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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 19th, 1927.

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REFUSE COLLECTION.

A comparison between prezent day cost of transport for horsed

Motoring Notes: A Weekly Automobile Asociaties's trite and rebicier and moler furios mity, be

Review dealing

with matters of interest to all local motorists.- Local Garages and Parking-Road, Openings-Lorries by Night--- The Car and the Rallway.

[BY AN OWNER-DRIVER.]

LOCAL GARAGES AND PARKING.

Why not appoint a mall.com. mittes consisting of representative members of the local Automobile

Association? They could explore the whole situation and the possible sites.

"Write to the local Automobile Association," said the writer of thesa notes to the still angry driver. "I hate writing, letters," was the reply,

After a little time had elapsed he added: "It usually happens that

sant incident."'

nual dance goes on apace, but it is made by using some interesting as well to remind members that figures recently published by the every effort should be made to per Sunderland, authorities concerned sunde motorists not only to attend with the problem of cleansing the themselves but to bring their friends

city.

„A 'plan of the many tables may It was found that the cost per be seen at Moutrie's and it is quite | tan of refuse unoyed by the 'horsed an easy matter to send a note, to | vehicles, was 6/3d. With a moter that firm if the time cannot be lorry the cost "bad" declined to about 5/0d. The distance that the spared to call.

The dinner dance is to be held | ton was carried is not given so that on Friday nexs (81st inst.). Excel, the figures are only comparative. | lent musio and a special menu wil

This latter cost (5/ed.) included be provided. It will be a much an allowance of 93 per cent. for better show than on any ordinary interest and sinking fund night. The efforts of the Hon. What compelled the authorities Secretary have been untiring to use the motor lorries was the obvious fact that the collection and Don't wait until the last minute...

A local house owner has just di Association and the Peak Residents' soon forget all about the unplea- Every one should help at once-disposal of house refuse would have

́ ́covered that a garage attached to a house is a vary great asset. Ha wants to let his house.

In Hong Kong, owing to the steep alopes at every place that has not yet been built over and that is, uit- able for a residence, it is difficult to arrange for a flat piece of ground upon which to build a house.

PARKING PROBLEMS. In other parts of Hong Eqp8 have been formed by garages making what appear to be cave in the hillside..

There is a great need for more

“Have you forgotten" that awk- ward corner just to the west of the bridge above Glenealy and along the Robinson Road. You always complain about is to me-why not write in about it."

The trouble is that one does not like to get other people. into

future anyone who plans to build garage accommodation in the centrouble" was the reply.

a house will be foolish if he 'does nut also plan to build a garage. „

THE ESSENTIAL CAR.

It is useless to talk about. "the good old days" and wish that we

tral district of Hong Kong.

Many a motorist, who drives his car to the office every day would be well advised to place it in a garage during the day rather than to leave is exposed it to the sun and the

rain.

lived in those times of the easy going folk. We don't. Most of us

1. He would also beneft the lady- ahould be very thankful that we

drivers who come to town later la don't 'because we should have had the day for shopping far less time at our disposal for

Parking spaces are really intend- healthy recreation. What the non-ed for the motorist who leaves his wealthy European residents of car for a few hours, pet for the Hong Kong did for their health man who occupies the ikme space before the days of motor-cars, each day from 9 am to 5 pm. motor-cycles and decent roads can These problems have become urgent only be imagined. They most cer- and need a satisfactory solution if tainly did not have the same facili-motorists are to be encouraged in ties for healthy exercise that they

now have.

To-day the mechanical method of transport is an essential part of life in the tropics.

Hong Kong.

Why should motorists be en-

couraged 1" enquires the elderly gentleman of a generation that drove horses when he was younger. His idea of speed was that of a Salop by a horse drawing a hansom

cab.

