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THURSDAY, MAY 4, 1933.
THE MOTORISTS' PAGE
WANTED FOG
DISPERSERS!
Adventures On Murky Nights.
WORST OF LOT.
I see that somebody has just in-
vented some dope
which proofs
ground against frost (writes
"Ixion" in "The Motor Cycle"). If
the Villa are due to play the
Signals
Mechanical
Discussed
Departmental Committee's Report
THE CHINA MAIL.
THE HUMAN
SIDE OF
DEPRESSION
Parents' Sacrifice For Children.
HOW WORKLESS LIVE
London.
Unemployment. Masses of sta
HOLLYWOOD
STARS FLEE
TO EUROPE
Avoiding The Studio Depression.
ANSWER TO SALARY CUTS.
Hollywood, Artistic temperament la fleeing
tistics. World total of unem far from the troubled economic ployed 25,000,000, United States, situation of Hollywood's motion 12,000,000; Germany, 6,000,000;}
picture studios. Great Britain, 2,900,000 and sa
on....
Arsenal, and the weather forecasts | COLOURED LIGHT CODE CONDEMNEDness rather than active sympathy Arthur, are aboard ship for Europe,
prophesy low temperatures, a lad
walks round the field with a spray.
and a few hours later baby worms
can perforate the treated turf at: A their pleasure, when
crete,
minor sensation
London,
or change direction, etc.
Bad
He
Diana
Those who can are going to Europe as their answer to demands Whenever unemployment is for salary cuts. Many famous names mentioned these figures are quotare appearing on the passport ed. They stagger rather than bureau records. strike the imagination. They eving Thalberg, and Helen Hayes Norma Shearer, her husband, arouse vague feeling of helpless-nd her husband, Charles Mac for the men and women who are the victims of this world malady, intending to stay several months. Consider these people. Consider Nauheim and the MacArthurs will
The Thalbergs will go to recognising signals from certain the struggles to "keep their end: has been types of direction indicators, parti.up." to be cheery on their tiny Ramon Novarro has arranged to||
tour Egypt. untreated caused by the report of the Depart of coloured lights, Intention to stopment, to while away the endless will appear with voice and guitar on j
cularly those which imply by means resources, to find jobs despite leave for Faris on March 24, ground five yards away in like con-mental Committee on Traffic Signs
disappointment after disappoint appointed many months back by the "Frequently the sun's rays, of at
hours of inaction.
the concert platform. Will this or some other inventor Minister of Transport.
night the headlights of following wives and their children?
How does it affect them, their Denmark when his present picture Jean Hersholt. plans to sail for please turn his obvious genius to The Committee report that they to illuminate one, or more of the vehicles shine through and appear fog. I have hit fog on all sorts of find no
Pictures of the life of families is fuished, and will make personal objection to the use of coloured lenses, thus creating a drawn in a report which Dr. R.Wynyard is preparing for a six-] transport. For In a plane is mechanical direction indicators on entirely erroneous Impression,
whose heads are without work are pearances in Germany pretty awful, but, if you are flying,motor vehicles. They do not how-
To avoid misunderstanding the of Health for Manchester, has he can obtain the time under his
Veitch Clark, the Medical Officer month stay in England. the excitement is delayed till you ever propose that mechanical de-tirely upon automatic devices, and sent in reply to a questionnaire contract.
A.A. saks motorists not to rely, en-
Clark Gable will go to Europe if start to land, as. given experience, vices should be made compulsory. where there is any possibility of from the "Save the Children" you can travel along even when Well known types now used on doubt to make their indications Fund, asking about the effects of go hunting far from Hollywood.
• "blind" and form a tolerably ac-certain makes of cars have been quite clear by giving the recognised unemployment on the children of curato impression of your diree-condemned. The type which con-Highway Code. This will greatly
manual signals as prescribed in the the unemployed.
an indefinite stay with her husband tion. Fog at sea is equally nasty, aists of a code of coloured lights-assist other road users, also the gloomy as that of a New York Gary Cooper accepted
His picture is by no means so her present picture is finished. and daughter. In Berlin as soon as as you hear sirens hooting all red, amber, green-supplied with Police and A.A. patrols when on
doctor who has reported that in Joan Cawford on condition that he a role with. round, and it is equally dangerous the 19:13 Morris models has been traffic duty at road intersections," the United States unemployment receives a three-month leave after
A suggestion of this nature re-
has caused: minds one of & recommendation to
Heavier consumption of alco-Europe.
