THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
WINGED MOTOR CARS FORECASTED.
FRENCH ENGINEER'S TRAFFIC CONGESTION SOLUTION.
(Special Report to The Hongkong Telegraph).-
Winged automobiles may be our salvation from the traffic and touring evils of to-day.
Winged automobiles that may be parked in a garage of medern dimensions, but that could spread ita wings and "planks and fly ́off | undisturbed by the slowness and thickness of traffic.
RUDDER
GYRO WINGS
STEERING
WHEEL
HORIZONTAL IT PLANE
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,
The two front wheels are con- small automobile.. But he forina nected directly to the motor, as s
a compromist, so that a tourist also the propeller in front. But while one is in use, the other is can soar through the air at high shut off.
speed when he travels between to the ground towns and settle when he nears his destination.
There's only one more wheel in this winged auto of Louis Bryguel's, and that's in the rear
DRIVING WHEELS
PROPELLER
Such is the probability for steer the car while it is on the j future touring as foreseen by ground. Louis Breguet, on of the fore- most leaders of aviation it Francez
ceived before, but
Buyer with
dan. In fact, the is design- such completeness and curtainty as that of Breguet. This authority ed as a small sedan, with four has actually drawn plans for the doors, winged auto of to-morrow. angl has described its possibilities al most to the slightest detail.
PHILIPPINES AND RUBBER.
CAN SUPPLY ALL U.S. NEEDS.
Rubber in sufficient quantity to meet a major share of the needs of the American market can be produced, "in the Philippine Islands.
This is the conclusions reached by Mr. Nicholas Roosevelt, a ment- ber of the editorial staff of the New York Times as & result of a recent Investigation into the potential capaelty of the Philip- pines for rubber production.
"I was tremendously impressed In this lying auto appears the with the possibilities for agricul- salution to the many problems at-tural development in the Philip- tending the trafe difficulty to-pines," Mr. Roosevelt said whon
interviewed in Shanghai."
"Ac-j day of parking, congestion, cross cording to estimates of the Philip- traffe and delays. Parking can pines Department of Agriculture, be effected on rooftops. Motorists only 37 per cent. of the arable!
land in the islands has so far Intending to go from one end of been cultivated. In the southern town to the other would fy and islands of the group, particularly thus avoid the delay and conges-Mindanao, the percentage of cul- tion that awaits him unw-a-days in ivation is far less, and there is
an almost inestimable latent wealth here..
Pro-
the basy rentre if town.
There's a possibility, in Bre- guetis design, of adopting the "Only a little rubber has s winged auto for direct upward yet been planted in the Philip- There may be room enough in Hight, as are many attempts at pines. Enough, however, has suel machine for five persons, helical flying to-day. But this been planted during the Inst 20 The dying auto has been co-just as there is in the modern designer doesn't attempt that plan, years to prove that rubber can
believing the modern auto could be successfully produced. very well attain height by run-duction compares favourably withi sing along the road already made Malaya and Sumatra. The trees for it, and could settle in the same are of large girth and are excep- way. This would, at the same tionally free from diseuse. The time, avoid installation of a dis-only essential to large acale pro- tinct mechanism necessary to liftduction of rubber is that the the machine."
Philippines question be taken out of politics and the future status of the islands be definitely deter- mined. Once this is done. Ameri- can capital will be invested in the capital and American methods, the islands can produce, rubber in sufficient quantity to free the United States from the necessity for dependence on foreign sources for the raw materials."
Description of Car.
The car itself looks more like an airplane than an auto, with horizontal and vertical planes in the rear forming rudder and
The length of the entire car, wings, and all, would be about 25 Feet, although the wings could be Tolled back over one another, to permit of parking in p 20-foot garage: The width of the car, with the horizontal planes in the rear folded up would be about 72 inches, and its height 10 feet. 1 Breguet's instead of the "gro-Philippines, and with American
RUDDER
GYRO WINGS FOLDED BACK
HORIZONTAL.
PLANE
elevators, a propeller in front sind; - It's Hort. of Compromise.
a triple folding wing, designed 16... Thus does Louis Breguet vision rotate during light and net as a the futuré auto. He doesn't want
· stabilizer, just as the wings of to go le one extreme or the other airplanes do to-day.
of the, touring airplane or the
PARAFFIN FUEL.
NEW METHOD FOR MOTOR CRAFT.
The idea of departing and arriv. ing on rooftops, however, points o the possibility of adding the helical planes to auch a machine
planes" he has designed.
