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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, 7tb MAY, 1927.

Being The Official Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

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The H.K.A.A. Badge.

CURRENT

COMMENT

of the Botanien) and Forestry

| Department will deal with them in

Lurn.

There are still some motorists who do not realise that the local badge of the Hongkong - Automo-Stanley Bathing. bile Association is recognised at

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Home. When a Hongkong mem-! It will come as welcome newa ber of the Association goes Home that the P.W.D. will shortly com on leave, and intends using a camence work in widening the pre- whilst away, the carrying of the sent track which motorists have to Jongkong badge ensures that he

Inse when proceeding to the Stan- will reedive every assistance fromley Bathing Beach. The proposal the R.A.C., and be granted the usual privileges of Home numbers, is to build a 20 ft. motor road from the main road, and when The Honkong Association

popular little officially recognised as an ass-completal, this ciate organisation of the parent beach should become more popular It is to be hoped how body, and its members are most than ever. courteously treated. This should fever, that the work will be speeded be remembered by every Hongkong up in order that the benefit there- resident who contemplates motor-from may be enjoyed this year. ing when on leave.

Traffic Control

IN

Te-day's Races.

For the races fo-hy, na diver-

It is probable that a trial willtion of traffic will be made, as be given to a special traffic con-jens at present are unable to pro- as the cred round the "Valby owing to trolling system known "Aga" at the junction of Des the Wong-nei Chong Road between Voeux Ronel and Pedder Street. Village Road and Sing Woo Street The proposal is that the tramway being closed to traffic. Cars may standard in the centre of the real fuse Queen's Road East and drive way should be done away with straight through to the entrance and in its place, the "for the Jockey Club, returning the standard erected. This system! does away with the necessity of a way is not expected that posting traffic police, the signai-rafie will be exceptionally housy. ling device being red lamps which the straight us to and from intermittently hash from Tour the Valley will not inconvenience Trametirs travelling to points The fights are visible by anyone. day or night, and trate from all the rares will also drop their pas directions pass the standaril on the Sugers at the main entrades, but left. The only point to be such service roand Wong-not- observed is that drivers must alow hour Ron, as far as Sing Woo up when apprenching the lights. Street, near the Dragon Com- These devices have met with men's premises will also

of the minaised. aneress in other parts

world, partiendarly the bangeroes Railway Lines, States and Swetten, and doubthies)

be

COLOUR SNAP POWER SPEED.

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The Engine, Chasis and Body Improvements.

For The Hongkong Telegraph by Israel Klein.]

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they would prove invaluable here,

It is not so very long ago tliny

Some, outstanding auto improvements revealed at the New York auto show. probably leading to the adoption windled attention to the bad

photos, left, foot control for tilting headlights on the. Oakland; right, the new Erskine Six. of the system in various other state of the roads in Kowloon t

Lower photos, left, front of the new Chevrolet; right, interior of the Paige Eight. parts of the Colony.

The fat places which are crossed by re- that two trallic poliermen, would elumation train lines, and it was

New York-This will be a year; The Whippet, still only an in- better, in addition to its major not be required at the junction good to see that afterwards some referred to indicates that the s38-jefforts were made to improve the of colour, snap and speed if the fant as a four, appeared as a small change to eight cylinders and four sut of these rails and bring them now models shown at the New six. The Whippet four, however, speed transmission. The Paige tem is economical.

more in keeping with the level of York Automobile Show are to be

remains. the road. The first set on the out-taken as a basis for prediction. ward journey, which cross Nathan

White Lines.

In addition to the "Aga" system paint, white lines arogs Pedder"

formidable bump unless the

There was practically not a

were

Six, however, remains in all its former models,

Small cars are increasing, as the

mentioned above, it is proposed to Road bevond Mongkok still presentblack car an the floor-almost a show revealed, with the introduc- Street and Des Voeus Road with motorist slows down, but the real sudden reversion from the staid ton of the new Erskine Six, which the Studebaker Corporation first the object of guiding pedestrians rouble lies with the next set on exteriors of two years ago.

Before At least half a dozen new eights introduced at the Paris Auto Salon the proper way to across the rond, the read to Laschikok.

introduced one of them a few months ago, the new light thus avoiding as far as possible the recent rains this set was pass- the Rimless wandering and vehiclable, but apparently the rain has going to the point of combining the Star Six, and the continued popu- dodging which is customary at washed away the earth banking larger engine with a smaller car larity of the Chevrolet and the present. This locality is one of the rails, and now in wet weather for power, specil and economy. Whippet. the busiest in the Colony, and wet is a real danger spot to the sole That's the "Little Marmon." think that any attempt to organise motor cyclist. both pedestrian and automobile these rails is simply pitted with traffic. is mended. Vehicles Examined.

