THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
NOVEL INVENTION. PRIVATE COURTS.
STEERING AND IGNITION LOCK.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 8, 1927.
Extra Wheels For
Parking.
Novel Innovation
Company traffic courts which hear all accident cases involving drivers of the company's trucks
SPACE SAVING DEVICE. and business coupés are coming into popular favour with large organizations.
Thousands of milos of more parking space will be available The first of those private courta for motorists by means of an in-was established by the Standard vontion by Mr. V. P. Williams, of Oil Company at its Dotrolt Baltimore, Maryland, -U.B.A., division and has been successful which allows autos to move sido-in reducing the number of ac- wise into a space no longer than {cidents the car's longth.
Every company driver involved
An automobile to be known as in an accident, regardless of the the New York Six, which win-accident's importance, is required corporate this invention, is now to appear before the aburt, which under construction and is sched-is composed of representatives of uled to make its appearance at every department of the organiza the New York automobile show.
tion...
The invention consiste of four
The driver tells his side of the small whools, built into the car at:
"and" answers questions right angles with the main service story wheels. These four wheels are which the committee men put to concealed beneath the car when him. The other side of the story not in use. They can be lowered is ablained from the other driver by the power of the engine to or witnesses. The testimony of move the car to the right or left witnesses usually is obtained by The four wheels used for park-on-investigator who gets a signed ing purposes are oight inches in statement from them.
diameter with solid rubbor tyres.. No money fines are assossed The whools are mounted on heavy and the driver is not discharged. lifting pillars with strong latern! If he has had so many accidents. bracing.
that it becomes apparent that he,
The system operates as a by-is incompetent to drive a truck draulic jack, which lifts the car or car, he is transforred to in- from the stroot threo inches in a other department.
second. When the car is above
the street, the auto engine power
is used to drive the wheels. There all available room on a street for is not danger of accident, as the parking.
main gear of the car must be in Spaca dan also be saved in pub- noutral before the lift can operate.lic and private garages. A private Using this invention, the mo-garagooed be nothing more than torist can pick a parking space a diminutive holding a fow in- the length of his car and manches longer and wider than tho ouvre intoit sideways,This affords car itself.
foundations!
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The accumulated experience of the years is in every Dunlop Tyre you buy. That's why Dunlops yield the longest mileage and are so utterly satisfactory under all conditions of service.
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KOWLOON.
By the simile pressing of a small lever on the steering post. and removing the ben the Studebaker owner locks' the steering
wheel and cuts of the ignition...
The coincidental lock on all greater convenience than the Studebaker anjomobiles, a"lock older typos would tend to reduce that controls both ignition and thefts," the N. A. C. C bulletin eteering wheel by proseing apoints out,
Studebaker engineers anticiput- small lever, answers ono of the problems of the Underwriters ed this need more than a year! Bureau in curtailing automobile ago when the coincidental lock we's adopted. This lock is locat- 'thofte."
The According to a ballotin just ed on the steering post, issued by the Insurance Com-owner of the car can make his mittee for the National Auto-vohiolo thief proof by pressing a mobile Chamber of Commerce small lover and removing the That operation locks the one of the greatest causes for key, automobile thefts in America is steering wheel in a fixed position the failure of owners to lock their and shuts off the ignition. There Cars. And the reason, for this is a separate ignition switch to negligence is the inconvenience allow the ignition to be turned of locking devices on most motor off and on, if dosired, "without affecting the steering wheel look. cars, says the bulletin.
A quarter of a million auto-The lack is easy to operato, sasy mobiles valued at $218,000,000 to find, and is practically impos- wore 'stolen in 1925. Of these sible to break. only 80 per dont, were recovered, leaving an unrecovered loss of $35,000,000, which does not in clude the loss incurred in repair ing, recovering and establishing ownership of stolen cars.
The sume koy that unlocks the steering wheel and ignition opens the doors of the car and controls the lock on the spare tyre carrier. Thus the owner nood carry only: one key. The locking device is so simple that he is under practi- "Strong omphasis placed on the fcally no inconvenience and will human equation indicates that rarely, if ever neglect to lock his
ocks which can be operated with car.
FUEL QUALITY..
adopted by an engineer in speak- ing of his engine, which like a woman, demands a lot of atten- tion and personal knowledge, or Standard Found Fora railway man in speaking of a
Anti-Knocks.
train.
In the same way overy car has *New York, A standard its virtuea and its weaknesses, inhibitions especially on by which the anti-knock value its
of fuels may be ascertained frosty mornings and its urges bas been discovered by Dr. and complexes. The man who Graham Edgar, research chemist could allude to his car as
does not deserve to have one. of Yonkers, N. Y.
It's a new cctane, a chemical compound of the hydrocarbon series, the use of which is to fuels as the use of a yardstick is to cloths,
A coloured medical student, Lockhart Davis, alina Ábdul Ayres 26, and Theodora M. Ayres, 27, an, It massures the ability of an Englishwoman, committed for anti-knock compound, to keep an trial at Ryde, Isle of Wight, anging from knocking. when charged with housebreaking, were mixed with ordinary fuels.
sat to have been traced, by a The octane itself is an ideal laundry park on a handkerchief anti-knock compound, but its cost found in the ransacked house. prevents its use in largo quanti
tios.
By mixing the octane, which will not knock, with normal; heptano, another compound in ordinary gasoline which knocks violently, Dr. Edgar produces mixtures which can duplicate the knocking characteristics of any motor fuel.
Thus it is possible to state tho anti-knock quality of any fuel in terms of the proportion of these
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Ships were fomining things to the Greeks and. Romans of old days, and when you come to think of it they could hardly be anything else. So it is not surpris ing that the same stylo should be
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