1931-08-18 — Page 2

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS,

TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1931.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

IMPROVING THE T.T. RECKLESS DRIVING. THE LIGHTER SIDE.

RACES.

MASSED START,

SPECTATORS IN THE DARK.

There has hardly been a Tourist Trophy motorcycle race in the Isle of Man without thrills which a

specta- tors have shared all over the course of 37 miles and the dramatie speeds attained on the last series ware astonishing, states Kirkstone of the News Chronicte,

I know that at Bray Hill, Quar.

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THE REMEDY,

From London comes a really extraordinary escape from a motor

Recident...

MORE TRAVELLING POLICE.

In Upper Baker-street a motor. Dangerous driving continues un-cycle.combination collided with a checked and there is only one res Medya bigger mobile police force,

dent.

nya a News Chronicle- correspon

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With motors within the reach of

almost all classes and something like 2,300,000 drivers of ears, moter cycles, pans, 'buses, motor-coaches and taxi-cabs, it is futile to look upon the use of motors as a class question.

The subject must be regarded one of general public, interest, and

taxi" and turned completely over. A passer by rushed to the wreckage expecting to find a mangled body beneath it.

But the rider was standing quite unharmed a couple of foot sway..

"How on earth," exclaimed the passer-by, did you manage to do that?" *I am a. professional. trapeze artist," the man repiiod.

He had leapt from his seat, turni

ed a somersault in the air and landed on his feet..

This suggests a new accomplish

HOSPITALS FOR

MOTORISTS.

DANGER OF DELAY IN

TREATMENT.

Year by year the number of road accidents is increasing, and the problem of providing prompt and expert medical treatment for "the often occurring cumplicated varie- ties of injury hes become arious, writes the Medient ecrrespondent. of the London Morning Post.

There is a rising incidence of permanent disability, or at any rate unnecessly long inrali- dism, because unsuitable or unduly delayed treatment is all that” is available in many parts of 'the persons killed or injured in rond

cies. Moreover, a fractum clinic' should be attached, to sach teach- ing hospital, and Fracture casca segregated in the yards for special treatment. Such clinics should be linkou up "elosely with the local fracture hospital so as to ensure the efficiency of both being fully maintained. "First Aid splints should be standardised, and every medical student carefully trained to apply them correctly a more dificult matter sometimes thinn is realised.

In addition to such stops being taken in the larger towns, the staffs in small country hospitals should receive a more effective training in Arst aid; such hospi- tals could then play an essential

tions."

RESULTS OF MCKENNA DUTIES.

IMPORTS OF FOREIGN CARS DECLINE.

AIRSHIP"

CAR FOR

PRINCE.

STREAMLINE DESIGN AND ENGINE AT BACK.

"British workman, in the motor."

The Prince of, Wales has ordered industry should ess the McKenna Dew car of unmoventional, Duties, as thrise have practically streamlike design. Ita construction kiked the importation of foreign is nearly completed, and when cars into Great Britain, ntcording rendy and decorated with his own to a British statistician, The Beard colours-red and black it will be of Trade returns for the first quar-

delivered to York House for the tor of this year reveal that fact Prince's personal use, plainly. Imports have been falling The engine of the car in placed' quarter by quartor since the ad at the back, and from a side view valorem duty of 33:1-3 per cent, the body resembles a segment of a was placed upon them. first quarter of 1931 only 565 com- front of the car rises in & sloping For the circle. There is no bonnet, but the pieto cars and 286 chassis were im-line from above the wheels to na ported into the United Kingdom as arched roof, and tails away at the

ing three months' period of 1030. coachwork at an angle of about 48 and 733 chassis in the correspond. The windscreen is in line with the

foreign motor products have helped On the other hand, these duties on degrees.

British car trade. In this

ter Bridge, Balling,. Hillberry, Kep when one does look at it from that meant which motorists would do well country. In 1930 the number of should be stationed on the main compared with 2,534 complete cars back like the end of an sirship.

pell and all the other vantage points occupied by thousands of spectators there were feats of ma- chine control which left one amuzed and that what I am going to say may seem churlish.

standpoint the present state of affairs is serious.

to learn.

