1931-09-19 — Page 13

Battery, Neglect Costs YOU Money

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THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 19, 1931.

WHY NOT MOTORISE OUR RAILWAYS?

Will Our Railroads Become Motor Roads? Yes, says Our Contributor, and Tells Us Why.

[By S. F. Edge,¡

turmas and the "four-foot-way

similarly levelled up,

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can easily find the Intervals still perhaps, cont. Milk paid best longer. That is all out of date, because it had to be carried quick- Let me wave a magle wand and, whereas coal did not lose value transform our railway tracka into while hanging about. roads on which pneumatic-tyred; To-day milk is carried by road. coaches can run at 60 m.p.h. (as Some of the big milk concerns, like jexistent conches could, can, and lu United Dairies Ltd, and London Favourable circumstances Wholesale Dairies Ltd., have as

do

|ṛun). The driver or the condue many as five hundred ferries of for will sell me my Ucket. I shall their own, carrying churns, to any Rit

in comferi, with the English nothing of their gigantle ass- countryside to amuse me. I do lined tank wagons, carrying hun- that not have to stare at my neighbour, dreds, thousands of gallons of By if that I can see and hear | petrol-driven conches can runvis-a-vis, or have him stare at me, milk, either filled or emptied by the British railway, companies' fapon what were the highways of whether or not I like the look of the man who drives them, lụ á assets are being steadily, almost the steam-propelled locomotive-him, or he liken the look of me. few minutes. They serve a radius studiously, frittere! away in independent, Individual conches, perfectly hopeless effort to cum atinet from trains of railway mph, easily, because the old-time

My coach will travel at of 150 miles. pete with road transport.

on

carriages,

-

more AA TOILE

And

Give me my motorised rallway Even Make your battery last our highways as existent

railway signal system will make tracks. and the radius is inmi Supply and Demand. such a pace quite safe. My pan-dintely doubled, at least; berat.se longer and perform better. to-day, the rond foach is steadily

stealing the business of the rail. Recanse if the 10.15 from end-senger coach, and other goods on such tracks milk lorries could Pass the scaponalbliity to us,way train, not only because the dington is to be of any use, it has conchern, will whirl along the travel at least twice as quickly and let our Firestone Stand- Inres are lower, but also because in be capable of carrying 600 to straight, practically leval highway as anybody dare drive them on our ardized Battery Servico s370 of the greater comfort and com-10 people, whether or not there without a pause, except if and roads.

are that number of people wish-when I ask the driver to act me Door-to-door, convenience at- you money. It costs you noth-venience afforded.

few While conches

travel in it. That is one down

down. ing to are restricted to

hundred yards tuets people interested in the en. My Coach ⚫ing for our Free Tests, and

the 8 of existent highways, they of the many weak spots of the farther

transport of goods just na múch you incur no obligation what-aunot safely compete with rail-railway train, that it has to be the goods-carrying couches are as it does those interested in the way trains in the one matter of ready to carry a maximum number restricted to what were our rail- conveyance of their own persons soever. Come in today and in-

speed: but if what I can visualise of passengers, whether or not they way tracks, freeing the roads of and hand-baggage. The railway ureyourbattery performance

ennies to be it will, if not in want to use it, whereas the road the present for lighter traffic.com

companies have tried to prevent my time the road coach will beat conch has only to fill up to be com. Everything weighing more then passenger rond coaches running The railway train just as anel merrjat, in pay for its fuel and of five tons will be travelling on the right into the centre of London,

More passengers

ora? converted railway track. Everybat have failed. And thone con- on speed as on anything else which and wages.

coach!

pre? thing is important to travellers, whether Another

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of less weight will be stick- another coach! But on buisiness bent or frankly but for

ron: linge to the ronds, unless its drivercerned with goods traffic are every pleasure.

consume fuel and oil and likes to pay a sort of toll-fee for as keen on door-to-door ftelli-

ties as are personal passengers. too For example, look at the 10- straight, easily graded permanent-penditure of men's wages, only ed railway track, so that he

Wir railway while they are at work, actually es travel from end to end of the lowing figures, which are official ways enjoyed, by trains, they could and would travel earning money. they are just as country at 60 m.p.h, with the statistics. On the few main runds at railway speeds, and then the "economie" as railway tralas are advantage of signals, and other-radiating from Liverpool, wheren

wise an unrestricted highway, in 1913 884,000 tons were carried railway companies would not have "non-economic." la ley to stand upon.

The ideal in traffic of any kind!

Another World.

by motor vehicles, by 1922 the is a large number of fudividunt

tonnage had grown to 7,138,000. As Things Are,

The existent railway companies | Around Birmingham there was an As thiners are, I eat drive from units, each self-dependent, self-

rellant. self-supporting. The would very soon find themselves | inereuse of no less than 208 per the Laugham Hotel in

railway iden is wrong. It presup, in another world, as owners of cent. in three years. Place to the Mitre Hotel in Oxfurti

I am not a railway man. There just as quickly as I can ride in as an immense, complex and motoring speedways, because their

are many things about railways taxi-rah to Paddington, "trein" intly organisation, which has to routes are in a vast majority

which I do not know, do not unier- Ustort, and ride in another taxi-te minintained, whether or not any instancen so very direct.

In being takeh.

and have their termini, their jun

But what in abundantly rah from the railway station in money

although taking money is the their goods yards, all of

elear Uxford to the Mitre. Aud 1 can

is that every two cars that immediately become passen, lace woulat

are

sold put "paid" to the. account do that on the least costly, bathener of business, money can

taken only while there is business Fer

coach and goods transport

one railway compartment, and 1a bay and to run, of all the Morris to be done, while somebody wants stations, with ample room for the the sooner our rallway models!

convey parking both of their own and turn their present railway tracks companies Give me a seat in a 1982 Morris something-in this case

junce or transport.

other muter vehicles.

info motor vehicle tracks, both for Commerela) couch, refortal

Hey Presto!

What are at present tremendous their own use and-upon suitable The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd. capable of 60 to 80 m.p.h, give

very payment--the use of other owners. me a really modernised rond, with Turn our railway tracks into liabilities would the minimum of "bling" corners roach roads, and the picture useful, fruitful assets. I can see or users of petrol-driven vehicles. and unsuspected side-turnings, chanved. If F and twenty-three nothing but good, eventually, In the sooner will rallway companies and I could beat the existing rail-other people want to go to Oxford, the motorisation of our railways shares once more be honestly re- wzy time-schedule hallow, espect-In conch will take us. If we don't, and just as straws show which ardable as "trustee stocka, ally for a short trip like that from if none of us wants to go to Oxford way the wind blows--let us turn London to Oxford.

to-morrow, the 11.30 nm. conch | asi

conch aside for a moment to look at milk

! And shy, berause I believe, will no

It will instead traffe. A few years ago the milk not start. that within the next few years become the 12 o'clock coach. And traffic was wholly in the hands "The railway companies. shail

railways if none of us should turn up at of our "motorised." We shall see the 12. it will again remain at rest commonest object of any railway Highway congestion costs the

untry more than $2,000,000,00 present permanent-ways rehulit.until 12.30, and so on through the station was a milk churn, full or

Railway At least we shall see the 6-day. At present we have trains mpy

companies a year, the National Conference! space in between the railway running only every half-hour, or carried mom milk than any other on Street and Highway Safety

individual commodity, excepting, estimates,

If our engehes of to-dns but her, and call for the ex-the privilege of using the convert-]

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