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Expensive.

The United States authorities estimate that motor accidents cost them £500,000 every twenty-four Hours.

Sheer Forgetfulnesi.

Every year, it is reported, more than a thousand cars are left in the streets of Paris by owner's "who have forgotten them or by thieves who have abandoned stolen vehicles, British Labour.

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It is understood that a London firm has obtained the contract for the construction of 250 miles of roads in various parts of Ronmania, at a cost of more than £2,000,000 Cars in Ceylon.

were

Of a total of 24,230 cars in use in Ceplan en May 31. 1930, 8,296 of British and 11,993 of of American manufacture. The Ford Schools.

Training schools, for boys are to be established by the Ford Motor Co., Ltd., both in England and in Russia, and will be run on similar Jines to those already in existence at Highland Park and Dearborn, Mich., U.S.A. The English school is to be established at Manchester.

but will later be transferred to a

point adjoining the new Ford works

at Dagenham.

Rapid Battery Charging.

In days gone by charging battery was ofted a long and tedious process, the time taken being anything from 24 hours to 48 hours. With what is known, as the constant potential system a number of batteries can be charged in parallel, each one taking just the amount of current it requires, the result being that ordinary battery can be fully charged in eight hours.

Removing the Head.

·HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 6, 1930.

MOTOR NOTES.

One of the most certain ways of damaging the cylinder head gasket when decoking is to lever the head off with screwdriver or chisel. This method of removing the head not only necessitates a new cylinder head gasket, but very often takes longer owing to the fact that the head comes off slanting and will certainly jam. The simplest method is to undo all the nuts one or two turns and then-after taking great care to see that the magneto is switched off-swing the engine. The compression is very often enough to raise the head.

Test Your Thermometer. ›

I have come across two CARES within the past few months of drivers being rather badly let down by a radiator thermometer, writes Focus" in The Light Car and Cyclerar, the first indication they

obtained of the defect being when huge clouds of steam from the over- Bow pipe led to the discovery of violent boiling. In view of the fact that the thermometers concerned in these two cases were of a totally different type, one fitting in the filler cap and the other being a dial-reading instrument connected to the facia-board be a compiled tube, it seems that the moral is to test one's thermometer from time to time make sure.it is not lulling one into a false sense of security, especially in hot weather.

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"LIMIT OF ROAD SPEED REACHED."

WITHDRAWAL FROM RACING-TRACK.

CAPT. BARNATO. NOT TO

COMPETE AGAIN.

A famous British racing motorist and a famous British motoring firm have suddenly abandoned racing while both are at the height of their prowess. They are Captain Woolf Baraato, and Bentley Motors, Ltd., I have finished," said Capt. Barnato..I am not racing cars

303. more."

Mr. J. K. Carruth, a director of

Bentley Motors (of which Captain Barnato is chairman), said:-

"Captain Barnato believes the time has come for younger men to uphold the racing prestige which he and others have helped to gain for Britain in the eyes of the world. "I understand he is continning to the Welsh

race motor-boats "Harp.

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The reason the firm have "de- cided not to race is that we think the safe limit of speed for mode:n roads has been reached.

"It is no use making faster and

faster cars for the roads of to-day, and in the interests of the safety of the general public we are de clining to raise the speed of the Bentley car any higher.

Little More to Learn.

An official statement issued the firm says -

by

"Racing experience has been in- valuable. It is now felt, however, that sufficient data have been ac quired, There is little more to learn either in speed or reliability. at the present moment.

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The firm's entries for the Irish Grand Prix at Dublin next month are withdrawn; and Bentleys will not race at Le Mans next year.

"Should conditions change with- in the next year or two we shall reconsider our position."

Capt. H. B. S. Birkin, a well- known racing driver who

Owns several Bentleys, announces that he is in no way affected by the firm's decision.

Fearless Skidder."

Captain Barnato is one of the finest racing drivers in the world. At Brocklands and in road racing he has won international classic races time and again."

