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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, 21st. AUGUST, 1920.

1 Boing the Oficial Orfow of the Hongkong Automobile Association).

Drivers Registration.

The announcement made ear-

CURRENT

COMMENT

boon give so much publicity this week will doubtless result in! some. notion being taken' to

lier in the week of the inaugure-prevent a future misunderstand- tion of a drivers' rogistration ing.

bureau will doubtless meet with Petrol Pumps,

the approval of every motorist in

the Colony. Drivers themselves In view of the fact that there N have already enrolled in consid-are a large number of motor orable numbers, and car owners cycles in the colony, some of requiring a chauffeur may apply them not too new, it is rathor to the Honorary Secretary who strange that all the petrol pumps will sood suitable mon for the are not able to give loss than a consideration of the prospective gallon of juice, except by guess employer. The benefits of such work. It is noticable they are a scheme are obvious, and mem-fitted with glass containers, with bers of the Association should marks up to four gallons, and give it their support. There are this container is filled up to the many unemployed professional required amount. before it is" al- drivers, of both Chinese and lowed to run into the tank so Indian nationality, many of them that the customer can sea he is excellent mon, who are grateful getting his correct quantity. Ap- for the institution of the scheme,parently half a gallon can only providing as it does, a medium (be given by filling the container through which they may be until its height-is-mid way,-bo- assisted in obtaining employment. tween the bottom and the one gallon mark. Many motor Co-Operation

cyclists with less modern smäll The suggestion was made in tanks only require half a gallon these notes that the registration at times and it is most unsatie. bureau might be instituted factory from their point of view either by the Automobile As- although it is all right for a car. sociation or by the Traffic Do-One Kowloon garage has a half partment. Motorists will be glad gallon bottle which it keeps filled to learn that although the As-ready for use. The best way out sociation has again shown that it of the difficulty is to purchase is making overy effort to study two or three two gallon tins, and the interests of its members, the keep them with the machine, Traffic Department le lending taking them to the pump to be most valuable co-operation in filled when they are empty This the matter of registering. In the also enables one to check the first instance, drivers apply for correct delivery from the pump. registration through the Depart- The tins can be purchased quite ment, where they are required to cheaply through most garages. produce a photograph which the Efficient Brakes. police attach to a form which is sont to the Honorary Secretary

MAN

In making pictures for the cinema, very close attention must be paid to details in order to give to the public an absolutely a curate reproduction of the period the picture represents..

For the elopement scene in the "Coast of Folly" starring Gloria

RUBBER IN PL

MR. FIRESTONES VIEWS "QUESTIONED.

Washington, Aug. 8.-Officials

of the Department of Commerce

AN ELOPEMENT OF

Swanson, for instance, the film This "horseless carriage" may company spent weeks in search have been the last word in auto- of an automobile which would be mobiles in 1903, hut imagine try- typical of the motor car of the ing to outdistance an irate hus- well-to-do family of 1903. They band or father in that vehicle to finally selected the Cadillac shown day, expecially if the husband or above, then as now, the choice father were driving a Cadillac of of those who can afford the best. 1926.

TAXI-CABS FOR SHANGHAI.

COMMENTS ON THE PROPOSED INVASION."

FORD NEWS.

RE-NAMING A PLANT.

At the direction of Edsel B Ford, President of the Ford Motor "On the all-important subject of

Company, the name of the River of the Association. It is thus brake efficiency the Hongkong widely disagree about the wisdom The report published in our Rouge Plant of the Company has seen, that overy whose Traffic Department is very name appears on the Associa worthily concentrating at the and accuracy of Harvey Fire-commercial columns a few days been changed to the Fordson tion's register is bona fide. The present time, the brakes of all the stone's recommendations to Pre- ago says the Shanghai Times to Plant.

