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Motoring Notes:

A Weekly

Review dealing with matters of interest to all local motorists. What is Dangerous Driving-Safety

A caso that was recently tried before the Epsom magistrates is of interest in

this connection.

at High Speeds.

[BY AN OWNER-DRIVER.) Complaints are not infrequently made It is in emergency, that experience by pedestrians, riders in chairs and counts. The Epson defendant was quite rickahas, and eran by the police, that right in urging that it was greatly in certain motor-cars have been driven at his favour that he was a tried and ex- excessive speed in Hongkong.

perienced driver. In emergency there in | no time to think The action of jamming on both brakes hard, and re- taining fall control of the steering gear A well-known motorist, with a clean must be automatic. It is, perhaps, what record, was summoned for what the the paychologists call the control of the police concerned with the case called gituation by the subconscious mind. It "dangerous driving." It was alleged may be also that what is needed is an that he was going through the town at essentially masculine mind, or a mind a speed exceeding 30 miles per hour.. It that keeps calm in a 'crisis. was agreed that he had not actually. Some ladies possess that type of mind ondangered anyone, but it was pleaded and some men do not possess it. It is that he should not have gone so fast more rarely met with in old age than through the town.

when a man is in his prime.

The defendant admitted that he was driving at a spoed exceeding 20 milea per hour but he denied that he was travelling as fast as 25 miles per hour, He explained that he was using modern car of first-class make. The car was fitted with brakes on both front and rear wheels. It could be brought to standstill in the length of the car itself when travelling at a speed of 25 milca per hour. His defence was that...“ dan- gerous driving" involved other factor than speed.

LADY DRIVERS. There is no earthly reason why ladies should not drive cars through any traffic, provided that they ara narvous and have had enough experience with the car.

not

It is a delight to many of us who are motor enthusiasts to note that several Chinese ladies are to be seen driving cars in Hongkong-

It is very much wiser for a lady, to learn on a light car. In common with all drivers they must remember that is is dangerous to chat with the passengers in trafia.

Alas! it is an impossible hope. Machi- nary can be made nearly fool-proof, but it is almost impossible for adults to anticipate the workings of a small child's mind.

A little knowledge is dangerous thing. It is advisable to impress on children, no how simple a thing is

On the other hand it must be realiset that the stress on the materials in many parts of the engine varies na' the square of the r.p.m. That is to say the materiale.. are stressed four times as much when the spoed of the engine is doubled..

This proves that the strength and reliability of the materiais now used are ever so much greater than was tho caso ten or Afteen years ago

At these high speeds careful attention must be paid to lubrication. When wo remember the rapidity with which's modern modern cycle will gain speed and the gruelling that many of these machines receive at the hands of impul. sivo riders, to say nothing of the effect of bad patches of road, it in natonishing that they need so little attention and repairs.

world.

It is electrical equipment that seems to give most trouble in this part of tho car, but how fearsome:

The maguoto is, aitor all, a Ford parenta allow their miniature delicate piece of mechanism. When it off-spring to stoor a car and to play has to run so as to keep pace with a about with the lights. They even gratify 3,000 r.p.m. engine it is really not sur the infant by allowing him to work the prising that sometimes it fails. Espe self-starter. It is like playing about cially vulnerable to wet and damp, it with fire.

is remarkable that the magneto is so "Curiosity is woman's curse, but reliable as is the casu as a motorcycle in a man 'tis ten times worse." In a magneto must receive more road-splash- child it is the one dominant passion, ings than one carried on a car. Children are always asking "Why1 They aro, always out for an experiment until they get hurt. Then they soon forget and try something else, "

The child who made the experiment

with scar on the Penk doubtless had the care of his young life...

His instinct of self-preservation must have been well developed. He hopped; out of the car as soon as it begun to move and is reputed to have made a consider- ablo noise as he bolted for home.

If only some ingenious inventor would invent a system of ignition that would not depend on insulation for its cons tinuous efficiency

The next best thing is to obtain the

finest quality when you purchase any electrical fittings; especially for work in the tropics.

