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TECALEMIT

LUBRICATION AND GARAGE

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• GREASE GUNS

• NIPPLES

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¦ THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, AUGUST 20, 1849.

MOTORING NEWS AND VIEWS

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In

01922

UPD

CWD101

car.

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The popular British Sunbeam Talbot 90, scored a great victory At the recently held International Alpine Rally, when a Sunbeam-Tai- bol team won the Foreign Manufactureres' Team award.

addition, д Sunbeam. Talbot recorded the best per- formance in the 2.1ltre class In acceleration and breaking

toats. Picture above shows the winning team, whlic, at

a Sunbeam-Talbot right. seen negotiating part of the difficult test route,

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risks and hammer

the never before.

You Should Know This!

The Highway Codo

SPECIAL DUTIES TOWARDS PREDESTRIANS, CYCLISTS,

AND ANIMALS. Respeel the rights of podos- trinns. Aged or infirm people and young children and those charge of them call for your special courtesy.

Take special care not to on- danger chuliren. Remembo that they are likely to dash into the rond

unexportedly. Look nut fur school signs

When passing or overtaking pedestrians, cyclists, or animals, them plenty of room. If the rends are wet or inaddy try to avold splashing them.

Slow spectal consideration to- wards nurses nn horse-drawn vehicles,

Slow down-or stop when re- quested or siganlied to do so by thom in charge of horney or ether unimaln which may become frightened or restive on your ap proach. Be ready to stop when meeting a pack of hounds.

Remember that you must be prepared to meet pedestrians and also led animals on your sido of the road.

TO MOTOR CYCLISTS.

The small space you occupy. your capacity for high speed and you reluctance to step dead may tempt To "eut in" by thread- ing your way between other vehicles. This is a frequent source of accidents.

you

The risks you take are not only rink yourself but to other users of the ronde.

cautious and considerate rather than trust solely to your driving skill. Sudden noisy ac turbing.

It is an offence in Hong Kong not to have an efficient sitendor or to war a vehicle in much a

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In addition to all this fear, but in this Alpine, the drivera

atern had to go even beyond this, and as | imountaineering, more than 100 for the cars, they had to be mur- mites or Italian Autostrade had to dered in order to get through the be covered at a maximum speed of rally,"

more than the 60 miles an hour mark. This section niso included maximum speed tests and timed climbs over such famous ancenta cyclist the same rules apply to you

colossal

0%

the Stelvio.

way as to cause any excessive Hoe which could, with season- able care,

be avoided. Remember that us 庭 motor

an to the driver of a car.

The International Alpine pracing one is prepared to tako shock absorbers were stressed as celeration is unnecessary and dix- Rally this year provided the vertain most arduous test of motor cars ever known in the his tory of motor sport.

This view is confirmed by such experienced British What then, was this competitors as Donald Healey task. Simply 1,800 miles motoring in the Alps and Italian Dolanites taking part in his 15th Alpine-net at the anuntering gait em- —and H. J. Aldington, for 29ployed by tourists, but always well-known racing non-stop at speeds ranging be- years a driver.

tween 32 and 40 miles per hour.

Time controls were cunningly Said Healey, "Never in all my situated so that there was the experience have cars been put to minimum amount of main road wuch a killing test. Any car which in which to get even a few completed the course, let alone minates in hand quickly to snatch win an award, must be regarded as the very best in its class in the world".

Said

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a few gallons of petrol and a bit. of fond.

Engine power and reliability, Aldington, "In motor the transmission, brakes .and

WEIGHING

HOUSE

TO HONGKONG MOTORISTS

It was therefore not surprising Make no attempt to gain a for- that of the 02 British, French, ward position in a traffic block by Czech and Italian cars which set means of the narrow spaces be

They forth from Marseille, only 12-weon stationary vehicles. 201 of them badly bent-suc- may start suddenly and you will ceeded in completing the course.

impede them and endanger your-

Best Performance Sixteen of these were British, and it was tonic for those who #!1 believe In the supremacy of British engineer. ing skill and craftsmanship to find among them a complete

team of Sunbeam-Talbot 90's,

winners of the Foreign Manu- .facturers Team award, and. Just

to prove that this was no fluke,; Mr. Norman Garrad, one of thei

International Alpine Trial 1949

SUNBEAM-TALBOT

WINS AGAIN!

The 3' standard production-line Sunboam-Talbots,

| the only British team to complete the course, win the

TEAM CHALLENGE TROPHY

Presented by •

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

To Be Continued

team, proceeded In the fina' acceleration and braking tests to record the best performance In the 2-Litre Class The two ather succesful Sunbeam-Tal- bots were driven by Douglas Cleare and Peter Menkhouse.

the Automobile Club de Marseilles & Provence

1 st.

'also

(in 2-Litre Class)

ACCELERATION AND BRAKING TESTS

(Subject to official confirmation)

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