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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 4th, 1928,
REPORT ON ETHYL MASS PRODUCTION AND
GASES.
LEAD DISCHARGES INTO THE AR.
WORSE IN TRAFFIC BLOCK.
THE GENIUS.
NEW AMERICAN CARS.
CLOCKWORK CAR CLUB. UNDERGRADUATES' NEW HOBBY.
Cambridge undergraduates, most- The new Willys-Knight Standardly belonging to Pembroke College
clockwork motor. Six Coach is an important addi- have formed a tion to the 1028 group. The body car club, "and 3 of them own 60 models which they race on the hard BY T. E. MOSCOVICS, PRESIDENT STUTZ is carried low to the ground, giving tennis courts of the Pembroke Col-
MOTOR-CAR COMPANY.J
an unusually low centre of gravity.lege ground.
The record holder is model The new model is marked by wide
made by Mr. H. P. Bowler, of doors which provide easy entrance Fernbroke College, which with and exit. Generous seating and
a speed of just over 20 miles an leg room is afforded five passengers. flying start did 30ft. in 1.4 second, two in front individual seats and hour. From a standing start the three in the rear compartment.record for the same distance is 1.0 The front seats tilt forward to provide easy access to the rear
sent.
second.
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DOLLY SISTERS.
STORY OF BIG CASINO WIS
· AND LOSS.
PARIS. "Extraordinary wine at the Casino at Cannes, which at one time saw one of the two Dolly Sisters, the professional dancers, £400,000 to the good, were revealed by Miss Rosie Dolly, who said:
The amazing wid of £100,000 was made by my sister Jenny, but she went on playing when the bank was having an extraordinary run of luck and she lost it all again and about £40,000 of her own money too. If she had stayed on a week longer when I was there and the bank was losing heavily she would have won it all back and some more.
Although we at times hear it said that bigness in manufacturing is a virtue and that the future will see letter automobiles because of mass An important stage has been winded engineering and produc. reached in the comprehensive testtion. I am sure that there is very of Ethyl petrol-the new and much- Ettle validity in the seemingly discussed motor fuel. containing rather plausible argument.
When is said and done, a truly lead tetra-ethyl-which The Daily Mail" is carrying out in the in- automobile must always be terests of hundreds of thousands of the product of a generous amount
at technical knowledge. a large outer rim, furnishing a sure grip in motor models, and an under-1 (Mr. Mortimer Davis) and motorists
Points From The Esport. According to the report, the tests showed that as an engine became warmed up the lead content in the exhaust gases rese frost 1.78 per cent, of the lead supplied in the petrol to 60.2 per cent. it is point ed out that: The engine stores lead during idling periods, In the racing away after a traffic stop, heavier discharges of lead may be expected.
of It is important that users ethyl petrol should ensure that the joints of the exhaust manifold and silencer are thoroughly tight.
The proportion of lead deposited on engine surface, such as pistons and cylinder heads, after the con- sumption of galions of ethyl petrol was 6.75 per cent of that In the supplied in the petrol. crank-ense. the proportion 11.72 per cent."
Lord Bückmaster.
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Mr. Bowler made the model him. self. The engine was & spring; The dimmer arrangement is con taken from a toy motor-boat, and trolled by a switch conveniently
pair gear wheels and a direct located at the driver's left foot. A transmission was by means of a non-splinterable steering wheel also chain. The wheels of the car are adds an element of safety. This fitted with solid rubber tyres. Ateel centre with a hard rubber patented wheel is comprised of a bet between a man interested graduate who knew little about for the driver.
them was the origin of the club. Since it has been in existence models have been improved and friction in power transmission. speed increased by the lessening of Members have become expert in the construction of models. HONG KONG METEOROLOGICAL
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Another 3-car train-load left the factory a few days ago for the West Coast carrying a rush order of Whippets for Japan..
amount of intelligent experience and especially a vast amount of
A 50-car train carrying creative ability. Of course, know-Whippets and Willys-Knights left dge and experience are important the Toledo Factory, February 4th factors, in motor car construction. for New York, all these motor cars being for shipment to Norway and But it is obvious that almost any Sweden. one with an aptitude for hard work and the tenacious ability to dig for facts and figures can
master the "know hows". But when it cames to the actual creating, to the artful binding of the genius of brains and the judgment of experienes, the individual thinker is there prems. He is likely to go much farther alone, unhampered by the 10415 mind:
There are some things which a organization can do better than the individual. But there are many things which an individual can do much better than an organization, It is when we delegate to one the work that rightly belongs, by its very nature, to the other, that trou. ble follows. Individual effort could never have dug the Panama ditch,
REGISTER.
Hong Kong Observatory, April 3rd.
Previous On Date On Data
at Day #t at 2 pm. 6 s.12. * pm.
