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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 17, 1929.

NEW BUICK-BUILT

CAR DUE HERE.

NUMBER PLATE LAW.

Rear Light Test Case. INTERESTING DE- CISION.

A test case of interest to motor-1 ists was decided by a King's Bench Divisional Court, when the judges: allowed the appeal of the superin-. tendent of police at Darwen, Lan- cashire, against a refusal of the Darwen magistrates to convict Mr. Norman Marsden Entwistle, of Bolton Road, Darwen, for an offence under the Road Vehicles Registration and Licensing) Amendment Regulations 1928.

The offence was driving a motor- car at night without having the rear number plate illuminated co that the numerals and letters might be identified.

Mr. Ralph Etherón,who" argued

The Dragon Motor Company) cars, and it is already established (where for many months, it was that the bench should have con- Ltd., Joval agents for Buick Motor that there will be a number of subjected to the most severe tests. Victed Mr. Entwistle, anid that he Cars, have received advice that the prospective buyers anxious to see It is built entirely by Buick, hat had a rear lamp on his car which first shipment of the Buick-built and try the latest enterprise of represents the decision to place a showed a red light, but it did not Marquette Car will arrive in Hong- the famous Buick Organisation. six cylinder automobile embodying illuminate the number plate.

the Buick standard of workman- August 261h. This The Marquette has given an ex-ship in the medium price class. initial selection will comprise two cellent account of itself on the Applications for trial runs should and four doop-sedans and touring| General Motors Proving Graunds, be made immediately,

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WOMEN DRIVERS.

piled for licences to drive taxis, and whether there was anything Jin the regulations to prevent wo- Can They Drive Taxis? men from taking out licences,

"Daring the Great War a large number of women applied for EXPERIENCE SAYS NO. licences to drive motor-ears in the

There is

Metropolis," he said in reply, "but sopie speculation among four only were able to pass the Handen taxi-drivers whether wo-

men will enter their ocvapation pressary examination, and these now that extra sereen protection is held their licences for only short. being allowed on the front of taxi- { periods. * There are now no women rubs. For some reason not ex-|livensed as valedrivers in London, plainable women, who have favad- and the regulations contain no ed nearly every calling, have never taken to taxi-driving, it was Beference to female drivers." gested to a reporter recently that Recently Scotland Yard, in re

Justices' View. The justices held that the regulations, made by the Minister of Transport under powers, given ito him by section 12 of the Rouds |Act 1920 were ultra vires because they were revoked by section 11 of the Road Transport Lighting Act 1927. Mr. Etherton contended that under the regulations there must be two kinds of rear lights. 4 red one to show where the cap

was, and a white one to illuminate the number plate

The Court ordered the justices

to convict Mr. Entwistle of an offence.

Lord Hewart said the Art of

oral for other authority" to make 1927 revoked all powers given to regulations about the lighting of motor-cars. It was suggested that the words or other authority" included the Minister of Tran-

sport, hat he could not agree with that. It was plain that the Act

they were dismayed because bad sponse to representations, have weather spoiled the complexion; allowed cabs to be fitted with extra men drivers sometimes naed shock-) quarter screens shielding the gave the Minister powers to makę ing language; long waits in idle driver's seat.

ranks were irritating: the finding i

of absente plices. in London was, 1100 battling a lask."

Another possible reason why women have not taken to taxis, in that the eximination which it is necessary to pass before a licence enn be obtained is too much for them. Some of the questions pub- lished by Scotland Yard are posers,Į and the would-be taxi driver has! to know without hesitation the way, for example, from Farringdon the Arsenal footliall Street to later

|romd, from the Chinese Legation to Waterlon Station, from Tufnel! Park to the Royal Free' Hospital.

Supplement, must be delivered not than 2 p.m. on the Wedneslay of the week of publication.

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