THURSDAY, MAY 15, 1930.
HERE'S TIRE
MILEAGE
AT A LOW PRICE
FISK
All-Cords
FOR SAFETY ON SLIPPERY STREETS
DRIVE ON
FISK
ALL-CORDS
TEXACO DRY GAS.
West Australian Expansion.
JUNK
THE
CHINA MAIL.
MOTOR-CYCLING.
"CARS.
Evils of Part-Exchange Where the Combination
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Deals.
TRADE TAKES ACTION.
On account of the increasing popularity of the new Texaco "Dry Gus" recently made possible by
A HOW £1,000,000 company, the Texas Company's commercial whose sole purpose will be to buy achievement and manufacture, the up "junk" cars and destroy them, company is now expanding its facillis Hikely to be formed by the motor tles to the country sections, accord- trade, ing to Mr. E. A. Beverly managing director.
After years of experimental and research work the Texas Company, has devised new methods of manu facting motor spirit whereby a powerful, volatile spirit that will completely vaporise when passing. through a normal carburetter has been attained, and large refining
The British motor industry is menaced by these cars used in part- exchange denis. Suppliers, when selling a new car, make an allowance on the buyer's old car-the allow. ance in most cases being on a gen- erous scale.
Many buyers, however, have been taking advantage of this plan to part-exchange very
old carg
Scores.
I know that most women prefer even the smallest of sniall cars to a combination. They like to talk about "our car." But the combina- tion has advantages to people of, moderate means over any car. In the first place, Its repairs and mechanical management are auf- ficiently simple to be done by the owner. Garage expenses are saved.
Should there be a breakdown, you can always get it home by train. You can't do that with a car except at Infinite trouble and expense. And it is far more easily slowed,
The combination can stand in the "front ball" I have even seen it in
plants have been recently construct-second-hand "junk" for the most the anered "front hall." I have even
ed for the manufacture of this pro- duct on a large commercial basis. It has been known by automotive engineers and research chemists that if it was practicable to make a motor spirit that would form a dry gas, better power and better mile age could be developed, because, a apirit that burns completely gives more power per gallon than spirit that does not 'form
a
perfect gas mixture with air, and consequently gives Incomplete com
bustion.
During the last few months over- beas receiving bulk terminals have
part.
The dealer has been forced, to keep up his sales, to take these cats and dispose of them as best he can If he refuses to agree to the deal he knows that the order will go to a competitor.
Flelitious Value.
The result is that a great number of very okl cars have a purely fictitious value. In many cases the machines are not in "going" con dition, and but for exchange plan, would have been put the part
on the "scrap-heap” lang ago.
A well-known manufacturer says that he has traced a practically
reen it in the sacred "front room." You can't do that sort of thing with a car. The tax is less, the cost of running is loss, tyre bills are lower and indeed every item of expense is on an appreciably lower scale. If you are careful in your choice of a sidecar you can give your passenger coinfort as great as she will get in any small car, and greater than she will got in many, and have the sweet knowledge that you are not running stant source of worry.-Exchange. up bills which are going to be a con-
been completed and opened in worthless car which was used in five CHALLENGE TO THE GERMANS.
Fremantle, Adelaide, Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle and Brisbane, and in the short period of three months Texaco dry, gas has become
extremely popular and on account of
the considerable demand for this
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part-exchange deals in less than alx' montha.
The seriousness of the position that some firms of motor agents have may be gathered when it is stated as much as £100,000 locked up. in second-hand cars, most of which are useless and even dangerous to sell.
If they are sold for the very low
figure they are worth, the agent in all probability gets them again, like a boomerang, in a part-exchange the sum they were sold for. deal, and has to my perhaps twice
product in the suburban and country sections a large number of country bulk depots are being constructed.
Most modern motor car engines have high compression engines and in order that a high compression motor may operate most efficiently it is necessary to use a motor spirit that will give a perfect mixture of gas and air in the cylinders, as in- complete combustion not only lowers Obtainable at all Garages upon request the functioning of the engine but of employees in this State, as well produces carbon deposits which as in all the States of the Common- cause knocking and serious
pre-wealth, are shareholders in this en- ignition.
terprise, and consequently are vitally interested in the future of their company and in the standard of, service being maintained.
