THURSDAY, APRIL 25, 1929.
BUYERS' GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY-Hongkong Hotel Garage,
Road. C.4769.
Queen's
BUICK The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 23 Wong Nei Chung
Road, Happy Valley. C.1247. CADILLAC.--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHEVROLET.—Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769. CHRYSLER MOTOR CARS-Republic Motor Co. of China 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252.
DE SOTO MOTOR CARS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C.. Tel, C. 1216 & 6252. GUY MOTOR PASSENGER BUSES-Republic Motor Co. of China,
30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. MORRIS Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Rond. C.4759. OAKLAND.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
OLDSMORILE--The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 83 Wong Nei
Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
PACKARD MOTOR CARS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,
'Des Voeux Road C. Tel.-C.1216 & 6252. PLYMOUTH MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-92,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252.
PONTIAC-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
ROLLS-ROYCE--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759, STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, C.4759. VAUXHALL--Lane, Crawford, Ltd,
WHIPPET-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Rd., C. WILEYS-KNIGHT Gilman & Co., 42, Des Vaux Road Central.
OUTBOARD MOTORS-Rudolf Wolff & Kew, 54 Queen's Road
C. Tel. 0.2173.
MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. BROCKWAY MOTOR TRUCKS.-The Asiatic American Co. Tel.
C. 244.
CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, C.4759. FARO MOTOR TRUCKS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung Road,
Happy Valley. C.1247.
MORRIS Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759.
REO MOTOR TRUCKS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32, Des
Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. WILLYS KNIGHT TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Rd.
Central.
MOTOR CYCLES.
B. 8. A.-The Sincere Co., Ltd., Das Voeux Road, C.1067. NEW HUDSON MOTOR CYCLES.-Republic Motor Co. of China,
30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. RALEIGH MOTOR CYCLES-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. ROYAL ENFIELD MOTOR CYCLES.-Republic Motor Co. of China,
30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252.
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES,
ACCESSORIES.-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. ACCESSORIES.--The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon. K.226. MILLER ACCESSORIES.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C.
Tel. 0:1219.
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MILLER RUBBER TYRES AND TUBES-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C, 1216 & 6252. PRESTOLITE BATTERIES.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. C.4759.
TRAFFIC REFORM
MECHANICAL RECORDING OF
NOISES
R.A.C. SUGGESTIONS
A new "legal. code of the road" was recommended by the Royal Automobile Club in submitting pre- pared evidence to the Royal Com- mission on Traffic at the House of Lords.
CAR INDUSTRY.
FLOURISHING CONDITIONS IN CANADA
RECORDS SURPASSED
The flourishing condition of the automobile industry in Canada dur- ing the calendar year 1928 is re- by flected in figures just issued the Dominion Bureau of Statistics which show that production of that period automobiles during reached a new record of 242,382 ears having a sales value f.o.b. plant, This output was
"It is essential that drivers should disclose in advance their intended movements to the traffic behind by signaling," the R.A.C. urged. "At $151,826,333. present this is governed by custom, 18 per cent. greater in number and but the custom should be rein- 24 per cent, higher in value than forced by inclusion in an official in 1926, the next best year, when 204,727 cars valued at $122,629,537 and legal code.
EXPORTS EXPAND
BRITISH CYCLES GOING AHEAD
THE CHINA MAIL,
FORD'S FIRST
CHAINED TO A EAMP POST
Official Statistics for the year Henry Ford had to chain and ended December 31, 1928, have re-lock his first flivver to a lamp post cently been issued and disclose a whenever he parked it in the streets further expansion of exports of Bri- of Detroit in 1893, to prevent curi- tish Cycles and Motor Cycles. ous bystanders from trying to start
it.
Such statistics separate motor cycles from motor, cycle parts and complete bicycles from various classes of cycle parts. Tyres are excluded from the figures which are discussed.
From the statistics in question it would
appear that the total value of exports of British Cycle and Motor Cycle products to the various markets of the World amount to 6,901,800 for the year ended December 31, 1928, as com pared with £5,888,364 for the year ended December 31, 1927. These figures may analysed as follows:-
now
be
Motor Cycles Motor Cycle Parts. Cycles Cycle Parts
· 1927 Value £ 2,142,172
917,736
1,189,455 -1,089,001
Grand, Total
.£5,888,364
1928 Value 2 Motor Cycles..... 2,520 261 Motor Cycle Parts 1,265,714 Cycles
1.957,502 Cycle Parts ..... 1,767,902
This is the amusing fact brought out by Charles Merz, who, in World's Work, discloses the story of Ford's 10-year struggle to find financial backers for the awkward creation..
