THURSDAY, JULY, 4, 1929.
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THE REPUBLIC MOTOR CO. OF CHINA. 30-32 Des Voeux Rd. C.
Spare Parts Batteries,
etc., etc
Electric Accessories, etc., etc.
BUYERS' GUIDE
MOTOR CARS,
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage,
Road. C.4759.
Queen's
BUICK The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 39 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.4759. 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, 80-32,
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 Road. C.4759. OAKLAND.--Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nel
Chung Road, Happy Valley. G.1247.
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PACKARD MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-82,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C.1216 & 6252.
FLYMOUTH MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252, PONTIAC.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd. ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769. STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. VAUXHALL-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
C.4759.
WHIPPET:Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT.-Gilman & Co., 4n, Des Voeux Road Central.
OUTBOARD MOTORS-Rudolf Wolff & Kew, 54 Queen's Road
C., Tel. C.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. 0.1247.
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. WHIPPET MOTOR TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., 4a Des Voeux Road C.
Tel. C. 290.
WILLYS KNIGHT TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Rd.
Central, -
MOTOR CYCLES.
B. S. A.The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. C.1067. NEW HUDSON MOTOR CYCLES-Republic Motor Co. of China,
80-82, 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. Tel. C.290. FISK TYRES-Gilman & Co., 4a Des Voeux Road C. MILLER ACCESSORIES.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd, C.
Tel. C.1219.
MILLER RUBBER TYRES AND TUBES.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-82, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C 1216 & 5252. PRESTOLITE BATTERIES--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. C.4769.
62,113 NEW LICENCES
MOTORISTS PAY £15,733,036
A return issued by the Ministry of Transport shows that the gross amount received in payment for motor vehicle licences isaned dur- ing the months ended February 28 last was $15,733,086.
The total number of motor vehicles, excluding tramcars and trade licences, at the end of February was 1,481,000, including 787,000 cars taxed on horse power, 843,000- motor cycles, 301,000 motor goods vehicles, and 75,000 motor hackneys.
During the three months 62,113. motor vehicles were registered for the first time, including:
87,198 cars taxed on horse power; 11.794 motor cycles;
10,590 motor goods vehicles, and 1,471, motor hackneye.
OAKLAND
LANE CRAWFORD, LTD. Automobile Dept C.3193.
JUST AFTER SUNSET
THE
PEDESTRIAN'S RIGHT
SPEED RACING ON NEW ROADS
EX-SECRETARY & ROAD HOGS
CHINA MAIL,
alarming speeds, all fly in the face of a definite public opinion, that the driver is responsible for not running over the pedestrian.
"The Minister of Transport has done his best to improve the ronds of the country; they have been im- proved out of all knowledge. But "It is a very remarkable thing they were not meant for speed rac- that the most dangerous occupationing; they were meant for the con- in life
seems to be that of the venience of the public as a whole. pedestrian."
They were made in order that men might conduct their traffic along those roads in safety, and I appeal to all those thousands of licensed drivers-some 2,500,000 of them now-to exercise a great care.
Sir William Joynson-Hicks made this observation at the annual lun- cheon of the Nationa! Safety First Association at the Hotel Vic toria He had drawn attention to the remarkable fact that whereas Industrial accidents were steadily diminishing, the toll of the road was increasing year by year.
Bir William commented on the lack of public interest In industrial accidenta. In respect of these in the last ten years over £60,000,000 had been paid in workmen's com, pensation. So far as he had been able to form an estimate, the total cost to industry of the accidents was four times the sum actually paid in compensation.---£240,000,000 in ten years.
Much had been done by safety first organisations to reduce the number of industrial accidents. Sir William instanced the case of a large undertaking which, since it had adopted safety first methods, had been able to effect a saving on ita insurance premium of 4s. per £100 of wages. The size of the nadertaking could be judged from the fact that the annual saving on insurance premiums which thereby resulted amonated to £1,000.
"The general public are more interested in accidents on the road," continued the Home Secretary. "While I have been able to give you this wonderful diminution of indus trial accidents, I have no such re- cord to give you of road accidents.
In 1928 more than twice as many persons were killed in road accid- ents as there were in industrial ac- cidents.
Something Must be Done Between 1926 and 1928 the num- ber of persons killed on the roads increased from 4,886 to 6,138. Of that number 3,255 were pedestrians, men and women who were entitled to be on the King's highway, 'pursu- ing their ordinary avocations, not engaged in dangerous trades, but just walking about the streets,
"I want to say quite frankly to the great motoring community that something has got to be done in regard to this question.
"I am constantly being pressed in the House of Commons-and rightly
"I would appeal specially to the motor cyclists, because the figures show that, next to pedestrians, more motor cyclists are involved in fatal accidents than any other class. In' view of what safety first has been able to accomplish in the industrial world, I cannot think that we sħuli be unable to do the same in the world of transport." (Cheers.)
