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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, 1118 JANUARY, 1930.

Being The Official Prgan at !

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

た

HONGKONG MOTOR ACCESSORY

COMPANY

•pecialista

in ali kont of

ACCESSORIES

And

SPARE PARTS

Electric horas. Body polish Brakellning, Hand jucks

Lamp bulbs Fool pumps. Tire patches. Wrenches

&c., &c., A., Neh

"GORMAN"

'And

"LUCAS"

tri bittorien

suitable for ali motorents agycies and radio.

ALL AT ATTRACTIVE PRICES Calf and insprol

Bank of Canton Bldg, Tul. 0, 577,

SERVICE

ARMOUR PLATE.

"New Road Surface:-

CHICAGO'S TRIAL.

The wear on the road surface of some of the streets in Chiengo is so severe that the City authori ties have decided fa armour-plate! them.

This has been done by nying down interlocking steel strips on edge. The strips made a re inforcing mesh. into which the concrete or asphalt is poured.or rowelled. They are assembled on the rond, and are "alternately: staggered at the joints to make a mat.

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Chicaro has a trin! section 10 feet wide and 120 feet long at the bus stops at Michigan-avenue ain Randolph-street, one of the busiest cornera in 'the world.

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PLANES GROW FAST.

There are

more airplanes in civilian operation in the United Statca to-day than there were automobiles in use in 1900, accord-

-REAL SERVICE!in to the American Automobile

Latest Machinery Expert Mechanics European Supervision

MAY WE SERVICE

YOUR CAR?"

NO JOB TOO SMALL NO PROBLEM TOO INTRICATE.

MAIN SERVICE STATION

Association. There were only 8,000 automobiles in use in 196 and there are 8,064 planes now, in operation.

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THRILLING, MOTOR CYCLE. FOOTBALL MATCH.

A New Year Gift

That Gives Pleasure!

At the Kowloon Football Club Annual Gala Day, on January 1st, a thrilling mobor-cycle football match was played between a team representing the Motor Cycle Section of the II.K.V.D.C., captained by Lieut. H.G. Williams, and a team selected by Captain Howard of the "Somernet Light Infantry. Playera on each side displayed much aki and daring, the Volunteers

winning the match by 3-0. (Photo Mes Cheúng.)'

引

THE WONDERFUL

1930 “HARLEY"

Now on Display.

WANGHAI

CURRENT

COMMENT

Iperfect and requires very careful examination before it is accepted.

The much discussed question of modernising -the Star Ferry Loss of. Life. Approach at Kowloon does not seem any nearer solution, judging The first point which the coun- from the replies to questions try wants to know is how far the recently given by the Colonial Bill will atop the dreadful and Secretary. The position appears rapidly growing loss of life on the

Star Ferry Approach.

10, CROSS LANK

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KOWLOON CAMERON RD.

K.1624

THE PEAK

P.203

PEAK GARAGE

IN CASE OF

EMERGENCY

C. 3193

Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

MODERN MOTOR service.

SHE'S A GREAT CAR UNDER THE HOOD BUT WHO WOULD KNOW IT.BY HER LOOKS? CIVE HER A COAT OF

Effecto

FINISHES

ALL COLOURS KEPT IN STOCK AS WELL AS THE NEW FORD SHADES.

Arabian Sand, Dawa Grey, Niag

Bine and Gun Metal Blue.

N, S. MOSES & CO., LTD. Bole Agents:

IGNORANCE BRINGS A "BLISTER.”

Almost ev'ry day,

some thoughtless way,

Light that glare and spark "Fill with woe the dark,

We break another brittle, little law, And earn u reprimand devoid of Curefences don't prick Yet we're quick to kick,

tact. When you take the road

When walting justice takes us in its With an overload.

'maw..

