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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

FRIDAY, 24th.. DECEMBER, 1926.

1 Being the Oficial Organ of the Hongkong Automobile Association),

The H. K. A, A,

CURRENT

COMMENT

parations is not easy and lust minute decisions only entail"ad"- With the your 1926 drawing ditional work. We do not suggest rapidly to a close, most of us be that members who are unable to gin to think about New Your re-decide immediately should re- solutions, probably remembering frain from securing tickets at the with regret those we have brokon last-minute, rathor would wo urge in the dawn of other years. With them to remember the adage this thought of good intentions" Better late than ever." In any in mind, it is surely particularly case, those who have decided to appropriate to make a ples that attend are assured of an enjoy- overy motorist who has not yet ablo function, and those who have joined the Hongkong Automobile not yet decided should decido Association, should resolve to do now that they will on no account so with the dawn of 1927. To miss it,

those who ask why they should,į

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we would mention some of the Caine Road. bondfits to be derived from

membership Export mecha ical

Some few weeks ago, attention| apsistance and advice may be was drawn in those notes to the obtained from the Association's danger which a large tree pre- technical adviser, Mr. C. P. Honted in the vicinity of the Police Marcel. Legal advice and assist Quarters in Caine Road. We are ance" from the Association's glad to state that during the week Solicitors." Insurance promiums this has been removed, an im- reduced by ten per cent. Special-provement which hus doubtless ly reduced foos to the R.A.C. and been noticed by motorists using A.A., London. Special arrange-that road frequently,

ments for transporting cars to Speeding. England without Customs troub-

les. Right to carry the Associa. A correspondent thanke us for tion's badge throughout the commenting upon the speeding world. Reliable drivers supplied which is occasionally noticed at reasonable wages, etc. General Benefits,

THE IMPROVED CYLINDER MODEL. PACKARD EIGHT

The above is a photo of the Packard "Eight"-a luxurious car which has found

much favour in the United State.

ROUND THE WORLD

BY MOTOR-CYCLE.

J

along the Praya, west from the Preparing The Way For

Empire Films.

Post Office. We cannot however agree with a suggestion that ho Quito apart from the many makes to the affect that, owing to benefits which are naturally con- the dusty nature of the road sur- fined to members, there are gen-face, motor vehicles should be from" using the eral benefits which are enjoyed prohibited by every motorist in the Colony, thoroughfare during the dry sea The Association is over on the son! Such a suggestion is ob- watch for any improvenient which viously beyond acceptance, but may be suggested in regard to the drivers who cause excessivo making motoring safer in the dust through speeding, might be We quite Colony, and suggestions are fre- suitably dealt with. quently submitted to the Authori-gree that the Praya is parti- tres concerned in the majority of cularly dusty, but i suroly resis cases with satisfactory result. Iwth, the Roads Department to is pleasing to record that the re-remedy the matter.

lations with various Government Kowloon Nuisancë- Departments are most cordial,

INTERESTING

VENTURE.

specially, constructed in the form basis, but all the companies will of punts, and will be used to ferry be linked and will interchange. the riders and their machines across the many unbridged rivers the films on a commercial basis. which they expect to encounter.

Mr. Malins told a press re- The route mapped out will take them through 24 countries, presentative that it is hoped that" including most parts of the the new organisation, when it British Empire, the African and gets to work, will be able to Australasian. Dominions. and | colonios, Indio, Burma,

and supply films which will show the Canada. They will also. visit peoples of the different lands of some of the southern countries the Empire something of the real of the American continent and life of its component parts. He the United States.

hopes, too, that it will counteract OBJECT OF JOURNEY. to a large extent the influence of

Twenty-six thousand miles on motor-cycles through the deserts

The main object of the journey the foreign film, which in many of Northern Africa, the tropical jungles of India and the Far is to obtain, the information need- East, and the snows of Canada is ed as a preliminary to the of the colonies gives the nativ, the adventurous trip which has formation of a great organisation races" a wrong and prejudicial boen planned by Mr. Geoffrey which it is hoped to establish in idea of the white man and Malins, and Mr. Charles Olliver, the interests of British films. A two well-known aviators, in the subsidiary aim is to advertise woman, losseps their prestige, interests of British Empire trade, their motor-cycle and the varied and in some cases puts bofore the and the Association is officially A nuisance which is becoming and particularly of the film in British components and ác-coloured population 厚 false recognised as a most important more and more common in Kew-dustry. Mr. Malina has covered cossorids which it will comprise picture of English morals. and useful body. Such co-opera-loon and which should be stopped, part of the route before, but that and carry, Mr. Olliver, who tion is a mattor for the utmost is the wholesale scattering of

was by air. He and Mr. Me-was formerly attached to the Ho said that he had been given gratification, and motorists should stones and big bricks on Nathan Millan attempted a world flight airship R. 33, hopes in addition to ovary facility by the Foreign not be slow to record their ap-Road in the vicinity of the Poin 1922, but had to abandon it do survey work which may be of Office and other Government preciation by carrying the Asso-Hing theatre, where blasting when their aeroplane crashed in use in connection with com- Departments for his journey, and ciation's badge. Wó sincerely operations aro carried out. Ro- the Bay of Bengal. They nearlymercial air routes. The company had been assisted by the motor- trust that every motorist who contly it has become noticeable died of starvation and thirst be-which it is proposed to form willing organisations and by British has not yet joined up, will make that stones of all shapes and sizes fore they were picked up.

