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THE HONGKONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 17TH, 1926.

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Motoring Notes:

A Weekly Review dealing

with matters of interest to all local motorists.

The Kowloon Ferry Problem-Healthy and Wise The Sports Car-The 1927 Car.

[BY AN OWNER-DRIVER.]

MOTORISTS AND KOWLOON · FERRY.

The residents of Kowloon are anxious about the proposals of the Governmeat concerning the new traffic arrangements near the Kowloon Ferry Pier.

The Kowloon Residents Association have had the matter under consideration (so it is said) and the Local Automobile Association is an interested party.

Why not have a sub-committee with an equal number from each of the Associa tions? Then the sub-committee could report to both committees and the double representation could be made to the local authorities that are dealing with the

NO RUNNING BOARDS. There are two steps close to the doors and running boards have been dispersed

to mention the accounts that came from with, the chemists.

He used to suffer from what is known as high blood pressure" but which is something that looks as if it were caused by high living and no exercise,

Jones is really a very good fellow, but he became an owner driver at middle ago and now be can think of nothing but how to get a record petrol consumption

out of his car.

A GREAT HOBBY,

That is where the car has really done Jones, no end of good. He used to be rather violent in his arguments in the old days. Now that he is in better health he has taken politics less serious dy--or perhaps he broods over the subject The problem is not one that is easy of less-and he uses up all his superfluous solution. Whatever is done will cost aenergy tinkering about with his car. considerable amount of money.

matter.

Nothing should be done until the plans have been discussed by residents in Kow. loon who have bad long experience of the difficulties and even dangers of the pre-

sent situation

THE

PEDESTRIAN PROBLEM. The chief difficulty seems to be to get the pedestrians away from the ferry pier without causing too much interruption to the ricksha and motor traffic.

Someone has suggested that pcde~ strians might use subways. At first sight that seems to be a good idea.

Unfortunately, there is the difficulty of draining subways. Water will accumu- late in them and in this part of the world stagnant water means mosquitos.

A covered way will be a great improve ment and that part of the scheme will be welcomed by all parties. This cover- ed way is run from the Railway Station as far as the Police Pier."

PATIENT MOTORISTS AND THE FERKIES.

The traffic problem at that part of Kowloon will be needlessly complicated if the new motor ferries run to the landing stage at present used for cars.

It would be a pity to take any action that might delay for an hour the develop ment of the motor ferry system.

We have longed and longed for it for

years.

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When the history of Hongkong comes to be written future generations will marvel a the restraint shown by motorists about this Kowloon ferry pro- blem. They will refuse to believe that the existing primitive arrangements were in use in the year of grace" 1928 |

Nobody blames the Star Ferry Com- pany who are said to run the present service at a loss. It is the delays on the part of the Government that we dis- like."

It is all very well to talk about a visit by some oficial in Government service to America so that he may study the latest transport methods.,

They were using civilised methods of transport for motor cars at San Francisco That was the some fifteen years ago. time to send an official.

In the end, the ferries will be ready just when the general públic, begia to agitate for & tunnel under the harbour that will carry traffic, the island water supply, telephone wires and electric: cables.

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The bood can be detached, folded up neatly and,, with struts and everything else, pat inside the tall. It can be easily erected when required for use.

The engine can be run up to 5,000 revolutions per minute. That gure makes some of the older motorists won der what is coming text. It is a speed that was unimaginable twenty years ago, but it is now greatly exceeded.

On top gear with this sports model it is possible to accelerate from ten to thirty niles per hour in less than 21 seconds! On second gear you can pick up from ten to thirty miles per hour in less than 12 seconds and on first gear you can do it in the small fraction of time of 7.9.5

seconds.

As for speeds it is possible to reach 60 hour on second. On third gear you cati miles per hour on top and 43 miles per

reach 20 miles per hour.

