MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 3rd, July, 1926.
1 Buang me Official Organ of the Hongkong Automobile Association
CURRENT:
COMMENT
Hand Signals.
bu detrimental to tyre life. Ono oxample to our knowledge con- The code of hand signals which
Cerna certain extremely well we published in this Supplement known tyres, semi-balloon, which the Saturday before last, has been wore inflated at a pressure much adopted by the local Authorities, below that given by the makers' and the illustrations and instruc-instructions. Obviously, the tions are now being printed in fault lay with the driver, and the suitable form. All motorists will manufacturor could not be ox- receive a copy in the near future pacted to make good tyres worn and it is hoped that those who out by sheer carelessness. The employ chauffeurs will take steps best guarantee we know is to buy to ensure that the instructions tyres which have proved their are carried out. Noodless to say, worth wisewhere, from agents. ownor-drivors are expected to who have proved their integrity momorise and employ the signals here.. themselves. In the future, pro- fessional drivers who wish to bo tusted for a driving licence will be required to show a thorough understanding of the code. Motor Cycle Gymkhana.
Much interest has been aroused in neat, Saturday's Gymkhana. and a pleasant diversion will be created for those who complain owt. $48.00. that Hongkong lacks outdoor attractions. The nature of the Public Vehicles. events ensure plenty of fun for
Licence Weights.
As there appears to be some misapprehension regarding licen- sing foes, the following inform- ation will doubtless bo of interest There are three dif- forent fees in respect to private cars, viz-up to 16 cwt, $16.00, up to 30 cwt. $24.00, and above 30
Public motor vehicles are now competitors, and sustained inter-fitted with distinctive number est for spectators. Armoured Car Section,
count
of 'the'
platos which easily distinguish them from private vehicles. This will assist in stopping the The run out to Castle Peak practice of loitoring on the which was scheduled for to-Pedder Street and Chater Road morrow, Sunday the 4th inst. stands when disengaged, thus has been postponed on ac-making room for private vehicles
difficulty on
the already inadequate in securing matshed accommoda-parking space. tion, a swim in the "briny" being an item which cannot be dis pensed with. It is hoped to make adequate arrangements in the near futuro, particulars of which will be announced in due course. Driving Mirrors.
BRITISH MOTOR INDUSTRY.
OFF TO CENTRAL ASIA.
Wars are mera trifles to Roy Chapman Andrews, American leader of the Central Asiatic Ex- pedition, which recently started on its fourth annual exploration of the interior of China, despite tho fighting there. This photo shows his cavalcade at Feking. Left to right, they are J. B. Shackelford.. photograpber; W. P. T. Hill, topographer; Andrews: Radcliffe H. Beckwith, geologist, and George Obson, paleontologist. A Dodge car is seen with them.
OPEN ROADS OF FRANCE. kilometer and this could be can set out with a light heart, counteracted by retarding the for if there are bad spots to bo process of lifting off the surfaces encountered they are indicated by unrestricted speed of power-on the itinerary, and the worst ful cars..
of those are seldom much hind.
WHERE MOTORING IS
STILL A SPORT
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ARE YOU READY?
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But, just a minute before you take that trip. Is your machine in the beat. of condition to insure another long period of motorcycling pleasure; free, from trouble and worry?
Do you expect maximum power from a carbón filled motor? Are any bearings worn? Are adjustments neces- ary? If so, remedy these things now when it's very easy and inexpensive. Later, repair bills may result from neglect.
