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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

B.S.A. Motor Cycles

Won a Team Prize Again

IN

THE INTERNATIONAL 6 DAYS' TRIALTM

Aug. 15 to 20, 1927. Lake District, England"

Gold Medals

Awarded to the team of three, riders using R..A. 4.93 h.p. O.H.V, models, all having completed the course without losing a single mark. Another B.S.A. rider of the Dutch team, mounted on a 4.93 h.p. Sporting side valve

machine was also award-

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Gold Medals

Also awarded to a ridor of B.S.A. 3.49 h.. O.H.V.. motor, cycle combination

the smallest powered sidecar to with a premier award as well as to a rider

of 186 motor cyclo.com- bination.

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IT WENT TO HIS HEAD.] WANT LIFE LICENSE.

Alex Diamond won a medal, for Michigan is considering passage being the most courteous, careful of a law providing for perpetua and efficient taxi driver in New license plates. It would make up A committee of judges and law-York. Shortly after he was ar- the logg in annual license fees by yers in New York has drafted a reated for passing a stop signal. doubling the gasoline tax.

on traffic In which it urges the adoption of com- pulsory insurance, similar to that in Massachusetts. It also ad- vises creation of a commission to. adjust puto accident cases.

According to the Aeronautics

report New York. Another victory is Branch of the American Depart-about to-be won in an age-old ment of Commerce, more than struggle between the greatest of 1,000 airports and intermediate cities and a mighty river. fields will dot the United States from coast to coast and from Canada to the Gulf of Mexico by the end of 1927.

Big, blustering New York soon' will have triumphed once more. over the quiet, stubborn Hudson.

With the imminent opening of the Holland Vehicular Tunnel to awarming automobiles, Manhattan Island will be linked to the main- land in a manner affording long-

ment.

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A survey just completed shows that 865 permanent, stations are now in use, with 187 rities definite ly considering the establishment af municipal airports. Of the pre-Rought convenience and rapid move- sent stations, 207, are municipally owned. Chambers of Commerce, haines clubs and other civic organizations are co-operating in

To the Hudson and the harbour the offert to build up a complete at its mouth, New York owes much

irway and airport system.

if not all, of its commercial aupre- Many authorities are using per-macy. But the Hudson, too, has manent construction for airport been to blame for certain woes buildings and especially for fields retarded inter-city traffic, wasted and runways. Planes for project-time, rasping of travellers' nerves, d passenger lines, carrying as. There have been the railway and many as thirty passengers, such as trolley tubes under the Hudson, to The Ford line between Chicago and be sure, but more and more are peo- Los Angeles, and seven or eight ton ple transporting themselves and freight planes will require rigid their goods by automobile these landing surfaces. Turf and einders, it is claimed, will not stand the wear

It is recommended that runways of concrete 100 feet wide should be laid or even that the entire nero- domes should be of concrete, parti- cularly since this permits landing and "aking-off" regardless f weather conditions.

Runways of this material are in servies at the Croydon Aerodrome and

at airports at Dessau. Ger- any, and Tempelhof, near Berli 1.

TOLLS PAY FOR BRIDGE.

A total of 7,847,220 automobiles passing over the new Camden, N. J.. bridge paid tolls amounting to $2,132,000. This amount moro than pays for the initial east of the hridge and, allowing. for main- tenance of the bridge for the year, leaves a profit of $100,000.

NO SPEED IN ADS.

days.

To motorists, New York has been accessible from the "Jersey side"-- ferry. and vice versa-only by That method of erossing the river is slow at best, and during rush traffic hours it is a most unsatis- factory one.

Now twin tunnels under the Hud- son are almost ready to accommo- dato automobile traffic to a maxi- mum of 46,000 cars cach 24 hours.

Its new triumph over the river cost the city plenty in men and money. Of the three original en- gineers of the tunnel project, only one remains alive; to the strain and worry of the struggle the deaths of the others were attribut- ed... Workmen were killed and in- jured in numbers and nearly fifty millions of dollars and seven long years of time were spent.

