1928-11-17 — Page 17

MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY, 17th NOVEMBER, 1928. Being The Official Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

CORRECTING ROAD-MAKING MISTAKES.

Engineers Subject Samples of Material to Severe Tests.

[Special Report to the Hongkong Telegraph.]

The Latest 1929 HARLEY-DAVIDSON

CURRENT

COMMENT

At Thipo,

A Road Suggestion.

It has been suggested je us, that It is some time since the bridge an attractive addition to the was buill at Taipo, long enough in Colony's motoring roads would be fact for the road approaching it to provided by making a one-way become in rather bad condition. rond from Wong-nel-Chung Road That work has not commenced be- to Tai Tam. The scenery through fore is probably owing to the fact the hills along this route is most that time had to be allowed for the beautiful, although but few new road foundation to settle, but residents are aware of it, owing if such is the ease, we imagine that to the fact that a rather long walk a sufficiently long period kais been is entailed in order to enjoy allowed, and that the

necessary The cost of such work should not work might be put in hand now, be by any means high, because the Robinson Road. present truck through the district would merely require a little widening in places, and the rond itself surfacing,"

Repulse Bay.

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Speaking of bridges brings to mind the great improvement which would be effected by widening the Bridge on the Robinson Rond. As the result of a landslide some two Just's one renches Repulso Bay from the direction of Stanley, years ago, the road was widened, there are a number of iron sheet but the bridge remained as before. on the loft of the road, which | At the time this did not mutter very really are an eyesore. They have much but now that trafic is much been painted white, and the object heavier in the district, the narrow- is to show the contour of the roadness of the bridge creates, quite n by night. Such indication is, of course most necessary, but a fow death-trap, and widening will be the posts orccted specially for the purjonly solution to the problem. pose, would not marr an otherwise Motor Bus Stops, beautiful district.

A Good Rond.

We have been requested to draw attention to the fact that motor The road from Repulse Bay to buses on the Caine Road route do Stanley has recently been resur not always observe the official stop faced, and motorists will note with satisfaction that an extremely ping places, but occasionally plek good job has been made of it. An up passengera at other peinta. We Improvement would be effected do not think there is any really however, if the corner mentioned serious objection, as long as the In the above note were widened drivers do not stop at places where The bend is rathor sudden at this stationary vehicle is able to point, and with the frequent traffic cause obstruction or danger. leaving the Repulse Bay Hotel, as much road room na possible Is Shanghai Gymkhana, clearly desirable. In this instance also, the cost would not be high. Wandering Rickshas.

A sumple of asphalt from macadam pavement stretched to a hair's width a meter long to determine its ductility, as shown at left, is one test to which road pavement samples are put at the Boston laboratory of Warren Brothers, Another, at right, is the needle test for con sistency.

rock and sand.

being

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Boston, Oct. 11th-In a dusty, it with a weight of 100 grams for curve at high speed is terrific and noisy laboratory here, the mistakes five seconds, electrically lined. The here again the rock must withstand and miscalculations made in build- distance which Cho needle an abrasion lest. ing yesterday's roads are being penetrates into the asphalt is re- It is put into a revolving cylinder converted into profitable examples corded on a dial. This is the pen where it comes into contact with for the future.

etration test for consistency,

hurd iron surfaces. The cylinder The asphalt has It is the Warren Brothers' labo-

now been so is revolved ten thousand times. The ratory where research is going on shaped that it can be attached to pleca of rock is then removed and In the construction and improve a stretching mechanism in a smali weighed and the dust arising from A Motor-Cycle Gymkhana is toment of macadam roads. Macadam upright glass vessel. The vessel is the abrasion is also weighed. The be held, for the first time in is a combination of asphalt, crushed! filled with water maintained at a weight of the dust shows the per- Shanghal, on November 25 at the

temperature of 77 degrees. The centage of abrasion. | l'ioneer

This is a meticulous experiment Field. It Ja

The proper combination of these asphalt is stretched so slowly that Although we believe that the organised by the local motor-three units in their proper form one cannot perceive the movement. for, if great care is not taken, the number of rickshaa plying for hire cycling club, known as the "China scientists in this laboratory

makes the kind of roadbed the It is drawn into long thin hairs a dust caused by the rock being are meter or so in length. It must thrown about in the cylinder, may in the centre of the city is being Associated Motorcyclists."

trying to maintain. They get sam stretch at least a meter, nearly 40 form a cushion to minimize a part gradually reduced, these vehicles

The programme hus not yet ples of such rouds, already built or inches to pass this test.

of the abrasion during the balance are still a source of annoyance to motorists. Coolies have a habit of een definitely decided upon but under construction, from all parts These two tests determine the of the test. loitering for fares, and they are it will follow the lines of the many of the country and subject these to asphalt's consistency, for the need-

Tests for Wet Weather. le must not vary in the depth it not always particular about keeping Kymkhanas that are being held in various tests. well in to the side of the rond, Af England, where motorcycling as a Each sample is put into an oven sinks into the asphalt sample

Since, also, roads. get different though these vehicles do serve a use sport is organised to a very high and cooked to loosen it up. It is more than half a millimeter, and its kind of wear in wet weather, a then mixed with a solvent and the ductility, which means It must special machine has been devised ful purpose at present, in view of degree. our increasing motor traffic, firm

whole is placed in a receptacle re- stretch without breaking. A sur to test its materials under condi- volving at very high speed so that face in which asphalt possesses tions of moisture. In this the rock steps should be taken to stop this!

the asphalt in completely separated these qualities will best withstand is hurled about in a cube containing obstruction caused by loltezers..

from the sand and stone.

the terrific effects of millions of water. Thus available information Motor Rickshas,

hurrying automobiles and of heat is gathered on the abrasive qualities and cold.

to inaugurate.

