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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, 8th JUNE, 1929.

Being The Official Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

DON DEM DEIA DUA GXI COM

GOOD DRIVING.

Asume that

CURRENT

COMMENT

HINTS FOR THE NOVICE. :

Means Longer Service.

Little Things That Mean Much

DON'T TAKE

RISKS.

car that

Legal Half of the Rond..

[Hinta By Israel Klein.]

The difference between two. 4u- The Wrong Method.

(10 mph. is rather on the slow side, tomobiles of exactly the same Several motorists have been pro-drivers do observe, that speed ference between their drivers. and venture to say that very few ago and make is usually the dif secuted recently for exceeding the through controlled areas, limit of 10 m.p.h. through con- furthermore, that they do not will last longer than the other he- and One will give better service and trolled areas, and in two casca, cause any danger to the public in cause its driver knows his car and traffic police officers stated that consequence. The argument that can get the most out of it with the of the mechanical parts of a car If the hill ba steep, get into second, Moro harm is done by ignorance froad crossing the foot of a hill. they had followed the offenders from a side street holds good up or on his own packetbook.

a ricksha may suddenly come out least possible strain on its motor than anything else. Study the or even low gear and switch off for some considerable distanco, to a point, but where a main road!

literature supplled you, and al-the engine. This will help you to checking the exceанive pced on is sufficiently wide, a car travel-

There is a way to drive an auto though you may never attempt to keep control of the car. the police speedometers. In the ting at even 40 m.p.h. is less likely mobile that makes it nu economi. do any repairs, it will exercise a

Hill Failure "Wind." Arst place, the necessity of keep to collide with alower moving cal pleasure. There is another big influence on your treatment of

tho car 011 ing the speed limit also low it is well clear of a side street ses it to break quickly under who takes the trouble to get upon its "revvings.

trafile for the simple reason that way to drive the same

the Toad and in the

Make proper use of your gears. garage. The Agure is questionable, but what we by the time the ricksha has made the strain:The farmer method is a fair knowledge of the in-until your engine's "revs," have man The power of an engine depends do abject to is that a police officer its tarn into the main thorough the easiest and cheapert,

Don't wait should follow any driver gulty of fare. Whenever driving can be

Lorants of his machine places him slowed down before changing Into dangerous driving, for a mile or said to be to the danger of the

self in a better position to ap-the next lowest gear. Change so before taking action. For the public, strong action should bel

preciate what is necessary to keep down fairly early before the Take the simple matter ofit in condition and reduce wear gradient stiffens, and keep up your purpose of this argument, we will Laken, but discretion should betad time apel again on good a careful in his driving.

milenge. It has been repeat- and also it will make him more engine's speed. If your engine exercised when a car travelling at # speed of over 10 m.p.h. "is excessive in certain safely owing to a clear and safe ad for a maior car is around a fairly high speed can do so quite thority that the most economical

faila on a really bad hill and you districts, and that being excessive, rond.

get windy, get into reverse gear, it follows that public safety is had an instance mentioned to us steady on the highway and perience, you will find at first that ing and clutching: the low reverse

Only this week, we have 35 miles an hour Take that.

switch off the engine, and drop If you have no previous rond ex-down the hill.alowly by declutch- jeopardised. In Buch circum- where a local motorist smiled tone only will the mes possible stances, it should surely be the himself as be followed a police mileage be obtained from the fuel, decision. Your logal half of the keep the car from running away. your greatest fault will be in-gear and the brakes combined will duty of the police to stop the official through a controlled area.

bat little if any time will be lost road is the left, but remember the Learn at 19 m.p.h.! danger immediately, and not to

in travelling.

to judge distances and snag of the pedestrian. His place speed on the level, and you will be follow a vehicle until it reaches Its Reliability Essential.

The speeder has to slow up is his right hand side of the road, able to control your car without maximum speed before taking

every time he catches up with and if you meet one you must pass constant braking. Cultivate the action. To merely follow a speed-R.100 and R.101 are now nearing he gets to a crossing and every very much the same thing with movement of the handbrake often Brilain's two giant airship's slower moving vehicle, every time him on his left hand side. It is use of the handbrake. A light ing car for a mile or more is completion and will attract an time he reaches a town.

The con horses.

More often than not you gives better deceleration than the- almost tantamount, to condoning onormous amount of public in-silent 35-mile-an-hour driver will find them coming into the rough application of the foot the offence, and in any case, the terest when they take the air, for keeps right on going at this atendy traffic on their right hand side brake. It also causes less strain method in unfair.

they embody the very latest prae- pace and alowing up means little one or more are being led, the man and less tyre wear.