HORIZONTAL WINGS
FOLDED
BACK
GYRO WINGS FOLDED UP
Mr. Roosevelt spoke of a jour- ney which he had made to the Cotobato Valley, potentially the richest agricultural district of Mindanao, where thousands of Amare miles of 'virgin country. level and with a sqil as rich as that of any in the world, asquit -levelopment. Only four per cent of the arable land here, he said, is cultivated. The remain- ler, comprising approximately! 1,000,000 acres, is held by experts
between the outer mul muldle tubes ↑ speeint double jet carburettor conto be suitable for rubber planta- carries the exhaust gaers from the sisting of outer and inner jegs, the tions.. Were this territory plant- ruginė. These completely surround latter being called a "compensatored in rubber, it would yield a tiiaper space between the middle 3 jet.
sufficient amount to break
.
any
A new method has been evolved by the Ailsa Cinig Maine Co., Ltd. of Chiswich, London, makers of the This aporising chamber is in the well known Ailsa 'rnig velen form of a thin, amins, which, it valve maring anators, for the man practic, bas been found the most junction with the perfect vaporisa complete... vaporisatim Vod" paalis eflicient for the purpose, us ition of the fuel, this Recounts for when used as the' fuel in sanall muta | provides for the air and the atoinised
or wonderfully ensy starting, slow craft.
parafin to be vaporised in a very ruming and rapid acceleration The Afisa Craig vaporiser thin layer all of which is bound to which are such outstanding features embodies 11+ well known and come in contart with the heating of Ailsa Craig murine motors essential principal of conducting alisafaces.
and kiner tubes, which is the actual The feet of this arrangement is monopoly of the raw rubber mar- | vaperising chamber.
to deliver an absolutely retket., muistute to the cylinders at all speeds
donditions of load. In e Mr. Rinsevelt, whose prebent
vaporisation under the full viewinni it is fairly wellknown that paraffin from the engine.. His construction | requires move careful adjustment of; is however, at onec novel an the ratio of fuel to air than is the simple, without apy moving parts to use with petrol. It must also be get out of urder.
kept at approximately the currect
It consists of free copcentric dixture if the most efficient and; steel tubes witle suitable enst-iron | conomical results are to be obtain end pieces or caps. The spaced. This is done by employing a
G. W. K.
THE EASIEST CAR TO DRIVE
journey has already taken him through Europe and the South, has the primary purpose, of at- tempting to familiarize himself with the situation in the Orient and particularly China...
THIS WILL DRIVE NEW DIRIGIBLE.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 20, 1926.
Then Other Cars are Breaking-up When
--Studebakers are Breaking-in
TUDEBAKERS are built to give thousands
ST
of miles of excess transportation. Remark able records for economy and endurance were recently made, over a California mountain course by twenty Studebakers with an average mileage. of over 90,000 miles each. All finished with high acores. A Studebaker in Kimberley, South Africa, carrying the Crown mail, has been driven more than 400,000 miles and is still going strong..
These cases of Studebaker stamina and long life are typical of hundreds of others.
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This propellor is 173 feet long and weighs only 140 pounds. It was made by the U.S. air service at McCook Field, Dayton, O., for the new army dirigible RS-1, under construction at Scott Field, Ill., and weighs loss than half as much as it would weigh if made of the wood usually used. It is of balso wood, the lightest and strongest wood known.
REPAIR TOP LEAKS.
An Italian journal claims that 580 years. But the claim hardly a loan of 1,500,000 florins made to goes far enough. If the interest Edward III. by Italian bankore
580 years ago would, at a vory was 5 per cont., and Italy's 580- "Care should be taken to stop
low rate of interest," "cancel year-old claim was admitted, wo, Italy's war debt to Great Britain, should not only have cancel the all leaks in the tops of touring approximately £533,000,000. This war debt, but hand over to Italy model automobiles. The leaks it quite true, of course, for in' tho, in addition, over 870,000 billion soon become enlarged to holes 14th century a florin was worth pounds, or nearly two billion Ga. 1,500,000 florins would be times the amount lent to Edward which let the water pour in dur: equivalent to £450,000, That III The only thing for Britain ing a rain. A good way to repair comparatively small amount, ac- to do, apparently, is to pay up cumulating at compound interest with apologies. Unless the people the top is to put a tyre patch of a fraction ander. I per cont.. at Geneva can do something with over the lonk.
would amount to £533,000,000 in the Statute of Limitations: