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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 21, 1947.

MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

Government Lifting Restrictions On Ownership Give And Take On H.K. Roads Long Overdue

"Chins Mail" under- stands that from today the, Gov- ernment order restricting-owner- ship of any number of cars to one person or family, is to be lifted.

MORRIS EIGHT TOURER

This regulation-the Motor, HILMAN MINX Vehicles Allocation and Control Order 1946-was instituted last VAUXHALL “10”

year with n view to ensuring SUN BEAM TALBOT

fair distribution of cars which arrived in the Colony and pre- 2 LITRE

venting the private reselling of EVERY CAR GUARANTEED new vehicles.

FOR THREE MONTHS. It will now be possible for per

sons wishing to buy a new car to ECONOMICAL REPAIRS by do so, have it licenced by the qualified automobile engineers. palice authorities without refer DRIVING SCHOOL: Driving euce to the Supplies, Trade and lessons given by experienced Industry Department. Instructors at moderate fees. -

MAINLAND MOTORS

THE USED CAR PEOPLE

Drive up Garden Road any day and notice the number of

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per use of the gears seems to be the obvious cure ir cases out of ten.

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Although pump gasoline (68 Hongkong 72 octane) in seems to be much better than the Pool Petrol obtainable in Eng- of land, a judicious addition high octane gasolino (80 to 84 octane) will cure most cases of mild "pinking", besides Improv

ing the performance consider- ably. The extra cost of

high

octane gasoline, when available, is compensated for by

Five this

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thorities or lack of white paint? The introduction of these cross- ings a few months ago showed a welcome initiative and without doubt improved the road- crossing facilities in this traffic filled Colony..

The Chinese population, who The car reported stolen from mumber of avoidable road ac

disin usually show complete outside the Helena May some|cidenta

today, In Hongkong weeks ago has now been found Nowadays, much of the enjoy. torost in the dangers of colliding with moving vehicles, had also at Macao. I don't know how it ment of a week-end drive has been identified, but I think often spoilt by some rond-user, begun to look for the pedestrian it would be, a wlae move if we insisting on hia "rights." A Bit-crossing lines which can be sald

to be something of an achieve. | .. tlo co-operation, imbued with a spirit of give and take, on the ment, part of all road users, la long overdue.

By Our Motoring,

The warning issued this week by the pollee trafic authorities on danger areas in the Colony, were based on aceldent

and

Correspondent death records for this year, and

merit great attention from tho general public. Especial care should be taken at the following

curs, British and American, miles per gallon. To my know "pinking" their hearts out, try ledge, several pro-war owners ing to do just a little bit more of high performance cars used before changing down.

mixture regularly with marked our own cars in some three points:

and Engine numbers

Des Voeux Rd, in the vicinity times out of ten the owners of good results. One, the owner of way. 34, Tak Shing Str.. Kowloon, these cars will send them into a 2-litre Sunbeam Talbot says chassis numbers are so easily of the junction of Queen and Ko mark Bhing Streets; Des Voeux Rd., the repair shop for a top over cost changed, but a secret chhaul to cure the "pinking." Pro- that over 4,000 miles, the cost would most probably be over-Cen. in the vicinity of the junc

looked.

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tained by using ordinary pump gasoline, while the performance left nothing to be desired.

Whilst on the subject, one word of precaution. Do not use 100 octane gasoline. The valves, valve seats, rings and plugs will suffers During the war, however, I saw many a Jeep in China using a 50-60 mixture of 100 octane und alcohol when ever ordinary gasoline was un- obtainable.

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Street and

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As I and a few weeks ago, Chater Road, and Connaught Rd. we in Hongkong are extremely West and Central in the entire fortunate in being able to get vicinity of the tram route. deliveries of cars in a reason-

On Wednesday Police

Macintosh D. W. ahly short time, Cara ara also delivered in spanking good con-missioner dition, shining as new. cars made a statement to the effect ought to. A buyer of a car in that recommendations in America recently took delivery nection with the Colony's traffic soon be sub- of his new car, but found He problems would had to fill in oll at every atop mitted to Government for con- for gas. On reaching his home-sideration and necessary legisla town, he was finally persuaded tion. Wo presume that Mr. Mac- to strip his engine down--and Intosh was referring to the in- found that someone had forgot troduction of the one way traffic ten to fit any piston rings to the and roundabout scheme which: is still "hanging fire" although platona!

details of this were, published by the "China Mail" over a month ngo,

Do you check your tyrea re gularly each week? Most synthe- ties lose about one or two pounds weekly week, and if your check shows this, all is well. If,! No amount of traffic algns, however, the pressure drops safety lalands and the like, will bad much more than this in a week, have as much effect on

It is intercating to learn that It's time to re-check. You've pro-mannered, careless behaviour of

new highway code for Hong bably get a puncture! The rea- road users, both pedestrians and

fa to be issued soon. son the tyre hasn't gone flat al- drivers of vehicles, as well or- Kong together does not mean you ganised police patrols. The ap- Work on this is now being com. will haven't got a puncture: The pearance of a police patrol in ploted and the new code tube, although pierced by a most cases is enough to make be available as soon as transla. nail will not lose all the air at would-be

road-users tion coples are printed. twice before taking once, not until the puncture be think comes so enlarged by the re- chances. The lative movement of the nall in the tube during usc. Most cases the nail acts as a plug until thon.

