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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

WHICH IS THE BETTER PARKING ARRANGEMENT?

TALLER

The route through from Queen's Pier to Des Voeux Road is in very great demand as a car park, and yet vehicles are permitted to waste space as seen in the top picture. The lower picture shows the method which should be employed, the road being quite wide enough to allow it. At present, it is frequently impossible to find a vacant space, in spite of the fact that there la really room for at least twice the number of cars.

MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN,

[By "R.. A. C.”]

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UNFIT TO DRIVE. Test Would Reveal Them.

PSYCHOLOGISTS' PLAN. "Some people are so constructed that, they will never be competent to act correctly in a sudden emer gency. These types are dangerous in trame crises."

This is the opinion of Professor S. Franz, of the psychology depart ment of the University of Call- fornia, who thinks that the num- ber: of motor accidents could be reduced by discovering unfit drivers before they begin driving, And then preventing them from taking charge of a motor vehicle.

"Certain tests can be devised to reveal characteristics in men and women which make them unfit to hold a driver's licence," he says. Psychology can be employed to determine the faculties or lack of them that make a careful or reck. loss driver; or to discover if an applicant for a licence is tempera- mentally equipped to moet emer. gencies in trafic..

"Other fests than those now In use should be employed to deter- mine whether a person has been rendered unfit to drive by indul- gence in alcohol, Some perso08 are utterly incapacitated by one drink; others can drive capably after drinking a considerablo amount, while some" men even drive more earefully after having Imbibed.

"Trafic will be made safer when more stringent measures of this kind are adopted,"

A useful order has been received from New Zealand by the Star a Star Flyer chassis was supplied Motor Co. Same six months ago

through an Auckland firm, and it to the Gisborne Tramways Board has given such satisfaction that recently been sent out. three more of these chassis havo

Meanwhile the process of "Scrapping the Trams" continuos and an ever increasing number of Corporations la replacing them with trolley buses. Hastings in Sussex took the step some time ago and up to recently had 48 doubic and single deck six-wheeled Guy trolley buses in operation. Now they have act.. the makera a repeat order for 10 more. the extremes of climate encounter-meeting with great success.

The new Guy ou ewt, model is ed ara

considered. Across demonstration veh was sent to A America, for instance, there was Australia and Now Zealand Inst first rain, hall, snowstorms and anton, as a result of which fleets frozen roads, then sand and mud; have been supplic to users in later, in India, sweltering heat, Melbourne, Sydney bad roads and Innumerable stop Zealand. Indeed,

And New pages and re-starings. This must has already been received from, a repeat order have entailed a tremendous atrain the latter Dominion. on the C.A.V. battery from which, The Spread of the Economy car. 12,677 e.c, and possesses a 7-bearing however, it emerged triumphant.

With the General Election Imly deep and stiff and the axles are crankshaft. The frame is special-;

Motor Cycles for Postal Work minent it is not surprising that very

At a recent lecture before the many motorists in Britain are at hydraulic system is employed for able information was forthcoming robust. The Lockheed Institute of Transport consider the time of writing wondering the 4-wheel brakes; wheelbase is about the use of motor cycles in how the reault will affect them, 9 ft. ain, and track 4 ft. 8 in. The postal work in Britain. particularly in respect of the saloon body is constructed on the The present composition of the Safeguarding Duties on motor cars duodermal principle and is ab-motor eyole licet consists of 64 No one can speak on this subject solutely unaffected by any climatic henry combinations, 149 light-

Ubiquitous Six-wheelers. with greater authority than the "Big Three" of the British Maler/extremes, whether of heat, cold or Weight combinations and 235 solo aix-wheeler is demonstrated' most The extraordinary utility of the Industry, one of whom, Mr. Woint of ear reaching importance, but new machines are being rapid- from users in districts where roads moisture. This is obviously machines, making a total of 488, effectively by, necounts received Bullock, Managing Director of the

A Pioneer's Opinion. Binger Co., stated recently that it

ly introduced and suturation point are practically non-existent. would be a bad day for the trade that pioneer motorist, Mr. S. Fback as 1902 that the Post Office quantities of wool have to be In a recent issue of "The Motor" is not yet in sight. It was as far if these were withdrawn. NotEdge gave his reasons for his be-hired motor cycles, combination hauled from sheep stations, often In Australia, for example, large that the three principal companies ief in the back axle, position for and tricars for experimental par-hundreds of miles in the interior, would be affected so much as the the gearbox as employed on A.C. poses and in 1914 the first actual to rail head. In smaller concerns, n the former Acedes enes of which firm he is purchases were made. Owing to where are largely engaged in the mant-Governing Director. facture of economy cara.

the war it was not until ID19 that He points out that the combined attention was again given to this The increasing popularity of this back axle type is proved by recent figures. weight as a part of the back axle

and gearbox reduce method of collection and delivery, These show that in. the first is used to enclose the gearwheels; is the 24 hp. production, fitted The latest type to be introduced months of the current financial the gearbox is isolated from the with a pannier carrier over the year the output of Singer Juniors, chassis frames that any noise or rear wheel, or with a light sidecar for instance, was just 60 per cont. vibration causes no inconvenience; of Beu.. ft. capacity. greater than that during the the need for heavy shafts from corresponding period

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One instance Morris-Commercial wheelers were being successfully Aix- used, the vehicles had to cut a new track over soft virgin country, foot deep; for miles the tracks In places the water was, over a were from 1ft. to 18in. deep und a third track was visible In parts where the differentials had been year gearbox to back axle is eliminated

Competition News,

dragging. Even under such con. Competition between the big ditions, often with heavy rains, it of very, modest on the Acedes it is only engine,maufacturers in the various reli- was found possible to average 100 cubic capacity now show, them-torque al engine speed that travels ability trials is extremely keen and miles a day for 6 weeks, solves capable of such suralong the shaft up to the gearbox, centres particularly on the mana- prising speeds that they are well

In Mr. Edge's opinion' the only l'acturers' team prize which is advanced design and intended A new six-wheel chassis of very represented in most of thei-disadvantage from the point of nowadays considered more portant track and road events. At view of cost, is the necessity for portant than any of the, individual deck bus body has been produced the opening meeting of the Brook-using an aluminium alloy back trophies.