He will join the exodus to or discard the typewriter and go back hol, an "alarming increase of Among others planning. European pointers incorporated in or above to illegible hand-writing. The need apathy," gambling, and much trips or already abroad are Clive the number plates or along the top of the hour is the standardisation more chronic irritability, of the rear window But fog on the road is possibly demned. That puts put of court all human element must be superseded were a few benefits, such as a re- Pickford, Douglas Fairbanks, Joel
are also con-of traffic signals. To get that the
He found, however, that there Laughton, Maurice Chevalier, Mary Brook, Herbet Marshall, Charles the Talbots for the past two years as far as possible. Hand signals turn to simple enjoyment "so re- McCrea, Katherine Hepburn, Con- and all the new Wolseleys and Sun-are like hand-writing-everyone cently scorned as Victorian."
to blunder ahead or squat station- ary on the water and let other trafe butt into you.
condemned.
The
illuminated
Cyclists Better QF.
the worst of the lot, though we motor cyclists are better off than the car folk. The road isn't wide,
beums.
arrows
The Comittee have recommend-
as the sea or the air, the traffic faed the type of indicator which sticks
a lot thicker, and you have to try out from the side of the car.
to see two ways at once-ahead for obstructions and to the left for the kerb,
the in-
Amber Colour Signs Signals should be given by means
amber
I don't mind whether
of an illuminated sign of ventors give me an infra-red ray length of six inches, of shape long illuminated colour, of a minimum or a fog-dispersing squirt on my in proportion to its breadth, and handlebar, but I wish they'd do displayed horizontally. aomething. I suggest they should
conduct a research into the fact
Such signals must not be more
If they found out how loge
inches of illumination.
are
On
six
RUBBER IN MOTOR BUILDING.
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different-Reuter.
DETECTING MOTOR CAR DEFECTS.
Slow Motion" Machine
Invented,
The components in a car engine
springs are weak, the valve stems,
Libraries Popular.
Dr. Clark explains, the various ways in which the workless men as their time. Many men take their children out for walks, or help, their wives with household tasks. Some have bought cheap homes throughout. Others have wallpaper and redecorated their
made furniture.
"
At least, he said, he'll
COMING TO THE CENTRAL.
but
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PRINCE AND THE PEASANTS.
King Carol's Gesture To Poor Students.
Bucharest.
BABY WEIGHS 181⁄2 LBS. AT BIRTH.
new
The public library is a favour- go and live at Haywards Heath and than four feet behind the wind- often behave markedly differently spend their time, and the majori-tending Prince Michael's privatel
te place for many of the men to Three peasant boys are now at that Haywards Heath is often
screen and not more than six feet when the engine is running at high ty of them go to a cinema once school at the Royal Palace hero.j swathed in thick fog by day when above the ground, and must be speed than they do when it is week when there is an after-This makes a total of nine boys, the rest of Sussex is fairly clear. Visible either side for at least six merely idling. For instance, if valve noon programme.
including Princo Michael. The caused, they might stumble On vehicles not fitted with electric while closely following the tappets liards, but some of them, sit mo- time the middle classes and the Many like to play darts, or bil-other boys represent at the same some simple preventive,
Hghting equipment, left and right at low engine speeds, may lag far rosely at home by the Greside. best scholars of their respective Mercifully, even fog has its signals may be in
the shape of a behind them when the engine is Younger men have a tendency to humours. I sat -for five or
hand painted white.
schools, speeded up. This means that the get up late in the morning, and minutes one murky night with my
Flushing
The three peasants were chos or ucculting lights valve does not close properly, and, then to stand about at street corn-en from among the best boys at engine ticking behind the tail of a
should not be used as flashing in consequence, there is a loss of ers. Lagonda saloon. At last I got im- signals.
Provincial schools. At. first power associated with the danger patient, and cautiously nosed my
Signal of Intention to stop given of burning out the valve head,
Dr. Clark points out that it is when they arrived they appeared way past his off-side. He was sit by mechanical means
generally agreed that where an overawed by their palatial should be As the motion of engine parts older man is thrown out of work, school, but they quickly settled ting waiting patiently behind given by
A
red or amber "stop" cannot be followed by the eye at he makes great efforts to obtain down. red lamp affixed to a heap of stones signal at the vehicle's rear. high speeds, the detection of such another job. He starts out early by the road-edge; he'd taken it for
"Left" and "right" turn signals defects has hitherto presented in the morning, and goes from extremely popular with the pea
King Carel has always been somebody else's tail lamp in the may be repeated at the rear of a difficulties, but by the ingenious firm to firm, impenetrable gloom!
vehicle and must be operated coln application of a well-known optical his efforts.slacken. He often be of the total population.
Then, gradually, sants, who comprise 80 per cent cidently with those in front.