This plant, probably the largest system evolved therefore ensures, hire service cars being tested. sident Coolidge in which he the effect that the Hongkong and that reliable drivers are assured This work of testing was to be urged that the United States Kowloon Taxicab Co. intends to industrial centre in the world, is to those motorists who take ad-seen in progress the other after proceed to plant rubber in the despatch 50 or so taxis to ply the located along the River Rouge straete in Shanghai is interesting and has borne the name of the vantage of the latest privilege noon, care being driven up and Philippines.

if little else. Whilst no-one river ever since it was established which comes of membership of down the stoep gradient of the

Firestone's statement that desires to "knook" a new venture, about ten years ago. · Recently the Hongkong Automobile As-entrance to the compound of the there is sufficient acreage in the it appears difficult to imagine the town of Springwells near sociation.

Central Polico Headquarters. In Philippines, suitable for largo- the proposition as a paying one. Detroit, in which it is located some cases it was discovered scale production of rubber, to It may be remembered that a few voted to change its name to Members' Drivers.

that the braking power was break the so-called British rubber years ago a similar idea was tried Fordson, and the decision to In connection with the registra- greater on one side of a car than monoply, has called for specially out in Shanghai, when a small re-name the plant, comes appro- tion, it is hoped that members of on the other, and in other cases strong denials on the part of de-fleet of large-sized taxis used to priately at this time.

Association who already it was found that the hand brake partment officials who participat fight with the ricshas for passen- At the Fordson Plant, the employ drivers, will send them to needed much adjustment to make ed in the survey last year. They gora. Along came the happy-go- Company manufactures Fordson it anywhere near maximum say that the Philippines can help lucky Ford with its take you Tractors, operates its own blast be registered with. the Honorary efficiency. Secretary. By this means a useful

In all casos where greatly in meeting the increased anywhere for a dollar" line of furnaces, power plant, motor record will be compiled and the brakes were not fully satis demand for rubber products in selling talk, and the taxis die assembly plant, body plant, saw should any driver need advice factory the ordinary number the United States but that the appeared. It has been contended mill, coke ovens, steel, plant. and on any problem or driving trouble plate of the car was withheld and available area is not enough to that perhaps the taxis will run rolling mill, cemont plant, paper which may arise, he will be able red plate given in its place, this supply all the rubber America around at less than a dollar a mill, sintering plant, and a glass

indicating that the livery car is needs.

the

to have the matter investigated by the Association.

New Members.

for the time being out of com- mission. All public`garage cars

None would comment on the are being given this test. The suggestion that Congress change discoveries made up to date are the land laws and said that, this Since the last list was publish- such as to make clear the value issue would probably be decided ed, the following motorists have of the work undertaken. It was at the next session. joined the Hongkong Automobile Association.

H. E. Goldsmith..

Dr. G. W. Popa

Ko Leong Hoa

H. E. Gardner

G. "Haslam,

Regulations.

stated by a Traffic Department

trip, but, the world over, there is factory. The plant has an area always a minimum charge for of 1100 acres, 12.3 miles of road- this type of vehicle, and here it le ways and 86. miles of railroad not likely to be much less than a track. Approximately 65,000 men dollar. After all, the prevailing are employed there. hired car in Shanghai is worked on the taxi principal. One pays by time.

to be signed and is happy if he official to whom a Telegraph re-

It is noticed in the report of the collects a few cents as a tip. presentative spoke that there sequence. In addition to this Hongkong taxi company that they Another point in regard to this must be a large percentage of complaint regarding "Garden have turned a big loss into a con- taxi-importation. The Hongkong the private cars in the Colony Road, we have received another aiderable profit by farming the company intends to send up with inefficient brakes. So far with regard to the hand signall-cars out to a syndicate composed reconditioned cabs which have private cars have not been, ing of drivers proceeding past of the drivers themselves. Is this, already been running on the brought within the scope of the this point at night. It is quite we wonder, going to be done Colony's streets. From what we tests, but private owners are impossible for the constable to here? Possibly not, sooing that remember of Hongkong taxis- The plea that the abridged warned that constant attention observe hand signals owing to the vehicles are coming to Bhang and wo are speaking of about a Regulation which appears on a to brakes is one of the very first the poor lighting on the road, hat under the sanction of the year ago--they were not of the driver's licence regarding passing duties of a motorist. His own and the lamps of the vehicle it Municipai Council. If the proced-best of makes or in the best of another vehicle in a controlled safety and that of others is, in-self, tend to obscuro the view. ure is adopted, however, it is condition. Obviously they got a area is misleading will doubtless volvod.