Triplex" Goggles..

Local motorists will doubtless welcome the opportunity of pur- chasing "Triplex" motor goggles

of road

Parts are Separated. '.

le had an exact

flock Founded Into Dust.

of the rock when both wet and dry. Not satisfied with conditions of

We understand that it is proposed locally, for motoring demanda The dissolved asphalt is thrown a service of taxi-that the eyes be protected not only out through a porous filter ring or

a road after it has been laid, the1 rickshas. The term sounds some-from dust and wind, but from pos- specimen of the kind of asphalt

washer. Thus

The remaining combination of engineers at this laboratory test what incorrect, for in reality the sible injury arising as the ro- new vehicles will be small two-seat-suit of wearing ordinary goggles. that was used to bind together the rock and sand goes through an ex- the materials before they are com- It is bined for a construction job. Each er cars of the well-known Austin It is, of course, universally known stone and sand on a certain piece hausting abrasion test. mako. They will carry two passen-that "Triplex" is a splinterless This is then placed in a small metal subjected to blows by a machine,

a few days, previously, first bored into cylinder form and material is carefully analyzed and tested. Then they are combined in gers, and the fara will be twenty glass, and therefore the logical container and immersed in water The rear wheel of the average certain predetermined proportions centa per mile... Once these are on material to employ for such an of 77 degrees temperature where it four-ton truck often gives a 16,- and laid on A test the road, there should be no fur-Important purpose. Messrs. remains for an hour until the tem- 000-pound felt to the road after a under pressure of a heavy steam

Lazarus and Co., are the agents.perature of the asphalt equals that jump of a few inches and it is the roller.

of the water.

* | rock in the sub-grado which must By watching the action of this The sample is now placed under take the brunt of this punishment. road, the engineers check up on. a small needle which bears down on The torque of a truck rounding al their findings in the laboratory.

ther use for rickshas.

BEATING DEPRECIATION.

For bearing thumps, nor gear-

box whine,

I know a man-a amartish].

chap-

Who only buys a "red-hot anap” When purchasing a car

Ife's found, hò claims, a method

plain

To drive and sell and show a

gain--

You'll say as I did "Blah."

"Depreciation is," he says, "The biggest price a driver pays For miles of pleasant speed; Remove this burden from your

purae

By buying cars that can't grow!

worse,

They're really all you need.”

The most ho pays a thirty

pounda

For haggard froakie whose many

Bounds

Outdo a blast of jazz;

He does not care for paint or

shine,

Nor who gives him the "razz."

With wire and string and bite

of taro

ITALY'S ROADS.

DEPLORABLE ACT.

WHEEL BURNT.

road

Dictators' Encourages Dangerous Precedent Binding Brake Starts

Speed Routes.

in South Africa.

A dangerous precedent has been

It noti Pretoria (South Africa).

Fire.

One advantage of a dictatorship Ho puts them into running is that the country concerned gets created by the Town Council of BUMP WAS FIRST HINT. good roads. In Italy, Mussolini only naked for the assistance of Drives them a month-and then has encouraged the construction of the Transvaal Automobile Club In An unusual accident was tho private, high-speed routes, and de untangling its traffic troubles-but experience of a driver who was

shape,

Decides to try another kind,

So sells to someone deaf and Riviera, in Spain, is apparently accepted the advice.

blind

For twenty nine-pounds tan.

As wire is cheap, string nearly

free,

| trying to induce the population to

Be more cară,

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There is only one car for each

He buys and sells and says, with 157 inhabitants of Spain, but the

glee:

"Expensive. cars be blowed."

Government has act its highways

But there's one coat he doesn't in order, and how plans to com

charge-

If added on It would bulk

largo

The cost of being towed.

(Sydney Sun).

struct 6,000 miles of now roads.

Result of this advico la that! vehicle traffic space in the streets has been increased by cutting off portions of the footpaths.

PARKS ARE POPULAR

speeding along the southorn-road, Sydney.

One of his front wheel brakes was binding, and the friction set fire to the wooden wheel.

The driver know nothing of the trouble waiting for him until his axlo hit the ground Then, he More than 2,225,000 visitors to thought he had lost a wheel, but All the principal cities are to be United States, national park last discovered the wreckage of the linked to the capital, and the inter-year used a total of 557,000 motor charred spokes and tyre beneath national routes improved.

cars to make their trips.

the car.

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