THE HONGKONG!
TELEGRAPH,
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, JULY 16. 1927.
BETTER ROADS,
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you, will
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B.S.A. rellability has been proved beyond all question- by outstanding success gained in open competition. 1927 B.S.A. Motor Bicycles are the greatest motor cycle value in the world, embodying every modern feature and every part maintains that high standard of quality for which B.S.A. is world-famous.
Let us demonstrate the "fenbures to you.
THE SINCERE Co., Ltd.
Sole Agents.
THE
MOTOR UNION
INSURANCE CO IT?
Incorporated in England
(Under the auspices of the Automobile Association}
SPECIALISES IN MOTOR INSURANCE
LOCAL AGENTS,'
THE UNION TRADING Co., Ltd..
PhoneC, 587. Prince's Building.
CHINA UNDERWRITER, LTD.
FOR
ALL CLASSES
OF
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HEAD OFFICE:-
ST. GEORGE'S BUILDING, HONGKONG.
MEN
TELEPHONE: C. 1121-2
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INDIAN
TRIUMPH
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Motor Cycle Acessorices. in Stock.
Alex. Ross & Co. (China), Ltd.
Prince's Building.
2 Door,-Ice House St. Entrance
Efficient Motoring Roads at an Economical
Outlay.
Road improvement is so much the be used for the expensive ronds. question of the hour in nearly Road Rollers, either ateam or motor every country in the world that according to conditions, aře obvious. every citizen, and particularly ly essential for building any type motorist, ought to have some know- of roud which includes road metal," ledge of the comparative value and but the question which perplexas durability of different types of road surveyors and engineers in roads, and of the different machines many countries is the choice of an economical yet durable method of which are used for making them.
In the old days roads were made building the gront lengths of less almost entirely by hand. The important roads, and the selection steant roller was introduced during of suitable plant which will at once the last century for consolidating speed up, the work and economise them, but apart from that even the labour.
One solution of this problem is! breaking up of the stone was for many years done slowly and laburi-afforded by the Fowler Road ously by hand. But labour was Spraying and Resurfacing Plant cheap in those days and the wear built by Messrs. John Fowler and The and tear comparatively, small so Co. (Leeds), Ltd., of Leeds. that a road, when thoroughly re-framework and motive power on paired, did not require further seri-which the plant is built is the or- dinary steam roller so that the ous attention for many years.
'But present day conditions are main part of the machine is that very different. The demands of which a road maker must in any motor traffic involve much greater case have available for his work. outlay for road maintenance alone. The rest of the equipment consists while much additional expenditure of machinery for spraying tar and is necessary for widening and im- bitumen compounds evenly and at proving to meet modern conditions. high pressure, and a hopper which The responsibility of the road distributes grit or-stone chippings builder is vastly increased. Every immediately afterwards. member of the community is hist The plant has two chief uses:~- critic, and blames him freely, (n) for surface spraying the while motoring over the roads, existing surface with binding" either for the poor.surfaces provid-material and stone chippings. ed, or for what he considers the (b) for resurfacing worn roads. wasteful way in which repairs are on the penetration system. carried put..
Surface spraying work is a neces-
Vast sums are spent on the roada sary operation on all roads which and vast economies can be intro-have been already treated with duced by use of the right materials binding material in order to pre- and methods including,
serve their surface and give them It is also
1. The employment of the right new wearing coat. method of construction to suit theupplied, with success for laying the dust and preserving the surface on trafle.
waterbound macadamy and even on gravel roads.
It is obviously wasteful to rake a read which is too good for the
The feature of the Fowler plant traffe it has to carrying, but it is even more wasteful to make one is that the binder is sprayed at which is not good enough because high pressure evenly all over the it quickly breaks down or disinte-road and the stone chippings are grates under the heavy loads im- spread at once over it. The stone osed upon it and the whole work falls on the binder while it is still hot and adheres firmly to it, while has to be done again.
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The low prices which have made Hudson and Essex famous have largely been achieved through the simple process of using inventory materials quicker, and getting a greater output from plant machinery than is commonly done in industry. Mechanical conveyance of materials has been developed to an unusual degree. So quickly are materials consumed in the unusually efficient manufacturing processes of the Hudson Motor Car Company, that the public actually goes riding in Hudson and Essex cars before the commitments for most of the raw materials are due for payment.
ESSEX SUPER SIX MOTOR CARS.
Touring
5-seater
G$1,150
Conch Sedan
5-seater
G81,150
5-scater
G$1,250
HUDSON SUPER SIX MOTOR CARS.
Touring Coach
7-seater
G$1,600
5-scater
G$1,775
Sedan Roadster Brougham
5-scater
G$1,880
2-seater
C$1,890
5-seater
G$2,080
De Luxe Sedan
6-seater
G$2,270
7-seater
G$2,875
De Luxe Sedan..
The above prices are for delivery at your door in Hong- kong or Kowloon. All prices subject to change without notice.
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more than 2
organisation mile of road 18 feet wide can comfortably be completed in a full day's work with a staff of only 6 men,
The same plant is also used for remaking worn roads on the pene- tration system. The new rond metal is spread dry and afterwards machine which coated with binding material by the spray from the
2. The employment of suitable the whole operation is done simul-
taneously. machinery.
