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Registered Trade Mark
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 26, 1935.
TUNGSTONE
made
Registered Trade Mark
ONLY STARTER Battery STRENGTHENED Plates fit ACID-proof Solid EBONITE Insulating CONTAINER Cells separately Insulated by Solid Ebonite definitely stops acid Creeping-cell to cell Guarantees reliable and exceptional Storage The Vital and Only Test of Efficiency starter battery No Acid soaked Tungstone container NO SHORTS corrosion of plate Terminals & Inter-cell connectors CREEPING ACID THE CURSE OFF STARTER BATTERY WITH COMPOUND Porous Containers NOT Acid-proof
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UNRELIABLE INSULATING MATERIAL in GENERAL · USE Causes Continuous STORAGE LOSSES. SULPHATION, CORROSION, SHORTS..
Why the Battery the Only Car Accessory NOT OPEN to INSPECTION Tungstone the Only Exception its Inter-cell Connectors are Detachable NOT BURNT ON
as
Permanently "Burnt On" | TUNGSTONE 12 v. 72 ah. quarmless
66 platen. TUNGSTONE, as illustrated, NOT the Mystery Box Inter-cell Cheap Batteries 12v.72ch. contain only 54 plates.
Connectors Removable ONLY by
the Makers' Expert with
special plant. Delays and
maintenance
necessarily
Increase the
Running cost.
Therefore
advertised capacity and life "in impossible with fewer plates, which raduation (applies to all their sizes.
Illustration from Motor
Transport" whoopened Cell to teat Confirming our Plate Inspection. USERS protection. Other Cells not affected.
of
the Car.
Only Starter battery with Inter-cell connectors Removed by Ordinary SPANNER. Quick and easy Accessibility to any Cell for Plate Inspection-USERS' PROTECTION. Hundreds of local TUNGSTONE stockists with a reputation for Reliability-give On the Spot" complete battery Service. They prove the practical Economy and Value of our plate Inspection by replating completely any Model in an hour or so. NOT A BOTCHED-UP ́ JOB. No costly delay as Tungstone is NOT returned to Makers' depot to be opened up for examination. As Ebonite lasts indefinitely a replated Tungstone is better value and security than a "CHEAP" battery.
Sales Distributors for Hongkong and district :
THE HONGKONG MOTOR ACCESSORY CO., LTD., St. George's Building, Ice House St., Hongkong.
THE RIVER SAVA MOTORING NEWS AND
BRIDGE
London To Istanbul By Road
H. F. H. Prince Paul, Regent of Yugo-Slavia, has opened the new suspension bridge over the River Bava, connecting Belgrade with the town of Zemoun on the oppo- site bank of the river. Hitherto the road communications between the Balkans and Central Europe were interrupted at this point owing to the lack of a road bridge, and motorists were obliged to cross the Bava by the many- arched railway viaduct which for some years formed the hit ridge linking up Belgrade with Central
Europe.
The spanning of the Sava by this new suspension bridge com- pletes the road connections be- tween northern and south-eastern Europe, and should greatly facil- itate motor traffic with south- eastern Europe.
Several years ago it was propos ed to carry the road from London to Istanbul via Rumanfa, using ferry boats to cross the. Danube, but that scheme was abandoned. immediately the construction of the new road bridge over the Sava was commenced, at the initative of the late King Alexander, after whom the bridge has been named The Government of Yugo-Blavia now contemplates the reconstrue- tion of the arterial ipads leading eastwards to the Bulgarian front- ter and also southwards to Greece. These have hitherto been neglect- ed owing to their purely local im- portance. It has been decided first to reconstruct the road from Novisad to Belgrade, and also to Droceed with the systematic re- construction of all arterial roads within Yugo-Slavia as permanent motor roads
The new road bridge across the Bava, which carries a tramline uniting Belgrade with Zemoun, has also revolutionised local com- munications, and Zemoun is be- coming a thris suburb, with Imposing
1ts cen tral avertio vaa htter-King Peter
NOTES
11,000 Abandoned Cars.
Appalled by the inressing num- bers of word-out motor cars aban-" doned by their owners in the streets of New York, says "Motor Transport," the municipality has established seventeen "burying grounds" where the owners of obsolete cars may dump them free of charge. Last year 11,000 such cars had to be removed from the streets by the city authorities.
Forgetfulness is Costly
Drivers who run out of petrol in the Mersey Tunnel are charged double the normal toll. It was recently proposed to increase..this penalty; but the Tunnel Com- mittee bas decided not to do so, but to put up prominent warning notices.
After Licence Suspension
ม
What is a motorist to do who drives his car to court and there has his licence suspended?" A motorist in Bromley faced with this predicament thought he was entitled to drive home, but he found out his mistake when be was find £5 for driving when „disqualified from holding a licence, and a further £5 for not being insured against third-party risks
& New Game
A drive is threatened by the London police against offenders, whether motorists or pedestrians, who contravene the regulations dealing with pedestrian crossings. Car drivers should, therefore, be specially on the alert According to the latest regulations a moth- rist must be prepared to pull up before reaching an uncontrolled crossing "unless he can see that there is no foot passerger there on Some police officers seem to have invented a new game they lurk near these crozeings and suddenly hold up their hands to stop cars. The crossing Umay not be in use by ang: 1 at the time but does not stop b
memoto reaching the-
studs be is reprimanded. Why? What oferice, has committed?
