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CARS IN CANTON

MANY MILES OF MOTOR

ROADS

HOPES RISING

SPEED LIMITS

GENTLE ART OF

TRAPPING

551-MILE TRIP

IN LESS THAN 13 HOURS

THE CHINA MAIL,

The tidy sum of £22,081 was John W. DeNoria, general man. collected in the police courts of ager of Covey's Drive Yourself | Surrey last year in the form of Service at Los Angeles, has written fines"mostly," as the official re-a letter describing a recent auto- turn quite unnecessarily remarks, mobile trip from Carson City, Nev., "from motorists," and mostly, it to Los Angeles, which sets forth might have added, for exceeding the speed limit. Though not the only county where speed limits and stop- watches are the chief weapon of the police against reckless and danger. ous driving, Surrey is still pre-

Canton May 14. Motor cars and motor roads are becoming one of the chief topies of cony ation in and about Canton. Hopes are rising for many motor cars and many miles of motor roads, but, as is so often the case in Chins, much of their realisation depends upon the continuance of peace with-eminent. in South China and especially within the province of Kwanglung.

But the gentle art of trapping is undoubtedly declining. The con- stabulary trios, one plain and two The Canton city authorities for disguised, with their signals and the past year have been trying to measured furlongs, lurk less often execute a road building and widen- by the margins of brond, straight unwary may be ing programme within the city of roads where the Canion. Much difficulty has been lempted to think 40 m.p.h, a reason-' experienced due to congested areasable pace. The men, no doubt, are and wholesale opposition of the loth to give us this restful and poorer classes. Canton is not yet mildly amusing occupation for the connected by road with any outlying humdrum job of guarding property, generally place nearby except Whampoa, but their superiors are

fact that the fifteen miles down the Pearl River awakening to the toward Canton where it is hoped motorist's view of speed traps is not some day to build a port for Canton. without point and substance. The Pearl River delta is a network of towns and cities, all of which have tremendous commercial activi- ty. It is the plan to connect all these by toll motor roads, the pro- vince to build the roads and derive the income.

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It is believed now that if peace can be maintained in this area work on a motor road to Hong Kong will be begun within year. This project has been bandied about for yea but now the actual start seems nearer than ever before.

The number of automobiles is increasing. slowly but steadily There are now 625 cars of all types, this being about one per thousand population of the Chinese city of Canton, No motorcars are allowed on the island of Shameen, the con- all cession where practically foreigners live.

Speed limits are doomed. When recently a London borough council (Chelsea) applied for power to im- pose a special limit (10 m.ph.) the Counties Traffic Advisory Home Committee made it the occasion for a review of all the existing speed Furnishing a list of those limits. in the Metropolitan district, the Commissioner of Police suggested that they might all be abolished and the dangerous driving clause of the Notor Act relied on in their stead. This, of course, is what motorists have been advocating for years.

Four Sound Arguments The Traffic Committee not only approved the suggestion, but drew a report for the Minister of up Transport in which they condemned speed limits for the four following

cases traffic

con themselves enforce a

reasons:-

(1) In some

Road construction in such heavily populated areas as Canton is expen-ditions in

sive, if just remuneration is to be limitation of speed on any reason- given for the rights-of-way acquirable driver and unreasonable drivers ed. All land in this area is high can be dealt with under the existing priced and expensive to conderia for general legislation. roads, although it is almost univer- sally adrmitted that one of the most crying needs of South China, as well as in other areas, is roads-roads as understood in the West-suitable for motor cars or animal drawn vehicles comparable to those of western lands. Associated Press.

OPEN CARS

SOME IMPROVEMENTS

DESIRED

Mr. A. G. Throssell writes in the "Sunday Times:"

was

(2) Speed limits may in them- selves be dangerous, e.g., a limit of 10 m.ph. may tend to become the minimum

speed irrespective of traffic conditions within the streets affected.

(3) Speed limits have proved in practice difeult to enforce.

(4) Puble safety. which is the chief aim in fixing a speed limit, can be provided for more effectively by the general law.

the

better than any general description} of modern engineering proficiency the stability and performance that have been built into the Model A.

His feat was that of covering the 551 miles between the two cities in 12 hours and 50 minutes, which! meant sustaining an average speed of approximately 54 miles an hour. over rough, The trip was made mountainous country and the time gas stops required for food and was not subtracted from the total lapsed time of the trip,

The trip is being cited as further evidence of the reliability of the Model A on long and difficult runs. Mr. DeNoria estimated that he had driven 2,000 different automobiles during the twenty years in which i

the he has been associated with automobile industry and said he selected Model A Ford fram among the forty automobiles that comprise The the feet of his company. following is taken from his letter:

"I have just had the pleasure of completing what I consider the most remarkable trip I have 'ever made in an automobile and I feel I should tell you about it in fairness to the car." he wrote.

