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Overland Whippet" Cars.

Unequalled in either Quality or Price,

See them at

THE DURO MOTOR CO., LTD,

182, Nathan Rd., Kowloon,

or Apply

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JUNE 22nd, 1927.

Overland "Whippet" Cars.

EASY TERMS TO SUIT ALL PURSES.

Cylinder 15.6 H.P.

Cylinder 31.6 H.P.

G $ 1,075

To the Distributors

GILMAN & CO., LTD.,

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Teleph. C. 290.

BRITAIN

MOTORING NOTES

A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.

Why not a Motor-cycle Club ?—Notes and News-Australian Relay Race-The Motor Coach.

LEADS AGAIN I WHY NOT A MOTOR- NOTES AND NEWS. AUSTRALIAN RELAY

DUNLOP

were fitted to Major Segrave's Car when he captured the

World's

of Speed Record

hour.

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PRODUCED IN THE CLYNO· ENGINEERING WORKS, WHICH FOR OVER A QUARTER OF A CENTURY HAVE BEEN RENOWNED FOR HIGH GRADE CARS.

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Representative--Mr. H. M. HODGES, P.0. Box 1871, Shanghai..

CYCLE CLUB?

After July 1st, 1027, na premises

July

shall be used as a garage unless

permission has been obtained from

the C.S.P. This is one of the Colony's new traffic regulations.

The sporting side of motoring in entirely unknown in. Hong Kong; Speed trials, club runs, and re- liability trinly have no place on the motorists calendar. The reason for Albany Road has now been open this is not far to seek; in the first ed to traffic, and therefore mater- place there are few-if any-roadsists will be able to take a short cut in the Colony that are suitable for to Seth's Corner. New Street has high speeds, and secondly, that also been opened to traffic, in order owners are not keen to tax to the that vehicles may easily be able to limit the already highly-tested re-reach the Tung Wah Hospital. liability of their cars. Bat since

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RACE.

INTERNATIONAL EVENT OVER 5,000 MILES.

It is proposed that three groups of cars, representing Great Britain, America, and the Continent, shall Townsville, Queensland, to Perth, take part in a relay race from Western Australia, a distance of 6,000 miles. The project is under consideration by the Dunlop Rub ber Co. of Australasia, Ld, Mel bourne, and the route will lie along the eastern and southern coasts, via Brisbane, Sydney, Melbourne and Adelaide.

Testing Reliability.

The route will be divided into A cable from Australia announces Bections varying from 150 to 300 miles in length, according to the that in the Australian R.A.C. 700-conditions of the roads and tracks, and there will be approximately 20 mites reliability trin, which in-sections between Townsville and cluded many very bad roads, a.14 hp. Armstrong Siddeley was plac- the reliability trial

ed first in and petrol consumption test; and third in the bill-climbing test. This is further proof of the British car's suitability for service in any part of the world.

Perth. The object of the run is to determine which group of cars 'can cover the route in the shortest time, | despatches being handed simultane

ously to a car of each group, which will carry then as speedily a pos sible to the first changing station, where they will be handed over to another relay of cars and drivers. Only the selected car will be per- mitted to carry its respective des- patch over its appointed section, so that reliability will play a very important part. Control stops and cities and towns, but the run will speed limite will be enforced in continue day and night, and should prove a very interesting and in-

the area available for motoring is so limited, a great many local ear and motor cycle owners would wel- come a trial of some bort now and again. Perhaps not a speed trial for there are few really fast

machines in the Colony; but a re- liability run. The switch-back hills in the New Territories are ideal

for this purpose, although they never seem to "conk" a car out.

I understand that one of the rea- sons for the unpopularity of motor- cycle racing here is that tivo men · from motor racing after this sea-structive reliability trial. were killed at speed some years ago. son. He is going to indulge in But if a man is killed at Brook-motor boating when he leaves the be no dificulty in obtaining volun

It has been definitely stated by Major Segrave that he will retire

lands, the track is not shut up, so more strenuous field of motor ras why should the memory of a fatal ing. By the way, it is interesting

Volunteer Couriers.

It is anticipated that thore-will

teor couriers, and the only section to its lack of population, is the that presents any difficulty, owing

1,150 miles between Port Augula and Coolgardie.

accident act as a deterrent to the

to note how many well-known peo young bloods who wish to prove

A Borhewhat similar contest was their worth, and to let the public ple connected with motoring are

organized by the Dunlop Company see that the fisherman's stories they taking up motor, boating. Mr. in 1912 from Adelaide to Sydney, I sometimes tell are more than mere Eustace Watkins is having a motored very successful, being commend a distance of 1,149 miles, and prov- fabrications. Well, boys, why not boat built for him which is going ed by the Commonwealth military hot-up your buses and form a club ?to cost £4,000. We also understand authorities.

(Continued on page 9.) The Austin" Seven."

that Mr. Warwick Wright is taking up motor boating.

The great popularity of the Austin "seven" is a proof that

The Countryside. numbers of residents who do not ex- This little paragraph, though it pect. to remain here for very ex-bears the stamp of that hardy an tended periods have realised thenuat, the Spring. Poet, may come suitability of such an inexpensive to Hong Kong motorists as a and handy vehicle. To the same draught of clear cold water to a reason can be ascribed the papu- very thirsty man. It appeared in larity of American makes. A large the spring number of a motoring car in Hong Kong is 10 white journal! elephant.

The bluebells are making a brave show in the woods, and the whole Freedom From Officiousness.

of Nature has few fairer sights I mentioned last week that local than this carpet of rith blue spread motorists have the advantage of out beneath the new greens of birch cheap tyres in Hong Kong; there is and beech. To thread in pathway. another advantage-and a consider through the wild hyacinths, and to able one. It is freedom from police catch that strange and fleeting per- persecution. Motorists in Eng- fume which, once a year, rises froin land often think, after leaving the the copses and hurries over the police court purse-lightened and meadows with the south-west wind, disgruntled, that the police force is indeed one of the sweetest is maintained by the already momories of the year. heavily burdened fraternity. Here Now, too, comes cowslip time in Hong Kong our Chinese and In- with the village children, and who dian.constables are not so officious, shall tell of the joy that possesses and unless they perceive that à the little groups wo Beer by the way. man is either drunk or trying to side, as small fingers fashion the enmmit murder they will not inter-golden halls a childish art fére. Happily, a drunken motorist that has not been lost down all the in Hong Kong is as rare as the years. It would seem as though dodo; sad would be the conse the apring had been more lavish quences for such an offender, He than usual with these flowers, and would probably kill several "coolies, there is no lack of evidence in a pumber of children and half-a- various parts that cowslip wine is dozen or so of old women, for still made by the cottagers.. pedestrians in Hong Kong, far, from fearing the motor car. as English I was interested in a statement peasants of the early nineteenth made in a daily paper recently to century feared Stephenson's first the affect that soine genius at Cín- ) locomotive, hold the automobile in cinatti has hit upon the idea of absolute contempt.

testing for drunkenness by a novel Yet another advantage is the method. The victim has to breathe amazing freedom of outlying roads into a kind of football. His breath at times, at any rate-from al thus captured and bottled, so 'to most any kind of traffic. One can speak, is then submitted to suienti- drive for mile upon mile into the fic analysis, and-well, there you New Territories, past the inundat- have it! Isn't it just priceless that ed paddy fields, the burial vaults, prohibitionist America should invo the bone filled urns; and never solved the problem?

snil one see anything less rural

than buffalo in the middle of the

road or a group of coolies pushing

L cart. Yet whon all is said and (Continued at foot of next colums).

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dous motoring in Hong Kong is but sorry substitute for motoring back home.

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