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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY, 12th JANUARY, 1929,

Being The Bificial Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION,

Remarkable Escape.

CURRENT

COMMENT

and

System Wanted.

Road

tem is badly needed which would exercise control, and prevent the existing chaos which prevails when ever anyone desires to hire n vehicle, or when other ears are en- deavouring to secure room on the and. The other evening ordinary motor traffic was obstructed for

Although the public hire cara Last Sunday's mishap on the

which ply from Chaler road running round the Shatin Re- servoir, movitled one of the luckiest must useful purpose, a sys-

the passengers escapes for driver of the car epneemed that possibly be amagined. It was by the rest chance that the car was not precipitated into the reservoir, and had the brod not caught in the only free bordering the road at that point, there is no doubt but what a terrible accident would have boun recorded. The matter is so serioas, se publie vehicles literally fought that we have no doubt but what position. Two of the cars even adequate steps will be immediately inchilged in a charging bout at each taken to ensure that a similar oc-oil, and judging from currence shall not happen again. The Cause.

several minutes while four or five of

the fernshes, apne damage must have | ▼

resulted: Trẻ sáme scene is fre- quently repeated, and it should be | impressed upon the drivers most clearly that this sort of thing will not be tolerated.

According to the driver of the car, the accident resulted in him pulling over to the left of the rundo and Fro. in order to allow another car to Whether any system ja supposed overtake him. If such was the to exist, we do not know, but it cone, it would appear that an error appears that when one ear sernres of judgment was committed in pull-a fare, all the others on the stand ing too far over to the left, although commence a backing and forward- at the same time, there should be line movement in order to move up no possibility of any vehicle draw-one place. This is decidedly bad. ing in so far to the left on a loose It should be possible to devise a surface which would not hear even scheme which would eliminate this. a pedestrian. The risk is greater Possibly the provision of two or by night than by day, and it has to three cards indicating "Next Car be admitted that a very grave dan-For Hire" would solve the matter, ger exists along the road in quen- Lion.

Road Hogs.

the signs being handed on each suc- 'cessive car as the first one, two or three, as the case might be, left the. stand. Any system would be liable to abuse, but providing occasional supervision be given, and examples made of those drivers who make

There is also the question of an- other car desiring to pass ahead on auch an obviously dangerous road. We are not acquainted with the actual facts of the case in so far as the passing incident is con- Help Wanted. curned, but unless the leading car

NEW MOTOR ROADS OPEN UP KWANGSI PROVINCE.

We have fréquently urged the building of motor ronds in China, and from time to time, rendern in the interfor have sent us snapshots showing progress being made in various districts. It is most gratifying to know that local authorities, as well in lead- ing residents, appreciate the great importance of motor vehicles as an aid to trade and prosperity, which knowledge has prompteșt the inauguration of the present road-building programmes.

were

THORNYCROFT WEAR,

Can This be Beaten?

RELIABILITY PROOF.

Milenge at a minimum of minin- tenance is, in a phrase, the dusider- atum of avery owner of a cominer- einl motor vehicle, but how many of them, we wonder, can equal the enviable record of a Bolton firth who ran their Thornycroft 30-cw!. vehicle for 2 years and completed nearly 40,000 miles at a total coal. for repairs of 19%, 4d. only.

Only a vehicle of first-rate design, and workmanship could give such trouble-free and economical service for years, and it is such experiences as this that reveal without shadow of doubt the consistent reliability of Thornycroft vehicles which keeps them in ever-increasing dorand amongst experienced users of motor transport.

IN AMERICA, TOO. New

Car in Production. FRONT WHEEL DRIVE. "The first American front-wheel drive passengor car will be ex- hibited at the, New York motor show in January. Racing cars of this design have been used on tracks for yeurs, but the Alvis Company of England was the first to adopt it for road use,

To be made by the Humlin Motor Corporation, this passenger vehicle has just gone into production. The car will have a worm-drive front taxle, ' 62 lt.h. Continental! motor, Borgs Beck clutch, worm-drive dif- ferential, Bendix brakes, Delco elec trical equipment and Rose steering gear.

