1930-10-11 — Page 13

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER 11, 1930.

AERIAL TRANSPORT STIMULUS.

Network of Mail 'Planes Over America.

PASSENGERS TO BE CARRIED ALSO.

minal of all air mail lines serving THE BEST WAY.”

Now York.

Two Active Systems. Both Western Air Express and T. A. T.-Maddux are now operating over this system, Western Air soming through to Kansas City mid the nirrail line operating from Columbus to Los Angeles save for

Reducing Motor" Mishaps in U.S.A.

BAD DRIVERS BANNED.

Indianapolis, Sept. 3rd.

300-miles night jump between Waynoka, Okla., and Clovis, N. M. The best way to reduce automo- Western Air is a pioneer air mall bile fatalities is to remove from The air mail industry-for it has with the Colonial east-und-west carried and has handled many of the roads all careless drivers, ac- loads in the cording to Otto C. Fisld, State reached the point where it may be system through Buffalo, Rochester the largest mail called that is slowly taking shape and the Mohawk Valley to Albany, history of the air mail on its line Secretary of Indiana. And that's under the new air ninil law, where it meets the New York-Men-between Los Angeles and Salt Lake what, Indians has been doing with familiarly known as the Watrestreal air hail and passenger fine. City. At the same time, the comits, careless drivers.

pany has expanded its passenger) "Many accidents are the result act, and one of the developments another Colonial division.

Baston is looped in under Colonial service to cover the Pacific Coast of careless and negligent driving." that appears to be something for the immediate future is a recond by a Pre from Boston to Hartford and Southwest. Its Standard Ait saya Fifield. "These drivers have transcontinental air mail line which and New York, which is a success Lines follow the Southern tier of become such a menace that the law recognizes they have no right to will also carry passengers. The ful and established passenger and States to Dallas.

Its Kansas City line is the long-the use of the public highways. Postmaster General has futimated express as well as mail line,

Into this picture has come the fest single daylight hop in passen. "Indiana is among the first that he favours a third-continental

New England and Western Trans-ger service. In the country, and that states to enact a 'drivers' license line' also.

The ground work is well laid for portation, a new system back by means anywhere in the world. Its law. While the law has been in capital equipmid-continent subsidiary serves force less than a year, the good such a system, with north and Springfied (Masa. south airways, which ultimately ped with Ford trimotors and operat-Denver, the central region and results are already being realized.. will give America a literal networking twice daily from New York to Texas, cutting east and west lines The law provides that, for cause, of air mail lines. Then can come Albany and Boston, with Springfield at Albuquerque, Cheyane and San the license shall be revoked. About one thousand drivers' li- the realization of the aeronautical as the junction point. Three round- Antonio.

T. A. T. has never been a mail censes were revoked in the first industry's dream-first-class mail trips a day are made between New

York and Boston with changes at Jcarrier but, except for the year of the law. by air all over the country.

The law is being enforced This company is de Pennsylvania rail unit between Springfield.

for air mail, New York and Columbus, the with greater severity. Because finitely in the field

to of rigid enforcement, instead of although no contract appears avail-system is strategically placed

carry the mail en of Kansas City. there being a greater number of able at this time.

Or immediate importance, how-An extension from Columbus to revocations, there will be a less

mid-continent-trans Pittsburgh would be simple, and number,” ever, is the

It has been proved that the ma- continental on which representa now Pittsburgh Airways, backed tives of the Po-t-office Department.by Pittsbugh capital and operating jority of accidents are avoidable Western Air Express and Trans-between Newark and Pittsburgh and for that reason those involved continental Air Transport-Maddux with passengers only, is in the in such accidents should not be

an allowed to drive autmobile, this sex- Air Lines have been working for field for a contract over

Fifield believes. The past month:

ment of a new transcontinental. No one knows just what rate. Under the law the Postmaster this projected system will follow, General may extend the present pert of passengers and express by but predictions more or less unite contract of an existing airline to air and to knit the far-flung empire on a line from Los Angeles by way take in more territory under exist that is the United States into a homageneous nation. of Albuquerque to Kansas City, Sting rates. After a period the ex-still more Louis. Columbus,, Pittsburgh and tension may be further extended. Communications and lines of com- Newark, the present Eastern ter-At the same time, the contractor, munication and contract are the Few who after obtaining permission from the arteries of a community. government, can assign a section of have not travelled by air can realize his system to another operator if it how the speed of air transport will is seen that such a move is in the contribute and is contributing to- interests of better service and the day to, the work of joining the

A glance at the present air mail map reveals how well the work has been started. We have the Boeing line from San Francisco to Chicago by way of Salt Lake, Cheyenne and Omaha, now carrying passengers; express and mail on a twenty-hour chedule. We have the Chicago- New York mail line operated by NAT, which, like Boeing, is under the aegis of United Aircraft and Other Eastern Connexion. This system connects at Cleveland

Transport.

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AIR BRAKES?

Suggested for All Motor Vehicles.

SIMPLE WORKING.

Niels Anton Christensen.

Cleveland, Aug. 19th.

Air brakes for passenger au- tomobiles of all price classes may soon be introduced to the automo- tive world.

