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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 11, 1931
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FROM THE PLUGS
The Brentford Factory is now in General Motors recently "production" on a 4-ply motorcyetanounced that ita May sales to its tyre, six 20 x 28 x 24. They will dealers in this country and abroad also continue to manufacture the amounted to 163,730. This con-
ply tyre.
stituted 45.4 per cent of the 335,307 units turned out by the entire in- dustry...
Henry Ford is currently report- ed to have started a melon farm, with the avowed intention of con-
verting the crop into alcohol to be used in the production of lacquers wherewith to paint his cars...
Free Wheeling is now offered on all Hudson, and. Essex modela as 'optional equipment according to an
General Motors of Canads will keep their plant in Oshawa in operation during the entire sum. mer, officials of the company have announced.. Rumors have been spread that this plant would close down in June for the summer, but this is an error.
BRITISH LORRIES,
against 686,779, or 35 per cent of the total, in the corresponding period of 1830.
THIRTY-THREE G.M. BUSES
START TRIP,
The conches, manufactured by
.1
The addition of the thirty-three When buses will augment the bus fleet of the Long Beach Transportation Company to 123 coaches, supplying
it was found necessary to renew the entiro. transportation needs of a city with a population of 140,000.
was cno felt washer!
WHY SPARK PLUGS SHOULD. BE CHANGED.
SERVICE MAN ANSWERS QUESTIONS,
Sometimes one naks for doßnits reasons why spark plugs should be changed every 10,000 miles.
Here are some of the reasons as set forth by H. A. Alfoth, Servics Manager of General Motor Export Company.
necessary.
"Recognizing these conditions, car manufacturers recommend new plugs every 10,000 miles. While the ife of spark plugs varies according te conditions under which they aro used, it has been found that by re- commending changing at 10,000 miles maximum efficiency from
give the engine the powerful per formance originally built into it..
NEW GERMAN
ENGINE
CHINESE UNITY!
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No food could be sent from
# abroad to the starving millions; no protest was uttered in. behalf of these vieţime of a war-lord's rapace ty, nothing was done to stop the traffe is human beings. The ory of distrean, the appeals for sucecur arising from the millions of help
SUCCESSFUL LABORATORY TESTS COMPLETED.
Thirty years ago, Dr. Rudolf Diesel, with the engine boaring his name, introduced liquid oil fuel as a substitute for gas fuel for use in internal combustion engines, Today, industrial • technique is ¦ about to take another epochal stop ears. The laws of humanity could toward increased efficiency and not be extended to China without economy in combustion motors. The Kounos Company of Goorits, Germany, announces tant in 103 two ligre factories will begin the manufacture on a large scale of
violating her sovereignty Prin ciples that apply in Europe and America do not apply in Asia.
But, if one of these women be transported across the seas and sold
.......
split into three or four independ Four Independent States. But, suppose that China were ent states that the principle of self-determination that underlies the creation of several new Euro- pean states is extended to the peo ple of South China, to those of the Yangtze regions and those of North China and Manchuria; that the and enter into treaty relations with their governments on the condition that each state agrees to assume its debt, join the League of Nations proportionata share of the foreign
and subscribe to the Kellogg-Briand Paet
Unity i
Nanking. is manifestly powerless to exercíso, jurisdiction over the whole of China. Its recognition da tho sovereign authority of the country is the greatest diplomatic blunder of the century. Canton has declared its independence. Manchuria is already
a military agreement or truce. Im- linked to Nankin ly independent posed by aheen financial exhaustion on both side. The death or per
As the gear-box, in the hands of In addition to the Long Beach spark plugs is assured, tending to be run at a fuel cost of 0.12 cent down to economic disaster and untervention. Two nations that startmanent disability of either Chiang
Bench
Pseudo Republicanism, ponce and security and, it is no Bo we rems again to a clash of body's business Other nations lock
on with gaping mouths, wondering. principles between the Democracy what it is all about and when it of the West and the proudo-Repub-is all about and when it will end. licanism of the East. The Nation. They can see that sooner or later Bodid of the onlookers will be swept at Government of the Republic of into the anturnalia of death and Chipa is a military despotism puro killed; that some incident will arise and simple, maintaining itself is to precipitate a crisis with an out- wide power. Then tho purely pri. power by the preponderance of its" vato Aght will become the imme armed forces. Last year, it fought dinte concern of all the other and a major war against the Northern international policemen will ap Feng Yen coalition and exhausted práce Principles that apply in pear on the scene to "preserve the itself. This year, it is engaged in Europe or America do not apply
in Akin. J. less starving people fell on deaf another life and death struggle to In May of last your General Mo-4; "At the end of 10,000 miles spark
maintain its power against the tors produced 147,483 cara and plugs are certainly not as good as
control the pivotal strategic pro communist and bandit armies which trucks, equivalent to 33,1 per cent. they were when new. Electrodes
vinces of Kiangsi and Hunan If of the total of 444,000." #
may be badly burned and pitted, the
successful, must then turn its at For the first five months of this insulator is covered with carbon
tention to Kwangtung and Kwang year the Corporation's output through which some of the current
si and then carry the war into Sze- chuan, into the Northwest and the announcement made by the real amounted to 612,620, or 44.1 per leaks or there is a harmless look
regions north of the Yellow River. dent of the Hudson Motor Car cent of the total of 1,388,729, asing deposit on the surface of the the Rupamctor," an internal com-into a Chinese house of ill-fame aftor: a series of Napoleonte, ware Powers recognize these now states.
