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THURSDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1930,
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A recent investigation found ainety-five in
every hundred women
buying a talcum
powder because they liked the smell, and the other five because they liked the tin the smell came in. All the talk about purity, smoothness and antiseptic qualities of the powder seemed more or less shot over their lovely heads.
Likewise, a great deal of what we say about the quality of lubricating oil goes over the head of the average, motorcar owner. He has his own ideas about what a motorcar engine lubricating oil should do, and buys accordingly.
There are, however, many who are content to be guided in their selection by what we, as the oldest and largest lubricating oil manufacturers, have to say about the necessary properties of a good lubricant, and these are the people who hardly ever spend a cent for repairs the people who get the most from their motor. car engines for the least money.
You have your reasons for using a certain brand of lubricating oil. Maybe it is price. Maybe it is because you have faith in the judgment of your dealer. At any rate, there is a reason.
Did you ever change from one product to another, more or less against your will, only to find out that the satisfaction you thought' you were getting was not to be compared to the satisfaction the new product gave?
If you believe the brand of lubricating oil you use is the most economical and efficient, try Mobiloil. A trial will do no harm, and it may be the means of an annual saving of many hard-earned dollars.
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·FORD'S OFFENSIVE,
Car Magnate at His New German Factory.
PRICES CUT.
Coeln, October 2. Mr. Henry Ford himself to-day laid the cornerstone of his first con- tinental factory where Ford cars will be built by German workmen of German material and which, apart from supplying the German market, is to serve as the base for Ford's eonquest of Scandinavia; Poland and the Balkans.
SPEED LIMIT.
Motorists' Emancipation Day.
Great Britain
is abolishing her 20-mile-an-hour speed on January 1, 1931, but motorists who thereafter may "step on it" as much as they like aren't rejoicing.
Some hailed the news jubilantly when it was first announced, writes Arthur F: Degrave.. Since, even the must optimistle motor car owners who have digested the provisions" of the new Road Traffle Act, agree the are not conducive new regulations
to celebrating "Motorists' Emacer pation Day."...
In his dedication speech, the motor car king expressed optimism Under the present conditions few! regarding Germany's economie arrests, as compared with the yearly future, declaring that in his opinion crop in the United States, are made the present difficulties of the coun-in England. There are no speed try were only temporary. Further-"copy" to order one to the curb and more Mr. Ford pleaded for inter hand him a few sarcastic remarka national co-operation on a national about De Palma being a piker and a basis which in his opinion would ticket to report in court.
be the best guarantee for peace. Little attention is paid to the Coeln's Lord Mayor. Dr. Adenauer, motorists whose speedometers_click In his address referred to the 30 miles an hour or thereabouts as German Government's financial re-long as, they are not considered to form plan and pointed out that the be driving dangerously, Reich was making heroic efforts to This leading automobile officials deal with the situation, thus de-point out, is one of the many pro- monstrating its determination to blems in connection with the new honour all its obligation.
regulations, that is worrying, the enr driver. ·
The ceremony was attended by a large number of prominent guests,
Whereas in the past. 20 miles an Germans as well as Americans.-hour was recognised as not being Trans-Ocean Kue Min.
Opening of Paris Motor Show. Paris, October 2.
heavier
within the dangerous limits, after January 1, this' question will be in the hands of the policeman and his A large crowd including members witnesses. A car may be creeping of the Diplomatic Corps and pro- along at five miles an hour and still minent politicians und financiers the.driver is liable to arrest. attended to-day's opening of the In addition, there are International Motor Show at the penalties for dangerous driving Grand Palais in the Champs Ely-than for speeding and it is expected sees. The outstanding features of under the new highway code the the show is the price-cuts and the penalty will be made even greater. vastly improved designs of many The average speeder here is fined European cars. French and German $10 as long as he has not committed manufacturers have, on the strength other traffic violations whereas a of the success of the buy-at-home dangerous driver may be sent to movement. followed the British jail.
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TAXI FARES.'
Drivers Alarmed by Talk of Reduction.
The Brighton Watch Committee is revision would precipitate in considering a revision of the scale
United States, it was of taxicab fares.
It is understood that this develop the ment is causing great anxiety to pointed out, because a law viola- the leaders of the American motor- tor has no friend
Visitors complain of the present
at court and charge of 18. 4d. a mile and com-
car industry assembled here and it traffic tickets are, not "fixed" by pare it with only 9d. a mile in is further understood that they pro-friends of the police or justices. pose to concentrate all their efforts
RADIATION SYSTEM.
London, where there are also 6d. Great Britain's millions of motor- fares.
It is pointed out that while a on forcing the output of their facists also will make the 'acquaintance torics erected in recent years in of the most feared and "hard-boiled" | London taxicab driver can pick up Europe-Trans-Ocean Kuo Min. of America's police the "speeda fare in the street the Brighton
cop." A force of men is being man must wait on the rank. trained to keep drivers within the A Brighton driver said: "The new regulations.
general depression, and the decreas- After November 1, 1930, ed spending power of visitors, ore One of the most interesting of the driving licences will be issu-hitting us terribly. If fares are many tests which take place at the ed to only those proving reduced things will be worse. Many Rolls-Royce factory is that of the physical fitness. It is fear-of us remain on the rank for a day radiation system, which is carried ed in some circles this restriction and perhaps get one job." out before a 'chassis is subjected to will work a hardship on many now extended dynamometer tests.
