1931-02-25 — Page 3

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY. FEBRUARY 25, 1931.

MOTOR NOTES

NOTES FROM

EVERYWHERE.

A PRECAUTION.

time for the eyesto observe iraffic coming from both directions. But if the feet are brought together: the enforced halt gives the eye time to

SPEED COPS.

organisation.

ar habitual On the other hand, when he do oftender again all motoring laws thirsty he dare not enter licensed i might prove helpful to have a premises. He darò not even keep cop in the family; I should “al- caso under the ataire in his wo wiye have a friend at court in home. His home liquor mur: be emergencies, and might eligit in limited to tea, coffee, cocon, Ural- formation available for gently tine, and lime juice. Whe thirty blackmailing myself out of gao... un the road be must frequent, tes A knowledge of the haunts and me. slope and sip his beverages longt thods of speed cops might enablold ladies instead of striding bild- me to sidestep trouble On they into a bar to convogo with his other hand. by the time this em

na sex. cock speeti sop. I shall pe 'so ga-ga that, an alectric bath chair, will bo all could dare to drive. On second thoughts I must once more deflect my son's ambitions. For en mn- ture reflection it is clear: that des- pite superficial attractions the lot of a speed cop is not likely to be

apps.

observe and the brain time to AND JUVENILE AMBITIONS. brys speed cop becomes

luente the position of every vehicle likely to impede progress aéross the road,

I pedestrians could be induced DECARBONISING SIMPLIFIED. always to bring the feet together before stepping from the footpath the number of gecidents would be _considerably' reduced, Boys the IL.A.C. of Western Australia. The usual practies of stopping on to the roadway without making a not give

momentary puše doss

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[BY A CORRESPONDENT.}

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Like many inotoriste, I have small boy. At various perils he Varions means of reducing the has born inspired by the following trouble of decarbonising internal Passionate ambitions: to be a mis combustion engines have been desionary (eloquent prencher in vised, among them being slowly school chapel diribing hero be feeding in puro peroxide of hydro- ing speared by blacks, with a gen through the carburettor air Bible clasped to his breast); to be intake while the engine is running. a C.I.D. man (discovered my burning out the carbon with Edgar Wallace shelf); to be an oxygen; softening the carbon with 1.A.F. pilot (Schneider Cup), kerosene, and blowing it out of Liko hil small boys he asks a hust the exhaust pipe when the ongine a thorny questions is started again, and the use of a new carbon solvent fiquid which can be injected into the cylinders and chuses the engine automatically to decarbonise itself.

"It is stated that the use of a mixture of methylated spirit and gastor oil is also effective in this way. The mixture is simple to nake, consisting of eight parts of spirit to one of oil, and the best way to treat an engine is to remove half the spark plugs and place about a quarter of a pint of the mixture in ench of the cylinders, Then replace the spark plugs and turn the engine a few times, after. which it should be left for about four hours. By that time, the ear Bon in the cylinders treated should he softened, and when the engine iron will be blown out, Then

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A few days ago, a chance quos tion deflected his juvenile anbi tione.once more, "Daddy, what" is a speed cop I pondered a mo: ment, "Son,

speed cop is a man who is presented free of charge. with a fast motor cycle by his All his riding grateful country, expenses are paid. He receives n handsome salary for riding it. He can go se fast as he likes. No speed restriction exists for for him.'

Quick as thought came the aNH- war. "Daddy, I don't think I want to go to Cranwell after ni should like to be a speed cop."

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1 received his proposals favour- ab.y. As a journalist I could de rive lots of copy from first-hand information about the speed cop

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In the Public Eye. For example, if I commit driving befier, nich s elnahing my gears in Piccadly Circus, & pass

eity. Nelody knows who I ing blush represents y maximum am: 1 can pass on and forget. But a spred oop, like a beak in a puli- lie school, or shimael in Holy Writ, is the acknowledged enemy. of a mankind, and lives in the Timelight. His every slip is re- -membered and exaggerated.

I have often thought how fright- ful it must be to be a bishop I nm not thinking only or chiefly of the misery of living in un apron and gaiters, or of-wearing drift bracing on a hat which is alrendy sufficiently ridiculous. But im- agine how frightful it must be to remember only to say "Tut!" if s porter, at Euston trundles a truck over your toe, or to loaf about waiting for a train with your throat in a Sahara condition out- side an open bar thronged with hscious, thirsty souls, and not to be able to step inside for half a pint!

It will be part of his duty to ntrast or to summons most of the important residonta in his own reighbourhood, so that within a year or so. he will be unable to at- 10 tend local functions, or even becoming the target of malevolont walk down his own street, without glances. Alternatively, it he shrinks from the minas hatred that 13. Inevitably involved in fidelity to the ranles and issued with a pair Is trust, he may be reduced to

dinary constable is oondemned to of the awful boots which the or

wear and bis duties will consist of keeping point duty in snowy weather, or calling to enquire why newed his dog licence punctually. it is that Mr. Jones has not re

The life of the speed cop has ob- vious compensations. He gets a ins bike or car for nothing. A his expenses am paid. He can Great interest is being shown in drive it flat out, whenever til the opening contest for members of mood takes him; and if anybody the Royal Automobile Charts of Aus complains or reports him he can tralia, which will be held in March always say that a figure in a pass- next. More than 100 ingquirici haveing Bentley appeared to corres- heen received by club officials as to pond with the description of some the nature of the contest, which, smash-and-grab fellow circulated co however, the chi cannot state at all stations for arrestą. present. Probably it will be a one- day contest, but an announcement will be made as soon as possible. Many of the inquiries have been from members who havé nat pre viously taken part in club fixtures, while several of the older competi tors have stated that they will again compete this year.

treat the remaining cylinders in the safe way. No har, it is said. and K. P. Bath have been nomin will follow even if some of the mixated for election to the general ture succeeds in passing the piston committee of the club. rings and mixing with the hubirient- ing oil, as the spirit will evapore as soon as the engine, warms up.

ROYAL AUTOMOBILE CLUB.

The fifth annual report of the Royal Automobile Club of Austra Fa has been sent to members. During the year which ended on October 30, 1030, meetings were. held by the various committees of the club, Messrs: W. J.. Bennett, H. C. Hughes, J. V. Macken, G L. Merivale, H. Y. Russell, and A. [E. Wallis, n'l retiring members, -(Continued on next Colums)

Stop!

In the Land of Milk and Honey.. The men, who are sufficiently survive the rachydermatous to strain of such on existence til they reach a pensionable age will t length reap a tardy reward. Many ex-policemen take over au inn when they retire About 1900 many of the present-day speed cops will be found as hosts of pleasant rural inus far from the county in which their early tribulations were freedo The next generation will drop in for a pint and hear a fautish, gray-haired landlord dis conring something as follows!

"I was talking to the chief when flashed an eight-litre Bentley through at ninety, "Get that guy!! smapped the chief. A kick and a leap, and 1 was at down on the siddle of my 180 m.p.h...E.C. The guy, opened right out when he heard the roar of my engine; but he knew he was beat, and seven miles on he slowed.

My son has just looked in to risk whether all speed copa drive super- charged Lea-Francis sports cars. like the one who has just gone up the road. I must fake him to the next R.A.F. pageant at Rendon,

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