AROUND
TWO SIDES TO
THE TOWN What A Motorist
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THE CHINA MAIL, SATURDAY, JUNE 7, 1947.
THE QUESTION For the family whose car is always in use
What The Law Says
we
Why is it necessary that the
the
people to cross the roads.
As for eiling drivers who over- step the mit at 22 m.p.h. I
doubl this, beenuses a tolerance if possible is usually given of about 5 m.ph. It depends on the cir
cumstances, but murely ir tha
Why do so many drivers failį to dip their headlights fortun
The reason and object for the jover a million and a half,, you estitig traffic? Is this due to
A motorist in Hong Kong bonds on, busy thoroughfares negligence, or the fact Thant many of those old saw have to who writes to say that he finds | to keep à milling populace, if regulation of reporting an aeeld. would need regiments and regi ments of firm hands to keep the provision for dimming or dip the ways of the law sometimes not on the pavements, at least ent to the police station is to safe-
near the curbs..
guard owners of vehicles which populace here on the pavements. ping? So many of the vehicles wondrous to behold, tells us:-
On narrow streets with few are damaged by another driver One might as well say why not which do dip have each bully An American businessmo cars, this old Chinese custom while parted. This person build railways nil along the gave- fornased lights that dipples who win cautioned last week of carrying on the day's busi-only in his opintori have donements with antes In them fur only make matters. worst. It for failure to report a minor ness, drinking tea and chang-negligible damage.but not so is very dangers at aight, it, nevident" said that 1 eversing the baby plunk in the mid- the opinion of the owner of the
Tender in America die of the road is understand- benie a police case the traille able, But, in traffic riddchhicle who prizes it. - Thum rafts would operate a 24-hour-arens like Wanchal masses of make it an offence not to report
uncontrolled pedestrians pre- any accident. Another driver, stopped and sent a knotty traffic problem. chastised for venturing ons to If offers are to continue to the roads with his newly aceite drivers for driving 22 miles number plate le Axed in the real coured ficcng plate - fiestotied to per hour, when the limit is 29, of a car, wither.on the fonder or
speed limit in 20 nyph, and the le rear windy instead of their reprimands for improper-near it? Because the rear num-
person is driving al 22 m.p.h. It would be so much easier for tim a locked rat torke gule the trade ched for a chance to ty placed licence platen, caution ber plate mast be fuminated at
To His Honour tax But, the drivers for failing to report a night, Furthermore, an this to relax his foot on the accelera Helena Mav hespan Terbis t
tate hail come without holes Jormped "fefitter, then it seems universal throughout
or 18 tor and reduce 1 to 20 our attento a
that steps should be Chngh which to be attackeri | Jogien)
After all thy extra be) world, it is the first place anyboy | M.p.h. To the Tender
taker to tap the shoulders of tooks for when checking a sum-
miles be gove above the limit is BCFIOUS the previous the
vlolators. phile, received.
1 in
unly a negligible saving of time. ber pinte To stick it in the win. it CAR- duy. W displayed in
comanemlable that guardians of
daw of a car obscures the line af On the que <tion of stationing lamps, cle whee tys, haches ogas place visible to all and the law observe the rules re-
vision out of the back of the car. people on the Repulse Bay Ron | tlost if the law, lo ad-parding minor violations. But The onus of fixing a number plate | We are doing everything we end marje, Dadbeater, et
in view of the over-all trafle
upon the tire nece of A enr, to patrol all ronds and wherever Poul dema No doubt that here as conscientiously to the
Tong Hung there therefore
there
The Elemnt- we see an offence, uction is taken. rar has been butalbot, 2 traffic mamal, why doesn't it picture in
Fat
brakes 40 military ensures are nonsonsible, ready in the plate because it is Patrolling roads is not our only desn't sent als Prend setting
while and commercial Armuks As a suggestion, the Dept, obvious that not all cars are minde jab however. We have multifari Traps lay theofthieves, either, which disregard all regulations might station a fuse boya onto a standard pattern, some may ins jobs to do, and we are doing
The Last n b
for fixing, everything al netralky, rndangrey bfe and the Repulse Bay Road to mur-require two bolts
in our power. It is switcher, eta lurk
I hoped though, that more patro's vey the vehicular department of may require three balls. prop rly
Why oun't The Hong Kong military and commercial lorries, great job and can in any wit be on the roads as soon a
chise be temporarily done in the possible. Traffic Degit, station a few firm They might count the number right place if not firms avai)-
which chi exceed the spectable.
I do not know of anywhere Jus limita 12) pass on ingged cur-)
the work, unless you have segres vos (la take the middle of the
On the matter of military gated lines of trailer innes for end and obstinately refuse to vehicles, we de take action against, each particular vehicle where you
low other cars to pass (4)
then. Also the Army Provost can stop different classes of vehi- bitrarily pull to a
Curps run traffle patrols and deal¦cies mixing up. It is most neces ato with military vehicles
Record-sary for slow inaving traffic to surrow, eirved arena.
ingly.
keep to the left of the road s One final remark. If there
that fast moving traffic car over- regulation governing isa't
On the subject of controlling n take.
Hong Kong streets are in +tantia, pedicabs, rickshaws milling populare, the only an over the main very narrow and there Car and bugs | happily julting slong the middle is that you would not need a. fent by a great dent of traffic
using of busy streets, precipitating (firm hands with `n papilutions of them, de as veil, has el
Truffle pile ups and edgy ten -masal whanter if, third party abee is compulsory for thear pers, one should be instituted. vehicle While the authoriti
erm to chark everything else.
