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SAFE DRIVING ON DARK DAYS.

YELLOW FOR · FOG"

FALLACY.

DAZZLE DILEMMA.

When the world's lighting experts

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1931.

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

The whole art of fog-lighting is never fo got the rays from any lamp | between you and the road or key er the object you are trying to see Spotlights where the speed mer chant loves to put them,

at hel righthand top corner of the wind screen, are worse than useless, and the offside headlight is not much better, unless it can be dipped to shing straight down.

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offeris, particularly a French ̈de-) vice introduced this year, which is. becoming, increasingly popular.

... Bost Anti-Dazzle Device. From the point of view of the victim or dazzle, the best anti- (Unzzle devico is the dipper, which definitely deflects the beam, down or to one side. But for the matu....we-. hind the lamps dipping cata of tôo

by the claims ade for the mail extra headlight which is offered in several patterns for axing on the centre tie-bar or lower down on of between the dumb-irons,

PETROL PRICES AND THE £.

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A NEW COMBINE IN THE

BRITISH FIELD.--

Thero is now a war within a war in the petrol world.

The coinbine" of national, dis-

FEWER KILLED ON ROADS.

DECREASE OF TEN

-PER CENT

FIRST TIME FOR A DECADE..

ROLLS-ROYCE BUYS 300 M.P.H. BY CAR.

BENTLEY MOTORS.

A FINAL SURPRISE.

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Boatley Motors, Ltd., it's curs in | stock, factory, service station and other nasets has been bought, by Rolls-Royce, Ltd,

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WIZARD SMITH'S HOPES.

Wizard" Smith, the Austra Han racing motorist, will shortly- leave Sydney for Now Zealand to make an attempt to beat Sir Mal- of 240.00 miles per hour. He is colm Campell's land speed record

This new and, it may be hoped, niles an hour-five miles a minuto.

supremely confident of attaining 300

of the famous concern was Bnal surprise 'more in the fortunes

Smith's gar, christened nounced on November 20 by honour of his backer, a wealthy Fred; H. Stewart Enterprise" in

chassis and body a close copy of New South Wales sportsman, isin

Sir Henry Segrave's Golden Arrow,

Ftail of Kaye Don's Silver Bullet, ness, and will in any case maintain' the service arrangements for the similar to that of Sir Malcolm Ita cogino is a Napier, axactly benefit of existing Bentley ownera.

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A. F. Sidgreaves, managing direc tor of Rolls-Royce. He adds that his board has under consideration the formation of a subsidiary con

A reduction of over 18 per cent met at Cambridge in September they hat dip-and-swivel arrangerethin fearful of cyclists and stray maintaining a united front against aid before the committee of the much of his driving light and leavitributing comics, while still in the total of fatal road accidents attended a demonstration of motor that switches off the off-side lamp pedestrians if he wants to exceed

this year is predicted from figures lamps that aught by divers mennaand is the near-side down and thirty miles an hour or there-

the undercutting pirates," has to avaid, dazzle, but neither their to the left gives bond driving light abouts He is tempted, therefore, The result for the motor-user

split into two sections. "

National Safety First Council. united wisdom ner the demonstrain fog, and failing that a special

These figures-provided by chief constables throughout the country tica produced a solution of that

fog lamp with a marfpw concentrat

advance of the official returns apparently will be to maintain the most troublesome problem..

price at ita prosent level, in spite show that road deaths for the rat ed beam set as low as puede to One motoring question, however, shirk along the kerbs or road edge.

of the fact, that practically every 3,980, a decrease of 393 on the cor- | pany to carry on the Bentley busiexcept that it has the double fi

nino mouths of this year totalled

the experts did sottle. They un

responding period of last year. animously agreed that our faith in

This is the first time the total has fallen in the past ten years yellow light for piercing fog is a

and provides striking evidence of pathatic delusion. Yellow light is

tivities, and of the safety menaures the success of "Safety First ac- no better than any other colour. A

incorporated in the Road Traffic tinted lamp seems more penetrative merely because it reduces the

Act, which came into force this tensity of the light beam.

cidents increased from 95,095 LD In the same period non-fatal ar- Seeing how the use of yellow, fog

102,187. This was anticipated in

White Karbs.

Ginerally a lot of light is no help, rather the reverse" but in very thick fog it does help to have a car with its headlights "full

un

These lamps throw a narrow bril. liant heam, and provided the besin is properly Eccussed and aligned parallel to the road, its rays wil

company is marketing its petrol at A JOBB,

When we left the Gold Standard, writes a British motoring corros- pondent, petrol naturally became dearer to the importers. The com-

year.