Imprimarily for use with n double- lands Club this year, Victor axle tube and casing in order to Horseman entered his 832 c. save weight. Triumph Super Seven for the 76 m.p.h. long-distance handicap over a distance of 91⁄2 miles and gained

ago.

Care

a runaway victory at 78.5 m.p. winning by over half a mile.

In the Overseas Markets.

There have been rumours lately to the effect that production of the

Hillman Fourteen 4-cylinder model will be discontinued after the pre-

radiator.

On Special Service.

by the Sunbeam Co. The chassis

The 100-Tonner. Further details are now avnil-

The "Matchless" people now has a 6-cylinder engine of 45 h.p. have a particularly, redoubtable developing 142 h.p. at 2,500 r.p.m. team consisting of Freddy Neill, It has an overall length of nearly come to light of motor cars being whom are usually mounted on the very commodious bodywork.

From time to time instancea Tom Hall and Boyd Harvey, all of 29 ft. and thus is able to carry put to odd uses. There was re-1500 c.c. modol V/2. Within recent Two of these curs, by the way, Rolls-Royce working on a building Prize in the Southern, the Bognor to the public service vehicle tho cently, for example, a 20-year-old weeks they have won the Team shows that there has been brought A glance at the specification have been entered for the R.A.site in London where the engine and the Cardiff-Leicester trials. refinement of engine performance Tourist Trophy Race to be held in provided motive power for an air Northern Ireland this summer in compressor mounted in place of Isle of Man AJ. Stevens & Co. have associated only with the high For this year's T.T. races in the and comfort of travelling hitherto which six nations will be repre-the body, Despite its age and its entered W.L. Handley, T. Spann grade private car. sented.

known road mileage of 250,000 and F.A. Longnun for the Senior miles before its conversion, it was and Junior races and R.F. Parkin- still dead quiet and it was possible son who will ride in the Junior able concerning the great 14-wheel to balance a penny edgeways on its race only. By the way, a new Scammell vehicle intended for In Brisbane a 9 h.p. Standard journey has been set up by the machinery as turbine casing, loco- record for the Melbourne Sydney transporting such heavy pieces of sent season, but this is emphatical chassis has been converted to run rider of a 799 c.e. A.S. and side motives, electrical transformers ly denied by the manufactures on rails, carrying an ambulance car. This he gained by accom etc, up to 100 tons. who atata that they intend to con-body. There is accommodation for plishing the journey in 13 hrs. 31 tinue this model at an oven greater on strelcher case and one sitting mins., beating the previous best engine driving through an 8-speed The motive unit has an 80 h.p. fate of production for their 1930 or lying down case in addition to sidecar time by 64 mins, and the gearbox, giving a low ratio of over programme. In addition, of the driver and attendant. During previous best solo time by 10 mins. 200 to 1, to the four driving wheels, course, to the "Fourteen," arrange- loent demonstration a ments are well in hand to produce weight of passengers amounting to ever increasing demand is shown the vehicle in pairs on two short That British motor cycles are in which are arranged in line across the "Straight-Eight" in ever in-116 stone was carried but the car by the fact that last year's output axles, oscillating on longitudional creasing numbers.

negotiated the steepest grades on of Ariel machines was exceeded in gudgeons so that all four wheels Hillmans have become well 40 m.p.h. Heavy head winds were sent financial year. It looks, there Special rubber suspension springs the line of 1 in 60 at a speed of the first eight months of the pre-conform to the camber of the road. known in

the Overseas markets encountered during its first long fore, as though this year's output are provided having the unique under the energetic direction of journey of nearly 600 miles to its will he 60 p.c. greater than that of feature that while they are not Rootes Lid, who handle the world destination, but, nevertheless, 1028. export, and some impressive figures average of 34 m.p.h. was obtained have recently come to hand fron for the whole journey."

unduly flexible under full load, Diesel Engined Buses,

they yet have considerable West Australia.

The writer of a letter in "Bus sistance when the vehicle is run- tributors, All British Cars Ltd.)

A Gruelling Test.

& Coach" recently expresed the ning light. About 30 p.c. of the boast, over one million car-miles During the last few days Mise opinion that Diesel-engined Luses lond is carried by the motive unit without a penny spent on replace-G. de Havilland has arrived back will be running in service on turntable, the remainder being ments in respect of all Hillman cars in London on the successful con-British roads within 6-months. taken by a group of eight wheels Bold in the Stato; a record to be clusion of her circuit of the world Though it would be premature to which support the rear ends of proud of

with her Austin 7, an undertaking, say that the Diesel engine has fully the carrier side, frames. These

The local dis-

total

SATURDAY. JUNE 22, 1929.

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The now Wolseley "Messenger" carried out single-handed. It demonstrated is suitability wheels are arranged in two rows Bix has been specially produced for must have been a strenuous task power unit for passenger-carrying of four across the vehicle, sub- Oversure, and combines a number for driver, car, components and ac-vehicles, nevertheless most of the divided into pairs on oscillating of interesting features. The cessories when the enormous mile-difficulties associated with its up- axles which, in turn, are mounted engine has a cubic capacity of age crowded into six months and plication to road transport have on balance, boama so that the lond

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