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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
AFTER AN AIRPLANE CRASHED.
Railroad crossings are bad enough, but look out when you get in the way of an airplane. Hero's what might happen. It happened to the driver of a brand new auto at Hoover Field, Washington, D.C, when the airplane pilot misjudged his landing distance and crashed into the parked car. Two, persons in the car were injured.
Mileage Headquarters
right this way!
Goodrich Silvertowns
"Beat in the long Run
We do business on the oldest rule of success-the ruis of giving our customers the most for their money.
The most mileage from your new tires-because we have chosen, from our experience, the res we know deliver the most.
SOLE AGENTS:
For Hongkong & South China.
• LESS SQUEAKS.
MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
By forming the sheet metal into box and other sections, it is given a strength and rigidity far beyond that of wood, while the lightness
Quiet Bodies Wanted. and durability are greater than the
EFFECT OF SPEED.
wood constructio- formerly used: Perhaps the greater gain for the manufacturer is the alisolute uni- formity of the pieces turned out on these dies. Every part is inter- changable with every, other from the same die.
SATURDAY, JANUARY 6, 1929.
BY THE WAY
HUDSON TUNNEL TRAFFIC.
Duplication Probable.
New York, Nov. 28th-Ono year's operation of the Holland,
Handles Heavier Traffic. The estimated capacity of the
No matter how good the per- formance of a car may be, if it is accompanied by a series of squeaks, rattles and groans from
Very closely allied to the stamp-A NEW automobile wheel re- Tunnel under the Hudson river here 100 vehicles a day the body the owner will take no ing made from sheet metal is the cently perfected in England has not only proven its value for This estimate has been surpassed pleasure or pride in the vehicle. forging made from the bar stock. has no hub. It is attached the relief of traffle between. New several times during the year, es pecially on the opening day when Manufacturers have realized this Here, again, the art has advanced to the axla of a car by means of Jersey but has indicated the like 52,000 vehicles went throughs completely, but to produce really tremendously in the last few years. oyelets fitted onto the spokes of a hood that another tunnel might mostly for the novelty of it. On quiet bodica has presented more The result le that we find a greater wire wheel, and through a thread-have to be bulit to take care of the many Sundays, especially during problems than many have been able number of forgings used in place od hole in the centre of the front increased trafic.
the touring season, the traffic came to solve. In fact, the day is still of castings, with another gain in row of spokes.
(not far short of this high mark and ' far distant when absolute noiseless- lightness and strength. The broc-
Although the New York and New well above the estimated capacity. Jersey state legislatures have given
Yot no trouble has been experi- |·
Indefinitely in spite of travel at all the great increase in strength in Flision to date kinds of spoed over all kinds of the bracketing of the chassis. No Dub: Two motorista aftor
one would have thought of banging the same pedestrian.
ness of the body will be maintained ing of the body has kept pace with FLUB: What caused that col-
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the tunnel commission' 20 years to
tunnel, the authorities in charge greater traffic. The ventilation la make up the original cost of the fenced in the tunnel dospite the roads
Though we are far from perfec-a sedan over the road ten years
bolleve they will meet this demand such that it can easily be fitted to take care of the largir tumber of tion, rapid strides are being made ago as we do to-day and still hope
THE
cars and the Increased exhaust In that direction and the proud to have a quiet body at the end of "cash in hand" value of within half that time.
the nine largest automobile
These are the outstanding pro fumes, without raising the carbon owner of a 1928 or 1929 car can 500 miles of travel.
companies, excluding Ford, spects for the Holland tunnel, the monoxide content above the safety be certain that will be ablo to Great Speed Requirements. count on more quiet miles from the To-day cars are oporated at for this year is $361,000,000, an first great underwater vehicle tun body than was likely or even pos speeds far in excess of those of a increase of $45,000,000 over last nel in America, as viewed from the mark of two in 10,000 of fresh a sible with a 1926 model.
There are two good reasons for at 50 miles an hour through the this advance in body construction. unpopulated sections of the country They are, first, better construction; are common oven with cars of the second, heavier materials. Just to lowest prica class. The cars are nake a quick comparison, taice the designed to stand it, not only as fenders of one of the cars coming regards the engine and the chassis
The only difficulties encountered been of a minor nature. Most of 1927 has been marked by a alight operation.
