THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 1929.
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BUYERS' GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. C.4759.
BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chang
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, 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 & 5252. MORRIS.Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. OAKLAND.---Lane. Crawford, Ltd.
OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 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. 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1210 & 6252. PONTIAC-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. STUDEBAKER -Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. TRIUMPH MOTOR CARS-The Globe Automobile Co..
1, Canton Road, Kowloon.
VAUXHALL.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
Ltd..
WHIPPET:-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT.- Gilman & Co.. 4a, 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 & 6262. G.M.C.-The Dragun 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. 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.
C.1067.
B. S. A.-The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. 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, 20-82,
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 & 8252. TRIUMPH MOTOR CYCLES, The Globe Automobile Co., Ltd,
1. Canton Road, Kowloon.
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES.-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. . C.4759. ACCESSORIES.-The Dure Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon, K.226. FISK TYRES.-Gilman & Co., 4a Des Voeux Road C. Tel, C.290. MILLER ACCESSORIES.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C.
Tel. C.1219.
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.4769.
GOOD DRIVING
COOLNESS IN EMERGENCIES REQUIRED
STOLEN CARS
MOTORISTS A CARE-FREE LOT
Throughout the whole trans-
Motorists as a class are a care- portation world and the traffic free lot. At any rate, they do such, situations of every State there are queer things that ordinary folk get certain fundamental principles that impression. What is one to which must always be present if think, for example, of the deliber- the ideal of safety for motorista ate way in which they encourage and pedestriana is to be achieved. theft by leaving their cars unat- It is fair to demand from each par-tended in the street? On the other ticipant (and here the motorist en hand, what are they to do? They ters prominently into the story) the must leave them somewhere, and care which must be given at all when they are left in a public times and under every circumstance thoroughfare they may not lack the if all are to be safe. Conditions doors because it is an offence to are continually being made safer, do zo. In my opinion (says a for with the advent of more writer in "Truth") there would be modern traffic regulations and con- fewer thefts if there were more trol, and the increasing number of official parking places. good roads the motorist finds Cars are not stolen, as Lord Byng motoring conditions becoming much safer. Therein his own part is aided.
makes out, merely for pleasure faunts, but more often than not for what can be taken from them In traffic everyone is responsible in the shape of accessories and for his acts or omissions, and for other things, which are much easier the carrying out of this respon- to conceal and dispose of than the sibility he must rely on his brain vehicles themselves. I know of for self-government. He must not one atolen car that was returned only obey reasonable laws and to its lawful owner stripped of rales, but must be able to meet everything that could possibly be daily situations for which no rules removed lamps, carburetter, are made. In other words, he must sparking plugs, magneto, spare be ready with his mind so well wheel and tyre, seat cushions, rugs, trained that he will not be caught | and the entire instrument board. unawares by circumstances caused It had been left on the roadside by the failure of some other person for several days, and was in such to do what be may have a reason- a battered condition that the owner able right to expect will be done. scarcely recognised It. He would Therefore the good driver is the have preferred never to have seen man-or the woman—who, by con- it again. When a car has been go tinuous intensive training so de- badly mauled about it can never be velops the qualities of alertness the same again, which might well and concentration that they will be make owners fear the return of ready for any emergency which their cars even more than the loss everyday traffle may develop of them.
"LOADOMETERS ”
THE CHINA MAIL,
SINGAPORE DEALS WITH OVER- LOADED LORRIES
Among the many problems with which the police are faced in re- gard to the ever-increasing traffic in Singapore the matter of over- loaded lorries and trucks is by no means the least. That such over- loading is rife is admitted, but tracing offenders and securing a conviction in the courts has been found difficult by the traffic author- ities.
DAZZLE PROBLEM
AN ATTEMPT AT SOLUTION
eiderably.
