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EXPLAINS CHOICE OF CHEVROLET.
PROBLEMS IN NORTHL
Filipino truck owner in the Ilocos provinces," on account of the value built into it.
"I had been operating. heavy trucks and large cars for some time and with my competitors be- lieved that light, low cost trucks and cars would not stand the
[By John' Prioleau.]
"I bought my Chevrolets after The recent announcement of a fexamining every low cost car in the market," said a prominent new service of car cross-Channel transport by Townsend Brothers, Ltd., at reasonable rates is of real importance to all owners who wish, as is only natural, to take their holidays on the open rond. The charges made by the railway companies have, since the war, |been very high, and there is little doubt that a large number of www.people have been deterred from taking their cars to France by that bill of between £10 and £25 for the double journey.
The building referred to by the of Canton Buliding, Hong Kong.
SOOT AND TYRES.
IT MAKES THEM STRONG.
Plain, every-day soot, similar to that which used to gather on lamp chimneys, plays an import ant part in the wearing qualities of tyres, according to engineers of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber Co.
Carbon black. a very light powdery material, has become one of the most important com- pounds used in tyre construction. There is an interesting story behind the use of this material in the industry,
Before the World War, Zine oxide was used in large quantities to strengthen rubber, adding miles to the life of the tyre by increasing its resistance to abra. sive wear, adding to its tensile Lamp strength and toughness.
black and gus black, were used but in small quantities and chiefly as a colouring agent.
However, during the war, with the munitions planty using more and more zinc oxide, its use by tyre manufacturera was restrict- ed and the rubber chemists had to find a substitute. They be
· gan experimenting with caroon black, and found that it would do most of the things zinc oxide would do and had about one third the weight.
While zinc oxide came back after the war and is still widely ́used, it never displaced the car-
bon black, ⠀
Engineers explain that carbon
· black is 'n - pigment- obtained through the incomplete.combus- tion of natural gas. It has
work.
"Our problem in the Ilocano provinces is manifold, or, I might, better Bay, our problems are manifold.
We are faced with heavy loads of both' freight and. passengers. Distances are great, which means long hauls. Our rivers are large, and wide, and, in the time of high water, swift. Their crossing is effected by means of rafts and the ap proaches are often very difficult. In addition we have quite a lot of hills with very steep grades in many cases.
That these freight-rates have been too heavy has recently been plainly shown by the action of the Zeeland S.S. Co. in offering to take 25-cwt. cars from Harwich to Flushing at the charge of £5, The new scheme is even moru reasonable, the charge for 9-ft.
First Thought. wheelbase cars being £4 lãs, re-
"These factors all led me to de tura, Doyer to Calais, and it is to be hoped that it will lead the cide that only high priced heavy railway companies to make a re-trucks and cars would suit our duction. To charge for a voyage purposes and I was inclined to be occupying about seven hours the lieve that I had an edge on those price of a first-class ticket to the of my competitors who purchased South of France, a journey of 850 Chevrolet trucks. However, I was miles, is, to say the least, exces- interested and made up my mind to study their operations with grent care.
sive.
Financial considerations apart, it is an excellent thing that the
"My first thought was that of man of moderate means is being business volume and I accordingly thus encouraged to tour abroad gave that matter considerable Naturally, this is not said in any time at first, until at last I be disagreement of home cruising came thoroughly convinced that grounds. There are no countries in this respect the Chevrolet in the world better for touring trucks were yielding greater re than England, Scotland, Ireland, turns on the money invested then und Wales. But the roads in were my large trucks. them are already congested and in "My trucks had cost me from the vificial holiday months, July eight thousand to ten thousand and August, things are likely to five hundred pesos each. bo worse than ever, and anything carried from thirty to thirty-five My competi- which tends to lesson the pressure passengers each.
They
is to be welcomed. It is not only tors' Chevrolet trucks cost at that that the roads themselves are un- time sixteen hundred and fifty comfortably crowded during the pesos each and carried either day, but that the problem of twenty or twenty-two passengers. securing decent hotel accommoda-Had we all been able to get full Ition when on tour becomes yearly loads on each trip my gross in- more acute. The bringing of for- come would have been greater eign motor touring within reach per truck than theirs, but I found of the average
picket should that on many occasions my trucks make things easier both for stay- were leaving the terminals with at homes and those who cross only partial loads for which I the Channel.
could just as easily have utilised a smaller truck. In other words TOURING IN FRANCE.