ABANDON SOLID TYRES,

It is most desirable to encourage the THE NEW FITTING.

use of motor-lorries in Hongkong. No This particular car was a new model. one can see, for the first time, the women hand brake is different to any previous and other materials-usually building The arrangement for the control of the fand children carrying loads of bricks models. It was this unusual fitting that materials-along the roads and up the attracted the attention of the child. It bills without feeling that such a stato of hand-brake control will survive. is really doubtful whether this now type of affairs ought not to exist in any woll regulated community. It is true that Without in any way minimising the after a time we become used to these danger of allowing infants to roam about things, but we always retain a desire to. the highway unattended-many a child remedy tham even if a more extended has rushed under the wheel of a moving knowledge of things Chiucas enables us car and lost his life as a result-it must to may There are millions of other be emphasised that the car was wrongly human beings in Asia who act as carriers parked..

of loads." EXPERIENCE.

| It should have had the low gear mesh- The only solution is the substitution One factor is the personal element. It

ed and the wheels ought to have been of the wheel for the human shoulders As evidence of what a lady driver can slewed round so as to allow the minimum and mechanical energy for human is fairly, obvious that a driver who has

run possible. On such a steep slope a muscular effort That is one groat of Miss had long experience in handling cara is do the exploits

Violet brick or big stone under & rear wheel reason why it is our duty, as membera capable of getting out of difficulties much Cardory, the English Indy motorist is an additional precaution. It is only of this civio community, to urge on ail

occasions the use of motor lorries. more easily than a novice. It is, how-who is only twenty-three years old, to be used on condition that as soon aa

the car is ready for service the brick There is another good reason why Last month aho must be moved off the roadway. ever, a curious fact that it is the novics many be mentioned.

motor vehicles should be used. Time is who is usually moat eager to speed created the record for long distance Unpleasant memories of sticking such saved. In these days time is an import

motoring in Italy. She was the Captain an obstacle on the road while cycling ant factor. up."

downhill in the dark many years ago The second factor is the car. The re- of an English team of six drivers.

makes one motorist foth to recommend cent models of all makes have certain On the largest racing track in the this as general practice.

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improvementa over the carlier models.world, which is twelve miles ontado coolie to take care of the car while the consider, seriously, the question of abun...

The four-wheel brake fitting is a great invention. After the brake has been put on hard, it makes a considerable differ ence to the distance travelled at any speed whether there is the old type of

Milan, aho did 10,000 miles at the average She recently rate of a mile a minute.

Wo the mile race on Southport sands.

THE DECISION.

THE ROAD SURFACE. -Solid tyres on motor lorries cut-up An obvious precaution is to send the ronda Surely the time has come to chauffeur has his chow me

The occupants of a car coming round it has been proved that the modern doning solid tyres. Over and over again the bend shortly after the empty c giant pneumatio tyre gives a wonderful crashed into the wall must have realised mileage without trouble. The old bogey that they had had a narrow escape. The of puncture has almost disappeared. damage would have been even greater

roar wheel brakes only or the newer in favour of the defendant and he now retions at a fairly good speed, had crashed

The magistrates at Epsom decided in

vention is fitted to the car.

THE BRAKES.

A most important matter is the, con dition of the brakes. It is astonishing that any one can be careless about a matter that may, in an extreme case, involve a loss of life..

After any accident the police usually test the brakes on a can If they are not in proper condition the owner of the car is guilty of negligence,

tains his clean record shest.

The tendency in England is to punish severely any motorists who really are guilty of reckless driving. That is n policy which all owner-drivers, and, in- deed, all owners, will support. It is the prosectitions for trivial offences that are

of Hongkong, are now so good that you if two bodies, moving in opposite direc. Not only has the tyra improved, but the road surfaces, at szy rate on the island into one another.

may wear a pneumatic tyre down to the canvas without fear of a puncture,

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The motor vehicle benefits very much. by the use of a pneumatic, in place of solid tyre. So does the road. The Icssoned shocks and the absence of jolts and vibrations must tell on the life of

the chassis,

Vehicles that are shed with solid tyres have a way of shedding nute and even bolts. It is said that in London you

No doubt every parent in the Colony will keep the moral of the opisode well in mind-for nine days or. rather jess

THE AMAZING MOTOR CYCLES Although there has not been any great change in the appearance of motor cycles for come years there has been a so annoying. It may be. humbly continuous improvement in the materials geated to the Captain Buperintendent of and design.

