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THE HONGKONG

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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, MAY

275,000 BANDED MOTORISTS. will be recruiting members to the

300,000 BY WHITSUN?

(By H. Massac Buist, in the

Daily Chronicle.)

Despite the fact that the motor ing organisations are chiefly re- |cruited during the summer months, the membership of the Automobile Association has risen during this

winter until to-day it exceeds 276,- 1000. Morcover, the rush for de very of new cars is of vast pro- portions. Witness the thousands of those applying to the L during the past week for licences: at certain hours, there have been queues of hundreds waiting, not withstanding the excellent ar- rangements obtaining for prompt supply.

Certainly this, the largest mo- toring organisation in the world,

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Double Traction Tyres with eighty powerful road-gripping cogs, are for the big lorries of heavy loads and hard' pulls. "Ap- plying every ounce of power to the road, those massive tyres.rida steadily over soft ground or up steep inclines.

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The big volume of tough, lively

rubber absorbs road vibrations "and gives extra woaring depth.

There is a specialized Firestone Lorry Tyre for every hauling need. Equip with them and a avoid delays.

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33, Wong Nei Chung Road -

Telephone Cntral 1246 or 1247.

-Happy Valley.

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number of several thousands: a week from now until the end of August. That It will attain a membership in excess of 300,000 this year is assured. The sport- Ing fraternity interested in mo- toring are concerning themselves howover, with the possibulty of recruiting the 300,000th member by whitsun. Will it be done? There seem to be as many, backors one way as the other.

Meantime the "AA" continues to extend its activities. Inciden tally, Its Road Book for the sum in two colours, showing clearly mer season, 1926, contains a map the roads patrolled by its organi- sation. The scheme is now so complete that the outline reveals to anybody at a glance the most convenient way to roach any dis- tant part to which he has a mind to travel by carlost, ale

PUBLIC HIGHWAYS.

NO ROADS PERMANENT.

United States Government engineers are trying to dispel three erroneous ideas about public highways "In order to give the country a highly improved system of motor travel.

These ideas are:

1. That an improved road is n luxury, to be enjoyed only if it can be afforded and not essential to the economic health of the comp munity.

2. That all roads, if improved,, should be hard surfaced to make it worth while.

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3 That roads be built for par manency.

These thoughts.áre attacked and broken down in a statement of members of the bureau of public roads to the secretary of agricul

ture.

Date of the British Grand Prix.

The sudden collapse of the Au- tomobile Club de France's "UD-

Improvements Save. crowned Kings of Motor Competi- luxuries, say the engineers, "had The idea of good roads being! tion Organisation," on the thres- its origin in the early days of the hold of the 1926 season, is hav-automobile when the motor) ing a reflex action in requests, vehicle was thought to be merely on the one hand to Spain to ad a toy for the wealthy few, and vance the date of the Grand Prix road improvement was thought to of Europe race, Bixed for July 5, be in the interest of only-this on the San Sebastian course, and, special class." on the other, to the Royal Auto- Conditions are different. now, mobile Club to postpone the date Automobiles are necessities to a of its Grand Prix race at Brook-great degree, and ronds are need lands on August Bank Holiday five ed to accommodate them if only days until August 7 In order to for transportation purposes. give competitors in these 1,500 cc. engined car classes events the opportunity to use the aame machines in both competi- tióni

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This year's programme was ar- ranged with utter disregard to the essential practical considera tions concerning the problems of transporting racing cars and teams from one country to another

"The fact is," reads the report. "we lose more by not, improving the roads than it costs to improve them. So we may say that wej

1926.

WHAT WAS ONCE

FIRE ENGINE.

Three firemen were injured, one perhapa fatally, when an elevated railway train crashed into a fire truck on the outskirts of Chicago at a grade crossing. The fire truck, according to witnesses, tried to beat the train to the crossing and was going forty milles an hour when struck Photo shows the wreckage strewn about the front of the train.

pay for improved" roads whether road should always be less than

Peking also has ita beggar pro

we have them or not, and we pay the sum total of savings from the blem: To the newcomer, every less if we have them than if we improvement."... have not."

