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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

A

SATURDAY, 16th. "January, 1926.

(Bong the Official Orgun of the Hongkong Automobile Association).

CURRENT

COMMENT

THE CONQUEST OF THE AIR.

Drunken Motorists.

pose, but there is also the probabil ity of private owners unconscious- jy having their vehicles so employ-

It is indeed fortunate that cases of insobriety among motor car ared, when opportunity occurs. We cycle drivore rarely happen in

are told that a favourite touting

Hongkong. In the British Isles, contre is between the Ferry Fier however, many serious accidents and the V.R.C. Residents would

Valuable Improvement.

have been recorded, and the nun-be performing good service if they bor of convictions appears to have would engage such cars, and stóp, increased last Summer. We the driver for enquires by a polica notice that the House of Lords, ut officer when occasion offered. the suggestion, of an Opposition Peur, hasanserted some words in one of the 'clauses of the Criminal Justico Bill to the effect that a Although it has boon long a task, person convicted of being drunk, the Government has at length while in charge of a motor car completed the work of widoning shall automatically be disqualified all the road bridges in the New from holding a driver's licence Turritory, and there is now no for a period of twelve months...

Public Opinion..

bridge, on the run from Castle Peak to Fanling which is not of the same width as the road. This This clause, as enlargod, inter-is an oxceedingly valuable con- prets public opinion correctly, tribution to safety and should do and it is to be hoped that the much to avoid all possibility of a House of Commons will let it repetition of the fatal motor be- remain in the Bill as it stands, smash which led to the work bus Drunken motorists must be made ing put in hand. We should like

to understand that society will suggest that thore are a least not tolerate the danger they cause and is resolved to protect itself against them, No Excuse.

AN INTERESTING RECORD OF PROGRESS.

(Special Report to The Hongkong Telegraph).

The experiment of releasing an aeroplane from a trapeze slung beneath the British airship. R33 was carried out at Pulham. The aeroplane had to attach itself to the airship after making a flight. Photo shows aeroplane attachod.

two more points on the road which might well receive atten- tion from the safety aspect. About half-way down the road which rans from the Kowloon The vast majority of motorists Reservoir to Shatin there is a will welcome the amendment as very acute right-handed turn over a bridge, the railing of which is strongly as other users of the roads, for they have to pay, in very likely to foul a car making the turn. The corner is so acute unpopularity and distrust, for the

and the room in which to swing misdeeds of the relatively few

so short that it is a wonder that drunken motorists. There is

Some interesting tests have been absolutely no excuse for a mano serious accident has happen- ed. And, an almost precisely who is drunk in charge of a car. similar cornor, exists or the road carried out recently in dropping and, He is a universal.menace, and as between Shatin and Taipo. After picking up aeroplanes from and by such, nught to be dealt with leaving the railway at Shatin then airship. For these tests the air- drastically, "

New Taxis.

village and then descends. At the ship R.33 was used and a D.H.33 bottom of the descent, just where light aeroplane piloted by Squadron Residents of Hongkong will the road levels up for the first welcome the announcement re-time, there is a 95 degree corner Leader R, de Haga Hal. On the cently made in the Telegraph of the over a narrow bridge that is first tests the slowest speed of the handsome addition to be made to dificult of negotiation even though aeroplane was some ten miles an

Motor Touts

road clinibs up as far as a small

can brake

is.

Light Aeroplane Clubs with Company. The Hawker Com- The Light Atropiane Clubs, five pany has taken over the whole of the old Sopwith Works, and prac- of which have been formed in various parts of Great Britain, have tically all the old Sopwith personne on the whole been doing very are in their cld places in the Hawker firm. The Sopwith Company successful work. The machines which they use are the de Havilland during the War Moths driven by the A.D.C. Alr-machines for the British Air Ser-

built 11,237

now, producing such good machines.

the Colony's public hire vehicles. one knows the road thoroughly-hour faster than the highest speedcraft "Cirrus" engines. Although vices and 5,000 for the Allies and The present taxi service has It is not so bad when going to of the airship; with the result that these Clubs have not yet been going so it is not surprising that, backed proved how necesary and con-Taipo because one venient economical motor tran-down and then pick up nicely contact between the airship and for three months they have been by this experience, the Hawker firm eport is, and the new Company is again after making the turn, but aeroplane was made at a relative extremely successful. How useful is to be congratulated on its deci- when proceeding in the opposite speed of ten miles an hour. The and reliable the Moth and its engine sion to provide and additional direction the "corner

A Duralumin Flying Boat. more result of this was that the aero-are can be seen from the fact that service with such excellent ma-objectionable because of the stiff plane pulled up with a jerk and the at the London Club alone more than

A new type of flying-boat has chines as those turned out by the climb immediately ahead with no nose swung up and the airscrew sixty people have had instruction famous firm of Beardmore..

possible chance of a good start. was damaged by hitting the suspen- and more than 800 flights have been recently been tested by the English. We suggest that if the bridge-sion wires and so the machine was made although, only two Moths Electric Company at Lytham. The "We have heard of

widening gang which has been at unhooked again and it glided down have been available. These 800 machine is known as the Kingston several work on the Castle Peak Fanling safely to its aerodrome. In a later flights have naturally involved more and is driven by two Napler "Lion" instances of private cars touting stretch can be spared to do a series of tests Squadron Leager than 800 landings and yet in spite engines. The hull is built entirely for hire service, and doubtless little work on the two

Corner Haig disengaged from the airship of this the only damage that has of duralumin in order to make the there are some drivers who bridges mentioned here,

our successfully and after flying round been done has been a broken wheel, machine as light as possible. With indulge in this practice. It may P.W.D. would earn the further for a short time adjusted his speed An engine that is used for training a wooden hull a larger amount of be assumed that in some cases gratitude of the large number of to that of the airship and success purposes has a very rough time water is soaked up by the hull as garage cars are used for the pur-local motorists.

fully engaged it again. The indeed. Pupila are apt to jam the soon as it gets in the water, and trapese to which the machine books throttle open suddenly and jam it this increases the weight tremen- The designer of this itself is lowered about fifty feet off again equally quickly, which dously. below the airship to avoid any puts a big strain on the engine and extremely successful flying boat is chance of the acroplane fouling the yet none of the "Cirrus", engines in Mr. W. O. Manning, who is one of airship. When the last successful any of the Clubs have given any the pioneers of British aviation, European auto manufacturers test was made the trapese was serious trouble. As a matter of having designed machines as far

as 1909. Recently wound up and Squadron Leader fact, they have given very much less back are going to Americ to study Haig rejoined the screw of the trouble than does the engine of the machine made a non-stop flight of the market for the introduction of airship. Squadron Leader Haig la average motor car. the European small car. Europe the Officer Commanding the R.A.E. has proved to be an excellent mar- Experimental Flight at Farn-

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WHEN A DRIVER IN

THE WRONG INSISTS

ON THE RIGHT OF WAY, LET HIM HAVE

IT, YOU CAN'T ARGUE

"WITH A FOOL. BUT

YOU CAN REPORT HIM

HORN VOICES OBJECTION

A device has been Invented to

MANY TOURISTS,

Motor touring in Canada has