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"If I stopped my machine any where in town," Ford himself is quoted, a crowd was around it be- fore I could start again. If I left it alone, some inquisitive person Finally 1 always tried to run it. had to chain it to a lamp post when I left it anywhere.
Not one of Ford's 12 original backere was either a capitalist or professional promoter. Although many were approached, those sup- posedly shrewd and farsighted in- dividuals carefully avoided any con- tact with the autobuilder.
Chance Before Sagacity
It was chance rather than busi- ness sagacity that created the Ford company, Merz points out. The in- ventor, while working for the De- troit Electric Co., made friends with Alexander Maleomson, the coal dealer, who backed him for Grand Total....£8,901,800 It is also interesting to observe a quarter of the original stock. the trend of trade between Great James Couzens, the multi-million- Britain and the various principal aire senator, then a clerk in Mal- British Possessions and for this cortison's office, borrowed from his purpose, an analysis of the namaister to buy 24 shares, and induced bers of cycles and motor cycles is her to take a single share in her Charles J. Woodhall, riven:
Malcomson's bookkeeper, bought 10 shares with his $1,000 savings. All of these became wealthy mere. y through the chance acquain- tanceship.
Australia India
New Zealand
*South Africa
Cyclen.
1927. 1928.
2.582 2.587 102,805 126,826
7,879 13 137
own name.
John F. and Horace E. Dodge, owners of a machine shop, agreed
11,840 13,387 British East Africa.. $.462 7.692 Federated Malay States
1,242 1,551 *Including Northern and Southern to
Rhodesia.
Australia
India
New Zealand
*South Africa
British East Africa Federated Malay States
Motor Cycles, 1927 1928.
9.303 8,724
2,119 1,902 3.186 7,028
324 308
build Ford's motors for 50 shares of stock aplece. Their tre mendous fortune later went to build the Dodge Brothers' car..
lawyers, Horace H. Two young 2,748 Rackham and John W. Anderson, 6.488 happened to draw the contract be 234 teen Ford and the Dodges, be
interested and bought 50 came shares each. Rackham sold his real estate holdings to make the investment against the advice of his banker, and Anderson borrowed $5,000 from his father.
432
Including Northern and Southern
Rhodesia.
Board of Trade returns for the year ended December 31, 1928, disclose exports of British Cycle and Motor Cycle parts at £3,236,680. 25 compared with Vernon G. Fry, a shopkeeper, £2,656,737 for the year ended De-and Charles H. Bennett, employed cember 31, 1927. Of the above by an air rifle manufacturer, each totals it would appear that the bought 50 shares, although their chlef purchasers within the Emt frienda warned them they were pire are Australia, South Africa, being inveigled into certain disas- New Zealand, and Indía, as will ter. be seen from the following tables:-
Australia South Africa New Zealand India
Cycle Parts. 1927-Value £
189,372 163,324
57.710 238,181 Motor
Cycle
tish Cycle and Motor Cycle manu- facturer in providing products of the type required in the above Dominions provides an object leason in the practical side of Inter-Imperial Trade and inciden- tally it demonstrates the ability with which British Cycle and Motor Cycle manufacturers able to compete with foreign The energy and skill of the Bri-competitors in the markets of the
Australia
South Africa
New Zealand. India
1927 Value
Paris.
89,499
61,423
21,826 23,368
MORE MILES
PER GALLON,
9 H.P. CLYNO.
LANE, CRAWFORD LTD.
In 1927, the Bureau totalled production
"As between drunken drivers of were made.
out, motorcars and drunken drivers of points horse vehicles the law is different., 179,054 cars valued at $115,904,-
It should be the same, as the con- 228. sequences in far-reaching.
either case can be
Standard Signs
Highest on Record Compared with data for the pre- "The custom of driving on thevious year, figares for 1928 show made left should be made a legal obliga-that the number of cars tion.
available for use in Canada was the
and that highest on record,
the number of cars imported and thei number exported also reached new high levels. Imports for the year totalled 47,408 cars, an increase of 29 per cent. over the corresponding figure of 36,630 cars in 1927, and exports numbered 79,855 cars or 38 per cent, more than the total of
"Should special regulations be introduced to distinguish between dangerous driving and careless driving, then such regulations should apply to all vehicles.
"We suggest, further, that a central body should he created to standardise all such matters 213 guide-posts, direction signs, code of conduct on the road, white lines, etc.
