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MOTORS AND

MOTORING..

The New Motor Laws at Home.

[By John Prioleau.]

The announcement by the Minister of Transport that the more important portions of the new Traffic Control Bill will not

THE

HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

resulted from the sheer panic in- forming the drafting of the old Act, an Act which led to more law. breaking than any over put on the

come into force for some time--proved a, false alarm, and there is November and January are the little risk, judging from the tenour two approximate dates Mr. Morri- of Mr Morrison's written reply, of 300 hoped for will have been the potential advantages of the hailed with relief by all road-new law being nullified by precipi-Statuto Book. The intentions of users. It was suggested in some tate action." quarters, before the Minister made his statement in the House, that

That, on the whole, the new law certain of the clauses would promises well is generally accept- become operative immediately, and ed. Its provisions are the work of the prospect of an entirely new set a body of practical men, them- of conditions being imposed on selves in many cases motorists of pupils and police aliko without a long and wide experience, and, on day's preparation was sufficiently the face of it, we should not have disturbing. Fortunately it has to fear any of the anomalies which

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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 6, 1930.

ACCESSORIES DELIGHT MOTORIST,

Practical and Fancy Attachments for Automobiles.

BEAUTIFUL EXTRA-FINE EQUIPMENT.

While no accessory has yet bear devised to curb back-seat driving, a"number of them, aim to make things cooler in the ear. One of these is the side awning, a bit of fabric that not only keeps out the aun but makes the car look like shore bungalow on wheels.

Then there are, the summer seat-covers, made of straw or some other light material; and then, again, pads for seats and backs, some of them so constructed as to allow a current.

Naturally the abolition of the: twenty-miles-an-hour speed limit for private cars, which the Minis- ter proposes to put into effect at the beginning of the New Year, The automobile accessories store shields, wings to be attached to jof air to pass through. is of prime interest to the is like a Japanese bazaar. There, is the sides thereof, smoked-glass majority, though I do not regard so much to see that the eye begins shields, green eye-shades to clamp

For Winter Driving.

For winter driving a different

it as of so much importance to wander over everything, concen- over the windshield in front of As other clauses. It is alltrating on no particular object. The the driver's seat, and goggles of set of accessories comes into play. to the good that what has result is confusion, but confusion all sizes and shapes.

foot robes and foot-muffs, steam for so long amounted to a dead with a thrill in it. The motorist Hand in hand with this develop and exhaust heaters, radiator shut- letter of the law should be erased. with a kink in him for the mechanment has been the metamorphosis ters and covers, hood blankets, It was never of the smallest use ical knows this, thrill, and knows of the horn-whether hand, electric In checking the activities of the road hog and nobody was a penny the better for it except certain municipalities who saw in it a

that it forebodes the discovery of or "air" from a raucous warning- tyre chains and a host of chemical yet a new gadget for his car. sigual into a musical instrument. "anti-freeze" solutions...

And there are gadgets for every This will be indignantly denied by In line with his desire to pro- taste. The automobilist who nur-many harassed listeners, but it goldea chance to swell the local tures a liking for adorning her car bears a modicum of truth. At any/vide those little things which mean coffers. The indecent spectacle of will find that inventive geniuses all rate, if you don't like the sound of so much in the way of comfort, the magistrates, themselves constantly over the country have been busy the horn on your car you can change accessory man has evolved a rub- guilty of breaking the law, imposing heavy fines for the same providing the means for indulging it for one more suitable to your ber covering for the steering wheel, offence-in itself often technical this fondness. The Patent Office taste. Nor does the new-fangled a number of rattle eliminators and in Washington has a hard time tooter hide its talents under a -will, let us hope. fade for ever. keeping track of new contrivances, bushel, or rather under the hood: it great variety of clutch and brake and so has the store owner, whose new sallies, boldly forth at times in pedai plates and pads. He even near the head-supplies a heel protector for the To make up for the wholly sup-catalogue of accessories bulges with pairs-right out

lamps, and in one make at least, on woman driver, designed to prevent posititious check the limit every return of Spring. exercised on the reckless driver That's the time when the acces- the cross-bar in front of the scuffing, scratching of marring of

driver make his radiator. our responsibilities are to be sory-minded

the dainty feminine slipper, when it. In this connexion it may be touches the pedals. greatly increased, as well as the reconnoissance. The store owner responsibilities of the police. classifies, the species into the newly noted that the old-fashioned bulb

