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SATURDAY 914 JANUARY. 1932.

Being The unicat drgan of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION

HOW TO SOLVE THE PARKING PROBLEM.

Sir Malcolm Campbell Gives His Views.

F

MORRIS MINOR.

More Small Car Economy.

Like many another, I am not all the problema connected. But this is a utilitarian

skilful with tools. I can only just with motor traffic that of Many of our older buildings are had to economieo in many direc age. afford to run a small car, and have parking appears the most acute. disappearing, and on their sites tions to make this possible-this This is particularly so in London. are rising business premises, flata, from a Morris Minor owner. where the growth of motor traffic and hotels all ministering to pro- has long since outgrown every

gress and to the now needs of the facility whether of garaging or community. parking.

sea.

I cut out expensive driving les- aons after the first and taught my self by going out early in the morn

rondis till I had

Why not, then, take our courage in both hands and devete certaing on quint

of the squares to useful, rather ve-gallon

gained confidence. I bought a

St.

There is no fairer test of the ability of a car and its driver than to trip up the Grent North Road to Glasgow--a fast road with few

The motorist whose business traffic hold-ups--and the return brings him into London-or. fur Journey through the industrial that matter. into any large town. than ornamental, purposes.

drum of oil and districts of Lancashire, the Pot-in between the devil and the deep Jamen's-equare and Berkeley-

aved a few shillings teries, and the Midlands.

there. square are cases in point..

have nover tinkered about From early morning till late at

with The general behaviour of drivers night every parking place is fully pletely residential and are now its makers, I realised that I could Long ago they ceased to be com-having confidence in the car and

the mechanism, on these two great arteries leaven nothing to be desired, with but occupied. It. is impossible for him occupied by clubs and offices.not improve on their handicrm

hecause every inch of accommoda- tial are being sold for conversion arbonising I left to the to get into any near-by garage. Even the few houses still residen- Moreover, the major joba like de- tion is already occupied by regular to business. Here we have a con- station. But the routine jobs like customers and the early motorist. siderable area which, opened up, greasing. oiling, brake adjusting, afford parking space for and topping up the battery I at-

tended to myself regularly.

few exceptions. One will always find a discourteous driver here and

there: on the coastal roads they form too great a percentage. On the Great North Road, at any rate, they are conspicuous by their n

pence.

That is probably due to the fact that it is a very fast road, and the people who use it are people who drive fast but with safety, be they pleasure drivers, commercial men, or lorry driven

The farther north one drives, the butter are the road surfaces and the better maintained. Signposts giv- ing warnings and directions aro more frequent, more varied, and so placed that they can be rend at a distance without the necessity' of Blowing down or stopping.

And, na I believe that through- out life a point can only be rummed home if it is repeated again and again, I welcomed the fact that warning signs were repeated two and three times for the benefit of the casual motorist who gives only n fleeting glance at the first sign.

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Absurd Rules,

Often he in faced with having to drive around for hours before he can find a place to leave his car. Should he be so ill-advised as to leave the car outside the place of he emerges after completing his call, it is almost certain that when business he will find a policeman waiting, note-book in hand.

Now, it seems to me that in the first place, quite apart from all parking facilities, the police ar- rangements for dealing with obstructions are, in too many cases, hidebound and absurd.

For example, some little time ago I left my car outside business house in one of the main thoroughfares of the West End. Ten yards away there was, a row of vans picking up loads. There were at least eight, backed tail to the curb

I left the car for, at the most,

would

many cora.

Why use only the surface area? Why not go underground

well?

service

Now for actual figures. In the aarat twelve months I did 8,000 miles and spent £42 altogether. As a matter of fact some years This works out at 1d. per formulated a scheme for building miles per gallon, and oil 900 miles. ago the Automobile Associat.on mile. Potrol consumption was forty an underground parking place at per gallon. Leicester-square. The scheme was not proceeded with mainly. I believe, on the ground that there would be danger of fire.

That would drive the all-day. parker into the nearest garage.

No Responsibility.

Bigger Garages Needed. While existing facilities afford conveniences public, there is undoubtedly and I am perfectly confident that to the motoring building of large super garages, Another obvious need is tho

ment. At present there is no Trent deal of room for improve-if sufficient capital were forth. responsibility taken by anyone for coming and sites were available, property

harge of the attendant.

and cars deposited in very garage would not only pay its way, but show a very handsome return on the capital invested.