Sale Distributors:-
GILMAN & CO.
The Texas Company is a unique organisation in that it is controlled Tel. 28011. 4a, Des Voeux Rd, C. | by Its employees, and the majority
Several British manufacturers are making plans to attack the speed we have got it for cars, so we must record now held by Germany. As have it for motor-cycles. Captain! Baldwin is named as having an eye
on the record, and as one of our best
men, given the machine, we may
look for something sensational.
Two other makers are said to he
busy with special, machines, for, of course, it must be a special mount to tackle the high speede that have now been reached, and we shall not be surprised if we are holding both car and motor-cycle speed records before many moons have waned.
Super-charging will be a feature, indeed, it must be, and within a month or two wo may see the British motor-cycle attacking a record that we believe can be got by us.
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OR 78 years the name Studebaker"
F a world wide reputar
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Studebaker has set a new standard in its new truck chassis of 4000-lb. capacity (plus 300 Ibs. additional allowable weight for drivers). Its 6-cylinder Stude- baker angine-
High box body for general kavling
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4-speed gearbox-sturdy front and rear axles-powerful 4-wheel brakes stout frame and over-sized universal joints all emphasize Studebaker's unusual engineering skill.
Because of its power, rugged con- struction and econ- omy of operation it is an ideal unit either bus service or for the rapid transportation of merchandise.
Chassis and Cob with flat platformi
All purpose body and Ceb
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Imagine being able to travel the roughest road with your hands resting lightly on the wheel! Think of having an automobile which you can drive all day at any speed without feeling a single road jolt trans. mitted through the steering wheel!
Such are the fine results of two matchless new quality features in the 1930 Buick- two features which add to this car's appeal as the greatest dollar value of the day: a wonderful new frictionless steering gear, and the new Buick road shock eliminatort The new Buick steering gear, of the effec tive worm-and-roller type, moves with in comparable ease throughout its entire turn ing sange, assuring Instant, effortless response to the driver's every wish. Come drive this new Buick. Head for the road you ordinarily avoid as too rough for comfortable travel. Test these twin features of comfort which make the new Buick the easiest steering car in its field!
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STARTING THE CAR.
|How Difficulties Could Be Removed.
A VETERAN MOTOR-CYCLIST.
It was in March, 1903, that the Rev. F. W. Hassard-Short, of Bromley Common, Kent, first took up motor-cycling, and he is more What a fine thing it would be if enthusiastle than ever about It to- Internal combustion ongines could be day. During the 27 years he has freed from the prime failing of owned eight motor-cycles and pre- having to be turned by some ex-fors a motor-cycle to a car. He ternal means before they will start. finds it mcat Useful in visiting In the case of big stationary en neighbouring churches and for calls gines this drawback entails the pro- upon parishionera. As he lives vision of compressed-air, mechanism, nearly a mile from his church it is smaller stationary plants have to particularly useful on Sundays, with have their flywheels turned by hand the four services a day. It saves with a crowbar; motor car engines time. need big expensive batteries and electric moturs to get them in motion, and the humble motor cycle requires muscular effort applied to a crank. If internal combustion an- gines could be made to start like steam engines, all, these difficulties would be removed and all manner of advantages enjoyed.
Various arrangements have been tried with this object in view, and some of them have been successful, but as a general rule the various complications entailed in making engine more or less literally self- starting have outweighed, the ad- vantages.
LUBRICATION.
Care of the Chassis Important.