The tunnel was built at a cost them have been traffic violations, decline in business,
of $48,000,000, for the payment of such as winding from one lano to CIENTISTS meeting in Paris which a toll is being taken of all another. There have been about vehicles passing through it. Its 100 minor fires in the tunnel, due recently predicted that within a short time man will been completed, the authorities find These have been quenched quickly first year of operation having just mostly to overheated brakes.
tained by the police forco assigned to the tunnel.
few years ago. Long sustained runs year. This is surprising, sinen returns made in its first year of in the operation of the tunnel have
through now and compare them/but also the body. When it is re-bo travelling 750 miles an hour: that it has met its annual payment (by the efficient fire system main
with those of a ear of two years membered that the stresses on a They point to the marked increase ago, of the same price class. Al- body, go up with the square of the in nuto speed records between most invariably you will see that speed, every time a bump on the 1921, when it was 107 miles an the car of to-day has a heavier road is struck at 50 miles an hour, hour, to 1928, when a new record gauga material in the fenders and instead of being compared as five of nearly 216 miles an hour was
to three with a bump struck at set. that the die work is better.
30 miles an hour, the ratio is 25 to nine: In other words the stress
In
Much Less Tianiness,
This Improvement is not confined
on the body is nearly three times
$
INCE 1918 when the federal aid highway system was start-
to the fenders. The body sheet-ns great.
ed, the government has spent, work is heavier, in the small cars All of the improvement in body as is share, nearly $613,994,000 in particularly. Cara in the lower silence is not confined to the body the construction of this system. price classes are using materials alone, but some the credit must that formerly were only thought of go to the more rigid chassis com-TWENTY-THREE of the 'United States cities with populations connexion with cars selling struction used. Where we former-
of 100,000 or more have had around the $2,000 mark. The re-ly believed in having a fair amount sult is that there la not so much of flexibility in the chassis, to-day less accidents during September there is very little. There are this year than during the same "Linniness" in the bodies,
Parla are being made from twice as many cross-members used pressed steel to-day that formerly in the chassis and the bracketing month last year, according to the National Automobile Chamber of of the gueseting were made of wood. It is possible and
Commerce. to make these parts of pressed steel members is very much more sturdy. because of the quantities being pro- The result of this is that fewer
cross-
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duced. The cost of dies is aa bigh stresses are passed on to the body. M
that it is not possible to use many The chassis absorbs them. pressed steel parts unless the volume of production is high enough
to justify purchase of the dies. U. S. RECORD RUN,
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Koyamally Building, 22, Queen's Road, Central,
'Phone C, 4915.
All sorts of Automotiva Accessories also in stock,
Brockway Trucks
has
advanced to a degree where it is possible to take a cet of steel
and do things with it that would
have seemed unbelievable oven to the best of pressed steel men ten years ago.
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13,000 Miles in 21 Days.
CHRYSLER USED.
A model long distance automobile record and a remarkable exhibition of motor car stamina and durability were, completed when Mr. Albert O. Bush and his relief, driver and mechantelan, Theodore) March, recently returned to Can- ton, Ohio, 21 days after they had left it, in a 1924 Chrysler "70" touring car for a drive "Round the Itim" of the United States.
In the three weeks of their absence their itinerary had taken them through every boundary state of the Union and along the Atlantic, Gulf and Pacifié coast! lines, They added 13,456, miles ́to the 50,000 already registered on their car's speedometer, making an average of 636 miles a day. The actual elapsed time for the trip was 21 days, 4 hrs. 6 min.
Their daily telegraphic reports show that from the time they left. Canton they headed east, and all the way down the Atlantic const, they ran into I Auc- cession of furious rain- storms, which In New Hamp #hire reached the proportions of a cloudburst. Detours through miles of mud, often hub-deep, dragged down their average running time, and wash-outs entailed long delays until streams could be forded or crossed by improvised bridges.