When Accidents Will Cense Lieut.-Colonel Wilfrid Ashley, M.P., Minister of Transport, said his considered opinion was that little could be done by laws and regulations to stop the number of accidents. What could be done, and was being done, was to point out that the toll of death and increased, was increasing, and that it ought to be diminished.
The aspect of the association's work which appealed to himi most
schools.
was
the educational work in thei
"When the older genera- tion has been killed off," added the Minister, amidst laughter, "and the children of to-day are grown up, there will be no more accidents, because you will have pointed out to them, as future drivers and pedestrians, the way these accidents can be avoided."
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TRANSMISSION
NEW VERSIONS OF OLD IDEAS
At the present time, while the pro. duction departments of the car far- tories are striving to keep to time with deliveries, the experimental staffs are equally busy, their con- cern being the testing and develop- ment of new ideas for 1930.
The gearbox used to-day is near-
so-to know what steps are goingly 30 years old in essentials, re-
marks "The Motor"; the, free-wheel mechanism is much older, and yet
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only recently were serious attempts INDUSTRIAL TRUCKS from rest with fall load and can trucks, crane trucks, stackers and
many
made to combine the two for use on cara. This is one development of first-class importance and motorists will be trying the com- bination for the first time during the coming summer season.
The
PETROL AND ELECTRIC TYPES.
climb severe gradients without other multi-purpose machines. the necessity for a clutch or For example, the handling of a change of gear. Full speed is at- load may not only involve carri tained on the level in two or age from оде place to another, three seconds, and the truck au- but also storing at a height from tomatically
its appro- assumes
the ground. Obviously the use of
tiering truck or stacking.. priate speed on all gradients with
machine in such
in its capacity because the torque increases with falling speed.
a
а саве will be of the greatest advantage.
In
to be taken to stop the driving which is the cause of all these ac cidents. I am not denying that there is a good deal of carelessness on the part of foot passengers,
"I know that a good many accid- ents which result in death or injury are not caused by the driver of the At the same time,
An Interesting article under the motor vehicle. you have got this one great fact idea of using two clutches, one be- above heading appeared in a re- that the pedestrian, is entitled to behind the engine and the other be- cent issue of Cassior's Industrial and Mechanical there. You never will convince hind the gearbox, has also been re- Management walker in the streets that he is guscitated quite recently, and many Handling, the object being to give
As regards the petrol engine, this connection it is pointed out of the electric bound to exercise greater care be experiments are now being made a comparison, as far as possible,
when starting from rest the en- that the battery
can be used for power- cause of the introduction of this with various types of mechanism of the merits and demerits of the new type of vehicle on the roads. frictional, self-engaging and so two types. As is well known, the gine has to be run up to speed truck
"That is the difficulty. By per-
forth-for the rearmost clutch. use of power-operated appliances and the clutch, then engaged, has driven auxiliaries either perman- to slip until the truck attains a ently or temporarily, whereas the suasion, by education, we may im- Thirdly, there are the adherents for the handling of materials,
the engine petrol engine does not lend itself and finished products speed appropriate to prove the alertness and the care the of the epicyclic principle who are parts
revolutions.
readily to application to other ap- foot passenger takes of his own using various elaborations, such wherever possible is one of the
If a compromise be arranged pliances carried by the truck. self-adjusting life, but you never will be able to as
and electro essentials of efficient production,
with the idea of reducing the
Operating Costa treat it as a punishable offence that magnets, to improve class of and in view of this we are giv-
number of gear changes, it can There remains the question of a man allows himself to be run over. mechanism that has been known to ing a review of the points made only be done at the expense of operating costa, and here the (Laughter.)
engineers for many years. Addi by the writer.
service, and fuel consumption is writer gives a series of 5 tables "Therefore it comes back to this, tionally there are modifications
In making such a comparison
increased. If no change gears taken for a year's working. Ac- that those who are concerned with galore to the orthodox gearbox. it is necessary not only to com- the driving of motor vehicles have Several quite promising infinitely pare the vehicles themselves, but be used, the truck will either cording to three of these, ie, for got to pay very much more regard to variable gears are also being tested to take into account the adapt-climb well and be alow on the level, trucks of 1-ton, 12-tons and the safety of the public in order to At the present time the cutcome ability of each to the varied con- or it will have reasonable speed on 2-2 tons capacity, the petrol the level and be unable to truck costs from 12% to 50 per prevent this terrible and ever-grow- of all these activities is by no means ditions and duties which
to operate than an ing toll of the roads, which grows certain, and motorists may safely stitute modern goods handling climb any but the flattest of cont, more exactly in proportion to the increase buy and use new cars without fear- problems.
