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Edwards Gets

His Motor Cycle Licence

By COURTENAY

EDWARDS;

The dark secret came cuit when I bumped into the Editori in the corridor.

"What about including sunie motor-cycles In those road-text

beles of yours?" he said.

I told him I didn't have a driv I licence.

That shook him-untit I ex- plained that I used to drive motor- Trikes, but that one day I went ulong in my car and submitted driving myself for a voluntary test, just to see what it was like.

I passed it all right, but under he new rules they endorsed my rence only for Groups A and D. From then on I could drive a heavy locomotive or a tractor as well as a car. could even have a go at a road roller. But motor- cycles? No!

Now I've always liked doing things the easy way. And 1 re membered having read that if you passed your driving test bicycle with one of those "outboard" motors you automatically licensed to even the biggest, fastest wwelines.

Practical Designs Give Land Rover Unique Values

You Should Know This!

The Highway Code

Lights-Do not use your head- lights unnecessarily, and in parti- cular do not leave your vehicle standing at night with its head- lights on. In Hong Kong a car may be left stuuding without light, st the owner's responsibility.

Headlights should ALWAYS be dipped or switched off when ap- proaching an on-coming vehicle. Hong Kong motorista are un- fortunately far too prone to neglect this most essential of all highway courtesien.

Headlights

may also .with advantage be switched off or dipped when fellowing another vehicle which you do not intend to pass,

Avoid tenving your vehicle at night facing the wrong way unless the road is sufficiently well-lighted to prevent other users of the road being misles.

One vehicle amongst all those produced for export, weather turn on your side and tail

in Britain stands out alone. It is the Land- Rover, and its severely protcical design gives it unique value where rough going is the only going.

With the attributes of a car it combines those of tractor and mobile power plant, and behind the design is quality; the Land-Rover is built for hard work-a lifetime of it.

1,595 .c. hud a four-speed gear

It has a four-cylinder engine of There follows some rough going box with a transfer box.

over the earth-covered top of some Gear air-rated shelters, which force the ratios are, therefore, 5,6, 8,36, | vehicle to make a near right-angle 11.46 and 18.8 to 1. with the trans turn whilst on the tank of a 1 in fer box in high ratio; with the 3 alope. box in low ratio they are 13.58,

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120.23, 27.74 and 40,68 to 1-eamgh After that a rough and humpy for any purpose. It has four-bend with soft hummocks has to wheel strive.

be negotiated, and this is followed The robust body is finished no by a 1 in 2 slope with a soft clay that it may be left out in

all surface. The

then car

turna on a weathers and loaded indiscrimin- round and traverses the дато

tinyntely; there is nothing to etop

course in the opposite direction. were couple of sacks of

meal being drive thrown across the

With the long course a start has bonnet and

to be made by climbing about 25 T.T. front wings.

for yards of a hill of 1 in 2 steeper) grade It looks very hill has a thick, loose surface with close to a 45 degrees angle. This foundation of concrete beneath It,

So after that corridor meeting with the Editor I borrowed a 46 t.c. Velo-Solex, with roller drive on the front tyre and an exciting top speed of 18 m.p.h. on the level

I put my "L" plates up, got my provisional licence went along for my test and came away with my

licence.

be in Stevenage,

On the other hand, weather- ment is thorough, so that owners proofing or the driving compart

and Wives can come in from "the

sticks" to lown in their evening best without looking as if they have hacked their way through the bual with a machete.

No doubt part of the success which this remarkable vehicle is achieving resulta from 1ha arduous loating thorough and given to it in prototype form and constantly repeated on production

cara.

A few hours later I chanced to out a private test course at the The Rover Company has mapped Hertfordshire, back of the factory-very rough, where I called on Phil Irving, with hummocks, steep hills ond a chief engineer of the Vincent- H.R.D. Company, makers of the wood with a stream running con-

veniently through it.

This course is divided into two

world's fastest standard motor-

On the crest in a sharp left turn, leading along deeply rutted ground to a short steep slope of loose BUT face and varying profile which has to be climbed and descended.

Then the car traverses an open area with ruta of usually wet clay wood. The entry to the wood- 8 inches deep, leading to a small

one with deep undergrowth and is at an angle down steep many obstacles hidden underwheel slope and across a deep gully.

cycles-the famous 1,000 cc., 10-sections; the shorter one is used there is no road through the wood

The surface then becomes ex- tremely muddy with loam and de- Is anything up to a foot deep, and cayad vegetation. This soft mud

h.p. Black Lightnings, Black many times a day for demonstra- except for the trail made by the Shadows, and Rapides.

tion the longer is about half-a-Land-Rovers. mile in length and gives a devas tating test.

