THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
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-sturdy mileage, caring little for rough going and heavy loads.
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Dear fins,"
1. FRENTE AEREET.
Juhe 19th 1925.
· unclave herewith a photograph of one of the than in our fleet. We think the performence of the 24 x 7 tyres of your manufacture to be of porticu- ing interunt.
• The ventele has now souplated $1,000 mi
In just brar two years, and three of the original lyrte
are still in use."
The result is an interesting instance of the nervion which ps are obtaining from our Dunley tyre.
Yours faithfully bus 27D-
C. MAN SOX &
"Kanaging Dirastar.
"INVISIBLE DEATH" IN THE “U.S.
The Danger from Exhaust Gas.
is released
monoxide Before the danger season has carbon even arrived, reports have come through the exhaust. from all parts of the United States Riding in heavy traffic, with its of the death of motorists from dangers of carbon monoxide poison- carbon monoxide poisoning.
ing, is especially dangerous to grow.
tion.
Thus again, despite repeated ing children. Their failure to gain, warnings, "invisible death" takes their lack of appetite, poor colour, Its toll. Not only is this death in-flabbiness and susceptibility to dis- visible, it is odorlena, tasteless, cabe may be attributed to their colourless and swift in its destruc-intake of fumes from being driven
about in close traffic.
Poorly adjusted carburetors, like Investigations made In New
Idling motors, cause an undue York, Philadelphia, Chicago and amount of poisonous gas to leave other cities where traffic is con- the exhaust. It is therefore im- gested show that little of this gas portant that the carburetor bo ad- is needed to cause poisoning. Ajusted to the point at which it will day's exposure to the fumes that furnish most compléte combustion, reek from the exhausts of innumer rather than the greatest power, able motors in heavy traffic may be could very well be sacrificed to just as fatal as the foolish practice, health and life.
of working on a running motor in
The symptoms of chronic carbon
a closed garage. The difference is monoxide poisoning are a feeling of that the former is more protracted. Liredness, headache, nausea,
Itecently the Chicago department!
palpitation of the heart
of health investigated the amount and mental dullness. When this of carbon monoxide found in that
Bort of poisoning becomes city's streets. Nearly 700 samples acute the symptoms start with. of the air were collected at various yawning and sleepiness and range parts of the city. Those showed that while only one-seventh of the on to tiredness, feeling of tight skin across the forehead, a frontal total amount collected contained headache changing to one at the more than one-half part of the tanse of the skull, dizzeness, deadly gas in 10,000 parts of air, lassitude, sick stomach and finally ane-third of the samples from beu-unconsciousness. levards contained the same
It is possible that some of the amount. And in the Chicago mysterious highway accidents, ap- "loop" this proportion was evonparently due to the drivers' falling higher.
asleep at the wheel or being accused of intoxication, have actually been caused by carbon monoxide poison- Ing.
Slight Proportion is Dangerous,
It takes only two parts of carbon monoxide in 10,000 parts of alr-
Poisoning of this sort is more
a slight proportion in itself-te insidious in the garage where the cause dangerous symptoms, accord-victim is exerting himself in some Ing to health authorities. Yet in way by working on the car-80 crowded traffic when care, must breathing more deeply parts of the eroep along at 10 miles an hour and exhaust poison to 10,000 parts of clone together, the concentration of fresh air. carbon monoxide in air" becomes even greater than this.
In a closed garage, alded by deep breathing of the active victim, this death comes quickly and unwarned.
Rules for Prevention. Prevention is simple. First, no motor should be run in an en- closed garage, no matter how cold it may be outside.
With the approach of winter, heaters dre being installed in .closed enry. Many of these are of the type that draw In fresh air through funnel behind the radiator fan, This air is highly poisonous when the ear is close behind another, and
Even with the car outside, never this danger in increased when the get under it with the motor running. exhaust fumes of the car ahead areThat's getting too close to death, drawn into an enclosed body,
before has a chance to become diffused.
Because of this danger, traffic and health authorities advise motorists i to keep about 20 to 30 feet clearance between cars when traffic is, slow and congested. At the same time the heaters should be kept closed in order to avoid an Intake of the poisonous fumes ahead,
Fumes From Idling Motors. "When there is a hold-up of oven a minute the motor should be shut off. When a motor is idling it is even more dangerous than when it is: running at a good speed and pulling the car. For at idling speed not all the fuel is burned, with the re- sult that a greater proportion of
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Moors should not be raced. That's good advice not only for the benefit of the motorist, but for the longer life of the motor.
Carburetors should be adjusted for most complete combustion rather than for pick-up and power. Motors should not idle when stops over a minute long are made.
Radiator fan type heaters should be kept closed while driving slowing in heavy trafe.
Don't use the choke any more than you have to, out of considera- tion for the fellow behind.
Finally, to be altogether safe, keep out of traffic jams,
OUGHT DIPPING TO BE COMPULSORY?
Hastening the End of Dazzle Era.
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[By Capt. E. de Normanville in the Daily Chronicle.]
Motorists are already so fully encompassed with rules and re- gulations that one hesitates to suggest another. Yet I am won- dering whether the time is not nearly ripe for a definite law in regard to the dazzle problem.
At present we have a large number of cars equipped with some form of anti-dazzio. ap- paratus, And we have an equally large number not so equipped.
This is only natural to the tran- sition period. Should authority step in to hurry forward the end of the transition period?
Personally, I am disposed to an- swer "Yes"-assuming (if the as- sumption is not futile)
that Officialdom would handle the situation with reasonable telligence.
Dip.
The way to do so would be to fix a date a reasonable period ahend by which all vehicles using headlamps would have to have thèm equipped with anti-dazzle apparatus of approved principle, and use the apparatus when meet- ing other traffic.
I think an anti-dazzle lamp, to
give the light we are accustomed
to in this country, impossible of achievement.
SATURDAY, FEBRUARY
1929.
FIAT
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But by deflecting and dipping! SHALLOW DRAFT
side of the road we have a proven
the boam, or beams to the near
method which goes a very long way towards eliminating the dayżło
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