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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER IST, 1926

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Motoring Notes:

A Weekly

Review dealing with matters of interest to

Il local

motorists.-

[PY AN OWNER-DRIVER.]·

BAD ROAD JUNCTIONS.

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Cost of Running a Car-Bad Road Junctions-Children in Cars.

COST OF RUNNING A CAR.

It may be excusable to bring to the It is generally accepted that only notice of the local Automobile Associn. a very wealthy man can afford to run As a tion and to those officials who consider a 30 horse-power Rolls-Royce car. the problem of road' improvements, two tough guess most owner-drivers would road junctions which could easily be put the cost at £1,000 a year reckoning ande safer nu more convenient to the annual mileage at about 10,000. negotiate.

One is at the bottom of Shaukiwan hill. The road from Tytam joins up with the road that leads past, the Taikoo pro- perty; this latter is often blocked by a tram-car waiting near to the terminus at the bottom of the hill.

Coming down the hill there is a small area of more or less waste land on the left hand side; that area could be thrown into the road and it would make all the difference to the motorist" negotiating the hill. It should not be a very expensive matter to make this improvement.

DAIRY FARM HILL.

From time to time there have been ramours about improvements on the road which leads up from Abercer to the

Police Station at Pokfulam..

The first hill has an easy gradient and is not difficult to climb. There is ono rather awkward bend, about half way up. but it would probably be far too expensive to make any improvement at that place. If it could be done motorists would be grateful.

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Some figures supplied by an owner driver in England are, therefore, of grent interest, because they prove that the cost is less than is usually supposed to be the case.

It is not a bad idea to stop the car after a few miles and allow the youngsters to stretch their limbs. Ons local motorist often oes this at Poktalam where the cattle at the Dairy Farm prove a never failing source of interest.

No doubt if a child is told that a cushion has been provided for its use it will protes: that is prefers to be with- out pac. It is, however, a good plan to' take a cushion for a kiddie. Best of all. however, take more than one child. The Some interesting experiments have been made in the U.S.A. at the State College but two or more catertain each other solitary youngster is difficult to please of Washington and the Iowa State Col when once the novelty of being in a cur lege. It was shown that as the air tehas worn off. Motoring is a beneficial perature rises there is a surprising in-

to the children's health that every family crease in the wear of tyres.

is

It might be supposed that there would man ought to have a motor vehicle. He

will save the cost în döctor's bills, be a small increase in wear following a rise in temperature from that of a grosty morning to a hot noon day. The actual tests showed that the increase was ap proximately 700 per cent. for a rise of 60 degrees Fahrenheit.

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SURPRISING RESULTS?

The "results of the tests made with different road surfaces were astonishing

The mileage run in the years 1923, 1994, The trends, wore off 17 times as fast ori and 1995, with the same car, was record- good macadam roads and 56 times a3 ed as 15.987; 15,613; and 13,983.

A STRICTLY

fast on poor macadam roads as they did PRIVATE & CONFIDENTIAL

The total expenditure (excluding de-on concrete roads, rreciation of the car) was, for the three! The fuel consumption on poor maca- years, in peace 7.87; 5.83 and 8.42 or, dam bada ranged from 100 to 147 per: an, average of 8.19d., per mile over the cont of that on a concrete road. whole period.

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ARRANGEMENT.

The effect of speed was found to be That is the very Essence of The cost of fuel averaged 1.72d. per less than most motorista would suppose. Alex. Ross & Co. EASY mile and the cost of tyres was slightly At 60 degrees F. and at a speed of 15 under a penny a mile, or, to be strictly miles per hour the wear per tyre for a terms. It is the easiest and accurate 0.91d oil and grease worked 1,000 miles was recorded as no lbs. fairest

way of buying the out at less than a tenth of a penny per When the speed, was doubled, the other mile-actually at six-pence for each hun conditions remaining the same, the wear machine you need.

was found to be 0.27 lb.

dred miles.

The cost of repairs and overhauls came to 0.39d. per mile.

!!

It is generally supposed that the reason why tyres wear out so rapidly in Hong. The drivers wages and liveries, "reckon kong is that there are so many bends. ed in as part of the running costs of It would be of great interest to have the rar, came to about £930 a year. The records as to the effect of bends in the annual tax on the car was £49-ale road and a comparison of tyre mileage reckoned in as part of the running ex. in the winter with that of the summer

penses.

would be useful

The most urgent need for improvement, however, is at the foot of" Dairy Farm

In the first year the insurance cost One suspects, however, that the tyres Hill" where it joins the Jubilee Road.

£50 13. d. but in 1923 it was £41 10s themselves introduce n variable factor. The rise from this junction might well-possibly because of a reduction inTwo tyres of exactly the samo make were

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be straightened out and made wider the estimated value of the car after two atted on to a car at the same time on the ALEX ROSS & CO.CCHINA), LTD.

The work should not cost much. ›

The steep gradient near the top of Dairy Farm Hill might be reduced with advantage and there is one other short: slope that needs attention.

Many a car can manage all the way up on top gear" and there is, of course, no reason why gears should not be used. but if it were a fairly simple matter to

reduce the gradient referred to it would bring antisfaction to many a driver.

It will be a great day for motorists when the Prays East reclamation scheme is completed with the road 100 feet wide. One of the bad spots" on the read from the City to Shaukiwan is the narrow road that runs by the Oil Com pany's depot, and the Hongkong Electric Power Station, and the sooner we get the wide new road nearer to the bill side the better, we shall be plenaed.

THE MOTOR-BUS IN SOUTH ·

CHINA.

years of service.