The invitation came as we were looking round the Vincent pro- duction line. "Like to try ane?"

"What! One of these?" I asked, pointing to a massive 4-cwt. Ra-

pide with huge V-twin, engine,i and a speedometer calibrated up to 120 m.p.h.

The Land-Rover can

cover the short course without need of the low ratios offered by the transfer load of one ton round the short box; it is also able to pull a trailer

course.

Soon after entry, a stream has to be forded, with a gravel base and a layer of mud below the wor face of tho water and about 10 inches doop.

During the day-time in foggy

lights.

not at.

Turning Round---Do tempt to turn a vehicle round, especially if this involves more

nee that the road is clear for god distance in both directions. It is generally simpler to go to the nearest side entrance, back into it and then

one movement, unless you can

retrace your

way. In this enso always back into the minor rond or entrance and come forward into the major road.

Motor Horna-Remember that your horn is intended to be used as a warning and an indication, it seeded, of your presence on the road; it should not be used as a threat.

Sound your horn when ap- preaching a danger point or when about to overtake, unless you are satisfied that such a precaution in unnecessary. Do not take it.

1. for granted that your warning kas been heard; in to circumstances can the sounding of a horn excuse a driver from taking every other precaution-to-avoid-an accident..

Motor horns should not be used unnecessarily. and always with consideration for others, and especially for those in charge of animals. used to show autoyance

They should never be or im. Patience.

It is an offence in Hong Kong to sound a horn when the vehicle in stationary, except when nece- nary on the grounds of safety.

(From The Hong Kong Au- tomobile Association's Handbook For Motorists),

To Be Continued

REMOVING THE UNWANTED

muddy fint, with onforced sharp Autocart of two products recently

Next come 100 yards of very

Trial has been made by "The bends and patches of bog, and once marketed by Valay Industries, again the stream has to be forded, a deep gully traversed, and a steep Ltd., 180, Campden Hill Road, slope climbed before the car is out London, W.B. a hand cleanser and of the wood. The return journey the trade name of Jove.

a dry cleaner, marketed under is made across the clay fleid and down the hill back into civilisation.

Short Steep Slope This starts with a short, steep "But that's the bike on which slope (1 in 2 gradient) and a sur Rolly Free, in America last Sep-face of loose ashes. This is fol- tember, did 180.3 m.p.h."

lowed by a similar slope, and then

The hand cleanser has been "Yes, that's right," said Irving, stretch of very rough surface on

the level.

Descending this hill it more awe-

found really effective after get- "She's as gentin as a dove,"

Then comes a descent of about Inspiring than climbing it, and one

ting the hands thoroughly rim- Fleteen

minutes later I was 1 in 3%, leading to an artificial seems to be going over a preci- haring along the Baldock road at water-splash, a concrete trough pice. The free wheel to the front-ed in working on a car, and the on invigorating 80 m.p.h. Vin- deep. This checks

containing water about 22 inches wheel drive has to be locked before clan made that it is non-obra-

sive is Justiflable. cents" chlof

the this descent, or a slip would re- lest rider went out

sult. with me.

water-proofing.

Next the course descenda a slope In point of fact, no bald descrip. When I saw him next he was into a hollow filled with lones mand, tion does duty to this test course; coming back the other way. and has to climb out of it up a it has to be experienced, and it is "What's up?" he asked. "Nothing." I said.

1 in 2 slope, with a sharp cut-off noteworthy that few visitors who

cloth "I did 80 which can make all four wheels have been taken over the short Just' now!

fump off the ground if the car in course ask to be laken over the "Top gear or in third?" he driven fast.

worse one. The Autocar, asked. Just like that.

•

WAN

At homo that night boasting just a little, and the

subject of driving licences came

up.

My wife, who has never ridden A bicycle, and in atill having lessons in the new car-she should be able to drive it soon- quietly wondered if they would let her have a go at the Vincent.

"After passing your driving on Valo-8olex, T suppose!" Not at all. I'm licensed to drive Vincent--which in more than you were this

morning!

Lest

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I looked at her licence.

is hereby, licensed to drive motor vehicles of all groups," Up to last year' my wife had not driven for 14 years. In November the filled in the usual form, pinned a „Itand a day or * new all

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