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A Death Trap.

We have frequently referred to the danger caused by the trees which line the Wong Nei Chung Read along by the Craigengower Club, but in spite of every plen, no action has been taken to brine about their removal. That they constitute a grave danger cannot

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, 151H FEBRUARY, 1930.

Being The Officin! Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION,

BY THE WAY

A correspondent writes of a car' in Japan with some twelve to six- teen head lampa.

According to an evening paper,.

be denied, and only this week we the Duke of Argyll dialikes motor. have received two further coming and so far has never owned a plaints concerning this dangerous car. thoroughfare In the first case,

an owner-driver was driving a

large Ruick ear from the diroc One-way traffle in the opinion. tion of the Dragon Motor Car of the Salford Chief Constable, is Company's "premises towards not a cure for street accidents. Craigengower. When just beyond tho Broadwood Road turning, the Buick was stopped to allow an approaching tram car to pass, (this action solely on account of the restricted space between the

tram and the trees) when a boy

Selfridges, of Oxford Street, London, have a delivery van with cycle type mudguards.

The Porte de Guise, the famous old gateway at Calais, has been saved from destruction.

Motorista on the Greenford arterial rand are warned of a gang of boys who throw lighted fire- works at cars.

eyelist Auddenly appeared from behind the Buick immediately in front of the oncoming tram. The driver of the latter vehicle applied hin brakea with commendable promptitude, but the cyclist was unable to stop in time and crashed from his machine right under the front of the tram. It was quite a difficult matter to extricate the ind and machine, but when this was done, it was most fortunate to discover that he was not seriously injured. We are assured that the alertness of the tram driver mosl probably prevented a fatality, although had the secident proved fatal, nobody could have been blamed, although greater emphasis Nerus, would have been given to the plea

, First Kid (at the 200): 00-00- ooh! Lookit the rhinoceronl

Second Kid (whose dad took him to the auto show) That ain't no rhinoceros; that's a hippopo- tamus, Sce, he ain't got no Motor radiator cap-Detroi

to remove the trees without "Why does a chauffeur wear o further delay. Another recent uniform?"

mishap of a similar nature · Con- "To distinguish him from the

cerned a motor vehicle, tram and

cycliat. In other parts of the owner of the car."

world, it has been found necessary.

to remove trees hardering motor.

"How long did it take your wife

thoroughfares, and Wong Nți to learn to drive?”.

Chung Road is a pressing example

"I will be ten years in Decem-

of a local motor, read needing such | her.” .

improvement. The authorities

must remember that the number

of vehicles using that route is In-

First Chauffeur:

Have you

Second Chauffeur: No, but I've been slapped.

creasing daily, and unless steps ever been pinched for going too are taken at the earliest possibile | fast? opportunity to remove the existing danger, we shall probably have [cuuke to again refer to the matter when a very serious accident has happened.

Cheap Motoring.

An interesting lustration of how cheap motoring has become has just been brought to bur notice.

The Archbishop of Canterbury regards unsightly filling stations as monstrosities made all the more glaring by surrounding them with flower-beds.

From May 1st, 1930, all cars in France must have an approved pattern of anti-dazzle head lamps Cara hullt previous to that date will have six months' grace.

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A young bank clerk, who had re- cently taken unto himself a wife, had for a long time cant envious glances at the cars of his friends. By dint of careful calculation, how ever, he came to the conclusion that he could not afford one. Very sen. sibly he remined an onlooker, yet resolved at the first opportunity previously convicted for failing to to become possessed of transport of give audible warning of approach his own.

was recently fined at Doncaster Now this was a methodical young for using a motor horn unneces- man. In his diary he kept a care-sarily!

A motorist stated to have been

MUST BE RESPONSIBLE.

ful account of all expenditure and balanced it carefully guinst income When he had paid his rent to the building society and the premium on his old age policy, he knew to a penny just how much he had left A motorist must be financially for luxuries.

responsible and able to satisfy

And being a perfectly normal per-claims for damages caused by ac son, he smoked, and, moreover,cidents before he can drive a car smoked a perfectly normal average in Maine, U.S.A. More than 400 of twenty cigarettes 'n day, which licences were revoked during 10 cost him a shilling.

months of 1929 in that state for

Then his doctor enters the ple- this sonson. ture. He told him that he must

temporarily give up smoking for

certain reasons, in view of his in-self and his wife, he would be able door occupation and he fact that he to maintain it comfortably. Ho lived in a congested suburb, other has now had his car six months. wist, in conjunction with his close

No comparison between the figure work, his eyesight would merits of smoking and motoring is suffer. He also insisted that he intended. The pleasures of the positively must get out more into cigarette and the pins are very real, But this instance does serve to l ustrate in no 'uncertain manner, with hard figures to back the claim, that motorig has now become as cheap as smoking, or

the fresh air. Smoking or Motoring.

Being a sensible young man, he took his doctor's advice, and soon realised that he had seven shillings

."

a week more in the exchequer. What would the motorist of, say, Then one day, ehancing to peruse a 1910, have said had you told him booklet on the running costs of the that a day was close at hand when that motoring and cigarette charge on the family exchequer would be approximately the same?

** | Morris Mior, he calculated that with this seven shillings a week, plus the saying in incidental fares for him-

MOTORING UNDER GREAT DIFFICULTIES.

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A village crossroads-Only the ducks seem really happy in this scene. The fact that the running boards of the Austin are roads are under water indicates the depth in which the submerged. England has just experienced the most serious foods known in that country for over half a century. In some parts of South Wales people have been compelled to vacate their homes owing not only to the flooding but to resultant land-slides.

·BRITISH CARS AT BRUSSELS SHOW.

The above picture shows the stand of Messrs. Tootes, Ltd., the famous British automobile distributing firm, at the recent Brussela Exhibition. The cams seen are a Hillman Straight Eight Saloon, one of the new Humber 16/50 saloons, and a Thrupp and Mabarly

64 litre Bentley.

WATCH YOUR

BRAKES!"

The owner of the above car had not taken the trouble to have his brakes adjusted regularly, with the result that when he parked on an incline, the brakes aHpped and the Car ren down a hill and over an embankment. Fortunately, the owARE

was not in the

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