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Pazo 9 '7

MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS: Continued from Pago Eight

KOWLOON'S NEW MOTOR BUSES

New, comfortable motor buses'will soon be on the road in Kowloon; indeed, the first of a modern fleet of Tilling-Stevene 38 porernate vehicles is already in use. A total of 80-if ship- mente arrive on schedule-xhould be in Hong Kong by the end of the year, according to the Kowloon Afotor Bus Co. The picture above shows the new vehicle. ́ ́Second-class passenger traffic will probably be introduced by next January.

Below is a shot of the interior of the new hun, All bodies are built locally and have aresmmodation for 15 passengers in the front section, upholstered in green, und 23 in the rear Bee- tion, which has wooden seats.

Car Prices Down Under

Diary Of A Hong

Kong Motorist

Quite some who ago I rofer- at one time or another narrow. red to the need of a local edly escaped driving headlong in- tion of the Highway Code an to 'n bus swerving out in this,

ested In England-the cost of manner.

this would be worth while oven

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if all Hongkong drivers could I have had a very good rea- learn from it the correct use of ponse from many motor cyclista Atandard set of signals. Sign-about the formation of a motor gia should be used by drivers cyclista club, and as soon as I to Indicate their intentions to have more details I shal! let in- other road users, but from my terested parties know, possibly observations in Hongkong und through this column. Besides Kowloon, a large number of having fun, I think the formn- drivers are inclined to use hand tion of such a club will go a signale an commands to others. long way towards improving

By Our Motoring Correspondent

For instance, many of us have experienced this: The driver of the vehicle in front suddenly puts his hand out to sigual a right turn, in such a manner to make it seem as if be were ordering the driver of the following vehicle to beware. for he is going to make a turn. or the same signal is used whilst pulling out

A good ex- driving manners, ample set by members will be followed by other road users.

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Not very many motorists have aired complaints about the Increase in vehicle licence fees this year. 1 know if auch un increase were made in any other from the part of the world there would Australia, which has a large potential for sales of new motor kerb or changing from one line be, a tremendous outery, so if and of traße to another, without one of these fine days' Govern- vehicles, has 577,579 cors 318,576 commercial vehicles. More any thought for the traffic be- ment should decide to doubla

hind.

the licence feca. It would only than 25 per cent of these are over 10 years old and many are near the 20-year mark.

These drivers seem to think he because Government would that by thus aigan'ling, they be saying to itself "Well, no- One estimate los it that Aus. are absolved from all respons- one kicked when we increased it Afty per cent, no-one should somewhere bility should any accident oc- tralia will nerd

a'ways kick much now if we increase around 400,000 new vehicles by cur, whereas the ouus

on the author of the signal to it a hundred per cent." 1950.

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As present-day, costs and retalice Grat If conditions will per- mit such manoeuvren before prices of new motor cars are matter of world-wide concern, the signalling. following indication of how retall prices of new cars are affected "Down Under" is of interest.

The following are the retall prices now asked for saloon me. dels, including 10 per cent Sales Wax, based on whole-sale prices:- Packard Eight

£1,330 Packard Six

£1,270 £1,269

Or is it perhaps that motor- ista take it for granted that no Holice is taken of any auchi The worst drivers in this res- complaints? Let's hope

that pect seem to be the bus drivers when the Municipal Council who, having finished taking on comes into being, that there or discharging passengers at a will at least be some warning atop, give a 'perfunctory signal that such increases are contem and simultaneously pull out plated, and motorists who have from behind another stationary to do the paying are given some bus. Nearly every molorist has sort of soy.

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The Roads Of London

Before the Romans came to Rye, Or one to Scueru atrode,

The rolling English drunkard. Mude the Rolling English Road.

That may be so, but, whoever did first make our roads, it is certain that at the present time legions of Englishmen-to suy nothing of Scotsmen. Welsh and Irish-are engaged in muk- ing again the roads of London town.

Now we are going to change a lot of that and we are told that within the next: few months something like a mil- Hon-and-a-half square yards of the road surfaces of the streets of London are to be repaired.

