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SHOWROOM
"DURO" MOTOR CO, LTD. SERVICE STATION NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.'
DISTRIBUTORS -GILMAN & CO., LTD.
SKYSCRAPER GARAGES IN U.S.
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AUTOMATIC PARKING.
NEW WAY TO RELIEVE CONGESTION.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 17, 1929.
The car is parked in the same mechanical way." Pursuing the
account :·
High-Speed Lifts,
"This garage uses only three high-speed elevators that travel à floor per second, with two cars aboard, "but the real feature is an automatic parking arrangement that docs away with the loss of time while shunting the cara about and
MOTOR NOTES
He throws open his door, picks up the machine and delivers it to the owner below. During all that time it has not been touched by a hand. unless the owner has given order for the machine to be cleaned and polished. Within sach storage loft some shifting of cars may be need ed at the afternoon rush, but this is done with extraordinary speed." New York can weli afford a number of these small lote for such garages," and it is understood that the city is encouraging their con struction, for enough of these units at salient points will make it, pos sible and practicable to limit or abolish kerb parking in sorely pressed districts, observes Mr. MeBee. Quoting further:
"A variation of this idea already
is in operation in an unusual build ing on Wacker Drive, Chicago." It is the Pure Oil Building, which is an office building" with a garage as a core. The structure, which is 30 feet high, counting its tower, bandies unseen within its lofty sides between 500 and 700 cars & day without difficulty or delay, pet to the eye it appears only as a big, modern office building.
LEYLAND'S LATEST
MODELS.
known and most sought for type was the model "G4-tonner, a vehicle which to-day differs little from the famous 3-ton R.A.F. sab- sidy model, its proto-type which earned so grent a reputation dur- Nothing could better substantiateing the great European War. This the reputation" of Leyland Motors,model and its heavier types 5 and Limited, for the production of high-bulent head engines, spherically- 6/7-tonner with their 38/40 tur- class vehicles, and for the giving mounted torque tubes and double
of real service, than the pheno-reduction bevel axles have to-day. menal succon which the Company almost become a standard by which heavy goods vehicles are judged the has achieved with its new range of world over. vehicles. Never in all its 31 years' experience in the manufacture of Commercial vehicles has the de- mand for Leylands been to insistent as it is to-day.
A New Range..
WILLYS
KNIGHT
CARS & TRUCKS.
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SHOWROOM "DURO” MOTOR CO., LTD, SERVICE STATION NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON,
DISTRIBUTORS :-GILMAN & CO., LTD.
The design of each of the vehicles thereby allowing a much lower floor
incorporates a four-cylinder engine level than would otherwise be pos
of robust construction, a noticeable sible. The floor level of both 'buses, as a matter of fact is under 2 ft. feature being the large proportions Both 'buses are capable of high of all the essential wearing ur-4 speed, and due to the flexibility of faces, a factor which has resulted the six-cylinder engine and the in the greatly lengthened life of all powerful four-wheel Dewandre-working parts, and consequently operated brakes, they are able to the low cost of maintenance. The maintain high averages on the stroke of the engine is 3j in., the long distance.
new
At the International Commercial Vehicle Exhibition which was held at Olympia at the latter end of 1927, the first of a new range of Having its origin in a small vehicles was cffered to the public. blacksmith shop where its first These were passenger chassis de steam wagon was built, Leyland signed for single and double-deck Motors, Limited, may to day be re-buses and conches, and in spite of garded as occupying the enviable the short time which has elapsed position of being the leading manu since they were first put on the facturers of heavy petrol vehicles market, there are few Municipal in the British Lales. The main Authorities or large bus operating
bore being varied according to the works are concentrated around the concerns which have not put these
model. In other respects the de- Light Goods Models. original site in Leyland, a village into service, and in the majority of
sign of the engine is similar, and in Lancashire, England, from which cases they have already placed re-
Since these two passenger chassis Į all parts, with the exception of the the vehicle takes its name. It has
were produced, a peat orders with the Company. In
range of cylinder block and pistons, are in A ofices have the benefit of branch works at Chorley, Faringone instance the Corporation of Light Goods vehicles and a four- terchangeable. The bore of the en- daylight, being arranged around ton and Kingston. In addition Glasgow-ordered no less then 100 been ofered to the public. These Lion" is 4t it., while that on the cylinder single-decked "bus have gine standard on the 30-cwt, and the garage which forms the centre to its spacious machine and buses, valued at £163,000, in one of the building all the way to the erecting shops, it
are the "Badger 50-cwt. vehicle, 70-ewt, and six-wheeler is 1.9-18 in. possesses its repeat order.
