The Only Way,
OL 4,012.000 new sars seld in
Amerien last year, over 2,500,000. were disposed of on the hire-pur- chase system.
Investors' Paradise.
The sixth Interbational Exhibi tion of Inventions is to be held at the Central Hall, Westminster, S.W.1., from October 1 to 11, in clusive. The exhibition will com
prise i trade and a new inventions section, in which latter devices
that have not yet reached the mar ket will be shown.
Lord Brentford On Safety First.
Writing in The Light Car und #geles, Lord Brentford (Sir Wm. Jornson-Ilicks) says Apropos the recent Safety First Week:-" At one time or another we are all pedestrians and all motorists. If we were to take this to heart a little more closely, I feel certain that it would, first of all, lead to
all classes of road users and, second- ly, that it would have a beneficial Bret on the present grave situa tion,"
slow but Suze.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 2, 1930.
MOTOR NOTES.
The following notice was observ.
ed recently on a Liverpool motor- it's car: Steady! Rather be home at twelve than in Heaven at eleven!"
Better and Better."
In California. U.S.A., it is re- Borted, pedal cycles have to be fitted with a head light capable of being seen 300ft. away and a re- flecter capable of being distinguish ed at 200ft.
THE WAY THINGS.
HAPPEN.
SOME EXTRACTS FROM INSURANCE CLAIMS.
HUMOUR AND MALICE.
An insurnace inspector has shown us (says the Motur) a list of state- wente from necident claim forms
WARNING TO NEW MOTORISTS..
DANGER OF OVER- CONFIDENCE.
new
"Many
motorists display surprising confidence and mastery over a car after their first trip," "This may lead the entirely unini- says The Light Gar and Cyclecar. eirculated to the staff by the motor tiated to suppose that it is an easy mot matter to become an accomplished Feer Teaches Head Hog Lesson.
few minutes, and may "Carbon," the veteran motor-accident department of a cyclist, tells an amusing story in known insurance company. We have driver in a
ment of readers who do not have go before a fall; therefore, we must selected a few for the enlighten-gender the pride that is said to issue a warning. Some novices take accidents (the majority).
to the wheel instinctively, but they "A wasp entered my saloon car insect I ran into the ditch."
"I fell asleep at the wheel and woke up in hospital."
CARS THAT WON'T
WEAR OUT."
NEW STEELS AND ALLOYS GO ON FOR EVER.
HOW CARS CATCH FIRE.
SOME POSSIBILITIES DISCUSSED.
Dealing with the subject of mo-
SAND ON THE ROADStor-car fires The Motor remarks that "the safest position for the tank is only one ground for in-
WHAT MAKES SURFACEŜquiry; another is its design and
construction. In at least one car DANGEROUS?
the tank is so built that it is prac Commenting on a debate on thetically invulnerable, while in others it is so lightly constructed that it. subject of slippery road surfaces
is easily ripped and the contents Science is helping manufacturoiswhich took place recently in con-
spilt. nection with a proposed new to make a motor car that will never
clause in the Road Traffic Bill deal- wear out.
ing with the liability of highway
ense of accidents
Several notable advances made recently in metallurgy open up an authorities in encouraging prospect for owners caused by neglect to maintain roads of modest means who have to make is a reasonable state of repair, their cars last until there is posi-The Motor remarks:
tained from them. tively not another mile to be ob-
A British firm has now perfected steel that so hard that it is
"Sir Basil Peto spoke in the in- tartests of horse owners and gave a number of cxamples of accidents which had occurred in "Somerset
"An important consideration is. ease of exit in cases of fire. In some cars we have tried it bas only
on the kerb on one side of the road
been necessary to place the wheels for body stresses to be set up which
make it almost impossible to open. the door. Two-door saloons, not the disadvantage that the rear pas so popular now as they were, have sengers cannot jump out until the front passengers have escaped.
to clamber out of a car that way, even if the glass can be readily broken, and this is, naturally, more difficult in the case of the unsplin
American car, did his best to force and in "defending myself from there not in the majority and they impossible to scratch it with the Dealing with ono case he said: As Narrow window, make it difficult.
n far better understanding amongst this week's Motor Cycling about the punishing of a road hog by L The well-known sporting peer. road hog, who was driving a cheap" the peer into the ditch, but his lordship retaliated by putting his, Bentley into reverse and chasing the other, fellow hackwards. He caught him in a quarter of a mile or so (it was an uphill road), and the baving done so he Bung Bentley round, blocking the entire highway; and reled to move un- til be had lectured the offender
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upon road
macers and customs. Knowing the author and his com- mand of the English tongue, I would have given pounds to have heard his remarka," says "Carbon" Caralesa Pedestrians.
