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JOHN I.

THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 12,, 1929.

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Warnings.

BRIGHTER MOTORING.

Diverse Opinions at Home.

VEXED QUESTION.

Should motorists in England ba

yet another ditch to cross. This rolates to the law of the side, and when one may pass on the wrong side, and what action is required' at cross roads.

BUS IS GIANT INFANT.

"Although bus transportation is in its infancy, with the average Many a candidate is sent back age of 66 bus companies at four on this count, although if he has yeara," says the American Automo passed on the rest, he gote the bile Association, "the miles of bonefit of it with a certificate that route covered by the motor bus allows him to come up again for exceeds by five per cent, the route the theoretical part alone.

ABK LICENSE LAW.

The experience of one accustom. mileage of the railroads and by A signal aystem for motorists made to pass a driving examina--ed to other ronds as well as those 468 per cent. that of the electric which would warn other drivers of tion before taking their cars on of France tends to show that the railways." what to expect of any other car is the road?..

French test has real value. It suggested by a writer in London The vexed question has again mentally incompetent off the road keeps the physically disabled and "Opinion." It has always been the been raised by Mr. Lionel Rapson. and ensures that everyone who habit of ships on the crowded Mr. Rapson has written to the takes the steering wheel of a highways.of the sea, he writes, to

Twenty-five civic and business advertise their needs and circum-Home Secretary on the subject. motor-car in his hande has had stances to one another by means of "Many motor accidents, and quite how to use his own machine and ing for a state law requiring every some sound initial instruction in organizations of Ohio are clamour- jolly little flags of various colours possibly the majority, arp due to how to behave towards his neigh-motor vehicle driver to have a and shapes, This is a decorative unskilled driving," Mr. Rapsen bour.

driver's license. habit, and it has always seemed to said. mo a pity that a wider use is not made of it ashore.

An official of the Home OMed

Now at last the opportunity has stated that Mr. Rapson's sug- arrived; the crowded highways of gestion had been handed to the the land are becoming even more Ministry of Transport for their crowded than those of the sea. consideration, says 'A Morning

Post correspondent

So I suggest that in future all cara should be obliged to carry a short mast, about six feet high, ened that the Department was not An official of that Ministry stat the offside, where it could be most.

conveniently manipulated by the prepared to go to the length of driver, and from this mast sinal saying that the majority of ac- hoists, roughly corresponding to eldents were due to unskilled those in use at sea, should be driving. Rown.

Such a regulation would not said) since the drafting of the "Nothing has happened (he only make for brighter motoring, Department Committee's report to but it would enormously increase make the Ministry change its the factor of safety. Let me give mind. The signing by the driver a few examples of the sort of of the statement that he has no signals which might figure in the disabilities is considered auf- motorist's code book.

cient."

For instance, a yellow pennant night mean

This is my first car, and own with a blue square above it, it would further indicato This is my first time out

alane. Then other motorists could give it wide herth on the starboard side when passing it.

On the other hand, a black ng bearing a skull and cross-bones would signify

I race at Brooklands, and other drivers would be saved the trouble of trying to overtake

i1.

A red fing with a black centre wonid mean

My brakes won't work. If down with a green one, with zigzag lines, it would mean

My steering is uncertain. The man who is able at any moment to stop in the middle of the road and get inadvertently Into reverse could be marked with a large red spot on a plain ground, whilst the habitual cutter-in might be indicated by a pennant of red, white and blue cheek,

The yellow flag of quarantine might stand for

I am slightly intoxicated,

and the black pennant with yellow border for

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I usually stall my engine

when I slow down. Signals of distress would be equally useful, ranging from "I have no gus" to "my back axle, has dropped off;" mutiny in the back Renta might also be suitably indicated.

There is one other signal 1 have not mentioned large square flag of a vivid red; this should certain ly be reserved for

The Automobile Association is definitely against the examination. "We are opposed to compulsory ex- aminations for drivers,” an official of the A.A. declared. "There is no case

for it. When driver anal interest not to break it up, owns, his own car it is to his per- and when he is driving somebody must begin by learning." else's car or his firm's lorry he

An official of the R.A.C. stated that the examination was a good idea but difficult to put into opera

on. We must first know exactly what Mr. Rapmon suggests in the way of a test," he said. "We are, however, of the opinion that ac- 'cidents are not so much due to the unskilled driver as the reckless driver, who is often fully ex- perienced."

The R.A.C. already have reasonable test for drivers wiching to take their cars abroad.

System in France.

A driving licence is exacted from all would-be possessors of the joys of motoring in France, and is only delivered to them after a practical examination. The ax- amination is simple, but rigorous. It is carried out by inspectors ap- pointed by the Service des Mines, which is also the authority for re- gistering and classifying motors themselves.

Applicants for a licence are re- quired to attend at the police station, whence, accompanied by an official, one is required to drive round sharp corners, down steep inclines, and through a network of small streets chosen specially for the purpose. If this is successfully accomplished a vira voce examination on the rudl- It is a nice iden. Our big) mentary, parts of a car followa, arterial roads are drubly mono- But failure either while driving or tongus at the present time, but if in knowledge of the mechanism of each ear were to carry its appro- the car leads to a refusal of a priate hunting they would look licener.

My wife is driving.

like Kew Gardens in tulip tine. Granted these obstacles are It is well worth considering. safely passed, the applicant has

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