I was using a larger track that There are few more delightful cost me approximately ten thou- adventures for the motorist than sand pesos, and that used more foreign touring, whether it be his gas and oil than a smaller truck finst trip or his fiftieth. Generalfo carry a load that brought me ly speaking, cruising abroad has a in fares exactly the same amount charm which never fails. One as my competitors collected. on a may get tired of the road from low priced truck that used less Boulogne to Paris or any other gas and oil. Clearly here I was worn highway of the kind just as being beaten but still I was not one has to learn to become inured convinced. to the hideous boredom of the Bath-road to Maidenhead, but that is merely a preliminary to the great adventure itself and no real part of it.
• Higher Toll. "However, I could not escape the fact that for the same amount of money I could have had six Chevrolet trucks running on the road with an attendant" in- creased income.
Touring in France has one great advantage, which will be specially appreciated by the novice at the game, in the com "I also found that the public parative emptiness of the roads, were just as comfortable in the Except near Paris and one or two Chevrolet trucks as in mine and fashionable resorts like the that they arrived at their destina- Riviera or Aix les Bains, one tions in exactly the same time. practically never sees those de- "Then again I found that my pressing processions of cars, each trucks were paying a higher tofl striving to get away from the on the ferries than were the other to enjoy a little peace and Chevrolet trucks, and, in addition, specific gravity of 1.75, as com- quietness. There is room for paid a much higher registration everybody on most of the French fee, than did the Chevrolet pared to 5.7 for zinc oxide.
Carbon black is the finest of roads, and as soon as the houses owners. any pigment "filler" used in tyrs are left behind one almost gets manufacturing. Of all the solid back that comfortable pre-war substances employed by man in feeling of solitude.
the arts, carbon black is said to The dull parts of the plateau of would be as well to mention that furnish the nearest approach to France, round about Orleans and France is, above all, the home of the atom itself. The particles Chartres, become positively at the natural motor mechanic. I forming carbon black are so min tractive to English motorists would be difficult to find any vill ute that even with the finest whose driving at home in the age in France which does not pos microscope a separate particle summer on fine days is made up sess at least one perfectly capable so largely of gear-changing, repairer, full of enthusiasm, and
cannot be seen.
Vast quantities of gas, espe- brake application, and horn only too anxious to work at light- cially in some of the newer fields sounding Another very plea-ning speed until the job in hand is of Texas, which formerly persant feature of French motoring finished. I have always found in formed no economical function, is the high standard of driving a good many years' experience are now utilised to assure the rub and road courtesy displayed by that repair charges outside big ber industry an ample supply of practically every private driver. cities are extraordinarily moder carbon black at a reasonable cost. A good French driver is almost ate and in a good hour be it
Miller Tires tricky roads he is the soul of Frenchman with a small car so
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Invariably a fast driver, but it is spoken-the work has invariably the exception to find him danger been admirably done. Perhaps ous. In ticklish situations or on this is one of the reasons why the caution and commonsense.. He infamously maltreats it. He may, and frequently does, flog his knows that, in the event of a car along at what seems to be a breakdown, practical and swift perfectly destructive speed for help is never far away hours on end, but it is his cat alone which is the sufferer,
By an odd coincidence a book has, reached me for review with which the newcomer to foreign HOME OF THE MECHANIC.
touring would do well to arm him The roads of France are also self before he sets out. This is naturally much safer than those The Motorists Reference and at home. It was remarked iu Year Book,” published by A. and the House of Commons the other C. Black. It is a very successful day that English roads were the attempt to deal with what may worst in the world. What the be called the whole art and pract speaker meant was that in spite tice of motoring in a singlé of their superb surface and the volume. From cover to cover it forest of warning signs, their is packed with Indispensable in-t narrowness and twisting, made formation, clearly and concisely them the most dangerous. Thert put; every ailment of the motor- is certainly, no doubt that proi car, every aspect of its possession vided the road surface is decent, and use, is extremely ably dealt driving a car in Franco is far less with; and its international value tiring than at home, Var Hes targely in an excellent die- For those who have yet to tionary of technical terms in five make their firat cruise abroad it languages.The Observer.
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