Peace in China can be attained only Company,
insulator which at high speeds may bustion engino similar to the Diesol in Singapore, San Francisco, Lon more devastating and more apal- enuse pro-ignition.
engine, but using solid fuel, predon, or elsewhere, it at once beling in their toll of human Hves Worn out plugs waste petrol be forally pulverized coal.
comes a violation of the Interna-and destruction of wealth than the cause they miss at certain speeds. By The Rupamotor was invented by tional Mann Act and Geneva sends cf Europe. If ever united by force historic campaigns of the Conqueror causing hard starting (and conse-Rudolf Pawlikowaki, who for many out a commission to investigate, China will emerge from her intern- quently heavy choking) they not years was chief engineer and asec- Not a word of protest against con in the world; armies that may not al struggles with the largest armies only. waste petrol through ociate of Dr. Diezo! in his factory ditions which create the traffic. be reduced or retired from the con-
Then when these new Chiness Thirty-three motor coaches, re-
of igniting it, but this raw gas, seeps in Augsburg Diesel himself re.That is nobody's concern-a viola-quered provinces.
start brawling and warring upen presenting an investment $300,000, left Pontine, Michigan on through into the crankcane oil, garded his oil motor only as a stage tion of China's sovereignty. Only
each other their dispute at once Shadow of the Soviet......
becomes the concern of all other Five do luxe body styles, pat June 23 for Long Beach, Califor- dilutes it rapidly and necessitates in the development of a motor when the victims cross the border terned after the Chrysler Imperialnis, the largest motor caravan of
To China's internal problema in nations, a menace to world peace, in appearance, have been added vehicles of this type over to cross
an oil change earlier than would which would run on solid fuel and of China does the traffic become the added the constant prosure of the justifying immediate intervention to the Chrysler straight-8 line. the continent.
affair of the rest of the world. expanding Soviet on her outlying of the foreign Powers. Then, and otherwise be necessary.
do away with the necessity of con: Then, and only then, does the guar-provinces, Mongolia is now an in- only then, can the present inter- The "new models are offered, at a
"Hard starting (often due to old vorting cool into oil or oil intodian of international morality raise dependent Soviet republie closely minable struggle for power be factory price range of 81,520 for the coupe, 81,845 for the roadster, General Motor Truck Company worn out spark plugs) besides wast, gasoline. Mr. Pawlikowski carried its voies in horrified protest and tied to Moscow; Hsinkiang has brought to a conclusion by outside dispatch its policemen to enfore been brought within the aphers of preauro. Otherwise it must, con- $1,585 for the sodan, #1,685 for the will be used by the Long Beach convertible coupe and 81,970 for the Transportation Company operating petrol, runs the battery down on Diesel's work in this direction the law.
Soviet economic influence and will tinue until some faction imposes ing city passenger service with mo-making more frequent recharging and was able to present in prin.
Effect Upon Japan. phacton.
follow the same road; the Barga its authority by force of arms, giv- tor coaches in the California city.
eiple his invention before the Se- A localized war may place in region is asserting its right to Ining birth to a formidable military Mike Lang, President of the Com
jeopardy the peace of the world,dependence; black clouds are form- autocracy dominated by come me pany, officially received the conches Wasted petrol, battery racond International Conference upset the delicate balance of power, ing in Kirin and South Manglomanine doluded into a belief at the Ceneral Motors Truck plant charging or rebuilding, possibly & Bituminous Coal, at Pittsburgh in precipitate economic disturbances churia; yet the five million men chat hu is a second Gheugia Khán The high position which British-and accompanied the caravan across.
new coil, and time lost, amount to 1998. In the meantime laboratory and in other ways bring disaster under arms in China continue to or the Napoleon of Asia. mado lorries hold in the esteem of the continent.
upon neutrals and it becomes the fight among themselves for the pri have been successfully immediate concern of all nations,vilege of looting their own people. transpart UBCTs throughout the. An official sond-off, at which Ma- " great deal more in actual money toste
concluded and the first engine has but an interminable internecine. This however is China's own bus. world is due very largely to the yor B. W. Donaldson of Pontiae, than a set of spark plugs honest painstaking efforts of co-presented a letter to Mayor, A, E.
beon given a six-month trial in
struggle involving one quarter of ness, the prerogatives of her sover- struction for which the Old Coun Fickling of Long Beach, featured
Czechoslovak shop:
the world's population which may signty. No outside pation has the try is so justly famous.
the start. A mile long, the caraven
change the "political complexion of right to utter a protest, offer me An interesting instance is a 4-presented in imposing pictura en
Incressed Xficiency.