Other accessaries make their ap Proved cases of dangerous driving converted and the inveterate. He hern operated by hand is coming will be punishable by heavy fines, comes to know them at first sight. back, and is especially popular peal to the motorist, whose soul and the threat of licence-cancella- The former walks in shyly. His among sporty gentlemen who drive rebels agains the drabness of things. These horna, as they are. He can create the tion is to be in constant suspen-eyes roam a little. He asks timidly yellow roadsters. sion over our heads. Nobody will for what he doesn't see in the show-often termed "foreign," have one, illusion of cruising in a yacht by quarrel with the intention of this case, wondering if his imagination two, three or even four brass tubes putting on the sides of his vehicle but everybody must be relieved to has not outstripped that of the or cornets from which resonant miniature side lights, red for port

This music is green for starboard. That order, know that time is being taken wizards whose business it is to music is ejected. fully to consider how to interpret invent new doodads for a man's car, described in one case as "distinct incidentally, should be respected if the new regulations. The It turns out generally that he does and sure," and in another as "a the illusion is to be complete.

certain evidence of

aforesaid 2 country police not want much: A flower-vase to series of notes to form

Again, should the One imported horn has an officer, possibly without practical brighten up the interior for his tunes."

motorist think his licence-plate experience of the road, might wife, or a handhorn with a melli- elbow attachment for turning it in fasteners too utilitarian, in aspect, easily lead to serious abuses and fluous tone to impress the neigh-in any direction, presumably in or he can replace them by little rod the defeat of the law's purpose bours-both of which have been ouder to enable the driver to scare

that glimmer and green buttons that the driving public should be the market for many seasons.

the right pedestrian. Some of the domestic horns

like jewels in the light. Should he have. also gone taught the safe way.

The

Particular Purchasers.

fancy, one emitting 3 "powerful also incline to absent-mindedness, The veteran is harder to please. far-reaching warning," another "a46 persons of the type often do, he stinging vibratone of can counteract it by getting an oll tab-a small device, attachable to not content with anything short of remarkable volume and penetrating the oil Indicator, with a bit of He knows what he wants, and is smooth, revolutionary. Last year's novelty quality and a third "a deep-throat-

more

year

For the car owner who prefers

sets

and water and

valve

tyTo

To aid him in keep- spick and span

car

Mobile police forces are to be a Highway Code of conduct issued, organised to help in the work, and

The latter has been sorely needed

is too old for him; he would no ed warning, a cross between the low white space for writing down the for a long time, and a set of

carrying think of

it moan of an ocean liner fog-horn mileage when fresh oil la put in official definitions of bad and,

this

than he and the snort of an angry bull" again therefore, risky driving should go

back. to of changing

to do his own tinkering the acces would far to mend matters.

Extra Equipment. that

balloon.

sory manufacturers have develop- aren't National Safety First Association tyres

As with the horn, you do not ed a number of mechanical aids," Known in his circle of driving has for several years done excel-friends as a person with a flair for have to be content with any of the such as jacks; tyre, valve, spark- lent work with their yearly book the "different," he has a reputation other equipment which the car plug and radiator-solution testers; lets, presented with each driving licence, but if their remarkably to keep up. So he spurns the cata- brings, whether it be the gear shift portable tyre-repair, apparatus: sensible list of "Do's and Don'ts" logue; for him only the latest knick-knobs, the trunk or its rack, the rim tools, wrench are issued to the public in a more nacks stuck on coloured cards prop- spare tyre and transmission locks, lifters or less legal form, with the weight ped on top of the showcases. And or the stepplate. You can exchange pumps. of Government behind them, they these show all manner of new-style them at the accessory store for ing the must necessarily produce more fasteners, pocket lights, door silen-something near the heart's desire. he will find cleaning and polishing So, too, with radiator "neck" or liquids; hair and wool brushes; effect.

One could wish that the cars, spark-plug testers and cigar-

cap. If you are an Elk or a Mason rust removers; nickel shiners and a issue of a driving licence shouldette lighters, depend upon the passing of an One of these last, by the way, can you can get the distinctive emblems number of magical cloths all of which will make his car look like examination in the code. One of accomplish everything but manu- of these orders; if you feel like a

cigarettes. the worst types of dangerous facture

This little "Flying Eagle" or a "Speed Eagle" new, if aided by a fond eye.

