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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

BRITISH TRIUMPH, Wilmot Evans, won a Manufac

Recent Motor Cycle Trials.

The results of the Auto-Cycle Union's six Days' Standard Stock Machine Trial very ably demon- strate the high stage of reliability and efficiency that has been reached by British Motor Cycles,

Sixty-two brand new machines elally selected from manufac- turers' or dealers stocks by the A. C. U, subjected to n week's trial un- der most arduous conditions over a course of 750 mlles, was the test tol which they were put. Fifty-two of the machines gained gold medals and of this number, thirty-six.came through with absolutely elean

sheets.

The Triumph Company's Team, consisting of Miss Edyth Foley and Messrs. F. G. Edmond and

turer's Team Prizo and Gokl Medals, finishing the course without the loss of a single point.

The 750 mile course was moro severe than that of previous years. With Buxton as the centre, the routes traversed were, for the most part, through moorland tracks of the Peak district of Derbyshire, and this, combined with the inclu- sion of well over 100 hills, having gradients steeper than 1 in 7, pro- vided a very searching test for both riders and their machines.

It ja interesting to note that each of the three members of the suc- cessful Triumph Team piloted one of the new Triumph Model N do Luxe, which is a plendid mount for Colonial conditions, having an engine with a capacity of 494 cc., mechanical lubrication with sight feed, the new pattern. Triumph front forks and internal expanding brakes on both front and rear wheels.

A tyre is only as serviceable as its inner tube. Firestone Steam: Welded Tubes eliminate the possibility of slow leaks and assure more carefree miles with fewer tyre Phanges By perfect-... ing this steam welding process. developing special tube ma chinery and using volume pro- duction. Firestone offers a tube of certain performance at no increased cost.

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AVERAGE SPEED 97.54 M.P.H.

[Special Report.]

SATURDAY,

JULY

WHITE LINE

TRAFFIC.

Sensible Method of Division at Bends.

30 1927.

FIAT TRIBUTE: "The Biggest Thing in Small Cars."

famous English motoring critiles wrote in the Illustratod Sporting and Dramatic News a very clever article on the 509 Flat cur

Mr. H. Massac Buist, the

The title The biggest thing in small cars" represents the sum mary of his conclusions after a miles made with a standard 500 long trial run of more than 1,000 Fint car.

[By Capt. E. de Normanville in the Daily Chronicle.} Coming back to town recently from the East Coast, I passed through Colchester, and congratu- late its officials as the first town engined car of any size-wrote Mr.

"It is the only four-cylinder, in which I have seen the white Buist I have driven over any Hino scientifically arranged.

appreciable distance during the

In nearly every case where a last twelve months with which I white dividing line is put down for have not felt, at one moment or traffic safety or a sharp corner another, that I should profer a six or bend the roadway is just divid- or an eight cylinder power unit. ed into two halves.

which itself convoys an idea of T the balance and acceloration This is so palpably stupid and achieved. I know no standardised non-helpful in many cases that four cylinder engine which will oro is astounded to see the prac-'open out' like this one; it has the! tice still almost universal.

charno-

instantaneous quality

In most cases the road should teristic of the best racing and not be divided into mathematical aviation practice, and of the halves. Generally speaking, the employment of many cylinders; it inside curve should be allowed refinement of the highest grade has also the smoothness and

less-width than the outside curve.

This leaves the inside traffic motor carringe, with all the room it needs-it The engine ignores hills, as the would go there in any case if pro-brakes do descents, so easy is it perly driven-and maltes the out-to maintain speed with absolute with no hint of George Souders, ashyun- Leckleider of Elgin, Illinois was side trafe driving as easy as the safety and

forcing. assuming man from Lafayete, another victim of a anashup. His circumstances permit.

Thk car is not sold on eye- Indiana, U.S.A., Lecame somebody car skidded and turned over with in the business, of automobile Kohlert beneath it. He was pick-inside traffic should have about hundred

On a normally sharp bend the wash, as by tricking It out with a and one gadgets in racing at the Indianapolis Motored up for dead and rushed to the 10 per cent. of the available read accordanco with the current Speedway on May. 10, 1027. hospital. where an. Souders, a

emergency width, and the outside traffic vogue; instead every detall ly formes student at operation was performed to save about 60 per cent. Colchester is unobtrusive, simple and necessary. Purdue University, driving a his life. Duesenberg special in his firat

the first town where I have noticed In the showroom it will make no this correct major event, wan the fifteenth

of special impression on you, for you application

shall think: How small the annual 500-mile grind before

body in But get into any one of record breaking crowd of 115,000

the seats, and you shall be aur- spectators.

a

Fate Cheats Strapp.

By a strange twist of fate, Earl llevore of Los Angeles, California, driving a Miller Special, an old timer in major league racing.

"uncommon sense."

