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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

TOWARDS COMFORT, frat he was satisfied with a bed what we now see as a horrible

Improvised from leaves; to-day he example of discomfort. To-day, le dissatisfied with anything less man Anda within his reach the than a'perfect mattress. Through closed-in model car, with soft Man's Endless Striving. all the ages, in all things, science cushioned seats, and the last word

has been used to add comfort to lin comfort as we know it. World history shows that

In this effort to provide the through all times, man has striven man's existence.

of comfort, Studebaker towards perfect comfort.

At first he was content to walk. 'nemo,. He ved frst in caves and Then he used animals for trans- claima over to have been to the To-day's models toclude trees, and as civilisation progress-port Later, selenco built him a fore. ed, he built rough homes. At motor car. Originally it was form-fitting cushioned seats which

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SATURDAY, APRIL 20, 1929.

THE MUDDLE OF MOTORING LAWS.

Futile Speed Limits at Home.

line should, without the slightest MAY SELL IN U.S.A. doubt, bo ned. This is much

better than any arbitrary, speed -limit.

Segrave Introduces Hillman.

EQUIPPED FOR EXPORT.

Every summons should be for dangerous driving, and the magni. tude of the offence should govern the penalty. Suspension of careless licences for bad" or driving, nay, for periods of three We are in some respects a most hour, because to do so would be months or so, and until the

British cars may be introduced The offender has obtained a certificate, remarkable nation, writes Admiral to encourage lawbreaking,

# recognized school brito the American market as Sir Reginald Bacon in the Evening net result, therefore, is that the from Standard. We are ultra conserva- motorist le left to find out what garage, that he has been instruct-result of Major H. 0. D. Segrave's tivo; so much so that we even that speed is by experiment; theed, examined and passed, should visit, for, along with the "Golden pride ourselves on our failures, result, especially with a corner of do away with much bad driving. Arrow," he took two Hillman Take, for instance, war. It is our increasing twist, may be extremely and, at the same time, weed out straight eights for everyday use.

the blind, deaf and constitutional- This Hillman, which was intro- proud boost that we muddle every unsatisfactory. war at the start, but in the end What is really wanted is a sya-ly incompetent.

duced at Olympia, is the cheapest We have a Minister of Transportjeight on the British market, and we pull through.

tem of road marking which will So it is with the problem of give to a motorist the information who possesses the quality, rare was designed to be suitable for motor traffic. True it is that no he requires, and which he will among Government administra-servico in any part of the world. Now le Segrave's Hillmans have been longer cars are preceded by a man have sufficient confidence in to pay tors, of common sense.

the time for him to develop atted with left-hand steering, A with a red flag, but they are still attention to and profit by. abstructed by the twenty-mileI have driven a good deal in another great quality that of central control for the foul speed If he will only gearbox, and the hand-brake lever, speed limit. Not only is this Scotland and; passed through a imagination,

19 on the extreme left. of · the obstruction wanton: It leads to large number of villages with the grasp this nettle firmly, abolish accidents, and, incidentally, to ten-mile speed limit. In hardly speed limits, institute an advisory driving compartment. This is the contempt for the law of the land. any caso would a speed of twenty Road Marking Board, and put rond first time British care have been Let us visit a County Bench. miles bo dangerous at any part of marking on a proper basis, not so equipped for export, and it is Here you will find as many as the village. The result was that only will he reduce accidents, but, possible that orders from the forty summonses for exceeding the passed no motor vehicle, which incidentally, he will earn the USA and Canada may result. twenty-mile speed limit being was going less than twenty miles gratitude of hundreds of thou: Metal is chromium plated, radia- dealt with, and Anca of from two an hour, very few leas thau Banda of motorists, strengthen the

are operated by to five pounds being inflicted. twenty-five miles per hour and law-abiding instincts of the com-

an electrically The court is over, the magistraten some-going-thirty-and-over: The munity, and, in addition, attain the thermostat, and the headlamps are depart, and those who live at any motor buses, which presumably main object of four-fifths of our controlled by

One of the cars is a "Begravo” distance 'drive their care, or are passed through daily, all were annual legislation, namely the operated dipping mechanism. driven, at any speed from thirty going at a speed close on twenty-bringing in of a good crop of votes to fifty miles an hour.

