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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY MAY 11, 1929.
PEDESTRAIN'S RIGHT.
The fedonal appropriation for A recent decision of the U. S.
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highway ald for the year ending Court of Appeals is that the Wins Cup Outright. Simple Aust. Invention. July 11, next, amounts to $78,125,-pedestrian has the right-of-way 000. Toxas, with a share of moro whenever he steps off the curb| #than $4,531,000, recolves the big-while the "go" sign of, a traffic
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SWEDISH EVENT.
SEEN AT SHOW. One of the most important and
Probably the most elmole gas- most severe international motor reprodueer plant yet invented, the liability trials, is certainly the Reddie Low Grade Fuel Oll Burner, "Winter Cup" which is contested is now in. Sydney, and will be ex- each year in Sweden over a parti-hibited at the Royal Agricultural cularly difficult course. The roads are narrow, covered with snow and Show. Fitted to a Hart-Parr tras Ice, and are, in certain parte, almost tor, it will be seen on Messrs. Gibbs, impassable. The natural dillen) Bright and Company's atand.
The principles of this invention ties of the run are increased by the comparatively high average speed were outlined In The Sun. motor section some weeks ago, but the 36 miles per hour-imposed on Inventor Mr. Dalmore Roddie- the competitors, and by the length has made several small improve- of the course about 714 milesmente in the apparatus now fitted which have to bo covered in ono to the tractor, and has also tested stage without any intervals,
In this particularly difficult trial, his patent on a car, with, he states,
astonishing results. In spite of the participation of Used on an old model Buick four, competitors representing all that is best in the world's motor produc-which normally averages 18 miles tion, the Fint has many victories to the gallon, the gas-producer plant to its credit. The Cup was first supplied fuel from residual oil on a run for in 1900 and was won by a run of 450 milles, and averaged 38 Fiat car driven by Mr. Emil Salm- miles per gallon, he states. The son, who, with the same car, also saving is more apparent when the won in the two successive year that of residual oil, which costa d price of petrol is compared with The first Cup thus became the pro-
per gallon. perty of the Fint,
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Makes Gas of Old Oil. For several years no firm suc- ceeded in scoring three wins and
The object of the Reddio device is the second Cup was finally awarded to decrease the running costa of to Mr. Osterman who won the race tractors, trucks and buses by con"l with two different makes of car, inverting useless oil into fuel. Re- 1913, 1914 and 1925. It fell to thesidual ofl' is that drained from the lot of the Fiat to repeat the sumps of motorg when its lubricat- success of earlier years, winning ing life is ended." the third Cup with three splendid victories in 1926, 1927 and 1929.-
Mr. Groenkvist of Stockholm, the latest winner of the Cup, drove a 9 HP Fiat in the 1926 trini, a Model 603 Flat in 1927 and a Model 520 in 1929, that is, the most popular and most widely known models of the great Italian firm.
BACK INTO THE GOBI DESERT.
1929 Central Asiatic Expedition.
Sprayed under pressure and with an accompanying jet of air into a heated mixing chamber, the oil is cracked and converted into hydro carbon, an inflammable gas, heat for the mixing chamber is ob tained by placing it in the exhaust. manifold of the motor, so the cycle 1929 Central Asiatic Expedition of jearth 36,000,000 years ago. of operations means that the waste the American Museum of National
This is how Roy Chapman Andrews (shown in inset) vontures again into the Gobi desert
- in search of zemnants of the past. Hla auto caravan is outside the Chinese wall,
The
New York, April 6-When tho fantastic monsters that walked the "It was with the cars that all
of the fuel the exhaust-la sup- History, headed by Roy Chapman
Pasa Severo, Tesis,
plying the heat to produce more Andrews, sets out this spring into "Some of the gruelling testa our fuel gas. This method is simplici- the Gobi desert in the wilds of cars were called upon to meet
were standing under a broiling
the real exploring was deng,” he вара. "We were equipped with: 1400 gallons of gas and 100 gallons of oil, which were to last us five months.
Found Giant Fossil.
.
This year, the winner's driving aroused the admiration of every body; his car never stopped, except on the few occasions necessary forty itself, as shown in operation, as re-fuelling; the model 620 ran per- the only necessity to produce gas is central Asia, ita, chief means of laun with temperature at 140 fectly right to the end.
to keep the motor running, and the exploration will be the automobile. degrees, withstanding changes in "Our first base was established! produced gas keeps the motor run-
This expedition has ventured temperature of 70 degrees in five on a flat topped mosa above the ning.
"The initial heat to produce the year after year into this little hours and standing up with tem- valley of the Shara Murun rivbr first supply of gas is obtained by explored section of the world in peraturo at 45 degrees below zero From here we began the explora starting the motor in the usual way an effort to bring back to civiliza as wind breakers before our tents, tions which culminated in the find: with petrol, which can be shut off, tion secrets of a forgotten past. while blizzards heaped snow two less that now ranks as the largest ing of that giant beast still name: as soon as the temperature of the In early years expeditions were feet deep along the desert they mammal that over roamed the
Some-would cross the next day.
The Swedish Winter 'Cup" valued at 5000 crowns, thus forms a fitting reward for the driver's skill and the perfection reached by the Fiat in the building of large numbres of its current models.
Supertwist Strength Can Be Seen
This machine shows you the 60% greater stretch in Goodyear Supertwist Cord. This extra stretch gives to the Goodyear Supertwist tyre body its added strength and life, enabling it to withstand road shocks and continuous flexing without
premature failure.
exhaust manifold around the mix-
ing chamber is sufficiently high to transported by camels, crack residual oil. This happens times as many as 1,700 cameis within a few minutes.
formed the caravan,
world. "Rivers 30 feet wide and four "In trailless country our COURBON. [foot deep were crossed where there wore. set, by compass. At night The efficiency of the invention But in 1922 Andrews took a were no furds, the care being we took our position from the They rushed at full speed, showers of navigators use at sea and plotted Jatars, worked it out by the tables:
could be increased by the addition
of a tank to store the superfluous fleet of five automobiles.
gas produced and not burned when proved so satisfactory that the spray shooting out from the sides the course, the cars would follow the motor is idling. This would following years have seen this of the hood as we forced our way the next day. give a ready supply when quick ac number increase to eight. All are up the opposite bank.. celeration is needed. The opera-
tion could be made clearer by atting products of the Dodge Brothera
"Our 'caravan fought a way Other obstacles included a through sand and rock, through a reservoir to trap the tar and real factory in Detroit.
5,000-mile trip over the sand with blizzards, flood and sand-storm, residues of the oil which are ejected
"Our motor caravan of eight treacherous stretches of quick-across the desert and back to the from the mixing chamber; but
world of roads. these do not affect the palpable Dodge cars, making 100 miles sand, desert storms which at times ulity and possibilities of the in- dny," said Andrews before he left literally buried our caravan as we "This is why, when the Central vention.
here, has permitted us to do vir- lay in our tents waiting for them Asiatic Expedition of 1920 atarla A company known as Low Grade tually 10 years of camel explora- to paas, grades where the cars west from Kalgan into the desert Fuel Burners, Ltd., is being formed tion in one season and has enabled seemed to stand on end, and acres again, this spring, the American flag of the leading car will fly producer. It is estimated that the us to blazo a now trail into the of rocky terrain.
Andrews expects to continue over the same fleet of cars, travel- plant can be fitted to a motor at a great sand wastes, across a land this year the explorations of lasting into a roadless world where cost of £45..
even camel trains seldom go.” (where petrified bones are found of }year,"
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