Faulty Delineation.

se forth. The

This twenty-seven-year-old Col- grabbed second place and its prize-

Incidentally, when the white prised at the length of the leg- legian, driving the entire distance of $10,000, due to the misfortune line is a halfway division, it makes room, at the width of the accom without rellef, and making only of Babe Strapp, who, when having the driver on the outside curve modation, and two quick stops, piloted his tiny second place within his grast steer a ecurso which is more dif- explanation is that the firm's racer 200 perilous trips around the was forced out of the race with ficult than oncoming traffic would engineers bumpy two-and-a-half-mile track only two laps to go because his dictate if there were no line in five hours, seven minutes and motor began to sputter trouble.

It is probable that the bulk of thirty-three Reconda for

Third place went an

10 Tony non-observance Gullotta of Kansas City, Missouri,driving is due to this cause the who graduated into the racing faulty delineation of areas, business by Leting as a riding mechanic to famous drivers.

of

whiteline

averse speed of 97.54 miles an hour. By his victory, Sauders enriched himself to the extent of about $30,000 in cash, which he can use to advantage because he Wilbur Shaw of Indianapolis, ANOTHER RECORD. intends to regume his studies Indiana finished fourth and Dave mechanical engineering at Purdue Evans, another veteran finished University. Soulders lo a product fifth. There were twelve of the of the dirt tracks and this was original thirty-three starters in the. his first attempt on the well mace to finish travelled bricks of the famous old speedway.

A.A. Membership Figures.

A. the monthly Executive Com- nittce of the Automobile Associa tion held on Tuesday, April 20, 11,- 190 new A.A. members were elected.

Lockhart Takes Quick Lead, The race was replete with) Frank Lockhart, winner of the thrills, spills and death defying 1926 event shot into the lead on speed. There were three serious the very first lap and retained it accidents and the display of game- except for a few minutes when he ness stirred the emotions of thou-! stopped at the pits,

This number constitutes a record sands. Norman Batten of Brook- ing for 297 miles his car threw the total membership of which is After lead-in the history of the Association, lyn, NY, won the admiration of a rear right wheel and he was now well over 395,000. the spectators by his courage forced out of the race to the dis-

in driving his car engulf-appointment of the great throng. boom in British motoring during the The foregoing figures indicata a ed in flames, refusing to desert it. Lockhart profited to the extent of coming season. The car, speeding at nearly 100 $10,900 in winning lap prizes. miles an hour, caught fire,

All of

the Steers With Fabt."

veterans-Harry .Batten. standing erect in the Peter De Paolo-and others were liartz, Leon Duray, Benny Hill, first one hand and then the other been covered because their cars driver's seat steered the car with forced out before 100 miles had until they were so badly blistered eneked, under the strain or were and harned that he finished steer-smashed, up. ing it with his left foct. Ife re-

Telegrams from the Roadside.

The Automobile Association an-

available to members wishing to ounces that every A.A. Roadside Box is equipped with iphones,

send telegrams during their

journeya.

fused to jump out of the car, pro- All cars, to finish the race were

It is merely netossary for mem- viding a drama that has had no equipped with Firestone full-size bern to call the local Telephone Ex- equal in automobile racing. If Gum-Dipped Balloon Tyres.

chango, telephone the message, na- The first ten drivers to finish certain the cost of transmitting tho he had jumped, he might have been dashed to death by the cars with the make of car they drove telegram, and to leave the amount apeeding in front of him, leaving are as follows:

berg.

charged in the box provided for the purpose.

This innovation is a development Earl Bevore-Miller Special of the Association's Roadside Tele- S. Anthony Gullotta-Miller phono Service, which was instituted

Special.

2;

his driverless machine to smash 1. George Souders-Duesen- Into the grandstand and perhaps kill or injure spectators. He was rewarded for his bravery by thei presentation of a gold stop watch.

Two Others Seriously Hurt. Jules" Ellingboe of Memphis, Tennessee was the most seriously injured of the three of the race.: He suffered a smashed chest, andi other internal injuries when his ear crashed into the wall on a turn.

H. Kohlert of St. Charles.

in 1912.

4. Wilbur Shaw-Jyux Special. The Boxes are distributed along 5. Dave Evans-Duesenborg,,

all the main roads, and at many

6. Peter De Paolo-Cooper important cronsways. Every box

Special.

contains a telephone which can. ba

7. Eddie Hearne Miller freely used by members for local

8.

Special.

Ralph Hepburn-Detroit.

calls at any time of the day or night, special keys being issued for

9. Clif Bergere -Miller opening the boxes. Trunk foon are

Special.

Illinois, driving as relief for Fred 10. Frank Elliott-Junior Eight. Payable on similar lines to tele-

PARIS TRAFFIC

LESSON.

Slower and Less Noisy Progress.

M. Doumergue, the French President, had time during his recent busy stay in London to study traffic regulations.

The traffic problem is becoming ever more serious in Paris, and M. Chiappe, the Police Prefect, is searching for a solution of the difficulties it involves.

IIe asked the President for hia' impressions of the traffic in Lon- don streets, and M. Doumergue replied that three things struck. him. They were the:-

·

Slower pace of inotor vehicles. Use of directions painted on streets.

Restricted use of horns by the drivers of motor vehicles.

When M. Chiappe turned to Mr. W. P. Eno, an American traffic export, he was Interested to find, that it was these three things which in Mr. Eno's. vlow were necessary in Paris.-E.

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