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MOTOR NOTES.

CHINESE DRIVERS IN SHANGHAI.

SOME STRINGENT TESTS.

"D.P." Special Service:]

Shanghai-Automobile drivers in ef Chinese tralie policemen with They are laid the Chinese territory "adjacent to extended bacons. Shanghai's foreign-controlled Inter-cut upon a miniature street eroas- national Settlement and Frenching: the prospective driver is shownE Concession must prove their Etness his "automobile." and, asked to "dre" it from one point to an by a series of testa far more

te Other vehicles must seientiäe and searching than those other

movied to their proper posi exacted by the averago Aaterical er

nous, the trane policemen must be so placed that they are giving pro- European city.

par sigente, and the driver must for his machine along the pro-

per route.

Some Explanations.

coordination, Physique, vision. mechanical" knowledge, information on traffic rules, ability to think clearly nd capacity for handling is car are a few of the points taken up by inspectors at the Commitnisa-hus and u tion Division, Bureau of Publie say, You must let the street-car Utilities, of the City Government Horst. of Greater Shanghai.

W. Tan, chief of the division. is the man behind all this. He is an alert and well-educated Chinese who has travelled extensively and picked up all manner of ideas abroad. When the Nationalists was given captured Shanghai he the task of building up his depart. meas from the bottoni, and this be has done in two years

A Pack of Cards,

Tan looks with thinly veiled con. tempt upon the examinations ac corded prospective drivers by his foreign colleagues of the Interna- tional Settlement and the French Concession.

"We try to tell each driver why we want aim to Conduct himself explains Tan. "We

The street-car carries 40 ur 50 peopic: you have only two or thred; it has pour brakes, wound up with a bundle; you have good brakes which you can use easily

Thus Tan mixes in a liberal dose driving ethics as he conducts his examination. Moreover, he insists upon asking many questions con How often gerning care of the car.

water! does the battery need Should engine oil be drained when the cogine is warm, or cold,

"We never let a Chinese chauf fer get away with a clean record of answering nit questions perfect ly." Tan Pays with a smile We kes on asking questions till we few times, sp he trip him up can't go out feeling that he knows everything."

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 7, 1929.

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Measurements are taken of the GERMANY'S MOTOR FUELS. applicant's body, to see whether he

Fuel consumption in Germany is is strong and well-formed, particu- larly if he wants to drive heavy mainly dependent upon the num trucks and passenger 'buses. He is ber of motor-cars in operation, the asked what he would do in requirements of industry being, a variety of emergencies. Then he is factor of minor importance. While taken out and tested by being the number of motor-cars in 199 made to back his car through increased by about 20 per cent, the group of sticks placed close to consumption of petrol, and benzole on the face of the card. Look-ether. Enally "Les tested in increased by nearly 30 per cent.

heavy traffic. green red ones, nine green ores.

See here," says he, holding up cae of a pack of small cards. Tell me how many red dots and how many preen dots you can count

many

But the crowning achievement of By this simple test we have

that

drivers, Tan's administration will come in discovered

a few weeks when a special machine Sented in coming here, for Chinese Fenses arrives from Germany. after successfully passing vests in a dammy deer's seat with all con- the International Settlement, had trols before him, the applicant will watch a motion-picture screen and been given foreign licenses although drive his machine through all Every touch of The for manner of crises. they were colour blind.

cialch, brake and ign inspector never found out they the wheel,

throttle will rezister on a graph. couldn't tell the difference between, the red and green trafic lights!

Tan turns to a table. There he deitly arranges a toy street-ear, several automobiles and two images

Consumption of imported petrol was 800.000 tons, consumption of petrol from the works of the 1.G. Dyestuffs Industries 20,000 tons and of other petrol 10,000 tons, a total ef about 500,000 tons, of which 175,000 tons was employed for in- dustrial purposes.

way

Home produced. benzole 320,000 tons and imported benzole 175,000 tons, the consumption for industrial purposes being. 50,000

At the end of the text this graph ons. The quantities of fuel left for motor-ear consumption were in he compared with an ideal chart and Tan believes that the thus 725,000 tons of petrol. 445,000 Applicant's ability-wil be showaj tons for benzole, and 15,000 tons of motor alcohol, altogether with the utmost clarity and no room

1,185.000 tons,

"oon.pared for argument.

200,000 tons in 1997.

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