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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLÉMENT. SATURDAY, AUGUST 8, 1931.

DRIVERS' FAULTS.

Selfish and Over-Confident Motorists.

By Chiltern.]

During a recent train journey, between the car in front of them soo frequently the attitude of the my companion, British traffic that they could overtake the easier expert, was rather revere on slow-when conditions allowed. moving car drivers, and said a num-

ber of trafle chiefs were with him

Intrusion,

AMERICA'S BABY CARS.

Three Midgets Now Marketed.

though slightly larger than the Victory, which is to sell at a baso horse-paw by 41⁄4 inches. The,

stroko

Olmervance Act applies to

A fourth amall car, the Mathis, puts it in a tlor above that of the Littlemac, and delivers 30 brake The bore and stroke garages; for it is most extra- jordinarily difficult to find one with

others, is uncertain as to its fato of £50. a mechanic on duty on the seventi

In the immediate future. It was The Victory line is the smallest ongines in all three cars have

Its wheelbase is four cylinders, dny.

Now that Burgly a funila

originally announced for produc-of the midgets.

All of the midget models, includ- mental error, for Sunday is the

tion by the Durant Co. this year 76in., compared with the 78 in. of day for motorings. and, therefore

as the American version of a the Austin, and the 82 in of the Ing the Mathis, have but a singlo the day when there is the greatest

popular French small car product. Littlemac. It weighs, in the seat. The preferred body style is standard coupe model, about 8% the coupe, although this year saw demund for on-the-rond service.

To Sell For £10.

cwt. The weight of the compar-

tho

Austin appear niso Jus - D Garage people should look upon

The atable Austin body type is 1014 ewt, rondster,

Bolo Littlemne themselves as the servants of the

Martin Brothera' midget LOW PRICES.

The Mathis motoring public, not their masters

tracted public attention in 1929, and that of the Littlemac alightly model in a coupe. when models of it appeared with

hasshion designed in two coupo more, Midget motoring in the United the announcement that it was to gentlemen, who, in their Saniny

In troad width the three cara forma, a standard and a do luxe model. The Vistory offor three serge, strall but in response loStates has set 1931-32 for its sell for 240, and was to be de-\vary considerably. The Littlema raions of the coupe; a standard, grentest advance. Behind the livered in a packing box, which is the smallest in this dimension. your angry honking.

The It is 42 in. wide. The Austina a de luxe, and a convertible. No doubt there will be a great scenes preparations have been could be used as a garage. But if they did, some hasty driver

Austin, Littlemac, and Victory change for the batter everywhere completed to nugment the present frat car embodied a number of 42-in.. and the Victory 53 In. con-would come along and, in an attempt the fax someone starts a chain single banturn car with two others interesting features, and was sub The Austin has the smallest are, or will he offered in comme

te overtake, would fill the space, pos-

rently

service and, in addition, midget models mitted to demonstrations of its engine, Its power plant has a cial types. Similiarity is noted id bore of 2.2 in, and a stroke of the claims of the makers of the Ile was also rather severo in his sibly to яnve himself from n crash stations on the popular reails, but are known to be under study abilities." remarks about riddern drivers, and with an oncoming car, the speed of cannot for the life of me under. the laboratories of some of the

In Bome respects, however, it 8 in., riving a piston displacement midget cars regarding economy of was an improvised creation, and of 46.8 cubic inchos.. Its rated performance. stand why there should be such most Important manufacturera. disregard almost a callous dis

The Victory. from Martin considerably different from the horse-power is 7.8 and brako He predicted a time when trunk olil-up ·every week-end on roads regard-of the châuirea of profit au Motors, Ing, and the Littlemac are 1 form in, which it is now to be horse-power 13.6.

exists at present,

the two destined to join the offered, although a number of

Economy of Performance. Nor can I understand why any · Austin. The design of both has novel features, devised by its in- The traße, for some reason oripod or something olke that it been

station should pretend to be crystallised. Specifications have ventor, Captain J. V. Martin; have The-engines-of-the Victory and

determined,

Littlemac are made by Continen orders been retained.

Motor trucks. hauled about other narrow

with parts specialists. The Littlemac, the other new tai. The Victory has a piston dis obstruction on the road-forces all Isn't: nor why some offer you ten placed apart for which driven at less decent motorists to move in a jamb when you would gladly give the Dealer organisations are being bantam now getting into produc-placement of 78 cubic inches, a 12,622 rail carloads of livestock at slow speed when some bright price of a good dinner for an formed, und dies, jigs, and tools lion at Muscatine, Iowa, in of more brake horse-power of 30, and a inte Chicago markets in 1950, an

Its price, rated horso-power of 34. youth rushes up on the wrong alde expert opinion on the state of your now are being rushed to permit conventional design.

inch metor powers the 1029 figure. of the road and then, realising the clutch.

production in quantity.