Asia, become a menace to civilizadiation, suggest a truce or later tion and drag neighbour down to fore in behalf of humanity or ton Commor lorry which was reroute.
The increase of efficiency of the ruin is not a matter for outside peace. cently returned to the Luton fac tory for complete overhaul.
The Chinese can continue to kill dismantled, so minute was the wear
Rupanotor ovor modern turbo. interference. The long drawn cut power, pillage and place do not
to violate all the laws of humanity, on the gear-box that the only part
steam engines is estimated at about devastating civil wars in Chins for each other to their heart's content, 40 per cent. The Rupatmotor can endanger the security of Europe or drag down to ruin their neighbors America, but are dragging Japan and remain immune to outside in- per horsepower, as compared to a dermining her status as a first class brawling and fighting become a Kai Shek or Chang Hauch Liang cost of 0.44 cont per horseptwor in power. A similar war in Europe menace to world peace. Interna-or their elimination as political
would unite all neighbouring national policemen appear as by ma an ordinary oil motor using any ons in a common program to pro differe causes. Petrol, for exam engine running 3,000 service hour disturbances on a much smaller for a settlement of their dispute.
"Plage deteriorate from several kind of oil. For a 1,000-horsepower test themselves. In Latin America io, club them into submission and bale them before the World Court ple contain several impurities of annually this difference represents scale that menaced the strategic sa- which sulphur is one of the most an aggregate saving of about curity or economic life of the Unit
Gaping Montba troublesome. If it is present in an 819,500. The First Rupamotor ed States would call for some in- A single nation exercising its amount greater than norms, it will operated by Mr. Pawlikowski ro terpretation of the Monroe Doctrine sovereign rights to do as it pleases, cause spark plug electrodes to quired caly 2,000 kilocalories to and justifying immediate American can start a murderous war within deteriorate quickly.
produce one horsepower-hour of usa intervention. Principles which ap its own borders, cutrazing all the "Another source of deterioration ful work. This engine, which was
apply to drin
rights of non-combatants; imperil the insulator. This has the peculiar crease in power output of ndered For years, the world has been mit rare and boycotts against those which leaves a brown conting over slight alterations, showed an in-
Militaristie States.
the lives and properties of other. nationals; indulge in secret econo effect of becoming a good electricalcent when operated cn powdered conductor at high temperature, fuel.
watching the gradual disintegra- causing missing of the engine be
The chief problem which had to tion of China into a group of feudanations which interfere for the pro spark current will be solved in order to replace liquid tory and militaristic states with tection of their subjects; flout its travel through the coating rather by pulverized fuel was that of fore the power of government and taxa treaty obligations; default on its than jump the gap. This brown ing a small portion of powder at tion, of life and death, of peace oraans; refuse to pay its debts, and coating cannot be easily deaned off regular intervals into the cylinder, war concentrated in the hands of general become an international the insulator and when it is a very The difficulty was to overcome the patty tyrants whose rule is uphold nuisance and a menace to world dark brown, plugs must be changed. high air pressure in the compress and perpetuated by armed force By changing, missing in the engine ed combustion chamber at the ras For years we have witnessed these will be avoided, thus cutting the ment of the introduction of the fuel armies grow and expand until to cost of petrol consumption as well powder. It has been necessary to fit day they outoumber all the other as enjoying freedom from spark a sluice chamber in front of the armed forces of the world. For plug trouble. M
oylinder. This chamber is filled at years, we have sat silently by and, Still another source of do-
of witnessed the spoliation and de- low pressurs with a charge terioration is carbon. Carbon can powdered coal, which then is blown gradation of a hard-working, peace. sometimes be cleaned from the into the cylinder with compressed ful, lovable people. We have seen porcelain ensily enough by running air after making the chamber air them taxed to death, enslaved. the car a fox miles at high speed, tight from the outside. A special outraged and massacred and not a but under some conditions this can advantage of this procedure is that ycion has been raised in their be- not always be 'done, and the soot the fuel is preheated and, there half. We have watched the gradual may pile up to such an extent that fore, readily ignited.
