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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY 16th APRIL, 1932. Ruing The Official Organ of
THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION
Musings Awheel
Idle Thoughts upon Motoring Matters of the Moment, quarter) inevitably deprives the
Is This a Record?
By Mileator."
I wonder if anybody keeps record of puerile proscrutons
motorist of a. few hours use of his ear, especially if the 31st of the Gulf and other streams must fol-menth happens to fall on a Satur- alow the rules of the ocean, and that day. This because it is necessary that the envelope containing the all streame and currents must pro- so sincerely trust an example ceed by a series of one-ways and surrendered dise for the old car which comes from a certain sca-ins-and-outs and round-aboute and must bear the postmark of the arrives at the tax office with the alde holiday resort in Lancashire by-panses, instead of trying to cutlast day of the month when it. may have a place.
request for a refund in respect
the supplanted car.
in and put it across one another.
That this system of taking the A constable found an abandoned; car and, honest man, took it to the line of least resistance was a suc- police station that it might be cess is evident from the fact that transferred in due course to the It is still in active operation; and loat property office. But one of his no one (not even Canute) has found confreres spotted that the car was a better course for the Gulf Stream not taxed and accordingly took out than the one It takes. a summons against his collengue: Tor having technically broken the law in driving an untaxel car. Let it be recorded to the good sense of the magistrates concerned that The case was dismissed.
A. Real Map.
As example, assuming that the motorist takes delivery of a new car on the 31st of the month which happens to be a Saturday, he obviously cannot surrender the dive when he licenses the new car, It has only Intely occured to the in that he would be deprived of a whole Saturday afternoon, as powers that be on land that what
the Sunday. is good for the ocean is good fore must not use his new car until terra firma. So they have treated His only alternative, therefore, the traffic of London (and other is to post it back on the Saturday, cities) as though it were a collec- and as a very large number of tion of currents. Curved arrows pillar-boxes throughout the coun- meet you at every turn, and it real-try clear at 7.30 p.m. on Saturday ly looks ns though traffic controllers night, and are not opened again proyo Einstein's funtil the last post Sunday even- were trying to
a whole theory, that there is no such thinging, it means that for
Buch Saturday evening he is unable to as a straight line, and no thing us a direct route from one use a car although he will have spot to another. There was a time paid for the use of two.
This, obviously, in many when if you wished to get from Trafalgar Square to Fleet Street stances is a great hardship,
the to all intents and purposes the you drove straight down Strand; but now you must pause ear cannot lawfully be used from It is insufll- and wonder whether you must wag-tea-time onwards. xle your way round by Chandos lelent that he has been to the local Street and Seven Dinle or Scot-authorities (who are invariably a land Yard and the Embankment. helpful body of men), in that to A street map is quite useless as a file his application for a refund guide. Whenever I see a diverting on the old eur they require an en- Ivelope bearing the postmark, and If the Gulf Stream (in its anxiety arrow painted on the concrete
A keen sense of duty in a young constable is, of course, a commend- able thing, but in these days of crushing taxation one cannot help wondering how much all these pro ceedings cost the country in the time of the two constables concorn- ed, the man who took the charge, and all the people who handled the necessary documents.
Ergo, as we have hinted, if any body is offering a prize for fatulty, now is his chance.
Neptune's Way. We used to have maps at school demonstrating the course of ocean currents. A series of curving ar- rows indicated the flow of the Gulf Stream and other current trafic.
Where Enst Goes West.
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01 10 0 70 0 0 39 0 0 30 0 0 £205 5 0 £208 14 He was addressing the members of the Royal Empire Society in London. He considers there is a considerable future for the air- ship:
with not in competition aeroplanes, but on routes involving ocean pasakges.
Sir Alan Cobham said he Wha convinced that in a few years' Imo we would travel at 1000 miles an hour. It would be pos ible then to go round the world In a day.
NEW LIGHT CAR.
Performance of the
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A light car, designed and bullt for the roads of the world, was introduced to the public recently.
