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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 22, 1931.
car
MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGEY
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What Chrysler claims- Chrysler does!
Chrysler is the proved and ac- cepted embodiment of the best there is in speed, pick-up, silent power, hill-climbing, smooth- ness and safety.
All of Chrysler's popularity, prestige and success is due en- tirely to what Chrysler cars actually are and what they actually do. With Chrysler,
CHRYSLER
it's results, not promises; performance, not claims.
Take your ride in a Chrysler and sense that very definite something which makes a Chrysler a Chrysler... that something which is so different, so much more thrilling .. that something which inspires a pride of ownership all its own.
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tien, with the rare exceptions of n zigzag Alpine pass or a birdlime road surface, when the muscles still operate under an anxiety complex.
Foolproof or Not?
sa an
WORN TYRES.
PETROL OUTPUT.
Safe Drivers Take No Not 5 Per Cent. of Power Chances with Blow-Outs
Utilised.
The oll men are fond of saying that theirs Is the greatest basic industry in the world, and they have considerable warrant for the claim.
On good highways, with modern motor cars, 35 to 50 miles an hour is the customary" pace these days. The danger factor which must be reckoned with rests in the tyres.
"No motorist who has any regard But unless they contrive to find for his own safety will drive at a way to stop this wasteful over- excessive speeds on badly worn production in the producing and the tyres," says, Mr. A. Mann of Duro manufacturing ends and reduce Garage, Kowloon, local Fisk Denler, their marketing to business sanity, "Even race drivers, skilful as they it will not be amiss to revise their are, have a hard time handling a claim that they conduct be greatest low-hung racing machine when a basic industry in the world to read: front tyre goes out from under The greatest boob industry in the
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them. In the hands of an ordinary driver, a front wheel, or even a rear wheel blow-out at 60 miles an hour s quite likely to be instantly fol- lowed by a wreck."
world.
Thus in the Saturday Evening Post, writes Samuel G. Blythe. He entitles his article "Seventeen And Aus-
At speeds of 25 or 30 miles an hour a blow-out, while inconvenient, Billion Gallons of Gas."
is usually not dangerous. But at tralians reading of this stupendous 60 miles per hour, a car is travel-annual consumption in U.S.A., and ling 88 feet per second, with ter learning of the extraordinary mud- rife force. Dropping four or five
the
inches of air cushion out from dlement and waste in the oil Indus- under one of the wheels almost in-try, will get more and more homd- variably causes a sharp swerve, cidal when they ponder on that 2/3. even if the casing is not hurled
It is an absorbingly interesting from the rim and caught on the axle with disastrous results. At article. It tells how gasoline was low speeds the car can be stopped once an outcast: how it, was thrown easily enough, but at high speeds away in the making of kerosene. ditch or a collision may be
But when the motor car came on penalty.
the scene, and gasoline deposed kerosene, did the waste end? No, sir! It broke out in a new and more costly direction. Overproduc- tion, averdistribution, overhead gone mad. And that is the post- tion to-day.
CHEVROLET CARS.
Production Record Claimed.
"Fantastic" --- "Unbusinesslike." An automotive record was claim-| cd when the Chevrolet Motor Com- "From the single pump on the pany turned out its 2,000,000th six- curb," writes Blythe, "the gasoline- cylinder car on August 7, less than selling business has grown to an 20 months after the introduction of
this type. The 2,000,000th car roi- expansion and multiplication of lad off the line at the factory in selling stations that is as fantastic Flint (Michigan) with Chevrolet as an Arabian tale and as un- and General Motors executives In businesslike as lighting cigars with attendance to witness its final at 100 dollar bills. There is testimony sembly.
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have been placed on the streets and But still there are streets in our highways of the world since Janu- cities that show veritable forests of ary 1 last year.
Commenting on the manufacture Blythe tells how
OVERHEATING.
bowsers.
Energy "To Burn."
£
But probably his most interest-
IFISK
ARNLIGHT
PRINCIPLE TYRES MEANS MORE
mileage
GUARANTEE TO OUTWEAR ANY TYRE OF EQUAL PRICE WHEN RUN UNDER THE SAME CONDITIONS,
Obtainable at all garages upon request.
Sole Distributors:
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Telephone 28011.
4A, Des Voeux Road Central.
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Announcing the Arrival of
1931
B. S.
A.
MOTOR CYCLES
Greater motor cycle value than you've ever had before l That sums up B.S.A.'s for 1931, In addition to the many features which have hitherto helped to make B.S.A. Motor Cycles such outstand- ing value forged steel back-bonė, sump lubrica- tion, hinged rear mudguard, gear driven magneto, etc. severat new features have been introduced which add considerably to the riders' convenience and comfort.
For example, the instrument panel; two-level petrol tap; oil pressure gauge; etc.
FOR POWER, SPEED, SILENCE, SAFETY, ECONOMY and RELIABILITY
THE
Choose a B. S. À.