"I left Carson City, Nevada, at 4 o'clock a.m.; I was in exactly Mina, Nevada, at 8.10 a.m.; I was

12.15 in Bishop, California 10.40 a.m.; In Lone Pine, California, at p.m. in Mojave, California at 230 in Los Angeles at 4.50 p.m. This time included, all gas stops, time for lunch, etc., as I did not deduct any time-this is the total lapse of time. 12 hours and 50 minutes, and; the distance is 551 miles.

On Dirt Road "Please bear in mind that all but the last 100 miles of this was on a dirt road, and about 175 miles of it over the poorest road imagin

When I left Carson City I able.

left in a blizzard and there were! 14 inches of snow in Montgomery Pass. On this trip it is necessary to cross four mountain ranges, and I was probably the very last car out! of Smith Valley, because when I came through It was the very next thing to impassable and the snow was piling up and drifting in pots

that the trail was prchably closed completely in another hour or two,

"At Montromos Pass we were 7,900 feet high,

so you can draw

your conclusions about how cold it was over the summit.

That last reason, incidentally, condemns the general 20 m.p.h. legal maximum equally with the special "I was not passed on the entire local limits. It is anticipated that trip, either going or coming; on the on Trans-other hand I had v trouble pasa- loyal Commission port will report to the same effect, ing everything I met on the road.

A Wise Selection The people who were saying last and in any case the new attitude of

the police strikes the death-knell of "I have driven various makes of autumn that the open car

across the Continent that ancient fraud. the 26-year-old satomobiles

of them doomed to extinction may have seen

several times, some reason to revise their opinion this legal speed limit..

The other day I was told that record runs where, every prepara- past week. A casual count from the roadside one afternoon yielded motorists were a favoured class be- tion had been made to cut down the fifty-two open te forty-eight closed cause they were allowed habitually time and facilitate transportation. ("aunshine" saloons included in the to break the law with impunity.I made absolutely no preparation thege We shall not go into mourning when for this trip-1 was merely called latter category). Among

a good we lose that privilege, says A. G. over to Carson City to testify on hundred, of course, were

Throssell in the "Sunday Times." many veterans-it is suprising to note how many of the cars you meet

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a case for the United States Govern- ment and decided I would try one.

are betrayed by their number- MOTORIST CENSURED of the new Fords, as I felt I would

plates as three, four, or five years old-but quite a number of the ob- viously new cars, the "babies" es-

pecially, were open tourers.

in the

JURY AND "EXCESSIVE SPEED"

have

to traverse some soft, bad roads, and that this would be the most logical car, and the results proved that I certainly made a wise selection."

JUDGES AS PUPILS

"It is the old, old story. There The fortnight's summer middle of last month probably had are too many of you motorists going a lot to do with it. I hope the realong at a speed which would be mainder of the year will not make proper and reasonable if the road

The Chief of the Bucks Consta- choice. were clear. but which does the owners regret their

The whole bulary recently set an excellent On a day such as Good Friday was, allow for eventualities. a closed car was barbarous.

thing was due to your going too example to his colleagues by arrang-

young policemen Personally, not having lost yet the fast, and the jury are abundantlying for

not

to

love of motoring for motoring's justified in the censure they desire undergo a course of training in the sake, I am an open-car adherent.

With equal interest the pub me to pass," said the Camberwell construction and driving of motor The cars sent me for trial are in- coroner, Mr. Douglas Cowburn, at variably saloons, but for all their the adjourned inquest on Isaac lic will hear that 15 Berlin judges admitted virtues I am always glad Griffin, a chimney-sweep who was and barristers are learning to drive

my own humble to get back to tourer, in which I can make myself reasonably snug and warm or en tirely free from roof, windows and

walls.

so as to equip themselves in a suit. able manner for their duties in the

knocked down by a car.

The jury returned a verdict of ac-

ing law. Dogs this development; cidental death, but added that, in special courts dealing with motor- their opinion, the accident was due mark the beginning of a rapproche- to the excessive speed of the ear.ment between motorists and the law

THURSDAY, MAY 30, 1929.

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They did not think this amounted which will ultimately lead to a farment has been brought to such an to criminal negligence, but were of better understanding than exists at

the aperture. Exactly; to see out proceedings be brought to the notice

of a sunshine saloon properly, you of the Commissioner of Police. must thrust your head through the

root.

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ROAD THRILLS

"BABY" AND GIANT CARS ENTERED

Among the 41 cars so far entered

Italy.

CARS

of last year's Le Mans 24-hours race, are to take part; one will be driven by Mr. H. R. S. Birkin, who has had a wide experience of Con- tinental road racing.

So far the United States is te- presented by one Chrysler and a A British Invicta

the Du Pont.

