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THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 1933,

Overland China Mail,

A WHOLE WEEK'S NEWSPAPERS IN ONE:

Mrs. Pearce's Trentbridge fulfilled predictions on. February 20 when he galloped home to a decisive victory in the Hong Kong Derby, Ridden by Mr. V. V. Needa, of Shanghai, the favourite showed splendid stamina in a fine finishing run. Riding Mrs. Dunbar's Tillicum in the Tyro Stakes, Mr. W. HII, the Shanghai jockey, returned the first three-figure dividend of the annual race meeting, beating the Godwit, a well-fancied candidate, ridden by Mr. L. G. Frost, to pay $109. The race, which was over five furlongs, was won in 1 minute: 14.2 seconds. Diana Bay, whose defeat was the surprise of the day on February 18, vin- dicated himself by winning the Victoria Stakes, over a mile distance, while Racing Boy, another of last year's favourites clocked a mile distance in 2 minutes, 07.1 seconds, to win the Garrison Cup.

The annual meeting is fully reported in OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

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"If you are to accomplish your full duly in regard to the College you should take a keen interest in all its varied activities, intellectual, athletic and moral" declared the Rt. Rev. Mgr. Bishop H. Valtorta, D.D., in addressing the students of St. Joseph's College, Hong Kong, at the annual prize distribution, held in the College Hall on February 18. There was a large attendance. The Bishop expressed the earnest hope that the College would continue to maintain its high reputation among the Colleges of the Far East, A full report, together with a report of the first annual prizez-day of the Chung. Nan College, is given in the→→ OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

That Government did not accept two schemes offered by the Hong Kong Tramways, Limited, in connection with the franchisement of the motorbus services both on the Island and on the mainland, was revealed by Mr. A. B. Stewart (Chairman) in his speech when presiding at the ordinary yearly meeting of the Company held at the board room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co. Ltd., on February 16.

The meeting is reported in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

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Questions regarding the cabarets and "dancing acade- mies" were asked by the Hon. Mr. J. P. Braga at the meet ing of the Legislative Council on February 16, Mr. Braga drew the attention of the Council to the fact that the places now carrying on "commercialised dancing" were being re- garded as a growing social evil.

The Inspector General of Police replies are given in the OVERLAND CHINA MAIL.

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THE MOTORISTS' PAGE

SUBSTITUTE FOUND

FOR PETROL.

Cheaper Fuel Claimed Discovered.

Belgrade.

A substitute for petrol which gives greater power per unit and costs only 45 per cent of the price of petrol has, it is claimed, been discovered by a Jugoslav engineer, general director of the Anglo-Slav Wood Distillation Company at Teslitch.

Brutality In Car Driving

Why Some Drivers Make The Rivets Start

APPLICATION OF BRAKES

A

BRITISH MOTORS

IN SPAIN..

Substantial Increase In 6 Months.

Madrid.

Safety For

Cyclists

A Plea For Rear Lights.

During the past six months the

At the risk of being considered a number of British motor cars to be meddler and a busybody, I always seen on Spanish roads though still take a keen interest in the safety of a very small percentage of the total cyclists at night (writes "Ixion" in "The Motor Cycle"). I hate them has Increased substantially. The

to be killed. unnecessarily, and,

In common with the majority of, ruthlessly reversed. The occupants British "baby" car began the move-above. all, should hate. my own other motorists who have held a of the car are thrown forward, ment, but now the medium-sized vehicle to be the lethal instrument some degree following involved. Moreover, I never make After many years experimenting driving licence since prewar days, and the body is thrown forward car is to with liquid fuels, Mr. Kovatche Mr. J. Harrison, A. M. I. Mech. over the chassis to the detriment of suit, as also the motor omnibus a night journey without realising The what risks cyclists run after dark. vitch discovered a liquid which is E., A. M. I. A. E., in an interesting the body holding-down bolts and the The lorry is lagging behind.

the

Their red reflex mirrors are so described 18 being easily and article contributed to The Autocar frame rivets. The rubber of his depreciation of sterling gave cheaply made from products avall says:-I commenced my road ex- tyre treads squeala unheeded in opening, and the excellence of the easily missed under two quite dif- done the rest. The ferent sets of conditions, namely, able in Jugoslavia in good quanti-perience on a bicycle, and graduat-protest before particles of it riparticle has ties and which gives even bettered, by way of a score of motor cy-off.

movement, however, is only begin (1) when a motorist is dazzled by than petrol in internal cles, most of them of doubtful an- Harmful Application. resuits

ning and has not yet resulted in oncoming head lampa; (2) when a motorist. is swinging round a left- combustion engines.