[By L. Lord, of Philips Lamps, Ltd., (Australasia), Sydney] Every winter brings a new crop of inventions calculated to do away with dazzle-lighting. Every new invention is better and more com- plicated than the previous one, and the first mention we hear of it is generally the last. One is forced to conclude finally that it is not possible to obtain a light which In the past there have been oc-
throws its béam far to the fore on casional cases of allegedly over- the road and at the same time loaded motor trucks being involved capable of doing away with in street accidents, but the position dazzle. At all events it is notice- to-day has become acute and ways able that the number of these and means of effectively combat-inventions which seek to ting the nuisance have occupied the dazzle has lately decreased con- avoid
minds of Singapore traffic authori- ties. The only method of bringing
On the other hand, one is more offenders to book previously was by
and more led to the conclusion, driving the vehicle suspected to be earrying more than the licensed which was also the finding of the In- tenational Lighting Commission, maximum lead to a platform scale,
that the solution of the anti- usually kept in the yard of the Re- gistrar of Vehicles. This method, dazzle problem lies in the use of was found inconvenient from seva duplex system, ie., one which eral aspects. A lorry, say, ten gives a full bright light ahead to the fore for miles out of town would have to be reaching well driven into town and then on exam-normal lighting, and at the same. ination be found to weigh just a time can be made to give a down- few pounds more than the permit ward directed light when meeting ted load not warranting a prose- another car or pedestrian on the cution. The time involved would road. The same quantity of light he lengthy and the owner of the is used in both cases but is cia- truck subjected to considerable un-
tributed in different ways .over necessary delay in the process... the road. This end can be ob
tained by making the headlights Using New Invention
move in an adjustable fitting. It This question has had the atten- may also be achieved by tilting tion of authorities in other parts of the reflector in a rigid headlight. the world and diverse solutions These solutions require a very
mechanical have been tried, with varying durable
construction, results. In order to cope and cannot very often be obtained with the difficulty Singapore with existing lamps. traße authorities are now experi It is, therefore. much simpler menting with an invention which to direct the beam of light down- It is seems to be very satisfactory. Apart ward by optical principles. from the danger occasioned by well known how dependent the overloaded vehicles in street accid. direction and form of the beam ents there is considerable damage sent out by a projector is on the done to road surfaces.
relative position of the source of light in the lamp and that of the reflector. Instead of two dif- ferent lamps, it is now possible to use only one lamp which contains two lighting elements... One of those is placed exactly in the focus of the reflector and throws a concentrated beam of light well ahead on the road, which is ob viously a dazzle light. The other lighting element is so arranged that the light is not thrown out- so far, but at the same time it streams out in a broad beam on the road. Dazzling is thus completely avoided, and by the at- tachment of a small metal cup which prevents the rays striking the upper half of the reflector, all dazzle is abolished. One lighting
as much element gives exactly light as the other, the only dif ference being the manner in which the light is distributed. At the
time the disavantages dimming are abolished.
The Police Traffic Branch is now equipped with loadometers which come from America. These instru. ments are portable and record in pounds weight the concentrated -load on each wheel of a truck. By their use the officers are enabled to weigh overloaded vehicles at the points where they are apprehended. to increase their effectiveness by changing their location at will, and -what is more important-secure evidence of over-weight to submit to the court when prosecuting offenders.
same
of
Loadometer Described
This device can be carried around by officers in their cars and eliminates the difficulty of bring ing a vehicle a long distance to a platform scale. A pair of loado meters only weigh 23 pounds each and the method of application is simple. They are in fact two small platforms with clam levers, and a gauge. In carrying out a test the meters are placed on the road in
How is this transformation from front of the front wheels of the bright to anti-dazzle obtained an
It truck, which is driven up so that meeting another car?
is the wheels roll on to the centre of quite simple. The current 19 the platform. Readings are taken switched from one lighting ele- from each gauge, the sum of whichment in the lamp to the pther is the weight of the front axles. by means of a normal changeover The loadometers are then transfer switch. The switch and the red to the rear and the vehicle wires required for this are B+ backed up on them. The sum of much more simple than the me- the two pairs of readings gives the chanical dipping of the lamp or gross load of the motor truck. The reflector, and being operated from meter is constructed of special the dash board, this circumstance aluminium alloy giving a maximum alone is enough to prove the strength, yet reducing the weight superiority of dipping the lights to a minimum, and accurate read by electrical means. Since all ings are made from large dials
mechanical auxiliaries are die- graduated in pounds. The pressure pensed with, the head light using gauge is equipped with a zero cor-
electrical switching over requires rection screw so that the instru-practically no attention or upkeep. ments may be correctly calibrated. This system has been evolved in
at all times,
factories.
Two cases of a test character in the Philips laboratories, and is which the new loadometer providbeing used on 65 per cent. of the ed the evidence of over-weight new cars turned out by the were brought in the courts by Mr. Alexander, A.S.P1, in Branch, charge of the Traffic and convictions were secured in both cases. In one case the over- load was as much as four tons and in the other two tons. Fines of
$5 each were imposed on the offenders.
OAKLAND
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