At present they are made here

automobile built.

promotion of air transport general viewpoints and aims of the separate ly. In these provisions observers centres in the United States. In Ree way whereby Western Air the formative days of the American European statemen. might extend its lines across the Republic, country and T. A. T. and Pittsburgh reckoning without the railroad and Airway or some other system might airplane, predicted freely that such benefit through assignment of a ta ration could never exist because part of the territory.

of the distances. Provincial and Southern Interests.

sectional aims and needs, they said, Going farther south, another big made it impossible. The war be group comes into the picture; Avia- tween the States was a triumph for tion Corporation of Delaware, pa-these prophets and much that they rent company to Colunial, Univer said is only now ceasing to be true aal, Robertson Airways, Southern pezause of the airplane:

Air Transport and others, reaching Ever since the World War the from New England through the several departments of the Federal Middle, West south to the Mexican Government have been working to- border and the Gulf and connecting [gether on the same problem, with Western Air's subsidiary from especialy through aviation. The

air

the coast at Dallas and extending Watres bill was written with the nurtheast to Altanta, the southern same viewpoint. Preference under junction point of Eastern Air the law in granting contracts is to Transport's mail line from Newark be given to operators whose to Miami.

Hines are for passengers, and ex- Why three transcontinental air press. Mail is to be carried as a mail lines? The answer is obvious stimulant, a small backlog for the to carry more air mail. More-transport by air of persins and uyer, to stimulate further the trans. goods.

MAKE HASTE SLOWLY.

The Joys of Motoring on the Continent. ¡Special to the Hongkong Telegraph by Ella Morgan.

Must people agree that for those 1 coast to Paris is, of course, so well for use on buses. trucks and who come to visit Europe from known that it would be superfluous no pleasanter to speak of it, but look at all the trailers, but E. J. Kulas, presi-overseas there is dent of the Midland Steel Prod- way of spending at least a part wonderful things that happen ucts Company, which has ac- of their holiday than motoring on after you have left the capital be-

Continent. For the land hind you! quired worldwide patent rights the

the Channel is varied. Barbizon, for instance, the little for the construction of such aeros brakes, says his company is plan- Sometimes it is lovely, sometimes village which is known as "The merely quaint, but always in- Artist's Paradise." It is not dif- ning for their introduction in any teresting. And for the most part ficult to realise as you look upon The Midland air brakes are the it is filled with sunshine and the the background of Millet's "An- invention of Niels Anton Christen-fragrance of such flowers as are gelus" that this spot has been sen, Danish engineer, now with to be found nowhere else in the chosen out of all the world by some

world.

lof the greatest loyers of beauty the Midland Company. His work Unfortunately, however, a ma-that have ever lived. For what started during the world's fair at jority of those who travel by road brush could tire of painting those Chicago when he saw a street car dash along at the most incredible quaintly garbed peasants at work accident due to defective brakes. speed, their sole object being to on the furrow with their white Christensen's air brake, it is cover the distance in as short a bullocks? What poet could cease said, requires a foot pressure con- time as possible. This is very to sing of those thatched cottages trol about the same as that on the silly as there is no advantage to peeping from between the yellow. accelerator. It will decelerate a he gained in reaching your des-leafed trees?

brake shoes.

MOTOR CAR INSURANCE

vines, the first heralds of

And

the

car one mile an hour in one foot. tination in a, shorter time than Then there is Auxerre with its True equalization of pressure on anyone else, but the disadvantage long straggling High Street and a all brake shoes, it is added, elimi-is great because there has been market which is noted for being nates the necessity of brake ad-so much loveliness lost on the one of the largest in France. justment for the entire life of the way.

There you will дее stalls and lining.

As a matter of fact, the very stalis of fruit and

many little Equipment of the Christensen beat way of doing a journey of dog-drawn" carts. And, because air brake consists of an air com- this kind in the right number of you are travelling more or less pressor and governor, an air days with the minimum amount of leisurely you will notice, just be- storage tank, a foot-operated con- trouble is by motorcoach, such as fore reaching Lyons, sparkling trol valve and cylinders on the the Daimlerways Services, which axles containing pistons actuated travel to any part of the Continent fresh earth with its fields by the air pressure to control the you could wish to visit. South. You will have plenty of This method is not terribly time to learn something of the cheap, but on the other City of Bridges itself. After din- hand it is by no means pro- hibitive: And there is the added er you will go to a cafe with its orchestra and smoke and sip advantage. that, once having paid French wines, good but cheap. your fare, you have paid for every And you will see for yourself thing including any possible sea passage, hotel accommodation and how the people of Lyons live.

But the best of the run comes, food. You are spared the dis- comfort of tackling strange langu as all good things should, right ages, and even the necessity for at the end. It is almost impos- tipping that bugbear of most sible to describe the beauty tourists-is eliminated. But the the road over the mountainous chief joy is that you will on no ac-Estercis. The slope after slope of count be rushed and all things of shaded forest, each hend disclos beauty or interest will be pointed ing a view of the sea more beauti- out to you by an unobtrustive ful than the last, while in the dis- courler who knows all about them; tance, stand the green and the In this way a journey which might purple of the snow-capped Alps. otherwise have been nothing more The Riviera at last!" You find than a long motor ride is trans- yourself gliding through, a Para-' formed into one of the most de- dise of terraces, vines, mimosa lightful episodes in your life, bude and sunshine-which you Take, for instance, the run from would not have enjoyed had you Boulogne to Nice, which is so po been determined to race the Blue pular. The actual road from the Train!

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