¡tecedents, to the four-wheeler stage. If all the four wheels 'gripped big_business.

In those far-off times one needed with even force when the brakes The very A special commission of British

great progress made hand bend, and his lamp beam is engineers is reported to have into be something of an engineer to were powerfully applied the harm of recent years in the design, ap-necessarily rather slow in coming finish of British to bear against the left-hand hedge- vestigated the claims made by Mr. get along at all on a motor cycle, that this kind of driving does would pearance, and Kovatchevitch and to have been and if one was determined to sur-not be ao pronounced as it is, but, motor cars surprises Spaniards. row, against which the dun cyclist is camouflaged. (This danger "astonished and delighted" with vive, one rapidly acquired an ac-in practice, it is usually one wheel They find that the British car runs the results obtained by its use in curate sense of judgment, and, by that gets most of the kick, for one well on the now greatly improved does not arise on right-hand bende), For fast travel So I suggest to any cyclist who an ordinary motor car engine. frequent association with the in-brake invariably takes effect in ad- Spanish roads.

Arrangements are being made ternal parts of the machine, vance of its fellows. This cannot American cars still command the wishes to endow himself with a dou- with the Carbide factory at Jajtza sympathy towards things mechani- be avoided by the designer of the first place in the Spanish market, ble measure of safety that he should

that repeated for the supply of certain of the cal. One learned

upror by mounting either a dry battery raw materials necessary and pro- overstressing of the prate led to car, who cannot guard against the but there are many purchasers of supplenient his legal red réflex mir-

varying coefficient of friction be-moderate means now taking duction is to begun experimental- mysterious breakdowns the cause tween the tyres and the road, caus-motoring, to whom the extra petrol tail lamp of the ordinary kind or a

consumption a small scale immediately. of which has since beer identified ed by uneven wear or surface.

consideration, patent flashing tail lamp, fed by by scientists as fatigue. We were.

It often happens that the wheels especially in a country where sup-dry battery and operated cyclome-

ter fashion by a wheel striker. a select coterie that gathered in the on one side of the car are on a dry plies are not cheap, motor cycling clubs in those days strip of road while the other pair The owner-driver, a class hither-i and meted out the treatment to runs on the wet. When the brakes 'to scarce, but now rapidly on the those who maltreated machinery are applied the wheels on the dry increase, finds in the British that other decent people give to surface grip and tend to pull the economy both in consumption and those who ill-treat dogs and chil-frame and axles out of square. in upkeep. The newcomers, Austin, When the brakes are released and Standard, Singer, and Vauxhall, Since those days the combined the accelerator is jammed down it now take their place alongside Birmingham's Coloured endeavours of Mr. Ford, Sir Her-is the gripping pair of wheels that Rolls-Royce, for which there has bert Austin, and Sir William Mor-move forward first, and then they always been a special market in ris have made motorists of every-rack the chassis and axles in the the Peninsula. Morris is getting! body and consequently there has opposite direction. A rear of this some return for a praiseworthy To strangers the City of Birming This wild excitement (originated come into existence a large class and even the most robust parts pro-attempt to advertise extensively, ham is little more than a rambling

made several years ago. and fostered by the scare Press) of drivers who, from sheer thought-test against the treatment surrounding the modern highway-lessness or lack of feeling for ma- man has really gone too far (writes chinery, commit unspeakable atro- "Nitor" in "The Motor Cycle").cities on cars. Actually, judging by the number of

ly an

The Bandit

Scare. In

England

dren.

Has It Gone Too Far?

Automobile Assassins.

is

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Car

Car Ventilation Improvement

Adjustable Suction Louvre Idea.

NO CLOUDING.

SENSIBLE SIGN- POSTING.

