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THE HONGKONG "DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER $91, 1926.

Foundations!

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THE

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AWAY BACK IN 1888

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Motoring Notes: A

Weekly Review dealin

with matters of interest to all local motorists. The Social Side of Motoring-With the Hood Up-The 1927 Motor Cycle- Three Wheel-less-Cost of Motor Lorries-Looking Forward.

[BY AN OWNER-DRIVER}

THE SOCIAL SIDE OF MOTORING.

In Great Britain the Royal Automobila Club bas done an enormous amount of valuable work for.motorists.

Perhaps most of its members associate it chiefly with its very ine club. At any time you will find the building well Alled. Ladies are welcomed in the dining room and men have such seclusion as they may desire in the smoking room.

It is the story of King Bruce and the spider. If that is repeated, with suit. able amendments about the dangerous tree, it will Alter into minds that can move trees!

Unfortunately, there is a penalty for cutting trees in Hong Kong, but no doubt motorists would willingly subscribe to pay the fine imposed on any one who cut it down-Nol away with auch thoughts. Motorists never break the law. They do hope," however, that law makers and others will save them from vasty acci- dents. Woodman, woodman, do (not) spare the

tree

that endangers the In Hong Kong. we have a local Auto-motorist, mobile' Association which has worked} quietly for years on behalf of local THE 1927 MOTOR-CYCLE.

The R.A.C. has, however; done much more for its members than merely supply la useful clubhouse,

motorists.

It has always met with, not only courtesy but encouragement from local Government officiala

SINGAPORE TO LONDON BY CAR.

A 12,000 MILE ADVENTURE..

What is claimed as the longest motor journey ever undertaken was completed November 30th with the arrival in London of thres Britist subjecta, Mesara. Canarasbey, da Silva, and Scully. Their point of departure nearly Eften months ago was Singapore, and except for the sea voyage between Penang and Caleutta, and the short Channel "crossing from

·Calais to Dover, the entire journey of something like 19,000 miles was completed in a solid-tyred Trojan car driven on At the 1996 Motor Cycle Show hold at Shell oil and anirit. The idea of Olympia from 4th to 9th of October there travelling overland from the Far East were (as last year) exhibited four three to Lontion was conceived in a spirit of wheeled vehicles.

adventure with nd pre-arranged food or Une was a new-comer with some nove fuel bases, no spare parts, and with only features. The engine is single cyclinders in cash. Until Constantinople was of 490 c... capacity. It is worked in con reached the Leyland Motor Company. junction with a three-speed motor-cycle the makers of the car, were not even gear box,

THREE-WHEELERS.

Transmission is by a roller chain.. Bath brakes are mounted on the rear wheel A decompressor is fitted to the engine Starting is done by means of a kick starter. The outfit sells at £65.

that may help to drive rickshas of the It sounds as if this is the sort of thing streets of Hong Kong.

aware that such a trip was being made through Malaga and Southern, Siam to The route taken from Singapore, was Perang; thence by boat to Calcutta through India eid Delhi and the Sind

Persian frontier, on through Persia through Baluchistan to Duzdah on the Desert to Karnchi, Jacobabad, Quetta,

across the northern, boundary of the Persian Desert vid Meshed and Teheran, THE COST OF MOTOR-LORRIES. down to Baghdad, then along the Euphrates to Aleppo, through Anatolia, reaching Constantinople by ferry across the Bosphorus. From that point the journey was vid Adrianople to Bulgaria, Jugo-Slavia. Italy, and France. The journey has broken two records, being, the longest road trip ever undertaken by any self-propelled car, while the car was the only one to have templcted the 2,100 miles. "separating"

motor-travel

Looking through a number of price lists The various reports of the Olympia enables one to gain some idea of the cost Show for Motor Cycles which arrived by or vehicles. Motor-lorries seem to be les the last mail enabled us to realise the expensive than might easily be imagined In their quiet way these Government general trend of motor-cycle design.

A very fine engineering works in Europe turns out a 13 owt box van at 75, officials have helped motorists great Although there was a slight decreases cwt. drop sided lorry at £390 and a deal. They have always welcomed sug in the number of manufacturers exhibit 40 cwt (chassis only) at £495. gestions from the local Automobile Asso-ing--a total of 15 as compared with 31 at A four-wheel drive ten-ton lorry, with Calcutta. from Karachi. ciation Scarcely a month passes, but that the indefatigable Honorary Secre, the number of models.

the last Show-there was an increase in five forward speeds, differentials that can Asked as to which of the many diffi. be locked from the driver's seat, conculties encountered they placed first, the tary passes on, in his official capacity, some suggestion for improvement to some

structed to carry a five too trailer can adventures inid it was the mud of Government office.

be obtained for £795, chassis only. Baluchistan, which they had to pass Six-wheelers are advertised but not through during the rainy season. A priced

one point they took twenty-four hours to A manufacturer of a steam wagon traverse eight miles, and every few yards. claims that it will run 20 miles to a hun- it was necessary to remove by hand the dredweight of coal. It will carry 10 tons tammy, plastic substance which filled up a gradient of one in five.

entire space between the wheels and the midable deulty. Arriving on the Per- sian

AN ANNUAL AFFAIR.