Noisiness is barred, Sun the night is.scarred,

By raucous sounds beat gally from

the horn, Brakes that scream and squeal- Sounds you almost feel-

to be much as it was two or more roads. Last year, according to Smash à rule-and nerves already years age, with the Kowloon official statistics, 6,138 persons still were killed and 170,976 were in-

Residents'

Association

worn.

devising schemes. That thejured in traffic accidents. In Oils that leak away KR.A. is a useful Body goes with- twenty years the number of fatal Mean fat fines to pay,

Are you sure the brakes will do the

-job?

Is the steering safe?

Does the wiring chafe?

These awry may cost you forty

bob.

In our feckless way, Almost ev'ry day,

Cheerfully we wreck the Rules and

Rege.

Till the final straw Breaks the back of Law

drega-(Sydney Sun)

out saying, but it does seem 'that acéidents has increased nearly if the strolling policeman know his Then, sorrow's cup is emptied to the the Government finds it a most sixfold and that "of non-fatal . Ácf, useful pawn to juggle with in the accidents more than fivefold. At game of waiting. There is no the present time on, the average excuse for delaying progress, and about 17 men, women, and chil- the re-planning of this extremely dren are being daily slain on busy traffic terminus is clearly British roads. indicated if the Colony is to be prorrexaive. To effectively cope Dangerous Driving? with the mutter naturally involves

The public needs such legisfa-| heavy expense, that is, if the job tion as will give adequater protec- Is to be done properly, but there tion to pedestrians using the is urobably no work on the penin- roads, and also securit against sula of greater consequence and urgency with the exception, of unfair treatment to the reasonable course, of the water scheme. To and careful drivers of motor vehicles, who are in the vast endeavour to find a temporary solution is surely unwise, for the majority. For the safety of all, in heavy traffle at the present time view of the suggested abolition of the speed limit for ordinary cars, calls for the re-planning of routes the dangerous and careless driver and parking spaces, and it should be remembered that in but a few must be kept in strict order. But years, the present volume will to eliminate all uncertainty such offences as careless driving and

probably double itself. The pro dangerous driving ought to be mise to issue a Sessional Paper on clearly defined, so that no doubt this matter as early as possible" may remain on the subject, is the very reverse of encouraging.

Compulsory Insurance, H.K.A.A. Ball,

The introduction of campulsory Members of the Hongkong Auto-insurance avainst third-party mobile Association are asked to risks is a sound principle, but it note that tables muy now be book- should not be loft in the nower of ed for the Annual Ball which takes an insurance company or a com- place at the Peninsula Hotel on bination of insurance companies Friday, January 17th at 8 p.m. to decido whether a man shall This may be done at the main drive a car or not. As the Bill entrance of the Hongkong Hotel. stands, it is possible for the Insur- Dancing will continue until 1 am.,anco companies to refuse a man and special arrangements are Insurance and. thus prevent him being made for late ferries and from motoring, There must. trams. It will greatly assist the clearly be some form of appeal to organisers if tickets are booked as an impartial authority. early as possible.

Home Motoring.

RUST PROOF CAR.

The Royal Commission on Transport some months. ngore. the ported that legislation on

An English automobile manu- question of mobor traffic was facturer has announced a-rust urgently required, and this ver-proof car to be manufactured-in dict has been almost universally the near future. Aplating has approved, The Government's been devised, it is said, which will Road Traffic Bill (summarised in be applied to all metal parts of the this Supplement to day) has been body. This special cpating will long overdue. It la by no means keep the metal from Tusting.

ROADS OF THE FUTURE.

This is the kind of highway crossing the near future. will see all over the United States, prodlet forward-looking engineers. It is to bo sech to day running out of Detroit, the particular spot shown here being the intersection of two super-highways. It is called the Michigan Southfield Super- highway Grade Separation, which carries two 30-foot roads of one highway across the two 80-foot rondstof the other, The left-hand turn le eliminated, all autos entering or leaving the highways with the line of travel, Upper Photo shows the crossing, lower view gives anzider

of each road's width, and

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