1932-01-30 — Page 9

MOTORING

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY 30th JANUARY, 1932,

Being The Official Organ of

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that

The 25 tranillion from the Barse Age to the Motor Age at analysed JTI ith Future history, Campbell's name will stand with that of Stephen52:31.

This

is a bold statement make of one motorist in world which holds many motorists," he say, "yet consider the achieve 1 Bais match. He has thrown the inheritance of a brilliant brain, the creation of a lucrative business, the possession of a large fortune, and the risk of his own life

con- without per pictely and Branch: 71+

personal gain, into the building. designing and driving of motor cars which have set up more world's land speed reords than have ever stood to the eredit f any one man before.

**Malcolm Campbell

is a national hero. present day And, unlike some heroes, he is a national asset- an amingsador not only of trade, of Imperial prestige, but of the spirit of manllness and adventure.

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The book tells the story of Camp- bell's life from the days when a youth called Mulcoina Campbell was fined 30/- in Bromies police court for riding

a bieyela

what the magistrate described as

totally unnecessary speed of 27 miles per tour.

ur. "We hope this will be a lesson to you not to travel so fust In future." added the magistrate.

After Campbell bad left Upping- ham, he went to Germany, where he ok up bicycle track racing. Speed beenme almost an obsession. That was the beginning of his career of speed.

Mr. Wentworth Day graphically tells of Campbell's amazing adven-

tures. There is hardly a page

thrill: 4 it is not to without tell of speed records at Pendine or Dayton, then it is the Treasure 1stand-like story of Sir Malcolm's voyage to the Cocos Islands with K. bee Guiness on a search for £12,- 600,000 lost treasure.

Although the nok is first of all a hook of adventure, it shows how valuable have been the achievements of Sir Malcolm. These achieve ments are not yet finished.

"And this impressive tale of achievement, of danger and of hon- our, in not yet ended," Mr. Went- worth Day Rays. "The last chapter remnias unwritten. The Anal honour ін unbestowed, The greatest risk has yet to be taken."

NEW B.S.A.'S.

Many New Features on 1932 Models.

THE NEW TYPES.

The famous B.S.A. motor cycles. for 1932, show yet another big stride forward in design and value. In addition to last year's improvements, sump lubrication, air cleaner, gear-driven magneto, hinged rear mudguard, etc. B.S.A, models for 1932 have many new features.

All models, for instance, have fnstrument panel mounted in tank when electric lighting get la fitted: ratchet control to front | brake, and twist grip throttle and

magneto controls.

Models from 3.49 h.p. Side Valvo de Luxo to 6.57 h.p. have four-speed gearboxes, coupled brakes, detachable cylinder heads, provision for pillion footresta. There are also two entirely new models the "B.S.A.” 4.99 h.n. S.V. and the "B.S.A." 4.90 h.p. Oil.V. Both fast light machines with plenty of power suitable for nole or light side-car work.

B.S.A.'S are popular throughout the world and the fact that no many are employed for public services, in many countries such as polleo work, is in itself, worthy tribute to the excellence of these machlaos. Sincero's are the local ugonta, and they will shortly be showing the now range.

Musings Awheel

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Idle Thoughts upon Motering Matters of the Moment, with regret to the days that are

to the

MOLUI,

By Milent"

sure of joy and prosperity accord- ing to their individual conception well- of the meaning of these worked words.

no more, I for one have no desire to return to a car-less world. I find the future far more intrigning than the past.

Avoiding Colds,

Sliding roof models are available at such attractive prices these days that everybody with a pre- ference for this type of conchwork Speaking personally, to drive for any length

medical

To-day birda kuow as well na CO December is with us agača |

it is once more, my i dogs and lyses our paces; only pleasant privilege to begin these mankind, and rabbits dazed by our tes with the customary henisun beadlights, have not yet picked up So the instinct of self-preservation, Appropriate here; may all our readers enjoy. True that I slew a poor sengull during this coming Christmas and outside Gleneagles four years ago, the ensuing New Year, full men-but since then, in more than 60ean satisfy his wants.

000 miles, I have killed no other.

