1926-05-29 — Page 13

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MORRIS

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PRICE REDUCTION 1st May, 1926

Cars

·TRAFFIC LAWS.

MUST BE POPULAR.

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. - SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1926.

"Trafic regulations which the public regards as unreasonable and obnoxious cannot be enforced, no matter how many policemen aro 1st May, 1926) | put on the streets.”

·REDUCTION

MORRIS-COWLEY 11,9 H.P 4-WHEEL BRAKE MODEL

ROADSTER. 2 SEATER

OCCASIONAL 4 SEATER

TOURING

4 SEATER

COUPE

4 SEATER

SALOON

4 SEATER

New Priċes" old/Prices

£ 212

£ 273 : 233

*246. 265 305

222

234

250

200

MORRIS OXFORD 13.9 EP. 4-WHEEL BRAKE MODEL

ROADSTER 2 SEATER

TOURING, 4-5 SEATER"

3/4 COUPE

2 SEATER

CABRIOLET 4,5 SEATER

SALOON 4-5 SEATER

LANDAULET 4-5 SEATER

4.

New Frices Old Prices

£ 285

£ 300.

305

320

355

375

390

410

410

430

420

440

Dr. John A. Harries of "New York has this to say during a visit in Washington. And Dr. Harriss should come as near to knowing as

"So long as the pubile regards The city of the future, with its traffic regulations 6. sort of agree- increased volume of motor-trac, mont for the benefit of all, there with its increased volume of motor will be enforcement," Dr. Harrisa has been for years part says. "Beyond that point, it calar object of study by Dr. Har serves no purpose to increase fines

rigs.

ם

"The saturation point for 21- tomobiles will be about twice the present number," Dr. Harriss be-

leves.

and give jail sentences. People will not abide by the traffic rules and will take pride in evading them.

"Two years ago in New York on "There will b,000, cara where to-day there are 20,000,000. a 20-minute parking limit wo were This racuns the capacity of city issuing 1100, summons a day streets and rural highways will That meant more than 30,000 have to be doubled. Obviously, the month, and all those people were cities must be redesigned, and de- against the police on trable rules. centralised. We ́rnised the parking limit to an

any one man. For eight years he was deputy police commissioner of "New York City. One of his acccm-hour.

plishments was to devise the Fifth avenue traffic towers with their red and green flashes for stop and go. which have been copied throughout the country,

There was no more cou- gestion than before, and I do not believe people parked any longer. But we virtually eliminated that source of summons, and of ants

góniani."

MAINE ROAD WORK.

"The answer to the traffic prob- lem for cities is express traffic ways. These must be developed

More than $50,000,000 has been into, real super-streets. They expended by the fate and towns of. would have outer roadways for Maine since 1918 for the construc local trame friside ways for highways, state ald highways and tion and maintenance of state high- speed through traffic. Intersecting streets would go under or the super-stroot without interfer ing with its current.

bridges. Plans for 1926 call for over the construction at a little more.

than 300 miles of new state high way and the reconstruction of about 22, miles of old state high way.

CHEAP CARS STOLEN.

"A uniform solution to traffle problems cannot be laid out, be cause conditions everywhere are different. In many cities there f not enough traffic to justify the methods which are necessáry in Low-priced 'cars were favoured metropolis. The regulations in by auto thieves in Montreal, "Simply cutting now streets each place should be 9 Zew and Canada, during the past year. through a city will not relieve con- simple as possible, so the people One popular make heads the lat gestion. The new streets will be can realiza they are for their own of/stolen autos with, a ̈number lined with shops and offices which benefit. Then the regulations will more than all other makes to- will draw-heavier traffe there and produce a amath and orderly re-gether. Thieves stolo 1225 autos defeat their purpose.

in this city during 1925.

gult."

OWN ONE OF THESE

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ATTENTION

FORD OWNERS

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Arrangements have now been completed whereby Ford Owners are enabled to purchase

GASOLINE and TYRES

AT REDUCED PRICES.

ANDREW HARPER

AUTHORISED FORD DEALER

6, Queen's Road Central

Chatham Road, Hunghom...

EMPIRE ROADS.

DEVELOPMENT IN EAST

Tel. K.1216.

ENORMOUS GAS WASTE.

Dr. James F. Norris, president As communications are the very of the American Chemical Society lifeblood of East and Central says that the gasoline waste Afrien, it is very satisfactory to caused by inefficient motor be able to state that there will ¡gines is a crime. Ile declares that soon be main, dry weather, automobile carbureters motor road stretching from Liv-throwing gas away" at the rate ingstone and the Victoria Falls. of millions of dollars a year. in Southern Rhodesia, right up to

Mongalla, in the Sudan, The The great eastern rond runs grent north road will run from from Lusaka, south of Aborcorn, Livingstone, along the railway to Fort Jameson on the Nyasa- line to Broken Hill, where it will and border, and the third road join the military road to Aber- from Broken Hi to Bwana corn, and thence via Fife to Mbosi, Mkubwn on the Congo border, Igalo (a fow miles from Tukuyu), whore it will eventually swing Iringa, Dodoma, Arusha, Nairobi, northwards to Mwinilungul on the Mbale, Soroth, and Mengalla) Portuguese West Africa border.

AFRICA.

Tel. €.4895,

en-

are

THE TRUCK CHASSIS.

Delivered in Kowloon,

H.K.$970.00

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Telephones: C.4895 and K.1216,

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