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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, 8th OCTOBER, 1927.

Being The Official Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

Miss R. E. White. Miss J. Ho Tung.

Miss M. Ellis.

Dr. S. W. Kirk.

CURRENT

COMMENT

New Members.

Motor Show, and the arrange- ments which have already been Biuce publishing the last list. made indicate that the event will the following motorists have join- prove most attractive. A special | ed the Hongkong Automobilely erected exhibition building is Association:

nearing completion at Ruc Lafe- yette and Avenue du Roi Albert, and most of the leading automo bile Arms have signified their in- tention of exhibiting cars and other vehicles. In addition to the motor trade, there will be displays devoted to furniture, fashions, etc., and a dance floor will be pro- "vided. The question has occa- sionally been raised in this Supplement that a motor show might well be arranged for long- kong, and Shanghai's venture will be watched with great interest by the motor car trade in this Colony.:

D. E. Western.'

C. W. Somers.

A. M. Reynolds.

C. F. Aris.

T. G. Bennett.

H. M. Miller.

Kwik Siang Go

A. Braun.

D. Smith Hill

A. Piercy.

O. el Arculli.

H. R. Sturt.

T. M. Gregory.

H.K.A.A. Patrols.'

Thrilling Sport.

1.

Last Saturday's motor cycle football match proved most in- teresting, and will probably have At the M.C.L. Fete last Satur- the effect of making this form of day, many members of the Hong-sport a regular feature in Hong kong Automobile Association kong. The Motor Cycle Club of parked their cars in Lee Gardens the Y.M.C.A. sponsored the event, Street where, the Association's and it is hoped that a number of patrols were on duty. This was teams will be formed, this making the first time that such super the inauguration of a league pos- vision has been given, excepting. sible.

is Although there

an

of course, at the Kowloon Ferry element of danger connected with and City Hall, and it has since motor cycle football, skilled riders been suggested that similar are usually able to avoid collision arrangements might be made in with their opponents, and we pre- Race Meetings. Sume that the officials responsible connexion with etc. The patrols fill a real want, for enrolling players, will assure and were they employed on other themselves that only experienced occasions, members would feel riders are allowed to compete. assured that their cars were not being interfered

with whilst Women Drivers. parked. It may be possible at various times, to set aside aj

Dr. Alexander Crappell, German

special parking space for the psychiatrist recently made the Association, and we feel sure that statement that

was published

the Police would not raise any widely that women should not he objection to such reservation.

Long Loads.

MOTOR CYCLE FOOTBALL OPENS IN HONGKONG.

allowed to drive automobiles. Woman is as capable at the wheel of an automobile as man," is the reply of the Commissioner The latest complaint to reach Charies A. Harnett, of the New us concerning" lorry loads which York State Moter Vehicle Bureau. project a "considerable distance Basing his opinion on operation beyond the rear of the vehicle, of cars in New York, where there refers to Stubbs Road at night. A are more motor vehiclea register. local owner-driver was proceeding cd than in any one European coun- up to the Peak, when, on taking try, Mr. Harnett assorted the sharp bend on his left, he narrow-average woman exercises as much ly averted driving on to project care and judgment in driving a SAFETY MEASURES.

were motor car as man does and is less ing, bamboo poles which being transported on

a lorry. inclined to take risks.

These, poles, we are informed,

stuck out some twenty feet from Motor Tourists. the vehicle carrying them, and the

B

The above pictures were taken last Saturday on the occasion of the first motor cycle. football match to be played in the Colony. Local enthusiasts hope to inaugurate a motor

Highway Indicators.

The inercasing number of motor Boston, Sept. 2nd.-A leader in result of them smashing through tourists to and from the Continent many safety measures Massachu-

be easily windshield can

this season has rendered it neces- setts has again taken a forward devices, Imagined. Had the vehiclés been

sary for the Automobile Associa- step in installing safety an travelling down hill, such accident might have occurred.tion to open a Port Office at Folke directional signs and route mark- We are asked to suggest that if stone, and to increase the staff to ers especially designed to aid night deal with the traffic. There has

The new system has been in the such loads are carried by night, also been a noticeable increase in red lamp be carried at the extreme the number of motorists utilising process of installation for over a end of the load. We heartily Harwick as a gateway to and from year and by the time the 1630 miles agree with the solution, and hope Holland and Belgium, and to meet of state highways have been cover- to hear that a regulation covering their convenience, the Automobile ed it will have cost the state close the question has been adopted.

Shanghai's Show.