This illusion it is now possible to see gins to develop a sense of infor new step is expected to reinforce The most popular direction in the action of parts in a fast-run-fority, to feel that the world does dieator for two of three years has ning engine in "slow motion."
that popularity. When King been an amber-coloured arrow on
not need him, and that he will al- Carol was exiled, the peasants The engine is placed in the lines recommended.
always remain out of work. Some took up his cause. "White darkened room, and while it is become miserable and depressed, there are floods or other disas
Now, when hands" have been in vogue also on running it is exposed to a rapidly and stay in their cottages. lorries and' vans,
flickering electric light.
ters, the King goes to the scene The eye does not notice the dickering of
A Typical Budget. Mr. Pybus's Ruling
himself, and hands out money to One typical budget for an un-the needy-Reuter. the light, but if the frequency of employed man with a wife and The Minister of Transport makes the filckering be suitably adjusted six children, whose ages range it clear that any regulations he may to the engine speed, the illusion is from nine years to six months, is A paper entitled "Some Develop to vehicles registered for the Arst actually be running at 8,000 re Bd. per week from the Labour issue on the subject will apply only produced of an engine which may given. This man is receiving 853. ments in Rubber for Automobiles" time after September next, was read by Mr. Colin Macheath before the Institution of the Rub-recommendations, anys Mr. A. G The precise movement of every mittee.
The only good thing about the only one revolution a second.
volutions a minute, turning over at Exchange and 48, 5d. per week
Stanford (Cape); ber Industry, Sir Stanley Bois pre-Throssell of the Daily Telegraph, part may then be followed; and This is how it is spent
from the Public Assistance Com- record for South African siding.
babies as far as their weight at Mr. Marheath said that a recent pulsory. That apparently is the produced le so marked that an Insurance...
that they are not to be made com- irregularities noticed. The Illusion Rent .......
birth, is concerned was establish analysis showed that on British point of view of the trade. passenger carrying automobiles of But it can scarcely be the point machine was accompanied by Father's shoes early demonstration of the Clothing Club medium price and. power the of view of the motorist who travels garious accident, a mechanic allow-Coal and coke weight of rubber products used much on crowded ronds. Often he ang his band to be caught in the Milk -per car was over 140 lbs.
is the victim of unintelligible hand fast-running fan, because he Bread Mr. Macbeath gave as an exam-signals from the car ahead. ple a 18 h.p. car. Recent tyre de Despite the fact that every motor turning idly round.
thought he could see the blades Meat velopments, he said, indicated that ist gets a free copy of the Highway there would be a general enlarge Code Handbook, giving, the approv ment of tyre sections, which would ed signals, there are on the roads Increase the weight of tyres and large numbers of drivers whose tubes fitted to each car from prob signals are confusing and dangerous ably 10 to 15 per cent. This for on-following traffic. would reduce the weight of the A car, as the substitution of metal by rubber and fabric meant weight signals is one therefore that Reuter from the United States during 1982, owing to the reduction of saving-fitting lower pressure approves and, while dialing the as compared with an average of due to unemploym tyres meant a reduction In un-growing tendency to multiply laws 5,000 a year during 1927-31 sprung weights due to greater and regulations needlessly, here The total impo cushioning value of the tyres, anyway, in a useful occasion for cars from all f
Dealing with coach, work, Mr. some form of compulsion. A Macbeath pointed out that 284 It is surprising therefore to find con Ibs, of rubber was used, which was the AA recommending on hand roughly one-Lith of the total rubi signals in a recent warning to niem ber parts used on the car. This bern. It reads
A.A. Recommendation.... The principle of mechanical
substantial figure indicated's that "The Automobila Asoci coachbuilders ked rubber,
low!
CHILE'S 15, MOTOR CARS
New Low Record.
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Suet
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Potatoes: Other vegetables Groceries
It In the general health visitors,” accor Clark, that children
88. 84, ed at Stanford when a child 18. 6d. weighed 18 lbs, at birth. It 28. Od. was 27 inches long. The mother 18. Od. is well, but the child has died.--- 386d. Reuter.e
38 6d.
68 10d, the children's clothing la better Od, too, because wool is cheap and
6d. many mothers now knit garments
Is. 8d. for their families.
18. Od. The report says, however, that 18. 6d while the health of children, does 78. Od not seem to be impaired, the opinion, of ents suger
par
Chile bought only 15 motor cars céssarily, received inferio
draws attention to the difficulty of quadrapid
Impor
tritional condition"
of motor-fundar five compár
On the
Dr.This statement is borne out by not ne the opinion welfare worker
foodison Janchester
omo quoted
arg too
docent
One
how
do it but there that it is at the
own healthE
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