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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1930.

MOTOR NOTES.

CAR WITHOUT A CLUTCH PEDAL.

ANOTHER EASY GEAR- CHANGING DEVICE.

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10, CROSS LANE 23193

WANGHAI

1

THE PEAK

PEAK GARAGE

is still a source of trouble to some drivers-is undergoing govere tests at a number of important British

motor-car factories."

MAXIMUM VALUE.

OBTAINING THE BIGGEST RETURN FOR ONE'S OUTLAYS.

Today the price of petrol in higher than any figure reached since early in 1923 (says, a writer in the Autocar). General economy, there fore, and the desirability of deriving the maximum of motoring enjoy- every gallon of fuel pur chuset come more than exer iny portant to a considerable proper The results are rather similar to tion of the car-using community.

In this connection the develop

It consists of a clutch that on ages or disengage, when-red

and it is operated in co

with free-wheel mechanis

those obtained with the Daimler

WOMEN DRIVERS.

IS THE ROAD PERIL MALE- OR FEMALE?

The reproduction in London paper of a notice bearing the words "Beware: Female Driver," which was affixed to the back of a two-

Hero Hill, London, during the caused considerable interest.

THREEWHEEL MOTOR-VAN. A LITTLE MISTAKE. seater car driven by a woman in

GERMAN PATENT FOR.

BRITAIN?

A motor van with only three wheels, a familiar sight in Gor- many, may shortly be seen in Great Britain. Negotiations are

Ton Centuries" in a Month. Out of the twenty-threo Go-called contùrics," threa trips equalled or execeded three hundred miles in twenty-four hours or less (the actual figures being 390, 301, and 301), two handsomely topped. two hundred miles (278 and 230), and nine were of mere than hundred and fifty miles at one sitting. Only taking place between British en- one of the remainder totals a bare gineers and the Gorman patented hundred, the others ranging befor the building in Britain of a tween one hundred and one hundred three-wheel 10cwt, commorial mo- tor vehicle, which, to the stuall· and forty-five miles

tradesman of Germany is what the Austin Seven is to the British private car owner.

The rest of the year's total in made up of the usual cross-country and round town journeys, the mile- age of any particular day when the

The three-wheeler, known as the

ONE WHO DID NOT KEEPill-and caro as notorist, compared

“ROLLING ALONG.!!

I could do no good work, Packe ing up my typewriter in its little black case I tried a day in bed, It was no go use; I decided that I needed a change, could not afford a holiday, I told myself, but it I was to work wall ever again, it was evident that must have a change.

Thus determined (says a writer in the Anthour). I prepared my ever-willing car. Some canned food

The following views on woman's

with man's," were obtained by reporter.

Automobile Association Oficial. We have 60,000 women members, and the proportion of cases in which we have to defend them is no higher. than the proportion of cases among men, and may, indeed, be less.

A large number of men are able But to drive only at week-onda. the cars are used by women all day This means that women get a vast amount of experience denied to their husband's.

Mrs. Sam Finch, Transport snd" General Workers' Union. The real danger on the road to-

fluid flywheel; only, in this caso, ment of the very amalt michire, car har been used rarely being less Tempo in Germany, has in: threoin case local supplies should be day is not the woman but the youth;!;'

away with... 29208

IN CASE OF

EMERGENCY

23193

The car recently tested was a British six-cylinder of a popular mako. The controls consisted of brake pedal, an accelerator, and a gear lover. The brake pedal is operated by the left foot, the foot. normally used for operating the

clutch.

The car is standing still with

a relatively low rate of fuel con sumption, and is correspondingly inexpensive as to other points of maintenance, significance.

assumes increased

X.P.G,

1

It should be a comforting thought to many in there days of a heavy horse-power tax and an Inflated fuel

hundred mark

than fifty often years become so popular for light

goods delivery work that yearlyat, a ground-sheet, a blanket, and sales have risen to 15,000.

the wonderful collection of old coats that always occupies the boot. Thear, together with a small bag containing toilet articles completed

Now all this, has a very definite point. With one of the least ex

pensive forins of car available to

tuition. without having had the slightest Safety First Association Secretary.. In on July-journal a tribute was paid to the careful and considerate driving of women motorists. It was pointed out that women do not

If present overture, are succes ful it will be placed on the Bri buy and to maintain, many jour-ish market at £75 complete. The neys of a reasonably severe nature car will not be made as a passou.my kit. Having-included a pound take the same risks that men do,

were completed with success. Theer model. country included ranged from the Lakes to Devonshire, though mostly Surrey Sussex, Hampshire, Wilt

the engine idling. Sound gear is com that the miniature cariesshire and Kent were the counties engaged the car will pull away bath of tavelling, from, say covered. Brings often rough and. readily in this goa wo have not, 46 miles of a single gallon of pacal billy formed A big proportion of to feel it in, to coax it wut deft There arsyet be those who wipe the roads used Climbing, or at movements of the clutch pedal. deinitely leaning towards the pur- tempting the thimb, all types of now want to start wallt! chase of th very small on being copiah hill her been, a particular

pedal. The car moves

LANE, CRAWFORD, Luired in 4to dopfen the singole utaltably moms of me a hobby for forted with this gar.

off "just like a studia engine, To 308, entertain doubts

MODERN MOTOR SERVICE change up into top gear wo deroadworthiness ofthe

Tel.

to the

It is of rather more than 8h.p. with a most efficient two-stroke en- gino which hus steam cooling

accidents

C6178 the car. Nomber of a Well-

Well-known Driver,

uf tobacco, some typing paper, and ipad argize, requently involved in the black-cased portable set out.