He is a typical Far Eastern Briton and insists upon using an English ear. It is useless to argue with Jones on that subject. He soon gets back to his

The makers say that the petrol con wicked old ways of using vehement gallon. The makers of cars are usually sumption is from 35 to 90 miles per pressions that really ought to be kept neatly in cold storage until he finds him-optimistic about petrol consumption. The self out at Shek-G with a puncture and average motorist does not get the same resuits. However the Super Sports" no spare wheel.

model is worth longing for it would be

What he likes most of all is to take some of his friends.for a run around the New Territory.

On any holiday the Jones family and a couple of friends will take the risk of losing the last motor férry back across the harbour-it leaves at the curfew hour of. 7.30 p.m.

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They take a luncheon and tea basket. Usually they camp out near Castle Peak for tiffin and perhaps they call at the Faäling Golf Club on the way home.

Jones usually manages to get in a walk which does him no harm at all.

When he tells you that the car has saved him from a premature departure to the Happy Valley he does it so con vincingly that you begin to suspect that he is an agent for English cars. Nothing of the sort. It is just his contribution to make this world u fit place for heroes Like the Boy Scout he wants to do one good deed a day-usually it is connected with motoring.

There is paly one terror that faces Jones. He is with à firm that mercilessly moves mon about from one place to an- other.

If he should be sent to some outport where there are no cars Jones would break his heart-or pickle bis liver, a actual fact it is worth betting Lombard Street to Chida orange that Jones would refuse to go anywhere except Hongkong, Shanghai or Tientsin.

Anyhow he is duly grateful to the men who made motoring possible. He says that not only is he in much better health but he spends far less mon than in

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THE 1927" CAR.

LOCAL GOLF.

ST, ANDREW'S

ST

MATCH.,

GEORGE'S

SCRATCHINGS IN CHAMPIONSHIP.

Next Sunday will see the annual match beween the mirai societies of St. Androw and St. George. The teams have been slightly changed from those previously publissed. In the St. Andrew team, W. J. Clerk takes the place J. D. -Kin- naird; and in the St. George team E. D. Matthews and F. S. Harrison change places.

The Teams,

The rearranged teams, now read as

under:

St. Andrew's Society:-A. H. Fergu son, L. W. Shewan, C. C. Stark, W. E. Dunbar, G. Murray, D. G. Bruce, R. K. Valentine, A. B. Purves, J. L Christie, R. Moactical, W. Ironside, J. S. Mas lares, Davidson, F. Syme Thomson, W. G. Clerk and C. L Sandes.

St. George' Society :-I. D. E. Pen- dered, L. R. Andrewes, N. L. Sunith, E W. Alorris, 1 G. S. Dodwell, H. F Bloxham, C. Bulmer Johnson, F. J. do Rome, R. Hancock, F. S. Harrison, E. D. Batthews, A. B. Raworth, J. W. Franks, A. E. Lissaman, A. Lench, and

B. Layton,

The above is the probable” order of

playing."

Foursomes will be played in the morn- ing and singles in the afternoon. Times, will be reserved. Each match counts one point. Byes count point, if three holes or more are played. All players will be debited $1, which goes to cost of spoons for winning team.

There will also be a bogey pool com- petition for the coming week-end.

The Championship,

the

The following Sunday will see qualifying round played in the Cham- competition will also take place. pionship, and the Jasper Clark Cup

scratched, namely D. J. Valentine, A. K. The draw for those competitions has already been given, but three hava Mackenzie and &. W. Valent

The Annual Meeting.

The annual meeting of the Royal Hong- kong Golf Club has been fixed for Thurs day, December 10th at 5.30 p.m., and will probably by held in the Board Room of Messrs. Jardine, Matheson & Co., as last

year.

M.CL. Competition.

The reports on the exhibits at the Women's Guild and Ministering Chil In connection with the Hongkong great annual show at Olympia register, dren's League annual fete to be held at first and foremost, the great popularity | Government House on Saturday after of smail cara and several English makers Boon, golfers are reminded that hourly are putting on to the market models of place at this Fete. Unlimited entries, putting competitions for prizes, will take less than 10 horse-power, tax (or R.A.C.)|2 cents each eard. rating.

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THE ENGINES.

