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THURSDAY, JULY 24, 1930.

THE. CHINA

DEMOCRACY !

· LONG TREK.

SPEED QUESTION.

How They Do Things in the "Land of the Free."

Bangkok

Europe by Car.

Higher Figure with Hood Raised.

Most people in this country, I imagine, still regard the Ualted demoerney and the Land of the States of Amerien as the home of Free where every man is as good as another-if not a jolly sight bet- ter. But some of us are beginning to rub our eyes and wonder if after all, there isn't more reni democracy in this effete old country of oura than in the boasted land of equality.

For this, I understand, is what is lappening in the nastere and puritadical State of Pennsylvania; the nuthorities have decreed that there shall be two different sets of registration marks for all cars licensed during 1930 and there. after. The ordinary citizen's car will bear the usual letters and numbers-as, for instance, P.S.) 1473. But cars belonging to the

Eleet of the State will bear letters without any number. Thus the ear of the Governor, Mr. John S. Fisher, will be distinguished by the letter A, that of his daughter by the letter, and so on right through the family.

Me. W. H. Newbould and Mr. A. Gibb set out from Bangkok on

They went by train to Hand Yal, Monday, February 17, for Europe.

then matered to Penang, and at Penang boarded a steamer, for Madras. From Madras. they have motored home, reaching Ostend on May 21.

The journey has thus taken them a full three months, against an estimated six weeks.

Mr. Gibb is an old motorist, and drove the car. His companion couldn't drive when they left Bangkok, but perhaps he has a quired the art in the long trek to Ostend from Madras.

Mr. Gibb was the first to motor from Singora to Singapore, and re- cently essayed a journey into the Shan Stutes from Lampang, in an attempt to find a road into Burma. Perhaps like Miss Amy Johnson hu will decide againat returning by the route by which he travelled home.

When, however, the owner is not has been taken by the

MAIL.

TRAFFIC SIGNALS.

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New Arrangement for Singapore.

A correspondent of the Autocar. Singapore is making another ad-

Brooklands with my De Soto two-in Empress Plage, near Anderson writes: The other day, when at Vance in the science of traffic con- trol. New signals are being erected seater, had rather a queer ex-Bridge, and should be in use. perience

The new contrivance is operated With the hood down I was timed by an electric switch and is fool- for the quarter-mile, in touring proof. Illuminated signals will ap

back- trim, with a passenger, and did the ground.

[pear on a diamond-shaped

distance, with a flying start, at

In the top-corner of the diamond 65.2 m.p.h.

the red light will appear and at the will be Immediately afterward, I raised bottom the green light the hood and made another at mond will be an amber light and a placed. Left and right of the da- tempt. My timed speed was 69.5 white arrow respectively. m.p.h. on this occasion, and I The lights will be operated by the noted, also, that my apeedometer policeman on point duty and the was accurate both times,

İstops on the switch are so placed as

the

Can anyone explain this? On 10 eliminaté error. As in the pro- both occasions the engine was hot, sent contrivance opposite and the windscreen shut, while on Capital Theatre the red light will that day there was a dead calm.. indicate "stop" and the green light|

aku reading The Autocar from "go, on." time to time I notice that in all the The advantages of the new ar Rod Tests made of high-grade rangement will be the addition of British cars mention is made of the amber light, which will appear the harsh springing at low speeds; when the traffic signal is about to į now I noticed some time ago that change. It will be seen by vehicles Mr. S CH. Davis, when writing from some distance away, and about the supercharged Stutz, drivers will be able to slow down stated that the springing was soft sooner than under the other ar- and beautifully comfortable at low rangement, where the turning of the speeds, whilst roadholding at 90 whole contrivance was the only ic m.p.h. was equally good.

dication of change.

UNOFFICIAL "RECORDS" Lesser social lights will have to put up with two letters, as in the Exclusion from the Paris Salon, à case of Mr. A. Atwater Kent, a fiue of £900, and the withdrawal of leading manufacturer of radio ap- the driver's licence are the threats paratus whose car will bear the hanging over an American firm and letters A.K. A Mr. Pierre S. dua French driver for having recently Pont has been allotted the initials travelled from Paris to Nice in the

Is the Stutz performance due to Before the signal changes, the D.U, the idea being to use the record time of 10 hrs. 27 min., the use of double-acting hydraulic directing lights will go out, and only owner's initials possible.

without official control. This step shock absorbers in combination an amber glow will be seen on the French with a comparatively heavy weight diamond. This will be the caution exactly of the elite, but still sul-Syndicat de Constretteurs, which and a low centre of gravity-for signal. elently prominent to warrant his corresponds to the English the car has definitely a very low being distinguished from the bour S.M.M.T., in order to put a stop to geois, he is allotted low numbers. unofficial high-speed runa ale, G. Pinchot, a former State France. Governor, will have the, number Three years ago a certain French 11, and a brigadier-general geta manufacturer undertook a high- number 3. By this simple means speed run around France without a citizen of Pennsylvania can tell the sanction or control of the Auto- at a glance whether the occupant mobile Club, and was immediately of any car is one of the great ones, given the choice of being shut out or merely a common, tax-paying of the Paris show or of paying a proletarian of no social importance fine of £400. He chose the latter whatsoever,

measure. There is a certain amount

Now, why on earth didn't we of disappointment in France that think that? There is nothing on the English authorities, as repre- British cars to afford a clue as to

sented by the R.A.C. and the

build?

I have no interest in De Soto or in Stutz. I am merely curious.

SAFETY GLASS.

A red light and the white arrow showing will indicate that traffic can only go right. The combination of a green light and the white arrow will indicate that trallic may move In two directions, straight on and to the right.

