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ATLAS

Long

Mileage

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AND

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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 16, 1947.

Motoring News And Views Continued from Page Eight THE ABOMINATION THAT IS THE PARKED CAR

Who Is The Unhappy Motorist? This Is He Who Cannot Stop To Have A Bite O' Tea!

The Virtue Of Standardisation

(Continued from Page 8)

!

Every visitor to England is impressed by the “no parking" campaign which has spread itself over the length and breadth of the land. The right of motorists to use the highways is con- ceded, but immediately a car stops it becomes an abomination to both the authorities and the Individual non-motorist...

In

no other country in the world are so many "no parking" signs to be found on private pro- perty. Just how far a property owner has the right to forbid a car to stand on the highway opposite his six-foot blank wall is a question for the lawyers to answer, "

The "CORGI"

A recent arrival of interest to Hong Kong realdents fi the 1 hp. "Corgi" Light-Weight Motor Cycle, imported by Gourlie & Co. (HK) Ltd., who have sole agency rights for the machine.

("Corg!" motor cycles are manu-|

by Brockhouse Engineer-

"Our research work during war on batteries for, the Ser- viccs hna brought with It a greatly improved technique, with the reault thot for a given the weight of a performance battery will show a substantial

their pro-ing Co. (Southport) Ltd., Eng decrease. This is particularly Certainly that owner has no j neighbourhood of Important in view of the world power to prevent traffic moving perty? I have tried to discover land, and are ideal for use in lead shortage, together with the along the highway bounded by the grounds of this refusal, but Hong Kong. They can be viewed enormously Increased price of his wall, and in pure logic it the most reasonable answer At the showrooms of the Interna tional Motor Co., 749 Nathan no would got was that "cars, des Road, Kowloon. this material.

would appear that he hún "The flush-fitting lampy will right to prevent it from stand-troyed the amenities of the dis- he widely used although there ing on that road, provided that trict."

On retorting that when in is evidence that some of the he suffers. no inconvenience. lurge and more expensive The attitude appears to be, motion the destruction of the marques will retain externally however, that the car is some-"amenities" was just ab great, mounted lamps of orthodox thing objectionable, and that with the addition of some noise

construction. The effect of the Flesh-fitting lamp an style must

the And

By W.7. Bradley

HALF-HOUR CHECK-UP

(Continued from Page 8)

In tightening the fan belt re- member that the belt should not be very light, or an undue strea will be placed on the bearings of fan and probably of the the dynamo, or any other auxiliary that the fan belt drives,

It is most necessary to clea

tapa

ana of the water drain

accumu. lation of dirt which frequently every owner of a plot of land and sometimes odoura, no re-finds its way into their nozzles, and it quite surprising some abutting on the highway hasly was forthcoming.

A popular scaaide resort was times to find that even with a new power to order ita remova'. It

tap in not in an attitude of mind dificult the scene of a tennis tourna-engine the radiator to understand by those who mont. The courts were on the clear.

K must be remembered that as Innked by have lived under a more liberal edge of the town,

The red flag was allotments, and streets which regards any taps in the jackets

Acdiment inevitable regime. abolished fifty years ago, but had been mapped out, named, te

must form inside the jacket an the red-flag spirit appears to and then left until bul'ding result of corrosion caused by the became better water tends to fall to the bottom be all too prevalent in England conditions today.

Scores of "no parking" notices the jacket, in which position appeared on the edges of these it must necessarily be very close

to the drain tap outlet hole, an quiet roads and the police or-

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not be overlooked as the mini. mum mounting height of the lamp for effective performance will Inevitaby lend to American style of high blunt front ends unless heimeta For other exerescences are used on the more Kloping type of wing.

"Flush-fitting lamps will in- corporate n standardized light unit where the feature la that reflector and glass are scaled together де оле unit in con junction with a pre-focua bulb. The front rims can be made to blend with the body style and be supplied without real pre- judice to standardization,

"The interior of British cars authorities, and those publledered motorlats to vacant plots so it is easy for the latter to be- must inevitably become

more bodies who profit most by the some distance away, where they If it remains blocked very stylish and we have designed a motorist's presence are often range of switches which are his greatest enemy.

Here is a quiet seaside resort fundamentally standardized in- ternally but which can be fitted-overy motorins knows it, or with any reasonable colour or at any (Continued at foot of next Cal.)

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Under mutual agreement

take pleasure to inform their respective clients that all

Cadillac, Chevrolet, Armstrong-Siddeley, Triumph and Standard cars and Chevrolet trucks

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Unfortunately animosity undoubtedly cherished by the

rate its counterpart- with a "scu-view" adorned by two houses, an abandoned gun emplacement, and a score of "no parking" notices. At a re- mote end there is an open space on which motorists can leave their cars from 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. on payment of a fee of two shilings. *

come blocked.

the

had the privilege of leaving their cars under the care of a serious things may happen, as the

las may be turned on to releas "guardian" on payment of a the water in extremely cold weath and the owner of the car fee of two shillings.

Whether this money went in- may fail to notice that the water

is not coming out of the tap. to the hands of the owner of

Defective thermostats are F the vacant plots or was appro- printed by the municipality, I matter for the service station.

Hoses chuld not discover. Whether one goes north or south, east Incidentally, the general inspec- or west, the same conditions tion should include the water pipe prevail. Paid parking places rubber hoses, as these are certain are provided and the police to to perish after a car has been

years, t their best to ked that motorista running for In view of such an attitude are hounded Into these places.

thereof being very Rymptoms small surface oracks which appear is it surprising that the ownera

all over the rubber. The rubber, of the scattered villas in the

The greatest opponent of in-moreover, Jose its character as neighbourhood should also. ob- discriminate parking is the mo- result of heat after many thon- ject to parking anywhere in the torist himself, for he owns sand miles, and if these connec variation of knob which the car for the privilege it gives tions are left in position just to him of getting from place to long a burst will result and it stylist may dictate.

