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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 16, 1930.

MOTOR NOTES.

Teaching the Young Idea.)

Pushing toy automobiles about oa' a street a board equipped with map, and showing traffic problems, employees of the Pacific-Telephone & Telegraph Company of San Fran cisco are taught the proper way to drive. Here's the sort of educa- tional game that many adults might play to

their advantage with children. Some Gas Consumption!

“DRAWING ROOMS'

ON WHEELS,

·LUXURY COACH BOOM.

TREAT 'EM ROUGH. FUEL EFFICIENCY.

10,000 MILE TESTS.

PROFESSOR LOW ON

DIESEL ENGINES.

"SAFETY FIRST!”

PENALTIES FOR JAY

WALKERS?

BUSINESS VEHICLES.

KEEP THE SAME DRIVER.

It is a practice amongst some important users of commercials vehicles to employ what may be called a fout of drivers the-men taking those vehicles which happen to be available, particular machines not being allotted to individuals.

"This system," says The Com- mercial Motor, may be beneficial from certain points of view, but "One of the most surprising.facti "It is nteresting to note," says it, does not always prove, satisfac- in connection with the growing"po- The Light Car and Cyciccar, "that pularity of the Diesel motor for when he attended the first antual tory and, in many instances, it is

preferable to consider the man and aeroplanes and heavy cars," writes meeting of the Pedestrians' Associathe machine as an indivisible unit. In this way each driver is inclined for, is that the reasons for high. Transport, refused to be influenced to take a far greater personal in Professor A. M. Low in The Motion, Mr. Morrison, Minister of

torest in the vehicle under his ciency are frequently stated with him, and that, with characteristic charge. Machines, like human be The Rolls-Royce Company has a out the everyday motorist realizing directness, he told his bearers what ings, have their peculiar character-

ho thought about careless walkers. that his own engine is constructed

istics, and it has also been shown on lines which are obviously op- He added that if road fatalities that one man can be successful with continue to increase it might be

a vehicle which, in the hands of new fitment. As is generally posed to fuel efficiency. 10, CROSS LANE 93143 || forty-three States of the Union, on the Continent and even in parts very definite method of proving any

"It has been suggested that vari- necessary in the public interest to

another, would always be a source: impose penalties on us when we

of trouble.

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It is one thing to get an idea for an improvement to a car and to design the new component or what ever it may be so that it should be satisfactory; but it is quite another

"Motoring for the many the slogan of the motor coach com- panies this year in Great Britain. New and up-to-date vehicles have That the American people are been purchased by many firms and thing to make sure that it is satis compression and high thermal effi- by the atmosphere surrounding

still rolling along' on rubber arrangements have been made for tyres is evident from the Match road tours not only in Britain but consumption figures of gasoline for

which show use of 26,000,000 gallons daily, or 7.1 per cent. more than in the corresponding month of 1029.

purchasing power, The Golden Rule.

of the Near East.

[factory."

"Our policy is to provide fast. krown, of course, this famous conable compression motors would help

56624 This does not look so much everybody. Private cat confortat cheap and comfortable travel for 'bus cost is what we aim at," said an official of a large coaching combine. recently. "We expect to be running about 1,500 coaches each day during the summer week-ends and about 600 on weekdays to all

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The seasonal trek of motorists" to seaside resorts and various other vacation quarters calls for special rules. Here they are, as offered by Daniel L. Marsh, President of Bos-

Iton University:---

Give the other fellow the benefit

of the doubt.

Obey traffic rules. Look!

Drive discreetly. Envy not those whose machines

go faster than yours. Never he presumptuous on the

Highway.

parts of Britain. This will mean an increase of nearly 30 per cent.. in the number of coaches over last year and all our new vehicles have been ordered from British factories. Last year we carried over a million passengers; we expect to exceed a million and a half this season."",

A member of one of the firms

Rivet attention on "what you are who are organising tours in Pales

doing. Lise your head.

Love your fellow men. Enjoy life.

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tine, Northern Africa and the 'Con- tinent described some of the luxury stments that British designers have been keeping secret during the winter.

Home Comforts.

cern does not make a habit of in.

new devices to be tested.

The test employed in this case is certainly unique. Rolls-Royce designers are not satisfied with brake tests, road tests, or Brook lands tests. They require some- thing more strenuous, and for this Furpose "they conduct high-speed

us to use a compression

ratio when revolving at high speeds,

leak to the public danger. Doubt.