It was indeed a beautiful cold) the road just before entering the One's admiration in again centred eighty 1. Roads are being opened

the fine themselves a public mulsance, bet-morning when we started out in City of Cheun Cheo, where it has on

roads leading all over the Province and those Bodies are being made by the our car to investigate the new been cut out under a rocky ledge from Kwet Lin to Li Pu a distance who visit marvel at the real Murray Corporation, and haya an ter order might be obtained.

automobile roads going to the entailing much labour, No. 2 of about 270 H. The road is fine progress that has taken place. overall height of only 63 inches. Another surprising case reluting Hunan Province border from Kwei shows the entrance to n pic but from Li Pu to Ping Loh the Our faithful Ford did not; The new front-wheel doublé float- was travelling at an unreasonably to learner's licences happened in Lin City in Kwangsi. "As we turesque "bridge. No. 3 gives a road is not so good and after weaken a time and went along ing axle and combination 'driving

we when started alow speed, there should be no ren-Pedder Street recently,

rather dis glimpse of the road winding away crossing the Fuh River at Ping just na smoothly as if on a cement and steering device to be used are son for any other vehicle desiring local motorist was requested to couraged because of the many over the hill in the distance. In Loh the roads then for over road.,

protected by patents. to overtake it at that particular back another ear on to the parking bumps that we experienced in the No. 4. Mr. E. Gibson Craig is one hundred miles are good and locality where the road is not only space owing to the excuse that the early morning hour, yet as we pro- seen with his faithful Ford cross the ferries reliable. Motor bages, most dangerous on necuunt of its person making the request was only pressed we were exceedingly ing one of the good ferrica, This ears, and new things for old China) winding nature, but also for the ust commencing to drive! He ver gratified and were ready to con- point is 95 H North of Kwel Lin. are seen all along the way. Indeed reason that it is very narrow. "Un-tainly had no right whatever to be gratulate the Kwangsi Govern- Entering the City of Cheun Cheo near Pa Pu the writer saw many fortunately, there are some motor- in charge of a car in the centre ofment on the good start that one finds, the City wall already blocks of tin being marked to ship ists who are not happy unless they the city.

they had made. The road North Lorn down and a modern City to the United States of America pss everything they catch up Unlicenced Drivers.

of Kwei Lin, leads right up to street being used and three storey for use. This tin is taken out by with, in fact, some of them appear Quite a number of people appear within six If of Hunan Province, building being built along each the old methods by the Bureau of to tear along hunting for other cars to have recently taken it into their Sixty i north of Chuen Cheo City side of the Streets. This improve mines of the Province of Kwangsi, to overtake. While that may be hands to drive motor vehicles before the road is not so good and has a ment is near the Hunan Border There are also coal mines and quite a legitimate hobby for such first obtaining driving licences, two regular bus service, but between thus showing that the whole many cars and trucks showing people where ronds are straight and or three saving been discovered Kwai Lin and Cheun Cheo a dis- Province of Kwangs is wide that China is wide awake. wide, it becomes a veritable men-owing to accidents having occurred.tance of three hundred li, the road awake to a modern movement in ace to other, molorists in certain In such a place as Hongkong, it is in fine and ferries are excellent. China.

In all we passed over fifteen

districts. We think that a driver absolutely essential that every It is indeed a beautiful drive and Returning to Kwel Lin we again hundred Li of rond in this Pro- of any private vehicle, travelling at driver shall be fully qualifielt, and one passes many interesting points started fowards Wuchow. We vince in a straight line from Hunan a reasonable speed, in justified in we have no sympathy whatever for and bridges and hills, and things passed through the City of Li Pu, to Hob Heien near Wuchow. Tho holding the road, and not giving the any person who has to face that show that China is a county, Ping Loh and then for 310 li to roads are acceptable the whole dis- "pass" signal when it is obviously charge as the result of his incom- of ages past. No, 1 picture shows Pa Pu and thence to Hoh Hsien. fance except in one section of unsafe to do 50. The numbers petence. should be taken of any overtaking A Light Needed, cars which speed by on dangerous stretches of road.

Learners' Licences.

