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MOTOR CYCLING NOTES.

and the Costume,

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1931.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

The correct aim is towards un- obstrusive nentness, and my own kit is always (I hope) on theso

THE CHOICE OF RIDING KIT: lines decently cut riding breeches

UNOBSTRUSIVE NEATNESS

AS THE IDEAL.

[Bx "CAMSHAFT."]

In view of the never-ending con- troversy as to what is the most suitable riding kit for varying con- ditions of weather, an article is reproduced below from a recent issue of the Motor Cycle, which may help, some riders to solve the prob lem of what to wear, and wheft to

·wear it.

and stockings, and stout leather ahocs; khaki shirt and khaki tie, and normal sports jacket. Occa gional variations are the use of field-boots instead of shows and in coldish weather-a leather waistcoat or pullover under the sports coat, This kit appeals to mo as ideal; there is nothing*** sloppy or fappy" about it, and it is nost and acceptable in pretty well al} circumstances, True, when held- boots are used they take a deuce of a time to remove unless Lightning fasteriors are employed, and in any ease they produce a sort of "P.C. 30" effect whenever stone fags are encountered, if the heels are shod The fact that the autumn is not with steel, as most of them are.. very far away gives added interest Approaching an hotel dining-room to the views expressed by "Holder-vid long, wide stone-flagged pan., ncaa" below, since it is only be-sage which served as a sort of tween the months of October and lounge, I once gave, for what sem March that riding conditions outed to be an interminable period, an here approximate to those at Home. excellent representation of "rest- English summer riding kit strikes less horse in stable." Still, steel me as being admirable for a Hong heels have their advantages. Kong autumn, though something) heavier and warmer is certainly needed during the winter months A normal plus-four suit makça When discussing riding kit, apart perfectly good riding kit for fair From the poncho and waders or weather, and has several points to "how-to-keep-dry " aspect, one commend it, even if the knickers comes up against quite a number do flap in the wind! Instead of of differences of opinion as to what the ordinary coat one of the is most suitable for wearing under, say, a leather cant or light rain cont, Also, of course, there are many days when no. top garment is necessary. What, then, is the ideal wear for motor cycling in the

Plus-fours,

News from Everywhere

·Chevrolet's registration amounted | to 303,110 out of a total of 430,999 for the other cara manufactured by General Motors, while in the first five months of last year Chevrolet Nadraht contributed 333,174 unite sût of a total of 478,012,

AN ACHIEVEMENT.

The 5,000th Twelve-Six left the Austin Works at Longbridge on June 27, 1931, just a little over three months after the first models were released to the public.

The immediate success which at teaded the introduction of the Twelve-Six imposed severe demands upon the production engineers of the Company and it is greatly to their credit that in such a short time the weekly output has reached the scheduled decided upon,

THE FIRST OF THE 1932

· MODELS.

The announcement of a new 500

the last on's car models as early as day) of July at first sight seems ratbor

atrange, but actually there is a great deal to be said for an arrangemont which shortens that slack period prior to the annust Motor Show when many manufae turere have still to divulge their latest secrete" and the buying public is naturally adopting, a "wait and soo" policy. Last year

found this arrangement, thoroughly the Standard Oil Co., for example,

successful and they are again the first concern to make public details of their 1932 programme.

WHERE THE SIX-WHEELER

ASCORES.

A difficult problem of transport has recently been successfully solved by a Thornycroft rigid six-wheeled lorry.

In the extensive Pics-hen Woods MORNING INSPECTION AT of North Wales, a a considerable

BUICK PLANT,

Buick has a morning inspection at the plant conducted in the in- tercat of safety for the workmen, an idea adopted several months back. Each foreman is required to

HUGE DISTANCES COVERED YEARLY BY MOTORISTS.

AVERAGING 169 MILES A DAY FOR A WHOLE YEAR.

Some of the long-distance 10- cords which are set up by racing and record-breaking motorists are wonderful feats of consistent speed and dependability in the ears and of endurance in the part of drivers. Buch, a performance as the Twenty-four Hours Record comca to mind for on several oc- casions the reocrd has been held by

driver who has driven single- handed for the entire peri

period.

driving in a single day. Nearly two thousand miles of

Many private motorists have huge mileages to their credit, and

fikowise their cars, Probably there has never been a greater perfor.

ingle car mance en a single car than the €3,420" miles »covered on a 20, hip. Sunbeam in a period of twelve. months. Yet this distance, an average of 100 miles a day though- out the year, was done a few years ago, and the mileage checked care- fully from daily records, by one of the ears used by a well-known firm of British tyre manufactur number of trees had been felled, anders for testing wheels and tyres the timb

was lying in a deep under actual road conditions. And diagle. A Thornycroft six-wheeler in the next twelve months the same car again. covered nearly the same was put to the job of transporting distance. this, and although there was no rond and the ground was soft with steep gradients rising to 1 in 4, it quite easily carried its loads up and out to the nearest rond, making repeated climbs until the whole of the timber had been hauled up and

There is also still in active use It would be quite excusable to

delivered at its destination. «e

This type of vehicle is admirably in Canada, a JU31 Sunbeam which answer this by saying "It all such general use a few years back,

suitable for transport work over has covered over 250,000 miles depends, where you are going and does not appear to be quite ascertain machines, for instance, in C28, where roads are bad or do and when its owner Inat, communi- what you intend to do." Quite popular these days, probably be long sleove garments or with flow.. not exist, and already a consider.cated with the manufacturers the but for the moment imagine the typical "routine" of the average cause the choice of kit is wider. Ang neckties. If a mono is not quite up to par physically, the foreman rider on a June Saturday after polo jumper or any type of sweater, may send him to the medical de noon. Probably the most appealing with riding breeches, stockings and partment. Each foreman is trained thing, after a ride of some 60 or 70 miles from town over hot, dusty shoes makes jolly good kit, anyway, in safety measures Since the plan went into operation last September. the frequency of accidents has de ereased 21 per cent.

