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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS. WEDNESDAY, MARCH 4, 1931.

MOTOR NOTES

A MOTOR ACCIDENT and old-fashioned bend gour, having STARTING HANDLES.

IN PARIS.

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AND ITS SEQUEL IN THE COURT.

the appearance of an inverted top hat with a dat brim eråbroidered | round its upper edge... 'On his right two clerks behind a huge pilo

AND SOME EXCITING ADVENTURES.

My inspiration today is derived" from an invoice, just to hand from a famous inster ear factory To one starting baudle. old. (Strictly net.)

78.

uf documents, on his luft anoder elerk to reveive and record his decisions. No manes wire called, My particular offence consisted ench case being dealt with by mum-i fun, omission on my part to allow [ber only, and when the charge was sufficient room for a taxi conving recited the accused holding that Trom the right to cross me, thereby number hurriedly left his seat and For years I have been incourng- alightly scraping its rear smudguard bowed to the Bench He was thened by an enterprising industry to and ausing damage which a touch | asked if I understood this charge, forget that starting handles oxist. and usually before he could reply When my present ear was deliver of paint wild have ratified.

The incident occurred in March, a fine was imposed such was the ed, it was to all appearances de 1923, and my anxioty as to what rapidity of these proceedings that void of a starting hands, that ex what would be my fate was refrequent collisions occurred between

crescence being replaced by a neat lieved only after waiting seven those advanging and retiring, much

Bilver on the bows of the

cap Wcents for a summone The matter to the merriment of all concerned.

vehicle. was, however, by no incans forgot Protests or explanations about the

Came a day when, following len, for ni last I received a noties were of no avail. The magis

upon innumerable shopping re to appear at 3p. on a fixed date trate, who appeared intensely bor

starts and short-dist;ner "night- before the "Tribunal de Simple rd. rattled through the change;

work, the battery felt little Police at the Mairie of a Paris and, although they were disposed

weary; depression of the starter' of about two Arrondissement, to answer the fet at the rate

switch produced no more than one minute, it was past five o'clock be serious offence of infringing

brief sulky gunt. “Articles' 0 and 15 of the Code de fere mine, No. 205, was called,

Those Little Extras." Détermind if possible to give an silf in a lage room on the second explanation of my case, and Noor of the Mairie in the presenceeving that others before me had

In Route."..

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Punctually to time I found my.

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of a motley and nondescript crowd not been quick enough, I advanced at last to hammer a very tight

THE WORLD AT ITS WORST

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By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

ONE OF THE CRISES OF THE CHRISTMAS SEASON WHEN DADDY, HAVING PRUDENTLY. LOCKED ALL HIS PRESENTS IN HIS SHIRT DRAWER; CANT REMEMBER WHAT HE DID WITH THE KEY

AND WANTS TO KNOW WHAT HE IS GOING TO DO FOR A CLEAN SHIRT

(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate, Inc.)

GLUYAS -WILLIAMS

ARE YOU GOING ON -LEAVE?

A TREAT IN 'STORE FOR

YOU,

Going on leaves is not always quite as delightful as it sounds when you look at it from a dia- When lance of, say, three years, the longed for time'arriver all sorts of complications and questions är rive with it. The first and most important of these is where are you going to spand your leave. With your people-some of us un- fortunately have no ** people," at home, and others of us find that, much as "we love them, six un- diluted mouths with relations with whom we have inevitably somewhat Cost touch becomes at times a littlo | trying!

n

Home leave to be properly "en- joyed should be a nice division of ["home" and "leave," and for those of us who have not në much money as we should like to have the motorways"? tours sro wonderful discovery. The idea of à fortnight's travelling holiday through France, or Italy, or Spain As you may choose, carried out in After much ressarch I unearthed

the utmost comfort, including first. class hotel accommodation, and a starting bandle at the bottom of

with overy worry, even to tips, well under the front sents. Re

taken off your hands seems too moving the plated cap from the

good to be time, especially when concealed starting claw, I manag

The inclusive cost is about £20. Yet this is what motor ways Enter the Law, -

with anything so resistant as travelling means. Each of the pas-" handle into position, started my

