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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, · MOTORING SUPPLEMENT,
HENTS
SATURDAY, JUNE
1929,
AMERICA'S PROPOSED NEW TUNNEL.
FOR THE
MOTORIST
ALBERT L. CLOUGH
BACK WITH CARE!
eno
at
HOLLAND TUNNEL UPPER
BAY
DSON RIVER
HARROWS
PROPOSED TUNNEL
LOWER
BAY
It is a well-known fact that fully are "cut" and which way the car as many of the minor damages will turn. Have a good, well ad- Auffered by cars are sustained Justed rear view mirror and use it. when they are moving ahead and Look out for pedestrians behind- accidents to pedestrians, by their specially at cross walks. Never being backed into, are by no means assume there is no car directly be- uncommon. Crumped mud guards, hind ours, because there was none dented gasoline tanks, bent tyre when you stopped, for carriers and spare rims, broken may have arrived there un- Homos and damaged radiators, noticed. Lot someone else
caused by backing, collisions, are pilot you, when backing more numerous than ever before, night or in ticklish eltuations. In- JOW that curbs are overcrowded stall a backing light, if possible.. with parked cars and the over- Valve or Piston-ring Leakage7 whelming prepondorence of closed Question-One cylinder of my cars has greatly increased these acengine has much less perfect com çidents. Novice drivers, who are pression than the others. I have: cunfused as to which way their cars ground and reset the valves with are going to turn, when on reverse, the greatest care, but still this who do not have delicate control of cylinder Jenks gas, so I surnose the the accelerator and who let the leakage must be past the platon. clutch in with a sudden jerk are re- How can I find out certainly who- sponsible for many of these ther this is the case or whether the smashes, while "dashing" operatora, valves stil leak? who do their backing with a rush, Answer: Put a couple of table- can be blamed for a goodly pro spoonfuls of alcam cylinder or portion of them. Safe back-other very heavy oil into this, ing in daylight requires suf- cylinder, Through the spark plug ficient care, but backing in hole and turn the engine over with darkness calls for the utmost the starter until, this is worked in
New York, April 22nd. What stopped and has never been resum- cantion and many manu- back of the rings. This should will probably be the greatest un-led since Hylan left office. facturers, reconizing this fact, are seal them against leakage unless derwater construction task modern equipping their cars with backing they are in very bad condition. engineering has ever undertaken project brought action in the city Recent revival of interest in the lamp, which throw a strong light Then crank this cylinder over and will be the proposed vehicular legislature and Mayor Walker to the rear, while reverse gear is if compression seems much improv-tunnel across The Narrows, under pledged his support to the move- engaged. Such lights can readily el. it is practically certain that New York Bay, connecting Brook-ment: The outcome is the present be installed on old cars and their most or nearly all of the escape is lyn and Staten Island. adoption should be more general. A good rear bumber Installation
hicular tunnel, the underwater this tunnel runs from $60,000,000 The success of the Holland ve Estimated cost of constructing affords nearly complete protection
link between Manhattan Island for the shorter course to $75,000, avainst collision. damage to a ear which is being backed, for alene it
and New Jersey, evidently im-1000 for the longer. A present plan is moving unreasonably fast on re-
pressed officials to such an extent for paying for the construction as verse, the bumper will harmlessly running very well, but the steer-Brooklyn and Staten Island for an dent McKee, and looked upon with that the demands of residents of suggested by Aldermanic. Presi absorb the shock of impact with a ing gear turns so hard, as compared outlet for Jersey bound traffic will favour by the city, is a tol method tree, pole or another car. How-with those on late cars, that it is ever, as there is still a large pro- a fatiguing job to work it into and all probability be realized of financing. portion of cars, which have only out of parking, places, under pre- through this tunnel. front bumpers or no bumpers at all, fent crowded conditions. Would it.
The board of estimate and up-
past the rings, Leakage past a piston can generally be heard as a hissing sound, when one listens at the breather pipe opening.
Lower Ratio in Steering Gear. Question. My 1919-car is still
This bird's-eye sketch of New York harbour shows how tho proposed tunnel under the Nar rows in New York Bay would further link traffic between that city and New Jersey. A com parison in length of the lubes may be noted between the existing Holland tunnel under the Hudson and either of the proposed routes neru as the bay.
[plan
By Trench or Shield. Engineers will consider two
carrying a rear bumper does not be possible to improve this gear in Portionment of New York has methods in constructing the tun- prevent inflicting damage to ether any way, so I can manoeuvre the directed the board of transnortnel. One is known as the trench
and
tion to select a route and prepare plans for the tunnel. This means method. The other is known that everything is in readiness for the shield method. Lonstruction as soon as details are. In the former, which was uned worked out.
