THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY
Foundations!
FIT
DUNLOP
ANG BE SATISFIED'
THE foundation of Dunlop tyre quality "is Experience.
AWAY BACK IN 1888
"DUNLOP"
WAS THE NAME IN THE TYRE WORLD.
The accumulated experience of the
5th, 1927.
Motoring Notes: A Weekly
Review dealing
with matters of interest to all local motorists.
The Saturation Point-Maximum Speeds-Superchargers for Smal Cars--Six Wheelers-Insurance Problems.
[BY AN OWNER-DRIVER.]
THE "SATURATION
POINT..
Since 1923 the automobile industry has been at the top of the list of
Finally, at the straight stretch in front of the Golf Course, the alheial signalled for the following car to pass him.
Anyone who knows the official krowa hiar to be incapable of any
SIX-WHEELER.
The motor lorry with six wheels seems to becoming more and more popular. It is claimed for it that there is reduced road wear and no burst tyre danger,
It is also claimed that, as the load is distributed over six wheels in stead of over four wheels, there is reduced tyre wear, halved axle sumption.
years is in every Dunlop Tyre you factured in the Vaited States I act that could be called ungentleweights and reduced petrol cun-
buy. That's why Dunlops yield the longest mileage and are so utterly satisfactory under all conditions of 'service.
DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY, LIMITED,
BIRMINGHAM, ENGLAND. Branches Throughout the World. DUNLOP THE STANDARD by which ALL TYRES are JUDGED.
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SHELL
(Shell)
SHELL
DELIVERED BY OUR OWN
LORRIES Direct talo CERTIFIED
SHELL PUMPS
IS ALWAYS THE SAME "PERFECT QUALITY AND
CORRECT MEASURE
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SOCONY
MOTOR
OIL
MODERN OILS FOR MODERN MOTORS
REFINED UP TO A Standard NOT DOWN TO A Price"
Day
Expend your whole energy on the job in hand; make a full day of every day! but, be fair, and let a full night's sleep restore
e you
THE ORIGINAL
MALTED MILK
and
Take your strength for Night
the day in a morning cup
of Horlicks and your rest
for the right in another
In 4 sizes:
of all Chemists & Stores --
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Representative - Mr.. H M. HDGES, P.O...Ber 1871, Shantiat
values of the various goods manu- that year the figure was $3,183,000 for autoinobiles. For steel products it was $3,134,000 Gold dollars in
each case.
The United States Department of Commerce" recently estimated the number of touring cars, lorries, etc., in the world at 24,589,240. It may be a fair assumption that the total number of licences come to that figure.
The interesting assumption has been made that the." saturation limis for a community for passenger cars is one car for every four per-
BUDS.
All the evidence suggests that the number of cars in Hong Kong will rapidly increase during the next ten years.
It is believed by petroleum ex- perts that the demand for motor fuel will increase very quickly dur ing the next fifty years.
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manly. He was either unaware of the fact that the straight stretch in
front of the golf course ia
con-
trolled area or he had momentarily forgotten the fact
POLICE TRAFS.
The local traße authorities are not out to catch the unwary. There may be, occasionally, the case of some overzealous subordinate who wishes to obtain a bag but on
the whole the police are remarkably fair in carrying out their duties in Hong Kong.
Many a motorist has been given the benent of the doubt by the of the otheials to enforce the law police. It is.. ulviously, the duty but they don't enjoy petty persecu tions-nor do they indulge in them.
We have heard so much about police traps that it is not altogether Considerable improvements in the surprising that autorists are on the thermal eficiency of engines is anti-look out for them. cipated. Every year the average number of miles to the gallon of petrol increases-the light small car has helped choumously.
Anyhow in this particular case the motorist who was genuinely invited to pass probably thought that the signal was part of a deeply laid It is, however, the ambition of plot to persecute him. He refused Dany workery in research laborato pass in the controlled area. teriti to provide a fuel that will be a useful substitute for petrol.
