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DRIVING TESTS IN

BRITAIN.

DIVERSE OPINIONS.

Should motoriste in England be made to pass a driving examination before taking their cars on the

road 1

ents are not so much due to the unskilled driver as the reckless driver, who is often fully experi-

enced.i

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 30th, 1929.

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MOTOR NOTES

NEW MOTOR ROAD BEGUN.

TO JOINS UP REPULSE BAY ROAD AND CAUSEWAY BAY.

Work has been started on a new motor, road from Causeway Bay which will join Stubbs Road at the place where Bowen Road and the Wong Nei Chong Valley Road also join it. The road will probably be opened for traffic by the end of the year.

The road will take in the path way at the back of the Hong Kong Jockey Club stables at Causeway Bay and will encircle the hill until it joins Stubbs Road as described.

It will be about two miles in The RA.C. already have a rea-length, but owing to the numerous sonable test for drivers wishing to bends and the need for several re take their cars abroad.

taining walls the job will take longer When thran might be expected. completed, it will be a great 25951 to motor traffic, and will open up the Wong Nei Cheong hillside di trict, where already a number o residences have been built.. road will pass Tai Hong village from which place the road will be named.

System In France.

A driving licence is exacted from all would-be posscesors of the joys of motoring in France, and is only delivered to them after a practical examination. The examination is The vexed question has again simple, but rigorous. It is carried heen raised by Mr. Lionel Rapson. out by inspectors appointed by the Service des Mines, which is also the Mr. Rapson has recently written to

authority for registering and clasei-) the Home Secretary on the subject.fying motors themselves.

Many moter accidents. and quite possibly the majority, are due to bakilling driving." Mr. Rapson

Baid.

Oficial Views.

An official stated that the Depart ment was not prepared to go to the length of saying that the majority of accidents were due to unskilled driving.

"Nothing has happened (he said) since the drafting of the Depart mental Committee's report to make the Ministry change its mind. The signing by the driver of the state- ment that he has no disabilities is considered suficient."

A.A. Opposition,

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The Automobile Association is de

Applicants for a licence are re quired to attend at the police station, whence, accompanied by an official, one is required to drive round sharp corners, down steep. inclines, and through a network of wall streets chosen specially for" the purpose. If this is successfully accomplished a visa voce examina- tion on the rudimentary parts of a car follows. But failure aither while driving or in knowledge of the mechanism of the car leads to a refusal of a licence.

Granted these obstacles are safe-

ly passed, the applicant has yet an- other ditch to cross. This relates to the law of the side, and when one may pass on the wrong side, and what action is required at eross ronde 1 finitely against the examination. Many a candidate is sent back on "We are opposed to compulsory ex-this court, although if he has pass aminations for drivers." an officialed on the rest, he gets the benefit of the A.A. declared. There is no of it with a certificate that allows case for it. When a driver owne his him to come up again for the theore. awn car it is to his personal interest | tical part alone. not to break it up, and when he is driving somebody else's ent or his firm's lorry he must begin by learn- ing"

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R.A.C. On The Fence.

The experience of one accustomed to other roads as well as those of France tends to show that, the French test has real value. It keeps the physically disabled and An official of the B.A.C. stated mentally incompetent off the road that the examination was a good and ensures that everyone who idea but difficult to put into opera takes the steering wheel of a motor tion. We must first know exactly car in his hands has had some what Mr. Rapson suggests in the sound initial instruction in how to way of a test." he said. "We are, use his own machine and how to be however, of the opinion that accid. i have towards his neighbour.

The

The road surface. we understand, will be of the usual tar macadam..

FORD - CHEVROLET

POSITION.

INTERESTING RUMOURS. Speculation as to the 1929 motar market in the U.S.A centres round the prospects of the Ford and Chevrolet cars, writes "Contact". in The Motor. The new competitive force is General Motors in the low- priced six-cylinder. Beld with its new Chevrolet

amount

to

There are suggestions on the other

do not side-they rumours-that Ford may respond with a six, but latest information from a reliable U.S.A. source is to the effect that this is unlikely and certainly it cannot be confirmed.

It is held that the General Motors concern has lost none of its former price and style appeal and haș added to the Chevrolet the appeal of a six in the price range of a four. This aweeping change on the part of the industry's largest producer will render necessary readjustments the effects of which cannot be gauged at this stage. It is estimated that the Ford-Chevrolet programmes for 1929 call for 3,500,000 cars. The Wall Street Journal expresses the opinion that if both are successful in realizing their programmes, it will require abnormal growth in demand to furnish other facturers with enough business to go round.

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"HORSE POWER"

JARGON..

MISLEADING USE OF A MOTORING TERM.

Horse-power, of all the terms em- played in motoring parlance, is the least understood and the most abused.....

One "horse-power" is a unit of

could be taken as a rough guide to "brake horas-power," but since then engines have become about four times as efficient, and the formula is thus out of date. ·

The figure" is really the only figure that matters. It refers to the "brake" horse-power that the motor actually develops on the test-bench when coupled up to a dynamometer or brake"

*This is the kind of horse power that pushes the car along.

In steam engine practice there is, further, indicated horse-power," Motorists are mercifully spared this additional complication. Some

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SOME IMPORTANT POINTS.

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measurement, essentially as accar makers do their best to make IMPROVING TYRE MILEAGE. curate and fixed as a yard, a all this nomenclature intelligible It was first in- by naming a model with the pound, or a pint. stituted by James Watt, and repreTreasury figure as the lower and. sents, "neither more nor less, the the b.h.p. figure as the higher of a combination. Thus, in one in- amount of work done when a weight of 33,000 lbs. is raised a stance, we have a 10.23" type,

and in another a “' 20.60.” height of one foot in one minute.

