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WHIPPET”

"As a result of more economical packing methods, we are able to announce still further price reductions, as from March 19th. 1929.

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The “WHIPPET" Model "96 stands alone in car value for 1928..

GILMAN & CO., LTD, I DUBO MOTOR CO., LTD.

'ONON DICH'

KOWLOON.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4th, 1928.

MOTORING NOTES

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

Our Public Vehicles New American Cars-Report of Ethyl Gases-No Limits to Man's Speed-Clockwork Car Club- Report of Research Association-Home on Leave-Lord Buckmaster on Commercial Conscience-New Traffic Marks.

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SPEED.

HOW IT HAS INCREASED.

['}BY Pror, A., M. LOW.J

Whether from inherent prejudice era mental complex resulting front the imposition of an artificial legal limit, there has always been a definite impression in the public mind that speed is restricted human limitations..

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A most interesting and attractive booklet has come to our hands from Mesa Healy, Ltd., dealing with leave cars for visitors to Eng- land from India and the Enst. The firm undertake to repurchase cans after a period, and, further, to supply them on hire purchase terms, with a liberal guarantee to takes them back when required.

The booklet also gives a good deal of other information, and those go bring home on leave should not fail to secure a copy; "The booklets are obtainable re from the office of this paper, or direct from Henlys, Ltd., Gi. Portland St, London and branches.

To see the 1995 models of euch popitar and expensive cars as the Buick, Chrysler, Erskine, Oldsmo bile, and big Studebakers placed as public vehicles out on ranks naturally causes a little bewilder pient to the

Apart from inter-planetary effects, every-day **joy walker." These vehicles have prae about which very little is known, tically flooded the sections of the there is no reason why human be parking areas around Pedder Streetings should not travel at ten times and Chater Road, and their pre- the speed of any known vehicle. sence, no doubt, causes no al comment,

had the fortune. to meet with an

"A few years back one very rarely land is now becoming almost com

Inonplace. Putting aside theic improvements which result from į technical value and the engineering such fents, these relatively high speeds are useful in dispelling pre- judice from the minds of all who travek

expensive and latest model, but at the present time the private owner finds himself "rubbing shoulders " | with the sanre model as a public

vehicle.

Big Earning Power.

Ia motor-ears it is not only high Three hundred m.p.h. in the air has | speed that causes danger, it is the been accomplished: 200 m.p.h. oning the direction of motion of a re- immense forces produced by chang- latively heavy body. In seroplanes we may travel so fast that the heat- an Even today it is necessary to ing effect of the air becomes Emport- get rid of the electrical charges upon the silk skin of airships pro- duced by the ruth of wind. Who knows but that these very forces may not eventually "be turned to useful account until we regard this world as a more landing-ground in the path of travel so vast as to be beyond conception?

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Speed is purely relative, and if an airman is travelling against a 100 in.p.h. gale at 100 m.p.h., he will appear to stand still to a man upon the ground. At great heights there is no impression of speed, just as the railway passenger has no sense of motion when he looks at objects far away, and is compelled to glance, at the track of the r knows whether he is travelling latively moving station before he

rapidly or not

In 1850, 20 m.ph. was considered dangerous for cycles, and as inc It is believed that the men in

as 1931 George Stephensor. prophesied that the rate of any charge are capable of earning anymachine was limited to 400 m.p.h. thing from $200 to $330 a month. Although this may seem a little prodigious it is neverthelees quite probable. The charge for a trip say to Happy Valley or West Point is generally suggested " 13 or $1.50, and quite often the uu- initiated may hand over as much as 82 or $2.50. Taking into con- sideration every detail such as the distance travelled; petrol, tyre: wear, etc., it cannot work out at anything like this sum, and a very big percentage must go straight into the pockets of the owners."

Anyone in a hurry for the races, attending a dianer, or after the mit time of trams, is ready to ́engage the services of one of these Cars, They are both quick, and comfortable, these 1998 models.

In a high-speed car, again, it is way" or of rounding a corner fast, the sensation of a quick, geta. combined with plenty of noise, which impresses speed upon the mind On Brooklands track one seems to crawl at 60 mp.h. in a silent car, if there is go rush of wind upon the face or if darkness does not help to reduce the range of vision.

Some years ago a travel film was shown to an audience whose chairs were gently rocked from side to side. The sensation of motion was quite extraordinary" because the balancing glands of the onlockers were oscillated and because blew air upon their faces.