His most recent success was at Le Mans, when, after a terrifié duel with Caracciola, who was driving a Mercedes, Captain Barnato (part- nered by Commander Glen Kidston) won the Grand Prix d'Insurance, which is still the world's most arduous race.

Only week or two before be on the Double Twelve race, 07- sanised by the Junior Car Club at Brooklands.

Many have watched him skidding at 150 miles an hour. The skids were deliberate, and were part of the technique which enabled him to corner degree faster than most other drivers.

IS A STEAM-WAGON A MOTOR CAR?

BENCH HOLD THAT IT IS.

An interesting point of law-was raised at Ellcemere Port recently, in a police prosecution against a etcam waggon driver, who charged with making CICUSSIVE noise.

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Mr. Pidgeon (Liverpood), solici tor, submitted that a steam wig- gon was not a heavy motor car, but the police, contended that it was the Bench upheld the view that the case came under the Motor-car Act.

Mr. Pidgeon aubmitted that the Act related to motor-cara, “up to four tons and challenged the police to show that a atcam waggon weighing over five tons could come under the regulations,

Superintenden

steam enggon ima to show Heath fication numbers like a motor-car and was much a motor-car "as was a motor-cycle..

Mr. Pidgeon asked if the police would amend the summons, but Superintendent Ennion declined.

The driver of the steam waggon was fined ten shillings,

REAL MYSTERY CARS.

COMPLICATED ELECTRICAL

· EQUIPMENT.

GIANT SPEEDWAY ON THE WASH.

TREASURY GRANT OF TIDAL LANDS.

WORK MAY BE STARTED

·SOON."

Iwonder, writes "Focus" in The Light Car and Cyclecar, how many of us really understand the elec trical equipment of our cars? Not 10 per cent probably. It is true that the reliability of modern system makes it unnecessary for using to Daytona Beach. to know the details of the dynamo winding er how to rewire a cut-out, but I think we should be given rather more information than is to be found in the average instruction

Motor speed kings may soon be able to make their bids for world records in England instead of go

book.

said an official of the Association. The grant results from the Board of Trade inquiry held in Boston in January, when the whole scheme was considered. Following the in- vestigation we were informed that the Board of Trade, could definite ly approve of the scheme from an engineering standpoint.

The next stage will be for the directorate of the Automobile Kac- ing Association to consider the Treasury's offer, which will almost that certainly be accepted. In event work may be commenced quite shortly. The scheme will, it is estimated, provide employment for 3,000 men for eighteen months

to two years.

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A communication has been ro-

The proposal is to build ceived by the Automobile Racing straight

concreto track nearly Association to the effect that the fifteen miles long and 200 yards Lords Commissioners of the Trea-wide along the north shore of tho sury are prepared provisionally Wash. A monster breakwater 21ft. to make a grant of tidal lands for high will be built from Skegness to the Association's Wash speedway Freiston, Lines, and this will re- scheme,

The grant would be at a price which, it is understood, is consider- duly complicated; possibly this is ed to be satisfactory to the Associa

I sometimes wonder whether the normal system on a car is not un- unavoidable, but it could, at least, be explained fully. There plenty of drivera whose wireless knowledge would enable them easily to grasp the wiring system of their cars.

claim a stretch of the Wash fifteen miles long and a mile wide.

"On this will be constructed a

monster speedway twice the length dre of Daytona Beach, on which world tion. Eight thousand acres are involved in the grant, while an-speed record bids can be made. other 2,000 acres of privately own-The scheme also provides for & is T.T. track oight miles in circuit ed land will be included in the waterway for motorboat trials and scheme. This smaller section the property of 47 frontagers with which will contain replicas of the whom the Association has been in most famous hairpin bonds and tortuous corners ia the world. negotiation.

Staid accommodation will be pro vided 200,000 spectators."

Diagrams and so on are issued by most makers, but I suggest that they are not nearly so comprehen sive as one could wish.

"Oar proposals to these front agers have met with cordiality,”

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