The great oil companies do not neglect the problem. They are as Loxious as any individual worker to market a fuel that will enable the motorist to spend less for the same mileage that he runs now
INSURANCE PROBLEMS.
There is something amazing in the self-confidence of the owner, of a car who does not insure against third party riska.
There are some inexperieticed owners who do not know the dan ger of driving a car that is unin sured.
You may injure some important and become liable for
personage damages,
'COLOURED CONCRETE
ROADS.
The use of concrete for roads is being extended, especially in the United States.
The latest innovation is the use colouring the of & pigment for roads when the concrete is being mixed.
A red colouring pigment seems to be the most popular.
In the tropics any arrangement that will reduce the effect of glare will be welcomed.
It would be of great local in-
You may be smashed up by the other fellow's carelessness and fadterest if the experiment were made on one of the roads in the New Territory, J that he is suing you for damages
If you are fully insured you have no worry. Any cisim made against you is handed on to the insurance company whose officials save your
me and money.
It would provide figures for the " road authority and satisfy the curiosity of many local motorists.
A full Lloyds comprehensive | CHARLIE CHAPLIN'S HOME
TROUBLES. policy, under which the assured pays the first fifty shillings of each
WIFE LEAVES IN A RAGE accident, costs. in England, seven pounds ten shillings for a car rated
There is a deduction of 18 per
Que firm of British manufacturers
SEQUEL TO Z A.M■ PARTY. famous for heavy motor transport at £1 tap.
Further details of the domestic yehicles claim to be the pioneers of the six-wheeled preumatic-lyred- double-deck hea. This 'bus hascent. if only the owner drives.
troubles of Charlie Chaplin, which Local owner-drivers may obtain have a distinctly cinema atmosphere two wheels in front, two at the rear
about them have now come to hand. and two just in front of the rear rebate if they state that no one else
Charlie Chaplin and his wife wheels. It is worth noticing that will handle the car.
There is usually also a rebate if (who has left beme with their two Oldham Corporation have just or. dered seven "more of these six-ng-claim is made during the pre-babies and returned to her grand- wheeled 'buses.
OVERSEAS WORK.
vious year.
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parents) have been for some time A useful rebate is also allowed to flow engaged in a furious battle of In recent years great progress has members of the local Automobile publicity for popular sympathy in
their matrimonial differences. been made in the development of Association. what is known as the tractor-lorry. One member was recently very This is a flexible combination of a indignant. He had paid his insur- tractor and semi-trailer. There is ance premiums regularly for years. also the rigid frame six wheeler He had heard nothing about the which has either one or two driving rebate for members: rear axles.
An ingenious arrangement of a type of the flexible class is one with 4 tank container for liquid loads. A three cylinder engine-driven pump mounted on the front of the tractor exhausts the tack for load ing and supplies air under pressure for discharging the tank
When he did hear he very sooa sent in a nose to the insurance com- Pany.
The reply was that he need not pay such a high premium when next it was due, but there could be no allowance on the premiums already paid.
An aluminium lined tanker has He discovered that others who been fitted to one of these vehicles had insured with the same company for the long-distance transmission of had applied for and had obtained milk. The cost of such transport the reduction in the annual pre- works out at a considerably lower matum for some years. figure than does transport by rail with churns.
As far back as 1905 six-wheelers were introduced in France, but it
British manufacturers was not until after the war that
He was, however, very indignant about the whole business. Finally be issued a summons against the official whose car was being driver, p cautiously. The summons was (it is related) for causing obstruc-them.
tion!
The local Automobile Association took up the case, but in the ead the summons was dismissed,
marketed
Other local insurance agents had it definitely stated on the form that. members of the local Automobile
rebate. Association might obtain
So the irate owner of the car insured made up his mind that he
Lorries are becoming more and would transfer his patronage to the
No insurance company that made more popular in Hong Kong.
be made to members of the local of the six-wheeler. specimen doubt in due course we shall see a quite clear that a reduction would
Automobile Association.
ti
The comedian's wife insists that a 2 a.m. party which she gave at their home in honour of the Baron and Baroness Milla de Précourt was very quiet and respectable. The comedian insists that the party. was excessively noisy.