impoverishment of a nation, the the plugs have to be, removed and
ruin of its credit, the destruction of its wealth, the collapse of its "Amotor-carus it becomes
purchasing power, the spread ct older, gradually loses power. This
anarchy and despair until now the power decrease in so gradual tha!
only remedy for restoring even a the owner may not appreciate its
samblance of law and order is the. extent until the sluggishness be
wholesale slaughter of the armies cf and comes too apparent, Of course this
"hungry people,” ravaging trouble is not always due to spark
looting the countryside under the plugs, but an interesting test made
banner of a foreign political creed. recently shows that a motor with Pretoria. It was revealed that whose principles can never find root plugs that had been used for slight Mr. Albert and Mr. Charles Hert in the hearts of the people. ly more than 10,000 miles-when run rog, two sons of General Hertzog,
Brillions upon. billions of dollars at an engine speed equivalent to 20 the Prime Minister of South have been wrung from the people miles an hour, developed 31.2 horse Africa, had a narrow escape from of Ching, to rivet firmly upon their power, The name motor run at the lions in the Kruger National Park necks the yokes, of their inhuman. som speed equipped with a new act They were obliged to take refuge taskmasters All the money that of spark plugs gave a horsepower in a tree until rescued by a party can be, raised by increased customs rending of 38.0, an increase of 6.6. sent in a motor-car by their tariffs, loans, confiscation of pro
The matter of spark plugs and father.
porty, capite lovics, unsecured paj. maximum engine performance is a Torrential rain had turneil the per notes, opium, vice and other most vital one and service mon are: roads into mud and the Prime devions and questionable methode, endeavouring to get this informa- Afinister's car stuck in a part of goes into the insatiable maw of the tion to car owners. In doing this the bountry where lions are so military Frankenstein that Chine they are observing the speedometer numerous that native constables has devised for her own destrue, on every dar that comes into the sleep in tremen
tion. While President Hoover de shop and recommending's new set Mr. Alberta and Afr. Charles clares a moratorium of internation of plugs every 10,000 miles.
Hertzog walked, abend to sock help, at war debts as a preliminary step This maintenance effort is de bat by the light of their torch they in bis greater program for reduc Rigned to reader, the day:OWHOTELDE "RASTEST MULUSLA the middle of th very best service and will result in rondThey
for place. Chiang Kai-Shek proclaim better performing cars Satified to which, refly but they his forces are too small for his needa car owners are your best avdertisc. found another by the aide, and will be increased instead of re ment.
They then scrambled into a tree. duced f
the average lorry driver, is pro-Transportation Сотраву, bably the most abused portion of the Lang also operates a fleet of neo mechanism; it speaks volumes for trucks, tanks and trailers, provid- the quality of material and working freight, service through. Cali- mainship pat into Commer vehicles.fornia.
"PETROL TAXES IN U.S.
Last year American motorists prid. £99,000,000 in petrol taxes.
DAKLAND-PONTIAC SALES WILL TOP 1930. SAYS BLEES.
Pontiac motor car safes for the
and the average consumption per year of 1001 will show an increase
Canses of Deterioration.
factors would be the signal for both
may be the nominal ruler of s sides to renew the struggle for supremacy Generalissimo Chiang
"united China” but Marahat Chang in the co-rule, of equal" rank and power. All important edicts, laws, manifestos and military orders must bear his signature. There is no misconception of his status dependent, sovereign overlord of The north-western provinces are Manchuria and North China.
vehicle was 400 Imperial gallens. f 50 per cent over 1930, judging is the iron content in the petrol an ordinary Diesel motor with cn Ply in Europe and America do not rules of civilized warfare and the. amongst the Chinese. Ho is the in-
The taxes vary from 3d. to 1d.. per gallon, according to the state.
The total amount of dutialle hydrocarbon eile used for other than road purposes in 1830 was approximately 62 million gallons.
GENERAL MOTORS MAY OUTPUT.
by present indications, W. A. Blocs, Vice-President in Charge of Oak land-Pontiac salea, told a meeting of New England dealers. Oakland sales, he said, will run 25 per cent. ahead of last year.
"In 1930 Ponting sales to dealers totalied 584 cars an Oukland sales 21,013 cars," Mr. Blees said. "Our volume of business has been on a steady up-grads since the first of the year," he continued, "April Production of General Motors in brought a 50 per cent acrenso over ita plants in all parts of the world the same month last year, and May in May accounted for 45.4 per cent continued with a gain qually Our production schedules of the total world output of all grout. American manufacturers in that call for 1200 Oaklands and 2100 month, and in the first free months Pontiaes in June. From orders al of this year the Corporation dc-ready reeived, Oakland has tump. counted for 44.7 per cent of the ed to 1000 and Pontiac to 11,000 American cutput
units,"
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