HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 23, 1925.
THE AUSTIN '7” AS A CAR FOR SPACE.
The troubles of garaging are soon overcome with the "Austin 7 Its requiremen'e for space are as modest as its price. With hood down it's height is only 4 ft. 9 inches, while its width over all is 3 ft 10 inchoe. The length is 9 ft. 2 inches.
Thus the owner can orcot his own garage where he would not do so in case of a larger car.
C. I. F. Ready for the Road
SOLE
£169.0,0.
of Chian
PAYING FOR THE ROADS.
SUGGESTED TAX ON PETROL.
By Walter P. Chrysler
During the last ten years, the for longer and less frequent civilized world has been remak-journoya.."
ing its roads. Tho old' macadam A tax on horse power is again roads have been swept away, a check on enterprise. A cheap Great broad concrete or asphalt car may have high horse power thoroughfares now run through whilst an expensive car may be every land. Yet we are only at rated far lower. Soms of tho the beginning of road-making cheapest cars in the world have During the next ten years so exceedingly high horse power. great will be the growth of motor- Besides the tax is unfair In the ig that road-making on an caso of socond-hand ears. Obvi unprooodented scale will be ously it is unjust that a ten year necessary,
old car of high horse power ahould pay & far higher tax than
How are the roads to be paid for? It is obvious in the first place new car of medium power.
that it must to a great oxtent be A tax on power hinders develop- out of the state taxation not out ment for the ideal car is one of of taxation. A small village on ample power which can pick up a great road leading from New quickly:
The one tax which is fair to all York or London cannot be expected to pay for the construc-alike is a tax on patrol, bonzol, tion or upkeep of ronde used by or whatever is the motive power driver tons of thousands of city cars.
of the car. Then the who uses the roads most and There are various ways propos- damages them most will pay most, od. A tax on tyres may bo sot then the high powered car will aside as impossible. It would be pay more than the low powered
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THATS IT-THE 1925 HARLEY
The pride of motorcycle achievement.
A new machine at a new price.
Model 61-Standard equipped with magneto, presto- light lamp, luggage carrier, pump, tools horn, and speedometer, ready for the road.......
districts with worst roads and clas consuming much petrol and lightest where motoring was doing great road damage will at most easy and pleasant. In last pay their due.
addition it would be easy to It is absurd to argue that ovade by fixing retreads. Besides chemists would soon create sub- the public to evade the tax-for stances to "ovade the tax. Tho all men hate taxes would run possibilities of new motor fuels thair tyres to the danger point. are limited. All present day Taxes on the car according to motor fuels have much to com- its value or horse power are the mon and a simple and effective means by which some countries formula for taxation could easily Iraise their road funda. A tax be evolved which would cover all A tax on motor according to value is unfair be- possible fluids. causo a low priced car will pro- finals too would be an inducement bably be far more used and do to economical running and a spur far more danger to the roads to the creation of engines which than a high priced car. It is the can create more power from a car that is always being used for less amount of fuel. business that fills our roads-the The roads of the future will in littlo convenient runabouts. The my opinion be financad by the only bigger cars are generally kept fair tax-one on motor car fuels.
A "BUOYANCER."
INTERESTING BOMBAY
new
INVENTION
mounted on a bracket bolted to the frame of the vehicle about 16 ins. from a point in line with the spring contre. The end of the spring is shackled, pot to the Mr. T. R. Saoyd-Kynnersley, vehicle frame, but to the beam, one of the Executive Engineers close to the end of the buoyancer of the Bombay Improvement plate. The end of the beam can Trust has invented a new device move, in a guide, if it be thought for absorbing shocks on roads by necessary, and rubber stops are system of suspending incorporated so that any banking heavy vehicles on air cushions. effect under severe shock is taken The device is an extremely simple by the stops and not by the method. What has been done is to buoyancer."
"The design thus described is | interpose betweep one end of each ordinary laminated spring suitable for front axles and rear and the chassis frame, an air-exies, but there are alternatives. Where there are stays, dynamo filled buoyancer" or bolster," bolted to a bracket, with a beam mounting and such like, which or levor arm which transfers the would interfere at the rear of a weight of the vehicle and its load front spring, the braoket carrying to the buoyancer. According to the buoyancar may be mounted the description published in vertically outside of the frame Times of India the "buoyancer" and in the angle formed by the is made of canvas and rubber dashboard and bonnet, the end of the spring being, attached to a moulded and vulcanised, just aa a tyre would be. It is made in short lever arm and operating various sizes from about a font the moving plate. On a heavy long by 36 ins. diameter for vehicle there is ample room for Fords (four being employed, all the adoption of this arrangement,
which is by no means unsightly..
of the same size) to 28 ins. long with regard to the position of the by 6 ins in diameter for the rear buoyancer in relation to the rear axles of lorrica, buses, and motor coaches, the size of the buoyancer axle, it is usual to place the ap
the axle, but, for the front axles of those paratus behind vehicles being 16 ins. long by 6 where the drive is taken through a torque tube the position forward ins in diametor.
Formed along the upper edge of the axle can be chosen.
is a rib, embedded in which are "The buoyancer is inflated to a the heads of the security stude. pressure of from 8 lbs. to 13 lbs. A bed is formed in the face of the square inch, according to load the upper plate bracketed to the fand to tho ideas of the driver or frame of the vehicle to take this floot managor,”
rib, and the buoyancer is bolted "It will be observed that under thereto by thumbscrews screwed light loads the pressure on the on to the studs. A valve for buoyance takes place only at the inflation purposes passes through and nearest the axle and that the rib and protudes above the with an increase of load the beam holding plate. The lining is rises until at the greatest load vulcanizad in the buoyancer and the plate on the beam is parallol is not a separte inner tube, as with the frame plate. Thus it there is no need for that form of will be soon that automatically construction,
load variations are dealt with.. "The lower plate, slightly Road irregularities are mainly! concave, in transverse section, is taken up by the lateral flexure of secured to a banm pivotally the buoyancer."
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BELTING
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TO HIRE A GOOD CAR
Phone K.226.
For General Service and Prompitude. THE DURO MOTOR CO.
Nathan Road, Kowloon.
THE BUICK "SIX"
Owners express surprise that a car so power-
ful and spirited as the Buick Six operates so
smoothly and quietly. Such outstanding performance explains why the car is winning and holding the good will of all who buy it.
Model 74-Standard equipped same as above...
Model 61-Electric. Ready for the road.. Model 74-Electric. Ready for the road.
Sidecar, Single passenger
Sidecar, Double passenger
$775.60
:$825.00
$825.00)
$875.001
$240,00
$300.00
ASK ME TO POINT THE 27 NEW IMPROVEMENTS. GASCON'S MOTOR HOSPITAL.
2, Kwong Wah Road (opposite the Steam Laundry) Kowloon. Phone K. 1242. Note:-Don't let the cost trouble you if you cannot afford to pay.
cash, como in and soo me to arrango pay mont by instal- ments, easy and within reach of everybody who is oraving for real life in the open this Summer.
So don't wait until To-morrow for it may be too late, only a limited number of iachires will soon arrive as first shipment. Come and lot me have your name. First come first sorvad.
A. GASCON.
AGENT FOR THE NEW 1925 HARLEY DAVIDSON.
An aerial ambulanoe equipped with accommodations.
for two injured persons and a surgeon is being put through tests at McCook Field, Dayton, O. The cabin is equipped with all operating room appliances, making it possible to. perform a major operation while traveling at 100 miles an hour,
For Demonstration.
Please call or Telephone C. 1036.
HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.
33 & 35 Des Voeux Road Central.