Dropping my bit of plank Int of boards and the accursed

the luxurious motor bundle flow off the crankshaft engine, and endeavoured to

scotbed him as best I could, while described a long parabola down the crowd increased rapidly, and the Daventry High Street, and hit move. the handle. Not a bit of it Time being urgent, Ileft it in man, whoes clothing suggested the up..

As I returned I saw a gontle the local constable' stalked heavily | nu errand boy on the shin.

Then, of course, I was properly compartment there are toilet facili position; and with the malicious Nonconformist ministry, bending I then committed - one of the for it. The attitude of the crowd ties, while a steward presides over

a buffet where ton and refresh humour inherent in all mechanian with intorost over my rather un

more serions binders of my team distinctly menacing. The it' incontinently fell off on

aeual motor car. Drosding that clumsy existence, I ought, of airly polioman began fumbling mente are provided en route. As. the he might not have noticed the course, to have retreated into the for his little notube.

though that were not enough rend: Not only that, but it felt blur, Ihastuned my steps, but too Wheatsheaf for lunch, while the I produced a half-sovereign and motor ways provide you with a off sitratly, so that I did not hear alius of the blur, and instantly solemnly restarted that, infernal ing errand boy pushed the car remains your property!

closely, he stepped within therow dispersed. But no!

I pressed it into the fist of the ween special trank for your clothes which reasonably revited with, such A

its falling. Hence the 78. invoice commenced a war, dance to an engine with that accursed handle, manfully, the crest of the slope Don't forget "motor ways" when small fine, and hurried to offer thu

The Glory That Was.

companiment. of bloodcurdling and seizing my hit of hoard pro. leading down towards Coventry, you get home, their London office amount to the songeant in atten

yells which were fortunately in ceeded to bat, the blur with it. I and shook the dust af Daventry is 44, Cranburn Street, Leicester This mournful incident get me ¦ coherent.. This austere individual,

had not previously batted the blur off my tyres.

Squaro. dance, vouchsafed the information that I however, waved me aside, and in-musing about the departed would be notified later in regard glories of the starting handle.

mon and women sitting on ДЕ a run to the platform, giving fernchoe facing the main platform the most dignified bow possible in On the platform there were several the airgumstances, but the trick fail- chairs with a table in the centre, ed, and, before I could open any Conversation, chiefly composed of

mouth, I was formally disposad Af duated arguments botween litigants, with a fine of five tiranes (10d.). found freely, and the atmosphere. Notwithstanding the fact that up the run, with its central heat to this time I had wasted over five lug, and sealed windows, bewoung

hours, I felt that I had been very ppressive.

Pallonce Rewarded.

There appeared to be no hurry "hatsoever for the court to open, and the heat of the room, combined with the radiating warmth of my reightiqué, made me deze off into to it. sound sleep. I Was startled by a friendly dig in the bs warning me to stand up on the entry of the magistrato and his staff. It must have taken me some

re-

which in time past was the

blur in action I wandered up the yard of the Wheatsheaf in search of a handy bit of plank or some. thing,

dominating factor in motoring. suddenly

One is not lightly let off when transgressing the laws of France, end when, severn wooks later, I received a notice to appear at definite time and date at the Palais

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ting to rvalise exactly what was required of ane, because. I found ingself the only person standing but was quickly brought to my senses by a rebuke and a stern con-

The lesson I learnt was to try to and to sit down. This little in-keep out of French courts by pay cident appeared to put everyone in ing more attention to the laws governing the rules of the road, good humour.

which are a rigidly enforond in At the table qu' the platform sat France-Swastica II the