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The standard will be 9 feet high: from the bottom of the diamond. One will be situated on the Island, close to the fountain and will face

Difficult Problem to Keep Anderson Bridge. The other will

Out Dust.

be situated at the end of the taxi rank, looking towards High Street. This will probably be a prelimin- whether the owner is a pork but S.M.M.T. have not yet taken any blems with which the manufac- Singapore traffic is not yet educat Jary move towards automatic trafk One of the most dificult Pro-control, for which it is considered cher or a duke, unless it be the definite acilon against the three turers of safety glass have to con- ed. The arrangement is similar to letters G.B.-and even then the car, as likely as not, with belong Riviera to Calais in defiance of all tory free from dust. Safety glass firms which made fast runs from the tend, is that of keeping the fac

that installed in London, quite to the pork butcher.

regulations, and it is probably to is composed of what may be term-

recently.. Unfortunately for the "bix buga" of Pennsylvanin, they have make it clearly understood that they ed a sandwich, consisting of not yet been able to teach the wild will not tolerate any more "record sheet of celluloid between two

breaking" of this nature that the sheets of glass; but, if in the proviso the operation. animals of that State à

proper French authorities are preparing to cess of manufacture, the tiniest respect for the noblesse. Recent. ly a gentleman of the name Eliast with such severity in the present speck of dust intrudes between the celluloid and the glass, the sheet

instance.

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All cars are, of course, provided with filters for the engine: lubri cant, but the careful owner will Fineburg was motoring through the Pocono Mountains, when a deer

often find az additional device to collided with his car.

In the days before front-wheel be well worth the trouble of fitting, It is not clear what happened to the deer,

This material was first manufac brakes became ubiquitous the com- when it is not provided in the first but the car suffered damage to its

tured in England on a commercial pensation and testing of the

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Oll enters the container and then few foreign competitors set off on culous care. In the first instance when incorrectly balanced, are effer passes to the interfer of the filter the Interminable trial which gives the glass passes through ative. enough on dry roads.

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in the filter becomes too great the cent triumph of the little Flat cars tlon, dried again in a heated tun- Yet if brakes are of sound design oil is over a large and vallant field of nel and sprayed with a coating of and are. correctly adjusted, a car orifice. It is Intended that the de- by-passed to the outlet

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special enamel. After this it is will stop without skidding even on vice shall be fitted at s point in Especially significant, because ob again sent through a drying tun- the most slippery surface. The the oil pressure gauge line and tained in the face of well prepared nel, and delivered to the depart-difficulty, of course, lies in obtain not in the direct stream. Thus, competitors out to win at any price, ment where the sheets of prepared Ing the proper adjustment; it is should the filter become clogged was the splendid success of the new celluloid ate`waiting.

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ALBIONS IN MALAYA.

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A CONTENTED MOTORIST.

department, it appears, is also res ponsible for maintaining the pre- servation of the animals within the territories under its Jurisdiction. Thus the authorities found them-Among the most popular of high-or more pairs of rollers, electrically ham.

The brake, tester consists of two House, Suffolk Street, Birming- selves with a rather nice little class British Commercial vehicles driven; one conundrum to solve.

pair is placed Overseas is undoubtedly the-Albion, under each wheel to bel More Witnesses, Please," built in Glasgow, the home of en-tested and the rollers drive the But they solved it. Mr. Finoburg gineering. In Malaya, a considerable wheel and thus take the place of the received-back his bill with an in-demand is experienced for Albions road. A direct reading of the timation that nothing could be where they are used not only by the "pull of the road" at each wheel always receiving appreciations from The Automobile Association is done in the matter until it was as Singapore Municipal Council and can be obtained in a few seconds, members for services rendered "on certained what damage, if any, had the Post Once, but alio by well- and the necessary adjustments can the road," or in connection with been caused to the deer, and fur-known commercial concerns such as be made immediately. Not only touring and other assistance. ther, whether it was the deer which the Singapore Cold Storage Co., Ltd. can the work be carried out ac collided with the car, or the car The Singapore Municipality have eurately, it can be executed more closed with his subscription the One A.A. member recently on- with the deer. It therefore rested recently placed a. repeat order for speedily and at a consequently re following lin with Mr. Fineburg to produce the teu 4-ton chassis with tipping gear, duced cost. deer or to take Its depositions and these will shortly be seen in 1 is Interesting to note that the zeither of which he was able to service. The Singapore Post Office first British motorcar manufactur dos, many use vehicles of both 30 cwt, and 2 or to instal this brake testing plant The department, not to be caught ton capacity, while the Cold Storage was the Hillman Company, and that napping again, issued a statement Co., besides a 2% tonner of more or several others havd, now followed to the effect that it would not in less standard type, have a very sult. In the Hulman works the future be responsible for damage Interesting 4 tonner which combines feriar is placed at the end of the done to motor cars by deer, bears, large body space with small overall finishing line and the brakes of Ibexos, akanks, or any other re length and turning circle, which each model are adjusted to definits the native fauna. makes it particularly handy for use requirements before the car is de- present the mat In loading bays, narrow streets, spatched on Ita preliminary road W. in the Autocar etc. Oversets Bulleting

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ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage,

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Queen's

BUICK, The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nel Chung

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OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon: Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nel

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ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.

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STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.

24769.

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VAUXHALL-Lane, Crawford, Ltd. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS.-Gliman & Co.,

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OUTBOARD MOTORS-Rudolf Wolff & Kew, 64 Queen's Road

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CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.

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G.M.C. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nel Chung Road,

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DODGE-South China Motor Car Co., 33, Des Voeux Road. C.

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