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THE HONGKONG DAILY

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Motoring Notes:

A Weekly

Review dealing with matters of interest to

all local motorists.

BY AN OWNER DRIVER.J

There are same days in life that will he remembered always. The day when ope ready ownas, for the first time, motor-car is one of tham-

It is more years ago than seems pois- ible that the writer first drove a car. It was in London in the period when the drivers of the pansom-cabs and borse drawn buses were using their wit ami their spite in the vain hope of keeping. petrol propelled vehicles off the streets of the metropolis.-

The popular cars of those early days were from Franco. The British engineer ing profession had not seriously turned

The Pride of Possession-The Great,

Ambition of the Day.

IN BRITAIN NOW.

THE NEW PHENOMENON.

The grave national emergency caused by the. (abortive), general striku, and the -It is estimated that between two and amazing collapse of the determined effort three thousand new cars appear on the to starva a nation into submission to a ronds of Britain cach week. The order minority, have now already become of the Freedom of Road-is being con- | matters of history. ferted on about, three times that number What is not generally understood is of people. Everyone should be made to that the key to the situation was petrol realise that it is quite an easy matter to and mechanism. It was demonstrated learn how to drive a car.

that road transport is of paramount it portance to the whole community.

It cannot be doubted that if such a strike had taken place in the nineteenth century when road vehicles were all

Don't be selfish ↑ Persuade your friends to learn how to drive. You need not land them your new $6,000 saloon for the purpose.

A small second-hand car is the machine drawn by horses, there must have been

THE WORK OF PEACE

When we think of what can be dona by motor transport to improve the conditions. of the people who are suffering from poverty we grow impatient with those who have no vision, -

Consider Awangtung only

roads and motor transport brigands and robbers - would Zisappear. Famine now a day's practically impossible it, thero ata Tonds in a country.. Motor transport cnables, food to be moved rapidly and distributed casily.

A lesson of the great strike in England was that the middle man can be eliminat-- ed. The producer, can now-a-days deliver, goods to the door of the consumer."

· The practical solution of the economic troubles of China's millions is road trans port any true friends of the country will spend time and energy, in trying to persuade all Chinese officials to favour rand construction.

THE PARTINGTONS. In the early days the officials and moneyed landlords in Britain opposed everything mechanical, w

its attention to the vehicle which the most suitable for the beginner. It is not starvation in many towns and villages Invariably they are entirely ignorant of

recent repeal of the infamous Red far act had permitted to appear on the streets.

Fancy! It is less than thirty year

that the law of England made it illegal for any mechanically driven vehicle to proceed at a speed exceeding four miles an hour. Even then it was enacted that a man with a red flag must walk in front to warn people of the danger.

A FOUR-SEATER.

It was years after the repeal of that Act before the writer bought his first car, although he had learnt to drive soon after the act was repealed. The car pur- chased, second-hand-was a Cadillac. It

an expense in these days to own a car, for second-hand cars can be bought locally at very reasonable prices.

within a few daya.

OFFICIAL APPRECIATION. Honours must be about equally divided between the private car and the motor lorry. The latter did nearly all of the emergency food distribution, but the private ear carried great numbers of people to their work.

There are motorists in Hongkong keen enough and wealthy enough to have a new model each year, but the beginner can cut his wisdom teeth"-and pos

The Government of the country express sibly the teeth of the gear wheels-oned official appreciation of the services so a second-hand car as easily as on one splendidly and unselfishly rendered to that is brand new.

the community by the owners of private

cars.

The small shopkeeper and the artisan

It should be mentioned that great in England own cars. Every young man praise is due to many a plucky womsz in this Colony who comes out from Eng driver The ladies at the wheel" ac quitted themselves like men". They land, to a "hong could save enough in proved that anyone who has had the ex- few months to purchase a second-handperience of nerve-strain which takes place car. It would be a good investment for during the handling of a car is equal to would saem comic if it would appear in his health. It would help him to spend THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT."

the streets of Hongkong to-day.

hima

bis leisure in a way that would re-create his mental energy and keep Physically fit

It was a four-seater even in the early daya two-seaters were nick-named "dis

AMAZING FIGURES. obligers--and the engine had one cylinder only. It was a horizontal engine Exed In the United States and Canada under the driver's soat. If it went for millions of people experience the pride twenty miles without a stop we thought of possession of a one, A recent official It had done something for which we must statement by the National "Automobile be thankful

Chamber of Commerce, New York, fur rishes some figures that are amazing.