LOCAL FIGURES. These costs are well worth considera- jon, because it is so often stated that any kind of motoring is a great luxury that can only be indulged in by the idic rich."-

In actual fact it does make a difference

back wheels. One lasted about 700 miles, longer than the other, when, run on the roads of Hongkong. The extra wear may have been due to the adjustment of the brakes, but there are so many factors to be takes into consideration that it is difficult to state definitely what causes the excessive wear of tyres in this Colony,

It is, however, evident that the Ameri-

to the cost if the owner is "idle" It cans are running scientifically arranged certainly pays to watch carefully the tests which should provide reliable date.

Anything information that will help chauffeur's demands for oil and fuel, especially under the conditions which us to prolong the life of a tyre will be obtain in Hongkong,

In Hongkong, of course, care

welcome.

If we take an average local figure for should be taken wherever possible to the wages of a chauffeur as 260 a month "park cars in the shade.

even the absurdly extravagant

figure of $100 a month for the owner of

CONCRETE ROADS.

In Shanghai, during the recent

heat

a Rolls-we see that the cost of running wave motorists bad a bad time. It is

the car in Hongkong would be reduced said that the sun temperature reached by about £100 a year on wages alone.

84,000 A YEAR,

175 degrees Fahrenheit. If that is 80,

it is no wonder that the tarmac roads

We might say that, taking everything "peeled" as the cars ran over them. into consideration, it would cost (exclud-

A visitor from Shanghai informs me The first automobile of any descriptioning depreciation) about $1,000 a year to that the roads were in a dreadful con

No. 1A, CHATER ROAD.

INSURE

YOUR

MOTOR

CAR

WITHI

GILMANS.

to be seen in China was a steam driven

run such a ear in Hongkong for an dition" because of this abnormal sus car. That was in 1902. There are now annual mileage of 15,000. Very few local temperature. The upper surface of the "OCEAN" acarly 15,000 motor vehicles la' various motorists-except possibly doctors-reach road stuck to the rubber tyres, leaving Parts of China and the number is increas-half that gure. When business men lite ing rapidly,

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over

ruts and gaps. at Shek ́O and motor in to town ench All of which is evidence in favour of The motor-bus quickly proved itself day, their mileage may reach 600 a

concrete roads. useful in Hongkong. Possibly it was month, but even that gives us a total Any local motorist who has run most needed in Kowloon, where many of mileage below 10,000. these vehicles piy with, apparently, satis factory results.

It is not supposed that there will be many, if any, prospective buyers of Rolls

a matter not to be overlooked.

the Tytam bridge must have experienced the real delight that can be obtained by gliding over a concrete surface-especially

experiment.

CHILDREN "IN CARS.

THE

COMPREHENSIVE POLICY

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HONGKONG METEOROLOGICAL

REGISTER.

Hongkong Observatory, August 81st.

Previous On Dato On Date st Day

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RIVER. LEVELS. Bulletin from

It is noticeable that each year sees Royce cara in Hongkong, although there on balloon tyres. Incidentally it may be great, improvement in the type of vehicle are two such cars in the Colony. It is suggested that one of the roads on the i in use. What happens to those buses however, worth recording the fact that he surfaced with concrete by way of Humidity

new Praya Euat reclamation and might Temperature that have been replaced?

one car made by this firm gives a road

Wind Direction........ Some of them are to be seen in the petrol consumption of 15 miles per gallon

Force New Territories and some are said to after 14 years of continuous service. The

Wusther have been shipped to other parts in oil consumption recorded was 500 miles 5th China Unfortunately, the mili to the gallon...

As a general rule children like going tary and political situation in China It is when we come to consider de-out for a ride in a motor-car. They cer- during the last ten years has been ad-preciation that we realise the advantage tainly like playing about "on the sands verse to the development of any form of a high grade car. Reliability is also at Repulse Bay and other local beaches. of road transport. But when happier

It is good for their health, They so times come (and come they must) there In general the best advice that can be become tired, however, and nothing is will unquestionably be a rapid increase given to the non-motorist in Hongkong more irritating to a car driver on a bet in the number of buses in this country.

is this, "Buy a car-you can afford some day than to have a fidgetty child with The one great peril in the way of sort of automobile: Get a high priced success is the peculiar attitude of car if you can afford it, but get a car Chinese managers on the subject of re- of any kind. rather than be a. non. pair and maintenance. Moreover, there motorist." is, unfortunately, only too much reason to believe that, the roads will be made in a superficial manner and will quickly fall into disrepair. So long as he gets to his distination the Chinese passenger does not often complain.

It is a matter of frequent comment by at the back; especially if the hood and

at Shishing. 441,0 There is plenty of scope for pro- local motorists that tyres wear outside curtains are up. If placed near to Forta Bivar paganda amongst Chinese garage pro-quickly in Hongkong, "You are lucky if the driver a child may easily cause lack at Tringyun +28.1

North River prietors and the managers of 'bus ser-you get 4,000 miles out of a tyre in this of attention to steering and cases, have vices on behalf of the maintenance of Colony," said a local doctor who keeps been known where a child has dragged vehicles in an efficient condition. Ia careful record of his mileage,

the driver's arm off, the steering wheel.

AIR TEMPERATURE. EFFECT OF ROAD SURFACES ON TYRES.

him.

It is worth while trying to make & BOARD OF CONSERVANCY WORKS Youngster comfortable. Long exposure

OF KWAKGTUNG. to ferce sunlight annoys a child, but

Waterlevels (in English Fest) at 8 am sun-glasses are regarded with hostility. Therefore arrange that the kiddie is in the back part of the car.

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In the unfortunate event of an acci dent or a collision the child is better off

Place of Observation.

West River

at Bamahui +27,3

East River

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it heklung. +16.2 1-3

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