The attendant is licensed by and occupying at least eight to ten feet of the road-e authorities, but he is unpaid The dificulty here is to obtain

and depends on tips.

Further, it the necessary sites, but here does

not seem fair that these again we can come back to certain 20 minutes, but when I came out nature of their licences, act ax receiving letters from reader: Lattendants ehould, by the very of the squares. I am constantly there

was the usual policeman who wanted to know why. I was

common informers aainst the asking -ma about thief-proof- obstructing the road by leaving motorist from whom they drew ed ono for some years.

devices for their cars. I have their money. my car. I pointed out the pre-

This sence of the vans, and his reply There must, of course, be regu-leather-covered, and with a sub- consists of a hardened steel chain, Was that they were taking up lations, and these goods.

regulations stantial padlock, which is used to with a little elasticity, be shackle one of the front wheels to Now this sort of thing is utterly observed by the motorist who the dumbiron. logical. One of the first partial leaves his car in a public park,

problem is brt one does rather resent having This is as thief-proof as any-

Road improvements are being way. carried out all along the Great North Road, on both sides of the border. Level crossings have no longer to be negotiated, lnd cor- ners are being straightened nut.

Lorry drivers proceed with car and well they need to, many of them because of the appalling lights with which they are equipped Long-distance coach drivers keep to their limit, and both types are the essence of courtesy, giving way to the motorist and backoning him on all the time.

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I found not only civility but keenness to give help h garage prople, villagers, tradespeople, and others such as I am sorry to say is not always found in the south, and in a return trip of 703 miles from Coventry to Glasgow and back to Birmingham, I did not see ong care of bad driving or road "hogging."

I was particularly struck by the safe measures taken by arivers tn prevent dazzle to oncoming cars by "lowing down, dipping, or dimming their headlights and pulling to the near-side of the road.

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on the part of the police.

A Business Matter.

I would not for a moment advocate that the motorist should

depend on informing the polico too, the merit of being inexpensive man on the beat when a car has and requires no permanent fitting been left a few minutes over the to the car. Once this is locked in regulation time.

placo it is impossible either to drive away or tow the car.

It would be much better if a

be allowed to leave his car where charge were made to which no There is one disadvantage, how- it does actually cause an obstruc- one would object, a limited res-over, which is intimately con- tion, but there are numberless ponsibility taken for the safety of cerned with the parking problem cases in which a car may be left the car, and the time allowed made The car cannot be moved by the for a reasonable time-long dependent upon the charge made. attendant, and this contravener enough, at least, to make a pur- The time limit of one or two the police regulations that the car chase or transact a small matter houra at present imposed, le shall not be left in such a way of business, where the obstruction directed against the car owner as not to be movable in case of does not exist at all except in who leaves his car in the morning, need. the technical sense.

and drives it away again after What are we to do about finding office hours, at a total cost of a know, all I can say is that if I As for most of the gadgets I the permanent solution necessary six-pouny tip. That could easily were a professional car thief

delay me for very long.-Ex.

in the interests of motoring in its be stopped by making a charge of there are few of them that would relation to business? I am not say 6d. for every two hours. particularly concerned with the, person who comes into London murely sight-seeing. Не must take his chance.

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What does vitally affect the business community in these elght are the all temperature days of motor transport is that we rogulator and the Bulek carburettor who use our motorcars for business air intake allenser. These two should be afforded at least features are distinctly new can reasonable chance of carrying out tributions made to the automotive our business unhampered and industry by Buick engineers. unharried by voxatious regulations

During the three years the Buick and undue interference. straight eight engine was under development, it was realised that I am not by any

an

moans iconoclast, but we cannot afford

this new motor was capable of such in the interest of modern develop high speeds that to assure long life to the motor it would be neces- ment to allow London to remain sary to evolve some method that

for ever species of garden city. would improve the lubricating refer more particularly to the system beyond anything previously London squares which are ceaslug known in standard motor trans

to be residential and fast becoming portation.

Jevoted to business premises, clubs, and hotels.

of

The Buick engineers installed an tho new straight right a small The beautifully wooded garden compart regulator that is made up spacos which occupy valuable a serice of cores, almilar in land in these aquares must, principle to the radiator. All the ultimately, in common with other cooling water from the main things which are merely old or radiator to the engine block passer beautiful, go. It may be a pity. through those tubes, while the off and I, in common with others who from the bearings passes around love beautiful things, shall regret the tubes,"

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