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careless bus The white pedestrian crossing driver, the speeding taxi driver, lines on the roads in the centre the day-dreaming owner driver, of Hong Kong seem to be fad- the saucy cyclist, the jaywaling. Is this due to lack of in- ker-all contribute to the large terest on the part of the al-

London Holds

Holds Road

Road Safety Exhibition

We have to face the fact that In any exhibition we are merely. skimming the surface of the pro- blem. The twentieth century has let loose a number of lethal wea- pons on society. Of these the motor-cor is

and atomic energy is the latest. Science has outpaced human capacity for as.

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kind

3,000, but they were

a fighter enough to say, that squadron?leader had done even ---worse. on his first effort only tho)

day before.

The Marquis So it is with the Miles Tester, Of Donegall

in that the steering being very Hight it, is quite easy to run off the edge of the road and even through the hedge or into a tree? similation and its capacity for We do not want to go into mor-

The road that unwinds in front mastering the principles involved bid statisles. Let one or two su of the

stationary "car" looks and using them solely for its own

fice: Over six hundred people just like one of those films that advantage. It takes the lion. were killed in London alone in one often sees at the movies when tamer many years to learn exact-1940, and deaths averaged 14 the shot is being taken along the ly what he can safely do with day for the whole country. But bonnet of a moving vehicle. lions.

twenty-eight thousand cases of I was much murprised on being But mankind has not been

In the same year is as invited by one of the 'representa granted a long enough period to reach even tho realisation of the tronomical. The LC.C. ambulances tives of the Royal Society for the dangers that lurk in the creationsanswer on average of 130 cmer Prevention of Accidents to go ba

gency calls per day.

hind the scenes to find that the of its own genius.

I will leave it to child psychold affect was not produced by the

is the one which we have had,

Injury

Of these dangers, the motor- gists to ponder on the case of the back-projection of a film. car is the most commonplace and brother and sister who returned The system employed consists from an exhibition and started of a revolving circular glass turn- longest to get used to. It is more a new game, which consisted of table which increases in speed as pacific than most of them in that,

chairs running into the

and the accelerator pedal of the "car" unless it misused, it will be a knocking them over. Asked what fa pressed. On this turnable are useful servant. It will not des- they were doing, the six-year-old miniature road and seedle effects, troy you from an altitude.por; in girl said: "We are playing nc the hedges' being about 4. in. peacetime, will throw things atcidents, and we have already high, roughly on the gramophone. you in anger. It will only turn killed, ten pedestriaris!""; A record. principle. It is a small savage if one of two parties docaMiles Tester ཉྭ་-- light controlled by the stooring- something foolish.

-Morbid Statistics

On entering, I turned to the wheel of the "car" and mispend. right at the top of the wide stair-ed on to the road that back-pro- Pacific as its intentions are, hu- case and found that the driving-Jects the impression of a film to manity has so failed to under text on the Miles Tester was the person being tested. stand ́ila destructive possibilities progred. This reminded me a that it has been forced into the good deal of the blind-flying! top rank of life.destroyers, and vies only with heart disease, and other natural causes as a destruc- tor of human life.

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Reaction Test.

trainer which I. tried during the "In that case," I asked, "you war at an B.A.F. aerodrome, I could easily go through a hedge?" nished up by doing a spin "Yer/ sald my expert, wistfully straight into the ground from "People do and we have to spend a lot of time reconstructing, the things they, knock down on this turntable."ENCE

Apart from the steering test, which is really easy it you are careful they give you a reaction test. You have to pull up "as quickly as possible "when you sen a little red light go on at the end of the bonnet. They say that the avarage" reaction: Is / soyen-tenthe of a second. Mine was three-fifths' of a accond; and my driver (whó, I must admit, had been upped aft by me exactly what was going to happen) got all the credit by. registering half a second.

The experts freely admit that tals testar, excellent as it is i principle can be improved upon. They are trying devise wEYI whereby realistic pedestrians could daah: morosa (at apaisteten where it is possible to avoid an accident If the person being tested does? the

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