CANADIAN TRADE.
BIG MOTOR INDUSTRY. The automobile industry has had a rapid growth in Canada and now reaches the seventh industry, employing 100,000 persons. In exports it ranks fourth among the Canadian industries.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY, MARCH
have produced more than 1,000,000 motor vehicles, a large pracentage of which have been exported to,all corners of the globe..
It is said that the United States and Great Britain are the only twe countries to lead Canada in the number of cars in ratio to popula- tion..
For the first eight months of 1025, 112,615 motor vehicles were manufactured in the Dominion, 98,794 passenger cars and 18,821 trucks, This is compared with 91,794 cars and 12,089 trucks pro- duced in the corresponding year. It is estimated that the annual cost of maintenance of motor vehi- Canada approximates In the 21 years of the industry's cles in "life in this country, the factories $150,000,000.
It has been estimated that 500,- 000 or about 6 por cent of the total population of the Dominion are dependent for their Hvehood on the manufacture and use of au tomobiles.
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Seo How They Grow! adopt stainless steel for the fit- The growth in popularity of the tings of new tramcars may soon Morris car is, best illustrated by be followed in Weeds. The build- the following figures, which showing of the new Leeds tramcars the output for each of the lust has not yet gone beyond the point where stainless fittings may be six years:---
employed, although so far the. motal-work is being painted with a hard ebony-like, preparation. which looks well and also acts as fan insulator. When the plans for 48,717
the new Leeds Cars were being Where?
drawn up the question of using
steel
discuss- "Hardly a day passes when the stainless
• WAS roads are not strewn with deaded, but was held over, because no and wounded." Thus a remark entirely stainless fittings had been made by Mr. Justice Shearman at devised. Now, it is stated, stain- the Glamorgan Assizes. We less steel that can stand the test rather fear that his lordship has of the weather has. been pro- allowed his imagination to run duced. away with the strict regard for accuracy that usually charac- terises his judicial utterancea..
A Shingle Development. The defence of a young lady who was recently charged with causing an obstruction by leaving her car in the street, was that she had been to get her hair waved.
The Long Arm of the Law. A leeds motorist was recently fined £5 on a charge of driving to the danger of the public in July of 1924. .
The Petrol Danger.
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An illustration of the result of carelessness in the filling up of a
"Gyratory System,"
Kuala Lumpur is making fun ot an attempt to inaugurate the "gyratory system" of traffic in Java-st, which seems to the Malay Mail to give annoyance without achieving any good purpose. It is suggested that some of the police should come to Singapore and be trained, as traffic, will never be efficiently controlled unless" special department locks after it. Better wait a bit before sending men down here, unless it is to watch our experiments.
ONE-LOGGED CABIN ON WHEELS.
A giant fir trunk, hollowed out, in the travelling home of C. E. Cave and Mrs. Cave, from the Pacific northwest. The home is estimated at 2100 years in ago, out from a stree 275 feet tall and 12 feet in diameter at the buse. The Cuves are touring the United States in this log home, in which dre a combination bedroom and living room, kitchenet, break- fast nook, library, shower bath and lavatory.
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AUTOMATIC SYSTEMS
petrol tank was recently provided HEAVY ROAD TRAFFIC.Į by an incident which happened in Porth.
all the controls in front of the
Oll consumption was even far car, except the emergency brake 'less, because there was never ́any. faver.
demand for high speed on the engine, and there were times when
Big Advancement.
small loud.
to
The Lavaud invention lan't as the engine Idled while a similar SUGGESTED.
far-reaching as this, but it is a engine on a gear-shift car was great stride forward in the direc- turning at a high speed with a Coming years will witness the tion of gearless automobiles.
This automatic. transmission is The transmission enabled, the decline of the goared transmis-
the invention of Sensaud De driver maintain higher- A lady driver was filling the From time to time we are sion...
mountains tank of a car by the light of an solemnly warned that the day is) The automatic transmission Lavaud, who is better known for average speed over
his introduction of the worldwide and in city driving. It gave the acetylene lamp, when the fumes coming, or that it has arrived, will take its place. from the petrol became ignited by when some limit must be put upon Already news' comes from method of centrifugal casting of car a wider range of speed with: the flame of the lamp and the car the weight that can be motor France that Voiain, famous iron pipes than as an automotive throttle control and it shot up the speed of the machine from an caught fire.
borne upon our highways. On the French automobile manufacturer, engineer. Moral: Never bring a naked flame within range of petrol
Tramcar Fittings.
fumes.