There is a certain family who have en faithful to one make of car, and. seem to be collecting-a

accidents in Great Britain was 185,900, as compared with 177,013 in the previous year.

Sir Robert Jonce, in an intro-

part as casualty clearing sta- Many more ambulancea roads, with highly skilled atten-

jolting and shock can be averted. During the War the deaths from

dants who know how deaths from

Principles of Airship.

feet ranging from a big family ductory note to the "Practitioner, compound fracture of the thigh quarter, no fewer than 4,617 care Burney, is the builder of the B. 200,

Behind this evil of dangerous driving one сал see the shadow aystem as at present cperated. of the failure of the mobile police

The cautious and considerate saloon to the latest noquisition, all The suggestion, however, it made driver is finding himself daily and little Seven for one of the daugh with one object only to give the at the week-end the victira of rechters just home from school. The thousands who go to the island theirs and dangerous driving. This,

it was full money's worth. I feel after the introduction of the mobile police.

said, would stop with the

magnificent show of last week that. the time has come when the present-

type of race should be brought up to date, and the public, through massed start of riders, should be allowed to know automatically the positions of the leading meti.

Favoured Spectators. The position now with the start of riders at half-minute intervals is that an immense racing public is

robbed of half the enjoyment of the races, while the favoured few on the grand stand, with a continuous leaderboard before them and

"clocks" showing the position of each rider on each lap, are well catered for.

Under the present arrangement the thousands on the roads have not the foggiat nction as to who is winning. The massed start would add enormously to their en: joyment for they would know all through the races exactly what was happening. If in the great Ulster motor-evele race-where all three classes start off together and there are more riders than in any one T.T. race in the island-the massed start is successful I cannot see why

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Pedestrians' Danger, Pedestrians who, in the last two years, have given the "cross here" and other safety signs a fair trial are now finding their passage across roads more dangerous than ever.

Indignation among cautious and considerate motorists and pedes- trians is growing, and it will lend

mobile police force is considerably to unpleasant results unless the

augmented and the men sent out on the roads with definite instruction road crimes, without waiting until to stop the most flagrant forms of

ab acident occurs to take action,

Almost every day in London and the Southern Counties one sees casća

states that between 1018 and 1930 thess "penco casualties" have num berod 30,000 killed and 5 millions family chauffeur is of the old injured, grave subsequent crippling retainer type, and while with the often resulting because of the "baby" one day he was waiting hampering of treatment caused by outside a shop when a friend of his shortage of hospital beds and in- in charge of a lordly limousine, also adequately trained attendants. Ho waiting, became facetious.

maintains that the time is more "Are your cars shrinking" he than ripe now fer establishing in asked.

overy large city a "fracture: hos- "No-breeding," was the reply.

pital" fitted to deal skilfully and effectively with stery kind of ac cident.

The Change.

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I have the greatest respect for the of the R.A.C. Their reports on the couts of the A.A. and the patrols working of the Road Traffic Act were correct in regard to the first has taken place, and it is surprising three or four months. But a change

the accident roll is not greater.

Driving on many popular roads

timised driver trying to get his of dangerous driving, and the vics become an ordeal. The high-

own back."

way code, if it was ever read, bas been forgotten. Men and women Dangerous driving, so far from drivers of a certain type are driv- baving been checked, is so angeringing at excessive speed out of side considerate drivers that, realising the mobile police are having no roads into main roads, in and out effect in stopping the worst casca, of traffic lines, scowling if they run they are trying to pay back the into danger, and shouting abuse at

vildoer in his or her own coin--e

the unfortunate driver who has cut-in" for "cut-in," and so du.

eaved them from the consequences of Thousands who use the roads daily their own folly, know I do not exaggerate.

Who Can Blame Them?