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This yane suggestion was rance to a car with modern dropped, but motor people take it suspension, balloon tyres and In France motoring is still a as a warning of the time to come shock absorbers. The latter are sport. In latter years the auto-when a more determined effort essential in France. They make mobile has begun to come into will be made to give Franco a the average" pave" cobblestones its own as utilitarian vehicle to speed limit for pleasure cars. Emooth at speeds higher then supplant the less practical horse, But unless cars increase 'greatly twenty-five miles an hour. but driving as a sport holds its in numbers the sport of motoring There are no narrow granatoid place much as in pioneer, days, is likely to endure.
roads. The most dangerous road, when France built the first slid-
Except in the vicinity of the in France is the smooth and too ing-gear automobiles.
largest cities, at certain hours on often slippery Paris-Deauville Here are incentives to arouse Sundays and holidays, there isroute des Quaranto Sous" (the that old feeling one had in the no trailing along close in the Forty Cents road, so named from boginning with his first auto-wake
string "of cars the toll onco exacted to pay for
STATISTICS OF GROWTH.
mobile, whether crawling along emitting fumos and stirring uplits construction by a British There is no rogulation which
leaf-roofed roads without another dirt. Consequently the open cari syndicate), with its bituminous makes it necessary for motor From the evidence submitted car in sight or dashing across is still in vogus, at least for sum-surface and hazardous grade But much of this mer when the sun is rarely in-turnings. vehicles to carry rear-view mir-on behalf of the S.M.M.T. to the France at eighty miles an hour.
pave" (accent on the final "e") rors, and although it does not Board of Trade Enquiry into of aport to stir the jaded senses not frequent..
In Paris there is another sort comfortably warm and showers
ia oven and avel and is safe in appear necessary for motor cars British Trade and Industry, it
of a motorist, a sort of high-speod | In the open car, recalling the the rain at sixty miles an hour. or cycles to be so equippod, it is appears that the Society has
opoch in To overcome the shortcomings'' desirable that motor lorries and grow. since its formation, in 83mkhana from which the driver mid-four-cylinder buses should be fitted with a 1903, from 65 members to 1,099-without an intuitive sonso of America, one sees the moun-of French roads there are în
speed mirror. It is most annoying to last year.
and distance combined taintops, breathes the fragrance France miles of exce lont rivor the car driver, who is forced to In regard to the export trade it with a large bump of human of nature and willy-nilly is in-gravel road, the most agreeable keep behind a slow-moving vehi-is stated that both the price and nature soon withdraws; but a dated with fresh air under pres- and safest of all roads in all cle solely on account of the fact design of British moto vehicles traffic movement which delights sure-without draughts. There weathers, and these narrow those who can meet its is dust here and there if you lanes of dirt, which are kept in that he cannot get the signal to before the war were such as to agencies for in no great capital permit another car to pass you, excellent repair, are too litto pass. The slower and more promise a progressive increase in
dampened with cumbersome vehicles are not al- their use throughout the Empire. do automobiles average so high a but in early spring, if not in sum- used by automobiles and too
mor, it is possible to drive all day frequently ways to blame in this respect, The war, however, allowed Am-speed. because the noise from a heavy erican manufacturers to step into
There is no speed limit in the without encountering more than moisture to become deep sluices. engine frequently drowns the these markets and to build up open country. If you want a bit a few scores of dust-raisers com- of dust.
The speed, or the lack of it, sound of the motor horn of the their service, so that it has been of sport that requires more skilling or going.
than airplaning, attempt the 650 Once the roads of France were observe on these varied roads other car, whereas, wore mirrora only during the last two years miles to Nice in a single night, the finest in the world. From an brings forth no maledictions un- fitted, the driver would observe that reduction in manufacturing or 500 miles in any direction by engineering standpoint perhaps loss they are well magrited. In the other vehicle wishing to pass. costs due very largely to in- We certainly advocate that all creasing and more stable produc-day, allowing for slow speed they still are. Two good road- France one is supposed to con- such hoavy vehicles should be tion, more
and builders, J. Caesar and Napoleon, sider other persons feelings and through countless towns officient factory compelled to carry those useful organisation, and the develop. villages en the way. The law sot high standards which the comfort. Not every one does, it ment of a more economical and requires consideration of others. moderns have not demolished. goes without saying, but a efficient engine has resulted in If you smash into anything or The surface of many aroute motorist out for sport or pleasure is only another has a more agreeable time if he real and significant signs of a kill any one at high speed it is nationale" Owing to the unsafe condition development of export business obviously your fault, and fine and stratum over the original slabs of romembors always that most of of the verandah of the Astor The improvement of road cundi-imprisonment are the penalties, stones the Romans laid at the the persons ho sana are at work House Hotel, all heavy East tions in the Colonios is stated to but you are at liberty to wrap bottom. But most of the main and working hard in the majority bound traffic in Queene Road bo partly responsible, and in this your road-swallower around trees highways have not yet known of cases for as many francs a Central is being diverted down connection the importance of along the great national, high-the redeeming touch of bitumin-month as he spends in a day. Pedder Street, and West bound Government aid in Colonial road ways or flop over a cliff, so long ous binder, and their white sur-And so ho takes pains not to rub
as you cause no serious annoy-face gives off powdered stone with it in.