Road Excavations
Opposition to new road schemes and by-passes has sometimes been made by nature lovers on the ground that the scenery will be spollt, and many deplore the de- molition ancient buildings which is sometimes, necessary. An un- expected defence however, in the case of Sweden may be noted, in which the large amount of road construction which has been car ried during the year has reveal- ed many objects of archaeological interest to enrich the museums of the country.
"Germany Produces More Cars increased production of cars it reported from Germany. 1933 production represented an increase of 18 per cent. over 1928, and last year fi represented. an increase of 85 per cent over that year. In 1993. about 65,000 people are said to have been employed in the German motor industry laat year the figure increased threefold. "The greater activity is credited to the German Government's action in removing the tax on all newly purchased cars, which formed part of their plan to stimulate production and reduce unemploy
ment.
To Those Touring in Italy
I you tour in Italy be careful" about display national or club flags better stin, db
them at allSeveral drists m Italy has been somewhat surpris ed at being requested by the Car abinieri to remove the of nationality a strict law the showing ng must
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DIVERSITY OF INTERESTS
It is generally assumed that a motor car manufacturer makes motor cars and nothing else, or that, at any rate, he connñes. himself almost entirely to road transport productions.
Actually, however, this is far from being the case, as a glance at the historical side of some of our leading makers reveals. The Wolseley Company, for instance, are known to the public for their cars, but in the past 40 years or 80 they have been concerned in the manufacture of falmost every known type of mechanically dri- Ten machine,
As far back as 1896, they pro- duced a three-wheeled car with the engine at the rear certainly the pioneer of a type which may well become popular in the near future. In 1983 they made a Det
Why the "CHEAP Battery is Costly. Unreliable As plates are NOT open to the purchaser's inspection, this is taken advantage of by Buyers of Loose Plates and Porous Containers to market; an ” assembled“ battery",
NO MAKERS NAME BUILT IN. Purchaser CANNOT ascertains number of plates per cell to check stated capacity, NEVER- guaranteed actual.” the only basis of storage reliability. Voltage no guide. Their low cost for first charge does not support their stated capacity. Plate shortages Reduced storage
Bench recharges WASTED MONEY
FAMOUS MODEL SIR KINGSLEY WOOD'S
DEAD
Sherlock Holmes Passes Away
(Special Ale Mall Service)
London, Feb. 5.
The man who was the model for Sherlock Holmes has just died, at the age of 72.
NEW PLANS
Time Signals For Telephone Class In England
(Special Air Mail Service)
London, Feb. §. Mr. Walter Stanley
Despite the rapid progress which Paget, the artist, and it was his
was made by the Post Office during lean, aquiline features that his 1934 in the improvement and dese lopment of the telephone service, elder brother, the late Bidney Paget, chose as the ideal of the the Postmaster-General, Bir King- great detective in the Conan Doylesley Wood, has yet, it is learnt, a stories he was illustrating."
capacity for one exchange line and five extensions, and also two er- change lines and ten extensions
Information Services
In the coming year the Informa tion
and Telephone Message number of important new schemes Bureaux, which have been intro- Mr. Walter Paget, who signed the near future.
which he intends to introduce induced experimentally in Birming ham and Leeds, will almost cer himself a well-known book fus his pictures Wal Paget was
tainly be extended to other Some of these development will towns. trator. He will probably be best be extension of successful experi This service enables any sub ments which have been tried on small scale during the past few scriber to obtain swift and accurate months. But it is also intended information about the Post Ofic to introduce a number of entirely services and faciliti new features into the service provides spécial operators These will inelude:
a subscriber hay dictate |to be transmitted
remembered by his creations of Rider Haggard characters in "King Solomon's Mines she
Alan Quatermain" and the rest. Artists consider his nest works were the Bustrations in "Robin Sun Crusoe,
at anj
rol engine which was used to drive a train, or rail-car, on the North Eastern Railway, and at about the same time they produc ed the famous Beetle racitig car which was probably the first
(1) The automatic superimpos one or more subscribers and Robert Louis example of motor car streamin-
Stevenson's “Treasure Island.”ing of a sound known as the requested time. Ing:
Pip-pip tone" on a trunk lines. The youngest of three brothers few seconds before the expiration Between that time and the out-all prominent in the world of art of three minute periods. break of wer, they experimented Mr B M Paget is the survivor-he sound will replace the irksome poshed
This regun with transport on water, on show was the son of Mr Robert Paget interjection of the operator which and in the air. There was a for 40 years Clerk to the Clerken many subscribers find disturbing nydroplane,~ capable of
well Vestry
on long distance calla,
knots
and a naval airship, whilst Cap tain Scott ühed a motor sledge,
capable of hauling several tran- sport sledges, on his Antarctic Ex pedition
During produced the
After studying at the Royal (3) The introduction of "speak Academy Schools, he was sent out ing clocks which, will give the London News" as was artist for the lustrated exact time to one-tenth of
Suskim second. When subscribers ask for Expedition in 1885 to the reller of the time, they will be connected to war the company Gêneral Gordon.
this apparatus which, by means of famous Wolseley
sound film records will give the For many years he was a re-time in hours, minutes and seconds quent exhibitor at the Royal The clock will be checked hourly Academy and a regular contributor with Greenwich.
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