The decision recently came to
by the Sheffield Corporation to
DODGE BROTHERS COMMERCIAL CAR
Its economy of maintenance could have no better proof than this:
It is operated in fleets by a long list of business houses, Government departments in various countries and owners of Bus lines, whose selection of equipment is based strictly on comparative records.
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face of it there is justification for is adopting the Lavaud automatic Although Lavaud's invention is idling rate to maximum in a. this view, for the weight and transmission on some of his care. gearless, it is clutch controlled, so shorter interval thau a similar weight-carrying capacity of the The small 10 horsepower, sleeve-far as starting and stopping go. gear-shift car. road motor tends to grow, and with valve Voisins will be first to intro- But once the ear is in motion, the clutch isn't touched until the it the cost of road maintenance,duce the novelty. while yet we cannot say that we In America, an electric trans-machine is practically. at a stand- have overtaken the work of bring-mission has been practically per- still. ing up the roads to the standard fected for the replacement of the Long drives with the Lavaud demanded to-day. But restrictive gears and other troublesome transmission in a Voisin, through
Loading Canadian automobile legislation is something we should transmission parts of automobiles. all sorts of conditions and over manufacturers are optimistic over be chary about undertaking. The It has shown remarkable capacity steep rudes, proved the marked the industry's prospects for the whole of our road history is a tale for controlling the car from a advantage this new feature has doming year. Canadian made of mess and muddle and misapprestandstill to the highest speed of over the old. hension of the true function of the the engine, on grades and levels, highways. All through there has in the heaviest traffic and on the been an obvious desire to keep highways. It has done away with 15 to 20 per cent. down the capacity of the vehicle]
we
to that of the road, and from the days of taxes on wheels, restric- tions as to width of tyres, the set-] ting "up of the tollbar system, right forward up to recent years, have cherished those traditions. It now we are changing. the point of view it is because the motor-] vehicle has burst through these bounds. If there is to be restrie- tion of weight, the decision will not be a legislative one; it will| be settled by the further develop- ment of competition between the railways and the road motor; and, in fact, exceptional loads apart. the protess of working out implied imitations has already began. But as the ery for restriction con- tinues it is interesting to note the reply of road-users, motor manu- facturers, and those industrially associated with them. There never was a time when the motor- vehicle was more and more adapt- ing itself for all forms of road! service. We are getting what may be regarded as specialised vehicles, and at the same time we are get- ting vehicles which have a widej range of adaptability. Their range of economic..action may be shortening as the railways get; more into their stride, but they are carrying heavier, loads and doing. relatively less damage to the roads,
TYRE DANGERS.
MAGNETS PICK UP NAILS.
The state highway department of Ohio is providing trucks fitted with electro magnots to. plek up nails and other bits of iron on public highways in order to mini- mize tyre puncture, dangers.
In a five-mile trip one of the trucks picked up 150 pounds of nails. The truck collected 003 pounds in the course, of a day.
GOOD POLICE RECORD.
Kansas City police, through its motor, theft bureau, recovered 1889 out of the 1638 cars reported stolon in the city. This was an Increase of 1.62 per cent over the recoveries in 1924, according to W. H Moore, chief clerk of the department
vehicles found a ready market'; Less Oil and Gas.
during 1925, and it is expected Gasoline consumption decreased that output will be increased this
ONLY PACKARD
[year.
CAN BUILD A PACKARD
PACKARD
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HAT you get-not what you pay for-determines your bargain.
If a Packard Six did not give 16 miles to a gallon of gasoline; 15,000 to 20,000 miles to a set of tyres; and a freedom from mechanical repairs unknown to cheaper vehicles, it could not have earned its place as one of the least expen- sive cars to operate-power considered- in the whole world.
But because it has established these rec- ords in the hands of owners; and because its first cost is agreeably low, new thou sands of owners are constantly expressing their surprise at its economy.
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Wong Net Chung Road Happy Valley. Telephone Central 1246 or 12477
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