This account is not exhaustive, "Jumping Grey- 3 driver, the thoughtless, incon- machine, made to be attached to or perhaps siderate, and wilfully stupid, has the dashboard, not only contains the hound" you can get the ornament but merely indicates the extent and often no notion that his offensive cheroots, keeping them clean and that best typifies your personality, variety of the accessory business, ¦, behaviour is in reality a serious fresh, but lights one 'when you want This can be done also if you hapan important unit of the automo bile industry-how important may reach of the unwritten laws which it to, takes a deep puff and, if it pen to be a "Dancing Girl," "Wing-be judged from the fact that Inst make the roads safe. Let him finds it coughless, delivers it to you ed Nymph" or "Diving Venus,"

If, however, you are none of year the accessory market, includ quote, even parrot-wise if he must. very politely. from the code, showing that he Much has been done in the line these, but have a baby that you ing sales of parts for replacement reached а wholesale value of has at least read it, and he is of ash-trays, too. In the old days want to take out riding, the thing.$920,000,000, with retail sales deprived for good of the smallest it was the custom to toss the butt to get is a "child's auto chair." claim for consideration.

out of the window.

But the in- This folds very compactly when not amounting to considerably

G.$1,000,000,000.-N. Y. Times. creased proximity of one car to an- in use, and when in use. works other оп the road nowadays curiously. It may for example, be The mobile police, in swift cars has made this habit obnoxious, slipped over the leg (it has some

.on swifter motor-bleycles, since

end the flying

often contrivance for the purpose), and should quickly justify their finds no place to land except the child placed in the seat where, existence, but it is to be hoped in some one else's car. Out it will have no chance of spoiling that their powers will be clearly in the great spaces of America, anything. Or the frame of the It is reported that applicants. defined. Presumably they will be where men and forest fires are chair may be pushed into the crease for motor driving permits in Peru in plain clothes, and the question easily provoked, there is an added between the back and the seat will undergo a complete paycho- may arise. In the mind of the consideration for the use of ash-cushions of the car, thus enabling physical examination. A new pursued whether he is called upon and-stub receivers. Truck drivers the child to sit up high enough to laboratory is to be established in to stop without some display of instructed to deposit their look out of the window. There are Limi with modern scientific authority, such as a badge. It is cigar lasts in dainty containers other similar accessories-a cloth instruments to make the required easy to imagine a breathless race within arm's reach.

cradle to hang in the rear com-tests. Persons already driving between the police.and the delin-

While ash-trays sometimes come partment, and a baby hammock cars will also be subjected to such quent, with the onus eventually on the police of showing that the separately, they are often included with awnings and stands-design-examination once every six months his in smoking sets consisting also of ed to make motoring pleasanter for to ascertain whether their original latter could distinguish

qualifications, are maintained. pursuers from up-to-date, well-a cigarette holder and match case both children and parents, mounted bandits. And it is still These sets, like their cousins the easier to imagine the trail of reck-vanity sets, are procurable in either less driving incidents that would leather or metal, with a variety of mark the passage of the chase, decorative trimmings. The high-speed police must be able to drop the mask as they call upon the guilty to come quietly.

or

are

The greatest agitation in the. accessory market at the present time appears to be in the line of electric light apparatus. There are lamps and lamps-reflector, cowl, It is gratifying to know that we head, tail, stop, spot, parking, dash, have breathing space, till Novem- camp and trouble--and you get ber 1 at earliest, before it is most of these when you buy a car. decided what physical disabilities But the accessory men are always constitute a bar to holding & bringing out new models of each driving licence. Here again was type.

an opportunity, well and wisely missed, for over-hasty Icgislation.

Use of Reflectors.

A good deal has been made lately, Incidently, many people are and with justice, of cases of l-equipping their cars with red reflec ness at the wheel resulting in tors to serve as auxiliary trail fatal accidents, and there is no lights. doubt that licences are given to people who have no business to be

Some lamps are powerful enough driving at all. Yet the number of to flood your girl-friend's window, those accidents which are directly even if she lives on the nineteenth due to physical unfitness is very floor; others, small enough to fit on small, obviously because the the vest pocket, are convenient Average man knows perfectly well when you have to stop in the mid- if he is fit or not to be in charge dle of the night to inspect a spark- of a car and responsible for the plug that isn't doing its duty. And safety of everyone near it.

Ayou can get them with or without number of physical disabilities cord, fixed or movable, and with or that would prevent a man from without all kinds of special bulbs following other occupations, such and lenses.

as short sight, lameness, and other The excess of light has naturally and glare "partial" defects, need be no called for deflectors reason why he should not make a eliminators. The sun-visor. with safe driver. Not even deafness which most cars are now equipped. need be a bar, provided that the takes care of the sunlight, but spec- fitting of efficient driving-mirrors jal accessories are needed to beams., For is made compulsory-as it certain handle manmade. ly should be-Ex

this there are slanting wind-

THE WINNER.

BAY, I HEARD

YOU WERE TO BE MARRIED LAST MONTH — WHAT

HADDENED?

IN PERU

WELL I JUST FIGURED I COULDN'T KEED BOTH A DIFE

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