It is therefore suggested that a likely to give rise to a number of lot of hard wear on the hilly roads. much brighter road lamp be in- complications. In the first place, of the Island. The query arises, stalled just above the Cathedral we shall have another labour will they be considered good

be endorsed by the majority of Road

motorists, although one imagines

THE GASCON MOTOR CO.,

2, Kwong Wah Road (Opposite The Steam Laundry) Telephone K.1242.

We take pleasure in announcing that we are expecting our first shipment of 1927 Harley-Davidson Motor Cycles- Solos--Combinations, and the famous "Singles," aide-by-"

side valves as well as overhead valve motors.

They will arrive just at the best riding time of the year. Book your order early and be the first have 1927 model on the road

Big assortment of genuine H.D. spare parts and ac-

cessories in stock.

Repairs on all makes of motor cycles.

Mobiloil

Make the chart your guide

How many times have you seen the car ahead of you

leave a streak of water on the roadway? Many times, we

dare say. Heat is the cause. Friction generates heat, and

heat breaks down the film of oil protecting the moving parts.

When the film of oil is only partially destroyed, rapid wear is taking place and unless the engine is allowed to cool,

the pistons will seize or some part will break. The result

is a trip to the garage and consequent costly repairs which

could have been avoided had the Correct Grade of Gargoyle

#Mobiloil been in use.

VACUUM OIL CO.

CLEAN CITY BY MOTORS.

that the traffic authorities will The Peak Tramway Company path, which would illuminate union to swell the multitudinous enough for Shanghai travellers? pload that the full Regulations has Tocantly installed more the road suficiently to allow the Chinese organizations, a kind of Nowadays, if we require a car, ROADS CUT MOTOR COST- have often been published. It is powerful lights for signalling the constable to see the driver's Taxi Drivers and Owuors' Federn we get in touch with the garage wrong to overtake another vehicle departure of trams from the signal. In England last year, a tion. Again, it will knock the wo fancy, and are able to order Rosearch work conducted by the within a controlled area and the lower station, and while these plan was made that drivers wear chitsigning on the head, because anything from a "Lizzie" to a Pennsylvania highway commis To clean the streets of New majority of local motorists new lamps are useful for their white gloves, at night, and if no Chiness owner-driver is going fully appointed limousins. The doubtless know that. But when passengers, they rather confuse such were made the practice to allow foreigners, indiscrim- taxis will be all of a type, and sion shows that the cost of opora- York City, 1,823 pieces of gaso man reads the regulation as the traffio point lights just below here in Hongkong, the police inately, simply to put pencil to their chief value would somition for all types of motor vehicles lene-driven apparatus are used. just what is said thorofa it is pointed this out, and there ap effectively controlling traffic by As things are now, the hired car tances. And here they will have and 15 per cent. less than ovor and sixteen various types of rotary worded on his licence and follows them. Several motorists have would be greatly assisted in paper as a foken of indebtedness, being able to run over short dis- ever hard-surfaced roads is 25 por This number includes 180 snow cent, less then over dirt roads leaders, three vacuum sweepers, hard lines on him if ho is pants to be a need for larger and artificial light, and motoring driver doesn't caro a rap about to compete with the

gravel roads. summoned. The case which has brighter traffic lights in con generally would be safer.

the fare. He just allows the chit Tord."

Dollar

broom