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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, 20th. June, 1925.

1 Being the Official Organ of the Hungking, Automobile Association),

Road Damage.

LOCAL MOTOR NOTES & NEWS

pelled to stop or to report a collision unless the other party The heavy rainfall of the past concerned actually suffers injury. week and the serious damage As a matter of fact the existing done to the Colony's main motor traffic regulations seem decidedly roads again raises the very tax on this point and unless important question as to whether injury is caused to either limb or the method of making our roads properly, the diver is not called ∙is a correct one. What with upon 30 report the matter. unfaced cuttings through hillsides Whether this is the intention of and but grassy coverad slopes to the authorities is another matter, support our roads over gullies it but there can be no doubt but is little wonder that when we that it should be absolutely com. experience a heavy downpour of rain we also have to suffer both pulsory upon all drivers not only to immediately stop in the event

numerous landslides which blook of a collision but to report the up the roads and slips which incident. If drivers are allowed carry portions of our roade down to form their own opinion as to a hillside. For the motorist and whether iujury has been caused

loop-hole is other road users there is raised or the very serious question of onea, provided for unscrupulous safety. A particular lilustration individuals

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THE ARMOURED CAR COMPANY OF THE SHANGHAI VOLUNTEER CORPS.

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The above photo was taken on the Parade of May, 2nd, last. These care are now

on duty in Shanghai on account of the recent unfortuate occurrences.

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to drive on will, perhaps, paint the problem after an accident, relying upon in simple terms: Between Deep the exouse, if traced, that they should he provided in certain of Water Bay and Repulse Bay on were unaware that any injury the densely populated ou lying the road around the island had been caused. When a colli-tricts such as Shaukivan and (practically At

junction sion takes place at night, it is Mong-kok. While an amulance of the now road which leads over sometimes difficult to ascertain is a necessary adjunct to a Fire Wongnoichong Gap) there has the number of the oar at fault. Brigade, it is rather doubtful

so when a driver whether all been a tremendous slip on the especially Seaward side of the road. A very refuses to stop. The sooner an considerable portion of the road amendment to the present rogule has been carried away for nearly tions makes this clear, the better half its width, and it takes but and safer for all concerned. little imagination to enviasge the.

fate of a motor car or motor bus Motor Ambulances.

which might have been passing

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A new departure in "armored The Automobile Association pay cars, combining protection such equipment reminds motorists, about to visit and safety with the beauty of a should be housed at one central France, of the importance of closed passenger car, has been point when outlying distr cts taking out a new Laissez-Passer designed and built by the Detroit need frequent first-aid attention or licence immediately the pro- Branch of the Cadillac Motor or transport.

coding one has expired. It is a Car Company for the Wayne sorious offence to travel, even for County and Home Saving Bank

current of Detroit. one day, without a Safety First Hints.

In the transportation of funds Two new ambulances have now

and securities, financial institu- We are indebted to the Stude-licence. The offender exposes the spot at the momont of the

Visitors cannot straighten out tions heretofore have had but fall. The vibration caused by the been put into commission in the

agenta, the Hongkong passing of any heavy vehicle Colony, one in Hongkong, and the baker Corporation, through their himself to sorious penalties. might easily precipitata a fall of other in Kowloon, and very fine local earth along our roads, the em- vebloles they are in every respect. Hotel Motor Department, for a questions of licences at French two alternatives, For speed and bankments and slopes of which Built by the Austin factory, they number of brief and clever ports, when shipping their cars for the sake of the dignified ap are rain sodden to the point of are a smaller type than the much paragraphs composed with a view back to England. If they cannot pearance associated with the tumbling. It is indead fortunate discussed larger ambulances, and, to impressing upon motorists the show that licence duty has been banking business some have used have been those who that there has, so far, been no for the time being, the service need for constant attention to paid up to date, they are standard touring cars, depending they will provide will no doubt little matters which make for invariably fined. The Officials upon well-armed sharpshooters protection serious socident to record.

cope with the calls for first aid safer motoring. These will be re empowered to inflict a fine of for protection. At the other ex-

sought armor-plate published week by week in this Five Times the amount of tax trame

due to the State: and casualty transportation.

regardless of weight and ap- Supplement.

pearanco. Suggestions.

Facts Must Be Faced.

"The matter is one which ought

An Interesting. Record.

RACING DIET... DRIVERS TOO NERVOUS TO EAT. Nervous indigestion is, the

The newly designed bank car has all of the grace and beauty to engage the attention of every