29.91
As a matter of fact my husband
made
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net gain of roughly £40.000, so that we won what my sister lost. Anyhow, it is al in the family.
"HONG KONG TIDE TABLE,
From April 4th to 1th, 1928.
LOW WATER. HIGH WAIKA, N
E.
Wook.
Days of
Hnight,
Hong
Height,
Hong
Kong
Standard
Time.
Kong Standard Time.
30.03 29,98
b.
60
64
Wed, 4 9 31 5 4
3 10
a
69
78
73
3 22:5
Thur
949 3 8
3 9 18
Direction
N
N
N
1
Fri.
D
Sat
7m10 93 6
10 4533 94
Barometer... Temperature
Wind-
The manufacturers of the Over- land Whippet have attracted much interest with their quality car approximately at lowest prices, two million persons visited the various showrooms where these per Humidity... fected Whippets were on display, This outpouring equals the interest displayed when the Whippet was first presented to the public about 19 months ago, which set a record at that time for public interest in a new product.
The body engineers of the Stearns-Knight Company, Cleve land, Ohio. U.S.A., builders of six and eight- Stearns-Knight
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1 Force..
0 0.09
0.10.
0.01 Weather Rain... Highest open-air Temperature, Sad: 68 Lowest open-air Temperature, ard: 59 9.
9 40 6
114 1
6m10 5 58m 47 21
11 14%
* % 4% 0
3919 8,10 426 9m 56
11 48 49 B-Blue sky; C-Cloudy; D- Mon. 8 mil 38 3m 5 15 Drizzle; F-Fog: L-Lightning;
Mist: O-Overcast: P-Passing Tues. 10m0 31 144m 5 25 13
Simultaneously with the issue of nor can organized effort ever suc cylinder motor cars, have incor. showers; -Squalis; R=Rain; T-
the Motor Research Association' report, the Government held an in- quiry into the possible dangers Arising from the use of ethyl petrol. Lord Buckminster declared that during the war the use of tetra- ethyl of lead as a poison gas was considered, and experts regarded it as a means of disseminating more other certain death than any poison they had got. Its action is not necessarily instantaneous... It comes without warning- It is capable of being dissolved in oil so that there is no need for Any abrawd surface of your skin for this poison to take effect.
REPORT OF RESEARCH
ASSOCIATION.
The report of the Research Asso- eintion of British motor and allied manufacturers, an exhaust gases from ethyl petrol stated that:
This fuel consists of No. 1 petrol with the addition of about one tea spoonful of Ethyl fluid per gallon of petrol (one gallon equals 1,280 teaspoonfuls). Ethyl Auid consists ofi
Tetra Ethyl Lead
Ethylene dibromide
Halowar
......
Red Dye (No. 4 Sudan)....
Total
Per cent.
54.54 36.38 2.09 0.01
100.00
cessfully create those things, the very life of which depends upon the creative impulse.
You very soon will, if it is intro- duced over here. It is one of the most dangerous things that a man ran possibly handle'
porated a new feature in their en- closed models. This is the new- type ventilating cowl. While the contred
of this ventilator ia still!
from the instrument board within convenient reach of the driver, weather conditions no longer determine whether the ven tilators may be opened or must be kept closed.
He, Lord Buckmaster, assured
The old type ventilator opens the medical expert that, if that was directly into the forward compart- the case, he was sure the Government of the car. The new Stearns- ment would at once issue strict re-
Knight type follows in principle gulations as to its use, but he was
and design the "shaft nir system" sorry to find that that had not yet used in supplying fresh air in heen done. The spirit in question school rooms, auditoriums and had now come to England, having theatres. The opening in the cow! been introduced here at the instance is enclosed in a case or shaft which of one of the most powerful trade carries the inrushing air forward organisations in the world, and it and downward and admite it into was being pressed for sale without the car just in front of the dash the safeguard of any Government and shove the floor boards. Even regalations.
though it may be raining extreme- ly hard and the ventilator is open no water can get into the car for the "shaft" is equipped with a water trap and two one and a quarter inch water ducts which carry the water directly down and
Poison Gas Use Considered. Tetra-ethyl of lead, he went on, was discovered as far back as 1880, but nothing was done with it until 1579, when it was classed as one of the most dangerous poisone known. During the war its use as a poison-gas was considered, and experts regarded it as a means of disseminating more certain death than any other poison they bad Fot.
It was rejected for this purpose not because of any deficiency in its but beenuse the Jethal power, method of dissemination rendered Ethyl petrol is ordinary No. 1it unsuitable, petrol containing lead equivalent
Nothing more was done with it in weight to slightly more than until recently its use was discover sixpenny-piece per gallon, ored in connection with motor-carr slightly more than a shilling-piece It certainly had two great values in a two-gallon can.
there. The first was that, owing to
Since this lead is admittedly in the petrol, it must either rentain in the engine, as a deposit on the various surfaces, or in the lubricat- ing oil, or it must be blown into the exhaust and breather gases, or a combination of all these may oc-
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under the car as fast as it can enter through the cowl opening.