The latest enterprise of the Hong Kong Automobile Association is the organisa- n of a dinner dance on Friday, January 21st. It is to be held in the roof garden

As there recent Show there were 340 different models as compared with 301 last year. The general tendency is for the manufacturer of the machine to make his own engine instead of purchasing some well known make of engine. In deed there seems to be a likelihood that the motor-cycle of a few years hence will

that gives its name to the machine.

A

of the Hong Kong Hotel. The President ways be built throughout by the femand, a 10 cws, delivery van at £180 and wings. Lack of money was the next for-.

That, of course, is only in keeping with the general tecdency of all industries and especially those connected with engineer ing.

INDIVIDUALISTS.

of tse-Association, the Hon Mr D: G. 1. Bernard, will preside. A number of members have already announced their intention of being present and of bring ing friends with them. The tickets are four dollars, each (exclusive of wine) and there will be an admirable orchestra.

This is the first social event organised · The early makers of motor cycles were by members of the Association and it the men who had built up a business con- must be made a successful affair. There, nected with cycles and the repair of will be no long dreary speeches but every-pedal machines. thing possible is being done to make people spend a happy and care free even All work and no, play makes Jack a dull boy is a proverb which has saved many a hard working man and woman from a nervous breakdown. What is 'needed in these days of saxiety is real re-creation-for an evening Low and again.

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and allowing the owner to become in "It is of little use "turing up a car eticient.

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A happy evening will "tune up any member of the AA, even if he does not dance. It will give him a chance to bring along his friends.

An American firm advertise, in Eng. a 20/25 evt. box van at £250.

A motor sight-seeing open 'bus, with and 16 ft. 6 in. wheelbase chassis can be a six cylinder 25/74 horse-power engine

purchased for. £7552

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frontier the travellers' scanty

raise funds the engineer of the party resources were exhausted, and in order took on the repair of an aged motor- The ambulance vans that we see in orry. Another struck a bargain as a Hong Kong seem to be of the type that lorry driver, while the third organised a now are being sold at the works in Eng-manity. At other places the party sold-

lecture amongst the small English com land at £715.

The local P.W.D. have some English postcards of themselves. Apart from a lorries made by a well-known firm. The mishap to the front axle, which gave way They were mechanics-some of them price list of that firm offers a 20 ext under a falling boulder while negotiat at very well trained mechanics, perhaps chassis with an cogine developing up to ing a down hill slope in the Sheik Wasil They did, however, possess a small busi-2 horas-power at ea. The 3 to 8 ton Garge, the car behaved splendidly. A ness which gave them a great incentive chassis with A to work overtime. They knew that what-engine costs £840. ever energy they put into their business was likely to react entirely in their own favour

They were not well trained in modern theories of economics but they greatly own masters. appreciated the fact that they were their

They were almost a Jast survival of those early Victorian individualiste, such as Whitworth, Armstrong, and others, who, by reason of great energy and cen centration, had built up, large firms which finally grew naturally enough into limited liability companies. Those arms became too big for one man management.

MASS PRODUCTION.

LOOKING FORWARD.

70 Brake horse-power substitution was effected at the Baluchis tan railway depot by means of a boiler tube, which was still doing duty as an Axle when the car arrived in London. Not until they Kad crossed the French An enterprising Londoa journal, some frontier were the travellers held up on thirty years ago, made itself famous by account of apt having a driving license, doing everything that well organized an omission delaying them for four days. publicity can do to make the general At the Holborn Restaurant a luncheon public realise that the motor-car had be was given by the directors of Leyland Afotors, Ltd. and Shell-Mex. Ltd to wel- come something more than a toy. first ran from London to Brighton it

When we read the story of that famous come the travellers to London. seems incredible that it happened caly thirty years ago. It reads more like the story of the early days of the railway locomotive and that was about one hun. dread years ago.

THIRTY YEARS HENCE. In the motor-ear industry Henry Ford There are many readers of this journal demonstrated that mass productige led who, according to the statistics of the

to cheapness of the finished product.life insurance companies, base a

very

A GREAT BOND: Every member of the Association will, of course, do his utmost to make the evening a success. There will be separ ate tables for the various private parties and there will be the great bond of the Association. No doubt the President wil say just enough to remind us that motor ing in this Colony is only in its infancy The individualists did not welcome the good chance of being alive thirty"years" and that motorists have a great opportu~idea of mass-production, but it is useless hence. nity to give freely of their time and the to argue agafast facts that are plain for Will they then read with astonishment benefit of their experience to make things all to ace. better for those, who will motor next year It seems inevitable that the motor-cycle or even ten years hence.

So make up your mind to help the industry will pass through the same phases of evolution as the, motor-car in Association and the good cause of motor dustry has done. The iron law of the

Will they find it difficult to believe that ing by putting in an appearance on Fri-survival of the Ettest will eliminate in 1997 there were no motor-cars in South day, January 21st, at the dinner-dance smaller firms. It is not unlikely that China except at Hong Kong, Canton und at the Roof Garden.

there will be amalgamations and scienti perhaps one or two other ports? There He sales organisation, etc., as has happenis, it is said, a short road near (or in) Yunnanfu but there is probably only one ed in other branches of the engineering. industry, In the end the consumer beac car there. fits so he cannot properly complain. We may reasonably expect either cheaper motor cycles or better machines for the same money.

