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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

CYCLE AND MOTOR CYCLE SHOW.

Popularity of Two-wheeled Machines.

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The Sporting Appeal.

Other 1930 Models

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, `· 1930.

TESTS" FOR MOTOR DRIVERS.

The argument put forward by Lord Russcil on behalf of the Government (with which a aum- ber of other speakers agreed) was that a stringent test such as that applied to London. omnibus drivers, which insta three weeks, would be impossible, and that a simple tost would be useless.

AUTOS KILL MANY.

Four hundred and sixty-six per Bons were killed in 27,639 motor" vehicle accidents In Connectient: during 1928, 12,707 were injured

CHRYSLER -above

all others.

can give no further cause for.com- "Raleigh are also very woll In addition to providing a cheap known in the motor-cycle trade, on five and excellent means of transport They are concentrating the motor-cycle provides the best machines for. 1980, two of them

One person is now killed every, to four, and my own bellef is that and property damage amounted to having overhead valves and the wheel sport in the world.

6 hours in the streets of London the more skilful a man. ie the more $2,906,127. by a motor accident,

dangerous he is, because he bel It has been claimed that the other three side valve engines.

What is it was under the shadow of this comes more reckless. motor-cycle is the most efficient. For those who require a light

is more road sense; and system of transport that has yet machine under 200 lb. in weight been invented. It is cheaper to the 225 c.c. side valve model fact, quoted by one speaker from wanted The Motor-Cycle Show held at]

Peers met recently to consider the tlon." buy and to run than the car and should appeat. It is placed at the official returns published, that the you will not get that by examing- Olympia, Kensington, supplied a

Silence has always been a sore it has to meet none of the prac- low. gura of £36. Two other in- details of the new Bill for regulat atting conclusion to a great show

tical difficulties which still beset teresting models are 500 cc. ma-ing motor traffic.

chinos.

Lord Howe (formerly Viscount year, as far as all forms of trans-subject with motor cyclists, prin-

cipally because it is a more dim. the seroplane.

A. J. Stevens and Company aro Curzon) was heard with great in- port were concerned.

famous on the track and in com- terest on the subject of tests for This year has been remarkable cult problem to silence effectively

an drivers in view of his experiences for the great advance in design a motor-cycle engine than a car

It is more effective in relation petition work. They hold

racing motorist. He was mado in all forms of road transone, as in the case of the motor-

any other road enormous number of speed records as a

great against compulsory tests for all, of a port, and the motor-cycle le cer- cycle the entire engine is exposed to its cost than

voluntary

which system under

The inexperienced driver, he con- tainly not lagging behind the to the air and is not muffed by vehicle, and it makes the joys of and wherever there is a

the road and of the countryside motorcycle race the A..8. is cer- but strongly in favour larger vehicles. A Motor-cycle manufacturers have

This year they are showing a bodles like the A.A. and the R.A.C. tended, was not the one who caused In addition, the problem of obtainable to many who would tain to be well to the fore,

large selection of models, the night hold examinations in a form accidents, because he knew his mado aa great if not greater silencing the exhaust gases is otherwise never know them.

It has in addition a tremendous strides in this country than the more difficult, as with the old type

loverhead valve engine and the sport to which drivers might sub- "The person who causes accidents is the person who thinks he can do car manufacturers along the same of silencer one nearly as big as sporting appeal, especially for the smallest being a 248 c.e. two port approved by the Ministry of Tran- limitations and drove carefully.

the machine itself would have to young, which can never be equal-largest is a twin cylinder 296 c.c. lines.

The best drivers in Great Britain anything and docs. it.once too The two-wheeled machines at be carried to produce the desired led by any other vehicle, even if machine with sido valves.

they were attainable.

Some of the new models have to-day, he said, were the drivers of aften." Such a man could pass any

the London Generht omnibuses ordinary examination. Olympia this year were in a num-reault.

A firm which is almost a house a new frame in which the engine there was a chorus of "Hear, heara" After Lord Redesdale, who has ber of cases an immenso advance British motor-cycle manufat- on anything that was shown in turers have, however, risen to the hold word to every motorcyclist is inclined forwards while the on-and that was because they had to been driving a car. since 1906, dec-

They wore gines themselves have been exten- 1928. They are more flexible and occasion and exerted their in- is that of Douglas. therefore easier to control. They genuity with remarkable success, one of the first manufacturers to sively altered to incorporate all go through stringent tests. The lared that a driving test he once tekt able farce." Peera rejected the pro- are more sllent and therefore more They have produced

proved by the voluntary engines introduco a twin-cylindered engine the lessons which the firm have standard of driving would be im- passed la France was "an unutter pleasant to ride, and they are also which run ellently, while the new of a novel type with horizontally learnt during their successful system, and soon it would become posal to impose tests by 87 votes to easier to maintain.

types of silencers that have been lopposed cylinders, and they have year's racing."

almost compulsory, because the first 30 jremained faithful to this design

thing that would be asked in caso ever since,

of an accident would be whether the driver had passed the test.

Lord Banbury: Then the post- ton would be this: 1 am run over who has passed a voluntary examination. The court asks him if he has passed. He says, "Yes," and then the court saya, «You can go on running over Lord Bunbury If he is still alive and nothing will happen to you." (Lord laughter.)

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Ariel have largely adhered to their last year's successful models, This year they have introduced and as in many respects they were an attractive new 600 c.c. side- pioneers this is not surprising.

The noveltics consist of two valye model in two types; one for the sportsman and the other as an sports models with 250 and 500 jordinary touring vehicle. c.c. engines developing consider

and with The engine has duli-plated ably cylinders and enclosed valves, chromium plated tanks, while the lubrication is supplied Three-wheelers are becoming in- by vane type mechanical pump creasingly more popular as they in the sump. A special omal allow a comfortable body, to be fit single lever carburettor is em- ted which given more protection ployed and the flywheel clutch has from the elements and at the same been considerably modified. time they have a lower tax than a

four-wheeled vehicles.

A new frame has also been in- troduced which it is claimed com- The Coventry Victor Motor pletely eliminates whip. It is sold Company have six models for ut the low igurę of £49 108. 1980. All have twin-cylinder en The well-known 260 c.c. machine gines placed across the chassis is retained and the other models driving through'n dry plate clutch have special overhead valve en-to an open propellor shaft. Very comfortable.bodies are fitted, and jgine for racing work.

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Several Peers looked with gren disfavour on the proposal in the Bill to allow the issue of motor- tycle driving licences to boys and girls of 16.

Lord Cranbrook, who is 29, Inter- rupted a chorus of protest from the more elderly Peers on the dangers of motor-cycles by assuring them that in his youth he had driven motor-cycles, ridden behind motor cars, and "I can assure you that I was considerably more frighten- "I have never driven a motor-j ed-sitting behind in ears driven by cur in my life," he continued, "but some members of your lordships' 1 have driven in London all kinds] Houses than I ever

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