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Tackling the Slow Coaches."

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The authorities of many American

cities are to take action against slow.)

drivers.

Radio on the Road..

A motor dealer in New York re cently offered a wireless set with every second-hand car.

Even in Morocco.

It is extimated that there were 13,020 cars in use in Morocco at the commencement of the present year.. Average Life,

It is stated that the average life of a car is seven years, and that |,#,000,000 cars aro scrapped every

year.

It Sounds Good!

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 1930.

MOTOR NOTES.

New Riviera Highway.

It is understood that a road is to be constructed on the French Riviera from Antibes to Nice, and then on to the Italian frontier, a total distance of approximately 33 miles. The carriageway of the pro posed road is, to be afft. in width, and, in view of the nature of the trathc.on the Riviera, a track for horso and cycle traffic is to be pro-

SUICIDE AFTER CAR LONDON'S TRAFFIC

CRASH.

GIRL WITNESS IN INVALID

CHAIR.

It is stated that Havana is to vided, as well as a pavement for twenty-six, was wheeled into court have a motor lorry race this year. Stands capable of holding 25,000

people have been erected.

Used Car Show.

The next Used Motor Show will be held at the Royal Agricultural Hall, Loudon, from May 10 to 29. A Long Road,

It is proposed to construct a read from Fairbanks, Alaska, to Peru, "which, when completed, will be

some 12,000 miles in length, Saying It With Stamps.

The American Automobile Asso-

ciation has recommended to the Federal authorities a special issue of postage stamps depicting beauty spots in the State of Washington, with the object of encouraging tour ing in that State.

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J. H. Willys as Ambassador.

Mr. John North Willys, the American motor manufacturer, has been appointed by President Hoover as United States Ambassador to Poland he thus enters on a new. career of a character which has always appealed to him.

Bussian Olldor India.

It appears that the Standard Oil Co. of New York, has signed at agreement with the Amtorg Trading Co., the Soviet commercial agency in America, to buy 1,000,000 tons of refined petroleum products from Russian Nephtha Syndicate The fuel purchased under this con tract is to be shipped to India.

Developments in France,

It is stated that cars in France will have to have their head lamps marked with an official stamp in order to show that they have been examined and conform to the re- gulations. A scheme has been sug- Kested for the abolition of the 40,000 level crossings in France, at an estimated cost of £20,000.000.

A Scrapping Business.

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pedestrians. It is hoped that the new highway may possible be ready by the spring of 1931. Consigned From Canada.

The net amount of revenue receiva ed during the period April 1, 1020, to February 28, 1830, on motor cars;

(including complete chassis) con signed from Canada and admitted to this country at a preferential rate of duty was £175.797. To be entitled to the preferential rate. ät least 23 per cent. of the total value of these cars must be the result of labour within the British Empire. No information, is available as to the proportion of the parts of these

ears which were manufactured in the United States, nor of the re- venue received on ears consigned from Canada but not admitted at the preferential rate,

DICTATOR.

HOW HE COULD DISEN-

TANGLE CHAOS. · ·

SHOT MAN'S "PAL" - ... Miss Irene Martha Godfrey, aged RULES THAT ARE IGNORED, recently in an invalid chair to give evidence at the resumed Newark in- quest into the tragedy of Frederick Henry Butler, a butcher, aged forty-four, who was shot following motor-car smash near Newark on March 31.

She was propped up on pillows and swathed in blankets as she told the story of the tragedy, which hap- pened on a journey from London to York.

survey the problems confronting hini.

His task is to speed up passen-

ger transport, and to expedite freight traffic, thus saving traders thousands of pounds daily

ing to the centre of the road, caus- But they are a long time in coming. ing fast traffic either to pass on the Our traffic dictator would try the left, a dangerous practice, or pull experiment without delay. Auto- out to the wrong side of the road- matic traffic control has been tried an almost equally dangerous prac with success in many cities in tice.

Europe, and in many towns in Great 1 Britain.