I planned to breach off the arterial foad at the first elle rond Its popular form in German that took my fancy, and to follow. an open "van” with the driver and the tanmo principle throughout, be helper under a hood at the reg.it Innor field-track Anything It is so easy to drive that a youth that my car could manage would of 18 can handle it, and maintain take if I felt the ur it. Its running costs work optat much less than 1d. a mile.

In England it would be easyed na & "motor-cycle and liable an annual tax, vf £4,

As it turned out the old car had an easy time for Iwing soon 20 Tost in delights at the hard of toral England that I never turned the radiator towards my "frenk

quiet strech of nad. They know Women Cive very prettily along. after long Experience, how to use their gear and they keep their ears well plished. But if anything. happens

fwhich alla for a quide.

decision, hay are lost

Officer in Charge, Horsham Police Station. Extended bursts of from 100-250

Imagine villages where children, I cannot say that women are to-day, still run to the dhora to see Tiles, without ever much exceed-

worse a than men; They are elernto, mu just mill the geares of Although wed by ing 40 m.p.h, but keeping above 30 wheel bearings, the brakes do not profiles with flowers, the quaint yx 914woman Driver, 5 Years

in the steering transmission for

car pass by garden,aftor garden | about equily good-är båd. lever into top gear position Noth

large number of frem.p.h. for most of the time on yet need relining, and the sub-names of which bring back long ing could be more simple.

Experience) wners being #ded to an already the open road, have contributed sidiary units, such as the battery, forgotten memories. Also Capraibus oxisting tota

dynamo and niagneto, seem to be came to The lace. I will not try. In every case in which I have As being reps of some teres many miles to the total. Moorland functioning efficiently. The chassis to describe The Place, for that isiniping to demonstrate the tracks have buffeted the whole fur pussesses several rattles, but gone would be an insult to Nature, but capabilities of type of which sorely; it has been bogged in soggy of any note has yet developed in the it was while wo rested the late in fairly arduou use in conditions

body,

that I proposed to work while whers one might expect such car southern Counties. It has run in1n

The gods alone can tell whether I opened the black ease and found to dow up to least advantage-Ig-distance trial which involved a second year of similar treatment I had brought my portable groung records of milenge, and so forth,mb

e recently been looking over my climbing with full load without re will continue to find the cur iphons instead of the machine of

mood of unfailing reliability.gr bondage 1 during the past twelve months.

mission siseffort, several reason its behaviour during the first year The fear to question is a 1029ably Steep. and long hills, and over-alone, however, I can forgive. Austin Seven, with sylorisports ing nearly 400 miles in some swenty good deal in the 'direction of sub sequent misdemeanours. Unques tionably it has stood up. to its job so far.

MICHELIN

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two-seater body, and the mileage covered during exqatly twelve six hours. Although it been months is some eighty short of treated with as much consideration twelve thousand. This in itself is

Little Bayond Routine Attention.

not so big a total na to be greatly as possible, but never has it been. out of the ordinary, but relatively coddled. high proportions of the aggregate have been done in certain single months, while the mileage during other months' has been comparative ly low.

Ita cruising speed has been com- fortably 33-38 m.p.h., and between those figures it has stayed for hours at a stretch. At no time during the twelve months did the car. fail. It has received adequate attention.

Mileage Month By Month. For example, whereas in April last only 800 miles were run, and in | in respect of lubrication, and great June 92 was the month's total, in care lias been paid to the changing July the mileage recorded was at regular intervals of the engine: 2,670. October's total was but 705 | oil, but otherwise the machine has miles, but August's exceeded 1,000, had little special servico,

The and September's rose to 1,300. engine has been decarbonised twice, November and December showed a and the valves have been ground 'comparative falling-off, so that it

in ones; there have been five. will be appreciated, as already sng punctures, and, the steering tie rod gested, that a good deal of the bushes have been recently replaced. total has been compressed into a That is the sum total of such work short period.

necessary after what can only be described as hard usage for à 750-

Which fact makes the car's per formance all the more meritorious. A reasonably big mileage. spread' more or less evenly over a period of twelve months can be far lose trying mechanically to a car than a similar distance built up in an un: equally spaced succession of long runs. My figures tell me that twenty-three single and separate runs were of a hundred miles or ofer. Of these ten came within one month alone.

0.0. Car.

The Second Year. Now, at the beginning of its second year, when the period of crucial text commences, the engine appears to be giving as much power as over, though it is a little noisier as to big-ends and pistons; there is no appreciable backlash or play

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Ole Man River.

As I lay in my blanket 1 hummed "He don't do nuthin'-. tf." to particularly knowing at that was winking at me through break

in the trees.

been contated by car which pulled outly overtake when there was no room for three vehicles, the driver had been a man, I would very much rather be driven by a woman thứ by a mangs

Dr

Halichouse, B.E, Landan

* Coroner.

I hisent found; women more often to hline than men in fatal motoring acidents, but think thab women at in their driving more chn: men of

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