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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY, 28th JUNE, 1930.

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THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION,

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COMPANY

ti.

specialisms

in all kinds of

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Wrenches

c. &c. &c., c.

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THE PEAK...

PEAK GARAGE

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CURRENT

COMMENT

Stubbs Rand Again.

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Several motorists have request-

up the

ed us to draw attention to the prevalence of speeding Stubbs Road, mainly between the hours of 8 a.m. and 9 a.m. As far as our information goes, it would ap- pear that the majority of these offenders are chauffeurs taking their employers cars to the Peak each morning, and it is logical to assume that most of them are! merely endeavouring to make up time as the result of late starting. The matter is a serious one, and unless steps are taken to stop it. a serious collision will be reported one of these mornings. As we have frequently stated before, the setting of police traps would be quite justified, for we are sure that the employers themselves would be thankful to hear of their servants being checked and ap propiately punished for such recklessness.

Solid Tyred Vehicles.

The heavy increase in the taxa- tion of solid-tyred vehicles has undoubtedly been imposed in view of the greater damage caused to the roads by lorries and other' vehicles so equipped. While we

NASH TWIN-IGNITION STRAIGHT EIGHT CABRIOLET.

An attractive Nash model with a twin-ignition, straight eight engine.

are all against imposing burdens COLOUR BLINDNESS. MORE MOTOR CARS THE MOTOR CAR IN

calculated to check the develop- ment in commercial transporta- tion, there can be no objection to levying taxation which has as its object, the protection of road sur- faces. It is, however. most sur- prising that the majority of Go- vernment vehicles are of the solid- tyred, type One would have thought that the builders of the roads would be the people to set the example to road-users. If Gov. ernment had to pay the tax, it might be a different tale. Road Widening.

Be Certain of Your

Eyes.

DRIVING HANDICAPS.

IN CHINA,

Steady Development

of Industry.

COURT.

Decisions of Great

Interest..

Already there have been cases. of mistakes made by motorists who did not understand the working of the umber, red and green traffic covered in India and the growth motorists, one rendered by the control lights. It is curious that of city populations make it Alabama Court of Appeals, the amang all the ill-informed impossible to overlook the ad-other criticism directed against motor-vantages of motor travel. ists little attention has been paid,

POTENTIAL DEMAND. AMERICAN RULINGS.

The enormous distances to be Two decisions affecting

with the widening of the top por-ly is responsible for a number of motor-vehicles on 29208

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EMERGENCY

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Lane, Crawford, Ltd.

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FINISHES

ALL COLOURS KEPT IN STOCK

AS WELL AS THE NEW FORD SHADES.

Arabian Sand, Dawn Grey, Niagara

Blue and Gun Metal Blue.

W, S. MOSES & CO., LTD.

Bole-Agents.

fare Star Ferry Approach.

should be

151,000

by the Maesachusetts Supreme Court, are reported by Good progress is being made to bad eyesight, which, undoubted- To-day there are

the legal department of the tion of Garden Road adjoining the accidents. It has been stated that India, Burma, and Ceylon, and,

the roads of American Motorists' Association." Botanical Gardens. Much traffic out of every ten persons who re- although the majority of these are tomobile owner,

The first held that an au- usea this route, and the narrow-gard their vision as normal,

sitting in the nges of the road has barely left least two

atuned for commercial purposes, back seat of his car, which was room for two vehicles to pass. glasses.

wearing there is no lack of passenger cars equally guilty of reckless driving operated by a chauffeur, was When completed, the widening

in the larger cities. Indeed the when he failed to admonish the will greatly improve this thorough-valent than is generally realized the motor habit in India

Colour blindness is far more pre-most interesting development of driver or protest against the ex- and, with the advent of coloured

is the cessive speed at which he was signal lights, will form a problem extent and quality of urban taxi going, It is to be hoped that much attention in America.

which is already receiving serious facilities. The taxicabs in use in The second held that a motorist needed attention will be given to one case on record of a colour-luxurious than those of either tion on a one-way strect is a There is Bombay, for example, are far more who drives in the wrong direc the surface of the roadway in the blind car driver who, accustomed London or Paris, due to strict the protection of the law. While vicinity of the Star Ferry, Kow-to the signal lights of his, own municipal regulation.

trespasser, and is not entitled to loon. At the present time, it is town. used to drive in perfect

going in the wrong direction the difficult for pedestrians to cross safety. Then he went to the The potential demand of India trespasser collided with another over to or from the ferry in wet theatre in a neighbouring town, for motor-cara has, however, hard- automobile. He aued for damages weather, without puddling through and seeing a light where the green ly been tapped, for the prosperous and during the trial proved that numerous puddles, and the dis should have been, drove straight native trading classes are not yet the defendant was guilty of negli comfort of this is added to by the into a petrol lorry. The position convinced of the advantages splashing of passing vehicles. of the lights was different.

of gence in the operation of his

machine. The court, held, how This is particularly noticeable on the station side.

think it is inevitable that who goes far from his own door trespasser, could not recover dam- For years the motorist in India ever, that the plaintiff, being a motorists will eventually have to has had to be prepared for all ages, notwithstanding the proved "Jay Walkera"

undergo some sort of e esight ex-emergencies." amination before being granted a showrooms in the towns, some of gent..