During a tour in the evening from Westminster to Putney. our dicta- tor would have observed no fewer than fifteen excavations in the road, some of them of small dimen- sions, but all sufficient to dam the traffic flow.

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In Scotland Yard our dictator would have his finger every day on the pulse of London traffic. He would be able to communicate by telephone to trade policemen at all the more important centres.

Telephones could easily be fixed on the lamp standards, or other convenient places, where they would be at hand for the pointsmen.

These would not only be invaly able for keeping the dictator in close touch with trafie cenditions front hour to hour, but they would also be helpful in dealing with motor-car bandits.

Let us presume that London bas

Urgent Public Work appointed a Traffic Dictator and

The time is seven o'clock. Not a that he made a tour of London to single workman is engaged on the Some of these eruptions work. could obviously be straightened out! within & few hours. This will be done to-morrow morning, no doubt when the traffic tide is in full flow.

Our dictator would decide that urgent public work of this charac ter is sufficiently important to war- rant the institution of night shifts,

He would note also how numer roads or road bends, where any ous tramcar stops are fixed at cross- obstruction not only blocks traffic, He takes his stand at Ludgate but is dangerous. He would ar-expedite the traffic flow. circus, one of the most congested range for their removal to some points in the City of London, and distance from the cross-ronds or being a man of common sense, he bends. He would also give instruc solicitor who ap-notices how slow-moving traffe istions that no omnibus stop should peared for Miss Godfrey, asked: almost inextricably mixed up with be arranged on the opposite side of

Her face was pale, and she had a patch of plaster on her forehead.

The Verdict.

A verdict of Suicide during temporary sanity, induced by the shock of the accident," was retort- ed on Butler.

Miss Godfrey returned pital after the inquest.

Mr. Exam,

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Have your relations with Mr. Butler ever been anything but busi

Accident Prevention in U.S..A...

At the instance of the U.S. De Fartment of Commerce a Mainten-ness relations

ance of Motor Vehicles Committee has recently been set up in Washing-

He has a free band. The com mittee that at present more or less "rules London's traffic has been superseded, and our new dictator out referring matters to a host of is in a position to act quickly, with different authorities.

fast-moving" traffic.

Slow Trafic Rule.

He seca "Oh, no," Miss Godfrey replied. "We were the best of pals. In

the road to traincar stops.

Parking Places,

The dictator, being a broadmind. Trafic Advisory Committee, realise ed man, would, unlike the London

He would have the power, with our discussing the matter with local authorities. to make a greater use traffic when the occasion arose into of the one-way system, diverting certain defined routes in order to

There will be untarnishable, plat- ing on all bright parts, dipping headlights, and automatic control of engine temperatures by means of shutters on the radiator.

Hornet. Sir William Morris some The car is called the Wolseley

ton. Its fundamental purpose will fact, he used to go so far as to say vehicles on the near side of the road that motoring is no longer a luxury time ago bought the Wolseley con-

be to seek means of reducing rond accidents dae to defective cars. The US. Secretary of Commerce, in announcing the appointment of the Committee, stated that inspec tion of 5,037,480 cars in 1927 and 1929 showed that 1,604,758 required brake correction to comply with existing laws; 230,547 had defective lamps: 7643 defective steering gears and about 200,000 were not up to legal requirements in other resp pets.

The Wash Speedway.

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WONDERFUL NEW BRITISH CAR.

6-CYLINDER SALQON FOR £175.

HUNDRED BUILT IN SECRET,

Sir William Morris has produced a six-cylinder saloon motor-car, of the small family type, from the Wolseley factory at the astonishing price of £73.

This is cheaper by a considerable amount than any other six-cylinder saloon car, of either British or on the foreign manufacture now market,

New Era.

One hundred of these vehicles," which open a new era in economical motoring in England, were in the hands of agents last month, which

beer produced in close secrecy. means that 100 motor-ears have

In these days, of keen competi- tion. when rivals naturally employ industrial spies to ferret out secrets, it is difficult to manufacture one leaking out about it. To build 100 new motor-car without something and keep the whole fleet dark is a remarkable achievement in itself, and reflects great credit on the loyalty of the British worker.