French Rating. This figure is arbitrary, but it is based on experiments with dray We find that a ear which is call

n.." comes into horses. The average man can de-in France a.5 h.p.,"

13 There is velop and maintain for a reasonable England as a “b.p.' time about one-eighth of one horse- no international understanding on

these matters. power.

The motorist, since everything

depends on the power of the engine wants to know something about it; the motor manufacturer furnishes him with an extraordinary variety of information on this subject.

Three-Figures.

Americans sometimes call an en- gine a Six-Sixty" because it has six cylinders and gives something over 60 b.b.p.

In discussing the treatment of paeumatic tyres The Commercial Motor says:-Foremost comes the necessity of accurate wheel align ment. This is tremendously im portant and its test and correction are so simple and easy-many tyre service stations will do the work for

**SAFETY FIRST."

BE COURTEOUS, AND INDICATE YOUR INTENTIONS.

Motor-driving, either of a cyclo or of a car, is safe and simple if the driver will exercise care, and, in fact, make it a habit to be care- ful.

If you have not been on the road nothing-that it is now realized to long and have not troubled greatly be folly to overlook it. The ques about road signals you should do tion of brake maintenance comes 80. Your safety and the safety of.. next Snatchy and irregular use of others rests to a degree on your brakes causes excessive tyre, wear, giving the correct warning of "a and brakes which overheat as the change of direction. No apology is result of being too closely adjust-

It is a fallacy to suppose that because one car is rated at 13.9" it is necessarily more powerful or faster than one rated at 11.9." The 11.8 engine may give the greater borse-power of the two.

Int the matter of road-pered cause disintegration of trees necessary for repeating the best formance the two factors which through that heat. Tyres which are known signals. When about to turn matter, disregarding such qualities under-inflated get hot and depre- to the right, the right arm should as comfort, quietness, detail, sad ciate rapidly from that cause. į be extended horizontally, the palm

nish, are b.h.p. and weight. The

Finally, there is that very prevalent of the hand facing forward. But higher the b.h.p. and the lower the tendency to overload commercial do not think that that is all that weight, the better will be the speed,

vehicles which, if persisted in, has is necessary, like so many do. Look economy, hill-climbing, and SC- the same effect upon the tyre as re-into your driving mirror before celeration.

gular under-inflation. All these turning the car from its course and points, as we have stated, have been see that no other vehicle is directly brought home to users in one way upon you and unable to stop in or another. It is by attention to time. It is not sufficient simply to them, as well as by improved tyre put out the hand and slew the car construction, that the remarkable over and devil take care of the car mileages now so common with giant behind. That is the act of the dis-

courteous motorist. pneumatic tyres are achieved.

In a catalogue concerning a small car which the makers call their 10.15 h.p." model it appeared that it was "rated" at 11.9 b.p.. and gave 2 h.p. "on the 'brake.'

The 10.15" does not mean horse-power at all. It is a rough indication at most, and only serves as a name. The 11.8" does not mean horse-power at all, but in forms the owner the amount of the If you are comparing cars of annual tax he has to pay in Great various ratings and prices on the

basis of "so much per horse This figure is arrived at by a power," it is as well to make sure formula involving only the bore that the horse-power is a genuine nod the number of cylinders. figure, and not an arbitrary and Fifteen years ago this formula misleading estimation.

Britain.

A LETTER WHICH SPEAKS FOR ITSELF

FROM MANZANO INOS, (BBana, Fera

TRANSLATION

GENERAL MOTORS EXPORT COMPANY. (New York,

August 26th, 1928

GENTLEMEN

MODERN

POWERFUL

RUGGED

POWER AND STAMINA OF WILLYS KNIGHT Motor TRUCKS

OFFERS YOU UNPRECEDENTED SERVICE

Owing to its patented double sleeve-valve design the Willys-Knight six-cylinder engine is exceptionally POWERFUL, quies, trouble- free and economical

The thoroughly modern design of Willys Knight Trucks means faster, more dependable operation, with a minimum of lay-ups and repairs.

Design, material and construction of the high- est quality result in stamina and performance essential to modern commercial transportation

A Type for Every

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1-ton 1/2-ton

LONG

TEL, C. 200.

-treater speed, more deliveries per day, more profit, lower cost.

Willys-Knight Truck design includes the features which you, as an experienced truck operator, would build fnus a truck if you were to design it.

If you are interested in dependable, uninter- rupted trucking service at the lowest possible expense-if you wish always to give efficient, reliable delivery service to your customers— let us tell you what one of these Willys-Knight. Trucks can do for YOUR Business.

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LIFE

We own a ficet of three Chevrolet one-ton trucks used for trans- portation in this town. About a month ago, we had to make"a trip to a town 130 kilometers from here, having to traverse a dangerous road, at night, and under poor lighting conditions. The poor road, very steep hills, and generally adverse conditions re- sulted in the driver stalling the truck. It slid backwards. Due to the narrowness of the road it was impossible to steer it safely and it went over a cliff.

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We presumed that the truck would be a total loss; (it was load- ed, but fortunately had no passengers) and you can readily imag ine our surprise when we found that although the body was smashed when the truck turned a triple somersault, not even a tire was split. After inspecting the motor carefully, we started it and it worked normally. Therefore, except for the body that was demolished, the truck did not suffer in the least, and with the help of some laborers and another car, we were able to pull it out of the chasm in which it had fallen, after which it resumed the trip. to its destination with the load..

We take great pleasure in advising you of this fact, as a testimo, nial, to the unexcelled construction of the Chevrolet

With the sentiments of our esteem, we are,

Yours truly,"

MANZANO HNOS. A JORDAN

A tribute to Chevrolet Truck that briefly confirms our claims

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