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MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY, OCTOBER, 10th 1931.

Being The Official Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

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CURRENT

COMMENT

To H.K.A.A. Members,

The Honorary Secretary of the Hongkong Asianobile Association has received from the A.A. and R.A.C. cards of introduc tion for use by

Inent- bers of aliated associations, for nee when in the British Files. The parent bodies specially re- thal mendera of the H.K.A.A. shall be issued with

eards when proceeding on;

Reliable Drivers Supplied Fran Mechanical Advice Reduced barbour transport Charges

Associate Membership of the R. A. and A. A. London.

B. D, IVANS

Hon. Secretary.

C/o "Hongkong Tolograph"

The

ente. ! application sirould

therefore be made to the

Hon.

Scereinry, care of this office, bri alf members who are going home!

in ti nezr future.

Eyesight Test.

A recent prosecution against

wearing

a lorry driver for apretacles, when he has been in- structed to do so, indicates that Hongkong's Trafike Department!

vortern itself with the physical

of licenced drivers. This is indeed gratify- ing, for good eyesight is absolutely! essential in the interest of public; safety.

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Our Bud Roads.

ΝΟΩΝΟΥ

2,000

MILES

ACROSS

EUROPE.

30377

PARIS

CALAIS

GHEN

BRUSSELS

DAIX-LA-CH

COBLENZ

AFRÁNKFURTH BINGEN

PASSAD

NUREMBUR

JUSTAMBUL

Picturesque country will greet tourists passing over the highway being built from Lon- dun to istanbul. Mnp shows the route, with dotted line showing the alternate road sug gested by Rumania. Photos show, upper right, the city of Coblenz on the Rhine, and at lower left n typieni mosque fa Intianbal.

By Millon Bronner.I

London, Sept. 9. If a dream fathered by the of Great Automobile Association

2.-Permanent offices of the A. 1. mainly through Rumanian terri- T. at various strategic points along | tory, the, line.

The Rumanians would call the A must

unfortunate enption!

highway through their country the But despite warnings and protests,

3.--Sign-posts in various lan King Carol road. It was also point- the Government is evidently deter mined to cut down expenditure to Britain comes true, it will be pas-gnages, particularly in countries ed out that from Constanza u line!

Jugoslavia, which use the sible for a motorist to start from like

Lo Istanbul on the Bosphorus, Loudon and drive in comfort to Cyrillic alphabet, unknown

2000 Western Europeans.

the lowest possible figure. In the course of his Butgel speech. Li Colonial Secretary referring The mutter atated "It will I fear, me a lowering of

high

miles away

come

in

Most of the vision has already true. The missing links chain of highways are those in Jugoslavia, Bulgaria and Turkey, The Automobil Association of Great Britain is a founder member A. I. T-Alliance of the famous Internationale de Tourisme, which means an International Touring Association.

standard at which the Colony's rads have hitherte maintained." Such a prediction. it does from the nunating as

a for the Government, is astounding, for it reveals the ordinary a total lack of prineiples of commercial economy: True, the tavernment should not

Last year the A. 1. T. took up be compared with any business institution, for its ways are indeed the idea of a great international highway from London to Istanbul, passing strange, but when it considered economy fo permit the one-time Constantinople. costly works to deteriotute frem was pointed out that this would not sheer neglect, the ordinary bust-only be fine for motorists, but would for international ness man raises his hands in be #11 ngency

It would bring the western despair, As we have so frequently trade. pointed out during the last

or nations in closer touch with the year of 9a, Hongkong's ronds have already near east. suffered tremendously on account of inadequate maintenance, and instead of an effort being made to make good this neglect, we are promised an even worse standard,

It

May Continue to India. Then from Istanbul it would be possible to lead mother highway through Turkey in Asia and Persia

hich in the huge expenditure and on to India.

4.Twenty-four-hour around the-clock service for customs and Passports at various frontiers.

-Arrangements for an Interna. tional driving permit.

6.--International certificate for

motor vehicle.

7.-Carnet de passages en doaane universal card which would ex- pedite the motorist in his customs formalities.

of rond could then be constructed linking up with Istanbul.

While this plan has not yet been ditched. the main efforts are still being concentrated on the Istambul route.

ax

Over Half Way Completed.

The roads from London down to Dover on the English Channel are already in good condition. There the ears are shipped by boat across to Calais in France. From there the proposed milenge would be a 8.-Securing a standardized high follows: class of heels at various points

From Calais to Brussels, 132 where the notorist may stop for miles; Brussels to Vienna, 707; the night and where at present such Vienna to Budapest, 164; Budapest accommodations do not exist.

to Belgrade, 250; Belgrade to Nish, 9.--Removal of unguarded rail-169; Nish to Softa, 92: Sofia to way crossings.

nople, 204, and from there to

75. Suggest Alternate Route.

France, Belgium, Germany, Aus- Owing to the state of their tria and Hungary have been very finunce, Jugoslavia, Bulgaria and helpful and it may be said that the Turkey may not be able to build highway as far as Budapest is such rondds as are required. practically in being.

The Rumanians, therefore, have The Turks, too, have done their suggested that the road when it bit. The road west from Istanbul This was no light task. The left Budapest, Instead of going to Chorlu used to be closed to mo- be necessary one of

These through Jugoslavia, Bulgaria and torists, as it was a military high- паливия. these days to repair the sin of problems were

Turkey, might have as its terminal way. The Turkish government has neglect has not been considered.

Actual construction of a high-point the seaport town of Constanza now consented to thrown this open but the tins must come when

The road, therefore, to motorists armed with the proper Thousands (if not millions) of way of the uniform width of eight in Rumania.

after leaving Budapest, would goleredentials.

were:

additional dollars will be required meters-26 feet.

to remedy a disgraceful state of

road affairs. The strange part in The use of "dopes" for fortifying

over in Kowloon, many thou-

that over

sands of dollars have been spent petrol is a makeshift, he said; it during the last two years in laying does the work, but it is not the final down reinforced concrete ronds, solution. Motorists want to use

this work might have been straight fiel" and also prevent desi fimited, and the money thus saved Lonation. Experiments are striving devoted to the general maintenor that ideal with a standard ear anee

of the Colony's ronds. Apparently, it is better to have a compression increased to seven to mile or two of exceedingly expenone, and even higher. "I believe sive readways, and many miles of fameless combustion offers the way neglected Anel broken-surfaced

out," said the professor. "It differs than to endeavour to spread expenditure in uniform from ordinary combustion, as the

routes,

maintenance.

wireless is different from the tele- phone,"

FLAMELESS PETROL, combustion engineering," he con-

Experiments That Will Bring Safer Motoring.

“STRAIGHT FUEL.”

That imeless combustion will be the outstanding development of the Future in automobile engineering

"We are entering a new field of

tinued, "burning oil without flame." A liquid fuel can be burnt without, fame in an apparatus in the college laboratory. The heat is so intense

and the fuel burns. so rapidly that the carbon is entirely consumed and carbon dioxide, with no poison- ous monoxide gas, is formed. ·

IL

Motor-cars will be safer when thla ; fameless combustion becomes commercial possibility. Experi wna the prediction made by Profesments are being made in the do Hor F. C. Bender, of Oregon State velopment of this process at several College engineering department, in a discussion at a meeting of the laboratories. They will be watched with interest by motorists and the motor industry alike.

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