About 130 artisans have been en- aged on the cars months. They all gave their word for severní

of honour that they would not say n word ahout them outside the ne tory, and they have kept their pledges.

Private Tests.

a horse-drawn lorry in front of a fast van. He sees fast

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his only friend outside busi- and slow vehicles in the middle of

The cars never left the factory at the road. When the point policeman but a business. Instead of restrict

ing the number of car-parks, be

Birmingham, but were put through. Mr. David Samuel Richards, who drops his hand for traffic to pro- would make a voyage of discovery The arrival of this small six at their tests on a private track in the was in the car as the time of the ceed, the fast van has to wait while in an attempt to discover new ones. so low a price is a motoring deworks protected by camouflage. accident, limped into court and opthe slow, horse-drawn lorry gets

There are hundreds of unauthor-velopment, ranking in importance The car is rated at 12 h.p.' It peared to be in pain while giving into motion. Other fast vehicles ised car parks in London where with the birth of the "baby" type evidence,

scata four grown-up passengers in have to-extricate themselves from vehicles do not create an obstruc some years ago. Others of similar comfort. the melée.

tion. He would make these official" type will no doubt follow. There is no need for any newarks, and put some one in charge legislation here. There is an LC.C. of them. He would make ful: in- by law which states that all slow-

quiries into the possibility of using, moving traffic must keep to the near the Horse Guards Parade as a car side of the road. There are penal park. Here there is room for hus ties for ignoring this rule, but they dreds of cars within easy reach of are never enforced. Que dictator the West End, where parking facili-visit to South Africs convinced They are fitted throughout with would see that this by-lay was put ties are to cramped. inte operation at once.

He said Miss Godfrey was intro. duced to him as "Mrs. Butler.".

Miss Godfrey, in evidence, said she had known' Butler since last July, when she went to work as manageress of a café which his then employers opened at Chatham...

The coroner: What was the pur- nose of the journey in that ear to York-I was going there as man ageress of a farm creamery bus. mess which als firm were opening in York.

Although there is no further development with regard to the Wash Speedway scheme, survey work stil proceeding under the supervision of Mr. N. S. Chedburn, the surveyor seat into the district by the Automobile Racing "Asocia Do you remember whether Butle tion, Ltd., who have taken offices introduced you to Mr. Richards as in South Street, Boston. The feel-rs. Butler-No, in front of me he ing prevails both in south and east didn't

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"Dashing About."

George Edwin Githert, a driver, said that when he came, on the scene. Butler was dashing about wildly... his face covered in blood, calling Renc. Rene

Lincolnshire that the scheme will She had met Mrs. Butler and go forward, all the local public knew there were two children. bodies being in favour, and there" Mr. Butler has a daughter prae-" Some £3,000,000 is to be spent by being scarcely any opposition to the tically my own age," she said." American, motor manufacturers in ventitre. It is recognised, of course,.

lorry bringing about the scrapping of old that the Snancial question is a big cars. The idea appears to be to factor, but it is not thought there eliminate as far as possible the will be any difficulty on the score. chormous number of absolete cars with two wheel brakes, slow ac The Austin Seven in America. celeration and bad steering which ture still on the roads. The scheme has the official recommendation of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce.

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up and kissed her and said, Are you hurt? Speak to me.' She made no reply."