The roller on which the plant is Labour charges take up far too large proportion of road mainten-carried, runs back after each spray ance costs. Great economies can and consolidates the freshly laid be effected by the efficient use of stone and binding material into a plant which will do work much firm and durable new wearing sur-
Tire speed of work faster than hand labour and more face.
far "surpasses slower methods efficiently and thoroughly.
3. The use of reliable and suit-of operation that with proper" able materials.
In particular may be mentioned the risk when laying tar macadam that the material concealed by the tar may be, not durable road metal, but inferior rubbish which breaks up in use.
"Another easily avoidable source of failure is when the old road aur face is not properly cleaned of dust and dirt beforehand, obviously the binding material cannot hold the owing to its very even distribution new surface layer to the id rond and the high pressure at which it is forced right through the layer if dust intervenes and early failure of stone, is, far superior in its re- is to be expected from work carriedults to hand labour. out in this way."
Such plants are not only being For very heavy traffic where ex-taken up in Great Britain where penditure must of necessity be high the condition of the roads has al- the use of concrete foundations, ready attained a comparatively high with asphalt, wood blocks, or stone level. They are also finding in- setts for a surface layer, is genercreasing favour in countries where ally recognised as the best possible road development is more back- construction. Concrete by itself ward, such as Ireland, India, New is not proving in practice to be so Zealand, South Africa, New South durable for a surface layer as the Wales, Victoria, South Australia, more elastic and tenacious bitumen Kenya Colony etc. and asphalt compounds.
In such countries the wide versa- i8 much But it is for the millions of miles tility of the plant. of secondary roads, and country appreciated. With surface spray- roads where economy is necessary ing, rentaking of worn roads on the but where some protection against penetration system, scarifying, con- the wearing effect of motor traffic solidating foundations for new and wet weather conditions is so roads, or ordinary water bound essential, that the difficulties of the macadam werk, they can always be road engineer are most-acutely felt. kent employed and carry out nearly Asphalt mixing machines, concrete all the varied duties required by a mixing and distributing plant can road surveyor to-day.
RESULT OF: RESEARCH.
Millions of Dollars Saved.
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America's motoring public saves millions of dollars annually he of the United cause of studies Staten Bureau of Standards which have resulted in the conservation of gasoline, oil, tyres and other important accessories.
Dr. Fay C. Brown, assistant director of the bureau, estimates that as much as a billion dollars a year saying in the bureau's con- tribution to the American public, a large part of it going back to motoring..
The saving in gasoline by the virtual removal of fabric tyres from the market alone amounts
is responsible for another saving of $30,000,000 annually.
There is a probable saving of. $100,000,000 more a year in gaso- line as a result of the co-operative fuel research that has been cur ried on for several years, accord- ing to Dr. H. C. Dickinson, also of the Bureau of Standards.
From the results of these re- searches it was concluded that the number of tar miles per gallon is not dependent upon the volatility of the fuel nor that the heaviest, fuel that can be used is the most economical.
Find Best Fuel,. Investigators also found that dilution of oil in the crank case is greater the heavier, and legs volatile the fuel is and that smail differences in initial volatility of the fuel have a large effect on en- gine starting.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD. Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.
33. WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY,
Socony is
the "Standard". of Comparison
EXPERIENCE and integrity are cer
tain to produco a superíor product. And every drop of Socóny. Gasoline And Socony Motor Oil is the result of over 52 years of experience in the refining and handling of petroleum pro- distu.
This is why Socony is the "standard" of comparison.
And Everywhere in the orient Soceny Gasoline and Secony Motor Oil are Uni- form in Quality, Best in Resulta.. STANDARD," OIL CO. OF NEW YORK
SOCONY Gasoline & Motor Oil
CITY SEES COUNTRY.
HORSES MUST PAY.
Horso drawn vehicles in Ger
INCREASED OUTPUT.
The first quarter of 1927-show-
to $10,000,000 annually, says Dr. It was decided that, while econo- Brown. A co-operative study by my dictates the use of as heavy a the burent and tyre manufacturers fuel as possible, a practical limit showed that smaller horse-power in this respect is set by the dilu- is required for propulsion of ation of the crankcase oil and the card iyre-equipped car than for a difficulty of starting. Therefore, A check of Ohio traffic shows similar car equipped with fabrica careful study of oil dilution was more than 87 per cent of the state many can't escape paying for the ed an increase of 18.7 per cent in highway traffic was made by city gond ronds: laid down in this motor automotive production, over that In Saxony both motor and of the same period, last year. This conservation, of fuel has residents. In Vermont more than age. kept the price of gasoline from 89 per cent of cars on the country borse vehicles are taxed, the latter That excludes the figures for the-
paying.twice as much as the former
lowest priced cap. in 1924. advancing materially despite the highways are city owned. tremendous increase of automo biles during the past few years.
tyres,
Brake Bands Improved.
An improvement in brake in inge, making them 20 times as valuable as the best five years ago,
conducted for nearly two years.
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