Golt Extraordinary.

The following story of an astonishing incident during a round of golf at Klangwan last week, is taken from the Y.-C. Daily News, and it makes interest- ing reading

The "aine" herso-power is the pop- ular type and of that we shall hear more. The pine of today gives as much power As the "elevens" or even

twelves of a few years ago. That has been due to development Mr. 4. G. Hearne, a local golfer has of materials and design-the great had an experience at Kiangwan which speeding up of the revs per minute must be unique. While playing & match having increased the power obtainable on Tuesday he drove a ball straight down from the cylinders of about 1,000 c.c. the fairway on the fourth hole well on capacity.

the way towards the green. On walking to the green neither his caddy nog him- self could see the ball an the fairway or the green. Both were positive it had not gone in the rough and they called the fore caddies to assist them to look An analysis of details of all of these for the ball. Mr. Hearne thought prob- cars shows that the popular features are ab some one had picked up the ball, the four cylinder overhead valve engine, but eventually one of the caddies saw it with a detachable cylinder head and armly wedged between the horns of a goat pump cooling together with magneto that was tethered on the fairway. Mr. ignition.

Hearne chased the goat and had to use some force to dislodge the ball as it was " stuck fast.

At the present time there are, on the British market, 30 different types of cars.

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The disc clutch, four wheel brakes and fuel tank at the rear, are also popular features.

A four speed gear box with central control is also popular," and so are wire wheels.

SIX CYLINDERS, हैं

the old days. His wife has cen known Although the four cylinder engine is to say in confidence that he is much still being fitted to more than half the better tempered now that he has some- thing to occupy his mind in his spare time. Other wives please note! Persuade your hashand to get a car even if he has to borrow the money for it.

THE SPORTS CAR.

in Hoogkong is of the type that will carry The car that seems to be most popular

a number of passengers éven as many as ten !

It is amazing that the frame and KEEP HEALTHY AND WISE IN mechanism will stand the strain but it

docs. The life of the car must, however, | HONGKONG.

be affected by the overloading that goes on so frequently.

WHAT YOU SAVE, "

My friend Jones has been living in Hongkong for many years. He says that life in the Colony to-day is very different to what it was in the good old days" of. long ago.

He always used to have" at least one turn of malaria cach year when firat he came out here. He ways that he never has it now because he keeps fit.. What keeps him ft 1 · Jones says it is the car.

If you question him very closely, espe- cially after he has had a good dinner and is confidential over a glass of port, Jones will confess that he spends the hours of from-5pm to 7. p.m. differently In the "good old times" he used to drift into his club and proceed to pickle his liver and kidneys in alcohol for a couple of hours,

INSURE EVERYTHING nowadays.

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The amount of pickling seemed to de- pend upon the number of pals who assisted in the ritual.

Now-a-days Jones leaves his office and gets as quickly as possibly into his car.

In the summer he takes the wife out to Repulse Bay and both of them splash and dash about in the sea at that po- pular bathing resort.

The motarist who looks after his own car with care and prides himself upon his performance must feel great regret when he sees some other car overloaded. For, as Kipling has told us, the engineer gets to regard an engine as something almost human.

The writer has to confess that he always feels annoyed if he îɛ in a car going up hill and the driver elings on to top gear until the last fraction of a second.

The engine pants and is strained and almost seems to pant, at the inhuman conduct,

types of cars on the British market, its supremacy is being challenged by the six cylinder engine.

Thereupon he dropped the ball, without the loss of a stroke, which was the correct procedure, the goat being an agency outside the match-and" did the hole in bogey four..

There have possibly been incidents of a similar nature on other golf courses" but probably nothing of the kind has hap Pened at Kiangwan before.

-MOTORS FOR THE JUNGLE...

RAJA'S CARS FOR HUNTING.