He says:-
I objected to a noisy drinking party of men and women who came to my house at 2 o'clock in the morning when I was asleep and roused the entire household, including the nurse and the baby. When I heard a piaco, organ. and gramophone all going at once it got the beat of me, so I called my wife upstairs and told her to get her guests out immediate- ly..
"Wife's Version.
Mrs. Chaplin's version, in-
While I was entertaining my guests Mr. Chaplin came down- stairs and made a big fuss over the noise he said we were mak- He asked me to send the ing: guests away.
She reiterates that she will never go back to her busband, whom
All sorts of experiments have been made. At one time it really did seem that vegetation (which grows so rapidly in the tropics) could be used for the production of commercial alcohol at such a low it really as diffeuit to Ex a reason courage the use of pacematic tyred cars and passengers is this: Cover has been cruel to her and that "h
igure that alcohol would compete with petrol.
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All that the motorist asks is that everything-cars, tyres. fuel and lubricating oil-will be reduced in price! If all these things are very much cheaper we shall soon reach the saturation" point:
MAXIMUM SPEEDS.
A correspondence has been taking place concerning the maximum speed that can be obtained with a popular English ear rated at just below éleven horse-power (for tax purposes) and therefore taxed at En per annum/
Various owners have written to say that they have recorded this or that maximum Sgure in the speedo-
meter.
Some of the letter "writers have had doubts about the reliability of the speedometers used.
That leads to the interesting suz- gestion that a good many speedo- meters do not read accurately.
SPEEDOMETERS.
The non-technical owner sees the neat speedometer on the dash board "and hê accepti what the needle tells him with that simple faith that "is more than coroneta" (according to the poet) but which may lead him to the police court. For speedo- meters, are not always strictly accurate,
One car that was often driven by the writer of these notes had 2 speedometer that read at least five miles an hour in excess of the actual speed.
The owner was really angry-he was a Hong Kong resident-when he was informed that the speedometer read too high.
He was quite sure that his car did all that it professed to do.
A LOCAL EPISODE.
Some of us remember a famous local episode in which, a popular police official figured.
It was, surely, at about this time of year, probably on a New Year's eve that the incident happened.
A REASONABLE SPEED: The case serves to remind us that
able speed for cars. "Safety st of course, but it is exasperating tô be made to crawl.
Last week the writer had the mis fortane to catch up a slow-moving Jerry in Wanchai. It was not safe to pass the lorry but the speed that had to be maintained was that of a funeral procession; or perhaps it would be more accurate to say that it seemed to be about four miles an hour.
In traffic, such as at Wanchai or in Central, à speed of fifteen miles an hour is quite high enough, as a, rule. There are times, however, when it is quite safe to exceed that speed.
The correspondents who own the British car mentioned by them claim to be able to get fifty miles an hour and some say more than sixty miles dn.bour out of the car,
Is it really ever worthwhile to attempt sixty miles an hour in a touring car?
It a
We don't need high engine power for high speeds, on the level. fer climbing hills that we want the big engines. We are so impatient that we demand quite high speeds for hill climbing. It may be that it is the younger generation that wants to get there so quickly. Those who are growing old are not anxious to move rapidly.
SUPERCHARGERS FOR
SMALL CARS.
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It is said that during 1997 the designers will pay much more.attoo- tion to superchargers."
More than one make of small car is to have a supercharger fitted.
They will probably be more popu lar with the purchasers of "Sporta" models than with those, who want A touring car
The supercharger is an ingenious piece of mathanism, but it is also a complication..
The one thing that the average owner driver asks for is simplicity. (as far as it is possible) with re gard to the mechanism of his car.
Superchargers may become popu-
Jar in Hong Kong, but --
Designers seem to favour the ase of a bigger cylinder and no super- charger.