After all motoring

nr does de some- thing to increase trade. Not only the local agents, the shipping com- panies and the tyre makers, but also the petrol vendors, the lubricat ing oil sellers and the repair shops back the hands of the clock beneft. In any case we cannot put Motors are an integral part of modern life in Hong Kong and we must do our best to help the motorists.

Any house that is to be built must have a garage attached to it.

The unfortunate owner of a house adjacent to Stubbs Road has no garage. He finds that it is difficult to let his house. It would be let at once with a garage. Very few houses on the Peak have a garage. In the days when most of the houses were built neither architects nor property owners had sufficient fore- sight to see that the day was com ing when the car would be a

It is inevitable that, from time to essential part of any house-holder's time, the surface of roads must be equipment.

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ROAD OPENINGS.

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- Well, you bave got some trouble to-night. It will cost you a new bracket."

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In the and he seemed relieved to think that the matter would be mentioned in these notes. He was so pleased about it that be indulged in a little fattory,

be

"Perhaps something will done. Any number of influentia people read those motoring notes," he remarked.

carry out good resolutions when "Like yourse they decide to they read such humble suggestions. Sometimes (again like yourself) they forget to do so."

THE CAR AND THE

RAILWAY.

perhaps if there had been a main There is a railway to Canton and road suitable for mechanical trans- loss to Hong Kong might have been port instead of a railway the annual less.

Owing to the tunnels and embank- ing the railway from Kowloon to ments and bridges the cost of build- the border was very great.

If one ball of that amount of money had been spent upon road improvements we might have had a Shatin, Taipo and the border. 100-foot road between Kowloon,

The railway is finding the com- petition of motor lorries hard to meet. Railway engineers are strain ing every nerve to produce new inventions.

to be Recelerated, and improved to keep pace with the growth of the town.

Many of us believe that in Hong Kong all refuse should be collected by motor lorries. It should surely

be consumed in refusa destructors.

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The construction of this unique car has occupied some years of the closest thought. Apart from the engine itself it is an experimental In that connection it is of interest car," in which every part had to be to notice that the remarkable in specially désigned, made, and tested vention of the engineer named before it was built into the con. Constantanesco was inspired by rail.struction. way interesta

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LORRIES BY NIGHT.

A motorist innocently enquired, a few days ago, why heavy lorries are allowed to use some of the main

trafie during the business hours of say from 9 am to 6 p

and the epicyclic gearbox Frame

If Constantanesco can gain ex- and forgings were supplied by

of experiments on railway locomobailt by Rudge-Whitworth, and the tives it will be all to the good. tyres are Dunlop's. The answer is, of course, because On the other hand if the inven- the traffic authorities do not atoption is successfully applied to the them.

the police that some motorists 'It has possibly never occurred to

would be grateful if prisoners were taken to and from the courts in the Police vans during hours outside the limits of eam, and 6 p.m.

automobile it will also make trans port by means of the motor lorry more efficient.

REDUCED COSTS.

Every year, as machinery used in transport becomes more chcient, so Light lorries, if say one ton, are does the cost of transport decline.

In England in about the year 1740 often urgently needed and no true motorist would wish to put back the it cost half a crown to move a load clock that registers transport proof one tog a distance of one mike. The only method of transport was It used to be necessary to obtain the pack-horse and the tracks, were a police permit to use hand trucks so rough and badly made that often. in certain districts and no doubt the the horse sank in mud to the

haunches. permit system causes delay and is a nuisance to everyone concerned,

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ANY MAKE OF CAR will be waiting For you to use- fully licensed and insured WRITT or CABLE what make you want, with 25 cheque as deposit. MOREOVER in all cases excepting, American Cars, we will refund you 65% of the burchase price within six months. of you taking delivery, or after a longer Sixty years later, say in 1800, paried a fair market price will be givan. roads properly built, were being It may, however, to have some such system if the pulled by horses, Canals had also number of motor vehicles in use in been constructed.