Finger-Posts.

maze, and in fla winding thorough- fares it is quite difficult to retala one's sense of direction. In an endeavour to make things easier, the authorities have recently paid attention to signposting. Tram and | lamp "standards are, and always have been, used to carry directing

Some posts carry a num

hold-ups, there is far more likell- Chief among the automobile as- hood of a car driver being damag-sassins is the hurrying gentleman ed in a road accident than of being whose main driving action consists held up, yet nobody suggests giv-of stepping hard alternately on the

swung outward to form Intake arms. reason. brake pedal and accelerator. It is ing up motoring for this

scoops, raising the pressure within ber of arms, and it has been hope There is quite an element of humour useless to inform him that delicacy

the body as much as may be desir-less for a road-user to pick out, in some of the anti-bandit devices, of touch is as essential to get the

ed. Thus greatly increased interior from the whole group, the arm such as electrically fired distress best out of a car as it is out of a

air circulation is possible, when which directs him to the place to com- which he wishes to go. Now, how- rockets and methods of rendering musical instrument. One does not

Fisher No-Draft Ventilation, desired, but still subject to the bodywork of the car electrically obtain the most rapid acceleration

plete and instantaneour control. ever, those arma bearing the names No-draft ventilation, as described, of places within the city boundary "alive." As for the truncheon buai- by jabbing the accelerator down which will be introduced this year, neas anybody who can bat an ex-hard, but by "feeling" it down, and all General Motor closed cars is applied to the front doors of all are lettered in red, while the names perienced bandit over the head from graduating the movement of the will feature this year, is a simplifi-new Fisher closed bodies, which of places beyond the city boundary the inside of a sports coupe is some foot to meet the engine's demands. ed application of the adjustable also have the advantage of a greater are painted in black

One can thus disregard those that thing of a contortionist!

As, too, all modern cara are de-suction louvre ides, whereby the windshield area, due to the re The motor cyclist is better off, signed to be operated by lady dri-outside air supply may be effective moval of the mechanism required do not apply to one's particular because he is usually strong in the vers, pedal pressures are invaria ly controlled at the will of the by the ventilating arrangement needs, and concentrate on those arm, has a smaller wad, and is al-bly light, and the sweetest and driver or by the passenger sitting which the new system supplants. that do. Other towns might well ready standing up in the open. most effective braking is attained next each window. The "louvre" is The rear quarter windows of all copy this idea, but it would be im- From the whininga and bleatings by a carefully modulated pressure in effect an adjustable windshield sedan models also have the verti portant for other authorities not to one would think that people scared on the pedal.

wing, controlled by an irreversible cally split window with adjustable reverse the colour scheme, or most of their own shadows, when, at the As long as twenty-one years ago worm geared regulator, which holds pivoted forward section, and are of the value of the idea would be

brush with some Ettore Bugatt! laid it down as it is any set position. This swing-proportionately larger than hereto- lost. bandits might just relieve the first principle of motoring that a ing part of the window forms the fore. Rear sections of these win-

A cable from the Sydney repré- monotony of living!

good driver needs no brakes. To-front section. The rear section, indows do not raise or lower, however. day, when all main roads

front doors, slides up and down in Hence the usual pockets are ob- sentative of Rootes, Ltd., states straight and wide, and when the the regular way, and when raised viated, the side wall thickness which that, during the third quarter of motoring associations combine with forms, a tight closure, excluding they require in saved, and the rear the present year, Hillman cars other authorities in placing warn-

drafts and permitting locking. seat, in sedan models, is made a full topped the list of registrations in ing algne before every corner or

In the conventional type of car, five inches wider than before. cross-roads that harbours the slightest danger, there is less need air enters through the left front

window to form a draft which Ute than ever for harsh and brutal rally wraps itself around the necks application of the brakes. So why of the passengers and finally swirls not acquire a sense of judgment

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and approach all danger spots at out from behind the driver. Open- such a reasonable pace that only ing more than one window In-| the gentlest application of the crease both air supply and discom brakes is necessary? Why driva fort, if; the outside air be cold. like a brute, stamping alternately

On the other hand, the principle

of the ventilating louvre la Illustrat on the accelerator and brake ped when the forward action of only |dalf.

Wasts of Petrol

ono window is swung out." "Air. enters at the front, but is drawn The waste of petrol and oil that out at the back of this adjustable such driving methods involve ... la] wing, so that a vortex is formed obvious. It is also easy to see why wear that, one window, whose soc- this class of driver. Is the friend of Honal area is controlled by the zlf tyre and braka-lining manufac-angle to which the wing is opened. turers.. More difficult to visualise with small openings, this effect is is the damage that such brutality localized in one or more parts of does to the whole of the car,

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It is now generally understood by engineers that a fairly steady p unindirectional load on a part is

No Clouding. With the driver's window fully

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