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to reach our shores) tried to make bethink me of those helpful arrow a single day is sufficient to in- bee-line across the Atlantic It in the atlas and wish some stuut validate the claim; in other words, would cause hopeless confusion cartographer would publish a real the motorist loses a whole month's and collision among other currents, map showing, not the direction of licence for the use of his car for The Allantic would be pot-holed London's streets, but the flow of a few hours for which he has ac-
tually paid.
Put It Right, with whirlpools of congested sea- its trafic currents. weed jam.
This is an anomaly which could During a recent unofficial inspec tion of London I was much struck be pui right by giving the officers by the difficulty of giving exact of the local authority a day's dis directions to a stranger. The fol-cretion. Since the motorist has lowing is an exaggerated instance to forfeit for the privilege of sur- rendering his licence a positively of the difficulty.
his tritons and myrmidons (and possibly his mermaidens) that the
The sea-god Neptune, however, in those spacious times when he cruised about in a pearly cockle boat propelled by dolphin-power fuording to the Classical Dic.) saw that regulations were needed to rule the waves. So he instructed While I was standing at the eor- extortionate charge in the case of of Surrey Street And the a small car, it would not be a very ner Strand a country visitor drove up serious thing if occasionally a car Surrey Street from the Embark owner with an elastic conscience ment and enquired the way to the were to use his car for a few Layy Courts. Pointing eastward, hours after midnight to return, Bay, from an afternoon's trip. He I showed him that they were visible a few hundred yards away, would not be depriving the Re- but, owing to the one-way flow of venue of anything like the propor- the Strand traffic, he must first tion that the Revenue deprived go west, turn up to the right and him in the charge of 10s, for sur- rendering the old licence in fa- north, and so alter eastward.
In two minutes he was back your of the new.
Expensive Economy, again, explaining that when he got
The importance of exercising the Aldwych side of Buah House he followed the arrowed great care in the choice of a car directions and consequently made was brought home to me with a complete circle round Bush special force by the case of a House without getting any for-youn friend of mine: My friend arder. I urgell him to try again, is one of those people who can and this time to filter through to the far side of the traffic and so- Join the glad throng flowing east- ward to the Law Courts.
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Half an hour later I saw the same countryman drive up Surrey Street, looking rather travel-worn. He said he must have Altored up too far, gone up Kingaway, turned left at Holborn Restaurant, again left at St. Giles's, In search of an castward-pointing arrow.
It was not till he had been down White- hall and was heading south for Westminister Bridge that he saw a chance of getting cast again by the Embankment, and eo
once more up Surrey Street in the same old vicious circle. left him making his third attempt to reach the Law Courts.
A Road Act Anomaly. The Road Act of 1920 is now elevan years old, yet it still cm- braces many tiresomo anomalles which operate to the disadvantage of the motorist. As an instance, the machinery for the surronder of a licence for an old car on taking over a new one at the be ginning of a month (during, the
Although shown at Olympia last autumn, the actual production model is a much improved vehicle. It is smarter in appearance, has ample seating space for four adults, and is remarkable for its silence in running.
The springing, ground clearance, large tyres, large ampere capa- starter city in the battery and
frame, motor, double-dropped with Ave rigid cross membera, und excellent top-gear perfor mance are designed to meet the- requirements of overseas motor. Ista.
Trial runs of the Hillman Minx with a standard saloon body gave an average petrol consumption of. 35 miles per gallon, with a maxi- mum speed between 55 and 60 miles an hour. The acceleration is from 10 to 30 miles an hour in 13 seconds, and at 30 miles an hour the four-wheel brakes stop the car in a dozen yards. The price, £155 for the saloon, should prove attractive.
only just afford to run a car, let me add. A year or so ago hu purchased a small two-scuter of a certain make, solely because it was cheap.
I do not know what mileage he has done, but the car has obvious- ly come to the end of its useful life, and he finds himself let In for a series of expensive repairs, which he cannot afford.
-To add to his troubles, the firm which made it has gone out of
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