The The magistrate in his linek gown Autocar

reduced archdeacons fo paroxysms of langungo reminis cent of a ennal bank. In particu-. bur I thought malevolently of one very special starting handle which adorned a car I was foot enough te buy in 1993, The erankshaft of the

Justies to pay the fine, I was politely informed that the total amount duo was one hundred and ditional amount being made up ffty-five francs (1 58.)-the ad-

with a few odd little extras to meet

that machine lay athwart les frais de Justice" (costs of judicial proceedings),

frame; in fact, it was mounted ́in large ass brackets bolted to the bedstead slats which composed the side-members of the frame. There avar no stumpy starting shaft; disengaged by a pull-off spring. Such refinements had not dawned --the starting handle engaged a pin driven at right angles through the tip of the actual crankshaft,

GOING HOME ON LEAVE?

If so, The following will interest you :-

EXAMPLE OF CAR ON THE DEFERRED PAYMENT SYSTEM

To now car, BAY

OVER EIGHTEEN MONTHS

**+

Deposit one quarter

Interest

200, 0. 0.

60, 0, 0. £150. e. 0. 16. 7. 8. £IOD. 7. 6.

Balance of £165, 7. 6. to be paid in 18 monthly instalments

of £9. 8. 9.

To Deposit paid

5 instalments of £9, 3, 9,

To re-purchase price-65% of £200.",

Lesa 13 instalments still,due

£ 50. 0. 0.

:

43.18. 9. £95, 18. 9.

FINAL ADJUSTMENT

Rebate on interest

€180. 0. 0. 6. 8. 11. £186. 8. 11. 119. 8. 9. £ 17 0. 2.

£ 93. 18. 9.

the

-119. 8. 9. „5215. 7. 6. 185.. 8. 11. 78. 18. 7.

Cash banded to Purchaser

'ACTUAL COST OF MOTORING FOR SIX MONTHS

To Deposit and five instalments paid

Thirteen instalments still due

Toss re-purchase and rebate on interest.

Cost of mutoring for six months

er £18. 8. 1. per mouth.

'The above proposition applies to any make of car, new or second-hand. We can also arrange to have a car and chauffeur to moot you at the docka, to take you and your luggage anywhere, more reasonably and more comfortably than by rail

All our curs both, now and used are ́sold under a repurchinae

guarantee.

--LEAVE CARS, LT

7. Upper St. Martin's Tage, LONDON, W.C. 2.

WRITE FOR BOOKLET.

Local deinde: JA MES H., BACKHOUSE, LTD., 14, Chater. Road.

I may do said in mitigation that this engine very seldom start- ed on the handle, and was usually put in motor by pushing the car- downhill, if practicable, with gear engaged.

Like my last handle of 1931, that 1003 handle was n Lightish fit. It fell on a day that the engine res ponded, and started at the first twirl of the handle. But the landle failed to disengage; and as the engine was of the high-speed type, the handle promptly became in visible except as a circular blur, resembling a miniature propeller at full speed,

'I eyed this blur respectfully for a minute or two, but finally master- ed my courage, and thrust my boot into the blur. A millionth of a second later I was hopping round in circles on the other foot, while my subconscious mind foamed out all the oaths I had ever heard; and for, works afterwards I walk ed, delicately, like Agag.

Ever resourceful, on the next de casion when that engine, started on the handle I blocked the blur with" the Beat cushion, and cashed a 53. cheque from The' Autocar for cou- municating page. Meanwhile, 1- had tuned up the enging till it boi came for those dayan", compars atively docile starter.

One day, after many wrestlings with a back tyre, I switched off outside the Wheatsheaf at Daven try. Beer was boer in, thoso far: off days, Emerging in an anorgia ed condition, I successfully restart-

g scenariohan täitm which asusun) did its stuff,

and continued revolving as a bur. I was, however, rather stymied. › by the fact that the last chocking of the handle had split my one and only neat cushion. Solárving-tho-

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