In the construction of the Holland
This
eurs by backing into them. More-car with less effort? over, the height of bumpers is not Answer: You might write the uniform enough on all cars, to in- manufacturer of this gear and see adre their lining up and meeting, if he can furnish a smaller worm in collisions, and sometimes the or larger worm-genr or both which bumper of one car passes ander that will fit to the name housing. If of the other, und damage to car you can get these and substitute themselves. One in consideratione tunnel is assembled and lala Two possible routes present vehicular tunnel, the iron shell of parts still results. Here are a few them for your present worm and is the abandoned. Hylan freight on the sea bed. It is then suckin suggestions as to avoiding rear year, you will then have a greater tunnel, started in 1923, on which
mashes: Unless you know that mechanical advantage
a trench dug alongside it and the $6,000,000 was expended during method is used in case of a rocky
secured with concrete. the "coast is clear." never back wheel will turn easter, but of course, the former mayor's term. except at the lowest possible speed. you will have to turn it more to When in eluae quarters, never back deflect the front wheels by a given
sen bed. unless you know how the wheels angle.
The shield method is employed when the son bed is composed of This route, should it be selected mud and soft substances. Cast would extend from Brooklyn to iron circular bands at each end of Fort Jeorge, Staten Island. would entall underwater construe soft earth by means of compressed It the tunnel are forced through the tion of about two miles and would air, Workers in the tunnel are be between 70 and 75 feet below protected by a shield and water is this route consists of twozhaf: These two shields meet in the cen
on kept out by compressed air pumpai borings, 24 feet in diameter.
tre of the tunnel, completing the
12,834 MORE.
Week's Record Output.
MILE-LONG TUNNEL. Road Through
stone.
Two-Mile Bore.
Sand-sea level. Abandoned work
The second route to be consider-bore.
ed is that from Fort Hamilton, Shafts sunk in the bed of the Staten Island. This route would tunnel will determine the composi Brooklyn, to Fort Wadsworth, bay and at the extremities of the call for underwater constructfortion of the sea bed and the method of about a mile, but would have to be used. be worked at a greater depth than that of the Hylan tunnel-100 feet.)
Ventilation Problem.
Motor plants in the U.S.A, and Canada prudinced 189,422 motor!
A tunnel for motor vehicles, vehicles in the week ending Moren tending a mile through solid 6, 1929. This was an increase of Zion-Mount Carmel highway, in Bandstone, is a fenture of the 12,834 over the previous week, the western part
of the U.S.A. and was the record for the year.This tunnel is nearing completion The greatest individual total In addition to the boring of the was Ford's 44,250 vehicles (include tunnel, galleries are opened up ing 150 Lincolns,), while General every thousand feet, which will Motors combined rolled 47,112 nke I poss.ble for tourists on vehicles off the production lines.
this highway to look out into the inspiring panorama of Zion The greatest proportion of the Canyon, one of the most nu tunnel is to be 20 feet in diameter land tunnel, the actual labour and General Motors output was sup-nificent stretches of scenery in the plled by Chevrolet, with 30,000 country. units. This was an increase dl
1000 a day over the preceding During 1928 the General Motors week, as all plants swung inte Corporation sold nearly 2,000,000 higher production of the six.
cars.
THE SEASON STARTS.
THERE IT 18-ALGUNED)
UP LIKE A MILLION DOLLARS
ALL SET
SUNDAY NIGHT
SUNDAY MORNING
While money has already been Ventilation of the tunnel will be expended on the Hylan tunnel and the most difficult of the engineer- two shafts sunk, this is thought of ing tasks, it le said. As was the as no advantage because the new ease in the construction of the Hel and the present shafts are only 24 boring of the tunnel is a process feet wide Practically the same of mathematics and mechanical work would have to be done to en-labour. But science enters the Jarge these borings to the required ventilation angle and difficulty la diameter.
expected here, This factor also Another disadvantage of the may have some influence in the Ifylun route would be the two-mile location of the lunnel route. stretch of underground work- According to J.. B. Snow, chief more than a mile longer than the of the tunnel division of the board Fort Hamilton-Fort Wadsworth of transportation, the actual con- struction to "chilld's play," compar-
course,,
ed with the ventilation problem.
If the longer of the two tunnel
Planned for 20 Years. This tunnel is by no means a routes is decided upon, it will ex- sudden inspiration. It has been ceed the length of the Holland tun- under discussion for twenty years, ne! by more than a mile in under- A harbour strike brought the ques water construction. Then, too, it tion of the tunnel to the front dur-will be about 15 feet deeper under in Hylan's term. His idea was to water. If the shorter course is construct a freight tunnel and décided upon it will exceed the with this idea in mind work was Holland tunnel by almost a third alurted. This in no way would of a mile in underwater construc. relievo vehicular traffic and this tion. This route would make it fact was brought to the attention almost 40 feet lower than the Hol- of Governor Al Smith. Work was land tunnel.
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