the "Beaver 70-cwt., the "Ter- A similar gearbox to that used. slightly different system from the rien, its own coach works, timber red to are the Tiger," a high-the new model Lion." foot of the tower. It employs a own steel and non-ferrous found-
The two passenger, vehicles referrier" six-wheeled 3/4-tonner, and on the "Tiger" and "Titan" is These embodied in the transmission line, New York garage just described, drying sheds, laboratories and speed single-deck 'bus of coach, and models contain many of the more
but in the case of the six-wheeler although the system accomplishes research departments, etc. Overseas the Titan," a double-deck bus successful features of the Tiger
The car is left at it has its own direct branches in with an overall length of 24 ft. 9 and "Titan," The two-axle vehicles allows a further reduction of 2.2 to an auxiliary box is fitted, which the loading centre on a small plat Australia, New Zealand, Canada, it. and overall height of under 13 have been expressly designed for 1 and thus enables the vehicle to form with guide rails. This plat South Africa, India and the Far: The chassis for both types are fast road service, the six-wheeled ascend almost any possible gradient. form tilts and the car runs forward East, as well as representatives in
somewhat similar; they include a vehicle being built primarily for Although these models have only into the elevator. The operator the Argentine, British Malaya, six-cylinder engine 4 iz. bore 5 in. War Office and Colonial work.
been produced, many then shoots skyward and, at a Burma, China, Holland, Japan stroke, unit-construction four-speed Already the Company has been orders have already been received empty space, opens the door, tilts and Portugal.
gearbox and underslung worm favoured with repeat orders from for the Overseas models, the elevator platform and the car
driven rear axle. The feature of the War Office for the latter for which these Light Goods models, rolls to ita storage space, the pre-
the transmission is that it is off-set, machine.
seem to be particularly suited. cess being reversed for getting the machine out."
the same end.
"It really is an amazing system. In the Brst place, the building oe cupies a lot icotage of only 50 by 140 feet, fronting on Forty-third and Forty-fourth Streets, just east of Third Avenue, yet it can hold and handle a thousand cars. Thus, while occupying no more precious ground space than two ordinary The Bre department was on the private homes in New York, it can scene in a hurry, in plenty of time hold cars that ordinarily would take But the building burned, neverthe-up kerb territory for many blocks
Around. less. The Aremen with their trucks and ladders and bose could" not work efficiently" because the keros of the street were blocked by park ed cars. By the time these had been cleared out enough to provide the needed space, the blazing build- ing was beyond help. Incidents of this sort, becoming more and more common, are, says the New York Literary Digest, one of the more spectacular reasons wby city official all over the country are trying to deyise ways of keeping the streets clear of automobiles not in use. Traffic has outgrown street space. Avery McBee tells us in the Balti
"A car is driven into the door. more Sunday Sun. The writer then way. A signal tells the driver goes on to tell of plans under way which way to go, and he proceeds in various cities throughout the along, low guide, kerbs for a short country to solve the problem distance, gets out of his ear, and, These plaas involve the erection of if he likes, locks transmission and skyscraper garages, of which some doors after shutting off his motor. are now in use, in which the auto-Immediately he leaves the machine, mobilist may store his car during by the touching of lever, a little his day in the city. Chicago and device slides out from a nearby New York, we learn from this elevator, iz run' under the writer, have such garages, and automatically jacks up one end, and interest in them is countrywide.. pulls it forward into the elevator "Parking garages have been in at the same time that another cperation for some time, but until automatic parker, directed in the recently the growth of these units same manner, is placing anothernet-maker. to the tremendous dimensions that car on the elevator from the other are needed to-day has been blocked side.
with the overbead of extra men on the various floors. The elevators, placed in a bank of three in the centre of the building, covering ite width, take their freight to com-
accommodating partments
from four to six cars, with space for manoeuvring
by the time required in handling Then the operator starte 'his large numbers of automobiles daringift, whizzing by a floor every rush hours. How this serious draw-second until he reaches 3 space back is being overcome is worth that is shown vacant by a system studying.
of lights. The operator opens the door and at the touch of another lever the 'car is pushed forward on its parker to the designated space. The operation takes almost time as it does to tell about it. Perbare on way down the elevator operator may get a signal to pick up a car in some other loft.
"The latest and most efficient of the new garages bas just opened its doors in New York, we read, and its operators "make the interesting. promise that any car in the build ing will be delivered at the door to the owner in three minutes, with out having been touched by hand.
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£3 A WEEK MOTORIST:
JUDGE CRITICISES OWNER. OF UNINSURED CAR.
A man who was sed in the King's Bench Division respecting an accident in which a motor-car owned by him was involved told the court that he was a working cabi
He said in reply to a question. regarding his earnings:
For the whole of last year I did not average more than £3" a week."
It was stated that at the time of the accident the car was driven by a man who was employed by the owner as an occasional chauffeur' at a wage of 5s, a day.
Mr. Justice Horridge, summing up the case, said that it was " per- fectly shocking" that a man earn- ing only £3 a week should have à motor-car running about the streets uninsured.
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