£68 for the single coupe model, jeuble

in deairing a minimum speed limit

is a means to relieve traffic gestion.

showed that he belonged to the which he had misjudged. school which thinks the slaniard of i driving nowadays bad.

roads in Britain would all have a white line or other driving device; keeping each time of traffic separate

from the other, with a section set

than 30 m.p.h.

bells he a right in regard

Another example of selfish rude ness is experienced in every trac

to popular seaside pinces.

bridge or

of

una

to arterial ronds being divided intimculty, borch into the line.

unway paths for trade.

forcing one car to brake harshly that, with the driver unable to give is al

any signal, three or four cars be and become involved in a minor crush.

Nor do I agree with him the standard of driving nowachys, though had he said that much of the present-day driving was so thoughtlessly relaxed as to be dangerous, I would have agreed with him.

Thoughtless, on ens indidener and selfishners by driving | love to 15 responsible for a von- siderade part of the road trouble of to-day.

Another curious act of thought- lessness most prevalent now is That of driving on the wrong side of the road at corners whether There are white linen or not.

A Poor Excuse.

If tarded with this dangerous Erudeness he would probably say Like Mild Hooligans.

he was avoiding the reverso camber, Week-end and holiday times but the modern car will take re

sutely at higher The periods when these three faults verse cambers

Then

the average eur spends are modly displayed, sees cultured men and women, com- travels.

pletely forgetting their training.

than

man

littler The Itoad Traffic Act

chaving like mild booligans at the ignoring a white linn can bring wheels of care.

About a prosecution for dangerous

To take a few of the varieties of Briving, and the police of many thoughBessness and selfishness so jequalles will probably this kummer uften encountered nowadays.

ve a court sson to many such

There is the man who drives we}} | offenders. away from the left-hand de un math road at 28-3 miles an hour, It is his idea of safely. He may

Then there an die cross-ronds. Question any motorist and he will readily reply that necilents should

be right, but by doing this he is avoided it all costs, but, judging selfishly making a road that should hedd four lines of traffic a two-lin, or perhaps a threeline, highway.

He Torver others who want in get

on to wait and the busty to take the

from observations at cross-ronds un rol jonctions at Whitsun, It would seem that not all motorists hold that view,

Talk to him away from his car. and he will say that n crossing or rand junction of any kind must be token at a speed at which another thing motorist, doing a rockless could be avoided.

What is the singular psycholo risk of overtaking him on the left-gical change that sets in when a hand side or to go over to the man takes over the wheel of a car? wrong side of the road tu passing. If this does not happen through his selfishness, something equally bad does. Cars behind him take up station on his tail until 20 or more are held up, for no one without the acceleration of a racing car dare rick overtaking a line of five or six cars bonnet to tail,

Some may say that the moterists who hung on to the ninn's tail were thoughtless also, because they ought

But how many do approach these crossings and junctions with their minds concentrated on the possi bulty of meeting the unexpected?

With the holiday season begin juing the highway is no place for

to leave a space of two car lengths thoughtlessness or selfishness.

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I would suggest to them that a boy masquerading under the name of garage isha perpetual they make arrangements for the source of wonder to American most expeditions assistance pus visitors. Here and there, outside sible for the mutorist who ma London, if the actorist all in for some minor adjustment

service ar for counnel. tinate, he encounters,

Persopully, if station which justifies its titular were running a garage. I should

lignity.

adopt the methods of the first- He runs his car in; a courteous Jelans establishments in the West asistant awaits his order; the car End.

who

is

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by

conscious

that

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no

I should see, first, that it hud in immediately taken in hand by quick-moving nechales. within half an hour tic trouble,necfent and clean and inviting

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but dignified it, not a major one, is put right perrance; secondly, that there and the car returned to the owner. announceraent displayed outside it How can it be measured, the of the kind of service obtainable. peace of mind which comes to him with the appropriate scale of

his charges; and thirdly, that

was allowed to waste passed has

out customer been blue-overalled expert time in waiting for attention. entirely

to take the These first impresalona on my rand once more? asked a writer ustomer would be succeded by in the Evening Standard.

thers even more captivating; the And it is usually only a small (mechanic would know the make matter that leads the owner-driver of ear so thoroughly that within It three minutes he would have pro- to seek the help of a garage. may be the auspicion that there duced a correct diagnosis of the is undue play in the steering gear. fault a loose hut, for example... or the certainty that the brakes and within six would have cor- are not so good as they should rectod

-be.

I know that many owner-drivers

It may be the sinister behaviour to-day are capable of attending to of a tappet, or an unaccountable these minor matters themselves, squeak in the darker regions of but I know also that they are only

It may the chassis.

be pure too glad to have expert advice if Imagination-often it is, in the it is cheap and readily available. But it is not fair to expect them first few months of a motorist's

their highly-polished career, as we all know-but still, to trust who would not confess that half-wings to the

In a crowded a bargain shed where ears are being pushed about and manoeuvred in and out all day. Hosilofdat ragen, Induced by the first view of large rcratch, dent, or other damage, ar

•1 anggest, therefore, to those not uncommon in these places. garage-proprietors who regard Application of Recent Budiday motorists, as merely people--to

Observance Active whom they can self petrol, to Last of all, it would be interest- Visualise them as the weak and ing to know whether the Sunday

a-crown paid to the service station experienced youies of some in

for an inspection is price for tranquillity of mind? Service Stations not Merely

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