SMOOTH ROADS.
Value of Motor Cars. America' would have cool- paratively few good roads if it were not for the motor car.
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MARCH 15, 1924.
SOME NEW USES FOR RUBBER..
Being Tested for Wheels and Roads.
The coming generation may ree cobblestones, wood, wire or Since about 1900, when a fow disc wheels, and fabric tyres in automobile companies' started to musepins only, says a current pioneer the new etu more miles) writer.
of good roads have been built) On his way to view these than in all the previous history of "relics," the motorist of the the United States.
future may bo riding over tuberized roads, on balloon tyres and rubber-spoked wheels.
While each little community was quite isolated and self- centred, except for the railroad.! telegraph and mails, there was no great need for good roads, Poor dirt roads sufficed when the travel was limited to horsedrawn vehicles,
For this is what the rubber interests of Akma city are planning today.
Balloon tyres are known, new as they are at present. They are being introduced this year on But the standard of highway several automobiles, and expect condition WAN suddenly and to be generally accepted spon. tremendously elevated when with perfection of their design time and distance were conquer and manufacture. But rubber ed by the motorear.
Mr. Frank A. Seiberling, well- known tire man of this city," comes fürth with a combination rubber and wood wheel--the forerunner of what may be expert. ed in later years.
Seiberling's product consists of structural backbone of thin, porus wood and rubber plies amalgamated and interjoined into one unit. The concavity of the wheel, in addition to the Bering property of the rubber wood material, is said to assure a marked resiliency for the wheel. Besides, there is
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lowance of one and one-ball inches for distortion uhder, load 型 shock, without, structural
CROSS-SECTION OF TWO Forms injury, streets and rubber wheels? It or BCBBER WHEELS. ssunds ridiculous, Howover. these already are actual facts.
PAVEMENT TESTS.
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supposition, rubber takes a firm bold against rubber. During wet weather, only the first film of rain would be dangerous, because of the underlying grease that is brought to the surface.
But us soon as that grase is washed off, no amount of rain could make a rubber pavement skiddy.
TWO WHEELS OUT.
ADVANTAGES,
The need of shock absorbing devices is practically eliminated, say the designers, and the wheel affords additional cushionimin sought in balloon tries..
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OBSTACLES OVERCOME. The Incalizer life and narrow interests that had previously! persisted for generations were The city of Akron, for example, rapidly overcome.
has been asked to ap- Need for more and better roads/propriate" a street, for pave to accommodate the marvelous inent by one of the large rubber
A similar idea is used in
Newport new means of transportation was manufacturers with some rub
wheel produced by a News corporation. In this, quickly ranslated into action by berized concoction to be tested for road wear and tear. This
the however, each community.
rubber is not Highway improved. con is all that is made known of ideas
interjoined with thin strips of struction and greater permanence for future highways. It is based Further than this. nothing is wood, but it is separately placed reached out in all direction from an attempt to find some sub as yet revealed about rubber between the rim and the dises every locul centre of population, si stice that will help make riding pavement.
Thus the shock is sup But work is going proper. to the up with the great outside caster and more economical for along that line.
posed to be taken up by this ring world that at last hal been the motorist,
Rubber wheels are an actuality, of laminated rubber just within opened up by the anto.
Rubber pavement, it is argued, Two manufacturers already have the removable rim, Greetings between drivers of wizataven solve the skidding pro-announced production of sach Cushionine effect brand to be plo biting warons between near Mett. For, contrary to expected wheels for motor ours.
the result. by farne un towns were replaced
be the hasty unds of sleeting motorene between more distant dreds and even thousands of
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The pin sui- of the old dads were used only as artu illy heves sary ng residents of the same or adjoining townships and counties, But the butter roads gradually extend laer -- whole States, till
• DW a wellonganized nationa! highway system knits all the States into one great hatión, in fact, well as name.
people since the motor ear and resulting Road ads have mastered distance and Given people time to enjoy the wonders and beauties of the great outdoors in comfort and luxry.
AMERICAN FIGURES
· SURPRISE GERMANS.
• Manufacturers of automobile- in Mannheim, Germany, are TRAVEL FACILITATED greatly interested in American Maine creets California daily reports that obe firm alone is
many other States of the planning to extend its plant Union over smooth pared high- as to be able to turn out 1000 way that the auto has brought cars each day. it is estimated within the last two decades.
CARE OF TUBES.
Precautions which Ensure Long Service.
In these days of high tyre mile. *ges the need fur-rate is not so profiounced as it used to be. sATS & writer in a Home paper. But there is no reason why economy should not still be studied, and
PROOF
THE FACT THAT PRACTICALLY ALL THE "{MAKES OF THE BEST ENGLISH CARS FIT
DUNLOP CORDS
as standard equipment is indisputable PROOF of: Dunlop superiority. You can- not adopt a safer policy than to take your cue from the people who know, to wit, the Car Manufacturers.
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Remember too,—every Dunlop tyre~ in the Colony has this important protec- tion behind it, viz, the personal protection. of the Manufacturer's own Branch organi- sation on the spot.
THE DUNLOP RUBBER CO. (CHINA) LTD.
'Phone
C. 4554
Also obtainable from-
St. George's Building,
HONGKONG.
H.K. & Kowloon Taxi Co. (H.K, & Kowloon) J. Gibbs & Co. Alexandra Building Connaught Motor Car Co. Mercury Motor Car Co.
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Des Voeux Road
Des Voeux Road &c.
Cables Pazumatic, Hongkong.