а

driving.

stationed to $1,000,000. Association have uniformed representative nt The system consists of non-lum- Parkeston Quay, where an A.A. inous signs and markers erected Commencing on the 28th of this Port Office will be opened in the so that they will come within the range of automobile headlamps arid month, Shanghai is holding a near future.

be visible to the driver. The ma- terial in these signs reflects the light from the headlights and this more 'forcefully calls attention to the warnings.

A NEW MOTOR ROAD AT SHAOHSING.

Built by Private Capital.

cycle football league.

THE LATEST TYPE.

Vacuum Company's Launch Equipped With Semi Deisel Engine.

CROSSING THE ROAD.

London's Six Months' Toll of 228 Killed. Four hundred and seventy-five people 317 of them pedestrians- were killed in street accidents in London in the first six months of this year.

Nearly half of these (228) were killed wher crossing the road 117 through crossing without due care, 50 through hesitating or faltering, and 36 through passing between, behind, or in front of a staionary vehicles.

These figures are given in the Metropolitan Poliça “Summary of Street Fatalities" issued recently,

Twenty-three deaths were due to motor collisions.

Of 44 motor-cycling deaths, six were pillion riders and six drivers pillion rider. Pedal carrying a cycles were responsible for- 68 deaths.

During Apr, May, and June, there were 29,978 street accidents persons in London, in which 261 were killed.

The above photo which was taken off Queen's Pier, shows the fine launch recently built by the Hong- the strain which has been put on

kong and Whampoa Dock Company, communication during the last

At extremely dangerous spots Ltd. to the order of the Vacuum year. The passenger coaches on the railway are sadly in need of along the road, self-illuminating Oil Company. The new. vessel has paint both inside and out, and the signs are used. The signs are in aroused much local interest in that time tables leave much to be desired different shapes to indicate a special it is the first passenger launch in in the way of punctuality. On the type of warning.

Hongkong to be equipped with a Chekiang highway there are a few The colours and shapes of these Gardner Semi Detsel crude oil en- new cars which are very comfort-new night signs conform with the gine. This type of power unit has A motor road has again piercedable and maintain their time-table. standards adopted at the national become universally popular on ac count of the extremely low operat- the walls of Shaohsing. This time The older war-scarred buses, how-conference of Highway Commis-

It is ex- it is the road which links the city/ever, groan, bark, and wheeze in asioners held in 1925 in Washington, ing cost, combined with exception- the numbers given after the

most disconcerting manner, and at at which the joint Board of Inter- ally good performance. with Tadongo and the section of the times stop entirely in most incon- state Highways laid out a eys-pected that many more of these en- S.H.N.R.R. between Tunongo River venient places. So weary are they tem of directional, informational wines will be put into commission and Ningpo. The bridges on the that as times they fail to respond and warning signs.

to the gentle persuasion of half the

new road are completed, the road passengers getting out and pushing. bed practically finished, and un-When one considers the amount of nouncement is made that cars will mileage that has been got out of be running in the near future. The both R.R. coaches and motor buses in transporting troops the wonder road from the Chientang river to is not so much that the vehicles Shaohsing is a provincial highway;| the road from the city to the proceed laboriously but that they Tanongo River has been built by go at all. Great credit is due the officials of the railroad and ractor private capital,

road for the way they have carried Both the S.EN.R.R. and the on in the face of tremendous hand Cheklang highway give evidence of caps.

REACHING THE MILLION.

here, the agents; for which are Messrs. Dodwell and Co., Ltd.

WOMEN FIRST.

has

The chivalry of the south

Denver has & turned to the west, and in a more modern setting. city courtesy traffic code, in which The women drivers have the right of

Way.

The million mark, in number of automobiles.exported annually from America will soon be reached, say observers. This year the export is estimated to reach 600,000, I-cars go to 90 different countries....

The accidents daring April, May, and June are classified as follow,!

vehicles being those killed:

Private motor-cars, 82; trade and commercial; motor vehicles, 80; do, horse-drawn vehicles, 11; motor- cycles, 42; omnibuses, 8; pedal cycles, B; taxicabs, 8; tramears, 2.

ACCIDENTS ARE COSTLY.

in

vehicle accidents Motor America cost about $400,000,000 a year, it is catinated. There's an auto accident every 42 seconds, most of them resulting from some form of fatigue::

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REPAIRS UNDERTAKEN ON ALL MAKES OF MACHINES. Take Bus Route No. 7. (Passes Door).

When You Call Out-

"Give Me A Gallon of Oil"

You're Saying

"I Don't Care What Oil".

Exactly that. If your don't care what you get, why should the dealer? That is exactly what some dealers ask

DS.

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Is that unfair?

Put yourself in the dealer's place. You drive up and. say, "Give me a gallon of oil."

The dealer is. busy. He thinks you don't care. You haven't asked for any special brand of oil.

What will the average dealer do?

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