"I was going round an S-bend in a thick tog; a ay got in my eye and I ran into an iron seat, which had no right to be on the side
are usually drawn from the ranks of those who have already acquired useful road experience by riding cycles or motorcycles. The real povice, whose name is legion, has no such advantage. To him driv ing a car presents two problems: first, to learn exact function of each I bumped a car in front twice control, and, secondly, to make use of those controls in a proper and the driver told me that he would signal when about to stop manner when the car is in motion; next time. This was no use as In addition, he has to acquire what is called road sense. It should
of the road."
was run into from behind."
"Tuesday is my wife's washing. day and when I returned in the even ing I broke my "windscreen and. two front teeth."
finest file.
An experimental crankshaft for a four-cylinder engine was made and fitted to a British car.
10,000 Miles, No Wear," The engine was treated in the harshest manner possible, and deni- one of the connecting rods seized ed the proper amount of oil until solid to the crankshaft.
After the bearing had been freed, it was found imposible to detect by the most delicate measuring in
They had
to the cause of this accident' it was the result of the local authority using very fine sand. put up to 70 per cent. of an imterable type. palpable and exceedingly fine pow der on the roads."
"It would be important, if it were possible, to ascertain what is the direct cause of cars catching "We have looked very carefully fire, but in no single case has it Exhaust pipes do not run,hot, although there Basil Peto's speech, and the reis always the possibility of the ex- through the complete report.of Sir been possible to do so, markable thing about it is that haust from a fractured pipe ignit electrical equipment is concerned, nowhere does he record the impor-ing spilt petrol. So far as the the chief risk is, that of a short tant fact that before putting or the sand oily material from bar circuit of leads connecting with the might occur at the switchbox con- road, the sand being sprinkled over nections. The fact that leads are it. The oily material is at the root usually armoured diminishes the of all the slipping trouble. It will risk to an extent, but with a charg- reis was poured and spread on the battery. In a general smash-up-t
not act as a binder to the sand,ed battery there is bound to which is quicky shifted to the sides come danger.
be cbvious that theoretical and
after 10,000 miles running. cannot be picked up "in a few
A new steel for lining the cylin practical knowledge of this kind truments the slightest sign of wear minutes by any but the most giftedder walls is so hard, that the It is only right to point out that amount of year after many thous A Careless Post
expert tuition is the safe way" of A lamp-post bumped my ear, learning how to control a car, and
Sir Basil spoke as though a road damaging it in two places."
further, that no amount of tuition that there is great economy in treated in this manner for the
น
It ands of miles is undetectable.
takes an extremely high polieht,
of the road, leaving the sily sub- stance as the road surface.
be
"Quite recently there have been two developments of outstanding interest in connection with the pro- blem of protecting the pedestrian against himself and against the up a human ery, but it has not will enable a beginner to acquire lubricating oil, and a notable re-special benefit of motorists, wherens time after the accident. 'Possibly
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carelessness of other road users, saye The Light Car and Cyclecar, "The first is the inauguration in New York of a police sampaig against bareless walkers. We in this country, are still debating whe
56624ther or not careless walking can be
made
in
My car was stolen and I set
been recovered.
**The
car
was driven by an efficient and careful driver, who backed it into a wall."
"I knocked over a man." He ad mitted it was his fault, as he had been knocked over before."
"t collided with a stationary
tree."
a chargeable offence;
"I left my car unattended for a America they have settled the ques-minute and whether by accident or
design it ran away."
29208|tion and are taking action, a nua-
ber of people having already Leeu summoned and fined for walking to the common danger. The second
IN CASE OF development is in the nature of a
EMERGENCY
proposal to compel walkers to use
the subways under what is regard.com was half-witted."
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road sense in a single lesson."
"JOYSTICKS" FOR MOTOR-CARS?
POSSIBILITIES OF REAR: WHEEL STEERING.
"I can picture a car," he says, with auxiliary rear-wheel steering, servo-operated, which, perhaps when the steering column were moy. ed bodily to left or right-like the aileron control of an aeroplane would dart to one side or the other
Bunged a lamp-post which was
"Focus," writing in The Light obscured by human beings."
"Coming out of garage Car and Cyclecar, has an intesting collided with a lamp-post. I am a suggestion to make regarding the total abstainer:"
Cow wandered into the car. I steering of motor-cars in the fu-
ture. was afterwards informed that the I left my Austin Seven outside ed as the second busiest spot in and when I went out later to London-if not in the world-name my surprise there was an Austin ly, Piccadilly Circus, crossing the Twelve."
"Proceeding along in a deac road on foot, above ground being fog a high wind blew me over."