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However, their a 10 Prof #Php When in Aar Nalu sehen bot leat furrot to tell hi was to trumbed be car thoses safe about it. He never wired that jeramentad Chunned him an affer Deut. rear wheel to a large enxalyptu
bus i tord The
mxt may J Fer
warm
mradhan
studi chund by the Trees, but long 14 #happer hazel ranged ther wheel Tea The chained up, one. and
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driven By car mammed tungan
t.. Woulon wooie mure bar.
Having regard to the large
fe of accidents in which
me t
I seem to time there that pre nochding a nonthly road test war onn var ogter had los curet, all pale hire vehicles. it
so wired that anyone tamper-] weus they have completely for- ing with it gof an ± les Frie shock Grytten this paint.
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Policemen stand idly by while long lines of ears jam behind an oblivious tor sub- bort coolie dragging a cart.
it's alright to set your moure trap hit the wolves are getting Int
Traffic Offenders
are.
The Inside On Tyre
Making
A tyre manufacturing represen with a pneumatic ram forcing the tative in Hong Kong has given us reluctant pieces of rubber down between the 'rotors. These inter. some interesting "gen"
on hav
nal mixers are so big that the the four wheels of our
cars are upper part projects into a second mnde. Sald he:
storey, where the rubber and |compounding ingredients are load. That terme police officers were
1dens sbinetimes
held about jed up. The view down Into the alert on the afternoon of May 4, tyre manufacturing are a little stomach of this enormous mu. lust checking cars travelling in orthodox, "Once when talking chine, when the ram is raised, is excess of the speed limit
In with a merchant.skipper, who had
most Impressive. The slowly mov. various districts on the island,
ing rotors, with their pecullur WHS disclosed before Mr. seen rubber in the raw at many shape, have a grim but fascinat. d'Almada at Central yesterday an Eastern port, 1;discussed the ing appearance and in some peo (when a number of offenders were highly skilled nature of the tyre ple induce a desire to cast them.
summoned.
industry. All he said was: "Tyres, ing of standing on top of a very selves down, rather like the feci. Richard Clarke, PWD staff, was enutioned for driving car why surely ita only a case of ink-high elit. Fortunately there is No. 1929 at 33 m.ph. (20) outside ing a chunk of rubber, sticking it no record of anybody having done Repulse Bay Hotel in Island on a lathe and making it round." this, for their fate would indeed
be a horrible one.
Well, on the whole the rubber in. dustry is very highly developed In a technical sense despite a
Road. Clarke suld be forgot it was a controlled aren,
Sergeant lan Earle, of Com-
Now the compound is mixed mando Workshop
Arsenal in
we go on to make and shape all Street, was cautioned for drivier being little more then a hundred the various components which are military truck, No. A4437, at 38 years old.
assembled together to make the m.p.h. (15) at 2.48 p.m. in King's
You all know about rubber complete tyre. In a modern glant Road. Earle said he was follow-Intex, the milk liquid which comes tyre there are from 60 to 60 sepa. ing an Austin and did not realize out of the rubber tree when the rate pieces, o fact which might the speed.
surprise many people. The dif
Then we get
15
bark
aliced. 'anoked sheet' which
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ferent pieces can be divided into Rooms: 127-9, Hongkong & Shanghai Bank Bidg. racks, was fined $25 for driving from the latex on the plantation. three groups, the rubberised cot. military truck No. A3144, 1 m.p.h. (15) in King's Road at 3 The smoked sheet is sent to the ton or rayon pieces, the all-rub. ber pleces and the steel bead factory, where it is made soft and
pam. Duffy pleaded guilty and plastic. by working it between wires. told the Magistrate that he had
nothing to say.
heavy steel rollers. When sur.
Up 11 the beginning of the frat Fung Chung was fined $50 for cinely listed which is World War all tyres were made
gredients are added which gives 'driving publle car, No. 4351, Le-rubber the properties we know, with square woven, cotton can-
tween Fleming Road and Ewo Street at 34 m.ph. in a weaving: |manner.
Chun Chi was fined $40 driving public car No. 4470
today.
vos which didn't. last very long. The cotton strands soon chufed
It was only by the more or less one another and bursts were not for accidental discovery in 1839 that infrequent. Then it was discovered
a heating up rubber with sulphur, that all this could be avoided if
134 m.p.l. (30) in Henneasy Road.produced an extraordinary change parallel strands of cord were
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in properties, that it became pos used, each one insulated from its sible to make anything out of rub. neighbour by a film of rubber, without any cross ber that lasted any length of time. practically
strands or weft.
Tiny Particles.........___
Without carbon tread would only
“A sheet of fabric (either cotton or rayon) is laid between large block a tyre steel rolls which force the hot have about a plastic rubber compound between quarter of its normal life. The the atrands. This machine is call. particles of this special kind of
ed a calendar, carbon black are so small that the total surface area of on ounce of the material amounts to nearly two thirds of an acre. Such a fine black le naturally very dusty and
Final Contour
The all rubber parts of the tyre
in order to make it cleaner to are either cut out from sheet or handle it is used in the form of amail pellets which quickly breek up into fine particles when mixed with the rubber.
This mixing is usually done in A very heavy internal mixer where two shaped rotors work the rub. ber inside a massive steel casing,
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else roughly shaped in a forcing machine which operates on the principle of the domestic mincer and the rubber la already rough- ly shaped, in accordance with its final contour.
In order to keep the tyre on the rim it is necessary for the bead to be exceptionally strong. It is normally made from several calls of high tensile steel wire with a breaking strength of 130 tons per square inch..
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When all these different, pleces have been made they are assom. bled on a tyre building machine- atted with various semi-automatic devices for consolidating the dif- ferent component, pleees. When
Photos 32651. & 32509
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