RAILWAYS v. AUTOS.
HAZARDS COMPARED, "The railway hazürd on a mile ago basis is nine times greater than the automobile hazard, ac cording to statistics made by the American Automobile Association
The statistics are based on 1923 figures, the last for which com plete records are avaliable.
During that year railway acci dents accounted for 6922 deatha and 58,464 injuries, a total of 69,388 killed and injured.
The total train mileage, freight and passenger, was 1,191,307,000, showing approximately one accid ent for every 18,000 miles,
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
In the same year the accidents- In which motor vehicles figured accounted for 17,000 deaths and 500,000 Injured, a total of 517,000.
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A total motor vehicles mileage for the year is,estimated 850,000,000,000 miles. This would mean one motor accident for every 160,000 miles.
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LOWER FATALITIES. -
KEEN COMPETITION.
WAVE OF PRICE CUTTING...
The production and sales of automobiles reached high levels last year.
The wave of price cutting com- bined with the introduction of at- tractive modela stimulated busi-
ness.. .
over
There has been little production in the automobile I manufacturing field, and there are Despite a 16 per cent. rise in the many cases where dealers have registration of automobiles last found it difficult to get a supply year, motor fatalities decreased of new cars.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
DOES YOUR· CHAUFFEUR “SQUEEZE???
THE EVIL OF THE COMMISSION SYSTEM.
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SATURDAY, MARCH 6, 1926.
"GERM PROOF". CARS.
STUDEBAKER AIR CLEANER.
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An automobile engine, rightly bullt, is almost "germ-proof" characterizing 28 germs those "minute trouble-makers, that get into an engine and wreak havoc. Only three things should be able Does your chauffeur "squeezo?" to get into an automobile engine. are air, gasoline and expect that most people in Hong-They kong will agree that the per lubricating oll. The Studebaker nicious habit of extracting com-engine has a sentry posted on each mission from the tradesmen who highway through which these supply "master's" Various house-travel, to see that no "germa". by 13 per cent, according to the Bus and truck manufacturers hold commodities, is generally dirt, water or bits of worn metal
get in with them. National Automobile Chamber of announce excellent sales. The practiced by Chinese servants. Commerce. San Francisco, Phila-installation of busses in many of In most cases no action is taken, delphin and Chicago report im- our largest cities have done much mainly on account of the difficulty provement in traffic control.
to bring the bus sales records in securing proof, and also be above normal.'
cause the practice is one which Accessories and parts manufac-comes as second nature to most turers have had a tremedous sales native servants. Applied to the output, showing profits which in-motor car trade, there is no creased in the first six months of excuse for giving the opportunity 1926 an average of 89 per cent to extract the chauffeur's "pound over the corresponding period of
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NEED TRAFFIC DIRECTOR.
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An air cleaner, over the carbure- tor air intake, strains out dust of the road, sand and soot, which formerly wore carried into the cylinders in the swiftly moving stream of air with which the gas- soline was vaporized. "
Across the gasoline, between the vacuum tank and the carburetor, of flesh" from the suppliers of is placed a gasoline strainor. If whatever the requirement of the sand or dirt gets into the tank Competition, which is unusual- moment may be. Take for while it is being filled, then floats ly keen at present, is expected to example tyres. For some un-along the stream going to the on- do much to decrease the manufac-known reason, there appears to be gine, it will be stopped, here. turers' profits. However, it is a universal discount of 25% off, Water settles to the bottom of the believed that the competition will most tyres sold in the Colony of strainer and may be drawn off. not hurt the sales output.
Hongkong. Every owner-driver |
Lubrication is important in an American companies are giving may not be aware of this fact, but engine. Oil formas a thin film be- more attention to foreign markets it is safe to say that his driver tween its moving parts, so that the and plan to increase their sales
is. Now it may happen that the metal does not come into conact. abroad.
driver tells his master that a new To make this film effective, the tyre is needed, but he has first metal walls must be of mirror-like. of all made enquiries from the smoothness. A scratch or pit in |various dealers to discover which them will break up this film and
will give him the best cumshaw
start trouble. for persuading his master to pur-
Rougher particles are strained chase one of the particular tyres for which they happen to be out by a circular sieve in the agents. Should the driver de. crankcase, which keeps within its mand 10% for his part in the walls all the bits of sediment too deal, the firm finds itself in a large to get through the screen. quandary as to the price to guete To this, Studebaker adds an oil the purchaser." The desire to alter, containing thick layers of allow the usual 25% is thwarted soft felt. Oll.coming back to the by the fact that the sale will not pump from bearings or cylinder be effected unless the driver re- walls is drawn through this felt, ceives his price. Therefore the leaving behind the minute bits of man who pays is done out of 10% grit, metal and dirt which would which finds its way into the pocket of his chauffeur. Granted act like sandpaper on important The oil goes on its Bome people may not worry about surfaces. the price they pay, it is surely to second usefulness as clean, and their interest to have the max free of sediment as when it was mum quality at minimum cost.
"Every city needs a traffic director," says J. C. Long of the National Automobile Chamber of Commerce. "Municipal authori ties can profit by the example of the railroads which have accom- plished remarkable results in accident reduction by study and systemization of their dispatching aystem.
ABOLISH SPEED LAWS.
The Hon. George S. Henry Minister of Public Works and Highways for Ontario, says that the time will come when Ontario will abolish maximum speed laws altogether, as has already been done in Europe.
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The firm which resolutely refuses poured into the crankcase, to fall in with the driver's sug-
Just as sanitation wards off the gestion naturally loses business. attack of destroying germs in the Would it not be better therefore to human engine, so these devices. do away with the 25% margin
altogether, and list all tyres or shut out the minute destroyers of spare parts at the actua! lowest the full efficiency of an automobile price of the article concerned?
engine.
The same aspect appears in re- lation to the prices of motor cars. An owner contemplates buying a new car, and makes his chauffeur aware of his intention. Very few hours pass before the servant is making enquiries with regard to the highest commission he can secure on the sale of any parti- cular car. Quality, reputation,) service, do not enter into the question, and the worried dealer is wondering whether the com mission he must offer will be suf fielent inducement to Mr. So and So's driven to recommend such and such a car to his master. Should the dealer ignore the driver and enddayour to convince the would-be-buyer of the merit of the particular car he is trying to sell, it is a hundred to one that the driver will convince his master that "he velly clever' man, savvy that car no belong ploper car, give plenty, trouble." And the strange thing is that many owners are prepared to necept the wily driver's advice!
The trouble is that the firms who in the interest of their customerý, erdeavour to keep prices to the lowest possible! level are liable to see business go į past them, solely on account of their refusal to create a margin in their prices for the benefit of i their prospective customers" servants.
It is therefore up to every owner to deal direct with the mer- chant, and to give a little time, and trouble both in his own interest and in the interest of the firma who are harassed by the demands of native servants.
COURTESY CODE.
Development of a "courtesy ende" to govern the relations of motorcycle officers with the motor- [ing public will be one of the„ob- jects of a constructive 1926 pro- gramme being planned for the California Association, of High- way Batrolmen.
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