THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
LITTLE RED SCHOOL HOUSE PASSING.
20,000 Busses now carry
children to consolidat-
ed 'schools offering modern teaching
facilities. ".
(Above) Studebaker bus used by- Lima, Ohlo, centralized school to carry school children in vicinity to large consolidated" school.
Mary now (Left) Johnny and motor to school in this big Stude- baker bys used by the Virgini, Minn. consolidated school.
SHANGHAI TRAFFIC
SUGGESTION:
Are
SATURDAY, MAY 22, 1926.
NOISE DETECTOR.
INTERESTING RESEARCH.
Even the bearings of your car so finely tested that, no noise or hum from them might disenta torb you.
By setting the limits between moving part in which they're to which a bearing noise is consider bo plared.
ed harmless, in observer at the
machine can easily detect a defec-The radio natrument consiste of tive bearing, when the dial over- ja interophone which is placed near reaches either limit
the vibrating bearing, receives the noise and passes it on through an ordinary amplifier to a sensitive indicator with dial arrangement.
Tested in Three Seconds. Thus, some 50,000 bearings are tested each day for undue noise by this apparatus. In three seconds,
The bearing is inserted and in complete the observer can see whether the half a second, la run up to 1,200 or
bouring is defective
1.800 revolutions à minuite, the. By use of this instrument also, rate depending on the purpose for bearings found defective for one which the bearing" is intended.. purpose, may be perfectly 'gord for In less than three seconds the another, where their pitch or hum reading is obtained and the quali- would not coincide with the fleation of the bearing determined.
to convert its hum-into a visible curve.
Thoro are very many people in Shanghai, says the N. C. Daily Neula, who hold that the Munici- pal. Council are attempting the Impossible when they endeavour to improve traffic conditions by
For this purpose, 4 widoning the strecta. Even if they can secure the land, it will study of noises and their sources take many years of conatant was made recently by selenists at labour to do all the road-widening the University of Michigan in con that is necessary, but of greater junction with engineers for one of consideration is the fact that the work will cost almost unthinkable the large bearing manufacturers, millions. The Council, have been The result of thls research was working on Szechuan Rond and the invention of a delicate appara- Klangse Road for years past, but tag which detects the slightest only have succeeded in forming noise in bearings above that con- number of bays which are a doubt-sidered tolerable in motoring. ful Improvement and when one This apparatus is designed some- attempts to think of the price that what like a radio receiving set, will have to be paid for the build with coils and vacuum tubes hook- ings between these bays, the heated up to a revolving boaring so as hegins to swim. There have been many alternative suggestions. such as Mr. Powoll's overhead railway and Mr. C. R Burkill'a motor-car hotel, but an enthusiast now has put forward an idea that
Bearing noisos, It has been has a distinct novelty about it. found," result when the hum they He points out that often when produce happens to be in syn-1 traffic on Nanking Road and other chroniam with the hum produced principal thoroughfares is halted by tlie gears in the transmission, to allow passage for vehicles on or instance, or any other moving] the cross streets, there is formed parts of the automobile. Thus the such a long line of waiting motor-wo noizes, of similar pitch, accen- car carriages and rieshua that, toate each other and make driving when the line is released, those
unpleasant. Alone, each might behind scarcely can get started not even be noticed. before they are held up again and the block becomes worse, There Tyres Treads Interfere! fore, he says, traffic on the princi-
Much difficulty was at first en pal streets must not be stoppe ! and he would get over the difficul-countered with the bearing hum in conneption with the transmission. 'carriageway ty by tunnelling under the principal streets where Sometimes even the sculturing in they cross the most-used side the tyre treads brought out the whole" townships.,solidated school at Safford, streats, these tunnels to be used gear or bearing noises, through Children are brought to schnu and fans, have improved average by all wheeled vehicles, It is not their synchronous hum. delivered safely to their own homes. attendance to a marked degree with a fantastic notion," because to a every day.
Rudebaker buses.
limited extent it has been adopted
Three young Venetians" in Venice, Calf., pile into this Studebaker bus. morning at eight-thirty. They attend a big centralized school where- advanced eductional conveniences are made possiblor
When Johnny rides it the com- "embracing fortable motor bus several miles to the big brick consolidated or town- ship school, he wonders at the hardships of the "pioneer" daje his father tells about when boys trudged on foot to the little red school house on the hill.