There are in use in U.S. A, 18,854,347 motor vehicles.

It was difficult to get at the engine It was as well to carry overalls under the seat. They were needed often. 15

Heighol It & seems impossible In these days of the accessible four cylinder vertical engine, with a self-starter andersons in the country. automatic lubrication

Assuming, for the purpose of fore Zet never has any car caused quite stalling criticism on the subject, that the same thrill as that which was the first the population of Hongkong

persons, then, if we had a pro rata to be really mine. People stared ni we.

any emergency.

-

There are mandarins in every country,

the one thing that brings prosperity to a country in these days-mechanism...

They try to keep "back the surging waves of mechanical progress with words inspired by selfishness.

Confucius taught that the first thing to do is to feed the people and then to teach them. He would have advised, using the Boxer Money for road construc tion in China. It is useless to educate a number of young men who seek only official positions where they may carry on the old political-intrigues.

China needs workers and not parasites. The artisam class can and does supply workurs.

Something more should be done, in this Colony to train chauffeurs sad motor mechanics. It would be an example for the rest of China to follow

terested in his car must be something of Every motorist who is in any way in- a mechanic. He knows the value of being able to do things with his hands.

The general strike in England demon Little by little the veil is being lifted strated that the doers can beat the and the secret of the rapid organisation oratora. The labour leaders poured out of emergency transport is being reveal-millions of words. The motorists and the engineers did" very little talking. There is an important section of the They delivered the goods. It was the Government of Great Britain called the delivery, that made starvation impossible. Ministry of Transport That Ministry It would do that in China if there were had made plans and laid schemes which construction of roads instead of destruc were put into rapid operation as option of crops in the country as the strike was declared.

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A RANGE OF PRICE.

Foreign observers who had witnessed genezal strikes and revolutions elsewhere. were amazed at the sudden arrangements The latest price-lists of cars that can that saved the situation.

Do purchased in England show a wide After the strike had been in operation range of price for eleven days the whole machine was

You can buy a six cylinder Hispano That means one vehicle for every 63 running so smoothly that economists Suiza open car for £2.200 or a Rolls-

began to talk of the passing of the rail-Royce chassis for only £1,830. - ways as an economic revolution of the On the other hand you can buy s near future.

Gnome car complete for £94. That is the It simply supplied the brain power and is a choice of sixteen different makes The Ministry of Transport did the trick, only car listed at less than £100 but there 700,000 technical knowledge. It requisitioned no ranging from £125 up to £200.

vehicles; it did not bluster und threaten.

You can have a choice of four different It just said "Come on motorists, help makes if you want an enclosed car and the country and we will help you all we cannot afford more than £200

went along the country roads. The number of motor vehicles, there would owner himself cursed when the engine be 200,000 here.. rofused to "gee." The passengers In actual fact there are just over 2,000 seemed determined to make the time pass only-say, one per cent of what we easily for themacives by making idiotic should have jokes about the nether regions. Every thing comes to him who knows how to wait." It was worth suffering the back fires and the silly remarks to feel the pride of possession when the old mechire moved

A NEW CAR

In the U.S.A. there was an increase of 14 per cent in the number of cars, in

(one year.

It is of interest to notice that more than half of the cars in the U.S.A are closed. The actual proportion is 16 per cent

Somebody

no infant 15 na wonderful to the mother as the It is probable that closed cars will be first No car has even been quite the come more and more popular in this equal to that old Cadillac. I have never Colony. In Manila there are, so recent owned a Ford or a Rolls-Royce bus. I visitors.sar, no open touring cara. They have driven both types and they have are all closed cars.

their good points. If anyone gare ne-a During the year 1925 the sumber of

Rolls I should feel awkward about it, for motor vehicles produced in the United it would not be in keeping with my States and Canada was 4,336,754, valted modest circumstances. My highest and at £842,000,000. The number exported bition to-day is a new car of "about ) was 525-741). Wait until Ching has a real | 23,000-88,000 perhaps that will always be demand for cars. These figured will an smbition and gaver. A. reality..

grow.

