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SPARKS FROM THE PLUGS
News from Everywhere
£100,000 Per Aors) -
The West End of London new yousts Petrol Station which ce ouples nemore valuable pigs of land than any other, station in the world -about 2100,095 an were. This stands in what was the forecourt of historic Lansdowne House in the heart of Mayfair? where important rebuilding will eventually take Riace.
In the meanwhile the Hammond' . Pump
bas greeted concern very attractively designed Service! Station equipped with a Gallegraph "sicctrically operated' petrol pumpa,'! 12 oil pumps and the usual air and
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water sorr ICON.
Encouraging Export Figures. The latest available figures for
car exports from Britain an decid
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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 21, 1932.
they executed the largest export STIRRING PORRIDGE
order for petrol pumps over placed in Eugland and in February alone this year their products were sent to such plaços na Rangoon, Bombay, Jamaica, Athens sad Yokohama. Among other interesting activiting at the Acton works at the present time in the manufacture of 1,000 portable air compressors for the | Dunlop' Rubber Co.
A Buccessful Competition,
No fewer than 4,906 entries wore
BY ELECTRICITY,
GENERAL CONTRIBUTES TO HOME COMFORT.
Marlow (Bucks).—lu ‹ a little Theanus-side cottage near Marlow just mel i. bachelor brigadier adly encouraging. During April
general who has brought labour exports numbered 2,171, valved at
aving in the home to a fire ant.. £974,121, which compares, with 1,928
He is Brigadier-General' J. B. and 1,407 cars in the corresponding, recaived for the Hillman "Judge- | Wroughton, who was eight times month in 1931 and 1030, respectively. Fa-car competition; this was a sur-mentioned in despatches and who, The number of Standards ship-prisingly high total considering two years ago, saved a man frem pod daring) the eight months to that each competitor had to take drowning in Hurley Bock. March 31, 1982 exceeded the pre-a trial rda in a Wizard and mark vious 12 months' ahipments by over up a special test chart on which seo per cans, and ears are being ex- 24 separate fentures of the car had ported in large numbers to China
to be awarded points, in accordanco and Majaya.
with the entrants' estimate of their rspective merits.
A Progressive Industry.
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The winner was the one who Only a short while ago the man-judgement on the car most nearly facture of potrel pumps and ap- accorded with the average of the paratus of that nature was almost experts, Sir Malcolm Campbell, Sir entirely in, foreign, hands and it is,Houry Birkin and the Hon. Mrs. therefore, highly satisfactory 10 note the great progress made by an 311-British concern. the Hammond Pump & Equipment Co. Last year
For Economical Transportation
CHEVROLET
FREE-WHEELING SYNCHRO-MESH 6-CYL. CARS
HONG KONG DELIVERED PRICES
SERIES "BA" PASSENGER
#.A.C. Horse-Power Rating 20.83. "Maximum Horss-Posner 60 at 5,000 Revolutions. Platon Displacement 194 Cubic Incher. Wheol-Base 108: Inghes. Speed 60 MPH.
Coupe De Luxe ....pass, Coach De Luxe " *.. 5-pass Coape (3 Window).2-pass. Coupe Sports
Coupe (5 Window)...5-pass.. Bedan
in
F. 0, B.
Model
Naft Weight.
Factory
Pric
Roadsfor
...2-pask Roadster Sparts 4-pas Coupe (5 Window2..2-pass.
2,265 lbs./
0845
Panking Prior Shipping. Delivered Ambly Delivery Hongkong G$175
G-8820
,330 bx.
485
170
060
9,460 1be.
190
180
370
Tour
...S.paMM.
2 380 lbs.
485
185
680
Conch (2 Doora)-p
2,576 Iba,
496
186
680
2,600 lbs.
$10
13 190
700
P
2,690 lbs.
Dla
105
710
2,308 iba.
535
195
790
- PILNE."
2,556 lbs.
585
185
730
2,490-lbs.
675
195
770
Cabriolet-
5-paa
Convertible.. 4-pass.
2,675 lbs.
300
200
790
2,675 lbs.
696
205
800
Sedan Special ...5-pass.
2,715 lbs.
