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MOTOR-CYCLE TOUR.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPHI,

SEA SCOUTS.

B.S.A. Round the World. 600 Miles in a Motor

The latest advices received from the adventurous pair who hovo sot out to encircle the world

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Boat.

The choory Boy Scout is 0. on B.8.A. Motor Bicycles, state universally popular that his that these riders, Mesara, Cath- rick and Castley, are carrying on brother, the Sea Scout, should be" despite having encountored tro-better known to the public. That mendous difficulties in the shape this splendid movement is ap- of indescribably bad road con-próviatod by those who know is ditions, although they say their shown, however, by the generous mounts have not yet caused them gifts of boats and marine motors rocorded from time to time. For a moment's anxiety.

Some idea of the difficulties instance, a year or so ago Major encountered.may be gained from Younger prosented to the Ports- the knowledge that, whom passing mouth. Soa Scouts his motor is Cawarra," and recently through Asia from Constantinople yacth to Aleppo, the wouther broke, Mr. E. W. Walford, of Coventry, and the roads" wero so bad that prosented to the Hamble Son the machines stuck sovoral timos Scouts the motor boat "Eel." in the mud, when the riders had Sho is 25 ft. long and is fitted to labour forcoly, sometimes with one of the 10-14 h.p. four- Marine motors unaided and at others assisted by cylinder Kid the nativos with bullocks or made by the Ailsa Craig Motor Co., of Chiswick, London. Last horses, to free them.

vory Messrs. Cathrick and Castley year 'the Scouts had a reached Haifa, Palestine, early successful season with her- in Dacombor, where they con-covering solo 600 miles.

Provided that the ongine in coivod the idea of crossing the Sinai Desort on route from such a boat is in every way up to Jerusalem to Cairo, via Suoz. date and officient like the Ailsa This Desert is a trackloss waste Craig Kid, there is no finer way which has never boforo boen of giving Sea Scouts practical in- Astruction in seamanship and at crossed by a motor cycle. later advice informs us that they the same time enabling them to have successfully negotiated the gain valuable knowledge on the desert-a unique performance.

mechanical side of seafaring. In Kaen interest is being displayed this the Hamble Sea Scouts aro in the riders and their machines particularly fortunato with their at all towns through which they engine for it is one that embodies pass-add it is hoped, that the all the latest principles, heing second stage of their journey, similar in design to the wonderful by the Royal across India, will prove as engines used

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MARCH 26, 1927.

the secondhand columns of tho great British motor journals gives

which becomes more difficult overy day.

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NEW A.A. Service.

Fog Flares for Motorists.

For some time past the Auto- mobile Association has conducted

STRANGE CATCH.

Motor Lorries in Trawler's Net.

A travollar visiting:Shanghai

There are, of course, those who some time ago was rather sur.

In Great Britain at the moment rofuse to part with their old and

The skippor and crow of a fish- prised to see two extraordinary looking motor vehicles, which on there exists a glut of socondhand trusted cars. The oditor of a Lon- closer examination turned out to care which is causing consider. don wookly, for instance, posso

SBDA a sixteen-year-old Star land-exporiments with a view of assisting trawler in the North Sea had bo a pair of 2-ton Albion chassis jablo concorn to the trado. The

oar aulette which has made its daily ing motorista when road junctions a strenuous time recently, whon which had been purchased by the really well-made British Voluntary Defence Force, Shang- such as the Rolls-Royce, Daimlor, ran to town, and its wook-ondare invisible owing to dense fog. hai, and converted into armoured Sunbeam or Star, is almost jaunt, with a rogularity that is At 50 points whore A.A. roadside they landed an unusually heavy cars, A revolving turret bad indestructible, and even when almost proverbial. When involv- telephone boxes are erected, and catch in the shape of two motor The vehicles had evidently been been erected behind and above advanced in age" possesses aed in a somewhat serious accident whore difficulty is encountered, lorries. the drivor's cab, and this accom-vordanoy and vim that is most lately, owing to the vagaries of a pormanent arrangements have modared maolino guns and small appealing to the connoisseur.sidecar, his family conducted an boen made so that immediately a search lights.

The radiator, The owners of such cars ofton ardent campaign for a vehicle of dangerous for occurs, the A.A on board a ship sunk during the bonnet and the whole of the yield to the fascination of modern a more modern appearance as an road patrols at thoes points will war, as they were barnacled and chassis, with the oxception of the coachwork lines and to the utili-outcome. But ontirely in vain..light flares, keep them in opera-corroded as offects of their long To-day, that ancient but free- tion throughout the day, and, if sojourn out of their natural ale- wheels, had been protected by ty of new mechanical devices

tion, it was found that the gears plating, and this had been clover-such as four-wheel brakes, and running Star is still to be sean in necessary, after dark, until ordin-mont. But on further examina-

But their old neighbourhood of Covent Gardon.ary traffic consos,

A number of those A.A fog of one of the chassis, an AE.C.,... ly arranged in such a way that purchase anew. the radiator could still got a good models show a distinct inclination It has established a friendship bo supply of air. These machines to go on for avor, and when re- twoen man and machine that flares were used during the recent were entirely unaffected, owing have doubtless been rendering freshed by now pairit and tyres almost rivals the affectionate foggy poriod in England, and to the watertight gour-box of this

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