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THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 1932.
THE CHINA MAIL.
KING'S
THEATRE
COMMENCING
SUNDAY,
11th DECEMBER
THE
FIRST
YEAR
OF
LAUGHTER
AND
ROMANCE--
QUARRELS
AND
FORGIVE-
NESS
Tender situations and merry)
complications in the first year,
of married life.
Janet GAYNOR Charles
FARRELL
First Year
From Frank,
Craven's stage -
his
"FOX- PICTURE
1
CHARLIE AS
A THOUGHTLESS
HUSBAND
JANET
AS
AN
INEXPERIENCED
WIFE.
THE MOTORISTS' PAGE
New Car Salvage Equipment
Great Hydraulic Baling Press
A CAR PER MINUTE
A great hydraulic baling press hydraulic press which shapes them which in a single crushing blow into campact bales hardly larger converts a "retired" automobile into than bales of hay, at the rate of a compressed bundle of scrap metal; approximately one per minute.
Ladeling Molten Metal hardly larger than a hale of hay is
and increased the, inelting facilitics molten pig iron from
new furnace.j
the Rouge
when
of the plant open hearth furnace plant blast furnaces. equipment by 600 tons daily, bring- Formerly the molten pig
every 24 hours.
care
600 tons
INNOVATIONS IN MOTORDOM.
New Departures Please Women,
CAR COLOUR CHARM.
One particularly interesting thing to do is to go round the Motor Show and see all the now gadgets that have
been invented for the con- venience of motorlata.. One that I noticed was a three colour light- indicator, which is fixed on both sides of the front of the car, just by the driver's seat. It is made
The Care Of Tyres In The Tropics Under-Inflation Tends To Short Life
PAYING FOR SPEED
"Tyre trouble on the road to less pedestrian again the tyres is extremely rare, and are subject to severe stress.
on the same principle as the lights day
of
in Oxford Street, being red yellow when modern, coupled with tropi-course if they are good tyres and green; presumably the driver cal conditions are taken into ac-they will stand it all right but it ind.cates what he is going to do by count speaks volumes for the certainly is not conducive to their turning on the different colours.great advance in tread and tyre long life.
case.
now in operation at the Rouge Plant A conveyor deposits the bales in But I know very few drivers indeed body construction that has been It would be hard to give a de- charging boxes and the boxes are who could show the green light made in recent years," writes the finite estimate of the cost of that of the Ford Motor Company.
The installation of the glant emptied into the press, two 600-ton hot metal mixers Following the melting process the with a clear conscience! Perhaps motoring correspondent of the short burst of speed compared with a more moderate rate of and a new 400-ton furnace for the scrap steel is transferred by crane-one merely shows yellow in that Singapore Free Press.
The best of tyres, however, can progress but over two or three conversion of serap metal, in addi- swung ladles to any of nine 100-ton
A boon to women drivers will be be utterly ruined with but a months, consistent hard driving tion to necessary supplement equip- open hearth furnaces adjacent to it. ment, cost approximately $500,000 There it subsequently is joined by the now all-weather hood. A short meagre mileage to their credit would amount to a large sum in time ago this meant a hood that through lack of care. Few own-terms of tyre wear, wear and One could have either up or down, ers get the mileage out of a set tear of the car in general, to say. at the expense, usually, of badly of covers. The most usual cause nothing of an abnormally high ing the total capacity to 2,600 tons brought from the blast furnaces to pinched fingers and ruffled tempers, of premature tyre wear is under-petrol consumption. There is, of the Open Hearth building was tem, and often by the time the hood inflation - a sin of omission, course," the sheer joy of a wide The addition of these facilities porarily stored in a single mixer was up, the storm had passed, and which if consistent will reduce open throttle when one is apt to the sun was shining in a clear the effective life of a tyre by put out of mind all' auestion of was part of a programme of expand situated at the end of the furnace sky; but now that has become a half. Under-inflatior of a tyre running expenses. Before you ing the capacity of the plant's sal- line. This mixer was recently re- thing of the past. The hood is sets up severe internal friction indulge in any speed at all make vage department and of increasing moved and sent to England for composed of fabric, and when it is which rapidly destroys the re sure that your tyres, especially the supply of scrap which is so installation at the Ford Motor Com-
up nobody could tell it from an silency and atrength which the the front ones, are safe. I have necessary in the manufacture of the pany of England's new manufactur ordinary saloon car, but when you makers originally gave it. seen one or two rather nasty
Tyre finest steels. In the scrapping and ing plant af Dagenham, near Lon-wish it down, you merely insert a
pressures should be crashes with a front wheel burst salvage of "worn out" automobiles, don. It was replaced by two huge handle Into the screw at the side, checked and corrected with the at quite moderate speeds. At which would represent a constant storage mixers, each of
and the hood slides down without same care and regularity with 25 m.p.h. the effects of a front potential source of danger if allowed capacity.
