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THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, JUNE 13, 1929.

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MOTOR NOTIONS

CHEAPER THAN FOR YEARS PAST.

MOTOR TAXATION

WHY MOTORISTS CRITICISE IT

MORE MOTORS

EXPANSION PLANS BY G.P.O.

OIL TO DRIVE CARS

INVENTOR'S CLAIM TO REPLACE PETROL

Plans are being prepared by the M. Lebaeg, a Belgian engineer, Chan London Post Office for a great exclaims to have solved the problem

Doaling once again with a Bud- Thus the London "Daily Mail":

the Old motorists can console them-get introduced by

of the Exchequer. in pansion of officially-owned motor selves with the fact that despite collor

substantial relief is transport for the conveyance and of burning of fuel in molor-car

and aeroplane engines. certain impositions motoring is still which. no. cheaper than it has been for years forthcoming to the road-transport delivery of mails. past. This applies also to motor-industry, it should be made clear cycling.

once mora

He has invented an apparatus

Side-by-side with investigations that motorists-as being carried out with a view to a apart from the fact general expansion of the motor ser- which he states can be fixed with- Newcomers to both pastimes can such, and

will then run on any kind of l also join the ranks cheerfully in the that they are general taxpayers-více, electric traction is engaging out difficulty to any motor, which knowledge that they are entering do not object to reasonable motor the attention of the department.

To what extent petrol may be dis- at one-tenth of the cost of petr.. their apprenticeship under highly taxation, remarks The Motor"

M. Lehacq demonstrated his in- favourable circumstances.

car, which had not been overhaul-

They protest, and will continue to placed by electric power will de-

Whoever acquires the new ear of protest, against a tax that is ex-pend on the result of these expervention on a 10-years-old moiør- the new motor-cycle or bicycle now cassive and a system which is-in-ments. is getting in at the beginning of equitable to things.

Delay may mean the loss of pre- cious days. It is whispered that our factories are becoming very

the individual and harmful to the motor industry,

Petrol v. Electric

1 connection with these plans ed for four years.

It is stated It is interesting here to record the Secretary's office has just been that with the engine turning at that from a suporter of the Gov-strengthened by the appointment to 2,800 revolutions, instead of its

busy, so that he who hesitates may ernment has emerged a very fair the postal traffic branch of two normal 2,400, the motor did not be disappointed by delay in de criticism on this point. Speaking/motor transport experts-Mr. F. N. become heated and the water in on the day after the presentation Gosling, Assistant Surveyor, Class the radiator was never more than

liveries.

The statement that motoring and its allied pastime are cheaper by far now than in the past needs a little qualification.

The largest initial expense is the purchase of a motor car or a moter cycle. Memory is short, but it is as well to recall that at the begin- ning of the 1929 manufacturing were season prices of many considerably reduced. The prices of some of the medium-powered cars were dropped by as much as £100.

cars

15,000 Mile Tyres This sum will buy a great deal of petrol even at its present price. Another big item in motoring ex- penditure used to be tyres...

Now tyres to-day are very cheap cheaper than at any time in Further, they motoring history. last an extraordinary long time.

We are apt to complain now if a tyre gives up the ghost before it has carried us at least 15,000 or 16,000 miles. But there was a tinie not so many years ago when we were very proud and happy if our tyres lasted us for 5,000 miles. The motoring horizon has been considerably extended by the cheap- ening and development of the And curious- very small motor car.

of. the Budget, Sir Robert Horne who has himself beld the office of made Chancellor of the Exchequer in & Conservative Government. this statement:-

tepid.

The secret of the invention is ad Mr. A. E. Squirrell, Head The experiments with electrical-

said to be the method by which Postmaster of Coventry. ly propelled motor-vans are the of is injected into the cylin- doubt the result of the Electricity Board's schemes for providing cheaper current. A few such vehi- cles are already in use in London

"He was convinced that our pre- sent system of motor taxation was established on an entirely erroneous basis. The tax upon power worked and Leeds. against our success in the markets of the world, and he hoped that at it would be another ог some time found possible for a system of taxa-ated to be about £562,000, for which on which, at the present time, rob- sum about 2,300 vehicles are pro- cost of the hed us of an armous industrial at vided.. The present

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The present annual expenditure or contract motor services is estim-

tivity to

to be changed as to give oficially owned motor services is so opportunity of competing on

in the approximately 3650,000 per annum, equal terms with our rivals

but this expenditure covers other world's market."

That is a sound, common-sense services additional to those former- The Post it is deplorable ly worked by contract. statement and that, after eight years' experience Office fleet of motor-vans and motor- of a taxation system established cycles now numbers about 2,320 on an entirely erroneous basis, we of various types, and new vehicles still have to endure it and the are being added at the rate of more Sola motor day.. L industry and trade still have to than

vehicles were only introduced in suffer under it.

1924, but they have proved so effici-| ent for rural delivery and collection vork that a large extension of their use is certain.

HILLMAN “EIGHT"

one

The year 1919 was a landmark in PRAISE FROM HOME

postal history, for then the British WRITER

Post Office for the first time became effectively s postal transport owner. Combinations and mergers

are Except during the period of Christ- in Britain to reduce mas pressure vehicles of relatively necessary

That has been the effect small size are favoured for mail ly enough the popularity of these prices. little vehicles has had very littlef the joining together of Humber work, as being more efficient and

und Hillman. Another result effect on larger cars.

is more

economica).