But that the city held all this cheap as a price of conquest is evi- dent. It is making equally preten- tious plans to strengthen the tie to the mainland with the world's the greatest bridge. Work on bridge starts about the time the tunnel opens.

An epic of engineering, as well as land's triumph over water, was the tunnel's construction. It was started by the sinking of four enis-

Auto salesmen in the state of Washington are forbidden to refer to the speed of their cars in ad-sons, two on each shore. From vertisements. This law has been those, working shields started bor- passed with the hope it would de-ing toward each other, under the

river's bed. crease reckless driving.

B.M. W. TOURING MOTOR CYCLE

WHICH WON THE ITALIAN TARGA FLORID RACE, 1927

12 B.H.P. MODEL R42 500 c.c.

The new B.M.W. Touring Model represents the latest and most progressive form of engineering development applied to motor cycles.

In designing the R.42 model, it has been the maker's endeavour to procure with all possible expediency, every step of technical progress and every item of riding experience for the benefit of a wide circle of clients. The outcome of this endeavour has been to produce-

The most modern Touring Motor Cycle of the highest quality ever put on the market.

A FEW NOTABLE FEATURES

Engine entirely water and dust proof.

Double Frame throughout,

Increase of engine power to 12 brake horse power.

Rims suitable for normal or balloon tyres.

All gearing effectively enclosed in oil-tight casings. The universally recognised advantages of shaft-drive.

Bosch head and rear lights-Speedometer-Horn.

All spare parts in stock in Hongkong,

May we give you further details of this super-motor cycle?

If you are interested in the most luxurious two-wheeled machine in the world, please call or write for full specifications and particulars..

REDUCED PRICE H.K. $830.00

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Great steel cylinders, subdivided into chambera contrfing compress- ed air, backed the shields. This pressure afforded the "sand hors" the protection of an aerial bulwark in which they worked in safety while digging and blasting paths for the shields through the rock and muck of the river bottom.

Hydraulic jacks with combined thrust of 6,000 tons moved the shields forward as the tunneling progressed. And as they moved, the twin tubes were constructed be bind them, two and a half feet at a time, by means of gaunt cast iron rings of that width, bolted one to the other until mid-river was reach- ed and the out-moving sections" joined. Their junction was exact

to the fraction of an inch. From the downtown New York mouths of the bores to where they debouch upon the tunnel approaches in Jersey City is 9,250. feet, 6,480 of which lie in the river bed itself.

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Near the bottom of each tube, a level roadway was laid, one for cast-bound. one for west-bound vehicles. Their twenty-foot widths permit two streams of traffic each, one slow-moving, the other fast.

Through these tubes will pass 46,000 vehicles a day, about 16,- 000,000 a year. And in their very passage lay an obstacle the gineers found quite as dificult to surmount as the barrier presented by the river itself:

en-

How were the exhaust fumes from so many motors to be removed from the tubes fast enough to pre- vent it affecting drivers and pas- sengers?.

Nearly $3,000,000 was expended in experiments to determine the amount of exhaust gas which would be exuded into the tubes: to mea- Bure the monoxide and other poison content of these gases; to ascertain the rapidity and degree of the poi- son's effect upon human beings.

There ensued a triumph of ventilation. From four pump and- power houses situated at the open- inga, fresh air is to be pumped into the tubes through vents at frequent Intervals along the roadways. Vitinted air is to be 'drawn out through flues in the tunnel ceiling. This at the rate of 3,701,000 cubic feet a minute, fast enough to change all air in the tubes 42 times minute--and without longitudinal draft,

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The three men originally in charge of the tunnel project were Clifford M. Holland, chief engi neer; Milton H. Freemán, engi- neer of construction: Ole Singstad, enginer of design.

Holland and Freeman died while work was in progress. Singstad anw the job through.

In tribute to Holland, the tunnels are named after him.

CAR OWNERS IN ARMS.

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