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How They Get The Cars. Of course, there is again the little mystery of how they acque these expensive 1928 models. A though not in every epec, a vast majority are purchased on time payment. To such an extent "is

Only Turns Dangerous. This so that the motorcar agents If you imagine yourself to be in now exert extreme care and make a glass box travelling at 1,000 thorough investigation before sell-m.p.b. over smooth ice without ing their cars. The fact that a shock or jar and without seeing the large number of some wake of ear objects all around, you would be are being exhibited as public quite unable to tell whether you vehicles bas little or no attrac were moving or not, apart from the tion for the prospective private sensation of acceleration wbert buyers.

rounding corners or increasing or However, to look on the bright decreasing speed. It is only the side of it all, the public are ex- turns that are dangerous during tremely fortunate to have these high speed flying, the danger aris cars at their disposal, and the ing from strains imposed upon the larger number would undoubtedly organs of the body and the aero- prefer these 1996 models to the plane itself. little dirty and petrol-smelling taxis that once was their tot

NEW TRAFFIC MARKS.

SIMPLE AND EFFEĆTIVE.

During the wor quite a number of aeroplanes broke their wings owing to a sudden pull-up after diving. And the blood becomes drawn from the head of the pilot by centrifugal force when he is rounding, a sharp bend..

That everyone should appreciate the importance of speed is very As a result of a complaint that material...We Kve upon an island vehicles proceeding to the "Star and must get into our minds that Ferry" were unnecessarily stopped by means of land-cum-air travel the ut the corner of the Peninsula world is open to us. We must ac Hotel, Kowloon, an account of custom ourselves to the idea that in another vehicle coming from the ther future 500 m.p.b. in the air will "Star Ferry"; at the meeting of be an everyday-ór night--affair. the meeting of the Kowloon Resi dents': Association it was decided

Speed Is Balative, to lay certain white lines along There is no limit.

The sugges tion that speed will kill is as out that section.

of date as the famous medical ex- pression of opinion 80 years ago that 60 m.p.h might be fatal to the heart's action,"

Speed is so relative that without

At the corner of the Peninsula Hotel along Salisbury Road, two white lines were laid, one curving sharply round the corner, while the other continues in a straight line. ing to do. I saw the car and as

The idea is that vehicles wishing its accompanying sensations it is I am fond of driving I stepped to turn into. Nathan Road should virtually unnoticeable. The rapid into it and, taking the first road keep close to the left, so that the development of engines, of clec- which came, drove to within three Policeman on duty at the corner trical methods of transmission, and miles of Piccadilly. I turned back, would know the driver's intention the economical use of fuel are all but when I reached High Wycombe, and so there would be no causa leading to a doprenging weight and John Garnet Sheldon, an under Buckinghamshire. I was stopped by coming down Nathan Road to the ing vehicles. When we remain in

for unnecessary delay to a vehicle an increase of speed in our travell graduate of Keble College, Oxford, a policeman who asked me about was charged at Oxford with steal the car. The trouble came when ferry. ing a motor cay valued at £1,800 I could not tell him the number should the vehicle wish to con- the world at speeds which will ret- As for the other white line, offices throughout our tours all over belonging to Mr. Geoffrey Peter I did not think I was doing any Shakerley an undergraduate of thing criminal. I simply was keen tinue straight into Chatham Road, der is possible to pay week-end.

i to go for a ride,

the driver must keep on the outer visits to India, we shall lose the Teft.

frar "of bodily translation, and This is a very simple and efficient only look for more comfort or new he returned tən minutes later it as impulsive naturo sad he would solution to a problem which has means of thought, transmission

previously caused so much disorder that our dwindling bodies. The magistrates accepted the ex-understanding and vanecessary can be saved from all exertion."

(Continued on neat Column)...

Christ Church College. the

Mr. Shakerley said he

car in Canterbury-square and when

Dr. Sheldon said his son wie of

not allow to drive.

had gone at

Sheldon, in explanation, said:

It was a fine day and I had noth-planation and dismissed the case.

détas.

constant touch with homes nod

World-wide travel is not an ac complished fact, it is only begin. ring. How interesting it will be when the inhabitants of Central Africa take week-end excursions to Hyde Park on Sunday morning, or when the necessary power is trans- mitted over half a contiacat from centralised coal mince.

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REDUCED PRICES FROM MARCH 19TB, 1928.

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