be called British Inter-Empire manufacturers. a special point of sending his aro found on the road, not only

Films, and it will have its centre Messrs. Malins and Oliver left in London for the production and name to the Honorary Secretary] by the theatre but further down, without further delay. The meri- and many of these are of such London on November 27 for the dirtribution of purely British bership is already large; but the shapes and sizes that a tyre is Continent, carrying in their side-pictures. Each of the colonica DISAPPROVES DOUBLE register of names will not be liable to be badly cut. Naturally cars the equipment for their long and Dominions will have its own complete until every owner's after blasting operations one ex- Journoy: These cars have been organisation on an independent name appears therain.

peets to find such things on the roud, but surely it would be but! The First Dinner.

little troublo to the contractors to The Association's "Grst dinner sweep the road after blasting hast takes place in January, and the taken place, and thus save motor- number of names already received lists the risk of spoiling their ensures a large attendance. It tyres. On the other side of the was decided to take members road where no blasting is being opinions on the suggestion, and done, work on the road is in pro-1 that so many should have signi-gress, and, it is nothing unusual fied their intention of being pro-to see dangerous looking stones sent is most gratifying. Doubt-lying in the track of traffic toward Yaumati. less there will be other names to proceeding add to the list, but members are This is a matter which requires requested to notify the Honorary attention, and stops should be Secretary as early as possible. takon to see that the road is kept The work entailed in making pro- clear of such stones.

GERMAN MOTOR-CAR

INDUSTRY.

So many Germans and for

exhibition of German motor-care recently held that hotels, were crowded out.

in car construction, and made it clear that, although the industry is comparatively now, Britain will have to rogard Germany as eorious competitor." The indus-

eigners came to Borlin to see thetry has been built up behind high tariff walls, and had it not been for the almost insurmountable difficulties placed in the way of the importation of foreign cars The exhibition showed the there would bardly be a German great advance mada by Germany car in the country.

GET OVER WITH THAT

PIECE O'

JUNK!

HEY, GET THAT OLD MILK WAGON

OUT OF THE WAY

WHADDAYA (MEAN ?`HOGGIN", THE ROAD WITH THAT OL CAN!

Swall

DECKERS.

Petition of the Boston Elevated Railway for authority to operate motor vehicles over 28 feet in length and of double-deck design has been dismissed by the Depart ment of Public Utilities.

The Massachusetts laws prohibit, the operation of vehicles over 28 feet long and the commission feels that the hazard to life and pro- porly caused by the operation of this typo doubled dock bus put- weighs any economios which might result from its operation."

AUTOMOBILES USE MUCH COPPER.

The automobile has come to bot one of copper's principal con- sumers, says George A. Sloan, secrotary of the Coppor, and Brass Research Asan: " From all indications," he reporta, "a quer- tor of a billion pounds of the motel will be used in the manu facture of automobiles this year a8 compared with 70,000,000 pounde in 1921, and 100,000,000. pounds in 1922,*

AERO ENGINES,

"Air Cooled Best.

"The tendency to increase power is not sound," he explains. "Increased power calls for more fuel and more tankaga for a given performance. This results in in- U. S. NAVY'S APPROVAL. small in proportion to the effect creased weight, and the net gain

The radial, air-cooled engine involved."

has been developed to such fine The engine sought for the lines of perfection that the United navy, therefore, is of the 500- States navy has put its official horsepower, tyre, in contrast stamp of approval on it for its with the 800-horsepower engine airplanes.

of the older planes. This lower

At least for naval combat pur-weight also means a lowering of poses, it is found, the air-cooled weight in the bodily structure of engine is best. The points that the ship.

make it so were pointed out recently by Commander E. E.

Wilson, chief of the engine Boc-

GREATER VISIBILITY,

tion of the navy's bureau of Commander Wilson also points aeronautics, at the aeronautic to the superiority of the radial meeting of the Society of Au- ovor

tomotive Engineers.....

The air-cooled engine has brought about a lowering of the

engines.

the "in-line" air-cooled

The short compact radial

weight in this important part of engine makes possible superior the airplane, a necessity highly visibility for deck landings and sought for naval aircraft. War-bomb dropping, which is a fund- ships and even aircraft carriers

cannot cope with airplanes of as amental requirement for naval great a weight or sizo as those aircraft," he says. "By virtue employed for overland work..

PLANE IS LIGHTER.

of its compactness the radial engine has superior weight-per-. The extra weight of the water-horsepower characteristica, other cooling system means an addition things being equal." of six-tonths pound per horse- power.

Which is a great deal, Engine requirements set down" when the horsepower weight of for efficient naval aircraft include an airplane engine is as low as low weight per horsepower, high two pounds. Elimination of the fuel economy, dependability, water-cooling system also means durability, maximum gass one less line in the plumbing of maintenance, minimum cost and during flight. the plane liable to break down easy adaptability to quantity

production..

Increased power isn't exactly wanted in naval aircraft, says Commander. Wilson.

All these, Commander Wilson points out, are being fulfilled by the radial air-cooled-engine.

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