THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT SATURDAY, JUNE 5, 1926
DUNLOP
Wherever you travel you can get the tyre by which all other tyres are judged. Remember DUNLOP is more than a name-its a reputation. It stands for perfection in Tyre manufacutre
Be Sure It Says
MADE IN ENGLAND
On Your Tyres.
| Local Distributors:
HONGKONG HOTEL
GARAGE. Tel. C. 4759,
Local Branch Office
16a, Des Voeux Rd. C,
Tel. C. 4554.
THE USE OF BRAKES:
block from a far, be cannot re-siderate to their cars, they wrong driving word to take a leaf from duco speed, but must arrive in their brakos in one way at least the praction of the Mochanicnl fr me of mind ready for taking I think drivors should get to his position at the end of the This way is the use of the Transport instructors block with the use of his brakes, foot-brake on one and all oc
in the things a bit casier. Hurry and This sort of thing is looked casions except when leaving the Army, who insist that use of the unnecessary hasto are wearing more than they should be. Thore But nothing that abusos any driver, uses his foot-brako wook secondnature as the use of the down and a gontle approach to a Brakos are used & great deal upon, I suppose, as smart driving, car standing. The average band-brako shall be just as much to mind and machine. Throttling
THOUGHTLESS ABUSE.
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will not easily be got out of the habit,
Too much reliance on the brakes
..
might just as well be taken.
is no getting away from "that part the car can: come under in and week out for ordinary foot-brake. But there is also no getting away the hoading of smart driving, and driving purposes, and confines from the fact that the average the unnecessary use of the his attention to the hand-brake ever it is at all possible to use it, and makes no difference what- The best brake to use, when stopping point is for better.. practice than the "dash" method, driver has come to raly on his brakes is abuse. There is this only when it is necessary that is the engine. The effect of the ever in the limb, takon, Arriv bakes to such an extent that he point, too, to be remembered. the car should be held stationary braking of the engine is smoothing a few seconds earlier at a It stands to reason that this and gradual, wears out not part, traffic block simply means a 4s very likely to lead one day to is wrong. One brake is just and in the case of descending a few seconds longer to walt, so dienster, Conceivably they may as The worst offenders are "those fail when driving "smartly up and is constructed to stand as powerful,
effectual 08 the other, long hill is, in addition, most the easier and kinder course who must do everything with an to the o d of a traffic block, or much wear as the other. Thero- appoarance of "dash." When up use duor, or into a fore, it seems only commonsenso It is a most sugo piece of bringing the car up from the garage. Then that unnecessary that both should bear their share advice to change down at tho sote a steady, safe speed, and On the opon road a driver who garage they must come up to the bit of spend is going to exact its of the work. I think early in-top of a long, steep, and unknown maintains a good average is à door at a smart clip, anding toll.
struction is to blame those hill and let the engine do the far better driver then he who with a sudden st pin much the But what of those others who learning to drive do not have it braking. But it is not advisable forces his car furiously, but same mannor as a cowboy de- do not do those things? Is there sufficiently impressed upon them at the same time to switch off spasmodically, and it is astonish- lights to throw his mount back not a way in which they abuse that they should use the hand- the angine. So doing is liable to ing how the steady average eats on its haunches. Tho offendor their brakes:
brake and foo-brako alternate cause a deposit to form on the up the miles without distressing. does the same thing in traffic. The chances are that, even ifly. But it would be an excel Plug points and cause misfiling the Though he may have seen the they are careful drivers, con-lent thing if those who teach switching on again.
ongine or wearying the
driver.
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"I look to see 25,000,000 cars and trucks on our highways within a GREAT STRIDES PREDICTED. few years. Of these probably 5,000,000 will be busses and other
"
Predicting an automobile pro-commercial vehicles. The bus busi- duction in 1926 of 4,300,000 units nces is growing very rapidly. It and stating that the greatest years will be a solution of many of our of growth have not yet been realized by the motor industry, Mr.metropolitan traffic difficulties.
Alfred Reeves, gèneral manager of "We are just waking up to the the National Automobile Chamber needs and possibilities of motor of Commerce, recommends the transport. There will be. more automobile business as place for parking garages in downtown young men.
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mobile companies in the present Furthermore, there will be an day are big enterprises and they increasing trend toward suburban need able personmel: The business life. This will mean increased itself is on a growing basis. Thero motor traffic in the residential are vast opportunities for those centres and a further building up who can measure up to the jobs of commutar traffic for the rail- available.
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