,dises and yellow-tinted fog. lights being put along every country road single central headlights, and too because keeping the price down view of the fact" that the Rond, cept the offer, of Rolls-Royce, Ltd...!

close behind you. Guiding marksling on level ground) to dazzle any-vost to the public, partly because it not rise high enough (when travel-bine did not pass on the increased

ara what we want, and for that one. Nowadays you meet dozens of was a far from favourable moment reason the stone kerbings that are these one-eyed monsters with their for putting up prices, bus mainly is spreading-many suburban 'buses are almost forgivable, a dab of have them now, and on at least one

Joften they offend, usually through || put the screw tighter on the white paint makes thèm a real com 1932 car they are a standard fitting for in darkness: The white lines

not being properly adjusted. || pirates."* -this expert pronouncement is ra for our guidance in daylight age)

Courtesy and road safety demand ther disconcerting. Tissue paper or also helpful, and I am sorry to that we do all we can to avoid chus-

a crit of whiting on the lamp land that the line down the Greating dazzle. Diraming is dangerous West Rond, which is yellow, is prae-there is no question of that. tically useless in fog,

Either we must dip or swivel, or,

would be just as effective--nny thing that softens the beam.

What Happens,

As for dazzle, I am afraid that Wing happens in fog is that the curse of winter driving is more

light of one's lamps as reflectes back by the minate drops of water sas- mended in the air, so that the brighter the light the stronger the reflection.

prevalent than it was a year

The pirates, selling at ed., to jd, a gallon less than the combine, were already barely meeting ex- penses, if not actually losing on every gallon sold. At la. 1d. per if we do not, we must make sure | gallon, Bd. of which was represent that our lampe, however wall patented by the duty, there was only od.

to cover the cost of extraction of ed and' guaranteed non-dazzle, uro properly set to be inoffensive. At the crude oil from the walls, refin- least one-third of the cars on thing, shipment, distribution to the ponds need their lumps re-aligning | paps, and retail profit.

It ought not to be so, for more ears are fitted with dippers or dip. and-switch. The trouble, I believe, comes from misguided anti-dazzle lor re-focusging.

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During the past fortnight one non-combine company has raised its prife by 2d. to the combine level— 13. 41d.; another has put it up id: only and is still underselling. How long it will be able to maintain

| the fight is a matter of speculation. The latest development is a com-

bine within the combine." The two great concerns which are able to draw their supplies from sources which do not involve loss on the exchange owing to the fall on the pound have joined forces to ensure the closest ea-operation for the

most officient and ceonomical dis- tribution of their products in the United Kingdom and Ireland." Their avowed object is to maintain prices at the lowest possible level.

The position of the remaining members of the combine depends on the fortunes of the pound.

PETROL BECAME WATER.

GARAGE OWNER DUPED BY A

SMART YOUNG MAN.

A Grays, Essex, garage proprie.

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f

Lor, Mr. George Carter, met a young man who said he was in the.. petrol business.

He persuaded Mr. Carter to give him an order for 500 gallons, He drove a petrol lorry to the garage, and showed. Mr. Carter sample, which he took from the top of the tank. It was of good quality, mid Mr. Carter agreed to buy.

He paid in cash, the petrol was pumped into the garage tank, and the young man drove off.

Several hours later Mr. Carter discovered that 500 galleus of water had been pumped into the

tank.

The police are on the look-out for

the amart

young man and his

petrol

" lorry.

Campbell's Blue Bird.

Mr F Hill-Cole head of the Ltd., which acquired the assets British Equitable Contral Trust; The scene of the record attempt is to be Ninety-Mile Beach, on, the from the liquidator on November west coast of North Island, New 13, said that, the negotiations which certain steel interests having fallon sand, dead straight, and without ho had in view for a merger with Zealand. There is a stretch of hard through, his board decided to ne-break for 17 miles. This is nearly and dispose of the whols concern. twice the distance available at to them as it stood,

Daytona, where Segrave and Camp- This new purchase is almost as bell created thair records. unexpected as when the British Equitable Central Trust stepped in Smith plaas to

USB the full just as the sale to D. Napier and length, taking eight miles to gair Sons, Ltd., whs about to be con- top speed for the measured mile thecluded.

in middle and eight miles to pull up. His attempt will be made on ur soon after December 8.

Traffic Act requires all accidents to be reported to the polide, who thus hear of more than they would otherwise have done."

Brighton's 33 P.C. Decline.

Particularly striking are igures of the six princival West Riding cities-Bradford, Dezcaster. Halifax. Huddersfield, Leeds, and Sheffield. Here, who the local Safety First" councils took an active part in the organisation of National Safety Week, the number ularly live, fatalities declined by half the speed he now hopes to

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of street fatalities fell by 28 per Brighton and Hove, whose "Safety First" council is parti-

no less than 33 per cent.

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