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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY, 25th, OCTOBER, 1930.

Being The Official Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

HONGKONG MOTOR ACCESSORY

COMPANY

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in all kinds of

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то

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THE

NEW

UNAPPROACHABLE NORTON

Model 20 Two-Port

THE MOST UP-TO-DATE MACHINE AND THE CHOICE OF THE CONNOISSEUR.

Inspection Invited SINCERES

SOLE AGENTS

Effecto

FINISHES

CURRENT

COMMENT

City Parking.

The question of parking private cars in the centre of the city re- mains a meat acute problem, and nt certain busy hours, it is fre- quently impossible to find space, especially in Pedder Street or Cha- ter Road. The major part of the limited space available. is un- doubtedly taken up by cars which are parked for the greater part of the day, and-we would appeal to such motorists to find other space, such as at the City Hall, in Statue Square, or along the Chater Road outside the Cricket Ground. Un- less relief is, secured, it is most probable that a time limit will be necessary

the for parking in heart of the city.

A Dangerous Tree.

The large tree which Rourishes at the side of the roadway op- posite the Monument at Happy Valley, should be removed. The corner is a particularly busy one." and a great improvement would be effected, giving greater traffic space by cutting down the ob- struction.

Number Plates,

THE NEXT BID FOR WORLD'S RECORD.

1931 "Harley Davidson" Can be Cabled for Now.

Harlan Fengler, at night, with his manager, C. W. Atwater, looking over their 48-cylinder mator, built to try for the world's speed record at Daytona. Inset shows Peter De Faolo who, with Fengler, may drive the car.

We have noticed several cars recently with their number plates almost entirely hidden by bum-

Los Angeles, Sept. 19th. Har-and De Paolo, as to which will pers. In these cases, it appears lan Fengler and Peter De Paolo, pilot the car in the speed trials. that the bumpers have been fitted two of the country's leading auto It appears likely that each will try as an afterthought, for when part racers, will make a bid for world his hand at it. of the equipment of a new vehicle, speed supremacy at Daytona Beach Miller's speed creations have the prominence of the identifica-next summer in a car designed by been supreme on American tracks tion plates is in no way interfered Harry A. Miller.

for many years.

and

titled "Miss Los Angeles." It will not deviate radically from the ac- cepted designs for high-speed cars. All four wheels will be driving wheels. One motor is to be housed in front and one behind in the plans as they are now.

Each motor consists of three bank vertical and the other two banks of eight cylinders in line, one meeting this in a V-shape at the super crankshaft. Each bank of cylin

with. The matter is quite an im- The great racer will be powered He was responsible for the intro- portant one, and one motorist at by two motors of 1200 horsepower duction of the super-charger least can thank himself that his each. Miller believes a speed of the front-wheel drive in racing. His Lumpers saved him from having 300 miles an hour will be attained. design for the front-drive is now his number reported, the other

Already the motors are complet- used commercially. His night, for a grass infringement of the rule of the road.

P.W.D. Road Hogs.

car-

ed and have been test run on charger, however, is banned from ders has its own ignition system blocks. They are massive machines. the tracks this year under the new and its own super-charger. Each has 24 cylinders and weighs | A.A.A_restrictions. 2000 pounds.

De Paolo, cousin of the great Completed, the car will weigh Instructions should be given to The present world speed record Ralph De Palma, is familiar to five tons and will be 32 feet in drivers of the heavy solid-tyred for automobiles was set by the late board and dirt track fans. Fengler, length. Streamlining will be PW.D. vehicles that they shall not Major H. O. D. Segrave, of Eng- too, has competed at most of the ried out even beyond the bullet-like exceed the speed limit laid down land, at Daytona in 1929. He at big racing events and won several designs of cars which have for them. In all parts of the Co-tained an average over the course of them. He won at Kansas City pleted previously. lony, these lorries are notoriously and return of 211.36 miles an hour. several years ago, setting a record famous for speeding, and apart;

for motors of the size then in use. from the danger to other road

Driver Not Decided.