įmore ado.
The only drawback, is which most owners lavish on the wheel burst can usually be coun- to remain in operation on the high- Two sets of scules so finely ad- that naturally there can be no crankcase oil-level. A reliable teracted but at 50.or
even 40 ways, the company thus far, bas 'justed as to weigh from a few windows in the side of the hood and tyre pressure gauge then is a de-m.p.h. it is usually a certain disassembled more than 72,623 Buch pounds to 100 tons support ladles at the back, but that is shared by finite necessity to the owner who crash. If you have any doubtful and the steel and other into which the molten metal, as many saloon cars, as well, and they wants (and who doesn't?) to tyres I should advise you to fit materials in them which were cap needed, is poured in measured have no excuse for it.
keep his running costs down to a them on the rear wheels a'thongh able of salvage have been returned amounts from the mixers. These
Matching Colours
minimum. Do not wait until a they may give rise to skidding to productive use.
ladles then conduct the pig iron to The predominant colours have tyre is visibly soft-find out the or loss of tractive effort I am sure Old automobiles, purchased by the, open hearth furnaces to be re-very kindly been chosen to match recommended pressures and it is much preferable to the ever company dealers in the Dearborn, fined with the molten scrap taken this season's dresses. Several scar check them, at least once a week, present risk of a serious crash. Michigan, territory, are delivered to from the 400-ton furnace and other let and red cars were there, and the loss of even a lb. or two will the Rouge plant where they are mimellaucous scrap steel of the de- the other popular colour seemed to make an appreciable difference, wrecked. All materials of salvage sired analysis.
be green in all shades, usually particularly in balloon tyres so it value, such as glass, leather, tyres, The use of so-called scrap in re- allied with beige. Very charming. is wise to be really accurate when batteries, radiators and some other fining steel is essential to industry. One thing that is particularly reading the gauge. non-metallic products are removed. Pig iron forma, but a part of the noticeable about the English cars The spare, of course, should In the days before the giant baling, metal bath. If the iron ore reserves is that the makers do not go in not be forgotten it can be very press and the huge furnace were in are not to be finally exhausted, in- for very much chromilum plating. annoying should a tyre happen to stalled, the cars were crushed and dustry must gradually look more and Whereas in most other cars, the fail on the road to find that the the resulting wreckage sliced to more to scrap steel. It was recently headlights are in nickel, they are apare is also in a deflated or semi- sizes suitable for admission to the stated that two-fifths of all the iron'usually painted to match the car in deflated condition. furnace where it was mixed with and steel now manufactured in the English ones. As for instance, black pressures have been seen to, it is molten pig iron and refined into United States comes from scrap. to go with red, or even the same a good plan to examine the tyres steel.
Looking ahead, a day is foreseen colour as the rest of the car. There for any sharp particles which Under the new arrangement in- when all steel will come from scrap were very few eccentric decorations may have become embedded in stead of crushing and shearing the mixed with a small amount of pig in one or two cases the care might the tread, especially on new
obtained from 起初 wreck it only is necessary to thrust iron
ever have bands of some lacquered or tyres, and remove them with the grained painting, but for the most aid of a blunt knife. Any cuts part the decorations were very or gashes should receive imme- chaste.. All the cars are, of course, diate attention in the form of much more low slung than they vulcanising. The smallest of used to be, and there is the indica: cuts if neglected will usually de- tlon of stream-lining in very come enlarged and let in moisture rounded corners, and sloping backs; or abrasive matter and so cause and baby cars are becoming much deterioration of the wall." more solid looking, and reaily very
The Cost of Speed. handsome.