Diivors of horses, slow-going traffic down Wardley Street. development is omphasised.
the least little oncouragement. This precaution will probably It is stated that the presentance to others.
The risks of apood on the road. There are stretches of potholes oars, or thundering tracks mako only remain in force a few days motor car taxation in this country are not so great as might be sup- on some of those national roads room for a fastmoving car to longer.
is four times higher than in the posed. Granted good luck with inherited from years of heavy pass as soon as they hear the U.S.A. Tyre Life,
There are some 1,000 firms tyres, and steering-knuckles tbat traffic-all ovor France during signal. Horse-driven vehicles Some of them have for some unsatisfactorily ex- do not crystalize, a tight hold on the war. A local motorist has written engaged in this country in the the wheel for unexpected rough been virtually abandoned, while plained rouson keep to the left and suggested that we advocate production of motor vehicles, that guarantees be given when parts and accessories, and in the spots, where the cobblestones are the Department of Bridges, and until they are warned to make passed go back to the left again. tyres are sold in the Colony." He wholesale distribution of these uneven, and something better Roads awaits material and labour room and as soon as you have states that although assortions products; while some 12,000 com-road signs, the good driver is al-
than complete disregard of the to repair them.
There is no cure for this, cursing It is, therefore, wise to con- included. aro' made with regard to tyre panies, firms, and persons, are
As a most countries of the life, experience has taught him rooognised as being engaged in at a safe as a skilled aviator.sider the Touring Club of France that results obtained do not sub-the otail side of the business, and Roads recently, endeavoured dertaking a long journey. The in France by politenose and con- The Department of Bridges or the Automobile Club before un-world, more can be accomplished stantiate the claims made. There The capital involved is estimated to folet a bill on the motoring T. C. F. furnishes a typewritten sideration than by bribes Or
nra reported to have developed a at least twice a year. The prim is, of course, something attractive at £50,000,000. about a hard and fast guarantee,
public limiting speed to sixty or printed itinerary on short threate. It is possible to drive craze for purchasing the most dil- oipal troubles to which the kilometers (thirty-seven and a notice for any destination or like the wind in the open spaces, then decorating it fantastically sticking of the brushes in the apidated car they can find and brushes are subject include the but from other coses" which have,
half miles) an hour, which was continuous tour with a selection observe suitable precautions and dealined. The bridges and roads of the bost roads available, made travel the length and breadth of and covering the paintwork with holders, brushes fitting poorly people argued that appropriation from reports from its correspon France without provoking so
caustle comments. This may be the commutator, woak holder for road repair was 20 per cent. dents and members all over angry word or across look claimed to be a solution for the springs and brushes grounded ba
by oll, dirt or carbon particles. abused car proplem. under the notuale coat por France. With this in hand on Purcy, Noch.
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Traffic Diverted,
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boon brought to our notice, wo It is officially stated that in Imagine that no tyre agent the Metropolitan Police area of would care to provide London the number of police on guaranteo, unless it covered care point duty is about 1,300, though lessness and inattention proved to it varies from time to time.
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