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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23RD

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Motoring Notes:

1928

A Weekly

Review dealing with matters of interest to

all local motorists.

[BY AN OWNER-DRIVER.] ·

Tyres and Temperature-The

Metric System.

Many motorists have vague, or perhaps Pumps for tyres usually. have a pres unsound, ideas about the effect of tem-sure gauge fitted, but it is not always perature on tyre pressure. It may be ascertain that the gauge is accurate. Most well to explain exactly what happens garages have small motor-driven pumps when a tyre gets hot.

and's storage tank with compressed air, You can check your gauge against one in a garage if you are in any doubt.

It should be first of all stated that a good tyre will stand a much higher indation pressure than is stipulated for use. Thus the Dunlop makers say that their tyres can be inflated to more than ten times the pressure needed for satisfactory That is to say, you can pump up a tyre which is meant to run at 40 lbs.

wear.

per square inch tyre pressure until the pressure is 400 lbs. per square inch and the tyre will not burst at that extreme

peysure.

THE KOT SUN.

USE OF BRAKES,

The beginner not infrequently leaves the hand-brake rubbing and wonders why the engine is not pulling so well as on other occasions.

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A good driver uses his brakes loss often than a beginner. It is all very well to "speed up" and then stop suddenly, but the tyre bill mounts up if you da that sort of thing."

As to what is a fair mileage to expect. under local conditions, that is a matter for argument.

. In no circumstances can the tyre be heated to such a temperature as to cause the pressurs of air in the tube to rise It depends on the size of the tyre, to anything like 400 lbe per square inch. upon the weight of the car and also If we assume that when pumped up to upon-very much upon-the way in which 40 lbs. per squaro inch the air tom the car je handled peratura is about 60°F, and that, as

An owner-driver recently informed midday, the air temperature reaches some of us that, on a big two-seator twice that figure, say 120°F. then, aveu American car, a mileage of 10,000 miles ii the air inside the tyre reaches the in Hongkong was registered with om temperature of 120°F. the original presset of tyres. It is a figura that many sure of 40 lbs. per square. inch will rise of us envy. It pays to get a good make to about 44 lbs. per square inch..

of tyre.

It is difficult to explain in simpló language why this is, but it can be said,

A GREAT ADVENTURE. at once, that the pressure does not vary As evidence of what balloon tyres will directly as the thermometer temperature stand the following record is of in- variet, but in accordance with the varia-terest :- tion of what is called the absolute têm-] perature.

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Hotel some years ago put up a scheme for consideration by the Government which they believed would meet with the approval of the public.

It is hoped that the full details of the scheme will be made public in dur course. It might even be of advantage to those who are formulating suggestions if the scheme. were published now.

Rightly or wrongly that, " lying jado rumour states that the Hotel scherpe involves the removal of the "picturesque matsheds..

STANLEY BEACHES.

It is urged that the road to Stanley should be made wider and re-surfaced.

There is any amount of land available for building there. It does seem a pity that the place is not developed.

In conclusion it may be said that all motorista in Hongkong and Kowloon will. le grateful to the committed dealing with the bathing beaches it they will persundo the Government to make it easier for them and their children to have the full benefit of the benches,"

Hna, the Committee of the local Auto blem? A recommendation from such an mobile Association discussed this pro. authority would be most valuable.

WHAT NEXT? -

In the year 1893, so it is said, the first recorded sate of an automobile took place in the United State

Four years later (1003) sono entor prising individua! brought the arat motor-car into China. It was a steam propelled Locomobile,

These facts are stated in the current

A PERMANENT STRUCTURE.

is about the most suitable form of struc growth of bus transportation in Chica. There can be no doubt that the matshed issue of The Asiatic Motor which devotes considerable space to an-article on the ture for a beach changing room. It is it records the fact that there are now i ever so much cooler than a wooden hut.

a proverb that is worth remembering Urga

"Drink the wine of the country is about one hundred and thirty cars on the road that connects Kalgan and Generations of Chinese have developed of structure very suited to tropical con-nery is faster than the camel and tima the idea of the matshed. It is a typo That is an old caravan route. Machi- ditions.

is money even in the leisurely East. The price for a passenger is a minimum of 50 but when frat the service was opened it was $250.

It is also picturesque in appearance, We do not want to make Repulse Bay like Margate.

On the other hand, the fact remains that there are not enough matsheds to go

round.

Touring cars are used. A few care also traverse the four hundred miles from Urga to Chita. hired are better than nothing but they of our boyhood days are now realities. The small bathing tents which can be The impossibilities of the Jules Verne could be improved upon if there were (It is certain that soon we shall be having enough space. Here is a suggestion to motor tours across Asia, help in the solution of this problem of providing for the motorist who has no ful method of sponding a holiday. It Can we count upon doing the trip "home" by cart What a really delight. matshel."

