people sought to achieve speed by using the largest-and most powerful engine possible. But with the arrival of the super- charger, a device developed almost entirely for racing purposes, ideas changed.
were
Smaller engines of great eff- and Automobile Manufacturers.
The silver Cup in the section for ciency were fitted to stream-lined. Bingle-deck omuibusen, went to; a strongly sprung cars, and by using ontribus the supercharger to force greater Thornycroft Honours-sented Thornycroft
speeds at Olympia.
with buds work by Messrs J. C. quantities of fuel into the cylin
very big Bendle, Ltd., of Dartford, and the Amongst the half dozen or so Bronze Medal in the section for obtained with engines rated at far Thoraycroft omnibuses exhibited doable-deck omnibuses was award-less horae-power.
Now we have reached the point it the last Olympia Show, there ed to a 1-aented low bridge type where a baby motor-car can travel were two which caught the judge's Thornycroft bus with body work by with reasonable anfety at mora eye, and gained awards offered by Messrs. Strachang, Ltd. the Institute of British Curringe)
than 100 miles an hour. Truly an
speed! Both these vehicles were on the amazing types of Thornycroft omnibus Many people will ask immediate- ferries are being constructed by chassis, introduced for the firstly what is the point of producing the Hongkong & Whampoa Dock time at the Olympia Show, which a baby motor-ear that can travel Co., Ltd., the Diesel engines and one transport authority eulogised at a speed never needed by the ancilliary machinery being ordered as "an important contribution to ordinary motorist. through the local Gardner agents. the progress of passenger chassis very good reason. Messrs. Dodwell & Co., Ltd.
design."
THIS WEEK'S LUCKY MOTORIST.
A free supply of Texaco Lubricating Oil awalts the owner of the above car upon application to the Office of The Texas Com- pany (China) Ltd.
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7 to 70 Horse-Power. The latest high-speed record set at up by Mr. George Eyston Pending Sands, Caermarthenshire, was obtained with an engine rated at 7-h-p. But with a super- charger that little engine the size of a portable typewriter-lo. capable of giving more than 70-h-p. when the maximum revo- lutions are reached.
Perfect stream-lining reduced wind resistance to a minimum and assdated the car to remain steady at high speeds, while scienck-absorbing sys- pension
enabled the car to hold the track and eliminated bumps that would have been highly dangerous at such a speed.
when traveling designed sus-
THE 1982 HARLEYS ARE HERE
Arrange for a Demonstration with the Safe Agasta. THE GANOON MOTOR CO. 2. Kwong Wah Bord.
Tel. 66:48.
Kowloon.
HONGKONG MOTOR ACCESSORY CO.
Bank of Canton Building.
First floor
Telephone 20577.
in the heart of the City offer all motorists a large
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RADIATOR ORNAMENTS. LIGHTING WIRES.
HAND JACKS.
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Inspection cordially invited.
Kowloon Branch:-446, Nathan Road. (Below Sacred Heart School).
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tirely new type of small car fitted and the world's air spoed record with a small super-charged and for Britain.
The makers of the wonderful highly efficient engine developing
engines fitted to the seaplanės very great power.
Should such a motor-car prove prepared for the trophy were successful, it will owe its design given about eight months to pro the lessons duce an engine that would stand almost entirely to learned from racing and high-up to the gruelling condition Im
sed when flying at avspeed apa posed 400 milas an· speed motoring.
Choir. They
These discoveries and develop ments may very well have are volutionary effect on the future of the motor-car. If it is possible to multiply the normal power of an engine by ten, it will obviously not be necessary to build such large and expensive engines in Critics may declare that pro-
This would mean A gress can be achieved without engine had to be sufficiently trust
fal! throttle or saving in tax, oll, and petrol for so-called dangerous high-speed worthy to run at 1
private owner.
axperiments, but how much longer an hour.sult of the intensive it would take!
the
We have already seen one type of stream-lined private motor-car built like an airship, beautifully sprung and with an engine in the rear. With the Improvement of the stream-line body for private use, we may shortly see an
On-
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Rapid Development
efforts made by the producers of As a clear-cut illustration of the the engine the wonderful power impetus given to industry by com- unit was "evolved in, so many polition for world's records let me months "as It would have taken quote the instance of the seaplano years in the normal course of that won the Schneider Trophy levantă.