ordinary golf jackets, with Light ning fastener down the front is a practical garment, and it can be fastened high or low, according to temperature,

The white sweater, which was in

roads, is a brisk swim in either ses The cricket shirt has to a large or river. Then a few hours of de extent been supplanted by the khaki licious lounging, and, perhaps, a short walk along cliffs or river birt, but for really short runs in until the needs of the inner man

real summer

weather, such as the give rise to thoughts regarding the August-dog days," a cricket or

dormant possibilities of cold meat khaki open at the neck, shorts, and salad, and fruit with a lot of real cream-or" what Lancashire stockings, and stout canvas shoes people picturesquely call "a high are all right as special kit," but ten".

The Programme-2:

Bo the model is kicked into life,

they hardly come within the scope of this article..

see

thal bis men aro properly dress-

ed for their work every day. Wher ever special clothing and equipment are provided, it must be in first class condition. As for ordinary dress, it is up to the foreman to see that the men do not operate

WOMAN DRIVER'S FEAT,

have achieved Sunbeam cars

past quarter cf a century, but it many astounding feats during the is doubtful whether anything more wonderful has ever been ac complished than this The car was in no way specially built for its task, but was a standard six- cylinder model with a normal touring bodyg

only replacement parts required" Thornycrofts are providing efficient wheels. able number of these types of were a few epokes for one of the

transport in remote parts of the

Empire

In the words of the Motoring. Only experience can really bring Correspondent of The Times :--

home the almost impossible feats of haulage which the British rigid frame, six wheeler is capable of undertaking.

WOMAN'S UNIQUE

OCCUPATION.

To the numerous instances already recorded of women driving cars for distances and under conditions which would appeal many a mero man must be added the following: only woman traveller in the British The distinguished position of the

leaving Highgate, London, at: 4motor car trade is held by Miss Whatever type of fair-weathor kita.m., and stopping only for break Dorothy V. Carr, a member of the and is shut off again in the yard is chosen the threat of rain has to fast (half hour), lunch (one hour), Singer Company's field sales staff. of an hotel or café. After ten the un-be taken seriously, and so either tea (half hour) and for petrol, over Between 1924 and 1996 she piloted two hours in all-Aberdeen was a Binger "Ten-" 100,000 miles, and failing attraction of centuries that waders and poncho, or waders and roached at 7.30 pm. The actual who the manufacturers heard of aro" pest and gona prave irresist

storm cont, have to be carried. My driving time was 13 hours and the this they promptly offered her un ible, and so the castle" and the walls are view in company with own idea is that when riding in distance on the speedometer was engagement. In April, 1997, the other people who have not travelled summer for jaunts of not more 553 miles. For the first 995 miles undertook the celebrated coast tour there was heavy rain, and over the of Britain, covering an average dis by motor cycle but by train, or than, say, 60 miles each way, waders Cumberland hille a snowstorm was tunes of 250 miles a day for 15 con motor coach to this sunny old-world.

a : 10,50 | secutive days-so there is not much Lown of our rimagining Istly can be left at home and their place encountered. The car, comes the ride home in the cool of taken by a pair of waterproof sent the evening, the rider grateful for long trousers, the leather coat that was somewhat grudingly donned, or remorselessly. strapped on the carrier, under the blazing sun of high noon when the journey was started.

The Poncho,

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lumber, contained four passengers this intrepid lady driver does not, know about what a Singer car will A MOTORIST'S QUEER dol

MUSEUM

A word or two about folding at:

She was in attendance at the Company's stand at Olympia last year, and did considerable busi

|poncho; always tuck in the neck In a little room, aff Piccadilly sinos when she has been working

& very queen museum The

Gror & territory comprising the whole of Wales and the border: oninties Sho

upon dealers

and their prospective customers,

part firat, and soo that the sleeves hibits include a crumpled horn This is certainly a typical jaunt of the sort that can be conveniently are out of sight when the "bundle" (cow) and a crumpled born (deer), extended to cover a full day, or is completed. Waders should be stuffed pheasants, partridge, a duck even a week-end. However remote

rolled separately, starting at the from Regents Park and a awan, capecially ladies, and invariably ly, starting horse-shoes, stones and a selection meets with an appreciative. recop from the discussion of riding kit this may wiệm, it is not so really, fett. They will then it snugly one of golf balls,

tion. Preseverance is the keynote. The curator of the museum is of her methods. Miss Carr believes because what I want to show is at each end of the poncho-almost

Mr. Reginald Delpech, Sales Diree that women poucas a larger aliexo tor of Triplex Sagety Glass, Ltd, of this quality than men, and the exhibits are objects which have crashed into the wind screens

that sound kit for general use is pannierwise. Une at least two entirely a matter for compromise, securing straps and so that these The riding kit for this imaginary Credible introd

are really tight. Similarly, if jaunt had to be suitable for riding; easy to get out of and get into storm coat in carried don't fold it (that adds to the enjoyment of up inside out, and be careful to by grateful owners who might have buthing respostable enough for

the hotel dining room, and not con-

spicuous among sightseeing crowds.lang

in town at night.

they cant

of motor care, and have boensen of a car by appearance is Mine

been seriously injured if ordinary gloss had been atted to their cara.

That women buyers are not in variebly influenced is their choice Carr's experience. For instance, she finds that the safety provided -by-the-test-mounted, petrol-tank

all this year's Singers plays ulargo

ight so that Mr. Delpech- 14 proud of his part as a deciding factor with many

of her feminine customers.

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