At the Deep Water Bay end of the may not happen to us, but it will come of shore where there are no matsheds beach there is a rather uninviting stretch in time.

Lucky is the generation that will be Surely a permanent structure, with able to make such tours. deep, low verandahs in front could be built there.

LOW. VERANDAHS.

Many people would willingly pay a dollar a head for the use of a bathing olub house on that site. There is ample room to put up a building that would accommodate several hundred people.

The changing rooms could be placed at the back. There should be ample pro vision of cold water for showers, and proper sanitary arrangements.

All along the front would be a most capacious verandah it must be low and

If only there were a broad highway from Canton to Yunnanfu! Here again we can say it will come-in time.

THE NEW WEIGHBRIDGE.

ALL CARS TO BE WEIGHED.

in the compound of the Central Polico The installation of the new weighbridge Station will make a difference, at least financially, to many motorista in the or publio and commercial vehicles DOW Colony, for owners of either private cars, have to get their vehicles weighed.

Recently Mr. Frank Gray, the former M.P. for Oxford, crossed the African We Anglo-Saxons usually refer to Contineat from Lagos to Khartoum. Fahrenheit thermometers although on the He sent a cable in which he stated that both cars had been driven into Khartoum, Continent the far more sensible conti-They had covered more than 3,000 miles deep in this climate and “boys” would grade scale is used.

through a trackless. country. Despite the bring to the tired bathers the refreshing the Hon. E. D. U. Wolfe (Captain- A notice, has already been issued by In the Fahrenheit scale 32 is the figure sand, rock, buah and camel thorn, the tea and (possibly) other forms of liquid Superintendent of Polico) calling upon at which water freezes into ico and 12 ients. Only one tyre was destroyed.

cars were forced through all impedirufreshment.

The motorist who has used the Now vehicles forthwith to be weighed as the all motor vehicle owners to send their is the figure at which water boils into He explained that the Dunlop people Club House at Shek O will understand licensing season commences on July 1st.

In both cases ordinary atmosfitted not only balloon tyres but the now the ideal arrangements that are provided phoric pressure is assumed; pressure well-known well-base patented rims, there.. makea a considerable difference to thesp When we remember the early days and It is only a matter of foresight. The

steam.

figures.

Now on the centigrade scale watar freezes into ice at a figure on the thermo neter which is 0 and water boils into steam at 100 degrees centigrade. There are, therofère, 100 scule dívisions between the freezing and boiling points.

However, the conservative Anglo-Saxon will not us the metric system of weights And measuICA:

Napoleon, in his grand manner, made the system compulsory in France. It has been a great boon and blessing to that country. Instead of having 12 inch to the foot and 12 pennies to the shilling, etc., everything is multiplied or divided by 10. Think of the time saved.

DON'T WORRY.

On the authority of the Dunlop makers, supported by calculations. which appeal to any common sense person, there is no need to worry about the effect of sun on your tyres. There are good many things about a motor-car that you must remember. For example, if you forget to fill up with petrol you may find your self miles from anywhere on a miny night with a car that no technical know- ledge will act in motion. But don't worry about.the effect of the sun on tyre pressures.

In fact if you do worry you will prob.. ably do just the wrong thing. You will reduce the pressure of the air in the tyre. Then you will get trouble.

The worst thing that can happen is for a tyre to run at a pressure" lower than that recommended by the makers,

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the tyre troubles that then seemed to be inseparable from motoring, wo must indeed congratulate the big tyre com panics upon the great progress that has been made,

architects who designed that Bhek 0 Club House deserve great praise.

The Repulse Bay Bathing Club House should be designed on the same general lines. There should be some attempt to make it beautiful-or at any rate not ugly-in appearance,

ISLAND BAY,

Licenses have at the same time to be produced, and a slip giving the correct to the driver after the weighing has been weight of cach vehicle will be handed done. The licenco fee will be calculated Regulation No. 3). according to the weight registered (Traffic

It is almost trao to say that in this Colony tyres can be worn right down to the canvas. The roada are generally so good that punctures are raro, "Also the tyres that are marketed are of good It is said that no matsheds will be ing 30, owt and not exceeding to ewt. material. Bay good tyres and save your.allowed on Island Bay. One adven self trouble in the enl.

THE CAR AND THE BEACHES.

according to weight..

It is the motor-ear that has made the sands than it was to get it back on to A number of motor vehicles have been

bathing beachas so accessible. The appeal for suggestions as to how the facilities for bathing may be improved is, therefore, one that demands the earnest attention of au ry motorist in Hongkong.

At present the beaches patronised by mctorista are, practically, four only. In the course of time there will be many others. One direction for investigation is the problem of making other benches more accessible for cars.

Repulse Bay, Stanley, Island Bay (at Shek O) and Castle Peak are the centres of aquatic recreation where cars may bo scen, especially on Sundays.

REPULSE BAY.