SINCERE CO., LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
The brief time required by Chev- to this in every community in the rolet to build 2,000,000 Bixes United States and along every provides index of the rapid highway." strides made by the organisation in And we have a taste of this mad- the front rank of volume car build-ness in-Australia, adds a writer in cry. The company was organised that continent. Nothing like the late in 1911, and it required nearly 317,000 filling stations they have in aspect of their hobby; a cynit would seventeen years to turn out 5,000, U.S.A., of whose equipment all but say that this interest is compulsory 000 of the old four-cylinder cara. 10 or 15 per cent. is owned by the where motor-cyclists are concerned. while more than 2,000,000 sixes cil companies. Anyhow, almost every motor- cyclist buys a technical journal When
we inquire whether the every week, and some buy two; but Ever since the prehistoric motor- motorcar should be further develop the majority of car owners do not
trouble to study their hobby, and of the 2,000,000th six, W. S. Knud grew until at present it has £2,400,- the industry stirred a startled world tu ed towards the automaton stage, laughter and indignation cars have we encounter a genuine controversy.
read no motoring journal. -So
sen, president and general manager | 000,000-pounds, not dollars-in- tended to become increasingly auto- The engineers of two of our leading
some judges assert that the sooner of the Chevrolet Motor Company, vested, and more than a million em- matic. Time was when the man- Arms consider that the average
cars are made foolproof the better atated that the fact of establishing ployees agemont of a motorcar was really driver desires
at an average of 10d. If that is true, the standard car a new record was significant mainly gallon for their product. How price to be delivered of hard work. The starting of the every possible responsibility. They
will soon be equipped with the because it Indicated a definite pub-wara occur, and how gas is sold an engine used to reduce strong men convert theory into practice by new transmission devices, and an ille preference for the performance low as 1d. a gallon. to a state of exhaustion; about the marketing cars which practically era may even dawn when rails are and luxury which a six affords in year 1902 I remember bribing a release the driver from the usual substituted for roads and tho
the low-priced field. stalwart navvy with A golden control of his clutch and gears (the
motorist is relieved of the trouble sovereign to accompany me on a allusion is to the co-called "duid of steering, at any rate 30 far as short run from London into Kent, flywheel," better described
main roads are concerned.
ing news-petrol at 1d. a gallon because my engine used to stop so automatic clutch, and to the pre-Sporting Mechanic Type of Owner.
is not news: it's miracle-is about frequently, and I knew that my salector gearbox introduced under On the other hand, a minority
Whether overheating is due to the juice itself. Its powers and own strength would fail after wilson patenta three years ago). of motorists face driving as they general inefficiency of the cooling potentialities. twenty or thirty restarts. Lamps Neither of these inventions is com-
face golf. They regard it as a system, or to some mechanical de Wo learn that there is enough, were an obsession during night pletely automatic. Their effects are highly skilled pastime, in which fect, or misadjustment usually can heat produced when a gallon of that will take some Imagining, for drives in the early days; the owner easily summed up. Without their
a man may and should take intense be determined by noting the cos-gasoline burns to raise the tem- the thread of it would be so small or chauffeur kept stopping to ad-
un-dition of the water aid a driver must display consider pride; he should greet the
when It is perature of 15,000 gallons of water as to defy measurement, just water dripe on to carbide or toable skill in handling his transmis questionable Ulficulties" of handling drained off. If this drainage is one dree. Converted completely But there it is, and Mr. Keftor reset and rub down the wicks of sion, though he is not called upon a sensitive and vivacious sports car free from rust and scale, it is into work this amount of heating, having laid his thread of gas, oil lamps. The changing of certain for any muscular output worthy of with a choor, and wrestle with usually waste effort to clean out the energy is equivalent to the effort compares the strength, the pull, of - Do we utilise that power? We tyres, especially a famous Collier mention. With their aid an unskill-them, feeling profound shame ayatem, or to suspect that the expended in lifting 50,000 tons of that thread with the tensile da not--not 5 per cent of it. Three”. cover, secured to innumerable holes ad driver of childish physique can whenever he commité even a petty radiator is clogged. In cases where coal, or 1,000 carloads, a foot of strength of steel.
and one-half per cent. would be In the wheel-rim by means of manage the largest car, exclusive fault, and discovering half the joy the water keeps clean, it is a good the ground. It is enough to elevate Steel is one of our synonyme for nearer the mark. Innumerable studs embedded in its of steering. His control of the of the road in conquering the plan to look to the fan. There is more than a carload of coal to the strength. In our physics daya in The average mileage of our anto- clinch, was a tedious business, for transmission is reduced to the ab-caprices and problems which his a good possibility that the belt elins, very top of the Woolworth Build-school they told us that plano wires mobiles to-day, per gallon, is about two sturdy mechanics. The muscles, solute minimum, and consists of
car unites with the road in pro-and where this is the cause the ing, which towers 792 feet above have a tensile strength of about fifteen miles, somewhat less rather of a driver's left leg used to be unskilled taps on a cluth pedal at senting to him. To such drivers slippage, may be due to the fan the pavement.