I told the other idiot what he "We have constantly prohibited. advocated that action should be was and went on." taken against us when we walk so 15. to endanger others. just 16 it is when we hande our MODERN MOTOR SERVICE improperly, and we trust that
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A Chemical Silencer.
"Lorry stopped and I stopped, lorry started and I started, lorry stopped and I bumped." "
By the use of an extinguisher there was largely eliminated. note my car is specially Gnished in gloucose."
"I had t20 accidents "in crowded hour."
A pheasant (live) flew into the screen and broke it.'
>
"I necessarily ran into the car in front of me as the cur in front of me ran into the car in front of
him."
"There was no damage done to the car
the gate-post will. testify.'
"To avoid collision I ran into
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A chemical device, to replace silencers ca motor cars that will eliminate the deadly carbon mon- exide coutained in the exhaust the other car.' gaser has been developed by Dr. J. C. W. Frazer, professor and chairman of tho department of chemistry at the American--Johns
Einstein.
"If the other driver had stopped
a few yards behind himself the
ed."
Hopkins University. This latest accident would not have happen-
chemical achievement is hailed as an important step in making the machine age less dangerous.
The driver did not look bebind Dr. and reversed into a stationary
Frazer says that a motor car equip ped, with the new oxidising device
·wall.'*
1,hit the bridge wall by being
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could be run in closed garage too careful when turning.
"I blew my horn, but it would not without danger from carbon mon oxide poisoning Because of patent work as it was stolen." claims he has not yet revealed theI was taking a friend home and exact nature of the material that keeping two yards from each lamp- transforms the deadly carbon mon- rost, which were in a straight line. oxide to carbon dioxide, the same Unfortunately there was a bend in gas that human beings breathe out the road bringing a right-hand lamp- of their lungs. But it is known post in line with the others and, that it is a catalyst, a substance of course, I landed in the ditch.
"I was following another car and that causes a chemical reaction without itself participating. It is got too clast, so I reversed and similar in action to the catalyst, slipped into a ditch."
consisting of manganese dioxide
and copper oxide, that was an
Fire
My chauffeur is most bareful and never has an accident. It is
"Coming home I drove into the wnhouse and. collided with a tsee I have not got."
outgrowth of chemical warfare always somebody else's fault and work by Dr. Frazer and a, Inbora- should be stopped," tory staff during the War. departments and mine rescue equads use gas masks to-day that rely on this War-time catalyst for purifying the air of carbon mon oxide. At present only one experi- mental unit of the catalyst silencer
The only witness was the man who hit me and his story does not agree with mine.'
My car was damaged by an
is in operation, mounted for con unknown person in an unknown
venience on the running-board of manner."*
Dr. Frazer's experimental car. A
"I, unfortunately, ran over a
company for the commercial ex- pedestrian and the old gentleman was taken to hospital much re gretting the circumstance."
ploitation of the invention is in the process of organisation.
ter
s
so
"Another possibilty is that spark from the dynamo brushes might fire the petrol, as the dynamo may continue to run a sufficient
we have pointed out over and over
even a spark from the distributor duction in loss of power through again that to motorists such a sur might cause ignition. It is extre
face is absolutely deadly. Circa-mely difficult to see what can be friction.
Jars which have been issued by the dane to elucidate the causes of bres Light and Strong,
Ministry of Transport to highway in the case of overturned cars, the A new aluminium alloy is near. authorities specifying the gritting chances being that experiments materials to be used with the aid would not, reproduce the conditions ly as strong as steel and even ligh-of a roller make this abundantly that occur in accidents, each one
clear." than aluminium. Great se
of them probably being different." crecy has been maintained about ita composition, but it is known to have many valuable properties of And recovery from strength "fatigue that will enable manu facturers to use it for parts for which steel has hitherto been the only suitable metal, thus lightening the load and consequently the wear on vulnerable bearings.
A large number of British cars are already using a bearing that never needs lubricating and will last practically for ever.
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with both front and rear wheels
With these advances, it should be locked over in the same direction.
"When one became expert in the possible to make roller and ball use of a motor car joystick of this bearings that will never need renew kind the most remarkable evoluing, the engine, will never need tions could be performed, parties attention except for adjustments larly if lateral movement of the and decarbonising, and with general wheel affreted only the rear-wheel use of stainless steel and chromium lock and rotary movement only the plating, the only items that may front-wheel lock. Skidding, I im- need renering in the car of the Telephone- agine, would ceare entirely to be future will be the tyres and uphola- troublesome, the car could be parkery. ed and garaged in infinitely less time than at present, traffic driving would be greatly simplified, and collisions could be dodged in manner that at present is quite out of the question.-
(Continued an next Column)
"Really, the possibilities of rear- wheel stering that could either follow or oppose the front-wheel- lock at the driver's wish are most engaging."
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