One machine may be gradients. The fixed gear ratio is electric truck carrying the same in the number of motor vehicles on ing that a sudden discovery may to carry a greater load than chosen to give whatever truck load. In the fourth table a 2-ton be least disadvan electric tipping truck compares the streets. This is the only or render them obsolete. It is, how the other up the prevailing in-feature will
the machine can very favourably with 2 I-ton ganisation which can appeal both to ever, clear that the car manufac-
claim to economy in petrol tipping truck as regards the the pedestrian and the driver, and turer now
actual cost per ton handled, while the fifth shows the relative value Gear Changes Hundreds of gear changes have of a petrol elevating truck and an electric tiering truck when un-
and conveying them to a store.. loading goods from a road vehicle In this case the cost per ton handled by the electric truck is little more than half that dealt with by the petrol truck,
con-
make no
movement of
fuel.
•
concurs with the view lines, or it may eliminate to a tageous, and I do ask for greater support from which we have so often expressed, greater extent the operations in- the motoring community.
namely, that in the modern car, with cidental to the Check to Road Hogs
"I appeal to them to prevent the increase of the road-hog Speed The period following sunset is. is undoubtedly increasing, both in the most difficult to drive a car. private and public vehicles. Those At this time the darkness is not great char-a-bancs which are driven existing and known mechanisms Dress sufficient to make the car's lights from one end of England to the rather than in the production of en-raise
other, sometimes effective.
at somewhat tirely new systems.
Auto Classic
Ends Fatally
tions
its universal appeal, a piece of ap-goods. For instance, if trucks paratus so difficult to handle as the were proposed for the changing orthodox transmission is sadly out of heavy press dies, one machine to be made per day in normal can hope of place. The line of advance tends might take the dies from the stor-working, and only the finest de- obviously to lie in the adaptation of age racks, transport them to the sign and construction
room, and automatically to stand up to the arduous condi- them to the level of the
For steering, the 4-wheel petrol press table. The other might
electric the 4-wheel only be able to carry from store truck, and
The principal points in favour truck driven by single motor, to press.
of the petrol truck are its lower In the first case, the only re- bave similar manoeuvering cap- maining operation would be the abilities, and in both cases, steer- initial cost, and the fact that it sliding of the dies from truck to ing on all four wheels can only can operate at some distance from be obtained by a somewhat com- its base.. There is also the high- press, whereas in the second case labour and lifting gear would be plicated system of transmission. er speed, when this can be necessary at each end of the four- An electric truck driven by two ployed.
In addition to the advantages ney. The former machine would motors, however, lends itself very justify a greater initial outlay Ty conveniently to arrangement for already claimed for it, however, The gears are the electric truck can also be reason of its saving of time and wheel steering. labour, and its minimising of con- totally enclosed and the electrical operated continuously by employ the battery are ng two batteries (and modern. tingent risks, which vary almost cables from directly as the number of separ-flexibly mounted to permit the electric trucks are arranged for necesary movement of the motors, quick interchange of batteries): ate operations.
In speed the petrol truck has a The truck itself is also much and there are considerable advantage, ie, 8 to easier to handle,
The 600-mile International Speedway classic at Indianapolis, Ind., brought added fame to Ray Keech, the victor, in the gruelling grind, but death to Billy Epeace, at California, who drove a Daesen berg Special, car No. 10 (arrow). Spende overturned at Death turn, the most dangerous spo; on the track. The time for the winner, who 6:07:25:45, for an average of 96.583 miles per hour, which did not threaten any speed records for the event Ray Reoch has since been killed
General Features
The general features of the two types of truck were dealt with in the following order-design, ap plication, operating and/or handl- ing costs.
em-
12 miles per hour as compared the further advantages, of course, with the electrie truck's 5 to 6 of cleanliness, silence, absence of It should be pointed out, however, exhaust fumes, &c. that the higher speed can only be The early electric trucks were employed on long clear runs, and
American origin, but now.
As regards design, the princi- in actual practice these are rare-numerous forms of British-built pal difference is, of course, the ly attainable trucks of unsurpassed design and power unit, and the writer gives Probably the most important construction are being installed to curves which show that in the point in connection with internal meet every requirement. One of case of the electric motor the tragsport in the selection of the the leading firms making electric «dustrial trucks is Ransomes, maxinrım torque is exerted when right machine for specific duties. the current supplied to the For most work It is desirable that Sims & Jefferies, Ltd, of Ipswich, standing machine. As speed is truck should have some aux England, who were the first Bri- attained the driving force falls llary fitting, and among the types tish manufacturers of this type of gradually. On account of this in use may be mentioned elevat-vehicle, and offer to-day a very the truck can start immediately i
ing trucks, tiering trucks, tipping
wide ra
range.