On hills uso Lice in airship design and con- to him, for there is very little call will be on the horses" side further- the two brakes alternately. Learn atruction. Each vessel contains for him to go less than 35 miles most from the kerb, that is, be-traffic band signals and use them. special features, which will be an hour at any time while on thetween the animals and the on- A police motor cycle can easily watched with particular interest, highway. →→

coming traffic. If a man is riding

Learn to Reverse Well, pass any vellele travelling at from us, for instance, the heavy oil en-

one and leading the other, he will The stendy flow of gasoline at be seated 30 to 40 m.p.h. and it should most|gines which form the power units 35 miles an hour is much more most from the kerb. Pass on the manoeuvre a car in a confined'}

And do learn how to manage or on the horse further cortainly do SO immediately, of the R.101. For driving the stopping the driver and reporting auxiliary machinery in the R.100 economical than the irregular left-hand side, otherwise the side pace. It saves your pocket and him. It might easily happen that two 6-cylinder Acedes engines are parts demanded of the speeding nearest to the driver or leader.

other people's tempore. Take the after being followed for some con-employed. These

vehicle. Besides, the faster the

The most uncertain thing on the as often as you can and practice car to an unfrequented side street siderable distance, a fatal accident motor eur engines in overy way, amount of fuel is actually burned walking ahead well out from the the turning into another street,

car goes the lens proportionate road is the pedestrian who occurred ns the result of the the only addition being the fitting

driving atraight backwards, round speeding, and in such an event, we of a gavernor to control the engine in the clyinders, for less time in left or in the direction of your and mark certain points to repre Imagine that any police officer speeds. The normal specification afforded for the burning of the travel. He may bolt to his right sent obstructions and drive be who, being able, had not stopped of the Acedes engine was the Kanes as the pistons pump faster. to a stop, if necessary,

or to his left. Slow down almost tween and round them. the vehicle before the accident specification required by the Air The result of this is that much decides..

until he happened, would not be entirely Ministry, and the engines were gasoline is wasted and a great free from blame in permitting the chosen for their reliability from deal finds its way into the crank- speeding.

quite a large number of other case, diluting the oil and wearing Controlled Speed,

types after undergoing very severe dawn the cylinder walls so much tests under the supervision of Air faster. Wo think that the limit of Ministry officials.

Wrong in Theory,

are normal

THE POPE'S NEW LIMOUSINE.

This eight-cylinder Inita-Fraschini limousine has been presented Pope Pius XI by the Milan Automobile Club for his travels from the Vatican grounds. Lower photo shows the luxur- fous interior.

Safety First.

are.

In the straight street map out with two stones or paper a space- between two Imaginary stationary to treat all bends and cross road's practice getting your car into that Don't risk things. It is better cars at the side of the road and as if the greatest danger always space near to the kerb. lurked there.. Unless you can see Drive forward until you round a bend ahead never over-level with the "radiator" of the you can get into the straight and verse into the space. If you mis take a vehicle on one: wait until first imaginary car, and then re- see your way clear. Trent every-judge things, stop, go forwardi thing and everyone as if they will again, and then reverse. Remem in the crankcase has no time to probably do something extremely ber the rear wheels do not follow cool off sufficiently and therefore silly, and you will go far on the the track of the front wheels, but goes up in amuke. That is why line of safety first. Never turn describe a more acute circle. Bometimes, after a fast drive, we out of one road into another at

When the cur is driven fast, ho, oil is burned up faster. The motor gets, so hot that the ofl

amell the odour of burning oil. And speed or into the centre, of the until the car is moving. To force Do not move the steering wheel that is why, after a fast long ran.road you are entering. we have to replenish the lubricant strictly to your correct side anding wheel when the car is station- Keep the front wheels over by the steer that has dwindled down consider take things slowly.

ary impoaca a bad strain on the

ably.

Fast driving also mea:is con- siderable wear on the tyres. An actual test by one of the tyre, manufacturers of Akron has shown that tyres on a car going 45 miles an hour will wear out: twice as fast as those on a car driven 35 miles an hour. That's quite an increase for the differ- ence of only 10 miles an hour.

T

Anether result of fast driving is a heavy strain on the mo- tor and on all the other moving paris connected to R, Although motors nowadays are built for speed, they can't be expected to last as long as those that are driven ut a slower rate and with more consistent speed. If the mo- tor is built for kpeod, so much the better if it is actually driven slower.

The high compression,, high speed motors of to-day take a ter- rife beating in operation. They must be remarkably well con- structed to keep this up for any length of time.

The driver can forestall the day when such motors will break down by not doing anything that would “punish" them. Driving at fast speeds in short spuris is one form of severe punishment that isn't good for the motor.

Beware, also, of the secondary gear.

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The above suggestion appears, to be rather cumber some. When not in use, the net folds up, and can be

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