Should you ask one of the Justices how he can reconelle his coriscience to fining people for committing the same offence that he commits daily, he will say: "Oh, yes! But I only drive fast at places which are not dangerous.

Untested Traps,

five miles per hour.

Maximum Sale Speeds,

Obviously 'no attention was being paid to the enforcement of the limit. Why, thon, have it?

The Home Secretary has said that the objection to abolishing the twenty milè speed limit is that motorists would feel themselves at How many magistrates take the liberty to run at any speed they trouble to drive over the trap and liked. This statement shows that teat for themselves whether it is this usually alert Minister is dangerous at the speeds the police entirely out of touch with motor

Whoning. There are only four speeds Hummon for? Very few. tackled they any: "The offence for the motorist, summoned for is exceeding the (1) A caution speed of anything

down dangerous from twenty miles, speed driving."

stopped, according to the traffic To remind them that they and dangerous nature of the pouish for dangerous driving is locality. merely to provoke a shrug p: the shoulders.

limit,

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to

(2) A country lane and cross- road speed. This speed'should not Oh, we are a wonderful nation! exceed that at which the car can The twenty-mile speed limit is be brought up within the distance doing for us what the Wolstead that the road can be seen head; Act is doing for America, nately, or, in the case of cross-ronds, the encouraging contempt of the law. distance along the cross-ronds that Just as ten-mile speed notices enn-Be seen.

teach drivers to disregard all! (3) A speed at corners at which road signs, so the twenty-mile the car can comfortably be kept limit teaches the nation to dis- between the white line and the

kerb, regard its laws.

This, however, is 'not all. The (4) Any speed along a straight fuct of having a legal speed limit road that does not overdrive the prevents a rational system of road car.

It is marking being adopted. impossible now to mark a corner, say, as being safe for the avorage ear at a speed of thirty miles an

Now, assuming those speeds, how can the motorist be helped? For it is by helping the motorist, and not by Aning him, that accidents will be reduced.

The first essential la to abolish bring the comfort of the fireside all speed limits, then have a Rond Marking Board of practical! ensy-chair to the driving seat of motorists. The Government muat, the motor car, while the steering of course, be represented on it, wheel and column have been also the A.A, or R.A.C., and the constructed as to allow of adjust County Council of the particular ment to the comfort of the driver, district in which they may operate. no matter how exacting his de-

It should be a committee, say, mands.

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Having settled on a system of marking which will convey the maximum amount of information to motorists in umple time for them to profit by it, they should then visit every bend and corner in the Kingdom and, with the assistance of the local County Council member, mark them, and forward to the County Council any recommendations that they may consider necessary to render them As safe as reasonably possible.

The markings of corners and cross roads should be at least three hundred yards each side of the corner. They might well be inarked with the maximum safe speed that the average weight car should approach ut. This will give all cara valuable information which will be of use to them.

At cross-ronds, one road should; be selected as the main road, and the other marked with a special caution, making the car uning it! responsible that the other road was clear before turning into it.

All dangerous cross-ronds should have the junction enlarged, and marked with white curves, and be of sufficient size for two cars to pass down the centre while a car is turning Into the road from the side. There would, of course, be other markings which it is needless here to go into,

"Cutting-in" will always be a danger.

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The Wobbling Driver.

One of the curses of the road Is the timid driver who wobbles and continually grouses offer a drive. To him, every one who passes his car is'n."road hog," and overy one who passes him with a car in sight ahead is, guilty of "cutting-in." It is the feeble, nervous driver that makes reports of dangerous driving by drivers of ather cars always a matter of doubt to a Bonch.

A word as regards penalties.

A report by a driver of repute of "cutting-in" should be good motter for a fine. But the In- herent dislike of Englishmen to peach will lead to very few of such reports.

Corners should be watched, and any car driving over the white'

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Bills introduced in the Now!

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