200,000 lb. to the square inch. A than more. That makes the con- afflicted with cramp after a long long intervals, and unskilled move an automatic clutch and an auto-bearing being shy of lubricant. **In fact, it is, enough to lift the piano wire 'would be an enormous version value of gasoline, as we speli in traffic, because the clutchments of a tiny lover, comparable matic gearbox are anathema. They Timing is another point to consider entire Woolworth Building five and cable, and not a very strong one, utilise it, about 8% per cent. In spring was enormously strong and to switching on an electric lamp. loathe them with the kind of hatred in overboating of this sort. In one half inches above its founda- compared to Kettering's thread of reporting on this phase of its in- the linkage so short of leverage. There are two causes for a certain not easily paralleled in the fields of many cases
the spark occurs too tion.
gasoline, for this minute thread | vestigation activities, the Federal The brakes required such an out- delay in popularising these interest alther religion or politics, wherein late: Occasionally valve timing be Expressed in terms of the auto- contains the energy, if utilised to Oil Conservation Board points out put of strength that the muscles ofing controls. Both of them re-strong hatreds may be so readily comes retarded. Sometimes, timing mobile, the energy produced by its last ounce, to move an automo- that If we succeed in doubling the the driver's face would register ex-present substantial additions to generated. If we can imagine a la late while the car is new, but the burning a gallon of gasoline is bile weighing 1,750 pounds for 460 miles per gallon in our motive use treme tension when he descended the weight and cost of a car; they typical motorist, analogous to the trouble does not show up until equivalent to the work, in ralaing a miles along a paved road at a speed of gasoline wa shall utilise about 7 hill. "All that has been changed, are bulky components, which do not fabled "man in the street," he there is a complication of con- Ford car ten miles vertically in the of twenty miles an hour, or 8 per cent of the potential and the current cars of to-day are supersede any existing fittings. would appear to us as even more ditions.. miracles of automaticity. The Large output and simplified design complex than Stevenson's Jekil driver enters his scat and presses will to time reduce both their
most familiar commodities. Think of the energy stored in those 17,000,000 gallons of gasoline we shall use this yeart Enough to blow the continent to bits.
air, or in propelling it a distance
The energy stored in one gallon energy at hand in each gallon of of 450 miles along a paved road at of gasoline has a tensile strength "gas, and says that the ultimate to Hyde personality. With him dis- are controlled by a man in an 20 m.p.h.
of more lian twenty times that of be expected is not more than 15 per a knob on the ramp or the dash; weight and their cost, but they can pute a sportsman, a mechanic, and elevated cabin, when the route of Just the gallon of petrol?- leemore than 4,900,000 pounds cent. and for the rest of the day he need already be commercially Incorporata sordid utilitarian. The odds are every car is mechanically deter The article goes on! "
to the square inch.
Of course, this subject of utilisa- do nothing but perform a series of ed in the smallest six-cylinder cara, that the utilitarian will conquer in mined for it, so that even steering Charles F. Kettering, one of our To put it another way, the gullen tion of more of the power that light, insy movements with moderated at perhapa 60 per cent. more the vast majority of motorists, conses to be an art; when cars me- greatest gasoline engineers, des- of gas an automobile owner buys existe le, and will be, the constant ate precision. That single touch of than the mass-production price of The resigned sporting mechanic chanically adjust themselves to acribed the enormous power pent up at a filling station has latent explo-subject of study with all gasoline a button starts a train of com- such a vehicle. The second cause type of owner must envisage with act speed, keeping station behind in this amazing fuld by picturing elve power three times more power-engineers and many scientists, but plicated operations, most of which is psychological. The majority of cold shiveringe an era when the each other like a squadron of battle- an automobile being towed along ful than TNT, six times more the chances are that 80 per cent, of are completely alitomatic. Little is motorista probably regard theft roads will be considerably fuller | ships in line ahead; and when the the road by a thread of, gaseline so powerful than nitroglycerine, eight the power available will go uzused left for the driver to do, except to cars simply and solely as transport, then they are yet; when every road noble art of driving shrinks to the tiny as to be almost incalculably timer more powerful than dynamite, for a long time to come, thrown control the spoed and steer the car: in this they differ fundamentally function will be under the control soulless tank of fouching a tiny small. Imagine, if you are so mind- and ffisen times more powerful away and dissipated in friction. and neither of these actions ; des from motor-cyclsets, who take – n of a petty official, just as the points lever or two at long intervala-ed, a gallon of gasoline stretched than black powder weight for Prodigal waste. Especially at mands physical energy worth men keen interest In the mechancial outside Victoria Station, London, G.B. In Exchange.
out to the length of 450 miles and weight. And gasoline to one of our 2/8 a gallon.