WITH THE HOOD UP.

The lower branches of trees are dan gerous when they cover any part of the road Especially are they dangerous when the hood is up.

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In these cold days most occupants of the rear seats of a lour or five seater car prefer to have the bood up. The wind. is not felt so much in the rear if there is & protection overhead.

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THE POPULAR SIZE. Speaking generally the engines ex hibited at the recent Show varied in size from the small 150 cubic centimetre capacity size up to the 1,000 &.c. size. The hood, however, may strike the Two exhibits were larger than 1,000 cc., branch of a tree and then there is trouble. but they probably were machines built Some years ago the writer had a COD- for advertisement-possibly for advertise siderable bill for repairs to a bood soment by record-breaking on the race damaged.

The ear bad often passed that same tree without foaling the branches.

It might not have happened when it did, but for the fact that another car was coming along the road in the opposite direction.

The road was wide enough for the

tracks of two ears, and a little bit more. So when the other car came along the writer had to get well over to the left side.

That was what made him get too close under the tree. He never passes that tres outside the Helena May Institute without wondering when some sort of accident will take place because two cars are passing the tree at the same time.

THE FAMOUS STORIES. There are two stories that justify refer entes to that tree. Frequent reference is made to it in the hope that some one in authority will espouse, the cause of the members of the local Automobile Associa tion with regard to that tree,

One, story is from the Bible. It is about a widow who kept on pestering until finally she had her petition granted. "Dogged as does it" and the motorists must lone no opportunity of pointing out to all or any officials of the Colony the real danger caused by that tree.

As a

The other story is one that was prob- ably related at more than one children's party during the Xmas festivities. child the writer loathed it but as grown up he realised its moral,

track.

Out of the 359 models exhibited 121 were fitted with engines of 350 c.c. pacity. The next most popular size of cagion was that of 600 cc capacity, of which 56 were exhibited.

There were 26 modela with engines of

1,000 cc. capacity. It is, of course, always a delight to have plenty of power available, but an engine of 1,000 c.c. capacity must be a great temptation for a young man handling it. On the level such a machine probably can be made to travel at 70 miles per hour.

that the road round the island was not completed until about 1918 and at about that date there were no motor cars, in Canton?

Shall we dare to suggest, that in thirty years' time there will be a trunk road from Canton to Yunnanfu and perhaps beyond that city?

How delightful to take a run in the luxurious car of 1957 which (we hope) will cost about $1,000 and will run 50 miles for a total running cost of a dollar. How splendid to “load up" outside a house on the Peak and run across the subway to Kowloon and thence to "Cantori for titin...

Association will have many thousands of Perhaps the Hong Kong Automobi members and an office that will be kept will tour South China, busy planning itineraries for those who

CHINA'S NEEDS.

THE QUESTION OF A CAR

To all coming home on leave ANY MAKE OF CAR will be waiting. for you to use- Fully licensed and insured WRITE OR CABLE What make you want, with £25 chaque as deposit.

MOREOVER in all cases, excepting American Cars, we will refund you 652. of the purchase price within six months of you taking delivery, or after a longer. "period a fair market prica will be given

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DELAYS

HAVE DANGEROUS.

Electric tram-cars are becoming obso lete because the motor-bus is better. solete because motor-cars and motor-

Will locomotives tend to become ob INSURE WITH lorries will be more convenient and efficient?

Isn't it about time that serious con- sideration is given, now, to the problem of transport development in China ?

It is admitted that the railways should: have been built forty or filty years ago. Some 152 exhibits had engines with but is it worth while building railways de valves and 141 had orechend valves in China now Surely, what is needed actuated by push-rod mechanism. It is a big programme of road construction.. seems that overhead valves will in time If we look further ahead than thirty become standard practice. The Show years we think of the wonderful moter moterol ending any of us that the tours right across Asia. motor-cycle industry is very much alive. A voyage or a ship is, perhaps, exci

ENDS"

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AGENTS

It is a progressive industry. Twentying the first time but it is very tedious GILMAN & Co., Ltd.

on the same

years ago some people thought that it after four or five would gradually fade away because cheap route. motor-cars would entirely supercede Avoyage in a motor-car across "Asia motor-cycles.,

would never be tedious-provided - that there are good. roads and stopping accommodation.

The problem of the garage is one that helps the motor-cycle. For the man who earns a weekly wage the fact that the running costs of a fairly powered motor cycle are so much less than those of the smallest car has its effect. The motor cycle brings great pleasure to many han dreds of thousands of people who have to thank it for cheap and enjoyable transport.

The aeroplane will claim its passengers and so true motorist will grudge in provements in the working of aeroplanes.

There will, however, always be a de- mand for road transport. The possibili ties of the future are so attractive that sometimes some of us think we were born thirty years too soon.

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