57,852 car
year.
shipped in the previous
Great IncreasE The apparent consumption of At present these differ in diff-motor cars in Canada in 1928 was erent parts of the country, Some 210-035, a figare which compares of the old-fashioned signs are no with 157,882 cars in 1927 and longer effective.
158,577 cars for 1926. During the
"The Club opposes compulsory, year under review one new Car third-party insurance, because com- was made available for every 46. pulsory Insurance of car drivers persons in the Dominion Re- only is tantamount to proclaiming gistration statistics, the Bureau motorists as always the offenders, points out, are not yet available for and saying that they should al- 1928 but in 1927 they show that ways pay and that in advance.” one car was in use for every 10
"Examination in ability to drive persons in Canada.
in the technical sense is useless as
an index to ability to drive safely emitted by a vehicle.
Dominions.
art
Detail figures of imports into the various Dominions are not yet available for 1928, but comparing British exports to these Dominions as compared with foreign exports for the last available period, the comparison is as follows:--
Motor -Cycles.
British. Foreign.
Australia ... 9,503 2,816 New Zealand 3,186 556 1,030 2,119 115 Cycles. British Foreign.
2.582
South Africa 7,028 India
Australa
www
New Zealand 7,879 South Africa 11,840 India
.102,805
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To the average motorist, in- Formation concerning the engine best methods employed by manu facturers is of peculiar interest. The owner driver knows that he must treat a new engine with care for the first few hundred miles, but he does not know to what de-
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Pedestrians Need Signal Lights
Man in dark clothing No highway lighting Headlights burning Man not visible
Man in Fight clothing No highway lighting Headlights burning
Man barely visible.
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vided also that the engine has at- moved and the engine is decar tained the requisite degree of bonised, the valves being ground "free-ness, the test set automa in if necessary. tically switches on to the higher During the second peiod of teat speed of 500 r.p.m.
the power output of the engine The same system is employed far exceeds that absorbed during at this speed, again at 1,000 r.p.m. the first part. The new test sets, and finally at 1,500 r.p.m. When therefore, not only do their work a minimum the full 50,000 revolutions have thoroughly and with
been made and the engine is suffiof cost in labour, but they actual The obvious conclusion reached by ciently free, a green lamp on topy contribute towards the electri
of the test set is illuminated; but cal current required by the works. the motorist until the latter was so the lighting specialists was that in only specialists of the General Electric Come to him that only a very sudden two ways can a motorist discern the green light will not show until In fact, if all the engines on the pany have determined that pedestrians stop would prevent him from being run--pedestrians upon highways at a diu- the demande of both "free-ness" sets were run simultaneously, they
They can be seen fance after dark: on the road. This is almost "At present evidence of noise are almost invisible to motorists upon
In the second experiment a man if they wear light-coloured clothes, pre- and number of revolutions have would supply nearly half the power required by the entire entirely conditioned by road sense, rests on the evidence of witness, unlighted roads, even with automobl wearing light coloured clothes and hold- terably all-white clothes, or if the high been fulfilled. and that can only be cultivated by This should be replaced by headlights playing full upon them, ing a white handkerchief stood at the way has adequate highway lights. The green light indicates that works.
unless the pedestrians wear white sare distance and could be made out So when you're walking in the coun: the engine is ready to be run Hillman cars are, of course, well experiencing the use of the road: mechanical recording.
clothes. Now you can't wear white in plenty a time for the automobilist try either dress for the occasion or Speed Limit Opposed
"Any general speed limit for all the time, so your chances of being to avoid him, and the white handler carry some convenient signal or other under its own power. Here again, known in the overseas markets as "In the matter of noise the motorcars is objectionable, Speed hit are good.
chiet was particularly easy to pick out. such as a red lantern or maybe a nice 50,000 revolutions are required, a result of the energies of Roobes, Ministry of Transport should be is entirely a good to be sought, and
In the third experiment the high-little white flag. It is getting to one the .p.m. being raised gradually Ltd., who are the world exporters In the first of three experimenta a empowered to produce instruments any legislation should be directed man in dark clothes stood about way lights were turned on and the can't walk around at night now with up to 2,000, at which speed 25 of this make, in addition to Hunt hundred feet in front of an automobile. pedestrian, wearing dark clothes, was out being nudged off the street by some
At the con- er cars and Commer vehicles, the to record the magnitude of noise against the attendant circumstances The man could not be seen from the vividly revealed in silhouette against passing autoist, so buy a car and do b.h.p is developed. (Continued at foot of next Column) when they are evil."
car and in the ordinary Course of the flow of the lights.
elusion, the cylinder head is re- other members of the combine.
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