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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, FEBRUARY

19,

1927

WHERE STUDEBAKER CARS ARE TESTED.

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DON'T LEAVE YOUR CAR IN PEDDER STREET.

THERE is no longer any reason why you should leave your car out in the street all day. Sunshine and rain aliko cause deterioration, whilo meddling fingers are liable to interfere with it,

Within a few second of the centre of the City, a new garago has opened where you may leave your car or cycle with the assurance that it will be well looked after. It is located in the old Fire Station Building where there is ample accomodation.

Furthermore, an expert staff of mechanics is ready to offect any repairs quickly and officiently."

Daytime Storage (during. business hours 1

All Cars.... -$15.00 por munth or $1.00 a day Motor Cycles ..$ 7.50

THE CENTRAL MOTOR GARAGE

Old Fire Station Building,

Des Vœux Road. Telephones C. 2196 and 4821.

DRIVER'S TEST.

Viscount Curzon's

Views.

More than one hundred thou- sand street accidents are now caused by vehicles every year in England and this number in- creases by over. 15,000 annually. Nor is this increase steady; it grows larger by 2,000 cases overy

year.

But by sano legislation and careful avoidance of panic mea- sures the risks of the road could be greatly lessened and the num- bor of accidents reduced.

confuct while using it.

It seems to me that

tho

Daily, Studebaker cars are put through at the new Proving Ground west of South Bend. Here a Studo- baker Duplex-Phaeton is shown splashing through the water pan. In oval, a Standard Sis Custom Sedan "eating up" a 12 per cent. grade.

Ind-Twelve given over to "hard going" a long section of rutted, inud road which tests body, frame and springs. At brisk speed this stretch of "grief" subjects the car to strains which exaggerate most driving condi. tions of ordinary experience. Farther, a stretch of doop, shift-

South hand, miles west of South Boud on the Lincoln Highway a picturesque ridge rises above fertile farm lands-reminder of early glaciers, Densely wooded with stately onks and maples, it might seem to be a natural play-ground, yot

it is, in effect, a veritable galley ing sand measures the tractive rack where modern automotive officiency and pulling power. science plies its whip of strain and stress to test the meille off its products. It is the Studebaker Proving Ground, in which $1,000, 000 has been invested.

Car

There skilled engineers subject Studebaker

to searching tosts. Hero in endless session they prova Studebaber design and stamina under actual driving conditions, pursuing the Stude- baker tradition of making good with the public by continually making baiter in the plant.

The instruments by which the Studebaker engineers probe into

A 250-foot roadway, dopressed and with concrete walls, may be filled with water to any depth required. Studebaker.care plunge through this trough to show Studebaker, absorvers how the ignition system roucts to a good soaking, whether the carburotor chokes with water, if the engine will sputter and miss, how the brakes are affected-and many other questions which affect dé- pendable, positive operation.

Back at the Studebaker fac- torlos 1,200 inspectors mako‘96,- 000 inspections on the three me- Yot médols are

he secrets of performance are dels of Studebaker cars during many and varied. Encompassing manufacture.

the wost half of the Proving taken from each day's production the outdoor Ground is a three-mile stretch of and brought to

A laboratory to prove the finished varying road conditions. straightway over smooth gravel product is right. Driven leisurely represents the average well-inain until properly broken in, these tained highway. Hero Studebaker cars are subjected to the hard- a full ships. of the hillroad. It is un- cars are put through routine of diversified tests of doubtedly true that no owner will engine efficiency, accleration, ever impose on his car the suc- braking, driving case, economy, cession of gruelling tosts which thase Studebakers must confront Another section of the tract is on this Proving Ground.

etc.

TRAPPING FOR BRAKES.

Police "Stunt."

TRUCK DISTRIBUTION,

Farmers as an industrial class are the largest, users of motor queks, according to a survey

By Capt. E. do Normanville, in made in the United States during The Daily Chronicle.--

the past year. Secord to tho

I encountered a new police frequency of mishaps is largely stunt the other day which has farmers

is the industry of1-

due to the fact that the groat given me "furiously to think: "groceries and food products, number of inexperienced drivers I was approaching London from who are on the roads to-day have the south, and, I fear, materially already quite as many complica. exceeding the speed limit on a LARGE TRUCK OUTPUT. tions to think about as they cannico wide desorted stretch of cops with; so that any now rales road..

When two policemen suddenly There were more than 530,000! made must simplify the over- elaborato and muddling precau appeared with outstretchied arms trucks and buses produced in the I thought my "numbor was up" United States during 1926, This tions now in force.

497,452 in 1925.

JOIN

A frequent suggestion-which-or, rather, was going to be is compared with an output of.. has even roceived the blessing of down in their notebooks.

The road was rather skiddy. the Automobile Association-is that vehicles nt cross-roads but with vacuum-operated four- should always give way to other wheel brakes I stopped comfort. vehicles approaching from their ably before reaching them-and righthand side. This, to my waited for the next move. mind, is a hopeless complication. It was then that I got my great Though it sounds simple enough, surprise. Every applicant for a driving yet, if you imagine it applied to said Mr. Constablo," you can get licence should be required to pass London traffic-or to that of any along now. some form of test. This need not busy city-its impossibility, is at be expensive. The Safety First once apparent, Council already publishes a small

"It's all right, sir,'

Torn between the desire to make good my escape and to probe mystery, I eventually decided on

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Instead of introducing this the latter course. As innocently! booklet which is issued to any artificial measure, why should as possible, therefore, I said, I applicant for a driving licence, and I 600 no reason why the wo not adhere to one of our oldest was afraid you were going to

accuse me of exceeding the spood THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE licencing authorities should not highway customs?

It has been handed down to us limit." ask half-a-dozen questions- taken at random from the book-for very many years that, in

THE SNAG.

before granting a driving licence, any case of doubt, traffic on side The policeman's smile was This would ensure in prospective roads should give way to traffic on eloquent." Not much doubt drivers certain knowledge of mainroads. This custom is pretty about tho speed, sir, but with the rules and customs of the road gonerally observed throughout brakes like that there's not much which they might otherwise ac- the length and breadth of the quire only by "futuro-possibly country-doubtless because it is bitter experienco.

danger.olthor.

"I wont and I thought.

common sonso, without any law Hero was common-sense treat- to support it though I think it ment to a technical motoring has been uphold in Scottish offence-rare and refreshing

courts.

fruit.

While thereo is o common tendency in the case of any accident involving a motor and

All that sooms nocossary in The only snag I could see was a pedestrian to put the whole blame on the driver, this view is order to avoid, as far as possible, the groney state of the road and of 01 in not shared altogether by those complications in cross-road traffic the possibility

driver with a whose duty it is to inquiro into in this country is the completion experienced such accidents. In my opinion of the classification of the roads."skiddy" car being similarly, we shall not got a real improvo-Whon this is done I can see no signalled at very short notico mont until, by legislation or reason why the existing warning which might result in an ao administration, it is provided that signs cannot have added to thom cidont. ovory usor of the highway is a letter denoting the class of rond oqually

responsible for his being used.

Otherwise it seemed avory: much more sare and useful trap! than the usual typo.

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