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driving who may not pass the test. The chassis's first equipped with The rule compelling every
to lorry wheels, fitted with solid tyres, motorist
third subscribe to
LATEST INVENTION.
and is then placed on the test bed party insurance, is creating Many people consider that quite with the wheels bearing on drams most anxiety. Many are ap-a number of new cars with front
lest the four feet in diameter. A brake is prehensive
obliga- wheel drive will be announced in connected to these drums and an tions Imposed by law would in- the near future, and it is, there accurate record of the speed, the crease the rates. So great was the fore, not surprising to find that power developed, etc., is obtained. feeling that the Automobile Associa-inventors have been busy at work At the outset the chassis is run tion announced it would name on this subject. The difficulties for the equivalent of 20 miles at committee to deal with the new usually associated with the de- speeda varying from 25 to 40 m.ph. problems.
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A load is then imposed and ten] One leading Insurance authority, now been overcome by a new form more miles are covered at the same however, said Herbert Morrison, of construction recently, invented speed on 'half throttle. The tests Minister of Transport, had been as- and patented by Mr. Gay, the then begin in earnest.
sured that the rates would not be managing director of Guy Motors
¡Limited. Full throttle is given and the load increased immediately. is adjusted to reduce the engine "But," the authority added, "it Mr. Guy suggested a number of speed to 1,500 r.p.m. The radiation must be understood that few com arrangements, and in every case system then, receives attention. panies are satisfied with the way the gear box remains in its cus- Although it must be obvious to There is a continuous flow of car insurance is conducted at pre- tomary position. Built into the the pubile that most of our popular
water through the radiator and by sent."
THE CALL FOR COLOURS,
increasing or reducing the amount The possibility also was advanced gear box casing is a pair of final cars can only be produced at very drive bevel wheels, next to which low prices because of standardisa- of water, the temperature is re- that motorists who have some phy is a differential which conveys the tion, yet one constantly hears stories gulated at 80 degrees centigrade. sical disability and still obtain a
pair of transverse of how individual owners demand power to At the same time the air tempera-Hicence may have to pay $50 to shafts. Alongside the frame certain colour schemes and will be ture is taken in the neighbourhood ward damages caused by an accl members, extending forwards, content with no other. of the radiator and. of the dent. carburetter air intake....
Morrison Eas explained that a
steering pivot.
there is a pair of universally joint-
One day recently a lady entered Insurance, it was said, will bed propeller shafts driven from the showrooms of a Triumph dealer, A definite five gallons of water is denied to only those who are dan the transverse shafts, and these produced a vanity case In one shade then allotted to each engine, and gerous risks.
in turn drive bevel wheels fitting of green and a cigarette lighter in stopwatches are employed to check how long it takes for this to be number of regulations still had to boxes secured to the front axle. another and said she would place consumed. On a hot day, of course, be drafted and there was consider. Finally, two short cardan shafts
finished fu those colours, the main front, wheel hubs, these again be-area of the body. In the deeper the Ave gallons would be used up able work still. to be done before the are used to take the drive to the an order for a Saloon if it could be more quickly than in cold weather, new rules could be promulgated. It ing provided with universal joints, shade, the waistline, wheels, etc., in but since the air temperature has might be necessary, he added, to one of which is in line with the the lighter. also been noted, calculations can be postpone individual sections of the
Although the Triumph people are made to decide whether or no the Act.
Most observers were united in the In an alternative scheme, also now the fourth largest producers of Bystam is in accordance with the standard, av
beller that the only person to benefit patented by Mr. Guy, the boxes motor cars in Great Britain they Should it not be so, the cause is from the changes would be the containing the bevel wheels are were able to comply with this extra- mounted on the frame, and the ordinary request, Who now can say Investigated, but whether or no It pedestrian-United Press. .
universal joints in the short car that the British manufacturer does emerges successfully, the radiator late subjected to a further test. It is one radiator will give the same dan shafts have then to take care not adapt himself to the require- allowed to cool down to 80 degrees results as another. On the other of vertical deflections of the axle ments of his markets? centigrade and the engine is then hand, however, this test does far in addition to steering move- run flat-ont until a temperature more than prove the radiator alone. ments.
Yet another mechanism is des- of 90 degrees is attained. Stop It proves that, at the outset of its watches are busy whilst the heat is real tast period, there is no single cribed in which a worm and rising and the air temperature, of part in the engine which a running wheel take the place of each pair course, is taken into consideration. hot, and that the unit is in every of bevels, but the principle of It may be thought that such teals way it for the very strenuous using two propeller shafts re are scarcely worth while, and that dynamometer tests which follow.
It is a far cry from the day when one large-scale maker, in conferenco with his dealers when they were demanding greater variety of body. colours, said, "What's the matter? The public can have my ears in any colour they like, provided. It's a msing the same in every case, shade of black?"