"I have inevitably been stress. place quickly and conveniently. may allow all the water to drain from the engine without the ing the virtues of standarıdızą. / The motorist who abandons ha driver noticing until much too

car in such a position as to late that something really serious. cause obstruction, or even in has happened. convenience, la infringing on If the water does escape in IF YOU WANT the rights of his fellows. Much this manner at any time, the. educational work could be done symptoms will be that the engine in instructing motorists how becomes extremely hot and Rues.

on Bring after being ewitched off, and where to park.

tion and I have made a great

gave

point of the American advantage in volume, but I do not want you to have the impression that if we achieve a greater degree of standardization all will then be well. We shall still have to use all the brains and skill God to devise ingenious manufacturing methods, to make better use of our factory floor space and last, but by no means least, use to the best possible advantage our manpower, the most precious of all our re- sources, if we are to maintain our position.

Undesirable

into the

of Youth

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:

Look Young,

Be Young

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I do not mean in the cities in which clrcumstances it must be the police do that very well 'allowed to cool naturally, and fo but in the small towns and no circumstances must it be cool. villages and on country roads radiator.

ed by pouring water where a car can, apparently, be teft without danger. Howing one half of the footpath, is often are cars left on a narrow a park. and on obstruction, stretch, on a bend, jur: beyond which is tolerated and even or- the brow of a hill when, a dozen gonized by the police, while the yards away,

a perfectly safe adjoining roadway must be left- parking place can be found. free for traffe, whether, that There is no time to lose and Good resulle can only be obtain traffic exists or not. if only we could be freed fromed by continuous education. A few years ago a company some of the present controls and The general rule should be in Paris secured from the muni have some of the special taxa- "parking rights cease where ob- cipality the right to make use These GLAND PREPARATIONS (Male and Female) are offered tion lifted from our shoulders, struction begins." This rule of various square and quiet to the public not to trespass in the domain of the Physician, we should all be better able to certainly is not applied in Eng-strecta, to put a

guardian In but as a means for the clear-thinking individual to keep the get on with the job."

land, where the practice. no charge, and to demand a feo, body in a condition of fitness which is necessary to carry out Press Tour

longer is to trap motorists for Despite the fact that the guard-ones daily duties efficiently, and' to obtain maximum

not experi- Later a Prea party was con- speeding but to fine them for fans were ex-Service men, the both in business ille and elsewhere. They are

mental; but have borne the test of time and irrefutable testi- ducted, through several of the standing still.

attempt was a dismal failure. Lucas factorica. As á start a In every country on the Con- There were two lines of attack; mony is avaliable as to their efficiency. vialt was made to a large room (dent a much more Liberal either the motorist refused to in which had been crowded to spirit is displayed, while in the recognize the guardian and de- gather on benches samples of United States, where, in so clined to pay the fee, or he pald every one of the different items many cities, traffic is so dense the fee and a little later "atole". of equipment which present-day that parking rogulations have to his own car. car manufacturo expects. The be enforced, there is nothing in If ho did not pay, he invited effect was startling by reason of the nature of exacting toll from the company to sue him, and the astonishing variety. Dozens the car owner,

the invitation never camo. If he and dozens of different hend France in the country which did pay, it was just as cany a lamps, aldo lamps,

horna, I shown the greatest tolerance to matter in Paris as in any Eng- switches, dynamos, starter wards matorista. Let it not be lish park to slip in and take the motora, Ignition sets, and so on supposed that he is given acar away without giving up the Alf substantially the same in liberty which borders on Hcence. ticket and, in possession of

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principle, all different in detail. The rule that, #parking right this-receipt, to sue for the/rDo You Suffer from Headache?

It seemed as if there were 57 ccasu when obstruction begins," turn of his car.

different varieties

item

of

every implies that these rights exist Life became so complicated topter begro Tong: no obstruction is for the company that for s After assimilating that ox- caused; In no case would a few weeks they abolished the perience, the party delved into court convict a motorist for fea and trusted to the generosils the factories. There they could having left his car on a public of the publie, But Upparently aco, how production on a large space unless it were proved that Parisians were not genbraub for scale depends upon the uninter by so doing he had caused an within three months the "p". rupted flow of parts through obstruction and was a potentis) boards were taken down and highly specialized machinery dangers. Nor would the police the ex-Service men found other every, Item of which, so to speak, ordor the motorist to, a public ments of earning a livellbond. did one particular job and did parking place, with an atten. Unilateral Parking -- it well and quickly, provided that dant in charge, for the simple It, would be foolish to jump It could always go ahead on reason that no paying parks to the conclusion that in Paris, that particular job. It was <kiet.dk begging → cara-can-be-abamlondd, -any- normidantly obvious that economy Cinema Queue

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In manufacture could not be While we usually associate street. Unilateral parking in obtained and maintained if such parking with, Vonicles," the indistrictly enforced; and the gen machinery has to be constantly „vidual frequently finds it de cral rule in on even daten to alopped and reset. In order to strabla to “park" himno.f. A bark against ovan numberki: on cope with changes in detail of oknema quétio, dis instance, two, odd dates to park against od 67, Queen's Road. | the parts being, windwa pembatas, three, or four abreast, qocupy. Įnumbosa