The cowl opening is also screen- ed. preventing insects, bugs and foreign matter from being drawn into the ventilator and carried in to the car. This screen also acts as a "break" if the car is being driven with the ventilator open during a rain storm.
During the recent told weather
in the United States, the Falcon Motors Corporation conducted a novel test to prove their laboratory work, in developing a car that would operate perfectly in the
its permission of greater comp lowest temperatures. Ten new Fal- sion than ordinary petrol vapour,
it enabled cars to take gradients coa-Knight cars were allowed to more easily. Secondly, it also pre-stand for hours in zero weather and frequent starting tests were vented "knocking."
made with stop watches.
It was stated that every car in this open-air teat took less than three seconds in starting with the When the tem- ten above rero mercury at zero.
On the other hand," said Lord Buckmaster, "this spirit contains as its very essence lead tetra-ethyl, and the character of that in- Lead In The Engine. The amount of lead in the ex-gredient is this: that, if it is either haust gases is important in con put upon your hand or breathed, perature rose to nection with air pollution and you run a very grave risk indeed these cars started in one second. poisoning by inhalation, and the of lead-poisoning; and the thing in the refrigeration room show quantity of lead deposited on en- that is most important to notice is gine anrfaces or in lubricating oil this: that, as it is capable of being that the Falcon-Knight car will is of interest in relation to the dissolved in oil, there is no need start in five seconds, with the tem- health of those who are to handle for any abrased surface on your perature at ten below zero... engine parts daring repair and skin for this poison to take effect. overhaul.
To put the facts very briefly, we may state that in every two-gallon can of Ethyl petrol there are about seven grams of lead, and," since each can of petrol. produces 3,200 cans of exhaust gas, we have avail able about ths of a milligram for ench caful of exhaust gas, or near ly there (207) milligrams of lead for each cubic foot of exhaust gas, dr 4 milligrams per cubic metre.
These fures give the lead that would be in the exhaust gas if none remained in the engine.
LORD BUCKMASTER ON: COMMERCIAL CON. .
·SCIENCE.
"Illness Without Warning."
A very eminent scientific, man said to me the other day: 'I would not have one drap of it on my finger, and if I did I would spend the whole of the rest of the day trying to cleanse myself.
That is the character of the spirit brought over here. Its ac- tion is not necessarily instan taneous. It is a form of lead poisoning more deadly than that effected by the use of lead paints. It is an illness which comes with- out warning."
"No Conscience In Commerce," " Of one thing." be concluded, Unless you may rest assured the Government acts nothing will be done. This vast trade organisa Eon does not care how many people may suffer from the exploitation of its goods. Commerce has no con science, and trade no tenderness of heart. If there he profit to be wan by the sale of this spirit there will
Lord Buckmaster, who moved in the House of Lords for the appoint ment by the Government of a Committee to advise as to the public danger that may arise from be thousands of men who will be the use of lead tctra-ethyl in motor
ready to reap the gain, even though
spirit," said: Last summer I they do it with the certain know
was speaking to a very eminent medical man, and he asked me if I knew anything about Ethyl spirit. I said No, and be said, (Continued on next Column.)
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It is claimed that laboratory tests
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ledge that that harveet is only "OCEAN" COMPREHENSIVE gathered at the cost of the lives
and suffering of their fellowmen
Lord Greenway supported the de-i
mand for a Government inquiry.
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OVERLAND
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HE first Whippet, appearing in May 1926, T
created a world-wide sensation. It offered.
a combination of quality features never before known in a light car.
Sedan H.K. $1,950
Coupe
H.K. $1,850-
Cabriolet Coupe R.K. $1,750
owner experience is reflected in their products.
The Whippet-500,000,000 miles beyond the experimental stage-has proven its claim that it is built to give lasting satisfaction. It
Since that time more than 200,000 Whippets more speed than is required by the major bay
owners-abundant power forhills and everykind of road- and is unusually economical to run, You are reminded that if you purchase a car retaining in its design features made obsolete by the Whippet your car will suffer exception- ally heavy reductions when you want to re-sell it.
have been delivered to buyers in all parts of the world. These cars have been owner-driven more than 500,000,000 miles. Owner experi ence has been carefully watched by the factory. Minor details of design have beer changed. NO CHANGE has been found necessary in the basic features of the original engineering design. Other light car manufacturers are acknowledgYou will have a completely up-to-date light car ing Willys-Overland engineering leadership and adopting 4-wheel brakes and a few of the most conspicuous Whippet specifications. Bet I will be many months before the test of
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