By the way, it nearly slew me.) of time in a totally-enclosed body Autres temps, andrea mocurs. The invariably gives me a headache, ever-lamented "Charlie" Rolls however well ventilated it might ance told me that when practising be. And it Morria Towners can't for the Gordon Bennett race over have merry Christmas, who in Ireland in the beginning of this The new "Eddyfree" fronts to can? For now that we all have century nothing he could do would all Morris enclosed models thie closed ctura, the old-fashioned

prevent the countless black crows, year entirely do away with the Christmas seems to become more whose ungal haunt was the middle threat of draughts. A old-fashioned-in time goes on

of most of the roads, from tarrying friend advises all users of sliding Whereas at one time the family just too late to escape the fate of top saloons, who are prone to take gathering except in a few for those who can never realise the cold easily, to drive as much as possible with the roof open, only tunate cases-consisted of half a march of civilisation.

closing deze friends and relations la- Dogs nowadays-except from damp. Chills are much leas like- it when the air is definitely horiously gathered together after the stupidity of their owners ly to be caught if this practice is a freezing railway journey, now we forgather In droves, and for fave censed to trouble and be followed than when one "mu

troubled. Game birdo feed fear-loneself those who elect to stay at home teasly by the roadside, take no breathes a more or less vitiated up in a closed body, the house seems to become fuller notice at all of ears, and conse atmosphere, and then steps out

ently get shot by automobiling into cold air. poachers on Sunday for their heed- lessness. Horses preserve a lofty Discounting my Laziness disdain--a thing that is certainly not in the least a hereditary trail. Dise wheels are not often met But as for small birds being with these days. Yet, 39 "holocausted," what is there to admittedly lazy man, they make attract them on such shiny black an appeal to me if only for grease glides ns are most of the the way in which they simplify roads, ut any rate in my immediate that most back-breaking of all neighbourhood?

joba, wheel washing.

each year as more members of the

family and their friends become

car owners,

Last year, I remember, on Boxing Day the family home re- sembled a street near Olympia in The days before the Police Com- missioner put his foot down with a firm hand.

Safer Roads instead of Speedier.

The golden shower that was fast turning most of our countryside into a speedway seems to have stopped, and nobody seems much the worse for It, except, maybe, the cheerful man whose job it was

to wave red and green flags in one's face before getting into the trench area.

But country surveyors need not! cease to interest themselves in us.) My advice to my own-and to all the brethren-s to concentrate on making our roads safer rather than speedler, and I should like him to begin with the shiny little slope Immediately outside my front gate. This is an old story, but for all that it ja more głussy than ever. Especially after rain, and the rain it raineth every day. The Mobile Creation.

"Experientia docet" rans

the

Looking Back,

On a big car, discs, provided they are finished in keeping with AL least once a week I have the colour scheme, can look ox- occasion to visit a neighbouring tremely attractive. They are apt, town, where I transact a certain however, to make small cars look | amount of business. At one time heavy, and certainly have a de- my sole means of transport was a cided effect upon the steering in pony and trap. The pony was a cross-wind. Lastly, they groomed, harnessed and brought inclined to set up mysterioas round to the door at certain drumminga unless very well fitted. fixed time, so that I had to be

ready to start whether I wanted to

or not. There was no windscreen or hood on the trap, and in bad weather the drive was not exactly enjoyable. The road is very hilly and the journey took at least half an hour.

arc

the art of cutting out wireless As the result of experiments In

speaker cones, I am now endea- vouring to make myself a set of th e-ply discs for use on a Morris Manor during the winter. Having started by making a cardboard template, I am now getting on famously with the wooden coun- terparts. Other lazy men should, watch this column for subsequent reports.

The Fog Demon. One can be too careful in a fog. To hug, for instance, the pavement When I arrived at my destina---or the new kerbings that sooner tion I had to put the pony up at or inter are anid to be going to an hotel, and when I was ready mark the edges of every roadway to return I had to wait while he may be one way of not losing was harnessed again. The double one's whereabouts, but too much journey, plus the time wanted in of it may easily make confusion harnessing and unharnessing the worse confounded and result in pony, Look, say, an hour and a

quarter.

uld proverb. But how young, how very young, are some of the new motorists-especially the old ones who write long epistles of Inment to their favourite newspapers con- To-day my saloon walte in the cerning the occasional dead bird garage ready to start at a mo- they encounter upon the king's ment's notice. I do the trip in highway. Thirty years ngo they ten minutes, park the car outside might have had reason, for when my place of business, where it is motors first arrived, in spite of ready whenever I want it, and, no their clanking and their chuff-matter what the weather is chulling (noises never heard like, arrive dry and warm. now), this slaughter of the poor Apart from anything else, thinks was a thousand times I save about an hour, and, as greater than ever It is to-day, and everyone knows, to a busy man In early Summer-time it was time is money. nimoat necessary to come to a

1

an Impase out of which the only g way is but to stay whore you are,

no they say In Erin.

car to the full it is necessary to

A friend of mine nearly wont into the Thames one white night in his over-carefulness, while I To appreciate the blessing of a myself once in London, Uke the have lived in times before they philosopher in Omar Khayyam-

"come

door out by that same were invented, Looking back-

wherein I went"-simply because, ward, I often wonder how we all unwittingly in a strange. managed to exist without-them.

It is not so long ago either, and square, I followed the near-side yot

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