No decision has been reached by)

users, they do cause considerable the two racing drivers, Fengler

damage to road surfaces. A large; lorry was seen descending the Peak the other afternoon laden:

with coolies, and travelling at a speed estimated to be well over 20 miles per hour. Whether this was a P.W.D. vehicle or an out- side contractor's lorry, we are un- able to state, but such a speed with a cumbersome solid-tyred vehicle is most dangerous.

"HIT-RUN."

Why Drivers Do It.

PSYCHOLOGIST'S THEORY.

cut.

All Four Driving Wheels. Tentatively the new car has been

AN AMERICAN'S TRIBUTE.

Value of the Automobile Association.

PRAISE FOR ENGLISH ROADS.

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2, KWONG WAH ROAD,

Tel. 56242

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(Under the auspices of the Automobile Association)

BEFORE INSURING CONSULT US ON OUR COMPREHENSIVE POLICY.

LOCAL AGENTS,

THE UNION TRADING Co., Ltd.

York Building.

Phone 27738.

RIBBONS OF STEEL.

At a busy point in London there is a section of steel road, a rigid," continuous mesh. of steel, filled with concrete, but with the surface of akid, and will last without repair for at least twice as long as any other, the metal grid exposed to traffic. It is claimed that the surface is non- com-form of road surface.

It is hoped to have the car fin- ished this December, and the first trials may take place in January, according to Fengler and De Paolo.

FREE-WHEELING.

Lessens the Cost of Maintenance.

The men who juggle heaps of

blocks

And strew them gaily on the

path,

And those who pave a road with

rocks

Will fume at this and rise in

wrath:

But we like smoothness 'Death

the wheel,

And welcome in the age of steel. While plumbers who were wont

to tear

A perfect surface into shreds That they might lay new pipe-

lines there Will take, grief-stricken, to

their beds; Their coffins will display this

seal: "Defeated by a road of steel.”

Though potholes with their bump

and bounce May check the speedster in his

stride,

And shake off a superfluous,

Ounce

From those who fatter as they

ride,

Far better they should miss a

mea!

Than we should lack the boon of

steel.

Yet, metal highways may not be A solace to our eager tyres; For, in this country of the free,! The motor fans some jealous

fires;

Someone will scream "The tram

way fails"

And use the roads as beds for

rails.

RESULT OF TESTS.

Approximately $400,000,000 would London, Sept. 26th.-The roads "In a little town near the south have been saved, motorists of the of England are among the best in coast a local storekeeper at a United States during 1929, if all the world for automobile travel, sharp, turn, seeing us coming and automobiles had been equipped with reports Robbius B. Stoeckel, com- realizing that we had a larger car free wheeling, according to H. S. missioner of vehicles of Connecti- than ordinary, jumped down into Welch, president of the Studebaker the road, took a look around the Pierce-Arrow Export Corporation. According to Stoeckel, who re- corner and gave us a go-ahead Free Wheeling with positive gear forces the engine to pump excess

“GLASS” THAT cently spent some time in Eng-signal.”

control is a new engineering prin-petrol and oil into the cylinders.

"But not only in fuel and oil does

BENDS. land, courtesy and the Automobile The Automobile Association was ciple, developed and perfected by Dr. A. H. Martin, the prominent Association are making roads in of much interest to Stoeckel. The Studebaker engineers, and mann-free wheeling effect a saving. A

Safety for Cars. psychologist, says that a driver the British Isles so popular. Cour dues are the equivalent of $5 an-factured under Studebaker patente. further important saving results from the material reduction in wear might be totally unaware that hotesy is practiced by all pedestrians, nually. And for this amount "Exhaustive tests show that free and tear on engine, gear box, FRENCH INVENTION. has knocked a person down. The and the automobile organization members receive everything, from wheeling offects a saving of 12 per chassis and tyres due to the elimina excitement of the fraction of offers, such fine service that only maps to aid in changing tyres on cent. in petrol and 20 per cent. in tion of all reversional strains dur- Greater safety for care is pro- second as the car swoops down on a few motorists in the country louely country roads in the dead oil," Mr. Welch gold. Last year, Ing deceleration. The objection-mised by a flexible synthetic glass the unlucky pedestrian might in- don't belong,

of night.

