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THURSDAY, JULY 30, 1931.

THE CHINA MAIL.

MALAYA ON MAP.

BEAUTIFUL "MLLE. PARIS" PATRONIZES BUICK

Rex Duncan in the T.T.

London, June "23. Last week I mentioned that Mr. Rex Duncan, representing Malaya in the T.T, racès finished thirteenth in the Lightweight Race on Wednes- day, although his Excelsior machine was the only one of its kind to finish. Ihove now heard from Me. Duncan in regard to the race which he describes as follows:-

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Canterse click na "Mille, Paris," prize-winning beauty of the French capital plops into a Buick sedan

outside the Grand Palals, Paris.

On my first lap, I took it slowly in order to "nurse" the engine, which felt tight, but; en my second lap, when opening out, I found that the engine was not capable of more than about 70 m.p.h, on the level and, therefore, had to content my- self with making up as much tima as possible on the winding sec- tions. I soon began to notice, ma- chines, fited with the same make of engine as my own, abandoned by the wayside. Judging engine trouble to be the cause of these breakdowns, 1 again nursed the engine, opening up the oilfeed to the limit of safety, and, as far as posible, avoiding undue "revving." acceleration and deceleration. noted, when stopped at the pits for re-fuelling, that my times for the frst two laps, although compara-

The Excelsior used, was, to all course, determined to give, the tively slow, were suffelently good intents and purposes, a standard Norton team a really good chase, --for a replica, if, as-we-had-schedul- catalogued-model, rushed-up at the war killed in the fifth of the saven eil, the race were to be won at about last moment (It was taken over inps. Before that he had broken 60 m.p.h. It was not until the and ridden for only 9 practice laps) the lap record at 77.46 m.p.h., the that I found that the the engine built from spares previous best being Handley's 76.28

were exceeding 70 and hammered round the 373% m.p.h. last

year. Hicks had a m.p.h. and that Excelsiors were miles course for 16 laps. Messrs.brilliant racing career., He came well out of the picture. In en R. Walker of the Excelsior Motor from Birmingham and was con- deavouring to speed up, the ma- Cycle Co. and Col. Crerar of sidered to be in the first flight of thire began to lose power, and it Messrs. J. A. Prestwich are to be British racing riders. Before became evident that in this in- thanked for making possible this starting he said "The conditions stance, discretion would be the bet- year's Malayan entry. That the are none too good, but I am going ter part of valour. Had the model rider ́lost over 5 minutes in pit all out to win. My machine is been "thrashed" it in doubtful if it stops was In no way due to fine. Of course, anything may would have lasted the course.

sixth lap faster men

End to Races,

He was. 32

Mr. Alex. Cochrane (of. Sungie happen, but that is all in the lack The only trouble experienc-Patani), the mechanic to whom of the game. 1 have always want .ed were, apart from Jack thanks are also due, but to the ridered to win the Senior T.T. race and of speed and progressive Iosa finding it difficult to furf and unfurl I am going to have one great big of power, the fork shock- his six feet around the little ma-jattempt at it to-day." absorbers bedding down and allow-chine, opening and closing sundry years of age, and was experimental ing too free movement of the forks; taps and caps and changing goggles manager of the AJS, firm. occasional difficulty in getting the while. second gear; a fierce rear brake, and, on the last two laps, an inter-

Great Britain lost one of her mittent miss (valve. float, or plug) greatest experimental motor cycle which precluded "revving." engineers when Mr. F. G. Hicks However, Malaya is now recognis-skidded on his A.J.S. at Union Mills ed as being a country in which three miles from the grandstand, in there are motor-cyclists and it is to the Senior Tourist, Trophy Race, be hoped that, in 1932, a better and crashed into a grocery store, rider from there will put up a fracturing hie skull. Hicks, who had showing worth writing home about: been driving demon-like round the

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The race was won by Percy Hunt; aged 23, of Manchester, with a re- cord average speed of 77.9 m.p.h. On Monday Hunt had won the Junior Trophy race and is the first man to carry off the double in one year. The lap record was re- peatedly broken during the race and went finally to J. Simpson, with a speed of 80.82 m.p.h. From the end of the first lap it became ob- vious that it would be a day of surprises. The conditions were bad but visibility was good,

FUEL PRICES.

There is a wide difference In fuel prices around the world rang- Ing from 19.8 cents per gallon in Shanghai, to 69.2 cents per imperial gallon in Nairobi, Kenya, in north- ern Africa. Kerosene prices range from 18.4 cents per gallon in Vienna, Austria, to 68.1 cents per gallon in La Paz, Bolivia.

In Shanghai gasoline prices run from 19.8 to 20.6 cents per gallon in bulk and from 20.5, to 21.3 per gallon in tins, while the prices in Calcutta, India, are only a fraction

of a cent higher on the average. Keyno, Lithuania, sells gaauline at 24.6 centa

per gallon. Manila,

Porto Rico, sell gasoline at 81 and Philippine Islands and San Juan,

27 cents per gallon respectively.

Malaya.

NEAR EAST INVADED.

The highest prices are 69.2 cents) per gallon. in Nairobi, Kenya, fol lowed by 64.8 cents per gallon in La Paz, Bolivia, with Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, coming third with a gaso- line price of 63.5 cents per gallon. Kerosene prices are led by that of 68.1 cents per gallon in La Paz, Bolivia, followed by Athens, Greece, which retails the goods for $2.7 cents per gallon. Low prices on kerosene are led by Vienna, Austria, where it is retailed for 13.4 cents per gallon followed by 13.7 cents Of the 56 starters only 13 per gallon in Cairo, Egypt, and finished. This race can be said from 14.5 to 29.6 cents per imperial to have been the fastest and most gallon in Singapore, British disastrous race in the history of motor cycling; the average speeds of the first three were higher than ever before; and the first five men in this were the first. five in on the previous Monday in the Junior race. There were many casualties, and many riders tried vainly to keep up with the leaders, who were

In these states, where up to the breaking records in each lap, and beginning of the war, there were they were thrown from their ma- hardly a dozen cars in service, there chines. Among the retirements were in service in 1910 twenty-five. were Baker on the N.S.U. who had automobiles. Before the end of a crash and lacerated hie. knee that year, about one hundred cars Brewster the Australian whose oil had been imported from Egypt. cap went adrift and drenched him From then on the number of care in all. He crashed, tore his arm in service grew without inter- and so damaged his machine that it ruption. In 1921 in Great Bebanon was suicidal to carry on. Charlie alone there were 1,000 cars;, in Dadsort, wvlo was putting up a 1928, 1,300; in 1928, there were thrilling performance, struck a | 3,700 passenger cars and about 250 bump, hit his handlebars with his trucks in the whole of Syria and face, and for four laps rode round in 1928 the number exceeded 6,000. dashing blood from his face with his hand,

Some interesting sidelights are thrown on the use of automobiles in those states of the Near East which are under French mandate.

states under French mandate does

One of the principal reasons for this comparatively rapid develop-| Major Atling, director of the ment of automobile traffic In the British Cycle and Motor Cycle Near East is the fact that the Manufacturers and Traders Union, total length of railways in the said that even in a time of world wide depression Britlah motor cycle not exceed 400 miles, whereas the manufacturers had kept constant total length of the public road sys- pace with modern requirements and tem is 2,800 miles, of which about had produced machines that were 2,200 miles are hard-surfaced roads nearly perfect from an engineering and are negotiable at all seasons of point of view. The first six men the year.

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MOTOR CYCLES.

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