A great deal has been done re- cently in the matter of simplifying. the lubrication of those mechanical parts of the car which are generally grouped under the head of "chassis details." "One-shot" lubrication has come to the front and it certain- ly saves much time and a lot of grovelling under and about the car. It is very convenient for the wo man driver and owner, who, natural- When Mr. Hassard-Short beganly, wishes to be relieved as much as motor-cycling the speed limit was 12 possible of the dirty greasy work miles an hour, and there were no about a car. :. But one-shot lubrica- such things as driving licences or tion systems, like other subsidiary number plates, He still keeps a devices, require looking after. The machine he had in 1912, which he user should see that the lubricant used largely during the early days gets to all the places intended to be of the war, when he was padre to supplied. the Kent Cyclist Battalion. On the tank is bravely inscribed the motto, Ut Veniant Omnes, which, broadly translated, means "Let 'em all come."
In this connection It is well to point out that any system of chassis lubrication will become ineffectivo If neglected. The "one-shot" sys tem should be operated a little at a Tall and broad-shouldered, with time, but very often. This will twinkling blue eyes and snow prevent congealing of the labricant.. white hair, he is A stand, if neglected for any lenth of time, ing example of the good it may be found that all the terminal health to be got from
points of the system are not getting pastime which only its patrons fully the lubricant. This will be a worse appreciate.
case than neglect of one or two greasers of the conventional system. 'Some makers have almost entiro- ly done away with the need for lubricating certain parts of the the lubricant. This will be a worse chassis. They have applied the
DAZZLE TO BE PROHIBITED.
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One of the best ideas of this kind, which was employed on several big cars before the war took the form of a coll ignition equipment; which has a primary winding capable of being interrupted by a switch, on the Instrument board. This allowed the
It is semi-officially announced that driver to cause at will a spark in the Ministry of Transport will whichever cylinder happened to be shortly make it compulsory for all
on the fring stroke and if the en-cars to be fitted with an apparatus principle of designing so as to have gine had not been at rest for any for dipping or swivelling headlights.no articulatice parts. Thus quarter- considerable length of time a start very often resulted.
Engines in those days, of course, had very close fitting cast-iron pistons, and were probably much better gas retainers than those of 1980.
It will mean a great expense to motorists, but it is the right thing. It is the only solution of a serious problem.
elliptic springs can be fitted without any working pins or shackles, or joints whatever. Frictionless com- pressed rubber bushes can be used in other parts.
It is said that, in order to relleve motorists to some extent, the Minis- Flexible spring connections in- try-may buy up the patent of the stead of jointed connections can be At the same time, it is not impro most successful device, so that it can contrived, and eventually, no doubt, bable, with the increasing adoption then be supplied cheaply to us all. we shall arrive at the time when our of coll ignition, that present-day It may not be necessary that the lubricating duties will consist sole- small-six-cylinder engines could not lamps themselves shall be movable. ly of fitting a lubricant chamber on be made to start quite often in this It will be enough if the beam can the car and seeing that it is kept manner with considerable advantage, be doflected.
.full,.. to the life of their batteries,
WHEN YOU MOTOR IN JAPAN,
It is probable, also, that a maxi- It will be a great relief to mum height from the ground will the owner-driver and it will do | be fixed. Those big aplus lamps, away. with that wear. -and. high up, affected by some buses, are tear and expense which in- Rules of the road which visitors a real menace on the reads.
evitably falls to the lot of the to Japan may understand have been The Ministry of Transport is con- motorist who neglects the lubrica- prepared by the Tokyo Folles Office. Bulting with the motoring association of the various mechanical de- Their intention is most courteous tions on the subject, and we may talls of his car. and kindly, even if their English le take it that, before, another 12 not up to B.B.C. standards! These months have passed, dazzling head- rules run:ELEGAN
"1. At the rise of the hand police-
man, stop rapidly.
2. Do not pass him by or other
wise disrespect him,
Hights will be declared legal
that he shall not take fright as you
pass him by. Go soothingly by. Do
8. When a passenger of the footnot explode the exhaust box at him hove in site tootle the Forn trumpet 5. Give big space to the festive at him melodiously at first, but if he as you go by st
still obstacles your passage, tootle dog that shall sport in the roadway. him with vigour and express by "6. Go, soothingly in the grease word of mouth the warning. HL LL.Emud, anthare lurks the skid
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