Speed has to be paid for in And as for the innumerable in quite a number of ways, not the 'sids fittings ashtrays, cigarette least being the wear and tear on lighters, powder reticules etc., etc. the tyres. In a place like Hong
the stripped cars into the powerful diminishing store of ore.
REDUCING COST OF
FUEL.
Using Heavy Oil With Petrol.
At the present time, when the
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WORLD BUYING BRITISH CARS.
Austin Exports Lead All Others.
More Austins are exported that
After the
ia hard to see what is to be gain-
price of petrol has recently been, any other British make of car, and the makers seem to have laid them Kong where the distances be and may again be, raised, more than orders for overene, forming the selves out to meet the needs of tween various points on the is of the new the lady clients: Really one hard-land are comparatively short it usual interest attaches to a car recent announcement buretter which operates officiently on Austin programme, have been so a mixture of heavy oil and petrol.numerous that production has been ly needs a hotel at all,
as the taxed to the utmost to keep up with This Instrument is known Atomisor, and it is a production of demand. Monsieur H. Claudel, whose name in In Calcutta, Ceylon and the Malay connection with the subject of car Straits, more cars of buration is well known.
Austin
ROAD PROPAGANDA PAMPHLETS.
MANY KILLED IN LONDON TRAFFIC
ed by driving all out. At the most a few minutes are gained —– to gain these few minutes cor- pers are taken rather fast with manufacture are sold than of" ney One million copies of a simply the inevitable scream of protest. other make. In Portugal, for which worded anti-rail propaganda paming tyres as the body heels over That this carburetter can deal
figures are just to hand, the number phlet have been prepared by the on to the side of the tyre. The successfully and efficiently with a fael consisting of 60 per cent of of Austin vehicles registered last Road Transport League for dis- chances are that you will have to year was five times that of the next tribution to the general public, saya brake suddenly to avoid a care heavy oil and 40 per cent. of petrol leading British make.
Motor Transport was demonstrated on a six-cylinder In China Austin sales have The object of the pamphlet is to Hotchkiss. In the behaviour of the trebled. In Spain they have quad bring home to the "man-in-the car there was nothing which would
rupled during the past year (the street the danger, from his point cause one to suspect that the fuel Madrid Police Force and Spanish of view, of the present activities of and carburetter were other than Army are now being equipped with the railway companies to cripple normal, for storting, tickover, slow Austin Sevens), and in New Zealand road transport, for continues
The number of persons killed in running and acceleration were all more than one out of three British "Motor Transport," the ordinary
atcllents In London during} that one normally experts from his cars in use are Austins.
Individual must be made to realise August and Septembar Was To cope with this expansion of that the reports he sees in the daily 304, es compared with 329 during There is no trace of the pungent exports, which now represent more newspapers about Salter protest the corresponding period of last oil fumes which would betray in than 20 per cent of the total pro- meetings, etc, do not relate merely year complete combustion in the exhaust duction of Austin cars, factory to a squabble between transport The number of Injured was 14,840
against 16,424. presentatives une located in all the interests,
overseas markets
He minst be made to realise that Injuries caused by cars, -- mufor- close contact":"with the they do fect him, and bis practical cyclos and commercial vehicles show- ed a decline, but in the case of pedal organisation of Austin desistance must be souvb
cycles the dumber of case In the week ended September 23 from 2.581 to 8,010 motorýcarup
Of the total killed, 184 were per Oce ants and dri
id: 109 were peda crclists
Careful tests have shown that the leadi power output of an engine: fitted with this carburetter, and ronning on this mixture is incre three-litre Hotchkiss engine show an Incr
Fat:520
60 per cant
this bel
the zingen fuel the low ted to be between 50% Autoca
week of
increased
TIME
OUT
just a few moments for
Firestone
STANDARDIZED
BATTERY SERVICE
1. Test battery with hydromO»»
ter.
2. Add approved water if need-
wed.
3. Clean top and terminal
posts.
4. Tighten and grease termi«
pais.
5. Inspect and check cables.
Tighten hold down clampa.
7. Check generator charging
Begin today to use this service
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