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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

HEAVY TRAFFIC DEMANDS.

SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1925.

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A Body for Every Business

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Bumpers keep other cars at safa distances în trafic like this.

BY W. T. MORRIS

and the roar bar. A curved end Bumpers are like non-skid on the bumper bar to deflect chains. You may not always should be long enough to safe. blows is advisable. The humpor need them but when you do, you guard fonders, in truffle without! need them badly.

Bumpers provide protection for hindering close work in parking. your car, your pocketbook and Standard heights for bunipers your person. Their first function are 20 inches for the.. rear IN to absorb shock. Bumpers bumper. Any great deviation protect fenders, lights, radiator, from those distances will permit gas tank and in cases of collision bumpers on other cars to slip have been known to save lives. over or under yours and cause Choose your bumper carefully. embarrassing delays when you Insist on bumpers correct in are in a hurry.

avery

curve

detail height, length, Attachments determine to u und

fittings. Freaky considerable extent the bumper's designs attract attention but they shock absorbing ability. A steel. don't always protect.

Sitting riveted to the steel arm removes the possibility of the bumper slipping or of the elamp; twisting out of place..

Bumper bars of spring stool should be selected with at least | five inches hotween the front bars

the

GOODS TRANSPORT.

POPULARITY OF SIDECAR

OUTPUTS.

SAFETY FIRST.

SUGGESTED STOPPING LAW,

"No vehicle shall be operated The value of the motor cycle at a speed such that it cannot be and sidecar as a means for trans stopped within the assured clear porting goods as distinct from course ahead."

This simple rule for safe dri- passengers is undoubtedly not sufficiently realised by the averageing, anywhere, at any time and person, and this applies particu- under any conditions, is suggested larly to overseas countries where for adoption se law in all parts of motor cycle is still looked the country by D. H. C.'Dickinson, upon largely as a sporting vehicle. physicist of the US. Bureau of

Standarde. The British Post Office, however, long ago realised that a motor cycle coupled to a specially-de- signed sidecar provided the most economical goods carrying vehicle imaginable, provided, of course, that loads of not more than about [5 ewt, were involved. After pro- longed tests in actual service, the Postmaster-General purchased very large fleets of motor cycle combinations for dealing with the parcels post service, the vehicles being used to collect parcels from the local receiving office and de- liver them to the central parcels

In other words, Dr. Dickinson would replace speed laws with It would require stop lawa. motorists to be in such control of their machines that they could stop safely under any conditions.

A motorist heeding this law would, if rounding a curve, be able to stop safely even if another motorist was coming at him on the wrong side of the roadway. At railroad crossings he would be going only so fast as to be able to stop before reaching the tracks,, if a train is scen.

office, and also for delivering them The rule would apply equally

"The clear

tiona, some of which are сол-

of

to their destinations. Prominent

well to approaching the top of a among these fleets are the "Match-hill and to passing another car in

the same direction. less" G.P.O. combinations, which have been employed largely in the

course ahead de- London postal area, and the other pends upon road and traffic condi large towns in Great Britain." So many of them are on the road that tinually changing, and the driver they are a daily sight to millions is responsible for being able in of Londoners, and after several variably to stop within the clear years in service they have proved course ahead," says Dr. Dickinson. to the hilt their reliability and tion to the clear course ahead is "Stopping distance with rela- économy.

the most important factor Tradesmen in England are now safely. It.must be assumed that beginning to realise that the ex-| vehicle or person may emerge periencé of the Post Office is at any instant from behind an worthy of their consideration, obstruction to the vision or that with the result that there is an an obstable may le just around increasing demand among but-in bend, chers, bakers, grocers, drapers and | "Many of the present regula- | olher tradesmen for commercial tions are based unconsciously on sidecars for delivery purposes, the proposed new rule, which, if In order to stimulate this de-strictly enforced, would take the mand and show to traders throug-place of nearly all of them. This out the country what types of rule, if incorporated, in an ord- vehicles are available, the Auto-nance, would focus attention of Cycle. Union has recently held a all drivers on the most important | demonstration of commercial side-condition for safety, would educate cars, the vehicles covering a route as well as regulate, and would of approximately 1,000 miles in compel every driver to keep his; six days, with demonstration halte attention on what is ahead rather in every

town passed through, than on what is behind. Prominent among the vehicles en- "If every driver knew that he tered for this demonstration were might be called upon by an officer two "Matchless" combinatione; to come to a stop at any curve, one being an exact replica of the crossing or obstruction where he vehicles used by the Post Office could not see at least 100 yards in for conveying urgent air mails all directions, fast driving at these from London to the aerodrome at danger points would cease." Croydon, and the other a "Match- less Foamite fire-fighting com- bination, which is equipped with a fire-ighting outfit capable of dealing with outbreaks of conal-

The Russian government has derable size. Both chese "Match- set aside 9,000,000 rubles for less" combinations went through road improvement this year. An- the 1,000 miles demonstration other 3,600,000 rubles have been without a single hitch, carrying appropriated for the purchase their designed loads throughout, of automobiles and trucka. and thus proving their complete reliability and suitability for or-

dinary commercial use,

RUSSIA IMPROVING.

is assured, and tradors who wish There seems no doubt that the to keep down delivery expenses future of the commercial sidecar should not hesitate to investigate as a goods carrying proposition the subject.

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