The night cylinder engine is fitted to about one make out of sixteen. The two cylinder engine is now almost a neglible quantity. We never hear of a single cylinder engine. Yet the present writer. For big-game hunting in India the drove only twenty years ago, was proud enough of the one that he automobile would appear to be fast superseding the elephant. Last year What contrast is the car of to-day Windovers, Ltd., supplied a luxurious with that wonderful old machine of those dayat, Thank goodness for the many im. provements and thanks, also, to the in ventors and engineers.

WORM DRIVES. Only about one make of car in four- teen has the worm drive and yet there is a great deal to be said in its favour.

Most remarkable is the general adop tion of the electric self starter. · It { seems only yesterday that this new in- vaation appeared, but practically every car has it now.

The overhead valve is leading the way, although the side-by-side Valve is by no means a back number.

hunting car to the Maharaja of Patiala. Now in the windows of the firm's premises in Oxford-street, may be seen

two other cars of a similar character which have been specially designed to the order of Raja Saadat Khan of Nanpart. In their general appearance totally dif ferent, both are alike in possessing powerful searchlight that will "fix" the game once it gets within range of the hunter's rifle.

The more attractive of the two is the is-seater 40-50 h.p. Rolls-Royce tourer which from its bonnet to the ice and water tanks in the rear is sheathed in polished aluminium. Nothing has been permitted to break the smooth dow of its Sleeve valve engines are not so papa-graceful lines; every joint is welded, and lar as some of us thought they would be to preserve the sweep of the body's The British made sleeve valve engines bevelled top the hood is completely con- are still too costly to be very popular. It cealed. Built upon the latest model of is difficult to understand why the price the new phantom chasis, the body is up- still keeps up so high,

holstered in grey English hide, which

That is why it is so satisfactory to have a fairly big reserve of power.

The Sporta model is the machine for the enthusiast. It must be simply won- The saloon body is becoming more and suggests the appearance of Bedford cord." derful to have in daily use car that more popular. You can buy an Austin In addition to the usual cabinets for food resembles closely a modern racing car of“ seven saloon in England to-day for and a separate speedometer for the rear the Grand Prix type. Such a car, of £165

seats, the ear is equipped with first-aid course, instantly attracts attention whore- The Daimler twelve cylinder engine appliances, carries tools in a patent ever it goes but it has other and more and saloon body (£50 annual tax) costs waterproof case beneath the splash-board, useful qualities. he a

£2,480, the same price as the car with a and is fitted with couple rifle clips on There is a new fascinating French car touring body fitted to that chassis. the off side. The total weight is 2 tons.

The Rolls-Royce (£40 tax) has a six and the cost about £4,000. that is of the Sports-or Super-Sports-

A four-seater 50-100 hp. Isotta Fras type that is being sold in England just cylinder engine instead of a twelve. The now at £325. As there is the import tax chassis is £1,850, and a saloon body will chini, the second car is also intended for for all foreign cars entering England it is probably coat about £500 more.

work in the jungle, and to that end is probable that this cat would cost less So, that, speaking roughly, you can pay camouflaged after the style that became when landed in Hongkong.

£185 to about £2,800 for a mote--car, with familiar during the war-wings and

saloon body

farhody painted with all the colours of the

It has a fabric-covered, two-three

A great range of prices and a great rainbow. In this car, again, the hood is

He is lucky enough to have a matshed seater body; the third seat is concealed out there. He takes a certain amount when out of use by a long, low and taper-difference in the power of the engines! concealed, and there are tanks for ice and of exercise whereas formerly in the ing tail.

Yet the small car is a wonderful piece | drinking water. It is upholstered in summer he took none, k

The mudguards (or "wings") are actu-of mechanism. In these days of crowded black and cost about £3,000. Two other

He probably spent more on rickshanally attached to the chassia, and not to trafic and dimited parking spaces it has ears, ordinary tourers, have also been and chairs in these old days than be the axles. The fit, however, so close to its advantages over the big car. To ride ordered by the Raja, and Windovera dows in petrol and tyres now. He cer- the wheels as to give the appearance of in a £8,500 car is, however, a great de- I expect to ship the four vehicles to India

-light to most of usht tainly spent more on doctors' bills, not the cycle type mudguards.

Jater.