The great body of motoring and other public opinion accepted the abolition of the speed limit in the

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The decent motorist, filled with the idea of what other countries cail speed cops and their alleged: provocative actions, dreaded the coming of the mobile police and old methods giving place to new. They

it should not be tried in the islan belief that there would be protection feared this new method of road

Some riders are against the idea on the ground of less skilful riders hanging on to their tails in the first lap or on. But this does not happen in Ulster or on the Contin- cat to any great extent.

bramient

Stil Greater Speedster The official mind is also against the idea, but with the lap being. dono at an average speed of over 80 miles an hour there is now a danger of the first fast man over lapping the last starter with every possibility of tragedy.

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Next year I prophesy much great er spoeds still in the raocs.. Ma chines have not become too fast for the course. On reason for my pro phecy is that I am positive next year all riders will be allowed to use any fuel, doped or otherwise, where up to now fuols have been conshed to straight petrol with up to 50 per cent. of benzol,

by a strong force of mobila police. Now, faced by daily acts of vic Limination, who can blame them for becoming indignant?

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A growing number of drivers are travelling in traffic and on the open road in terms of speed only, cutting in and cutting out, ignoring all signals by follow-drivers, and in- troducing every known net or

traffic, crashing."

For four months: this class of driver feared the mobile police, but now he realises that the force is too small to be troublesome, and he has returned to his old ways.

crime suppression would operate unjustly,

A Different Opinion. But recent road experiences have changed their opinion, and they think that as things are now, a stronger mobile police force would. be more in their interests and vfety than allowing the present licence to continue unchecked.

Harsh treatment of offenders in an augmented force of mobile polica trained in driving knowledge is the only way to check this dangerous driving menace.

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What can the considerate motorial The more one drives in London do in self-defence! Nothing, for as and the country the greater ans secs surely as he loses his temper and the need for a fores of travelling. tries to give the "criminal" a dose police, ten times more than their of his or her

cwn medicine, he puts present number, with defnits in- imelf in the wrong, and is lucky structions to stop dangerous driv

if he does not land himself in aing. charge of dangerous driving.

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The sight of their uniforms would.

be enough

First Aid Training,

A municipal building should, ho

bo in close touch with any local me- thinks, be utilised, but it should

dien Rehocl; so that students would be taught the most sound lines along which to treat these emergen-

were reduced from 80 to 20 per cent, when the ambulances with the necessary splints were brought up to the firing line, and the same principle holds good in road ac cidents.

Hoad "Posts

A recent development of great importance is the placing of first aid posts along main roads. In soms European countries this has already been systematised. Thus in

Its designer, Sir Dennistoun were exported as compared with and he has incorporated in the car 5,098 cars in the first quarter ctthe principies of an airship, 1930. The export car sales show a drop, it is true, but it is small in comparison with the large full of those imported.

Prince has been driving through tho During the last few days, the London streets in one of these oars and on several occasions has taken the wheel himself. He was

car that he decided to have "one"

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ances, an mechanical assistance, pleased with the performance of the First aid dressing outfits, includ-built... ing splints, are provided.

It is understood that the Prince With the development of such a will retain the conventional form system in Great Britain

of car for London purposes and Franco. there are more than 1,000

many will use the new car when making deaths from road accidents could journeys in the country. in ́operation, while along certain

undoubtedly be avorted Expert

It is claimed that the now type' main routes in Belgium and Ger-

treatment could be brought more of airship car saves petrol Bon- many they are placed at regumr quickly to the spot, and prompt sumption by sa per cent, and saves intervals. They are equipped with measures taken to minimise subse 30 per cent, of the horsepower res telephone facilities, and lists ofquent deformity and disability. Inquired to propel an ordinary daz conjunction with the suggestions on a level rond, and that at high addresses, &c., are placed in each, put forward by Sir Robert Jones, speeds it scarcely touches the indiraing how to secure immediate it would introduce a much needed ground. Each wheel is independ and most valuable advance in meet-ently sprung Because of the en medical and nursing help, ambul-

ing one of the serious problems of gine being at the back, "engine (Continued an next Colurin.) to-day.

sense" is lost.

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