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HORN-BLOWING NUISANCE.
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
been very marked, we have a long Station the total number of hoots. road to travel before the position audible was seventeen! And in Is satisfactory.
(no caso did a driver find It 'neces-
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"In London the absence of hoot-[sary to emit a multiple hoot, or Writing from London to the tng is, after experience of Singu-anything more than a short "Pip." Straits Times on Nov. 18, Mr. R. pore, amazing. For instance, 1 "Again, driving up Park Lane on J. Furrer, President of the Singa walked the other day along a bug from Hyde Park Corner to poro Municipal Commissioners, Victoria Street just after dork in Marble Arch, there was not a makes another appeal to motor-the rush hour. The traffic ́ was single hoot to be beard, though the car owners to do all they can to comparable with that along Fuller- traffic both ways and into the Park mitigate the nuisance of horn-ton Road round 4.45 p.m., but there was very heavy. To me London blowing. He states:
was the same volume In both has proved what I havo been main- "Some threo years ago you were directions instead of merely a taining for years that is to say good enough to publish an appeal homeward rush, and in Victoria that the less a driver hoots the from myself for the co-operation Street there are a number of cross more attention is paid when he of car owners in roducing the roads into which vehicles were does uso his horn. noiso created by horn-blowing. Iturning and hecting to warn foot the Singapore traffic could In its more usual form it balance in which case it may raturn to the charge, for, though passengers. Between the Army
be taken up bodily on a Solomon's includes two universal joints, one whip, causing noticeable vibra the Improvement in Singapore nas and Navy Stores and Victoria Carpet and dumped down in Loa- just at the back of the trans- tion at high speeds, which to soma don there would be no room in the mission and the other just times wrongly attributed to the
the rear axle. engine. newspapers for correspondence on forward of any topfe other than the motor These may be of the fabric ... ROUGH AND READY OIL
TESTS. horn nuisance. I repeat my type, which require no lubrication. appeal for co-operation by all car but which need occasional inspec- users and trust that the Automo- tion to see that all nuts are tight.. bila Association will take the When the fabric discs, which give matter up while the bulk of our them their flexibility, begin to traffic is still comparatively small. crack and tear, they should be re- In a few years' time it will be too placed with new ones--not an ex- lato."
pensive job. Jolais of the metal type, with mechanical parts having tion which is too frequently denied relative motion, call for lubrica them, as they are located under the floorboards and somewhat inaccessible. One largely used:
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The following from the Sunday Times of Nov. 11 forms a rather Interesting commentary on Mr. Farrer's let "All who suffer by the noise of modern life and they are not hospital patients or victims me requires a supply of light simple tests that one can make
Question: Are there any
asc, introduced into its housing for oneself to determine the quali through a plugged opening or ties of engine oils? pressure-gun fitting at intervals exports
of the doctors on their behalf. A
of insomnia alone-havo been gladdened by the vigorous action
conference of traffic threatened to treat the problem an merely a matter of what kind of horn motor-drivers should use in city streets. The manifesto addressed to the Health Ministry by the British Medical Association cannot be swept up with mopn. iss timely reminder that oceana The intolerable, avoidable noises that injure the well being of the community rise from many sources; in the hue-and-cry after some comparatively minor offender we must not let the chief criminals escope. By common consent the haman nerves now than it was at city din is far more trying to the beginning of the century, in spite of the fact that in the inter- val rubber-shod wheels and asphalt have replaced iron tyres and stone setts. Our care have become inured to the dull even roar of a never-ceasing motor-
swelled stream of traffic, and are consequently more sensitive to high discordant sounds that to our
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IS ETHYLIZED GASOLINE DETRIMENTAL. contains tetra-ethyl-lead injurious Question: Is. gasoline which to the internal parts of engines? Some mechanics have told me that they have found it no
of about 1000 miles. Lubricant is provented from escaping from there of some value. If blue litmua housing by means of a cup-shaped papers, Immersed in the oil, be- stamping, threaded around the come more reddish in colour, it spherical outside surface of the acid. If the oil, when shaken for shaft and pressed against the should be rejected as containing housing, by a spring piece of several minutes with an shaped groove within the cup-shap-standing for some time, it is of string packing, retained in a ring volume of water, does not separato from it almost completely after ed piece, scaling the joint. This doubtful quality. If the oil, aft packing must occasionally be re-being heated for any 15 minutes in placed or grease will be thrown a receptacle placed in a dish of out rapidly. Another type of joint aand over a gas burner, hot enough is lubricated by oil injected into to just give off inflammable vapora its housing, through a plugged (as shown by a match applied over opening. With all mechanical
a very important to make sure that matter, after standing for a few universals, occasional inspection its surface), is found to have de- posited considerable black solid the bolts, which secure their hours, ita quality is questionable. flanges to their mate flanges on If a sample, exposed in a hottle the transmission and the pinion. shafta, are tight, for if the front for a few hours to the lowest tem joint gets "adrift," the drive shaft becomes too thick to pour readily, perature your car han to withstand, may fall to the road, probably it is hardly "coldproof" enough for damaging it and possibly causing satisfactory use. an accident. The presence of lest motion in the drive shaft, dus to wear in the joints, can be detacled by holding the rear Gange and having some one try to turn he forward one, with the transmission in neutral. Any considerable amount of lost motion will result in nonsiderable noise, especially on rough roads and in changing from forward to reverse car movement or vice versa. The worn parts, such as pins and hushings are not expensive and the labour required to replace them is not great, Most front universals embody a slip- joint, which permits slight changes of drive-shuft length at varying spring deflections. This is usually lubricated from the joint housing, but inny have a special pressure-gun Atling requiring at- tention. The bearhugs of the pinion- shaft, just at the back of the rear universal, usually are lubricated from the splash in the axle housing, but this may not be the case, under which circumstances there is a compression cup or pressure-gun fitting in the pinlon- shaft housing, which must be supplied with grease every few thousand miles. A drive shaft may not run true and in perfect CAPE TO CAIRO. Racing Motorists' Trip. DESERT AND JUNGLE.
Through desert and jungle Mr. G. 8. Bouwer, the South African racing motorist, has averaged just on 250 miles a day for 9,000 milles on his return journey across Africa from London which he left in August to Cape Town where he has just arrived.
He undertook the adventure to demonstrate the practicability of a highway between Cairo and the Cape and he travelled by a route which he had prepared for him- self seven months ago.
"Although I averaged 800 miles a day, over the iron-stone Nublan deserts," Mr. Bouwer states in a message to the Dunlop Co. In Lon- don, "and 500 miles a day on bush track in central Africa, T, had a bare thirty hours in which to com- plete the last and most difficult 1,000 miles and the slightest dolay would have ruined my chance. For the first time in my experience I drovo this last lap without one puncture; I had never previously had fewer than four on that route. "I had no mechanical trouble at all and only one crash when I hit a tree stump at speed, smashed two front springs, and bent a front axlo
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At one time Mr. Bouwer was 90 miles from any water eupply and he carried a 40 gallon petrol tank in the back seat with a five gallon auxiliary oll tank.
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continued tests have demonstrated Answer: No. Careful and long it to be harmless to engine parts, assuming that the gasoline used is free from any excess of sulphur.
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