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Hard surfaced rouds are not The type and amount of travel seems a-running of the gauntlet economical

every case. over a road determine to a large between lines of imploring According to the bureau of public extent the type of construction. beggars, ghastly and inhuman in to fulfil successive engagements roads, the types of surfaces That the road should be made appearance and heartrending in The utter lack of understanding should be left to the discretion of for permanency is looked upon as their cries, says the North-Ching

an absurd idea. There isn't such Daily Mail. Old men in rags un of the fundamentala of the busi-

those who actually use them. ness reflects gravely on the techni

Profits Considered...

a thing as a permanent road, sa worthy of the name of clothing the government men.

hobble into one's path. Repulsive cal committees of all the national "It has been shown that the

women hearing tin food-pails and automobile clubs concerned. "Why maximum amount which it is pro-

"It is this delusion," they say, did they draw up such a set of per to spend for the improvement that has been responsible for the with babes at their naked breasts dates for the Blue Riband events of a given road is the sum of the anhealthy disregard of the main thrust claw-like hands into one's of the different countries as has individual savings accruing from tenance of our roads in the past. face. Most affecting of all, chir

dren scamper "been settled this year? One the improvement to the owners of Following the will-o'-the-wisp of

after passing the vehicles driven over it," in the permanent road we have in ricshae and refuse to be shaken the opinion of the government the past allowed some of our new off till they receive either a copper. road officials. "What we spend roads to go to pieces for lack of or a torrent of abuse from the THE PERFECT DRIVER. for the improvement of any given necessary repair."

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AN AMERICAN VIEW.

(By E. Friedman.)

. The mediocre automobile driver must save the traffic situation in our large cities-to-day.

The inferior and the perfect drivers are causing all the difficul- ties and are responsible for acci- dents and traffic ticups. 13

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It is not difficult to understand how the inferior driver causes accidents to his own and other machines, but the "perfect" driver appears too perfect to be blamed..

The "perfect" driver never gels into an accident himself. He never violates a traffic rule. Ho gives vociferous traffic police a chance to enjoy them- selves at his expense..

never

The "perfect" driver carcers down the street. just to and not exceeding the maximum traffic speed limit. Pedestrians see him a block away, and even if they have the right-of-way.

they hesitate to cross the street as the "perfect" driver speeds toward the crossing. However, he makes a "perfect" stop just to and not beyond the danger line, breaking no traffic laws but, frightening pedestrians so that they fear to cross the street while they have a chance.

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The "perfect" driver around corners with amazing accuracy and disagreeableness. He winds in and out of trame with

a skill that drives other motorista frantic. He is always imime- diately behind some automobile, honking for them to speed up or get out of the way and passing them at the most inopportune moment.

The "perfect" driver is always right. He is so absolutely and recklessly right that other drivers and pedestrians fear him. He is the most disrupting element in the traffic situation...

It is the drivers who are not quite perfect and know it, who are mediocre and therefore careful who keep traffic moving in a. steady and orderly line.

To date, the government schools at Foochow have not opened. There has been a strong demand on the part of a few studente for opening, and in some instances schools have officially opened, but classts have not yet begun. course, the reason assigned is the same as elsewhere in China-no funds.

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In Peru-Graham Brothers Trucks working toward the headwaters of the Amazon at 13,000 feet above sea level In Meshabo, Brazil- Graham Brothers Trucks. bearing mighty burdens up mountain roads of thirty per cent grade.

Graham Brothers Trucks support such tests because they are built to stand them.

Wherever strain must be Ebrne or wear withstood, costly Chrome Vanadium. Steel is there to meet it. That is why Graham Bro- thers Trucks bear such loads.

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1 Ton Chausis, G. $885; 14 Ton Chang, G., $1245; MBM Low Chassis, G. $1295

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