It is interesting to road the

custom-built of the Cadillao motorist in the Colony. The

A reader send us a couple of! autoritios ought to face the fact reports issued since the first

suburban, the exteribr lines of which it follows. With its closed. that as the contour of the country motor ambulances were installed suggestions. The first is that! through which our motor roads in Hongkong. In May, 1921, two owing to the narrowness of tho

bady and small windows it has ran is such that embankments large Arat-aid vehicles were put Morrison Hill Road, just before and cuttings are unavoidable it inte service, and to the present the turning to Stubbs Road, two worst enemy of the automobile more of the appearance of a "is imperative, in the interests of time, have boon in constant use. lamposts and a telephone pole racing world. That is the seller's delivery car than of the public safety, that such embank The year 1921 saw 420 cases at should be moved back & fow fost contention of William E. "Doc" travelling foxtrose which it really mounts and cuttings should be tended, and in the following year, Much traffic uses this thorough Shattuc, the "racing physician." is. While it affords all of the For daye before every race, the protection of the heaviest armored rendered reasonably safe. Thoro the two ambulances responded to fare, and no doubt the additional is something obviously wrong 1,185 calls. In 1923 there was space provided in the event of pilots become so nervous they vehicles, it is but 1,000 pounds when a huge portion of hillside recorded a considerable increase, such improvement being made, can hardly eat, but not so with heavier, then the passenger car and half a road can just slip there being no fewer than 1,712 would be much appreciated and the "Doc." He pas. prescribed model and has similar speed and away sa though it wore so much cases removed, 1,421 of woich tend to make driving safer his own diet that keeps bis flexibility in traffic. It is finished eake. It may be that our cuttings were in Hongkong, 291 and in The second suggestion rolatos to stomach in perfect condition. At in Duco, with the name, of the and ombankments are made at Kowloon. Last year saw another the red and green lamp signalling the same time he is trying to get bank across the upper part of too. acute an angle, or it may be large increase, when 2,129 cases devices. Recently, when driving his fellow drivers to follow his the body in gold letters. The that they need to be better pro- were handled, 1,675 in Hongkong in from Repulse Bay, our in- example, so they, too, may get wheelbase is 143 inches and it

formant states that the signal some benefit from his 11 years of has disc whoals. tected and tenderéd more or less add 454 over in Kowloon.

The exterior panels, like those point near the Hospital Road was medical study,

custom-built cars, of Cadillac impervious to water. It may be

showing both lights at once, as

Shattua was graduated from that they need bettor drainage. Ambulance Mileage.

Considerable mileage has been also was the traffic post on the the University of Indiana and are of aluminum. The interior Wyndham Rush Medical School. After his lining is bullet-proof steel made: covered by the two large ambul- Caine Road. near Anges as the following figures Street. We quite agree that interne period he practiced in for this express purpose accord- will show:-1923, Hongkong, such confusing signalling is Louisville, Ky, and Indiana-ing to a special formula by one Not a few motoring folk over 8,945 miles; Kowloon, 4,985; 1924, annoying, because a driver tepolis for five years. in Kowloon are wondering what Hongkong, 12,413 miles; Kow-obviously compelled to stop when

It is certain that something is

wrong and ought to be put right.

A Kowloon Eyesore.

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·CAR PARKS.

In 1924, Shattuc was one of of the Eastorn steel mille. The is going to happen to the gauntoon, 3,414. It will be observed there may be no need for him to the physicians attending the space between is packed. skeleton of the partially con- that the mile average per case is do so. Possibly special switches drivers at the 500-mile Memorial structed garage which still con- very much higher in Kowloon could be provided which would Day race in Indianapolis. It tinues to deface Salisbury Road, than Hongkong, but this is or-automatically Tho half completed building has plained by the fact that calls are lights. been loft derelict for months, frequently attended as far out as rank weeds and grasses grow. Taipo, Evan greater distancos where it was intended to park are covered when necessary.

cars, and a more or less comatose The Future

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USE COMMON SENSE IN DRIVING IF YOU HAVEN'T IT, IMITATE IT.

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ALA, ACTIVITY.

was there that he first got the racing "bug.. Sent there caro for the daredevfl pilots, lie became interested in their sport, In view of the importance of gave up his medical practice and adequate parking facilities for bought a racing car.

motorists, the Automobile As His first appearance in a big sociation, since the conclusion of frace was at the inauguration the War, has been continuously

of the

speedway last in negotiation with the various Decomber. As the day of the authorities throughout the coun- Trace drow near, Shattuc's try for the allocation of the

appetite began to fail. necessary spacos.

As a result of this sustained However be followed a strict diet

effort 111 large towns and cities and continued oating.

After "making one stop for a havo motor vehicle parking ar- tyre change, he finished in fifth rangements, and in addition 44 demand which cannot be sold to to be held in Washington next place; averaging five and a half towns have erected. "Motor Park have been adequately catered for Novembor will take up proposals miles an hour more than the signs supplied by the A‚A, catry- la the past. The two new for the adoption of a uniform provious world's record. That, ing the wordling Motor Fark will be performances, has placed." Doc" burgh respectively 54 and 33 of The inference appears to be machines are most welcome addi-traffic code for the entire coun-combined with his more recent Hero" In Liverpool and Edin-

these signs are provided., well up in racing cirolon drawn from a recont traffic sumtions to our ambulance servico, try. A model inw mone that a motorist is not com.but, even so, first-aid stations presented to all legislaturee.

watchman koops an

year, tho building material which is fast Taken over the boooming too spoiled oven for average number of calls per day' thieving. If rumour is to be is considerable, and when it is believed, the interested persons taken into consideration that failed to find enough money to after the majority of casos, the complete what they had started imbuisnes, as well as the attend- and the general public are left ante' uniforme, is thoroughly die- with what is nothing more nor infected, it will be soon that a loss than a positive eyeguró. heavy demand has to ho met, a Why not have it removed?

Drivers Liability.

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