The maximum speed at which these may see at any stretch of wood paving Folice that a formal warning would

s fairer method of dealing In the pre-war days a speed of 3,000 rein its surface." They are are not dropped small engines are now run is remarkable hundreds of nuts and bolts ombedded. with a trivial error about parking than volutions per minute was talked about by motor cars but by the heavy solid the summons to appear before a magis.but it is doubtful whether engines ran tyred motor-lorries,

at that speed for more than a Low trata."

seconds,

It has been recently stated that the engino have obtained 7,000 r.p.m. There are a number of standard engines that can be run at 5,000 r.p.m

sometimes be

A third factor is the locality. A wide straight road in the country may be, safe for a motorist driving at quite a high speed, while a country village with THE CAR AND THE INQUISITIVE makers of the famous J.A.P. motor-cyclo minny turnings should be very carefully negotiated.

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In England the speeds that are attain ed on the new wide roads, such as that which runs from the outskirts of London towards Dover, are astonishing to those who watch the traffic for the first time Fifty miles an hour is not uncommon,

LOCAL CONDITIONS.

CHILD.

The unfortunate escapade of a small boy of about six years of age who set in motion a big touring car, which had been parked on a steep gradient, might easily have had far more serious results..

The car appears to have been badly damaged and the wall into which it There are very few places on this crashed after it had gathered consider. island where it is safe to exceed & speedblo momentum did not fail to show of 25 miles per hour, because of the many signs of the force of the impact. bonds, and turnings. Possibly the most The story is current that the crash dangerous road is Stubbs Road up to could be heard at quite a distance, and dower from the Peak. In the court of time some of the bends may to straightened out, but at present, along the lower part of the road, especially, a car needs to be driven with great care There is not only the Peak traffic, but the to-ing and fro-ing in connection with Repulse Bay and beyond.

If any part of that road can be made wider it will be a great boon to local motoriste.

unattended car, it may be well to Before discussing the problem of the emphasise the need of caution when leav- ing a vehicle on a slope."

The driver should turn the wheela so motion is strikes & wall or something that if by "any chance the car is not in

that will bring it to rest as soon sa is possible.

In this particular case the chauffeur wheels turned so that the car could should certainly have never left the

run a considerable distance.

···LEAVE IT · IN LOW · GEAR,”

LEAVE

The next point to be stressed is that

An improvement that would also please them would be a leveling out of the road at the Hongkong end of Stubbs Road. a car should not be loft on a slope unless The camber at present in use is mostar is in mesh. If the hand brake is efther the lowest gear, or the reverso difficult. It is a nasty corner. taken off and the car starts in motion The police authorities must be con- the Work done on the compression of the gratulated - concerning the now type of anglán is sufficient to take off a good deal Bignal-lights in so there It is suggest of the energy that accumulates owing to ed that similar lamps should be used at the weight of the car dragging it,down the bottom of Garden Road.

ABIL

It is probably needless to add that the assumption is made that every driver switches off the ignition and ploscs the throttle before he leaves a car unattend

PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT However, carefully; any driver may handle his car he can never be sure that | he will not suddenly meet some emer- €0.

gency, Somcons once wittily advised a young, but conceited driver, who was Now comes the real problem of the explaining what he could do, that he inquisitive or dare-devil; type of child. must also remember what the other fool | Can we hope to be able to arrange that on the road may do

ho will never dámsgé-t car‍t

FOOL PROOF.

Since the power of an engine varice directly as the r.p.m., it follows that an engine running at 5,000 r.p.m. develops just twice the horse-power of the same engine running.at 2,500 r.p.m.

There is no doubt that the noise caused by the heavy vehicle shod with solid tyres doce create a prejudice against it.

It would be of interest to have a frank expert opinion on the subject of the wear and tear of the roads caused by salid tyres from the engineers of the Public Works Department.

Many leading firms are åtting pneu matic tyres as standard equipment for motor-lorries. It would be a good thing for the roads if all "Arms did so,

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