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private care of 18 cwt. and under pay a

The Traffic Regulations state that-

yearly tax of 816, those above 16 swt. and under 30 ewt. 824, and those exceed-

848. turous matorist recently took his fairly cial motor vehicles, and omnibuscs in

The tax payable on public and commer.. heavy car out on to the sands. But it also on a sliding scale and calculato was not long before he realised that it was much easier to get it out on to the the road,

weighed at Police Headquarters during What he started up the engine the the last week, and while many have wheels spun round and dug the car correct, a fair percentage have been shown that their estimated weight was dcoper in.

Villagers came to the rescue. There

proved to be beavior than was estimated. must have been more than a dozen men paid before, $240 will have to be paid In somé justanots, where $120 has been at work as we left the disconsolate from now on. Some owners of lighter motorist to his fate. We felt rather mean, but we had done our best in bei will now have to pay 824 and 849.

cars, who have been paying $10 and 824 him, and we had a dinner "date" with Once all motor vehicles have been a rather exacting hostess,

We suggested that he should use plankstained they will not have to be put on

weighed and their correct weight ascer and in the end he saw that he must try the machine again. that method.

The weighbridge

motora.

When, as is inevitable, Island Bay will then only be required for new becomes crowded, some relief may be It is estimated that the cost of the gained. Tho Shek O Club" executive

could easily supply bathing Incilities Woighing machine (between 85,000 and Some admirable suggestions for the much nearer to the Club House. For $8,000) will be covered within a few improvement of this place have already quite a small cost a pathway and a tiny weeks, and the Government should reap been made in the columns of this journal pier-just a spring board affair could a much bigger profit from motor vehicles

A careful inspection of the beach be used to make accessible a pool below taxation this year than last, during the recent week-end, and on the Club House.

Since writing the above correspon.. If you don't know the proper pressure animated discussion with some disap

dent has suggested that it will hardly bo for your tyre it is as well to find out. pointed members of the Automobile

CASTLE PEAK"

necessary to have all individual, cara The Dunlop people appear to recommend | Association, inspired the following obeor. The Kowloon folk, are grasping the venience to owners of bringing cars from "weighed" and "pointing out the incon- 40 pounds pressure to the square inch as vations which it is hoped may be useful advantages of owning a car. It is amaz the Kowloon side unleas-absolutely neces a figure, but make sure by communicat to thom who will, it is cortain, formulate ing that anyone in Kowloon should pursary. Upon enquiry from the Police it ing with the firm or their agents that a programme for improvement.

chase a gramophone, bofore the car is was stated that when the exact weights supply tyre

The great grievance is that matsheds bought By all means have both car of all types of cats had been ascertained are not available for everyone who wants and gramophone, but certainly the first similar cars would be taxed accordingly. them.

necessity of life in Kowloon is a car.

A personal tribute must be paid by one owner-driver to this firm for their unvarying courtesy.

A HOT TYRE. Curiously enough an unduly hot tyre often means that the pressure is too low and not too high. When the pressure is much less than that which the makers recommend the tyre is compellet to bend over to an excessive degree. It is this excessive bending over that causes the tyre to heat up,

Moreover, a low pressure in a tyre has another effect which is very bad for the life of the tyre.

The pioneers my that they have ne- quired what they call "squatter's rights." They say that they put up the first mat sheds on the beach and why should they give them up to those late arrivals who showed no, initiatire in the earlier days?

THE "HONGS."

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That is plausible enough, but there ie the other side of the argument also.

Many motorista were not living here in those days. It is notorious that the European population of Hongking is one that is always on the move. Many of It fatigues the material of which the the "hongs keep their employees here tyre is made, to a marked extent, pe for a period of about three years and There is a danger tha}; with the very then move them on to Shanghai or Tien- | best tyres that are marketed, the fatigue|isin.or some other coast port..

caused by low pressures udy causo tyro It might be suggested, respectfully, to burst.

Now the "kongs that they should erect Many people reduco what they thjuk matahods in the name of "hong is the excessive pressure in a tyrd-on that the young men who are into arrivals

hot day and thus ran into the, re may be provided for. N dangor - that they are trying to avoid. Always keep your tyres at the premure crament built "the road down to the recommended by the maskers if you want to get a good mileage for the life of your tyres.

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On Sunday laat there wore many cars at Castle Peak. There are all-sort of sheds out there, and, fortunately, there is still plenty of room. There are several other beaches between Kowloon and Castle Peak.

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such case it will not be necessary for an owner to havo his car weighed unless disagrees with the amount of tax

SAFETY NOTICES. Safety firit notices in Chinese fave now „Matshoda" are to be seen below that been posted all over, the Colony. Tha picturesque place now known as "Orme's notices are printed on red paper. “At- bungalow." The moterists in Kowloon cidents have been increasing recently will never have to complain that they and it is hoped: these notices will help cannot use the bathing beaches.

to reduce the number.

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