We noticed a case the other day where a lady was said to have been granted her second learner's Beence. Why this should be we are

We understand that an over- head light is to be erected at the junction of Garden Road and Ken- nedy Road. This will be a great;

improvement, for as we have pre- viously pointed out, drivers of

WHY LEFT?

Rule of the Road.

cars taking the turning in the DID FIGHTERS CAUSE direction of Government House,

at a loss to understand, because find it extremely difficult to make surely at the expiration of the first,

out the signals of the traffic con-

the holder should, have qualified stable on duty, owing to the lack for an ordinary driving licence.

FORD FEATURES.

The carburetor in the Model A

of suitable lighting.

IT?

STUDEBAKER SALES.

1928 "Biggest Year."

PRICE WAR.

Railways and Motor Coaches.

TRANSPORT TROUBLES. WORLD TRADE.

Competition Though vehicular traffic in most

between railway| Sale of Studebaker and Erskine companies and motor coach opera countries keeps to the right of the road, in all parts of the British, cara in export markets reached a tors in the United Kingdom has Empire except Canada, it keeps to new high mark during the first 10 now reached the price-cutting.stage. the left.

months of 1928, according to an The railways have cut prices of rotary motion of the needle valve Established by custom and use, announcement by H. S. Welch, week-end tickets to all parts of the given the carburetor adjustment an left side traffic ante-dates the right manager of export sales for The country, and made the tickets good

Corporation axiul motion affecting the carbureside iden by hundreds of years. It Studebaker

of for any train, even the luxurious Is a natter of taste, but it is also America."

expresses. This represents a reduc No. 13-the Carburetor, or choke for operating.

intriguing to reflect on why the left). "Studebaker is already assured tion of 66 2-3 per cent. In the pas The main jet is fixed so that at side was chosen in the first place of the biggest year in export senger revenues of the railways,

Probable reason is that the right business in its history," Bald Mr. the higher speeds ordinarily used is the fighting arm, and the custom Welch. "Sales for the 10-month England has lured more travellers An exceptionally fine summer in Is a simple instrument. It is of

in driving it is impossible to arose, when armored knights were period exceed the best previous into motor coaches, and the number the Zenith type, with a new choke obtain anything but the correct the bulk of traffic. They were al year the Corporation has enjoyed of railway travellers have corros- rod. simplined and designed toļ suit the installation on the Ford adjustment. However, for warm-ways ready for fight if the possible in overseas markets by a substan- pondingly diminished in numbers.

More than 60 different lines of ing up, a limited adjustment is enemy was on their right hand side, tial margin.

but could not effectively uso lance, placed on the comperanting jet, to mace or sword if the opponent was tive month Studebaker and Erskine from London to most sections of "Qetoher in the tenth conseeu-motor coaches now. have services! Instead of using six bosses 'with take care of starting, bolts to hold the upper and lower)

Self-protection and a free fight export sales have gained over the Great Britain, castings Logether, one bolt is

Ing arm seem the logical reasone Sales for the first 14 months thre corresponding mouths last year. why the modern policeman-chants, placed approximately in the centre

"Keep to the left."

year show a gain of 30 per cent.) of the carburetor. By removing

over the first 10 months of 1927. this bolt the Instrument is

***Enthusiastic reports being received from overseas. distribu- Walter E. Chrysler's strength In tors indicate an increasing popu- the financial and automobile world larity for the Studebaker-Erskine has been exhibited by the purchase]: California has 478 automobiles line and point to a still greater of a £4,000,000 office building in in Studebaker export New York for Chrysler headquar highway. This would allow only busincas during the coming year," ters. 11 feet of roadway for each car. Mr. Welch.concluded...

car.

on the left.

This arrangement, which Ford gave to the world on the Model car, and which other cars are now finding most necessary, was Incorporated in the new design. dissembled. The needle valve and Fixed venturi supply the right choke rod are placed in line, there-amount of air fixed jets meter the by eliminating a universal joint. fuel through the driving range,

The choke lever is climinated by and a fixed idle jet measures thefer every mille of improved state gain

two-in-one construction, gasolinie required for idle.

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