There are motor fact that the defendant was negli licence. Probably not one man in them being the Indian head-

is not always easy for him to

I

"Pecking out the Corners.".

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The time is surely here when pedestrians who insist on walking a thousand has heard of "tunnel quarters of the manufacturera of in the roadway, thereby creating a vision," yet here is a defect which the cars dieplayed; repair shops

To Stop a "Racket." danger to motorista as well as to may cause difficulty at any one of and accessory stores are at every legal racket in which "guest With the outcropping of a new themselves, should be dealt with the scores of cross-roads in a fifty-street corner. But once out "into suits" are instituted, often by fri- us is done in other cities. Should mile journey. a car knock down one of these

the blue," except for roadside ende and relatives, against the careless people, numbers of people

"godowns," where petrol can be automobile host following an ad- Immediately come forward and A driver with normal eyesight and many other tribulations befall legislative action to clarify the

bought, flat tyres, faulty ignition, cident, seven States have taken PURSUIT OF FACTS. special apparatus, blame the driver of the car, and can see an object at nearly ninety the motorist. This is one of the laws governing the car owner's

The ins while it naturally follows that he degrees from the straight line of factors which

ments include everything neces- have prevented liability in such is to blame in some cases, it is vision, especially if that object be India's demand for motor-cars American Automobile Association Laboratory on Wheels. behaviour of spirit and oll under

cases, the

sary to observe and test the extremely unfortunate when the a moving one; but the man with from increasing more rapidly. In points out. These "guest suite" driver happens to be sole occupant tunnel vision is limited to an area a country where one. may travel are not to be confused with the of the car at the time, because it approximately forty-five degrees 800 miles without reaching a liability of a public carrier to pas

on either side of the straight line. town with a population of more sengers carried for hire. Thus there is a blacked-out strip than 500, where the difficult hill of forty-five degrees on either side, roads of the "ghats" and the heat action in this regard are Con- The States whch have taken a darkness from which a vehicle or of the plains provide a constant necticut, Iowa, Oregon, California, pedestrian may suddenly emerge.

test of every car's fitness, the Delaware, Michigan and Vermont. Short and long sight may be cor- depende, first, upon the provision Supreme Court last year upheld wider use of motor travelling A decision of the United States rected easily enough, though it is of more and better roads, and, the constitutionality of the Con- always an added handicap to wear secondly, upon the existence glasses when peering through a nation-wide service facilities.

necticut statute, which provides rain splashed windscreen.

But

that no gucat in a motor vehicle for tunnel vision, apparently, vehicles in use on farms in the along at a speed which makes it similarly treated. In the event of unless injuries received "shall 5,677,500 motor there is no cure save crawling desirable for motorists to be against the owner or operator cause for action United States at the end of 1929, possible to stop literally within a an accident they would, at all have been intentions! on the part the National Automobile Chamber car's length. Drivers of railway events, be clear of blame in that of the owner or caused by his of Commerce reports. This is a engines are examined periodically they had done their utmost to prove 100 per cent increase over 1919, for their eyesight; and in course their capability

heedlessness." when there were 2,146,512 In use. at time it may appear even more "Exchange.

to drive- The laws in the other States

mentioned are generally similar.

Accure witnesses when he is not to blame. The term "Juy Walk- ing" is, of course, of American origin, and it aptly describes aim- less wanderers.

MOTORISED FARMS.

There

were

of

shall have

working conditions. A pointer and dial on the special pano! In- GAUGES TAKE RECORD.dicate the position of the throttle

produce road conditions in the speedos and clocks with trip at any moment, and, in addition Finding that it is difficult to re- laboratory the Shell Company has leadings, are revolution counters, to distance-rending thermometers,

taken the laboratory to the actual aneriod barometers, atmospheric road conditions in a novel way,

thermometers, accelerometers, and One of the familiar red Shell gradient meters. delivery waggonsa six-cylinder Leyland Tiger has been fitted to and, in addition to its special test The lorry carries a useful load, do special research work in con-work, performa ordinary delivory nexion with lubricants and petrol. duties, stopping, starting, and The driver has a separate cab changing gears hundreds of times: beside the engine, and immediate a day. Exact reproductions of ly behind this cab is an elaborate-varying road conditions are ly fitted compartment, running the assured, as the truck is routed width of the lorry, containing over different territory dally.