But troubles encountered along the Atlantic shoreline seemed in the drivers' memories like mere joyriding when the Gulf states were reached and the adventurers ran into the swirling waters of the Mississippi floods, Between Juck sonville and New Orleans they were compelled to detour no less of than 1,100 miles by way Memphis and to go down the west bank of the river in search of the least affected section of the sub- merged area. At one point in this part of the trip the Chrysler "7"! was running continuously in two feet of water for a distance of 22 miles.
Fine weather and good roads in California and Oregon gave the drivare a chance to bring up their daily average and they took full advantage of the improvement. But in the high lands of Washing- ton winter snows still remained to hamper them and through Montana and Minnesota they found themselves once more In the thick of bad weather and renewed their carlier struggles with mud and impassable road- waya, The rivers of Montana were flooded almost as much as In the south...
The "Round the Rim" record is the second notable Chrysler long distance feat in the United States! this summer. It followed closely upon the Coast-to-Const-and back again dash of Louis B. Miller, who drove a Chrysler Imperia! "80" from San Francisco to Los Angeles by way of New York In one minute less than a week,
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almost up to the last cent.
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Pay High for. Gas,
And there have been quite a fow
Nearly $5,000,000 Income. This payment, according to the 20-year estimate, should be $4,- 900,000. The first year's opera-stalled cars holding up traffic for tion has brought in $4,700,000 in only a short time. These tolls and other charges from the that stalled because of iso motorista 8,500,000 vehicles that passed no have had to pay $1 a gallon for the fuel brought them by the tun through it.
nel by the small tractor maintained for this purpose.
In all the time motorists have travelled through the tunnel, despite the heavy traile on Sun-
But, say authorities, that is only the first year. Gradually in- creasing trafic with correspond- ingly increased revenue is expect
from year to year.
the natural increase of population any ill affect from the exhaust This is expected to result from days, not one person has reported
in New York and New Jersey, gases within. This is due to the from increased one of buses and efficient ventilation system in the trucks, from growing Industries tunnel. especially on the New Jersey side, A 72-mile galo is forced through OTORIST: I'm sorry I ran and particularly from an expect a large vent below the pavement by
ed tendency on the part of rall powerful fans at either end. roads to unhold their freight in frequent Intervals this gale rushes Jersey City to be carted to New upward through side openings into York by tunnel.
fthe tunnel and is drawn out again.
over your hen. Would dollar make it right? Farmer; Well, better make it two. I have a rooster that was
Shock might kill him, too.
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traffic become that the present longitudinal draught, while the So great may this commercial toward the top Thus there is no tunnel may eventually be limited motor exhaust is drawn upward and to commercial trucking only, with out by the shortest possible route.
The result is a change of fresh new tunnel alongside taking
More than air every minute and a half and no care of passenger cars.
mighty fond of that hen, and the
cent. of THIRTY-TWO per
pedestrian fatalities in trame accidents throughout the United States last year were listed 5,000 trucks and 600 buses pasa discomfort to the persons within as caused by children playing in through the tunnel daily, while an Between 25,000,000 and 30,000,000 streets or disobeying traffic regula-average of 25,000 vehicles has persons have thus passed through
been maintained through the year. the tunnel safely, tions.
The new Buick is the new Style
Men and women on every street-- --in every city and town--are pro- nouncing the new BUICK.with Masterpiece Bodies by Fisher.the most beautiful automobile of the day-
Never before in the history of motor car manufacture have the motorists of America welcomed any new automobile as they are welcoming the Silver Anniversary Buick with new. Masterpiece Bodies by Fisher! Sweeplog into the market at a time when motor car lines were practically standard. ized-when imitation was destroying indi. viduality-these epic Buick creations intro daced an entirely new mode→
A mode of body-symmetry~of size and magnificence of soft contours instead of straight lines of embossed side and hood
The Silver
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panels involving the most costly steel paneling work employed on any car la the world!
And as the weeks have passed-and the fell significance of Buick's achievement has become apparent to the public-enthusiasm for this car has swelled and grown to uns precedented proportional
Buick sales records have been broken! Production schedules have been increased again and again! The grest Buick plants are working to the limit of their capacity to supply the demadd.
Anniversary
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