Danger of Changing Över, "The changing-over of drivers might even constitute a danger, for until a man becomes thoroughly accustomed to the vehicle he con- trols he is not in a position to. of the public for which they know the actual state of its brakes, cater, the Pedestrians' Associate exact powers of acceleration, the

best way to change speed, etc.

tion

is inore busily concern- ed in telling its members what thoroughly undesirable and dan- gerous people motorista are. If the Association adopts the practi- cal course of endeavouring to bring

troducing annual new models. The cars are improved as and when but it seems to be forgotten that furiously to think; it may open its possible, and it follows that there at high revolutions and low throttle eyes to the fact that whereas mo- openings the compression is delitoring organizations and the mo almost continuous stream ofberately reduced by rarefying the for Press art actively engaged in that стов Bection charge as it passes the constricted educating throttle area and by allowing too short a time for a proper weight of mixture to reach the combustion chamber under a totally inadequate pressure of 14.7 lb. per square inch. "It is known that at the top of a mountain pass an engine must lose power, yet we permit motors

of their ways it. will gain the pect every day. I commend the to escape our vigilance in this res-home to its membership the errors point to the attention of the gentle sympathy not only of Mr. Morri. "Somewhere in France" there is man who, being ignorant of the son but of all other road users." a Rolls-Royce headquarters, and to difference between speed and ae this spot gangs of expert testers receleration.. asked me the following Fair so soon as they are required question. 'If,' he said, the start to try out any new development.ing handle of a car was gripped Anything new, whether it be large

(Continued on, next Column.) or small, is subjected to a severe" trial of at least 10,000 miles on Continental roads. These roads are ideal for the purpose; they allow terrific speeds to be maintained and at the same time they offer the. roughest of test conditions.

tests on the Continent..

Each car has its team of four testers, two on duty and two in reserve, and durnig the test it travels no less than 500 miles a day. Wherever possible the speed is kept at between 60 and 83 miles per bour-and the rougher the road the etter! From time to the compon- ent under 'test is examined, and if, at the conclusion of 10,000 miles hard running, it is found to be in every way satisfactory, it is incor porated on the production model.

MOTOR ACCIDENTS ON THE WANE.

WHITSUN'S LIGHT TOLL.

Nothing has been spared to in- crease comfort," he said.. The seating accommodation consists of beautifully upholstered armchairs, each fitted with head and arm rests, while in front is a small fold- ing table equipped with ask, tray and electric reading lamp. A special fastening is within easy reach so that the windows can be opened or closed at will or the silk blinds drawn. Heavy pile carpets cover the floor, while ingeniously fitted at the back of the coach is rither a buffet, where afternoon tea is made or a cocktail bar. Toilet and lavatory accommodation are also provided." Smooth six-cylin der sleeve valve engines of 100 h.p, The whitsun holiday passed and singularly few accidents were re- propel these drawing rooms

ported," says The Light Car and wheels and special steel springs, Cyclecar. Although the weather shock absorbers and balloon tyres throughout was fine and the roads are proof against the roughest in popular districts have rarely "raids.

been more crowded, mishaps, were Commercial vehicle manufactur-very few and far between and scri- pus accidents so scanty that ia- ars are working at top pressure to supply the numerous orders they stead of the columns of road ac have received," said a prominent cidents which greeted our eyes in It is estimated that the newspapers following the pa- distributor. the production of British factories tional holidays last year there was two Un- bas increased by about 19,000 merely a paragraph, or vehicles. Orders are coming not doubtedly the roads are getting only from this country, but from sufer. Whilst Royal Commission all over the world. British design- and a committee of the House of ers have made unprecedented pro- Commons have been wrangling over gress during the last three or four elaborate legislation intended to years and our vehicles have earned reduce accidents and to make the a reputation for strength and re-read safer for all, we have, each liability particularly in the Domim-in our various ways, found out for ions and South America. The re- ourselves how to keep out of trouble, sult is an industry that is flourish and very effective our methods seem

to be proving." ing and steadily developing.".

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firmly when the engine fired, would the whole car revalve round the stationary handle?'

There is another aspect to con sider, and that is the impossibility of correctly allocating the blame for poor petrol consumption, heavy those other points which depond so Expenditure on maintenance and greatly upon the man at the wheel, It is obvious that changes must be made at times when vehicles have to be docked for overhaul or repair.

far as possible; each vehicle should" but we strongly advocate that, so

have its regular driver."

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