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A DOG'S LIFE.
THE
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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER
1928.
ECONOMIST.
Pup Holds Up Shanghai Young Angus M'Todd was a Scots-
Traffic.
The centre of Nanking Road a 6 pm. is no place to loiter if one values life, and limb. Whizzing motor cars, bleycles, rickshas motor cycloe, wheelbarrowa and other vehicles roll by in a never- anding strom.
The hands of the clock point ed to $.05 o'clock when a sad faced, woebegono 'and, thoroughly sorry-looking pup of uncertain ancestry elected to stir up enough energy to dash into the street.
Came grinding of brakes and the shout of an irate Chinese driver. The front wheels of the dar missot the pup by inches. Apparelly encouraged by his success in avoiding sudden death, the papdashed in front of another car moving in the opposite direc- tion.
The driver, Chinese, brought up with a jerk, missed the pup, but fell the impact of another car in the rear. The second car which also stopped, with a jerk, was bumped by another car.
A Chinese constable, enraged over the pup's. affront to the dignity of a Chinese constable, took up the chase of the pup with nhue and a cry, mostly a hue. The pup evidently thought it was a game and that the constable was "It."
Traße was momentarily halted while the indignant constable chased the pup in and out amongst the motor cars and rickshas. An other chatable appeared to ald his brother enforcer of low and
;
man, (that's odd find For the name Is casentially
Spanish)
Not a shilling he missed; whon
they kissed his hard. fist, Deep Into his pocket they'd
vanish,
By
He
every device, from the screw
to the vice,
enrolled M'Todd § pounds, which was clannisli; Yet was prized loose at last from
the price of a fast, Second-hand, aporty roadster.
most mannish,
Excitement once cooled, he
declared he'd been fooled; Hypnotised; that his action was
feckless;
The expense of a car made him
tremble but baht -
He'd be brave; savo some pence
from the wreck: Lest
a burden should grow, quick he
Bauglit high and low Some employ ere his one book
grew chequeless...... Cartod cans, pots and pans, build-
ing, bricks, girder spans,, In his spare time, at rates simply
reckless,
?
order.
By now the ozone was filled (with, the blast of motor car horne
from impatient drivers. The pup His sought shelter under a motor car and refused to be coaxed or driveḥ out by the constables. The owner of the car, Mr. F. J. Schull, who
At the costs of oil, petrol and Can tyrosse
When free from his toil, he sought
second-hand oll
Or unearthed covers salvaged
from firos;
While bearings fast wore, and
developed a roar,
"And the bolts aquealed for
spanner and pliers, Angus mixed kerosono with his
fuel-which was lean- Swearing men who liked driving
were lare,
At the break of a day he was found
by a way
1
Side with bricks, like confetti,
around bim,
And the cause of it all-this con-
tact with a wall-
Was observed by the policemen
who found him;" Front tyres worn thin, a blow-out,
and a spla
Then the bricks tumbling down-
"ward to pound him; "Neath its layer of rust, the steer-
ing had bust,
And the engine had leapt out to
wound him.
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work through
the night brought fresh spasms of fright
Young Angus was ill,. but with
plaster and pilk
1
Ten doctors strove bravely to
cure him; +
Their efforts were vain, for
he died in disdain,'
Saying life had no
glamor to lure himi As his car was quite lost.
When he thought of
the cost,
He had not forti. tude "to en-
duro, it;
And passed out in
grief, babbling still hie belief;
"Men, it cost far too much to
insure it." (Sydney Sun).
admits knowing all about pups, THORNYCROFT SIX-extensive experienco. with six- Wunder, the car and uttered WHEELED VEHICLES
wonks or otherwise, crawled half-
strange unintelligible
Bounds
chleulled to soothe distracted] Order from Liverpool
pups.
Corporation.
provincial authorities to use them, wheeled vehicles, as one of the first and Thornycrofts are one of the pioneer manufacturers who re- cognised the potentialities of this type, and, specialising chiefly; on to the smaller vohicles, have supplied!
The pup waggled his tall-and walked out. Traffic moved again. The latest important users The work pup has a now home acquire Thornycroft six-whoolers several hundreds to users in this and master now: Mr. Schuhl. were the Liverpool Corporation, country and overatas. The larger who have placed an order for ten Thornycroft six-wheelers are now of the new type "FC low loading attracting the attention of muni- six-wheeled omnibus chassis, suit- cipal users, and this recent order able for accommodating 45 passen-from the Liverpool Corporation gers in a single deck vehicle; was the sequel to a very thorough This order is especially Interest-preliminary, inspection and trial of ing, by reason of the facts that the the 68/86 h.p. bix-cylinder Thorny- Liverpool Corporation have had croft six-wheeler.
THE STUDEBAKER
Ball-bearing Spring Shackles.
GREATER COMFORT.
The adoption of ball-bearing spring shackles. for the new line of champlin motor cars announced by Studebaker' is an added de- monstration of Studebaker's en- gineering lendership. These ahackles are exclusive to Stude- bakercars. Studebaker's new ball bearing shackles provide greater riding comfort, eliminate squeaka, rattle and adjustments and re- quire Inspection only at 20,000- mile intervals when lubricant may be added if necessary,
Before Studebaker engineers approved ball-bearing spring shackka, they were tested in more than 177,000 miles of driving on Studonker's 800-acre Proving Groint and 'ever U.S. transcon- tinental roads, tests more stringent than would over be encountered in normal use,
1.
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There was not one single hear- ing failure during these testa, and when they were completed, the ehackles Wor funcitoning
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quietly and as smoothly as the day they were put on the cara. Al- though some of the individual cars" had accumulated, a total of more than 35,000 miles, inspection re- vealed that no addition of lubr!- cant was necessary.
Buch tests proved the value of the all-bearing shackles beyond all doubt, Accordingly Stude- baker engineers approved them as standard equipment on all Stude baker President, Commander and Direler models. Coupled with deep luxurious upholstery and hydraulic shock absorbers which aro. sandard, these shackles give an unexcollod degree of riding comfort,
The average motor car owner, whit conselous of the presenes of spring shackles on his car, knows littl about them. Spring shacles provide a flexible, con- nexion between the spring and the frame, and are subject to a con- start back and forth motion enus- ed by springa flexing. If their factly, isn't, fres and smooth, springs cannot cushton road de prosjons properly-and. what is wors, rattles and squeaks and ex- perse of adjustments follow.
PROVIDE PARK TAXIS" -
In recognition, of his success in winning all four of the principal races in Europe last summer, To provide transportation Robert Benoist, the leading racing through Amerieng parks, -663 car-driver of France, was recently meter vehicles, with a capacity of made a chevaller of the Legion of more than 6,800 passengers, are Honour by the French Govern-operated by public utilities under ment,
government supervision..
JOHN I.
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