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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 17, 1930.

MOTOR NOTES

ONE PLEASURE OF Danded by high hedgerows, was

MOTORING

MEETING A COURTEOUS AND CAREFUL DRIVER, Certain features of a man's char- acter may ofter he indicated by the way he drives; through, in and around London, where the roads are on the part of drivers seldom re-

very narrow and tortuous, with a maximum vision of never more than fifty yards. At every bend the driver of this car gave the slow- down signal, anil, if he had occu sion to swerve even a yard out of his course, out went, his band.

MOTOR BOATS.

TWO EXHIBITIONS NEXT

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According to The Motor Boat, in view of the success of the recent Motor Boat Exhibitin held in con junction with the Motor Show, this arrangement is likely to be repeated "Next year there will also be

I visualised him as being about fifty or so, kind, careful, consider ate and solicitous as to the safety and welfare of others. Possibly in 1031. he thought I was young, reckless

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The authorised capital of tho

CARS CRASH AT "WHITE HOUSE" CORNER.

and, working his way clear of the wrockage, sot off for the pits with a car that seemed bant everywhere, Aecond tator another car rashed; endon-into the derelicts.

DRAMA AT LE MANS. The exhaust of the leider should le duo now. A bit behind this ap: Alruptly he sat forward, every faculty at full power; the enrs were overdue--it seemed impossible, but they were all three, and not a sound from down the road, A minute, two minutes; still nothing. pathy talk all round ceased; and The news seemed to spread by tele- still nothing came, not a sound, not a light, not one of the twenty-slowly up out of the darkness; two.cars; it was incredible.

.....

CRAWLS HOME,

-------A-Wild-Skid.

4 Battered "Bentley," At the pits everyone was staring unbelievable catastrophe. Some down the road, their minds full of

body heard an odd noise coming

ao thickly congested, individualism and inexperienced, ready to run my held the bi-annual Shipping, En pany's bankers are the Chartered over set out on that historic twenty of the turn, exactly in the path tho nakow. It drow up the pit, and

head into any danger that lurked gineering and Machinery Exhibi- round the corner, and thus that Ttion, and there will be exhibited coives duo recognition,

engines suitable for commercial If somebody cuts in he is describ-needed a watchful, fatherly eye.

The moment the opportunity. per-craft, but which do not come with ed as being reckless, selfish and discourteous. If he potters about mitted, however, he waved me on in the range permitted at the Motor on the crown of the road, wonder. Somewhat reluctantly I accelerated, Boat Section of the Motor Show, ing if he can pass the vehicle in and, as we came abreast, my com- There will thus be two Exhibitions irresolute. But there are so many it appearances count for anything, motor boat owners and one mainly with pleasure craft, different types of drivers that it is my deductions regarding his char concerned impossible to accard them more neter were proved correct. He was whilst the other will be chiefly for interested in commercial than & passing thought, whether it rounding a lend thirty yards in the

rear when I saw him for the last bonts. be to their detriment or credit."

time, and he still signalled assidu- ously.

front, he is hesitant, norvous and panion caught a glimpse of his face; in Olympin in 1937 of interest to As already mentioned in provious d'Erlangor, the second by Dr. crash, to lie across the road. Bare that it was driven and did' con

To obtain a true conception of anyone's character as judged by their driving, one has to journey to the more remote parts of the coun- try, where clearer roads permit of n closer study of conduct at the wheel.

Travelling along one of the Sussex Janes the other Sunday, I was forced to follow in the wake of a saloon

ear for about six miles. The road,

Deprived of his guidanco, momentarily felt like a lost child. I was fortunate indeed to witness auch exemplary conduct on the rond Doubtless, there are many more like him to be met, but seldom can there he such a case of pleasurable in timney and read fellowship in, the

encounter.-K.C.S. in The Autorar.

those

"The only objectors to the Ex- hibition appear to be such as were concerned with the sale of saotor cars, who considered that the space occupied by the boats and marine engines might more usefully have' heen used by enlarging the Motor cannot be Exhibition. But it denied that the Marine Section gave an added interest to the Ex

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appears'

in

South China Motor Shipbuilding BADLY DAMAGED BENTLEY" and repairing Works, Ltd., engin- cern-shipbuilders motor specialists, of Tokwawan, Kowloon Bay, is $2,000,000.00 consisting of 200,000

then into the blazò thrown by, tho ordinary shares of $10 each,-of- For abeer-racing-drama-tho-1927-

food lightsabers the pits there Cront something which had once which 15,000 shares have alrendy Grand Prix d'Endurance has been issued and allotted. The