As supplied to
The Hongkong Government.
and Public Services
the demand of a correspondent large majority of the better-class ing yourself, and I have found been thoroughly dressed with The stupendouk total of over
te their great several of these sets quite satis- French chalk. $142,000,000 was expended on
Over 350,000 miles of improved by automobile manufacturers in for tips on the care of tubes proves garage--and.
credit many quite small ones) factory. highways by Federal, State and highways now bind America into Mannheim that the two largest that the subject still appeals.
With the tube and the spare have the Harvey Frost apparatuý
And once in six months it is, cranty government in the rear really one nation. Just how few plants in Germany, one of which
ia Mannheim. combined tubes, it is very generally a case which does such work proper 122 alone! A ato tourist camps miles of good road- there would is
of having the rims cleaned of which we undreamed of institu- he, if the automobile had not been produce about 15,000 cars annu- of "out of sight but of mind." and shat you can genuinely forget worth while having all the tyres rust and re-namelled, all cuts tions a few years ago, now have invented, is a problem beyond ally. These cars sell for about it is more or less obvious that overfish populations of un-eract calculation."
You can even buy all opelled and the tubes replaced in paratus for door vulcanic covers the inside of which have
"If the writer were up the 'Dennis'
THE
DENNIS
2-2 ton Model
Write for leaflets of models in
which you are interested..
Alex. Ross & Company
(China) Limited.
Bank of China Building, Duddell St. Telephone C.2487
$4.00 each.
asked to sum 2-2 tonner
HE WOULD DESCRIBE IT AS AN ESSENTIALLY HIGH CLASS, WORM - DRIVEN MACHINE, BUILT ON THE ORTHODOX LINES OF BEST AC- CEPTED STANDARD PRACTICE. THERE IS NOTHING EXPERI- MENTAL OR DARING IN THE DESIGN: THE CHASSIS IS JUST A REPRESENTATION OF PIPE EXPERI-. ENCE ACCUMULATED". OVER TWENTY YEARS OF SOUND WORK."
How could you describe in fewer words the essential features of the machine you need for your transport services. Here you have up-to-dateness in design, sound- ness of construction, quality of material. dependability-all combined with., and benefiting from, an experience of motor manufacture which dates back beyond the passing of the Light Locomotive Act. in 1895.
BRIEF SPECIFICATION:---
30 h.p., 105 x 150 mm. engine, forced lubrica- tion to working parts by gear-driven pump, large oil sua in crankcase, high tension waterproof magneto, external Ferodo-lined clutch, gate change 4-speed and reverse gearbox, with direct drive on 4th speed, steering by worm wheel sector, Dennis worm-driven back axle, etc. The hand brake is of the expanding type, and the foot brake acts on a dram behind the gearbo, both brakes being easily adjusta öle by hand bats inaccessible positions. All chassis are fitted with front mudguards and Dunlop solid tyres, and supplied with · I head, 1 tail and 2 side lamps, tool kit, lifting jack and horn.
such treatment or lack of treat
ment is not the way to obtain the best service or the longest life. Most small car drivers nowa, days are content with one spare yre and tube complete. and on big cars this measure of tyre in- orance is generally doubled. But there are still any who carry a separate spare tube'. it's wonderful protection from punctures.
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HOW TO FOLD A TUBE. And very frequently that spare tube is folded up "any old way." tied with a piece of string, and left to blush unseen in the recesses of an oily toud box, with panner to the right of it. pare part to the left of it, and jacks and kindred impediment volley- ing and thundering.
Leave your spare tube like that, and it will leak as pronoun- cedly as an income tax assailed bank balance. The spare tube should be carefully folded and kept in a rubber-proofed bag, well supplied with French chalk.
How many of you can fold a tyre tube up properly? As I'm -ure a good many of you cannot
here's how!
First get your tube! Remove the valve, fold the tube in half, with the valve stem on the out- side at one end, roll up from the opposite end, so as to expel the air and while rolled up reassemble the valve and screw it up tight- so that air does not get in again.
Now unroll and lay the flat-! tened tube out with the valve, still outside, in the centre. Fold the ends inwards to the valve: f again and slip a tape or stootrubber band over to keep the folds in position. Seasy-till you try, and then it's sometimes found difficult.
IN CASE OF FUNCTURE- In storing the tube, see that it is so placed that it is not subjected to chafing action. If you want to be thoroughly economical, take it out once in three months.for an airing-inside and out.
Unfold it, inflate it till it gets nice and fat"-about as fat as its normal shape when in use-and replace it as before detailed. This reduces the tendency of the rubber to perish at the folds.
Who said punctures Of course, sach things do happen even in these days.Point one: When you' have a puncture remember that the "dar thing" which made a hole in the tube has also made a hole in the cover-and that it may: still be responsing in the cover- it often is, so get it out before it
repeats the dose,"
VALUE OF VULCANISATION. "And in these days of automo bile enlightenment be sure that you have all your type and tube repairs property vulcanised. The
you ever had the trouble.
For a given set of tyres to give the longest service, change over
miles. By studying the wear of front and back after. say, 6,000
the front tyres, you can 500 whether the steering has got out of alignment.
DODGE BROTHERS
TOURING
CAR
This new Touring Car is at its best where road conditions are at their worst.
Not until then can the owner fully ap- preciate its luxurious riding ease, nor the full superiority of the new spring equipment.
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All four springs are longer, with more and thinner leaves, and the rear springs are underslung. Made of tough, chrome vanadium steel, they unite maximum strength with very exceptional resiliency. The price of the Standard Model five- passenger touring car.complete with mag- neto and with five cord tyres. is
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Come and see it.
$2,400
The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
Registered Head Office & Show Room
Wong Nel Chung Road (Happy Valley).
Telephone Central 3950,