the consumption of gasoline by au-able piling up' sensation experien-called "Similex," which is befog duce a mild epileptic fit which

tomobiles in the United States to-ced in the conventional car when made in France. numbs the brain of the driver, and an observant person would make With few exceptions, there are taled 13,934,330,000 gallons, and the foot is lifted off the accelera- It is unsplinterable, non-inflam-

repecting English traffic is that it no policemen on the rural roads consumption of ell 460,000,000 tor is completely banished. is far advanced in co-operation," of England. Taking their places, gallons. The amount spent by the

mable, and proof against damp, "Free wheeling also permits the seawater, and acid: It is made in Stoeckel recently commented. but with no authority to stop or American motoring public during driver to change gears easily and at various colours, thicknesser : und Then, again, it might be just "Everybody is a traffic man. arrest motorists, are representa- the year attained the huge sum of lently between second and top at degrees of flexibility. Some panic. Realising that he may meet is everybody's business that a car tives of the A.A. These men $3,404,077,960, of which free wheel-any speed without touching the pieces can be twisted and bent. trouble in the courts, the driver of be properly directed and

The patentees are seeking to the patrol a certain section of road ing would have saved $444,489,355. clutch. The clutch is employed a car speeds away from the scene drivers, pedestrians and even the and are always on the job in their The saving of 12 per cent. in only to start and back up. As a evolve Simitex with a harder sur- ALL COLOURS KEPT IN STOCK of the accident, his faculties man seated on his front porch,little cars, motorcycles or bicycles.petrol and 20 per cent. in oil effec result, the necessity of tiresome face than now is possible to pro numbed by the horror of the whole help by suggestion and direction. They carry repair kits and first ted by free wheeling, is conserva-pedal pushing as well as the fear of vide a substitute for plate-glass in

Always too, in a kind and matter aid kits, and each one must be ative, and actually increases in pro-gear clashing are gone forever." of fact way.

mechanic; a tyre man, a counsellor portion to the heaviness of the traf- and friend. All'trouble is handled fic. The reason for this is that, directly by him if it can be re-with free wheeling, car momentum "A great many times during the paired on the spot. If not, he never forces the ergine. The in- tour I recently made, it happened calls headquarters and a man isistant the foot is lifted off the ac- that the driver ahead would indi-sent out to tow the car into a celerator, the engine drops to idling cate that a vehicle was approach-garage.........

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he keeps on totally unaware that

he has left a badly injured person

on the road.

"One of the obvious comments

Warn of Approaching Car.

It

A. A. Patrols Roads.

thing.

This type of panic does not last very long, Dr Martin says, and soon the driver realises his mis- take. Then he is overcome by another type of panic, and, fearful of the police, makes every effort to cover up his tracks.

Occasionally the police have ing from the opposite direction. As a counsellor, he advisea great difficulty in tracing a hit-run Our own driver invariably did the routes, legislative supervision and driver.

same for following cars

| traffic rules.

ORDER INSURANCE.

Owners or operators of public automobiles in Paris'must carry a speed, while the car continues to minimum of $8,000 accident insur

on glide forward free and unfettered, ance, according to a decree which

be

cars. The hardest yet made can scratched, with difficulty, though the scratches can bo removed by busing.

When boiled, Similex becomes soft, but hardens when cool.

LIMIT LENGTH.

Ohlo has a law which limits the

to 80 feet.

yet in gear and fully controlled. In must be conformed with, by length of vehicles on state highways consequence, car momentum never October of this year.