Is it possible to believe that any repaired. Also the various pipes including the poll be compulsory used and wheeled vehicles were

one in Hong Kong who can afford to pay $300 a month. rent" for 'a bouse will not be able to afford to keep a cart

has

It therefore does seem absurd that more endeavour. has not been made to supply garages for houses with rentals exceeding say $300 a month."

Nowadays in England people who pay about one-fourth that annual rent demand

a garage with the house.

HC.NELSON

electric cables and telephone wires that are buried beneath the road Consequently motorists must accept Hong as e as some of us be mile had been reduced to Bd. It is Service day and right. Fred Garage cast to Midnigh

The result was 10 Jerman St. Piccadilly, LONDON cannot be expected to last for ever. Kong increases in the near that the cost of transport per too' ·Elpung NELSOOMES, PKEY, LONDON the inevitable and be prepared to drive over roads that have gangs of lieve will be the case.

isbourers at work on them.

responsible for the repairs of roads, On the other hand those who are electric cables, drains, etc., have s. very definite duty to the public, especially to motorists.

The great difficulty in, this part of the world is the "masken "atti- MORE GARAGES NEEDED.tude of the Chinese workman.

The wealthy man can make the best of a bad job by paying wages to a chauffeur and thus being more or less independent of the position of the nearest available garage. His patrol bill goes up.

He does not 'seem able to realise that he must clear up any mess be may make in the core of doing a job of work.

Ja hře

BAD BUMPS. Any European who has had ex perience of Chinese labour will tell you that much praise can be given because of industry, ingenuity, etc.

What aggravates those who have responsibility is the constant need

Can anything, however, be more absurd than for a man living on the Peak being compelled to send his ear down to sea level for a garage i

The crying of the Peak residents 15 more garage accommodation of supervision There are some ex- please,"

No doubt their associa tremely good Chinese foreman but tion has duly considered the matter, they sometimes fail to understand "It is, however, a subject in which that after a day's work the mess the local Automobile Association should be cleared up. has an interest.

Everyone who wishes to see people enjoying the advantages of mootoring it a reasonable price will sympathise with the Peak residents.

Then why not more garages? Is it a matter for private enter- prise or are people waiting in the bope that the local Government will do something.”-

Anything concerning politics is It was at about 8 p.m. and the entirely out of place in these notes, speed of the car was less than but it may be excuseable to say twenty miles per hour. · that it is hardly the duty of ca Red lamps warned us of road to provide garage repairs, but there was an opening

In Hong Kong the Public Works Department, the Hong Kong Elec- tric Co., the Gas Co. and the Tele-. phone Co., all have periodic efforts to get at something buried beneath the road surface.

A few days ago the writer was in a car-fortunately, not his own that was being driven quite care- fully by the car owner.

Governmru Any more than it is for, traffic between the. lamps.

the duty of a Government to pro- vide housing accommodation.

Boards had been placed in such

a manner that the car bumped Of course, there are some people, badly. It was so bad that the steel who want the Government to pro- bracket carrying the folded hood vide every thing. That is not, how snapped off because the hood was ever the general view of the com-jerked out of place, munity

The owner of the car had some

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"It is accepted that in emergency, | hard words to say about the Hong when private enterprise is unable | Kong Electric Co. He explained- to meet a difficult situation, the vehemently--that it is wealthy Government can come to the help public utility company and that the of a community.

least it could do is to bare repson- The housing shortage in Great able supervision of road openings Britain was such an emergency, "Why cannot they's finish off on The high rents that were charged job quickly by employing night for houses in Hong Kong led the shifts," said the imuriated owner Jocal Government to offer some of the car. Why should they be sort of assistance to those who allowed just to please their own wished to build houses some years sweet convenience and simply ignore the public” he continued ago,

The present position with regard and ustnadened himself of much to garages seems to be this. The wisdom that had been accumulating accommodation for Peak rezidents for years as a result of roud bumps is at present inadequate. How caused by public utility companies. shall it be remedied!

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