For a considerable time to come. London's ever increasing traffic will have to be diverted here and there and everywhere while gangs break up the aur- faces preparatory to relaying. and the voices of pacumatic drill will be heard in the lead from dawn to dusk.

of thing is likely to

HO

Riley 1-tre

Wolseley 18 hp.

£1,073

Bulek

£1,011

Oldsmobile

£836

Puntinc

$100

Ford Mercury

£750

Plymouth

£743

Standard 14 hp.

£720

Chev, Fleetmaster

£682

Ford V.0

£680

£001

SOOD

£550

£540

£407

Chev. Skymaster Vauxhall Senior

shnilar bottlenecks in other Standard 8 hp. places even a mile away, because | vouxmul Wyvern

and

casily Ford 30 compleated deranged and inter-reacting in the London trame that (to-de- Vase a poet's words) "all things ao linked are that thou canst Bot Allr # flower without troubling a stur."

Not Easy

TOO MANY TYRES

Capacity of the

Canadian

rubber industry was practically doubled in the wor geurs, saldi The surfaces of London the general sales manager of the thoroughfares are not easy to Firestone Tyre and Rubber Com break up for radical relaying.pany of Canada, and tɔ absorb The top surface, be it aspha'te this increase Canada must win an market by export or wood blocks, is usually laid increased

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During the war, and indeed antil the present time, (any at ight or nine years) no major repair work has been done to London's thoroughfares except here and there when it became on a bed of concrete about a driving prices downward. urgently necessary to All up

foot thick on the concrete la bomb-holes or to make the laid a network of steel wire rougher places smooth enough and upon that asphalte or brick- their old age we have, in the to enable traffic to pass safely sized hard wooden blocks are main; allowed them to follow if not with comfort. No gen- set. The asphalic commonly their ancient caurACA. eral relaying could be attempt used fx of a kind which under the

True, we have flattened them ed. The result has been that bludgeoning of traffic, settles out in London and wherever today the road surfaces have juto adamant lke hardness possible (and economic) become merely things of abreds Where wood 'blocks are used have made straight some of the and patches.

they rest on similar concrete crooked places. and steel wire. The boiling tar Today we are reconditioning is poured into the interstices the surfaces of these ancient and the whole covered with grit | ways for the thousandth_time, rolled into the tar. The result but beneath the wood, the is pretty durable.

asphalte and the concrete there - It's a long time since the will still remain the basic. roll-

rolling English drunkard made | ing. Eng'ish road. the rolling English road. But he made it very well. Spending of London in particular, the routes of some of the older thoroughfares-say for instance the Strand, Fleet Street, Chinn- cery Larte-have been troddon hard by the Saxon, Norman and Dane for a thousand years. We need not, go back to the Roman roud builder because his, rouds :

still remaining--are dend Squads of man, equipped with straight and uninteresting in al sorts of implements, will themselves. If. thero werd a tear up asphulte or wood-blocks- hill or a valley he cut his or even granite setts and con- | 'street'-straight over,, the hill crete foundations. And pile and down the other side, or he them in heaps, along, so to dived down into valley and up speak tho, littoral. Concreto again. He by passed nothing. mixers, tar bollers and steam rollers and all manner of strange, "engines will block the fairways: The man on But our rolling English wheels on, an unfamiliar way ["drunkard did nothing" of " the will be apt to find it obstructed Bort: by-pissing anything, in apparently by mountain ranges convenient to tackle. He let Bla and--if he has not already, track find Its own way and bi- auspected the fact-wi'l learn | come a 'reding rond, a rolling from a foot-square and dingy | road that wandered round the rad notice board that, he must | nhire.....” And to a great extent exercise 'caution" and that, the, it does kd still. It in moldoni'an, 'road in' up.""" If obstruction of | "right", line÷the shortest, that a thoroughfare la síot completo | cán be drawn, between two ho will have to take a chance polnite. In Ita youth it-wandet toedgú. Into any gap between .od's in order to avold: the 'com- a thin red line of London's) inom lands, used by the tonguta | buses and other traffic crawling of the mejlikoval manors, In

"Caution"

| part the obstruction" in stoglo 11552

file Evory instance of that sort

A Rolling Road!.

(Continued alufoas. of incat Col)

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that all

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··Triumph and Standard cars and Chevrolet

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