If, dear reader, you feel a generous

THE ECONOMISTS BRATEN. spasm and wish to do one good deed

When the Great War commenced all to-day by offering such a car free gratis and for nothing to one of the pioneers of the theoretical economista said If

lakt hunger then - sir, monting of an industry that has brought pleasure (KEE and health to millions of people, you must Financial reasons will make a longer time

They were wrong. not be allowed to make the offer. under impossible.

They have been wrong about the auto mobile industry. They must remember the old-anying "Where there's a will there's a way."

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It must be confessed by An Owner- driver

that, grateful as he would be for the it, he could not be as proud of the 1928 model-de-leux as he was of that fand eremy) which was as yward in behaviour as any of the spoilt pretty ladies of history or fiction

GOOD ADVICE.C

can."

The haulage companies ran on 36 The biggest range is in the £80-2400 the transport was paid, not by the Gov-a really good piece of mechanism. ordinary commercial lines. The cost of class of open cars. That price secures ernment, but by the consumer

THE REAL TRIUMPH

It may be rather an exaggeration to say that any price above 2100. is for a The Observer rightly summed up the luxury, car, but it can be said that? was the friumph of road transport during 400 ca situation in the following words, It anyone should be content with a £350-

the British strike of 1998 that constituted ATAWAYS ASPIRING!

a new phenomenon in world affairs Few of us really are content. Males 1,394 buses on the London streets out Mrs. Jones is quite content with her £400 On the last day of the strike there were are more easily pleased that the ladies.

of the usual total of 4,404,00

car until Mrs. Brown, a bosom friend, After the first effort to run indepen- swangera about in a £600 model dent buses, the drivers could not get Then poor old Jones has to get busy. them our of the garages in the morning Well, it is ail good for trade, and some because of the pickets. So Regent a lucky fellow may pick up a bargain Park was made available as a garage! when Jones is compelled to sell his £400

The police emptied the garages one by ear for what he can get ENG one and these scattered homes of buses. If you have plenty of mêncy it. is very were used no more.

nice indeed to have the luxury of a £2,000 up ten car

England was divided into cont

Most of us aspire to have one that is. sion the Ministry of Transport appointed about twenty per cent more expensive" the Ministry The tenth was a County step on the ladder we think about the a Commissioner. Nine were engineers of | than the car wo own. When we gain that

Surveyor, seconded for the purpose. roseate future when we can get another

Responsible, to these Commissioners new car. *

150 RoadOfficers, They were stationed at selected local centres in each division

INSURANCE POLICIES. Every cher should insure his car HYDE PARK A GARAGE DO The London Haulage Committee had cover kamat accidents to other

against ea

Especially should he 500 vehicles operating from Hyde Park peoplo

Sir Henry Maybury gathered around Compensation to the relatives of a has the night men and mapy a novelist coole, may mean only A few hundred- will use the dramatic episode of the dollars. When there is an accident, bow- relief of the docks as a central feature ever, it may involve death or tujury to of stories about the great strike someone whose earning power is much

Tin helmets and tanks were part of greater than is that of a coolie. the convoy for the 500 men transported from Hyde Park to work at the docksured is the relief from any anxiety. Ad The great advantage of being fully ins The procession of 110 vehicles commenced mittedly the careful driver may be fairly at, ad a.m. in a drizzling rain. It came sure of escaping, accidents but the most back through cheering crowds in the skilful and cautious driver cannot be A big American manufacturer, Lyan afternoon The City of London literally quite sure of what the other fellow will MeNaughton, bes, explai

the raised hats to the motor vehicles and -- The their drivers. economists were wrong.

big dynamic power behind the motor car the desire to own- and use it-navor Every motorist in this Colony enn bocatered into their calculations.

a day. It is to use every! persuasion to make even the motor car

stablished Saturation points

boy scout He or she can do onthe economists have from time to time for the hose points have been pass- nat ambitious long to be the owner of ed often, and the industry is still growing

ood

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There are among others ten new cars

or-car, like the telephone, con- on the roads of Hongkong that have been tributes more than it costs to the social It purchased this year. Not a cent of in and economic welfare of the nation, terest in any sale of a car, or accessaries use will continue to become more and has the writerYet he persuaded ten more popular. It is sheer money ner- tho now are owners to purchase a new vousness that keeps some people in the

car" and car and his and their only regret is that old fashioned Tote Buy the cars were not purchased years ago.

fashionable.

accidenta..

be wise, insure against.

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