With it a deaf person can "hear" the hum or noise of the bearing!
ป
Design of the radio apparatus] Twenty thousand buses, a third So striking are the advantages in many big cities-notably the for detecting the hum in bearings, of the whole number in operation, of this improved school system, underground tramway track in tow, avoids any such possibilit
reed daily to transportownships in all parts of America London from Kingsway to the The machine converts the sound 170,000 school children in 1925. are improving arterial roads to Embankment-and the advocate of of the bearings into sight, so that Johnny has specialist teachers in it is extimated that 10,000 addi- develop the system still farther. it here declares that it is feasible the human factor of error is each subject he studies one tea- tenni buses will be needed for The standard of teaching staffe from an engineering point as
eliminated. cher for every subject. His father similar service very shortly. lp the consolidated schools is higher view, whilst it would cost but a walked over rough roads to Studebaker buses carty loads of than it used to be in the finest city fraction of the compensation value poorly-heated frame building, 35, to 37 daily for the Lima, O., schools. Even high schools are for buildings compulsorily where one teacher, usually under- centralized high school The being established in sections where acquired. Well, we have a Traffic paid, taught everything, from the Venice union high school in Call formerly the eighth grade was the Commission now in session and it "alphabet" class up.
fornia carries forty pupile at a time highest taught The motor bus has been asking for lucas and The motor bus has changed all in another Studebaker bag.
as made it possible. Buses are views, so perhaps, its members this. Several school districts are The independent school district building new educational founda will discuss the possibility of consolidated into one, sometimes of virginia, Minn., and the con- tions for the next generation. sending us underground.
"
!
B. S. A.
MOTOR CYCLES
Famous For Reliability and Economy
Full Particulars from the
Sole Agents:
THE SINCERE CO.
BUICK AIR CLEANER
BUICK OIL FILTER
BUICK GAS
•. FILTER
INDIAN
THE CYCLE WITH POWER and COMFORT.
ALEX. ROSS & CO (China), LTD.
Bank of China Building, and 1A, Chater Road.
19 SINGER 26
Specially Geared for Hongkong
The 1926 Singer represents the.
highest standard of British Motor Car
Engineering a standard which
guarantees that every purchaser. acquires a car made to last.
SOCONY MOTOR GE
SOCONY
MOTOR OILS
AND
GASOLINE
FOUR SEATER "DE LUXE" £265.0."
British Throughout
IN
"Triple Sealed to protect the performance of Buicks famous Engine
N THE Better Buick you will oil, filter and gasoline filter! pre- part inside an iron or steel hous
Triple find the most important vonte this-halts dirt and grit at ing to keep dirt out and lubrica motor car improvement in recent every possible point of entry, tion in. And now the years, the Triple Sealed nulve Buick leads in motor car advance. Soaled engine further protects in-Head-engine.
mant. Wherever there are motor Buick performance from the des cars, the Buick Valve-in-Hoad tractive grit of the road. Dirt inside an engine destroys ongine is known and highly re- No other car, regardless of price, efficiency. It grinds away at garded for its smoothness, its so completely safeguards its per- cylinder walls and bearings, extra power, its economy and its formance. For more efficient causing looseness and vibration, stamina. The Buick Sealed service, for finer transportation Buick's "Triple Seal" (air cleaner, Chassis" places every operating at lower cost, buy a Buick
The Hongkong and Kowloon Taxicab Company, Limited.
THE CYCLE WITH A GO, A. JI S.
ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHNA), LTD
Bank of China Building and 14, Chator Rodda
TWO SEATER "DE LUXE'
£265.0.0.
Equipped with overhead valves, four wheel, brakes, Automatic windscreen wipor, pneumatic upholstery, Dunlop rainforced balloon tyres, completo all-weather equipment; largo radiator, etc,
For Full Specifications and Particulars apply to
GILMAN & CO., LTD.
HONGKONG BANK BUILDING.
33-35, Dos Voeux Road
Tel. C. 1030.
the better Buick