The Prizes

The "Sunshine" Compromise Sunshine saloons are only a com-

Even those in which the the opinion that the driver had no present, asks The Light Car and extreme state of perfection that; promise.

France is represented by the top winds right down, like the power over his brakes and should be Cyclecar. "Giant oaks from little although it is not necessarily out first four months of the year were for the two international road races large cur little known on this side acorns grow:" it is regrettable that of sight," it is with many owners reported by, agents last week to be on July 12 and 13, six are frou is making its debut in a big race. Tickford, leave a framework, all censured.

The driver, John James Knight, no one in authority thought of

Up the present, in fact, Italy famous Bugatti, winner of in- round you, as if you were sitting

New planting this particular acorn be certainly "out of mind," some of considerably in excess of those re- inside a rat trap. As for those of Upper Brockley-road. with sliding or folding roofs-well, cross, at the previous hearing stated fore now, but we have to be thank them even going so far as to for corded for the same period of 1928. leads the foreign contingent for the numerable events on the Continent.

Her outstanding in medim priced cars, although Park, Dublin.

The following will be the awards: there is an advertisement of one of that his speed was eighteen miles ful that initiative has at last been get their batteries. It cannot be The majority of transactions were races, which will be held in Phoenix

denied, however, that, in spite of

sales of the more expensive types driver is Signor Ramponi, who is

First Day. The entrant of the them which shows a girl standing an hour.

The coroner directed that the

its reliability, the electrical sys- were well sustained. Taken as a the idol of the Italian motor-racing up with her head sticking out of

tem of a car pays for periodical whole closed models were in the crowds on account of his wonder winning car will receive the Saorstat Cup presented by "The Daily Mail" ful "cornering." It is not, perhaps, en-greatest demand. Miss Victoria, Worsley, one of our attention.

A general Improvement in busi There should be a thrilling duel and £1,000 presented by the Royal most experienced women motor tirely fair to blame all owner

ness conditions throughout the between Signor Ramponi and Mr. Irish Automobile Club; 2nd, 4500 drivers, writing in "The Light Car drivers. indiscriminately for

Philippine Islands is said to have Kay Don; the Brooklands driver, and the club gold medal; 3rd, $200 A 4-litre Chrysler, driven by three and Cyclecar." says she is of the neglect of the electrical apparaattributed to the increase in the who holds many world's speed re-and the club gold medal; entrant men in tara, did 72 m.ph for opinion that the perfect motorist twenty-four hours on end at Month should be one who has graduated tus, says "The Light Gar and automotive trades, as well as better cords and who last year won the of winning car in each class s Ulster Tourist Trophy race from a special award provided that there. lery. This wAS a fine perform from the ranks; one who has, on a Cyclecar," for the simple reasons roads in the provinces.

Many more cars are being disfeld composed of the world's fare are at least three starters.

Second Day. The entrant of the ance. But a 2-litre AC with one big main road, ridden a cycle and a that some certainly do not neglect.

Giant German Car

winning car will receive the Eireann Two "baby" Austins have been Cup presented by "The Daily Mai

Mr. and £1,000 presented by the Royal Automobile Club; 2nd entered by private owners. giant German Mercedes car which £500 and the club gold medall 3rd, did so well in the great road race $200 and the club gold medal; en- a special award provided that there near Belfast last year but was trant of winning car in each class handicapped on the corners, -'

Several British Bentleys, winners are at least three starters.

or

"all- Not that open, cars weather" bodies are perfect, or near perfection. That is why I am hoping that this year will see a revival of the vogue; manufacturers ments. The car, body I want is on twenty-four hours on the same the lines of a sportsman's coupe track. can see out of those broad windows--with a collapsible head,

will be driven to evolve improve | driver, has done 82% m.p.h. for the motorcycle, driven a lorry, driven it, whilst others, although anxious posed of in the lower islands at the most drivers.

a farm cart, led a restive horas on to do their best, fear, at the same i present time than ever before. The

you

business in trucks for the first four tarmac, driven pigs along and taken children for a walk-certainly a time, that they have insufficient months of the year was also brisk, There are now 178,914 miles of wide experience. She feels that electrical knowledge to tackle too many concerns going into the mar so constructed that it folds away roads in Great Britain. More is those who have practised these try various jobs. There is no need, ket for replacements. It is also as easily as the best hood, but more being spent or their development in ing arts before becoming motorists however, for motorists to stand in stated that the second hand market nestly, and doce not, when up. reveal proportion to their mileage than in can get more amusement and frel-awe of the clectrical equipment, has been well sustained, and the a little knowledge in this used cars after being thoroughly by its shape, appearance or tendency any other country. The road werk dent out of a long run than out of as

direction can easily be acquired. gone over find a ready sale to age prematurely that actually it grants last year

many novels, movies or playar is a hood.

£18,000,000.

amounted to

T. Thistelthwayte has entered the Irish