There was acme carnival dance The transmission mechanism must affair on at the Repulse Bay Hotel be made stronger so as to stand that night. It was before there was the increased. strain that is inevit- the road over the hill"-before able. Stubbs Road was finixbed. ·
All cars for Repulse Bay had to use the road vid Pokfulam
On that particular night the car with the popular official set out at a most dignised speed-let us say at about fifteen miles per hour.
It was soon caught up but the driver of the following vehicle re- cognised the official and, fearful for his licence, he refused to pass,
As has been the case with regard to the automobile from the earliest. days, the matter will be settled, finally, by the records of teats.
All sorts of ideas has been put into practice that the experts said were of little use. The best exam- ple is the silent knight engine. Very zoon other cars came along That has proved itself, but the in- and the drivers also thought that rentor had little encouragement discretion was the better part of from the experts in the early days when be had only the drawings to being in a hurry.
Round by the bends halore Deep show, Perhaps the supercharger Water Bay there were (so they said will turn out to be much more econ- at the time) about twenty cars in a omical than is now generaly be. procession all moving at a much lieved will be the case when it is
itted to small touring cara. flower speed than usual.
machine.
The policy of the traffic authori- ties seems to be one that will en
vehicles for lorry work
It is noticeable that local build. ing contractors are Anding the ad vantages of motor-lorries over the old method of carrying loads.
One of the most pathetic sights is that of an old woman or young girl carrying a load of bricks up to the Peak.
The construction of Stubbs Road and the extended use of the motor lorry now makes the time opportune to suggest that a local regulation might be introduced to prevent the old fashioned mehod of transport.
The advice of one who has seen sim bitterly denounces "as husband some very unexpected accidents to and inther." She charges that be. emained away from bome night everything possible by insurance.
Even pure against mechanice! after night." breakdown if you can.
Above all else make quite sure that you are insured against third party risks.
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She says he is determined to keep her sons, and her lawyer is quoted- as weighing the respective advan- tages of £200,000 or £400,000 settlement on her...
It is believed to be a fact that
Charlie denies his wife's charges the owner of a car is liable for damages in the case of injuries of cruelty and announces that he received by any passenger in his will make "every effort" to obtain the custody of the children in case car.
You might take out Krierler and his wife fights this issue." Mean- injure his hand. Think of the dam-while he authorises the statement Protect your that he is no longer responsible for ages he could claim. self by insurance.
Mrs. Chaplin's bills.
It Took 3 Years
to Build the Whippet
Imitations will follow-but no Equals for Years to Come
The new Overland Whippet- has started a revolutionary trend in a light motorcar design and performance.
"It challenges all former engineer-
ing practice... it is radically. different from anything you have ever known before.
The Whippet is built for power and speedbland tong service
lengths from a speed of 25 miles an hour. Modern body design
Study its amazing performance" The Overland Whippet will travel over 55 miles an hourin perfect comfort. It will pick-
in 13 seconds from 5 to 30 miles an hour.
up
It will go 35 miles on an Imperial gallon of petrol and more than 1000 miles on a gallon of oil.
It has a "high-torque", 31 horse-power motor of small bore and long stroke. It runs like a "Six'' and pulls with amaz- ing power... over steep hills, or through mud and sand..
Four-wheel brakes are an in- tegral part of this new car's chassis design. Measured tests show it will stop in two car
The Whippet has a long, low body of ad- vanced design, finished in durable Appenine blue lacquer, with black beading and gold stripe. With top up it is only 5 feet 9 inches high-yet it provides more room and com fort than you have ever found in any motor car of this class before.
See this new-type car-ride in it-drive it. A demonstration may save you from buy- ing an obsolete car. -
OVERLAND
Whippet
World's New-Type Light Car
GILMAN & Co., Ltd.,
Hong Kong Bank Building, Canton Distributor
Hout Kone
Mr. F. FELD.
OVERLAND FINE MOTOR.
Service Representative:
MP.. A. ARWER.
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