A few moments later he heard a

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"He asked me," added Gilbert, When the American version of the "to help to find the woman, Austin Seven was first shown notfound her in a field. Butler came long ago in New York it appears to have attracted considerable prac. tical attention. According to an American contemporary the com-, Cathedral City Parking,

plete car is being offered at under shot. Chester looks, with a friendly but$30 approximately 490), expectant eye upon the visiting although the mechanical specificar motorist, even on those who park tion is naturally much the same as their cara in Abbey Square, close that of its British counterpart, the to the fine old cathedral. A month coachwork, is radically different, or two ago the cathedral authorities being on typically American lines, placed in Abbey Square a box for and the radiator is deep and of the gifts in lieu of garage fees from thin-shell type. Bumperi have been those who regard themselves as

Bitted front and rear, and with a being of the select number who may

two-seater body the amount of leg- leave their cars there. Many other room and headroom are described cathedrals have similar open spaces as ample. The auxiliaries, such as Har them, and as a rule a charge the dyname. starting motor and of one shilling is made either by carburetter are American, although the local authority or by the autho- it is stated that they will conform rities of the cathedral Thus is to British specificntions. It is an derived a substantial income. At interesting point that tyres of Chester the principle is, adopted 3.75in. section are provided, while both inside and outside the cathe. American ideas are evidenced in the dral of charging no fece, bat of Frovision of an ignition lock and a relying upon the generosity of fuel tank contents indicator.

It is to be hoped that this generous attitude will be justified.

visitors..

Safety In the Streets.

D F. J. Waldo, the senior coroner for London, at à recent in-

LOVERS AND MOTORING.

M.P. WANTS DRIVING BAN FROM 10 TO, 21.

quest following a motor fatelity, most dangerous one for boy and That the courting age was the said that speed as a factor in trafficgirl users of the roads was con- fatalities is of secondary importtended by Mr. Haycock, Labour ance. He stated that he has ex M.P. for Salford, when the Road amined the evidence very carefully Trafic Bill was being considered in every trafie fatality case coming in Committee last month. before him during the past year,

Mr. Haycock wanted the minimum

·and, 1920 was a record year. · He has

had as many as three cases a day age for motorists to be kept at 14, to deal with, and he has failed to instead of raising it to 16, as the

find anything pointing to excessive

Bill proposed.

From 14 to 10, be declared, was

speed, especially in the case of the safest age. private motor cars, as a cause of death. When Dr. Waldo gare evi-

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dence before the Select Committed Boys have not then begun to of the House of "Commons in 1910 take alcoholic drink. They have on the Prevention of Traffic Fatal not started epurting, and they have ities, he said that in his opinion it no desire to have a girl on the was of first-rate importance to deal pillion. The boy of 19, who has got with dangerous or reckless driving, his girl on the pillion, is liable to and he recommended that the police the temptation to show off in her should concentrate chiefly on this presence. Showing off a generally clause in the Motor Act of 1003. the cause of dangerous driving. Dr. Wahlo suggests that provision Fanong boys' should be made for increased From 19 to 21, he contended, was nepotier mitingu ME MAt-dongerons-age-ina-inu should cancel licences in appro- ing should be prohibited then. » priate cases, including those in Nobudy over 60, Mr. Haycock con- which drivers have been proved to cluded, should drive. His father bo physically, - unfit." He recom- was 82, and drove 10,000 miles last mends that serious cases or subse-year, when he should not have: quent convictions be treated with driven 10,000 yards. imprisonment without the option of The clanse raising the age to 16 4. fine,

was carried.

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Now we come to Oxford Street He would be even more convine-in the busy hours, and "proceed ed of its necessity after motoring down it at snail'space. "along the Finchley Road and on- serving the obstraction caused to other traffic by heavy, lorries keep

Here we have been promised as an experiment the institution of automatic traffic control signals.

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The design of the new car was evolved by Sir William Morris on one of his trips round the world. His world tours and his recent

Its engine is of the high-efficiency type, with overhead valves, and a maximum speed of seventy miles an hour is claimed, with a cruising speed of a mile a minute."

The cars da test have given over thirty miles to the gallon of petrol.

him that the supply of the over-safety glass. seas market with British cars is a

The brakes are hydraulically task that will take a considerable operated, and hydraulic shock- ime owing to the drawbacks that.ubenchers are Etted all round. handicap the British manufacturers, Buffers are part of the standard but the home market is a different equipment. praposition.

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