€15
205
220
Landou
Convertible...Spam. 2,735 lbs: 006
203
830
Optional Equipment at Additional price:-
Hampers $15, Spars Tire and Tubs $12.50 each, Radiator Screen and Cowl, Lampa $5, Sixth Wire Wheel and Well Fenders $10, Well Fonder Tire Löoks per pair $2.50, Chrome Tire Covers per pair $15, Trank Rack $7.50, Tourists Trunk $30.
Victor Bruce, who had each filled up a separate chart.
The South Afrienn Police, by the way, have just taken delivery of a Wizard saloon which is to be used for guard work on the diamond mines, for this special work it has been converted into an armoured car with quarter-inch plating.
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Novel Mobile Garage.
A motor horse-box is nowadays quite a common sight, but the van recently delivered to Lord Howe is an entirely novel production.
As is well know, Lord Howe takes part in many motor races, both at home and on the Continent, and he has felt the need for special vehicle in which to trans port. lis racing care from place to place. The special van body built on the Commer Infador chassis. therefore, accommodates & racing ear and also any special gear ra quired for racing. Loading is done by means of a winch and runwaya und the interior is fitted with a work bench, etc., so that it forms a mobile garage.
open the gate automatically, but he had a discontinue the use of the device when motorists drove down hia road simply to open the gate..
My gate was always open," anid General Wroughton with a chuckle, and the gadget became too much of a good thing. Lord Cowdray has one now, but he is saved from similar trouble by the fact that his house is situated in a | private road.
When met him he was trying to discover some electrical device which would sir his porridge in the morn ing. He said:
"My porridge is the bane of my existenes. I can do everything more or less by simply switching on or pressing a button, but up to maw I have been unable to stir ny por ridge with anything savo hard lab our. I am experimenting with an electris beater, which I am endea vouring to adapt to the porridg pot, and my difficulty at the moment is to gear it down so that it will go slower and stir the porridge pro perly.
"I think I'am near a solution of my problem.
So Simple.
Most of my efforty a labour [saving can be put into operation by anybody wore they to take the trouble to think things out. I am afraid my countrymen are ruther stupid and very conservative when it comes to anything that will make life easier for them,
"Take my latest invention, for insinane. By pressing a button at the side of my bod I can draw my curtains back from the window, and if it is raining. I turn over and have other sleep.
When I told some friends about it to-day they thought I was a most extraordinary person, and 1 had to give them a demonstration.
By employing French metho have some fine hands of lettuc coming on in my garden, which is far ahead of those of my neighbours.
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Electrocuting the Blugs.
"I grow everything in cloches
which kind of forcing frame brings the plants out more afficient ly and quickly. The frames, stand upright instead of being flat, so that I can conserve the space avail. able, and I keep slugs down by a zing and copper contrivance which electrocates them almost en sight."
Central heating has ousted fire places in all rooms in General Wroughton's cottage, and the fire The telephone all rings in the places have become cunningly con General's garden with fire alarméealed cupboards and cabinets, insistency, so that he may hear it when he is at work among his frames.
Tea-Making Made Easy.
A private telephone line to a cot- tage near by, where his housekeeper lives, is utilised to, call him in the morning. I wake to the sound of the telephone and my house- keeper tells me the time. A switch starts the electric kettle on its day's work. As the water boils the stem acts on a lever, which tips the kettle so that the water in poured into the pot."
Secret knobs open, distant doors, switches are here, there, and every. where. One gadget automatically lights up the clock over the mantel piece in his bedroom at will. Elec tric lights are let into the ceiling, and the illumination throughout the house is so diffused that there can be na harm to the eyesight.
The Garden Gate.
Even the garden gate has been the subject of experimente,
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By swiching on the headlights of his car the General was able to (Continued on previous columa.)
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To Chassis 157w.s, DEND 2,980-lbs. 576
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Optional Equipment at Additional price
Spare Tire and Tube 30 × 6-8 ply $92, 32 x 6-8 ply 310, 32 r 6-10 ply $50.
All Prices and Spesifications Subject to Change without Notice.
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Tephone: 27778, 27779 and 23124
You will be wondering
how things are going
out here, what all your
friends are doing, who
won the tennis league.
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and keep you in touch with things out East.
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