Down by the fast blind loft-hand bean the third Bentley,One hoad Company is issuing further 60,000 never been excolled. There started turn, which we call White House, lamp was almost fat, ono wing- shares of which Furilier 13,000 have on the famous circuit at Le Mans, a French car came into the bond was horribly twisted, the front boen taken up or agreed to be

jadge in the failing light skidded | wobbled drunkenly an it turned, taken up, leaving 46,000 shares for as afternoon darkened into evening, fast-the band was difficult to damb-irona curved oddly, a wheel "the public to subscribo,

twenty-two cars, and among them willy, and crashed noe foremost the axio was beat the running We have learned that the Com- the strongest British team that had into the palitado, its glern project board, with its battery, hung down ing into the road on the inside pathetically, one for wing was Bank of India, Australia and Chinn, and that application terms for four hours bun. As team leader, fast cars had to take. Before a for the first time offierade and com- shares can be had from this Bank the first of tho now 4-litres,thing could be done, the Bentley putitors heard the dramatic reason, or at the Company's Office, St.

for the silence; hoard it in short, ono great effort to wing wide, statuato sentences Davis worked George's Building, 3rd floor, where driven by Clamont, could not be "4" roared up, its driver made

went too far, hit the tank, and turiously to make his car drivable, also further information that may excelled, and the big car was fol

lowed by two 3-litres, one handled the car turned over with a terrifio And the extraordinary thing was be required will be gladly given. articles appearing in this paper,

ly had the dazed man got clear tinue though the steering was ox- the General Managers are Mossrs. Benjafield.

whom the second 3-litre took the tremely odd, the brakes quite un? And it sconied as though the corner. flat out; Duller had one certain, and neither driver could Brandt & Co.; St. George's Build- ing, 3rd floor, Chater Road. A

seo any of the right-hand ttirns at statement in lieu of prospectus, thing were a certainly for the Bri- glimpse of a road blocked by over-

turned cars, then his machine- went all though each had to stop time issued by the Company's directors, Lish colours after years of disright up on to tho prostrate."," and again to lash essential parts

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appointment, for, from the start, its front axle being driven a too u anything which would support coloumns.

or go back by the colossal impact. them; though it rained until the the three green cars ran away from Duller leapt out and tried to col-

water led their goggles, to make'. the field. Twenty laps completed, let his wits.

the night run, part of what sceni came, ita ed at the time an impossible dream. and each, in turn, swopt up to the Then, the third car pit, was refilled in that methodical driver warned by a glimpse of And, crippled as it was, that car lopse earth and splinters of painot only inished, but won after. one of the finest fights which thera hurry which the team had practis sade scattered on the road, had ed day after day, then left, Calling-just time to, cut out, nono io has ever been against Chassagno ham on the Dulled with one broke, thon saw in front of him, and Inly's 3-litre, Aries fight

hideously whiter in the head lamp in which Chassagno's perfect cour 3-litre, and Davis with the other.benins, what appeared to be a pile tesy at the wheel mundo him lifo Gradually the darkness strengthen-of smashed cars one on top of the long friend of all the British em. ed, the grandstand and pits flashed 'other right across the road. Some Up to the twentieth hour the Arica into light that emphasised the-sur thing in his brain shrieked "skid," led, but just before that W. O. Bentley, from the pit, signalled his rounding gloom, and in the Bent- he stood on the brake pedal, wren'

one remaining machine to increase I pit, a man sat watching three ched at the wheel, then flung up chronometers whose long second- an arm to guard his head as his speed, having made up his mind hande revolved steadily.

car slid right into the wreckage that if only the French car could. with a horrible rending of stricken he pressed certain oud noisa in motal as the mass heaved from the its engine might have serious re impact. Then the engine stopped--sults.

And so it was, for, as the Bentley und silence.

Sick at heart, the driver got went fastor and faster, Chassagne drovo faster still until, with only. down, recognised the other cars, then saw Duller; there was a hur.three hours bo go, the Arios pulled ried interchange of enquiries that in to the side of this road, and scomod part of a nightmare, then nothing its driver could do availed. the driver of the third car remerno the battered green car limped across, the line victor, having bereil that there was still a race, folt apprehensively round his ma averaged 61.38 m.p.h., and travelled over 1,000 miles after the sonsation chine's steering in the climbed in, restarted the engine at crash.

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Lap after lap it had been the same: the sound of a Bentley ex- haust a mile or so away, the sound would grow to a roar, and the car 'would shoot by, followed at intervals by the two other machines., Presently the head lights of the compoting cars were switched on, and the three machines were run ning farther apart lest the blaze of ono divor's lampa should worry his next ahead. The watehkeeper lit his pipe and idly surveyed the gecond-hands.

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