Post Office- a British eight-owned vans are obtained with five

We shall see a very large increase the marketing of

car at £495 overseas to sizes of body, but there are still in in the number of women at theylinder wheels of motor-cars, both large compete against American multi-use 8-h.p. motor-cycles with side- These are now regarded as are gradually and small. It is a mistaken notion cylinder engined models of higher care.

The Coventry factories are cbsolescent, and that women generally favour very price.

now giving deliveries of this new being replaced by light vans, which small motor-cars.

The medium-powered car, the eight-cylinder Hillman, and Messrs.jare less costly and more efficient high-powered car, and the high Rootes, the exporters, allowed me in service. The latest type of vehi- a writer on the London cle to be introduced is the motor- speed car, if properly designed, are (says as safe to handle, if not safer, than "Daily Telegraph') to take de-cycle of about 2%-h.p., fitted with livery of one of these saloons at either a pannier carrier over the wheel or with a light side some of the small vehicles.

Those who look after their own Coventry and drive it to London.

of the new Fitted with a four-speed (for-carrier.

The introduction of officially- cars will fad patent labour-saving washing out ward) right-hand change gear-box}

in મ substantial reduction fits a great convenience and an en- and Dewandre vacuum brakes, this owned motors has resulted not only

car is particularly in couragement to look after the car's eight-cylinder toilet. The jack supplied with the easy to drive at a high average transport costs, but has facilitated average car is a poor instrument, speed without fatigue, owing every considerable improvements in and should be replaced by one of the lightness of the Marles type of postal services. The 2,320 vehicles the labour-saving type.

steering, the general balance of the in use are based upon 450 different! or villages. The largest engine, and the absence of vibration towns

Bone

Where a luggage container is not fitted one suited to the car should

rear

or sheck to the occupants a resul: 8roup is one of seventy-five vans, The which operates in the Birmingham area. Edinburgh has fifty working

be acquired. A picnic basket is of well-designed suspension. also a great asset to the motorist.

Utility Motor-Cycles

ear I tested had been driven only solely within the elty boundaries. 135 miles in its works final test The aim of the Post Office is to

A new development in motor Yet I ran between fifty and sixty train the postman to act as driver cycling is the progress of the light miles an hour nearly all the way in addition to his ordinary postal The number of postmen weight motor eyele ranging in price from Coventry to Daventry with duties.

Its maximum drivers is now over 4,000, while from about £25 to £35.

Many of out any hesitation.

the leading motor-cycle manufac-speed when fully "run in" would be about 150 tradesmen drivers are em turers are now making this class of about seventy-two miles an hour, ployed.

but actually sixty-five miles an hour was only just touched for moments in this trip.

machine.

UNFIT DRIVERS

WHEN TESTS SHOULD BE COMPULSORY

for

Associa-

a few

On a main-road run of this kind,

apart from traffic contingencies it

is a top-gear drive the whole way!

TROLLEY-BUSES

with this Hillman. I recommend DECISION OF HULL CORPORA-

owners to start in second, get inco after third as soon as possible moving off, and the top will carry

TION COMMITTEE

At a recent meeting of the tram- "Tests of physical fitness the ordinary driver are a prac- tical impossibility," said an off-them over anything except freak ways committee of the Hull Cor- climbs. Double declutching both poration, the general manager drew cial of the Automobile

up and down, with average pauses attention to the recent increase in tion.

to accelerate the engine's speed-up the cost of petrol, and suggested He was discussing the case, re-when changing down, should give that the committee should take into ported in the "Daily Mall," of an the driver silent changes. The serious consideration the question accident caused by the sudden coachwork of the saloon is well fitted of running trolley-buses on certain illness of an omnibus driver.

Both the Automobile, Associa- with leather upholstery, side-arms routes in thejcity, which he was of tion and the Royal Automobile for passengers in the rear seats, opinion could be done at a less cost Club, however, approve of the electric lighters, and the usual de than that for running petrel buses. luxe equfpinent. At $485 this Subsequently the committee visited system suggested in the report of

saloon is the lowest-priced eight- Doncaster and Rotherham and ins the departmental committee the regulation of road vehicles cylinder in the market at the pre-pected the system of trolley-buses issued in 1922. This recommend-sent time

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ed. that every applicant for a driving licence should be requir

red to make a statutory declara-

case a

periodical

medical overhaul,.

in operation at those places.

Having considered the view of the general manager on the matter, the committee decided unanimously that it is advisable to put this sys-

tion that he suffers from no idisch as is compulsory for ships off-tem of transport into operation on ability which would impair his cers and ongine drivers, is reason-existing petrol-driven bus routes competence as a driver. Its con-able and feasible. cealment would be a punishable offence.

so far as it is deemed economically There are maladies which expedient, and has asked the gen- should constitute an absolute er eral manager to furnish a detailed The secretary of the Royal Au- to the right to drive. These are estimate of the cost per mile of con- tomobile Club, Commander F. P. epileps, deafness, or poor vision. struction and operation..

Accurate judgment of distance is The proposition to construct a Armstrong, said:

impossible unless both eyes are new garage for the passenger-vehi- The case of the driver of a public used. Errors of inches mean ac- cle fleet is being held in abey vehicle is rather different He is constantly responsible for the safety cidents in the traffic of a modernance pending a settlement of the

city-

Itrolley-bus project. of 20 or 30 passengers. In such a

ders

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