The road neur

Here and there a product stood oat with an innovation unique to |the show.

mon.

Every car on the floor showed that refinement in design and in appointments that appeal to the modern auto passenger. Yet, under the hood or in the chassis, there's usually some innovation that makes each automobila a stepļ ahead of last year's model.

Essex and Hudson.

There were important engine refinements in the Cadillac and Auburn, while Hudson and Essex. includes not only improvements in the engine, but in the entire Re- designed radiators and new body anearance of their cars.

moldings give more snap to the bodies. (Both of these cars re- present popular opinion).

Oldsmobile joins the ranks of the cars with four-wheel brakes, leaving a diminishing minority in the two brake class.

Oakland adopts the tilting hend- light of Cadillac, which can be operated with ease from the foot- board to the left of the driver.

Yet the big car field isn't Body refinements for comfort neglected, for several new eights to be strongly com-holes, which are sufficient to throw and luxury were general through appeared. There was the Paige, a motor cyclist from his machine out the show, with engineering Chandler. Stearns-Knight Elear, if he is not aware of their condi-improvements running only second Rickenbacker and the Little Mar tion.

to these, During the month of April, a Combinations for Macao. great many motor vehicles were

On Saturday last three Harley examined on the road, as to their

Four Speeds Back. fitness to be driven from the safely Davidson combinations were takes point of view. The undermention to Maes on the Sui An by Mr. A.

The new Paige Right, for: ed list will show the sumber Gascon, the local agent, for the

the four-speedi ordered to stop running until de use of the Macao Traffic Police. instance, with

Before Al! the machines are of 1,000 cc,transmission, a reversion to the fects were nude good. being permitted to resume, they and one is fitted with a double early four-speed days in America,

In addition to showing the new were required to pass a further sidecar. The Macao Police have and to the European practice even there's the oil filter and air test:-

previously used this type of to-day among the finer and larger cleaner under the hood, while the cars for 1927, the New York auto

bullet headlights, the sleeker show had an innovation in .89

machine, but the latest model now Cars. in use in the Portuguese colony is The "Little Marmon," with its radiator and one-piece fenders section devoted to acquainting the help toward a finer appearance. motoring public with approved 1929, and 1919 machines me eight-cylinder engine built

machines small dimensions for high power Inside as well, the car shows im- practices in motor repair. A shop still in use. The new will be exported to Macao for and greater economy, combines provements for the passenger'squipment section revealed tools

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Summonses were taken out against seventeen drivers whose vehicles were found to poses faulty brakes.

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Removal of Overgrowth,

Motorists will note with appre- clation the removal of "over- growth" and brushwood in several stricts. Especially on the road "from the University to Pokfulam The is the improvement noticed. Automobile Association has made certain suggestions in regard to

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Police use in the near future. Mr. this with smallness in size of the Gascon superintended the loading car, so as to make this the smallest

In Chevrolet, for instance,

comfort.

Whippet, new as it is, comes out with a new type of spring ausfen- ston. to afford easier riding.

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and other apparatus that are being installed in the better garages for The Paige also incorporated the protection of the public and unloading of the combinations, eight-cylinder product in America, some interior changes for the against poor mechanics.

JAVA'S AUTO

PROBLEMS.

Attack on automobiles by cows

Automobile Club Proposed.

especially.

in Manila

PREVENT MIRROR

GLARE.

MANILA MOTORISTS. dziving conditions

Mr. John W. Green, chief of police, is in favour of the organi- zation of the proposed club,

A device for eliminating glora in stating that it would help much to

traffic

enused by in the rear-view mirror conditions the malter, and it is gratifying to a the chief trafle hazard in Java, Organization of an automobile improve

Similar organizations in headlights of a car in the rear has know that the Botanient and according to L. B. Prinsen Geer club in Manlin similar to those in Manila.

the market. A Forestry Department has,

liga, resident of the Dutch Enst tho United States, is under consi- the United States have proved been placed on closely following the suggestions, Indies. "The greatest nuisance on doration by Manila car owners. their usefulness in recent years. groen slecting is molded in such lent sympathetic co-operation. There are still some places where our roads," says Mr. Goerligs, "are The purpose of the club will be Mr. Green said he will do his share a form that it may be clamped di- ! action is nerded, and we have no the excarts. Those huge vehicles to secure passage of a uniform to push through the organization doubt but what the Superlatendenten two high wheels ruin our beau- traffic law and to adopt auch of the club as soon as he is in- rectly over the rear-view mirror and

measures calculated to improve formed of it officially..

in

tiful roads."

rnired or lowered at will.

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