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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH
SATURDAY, 20th JULY, 1929.
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THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.
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Engineer's Claim.
STEER CAR BY RADIO.
Declaring that he has designed a racing car which will be steered by an invisible beam from a radio transmitter, Mr. P. 'C. -Amhurst Villiers, a young English engincér. aims to capture the world's speed record on Daytonk Beach in 1931.
The car is to have eight wheels, all direfly driven, he states, and it will weigh 4e tons. The motor is to develop 3,600 h.p, giving a guaranteed speed of 300 mp.h., and a maximum of 400 m.p.k.
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The feminine motor driver's "courtesy complex" is responsible for a large number of motor ne- ehlents, in the opinion of Mrs. Tipton, a policewoman of Florida FUS.A.
"The woman at the wheel feels that she is entitled to certain privileges, trafic laws or ao traffic laws and she is going to have them," says the policewomtan.
"She cuts corners, ignores traffic shunts, and makes pedestrians jump for their lives. Yet most of The serious car accidents are laid fo the man driver, for only about 15 per cent. of fatalities involve
women driveTS,
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INCREASED TRANSPORT FÀCILITIES FOR CHEUNG CHAU,
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The auxiliary On Tuesday, the 16th, July, of necessary life-saving appliances fequipment. successful trial was carried, out on as required by Government have comprises a 7 H.P. Gardner Semi- the "San Chan," built to the order) been supplied and fitted. On trial Diesel Engine drivingan air com- of The Hongkong and New Terri-the vessel proved herself to be an pressor and a Lancashire Dynamo tories Ferry Co., Ltd. by The efficient craft,
of 4% KW. for the general light-| Taikoo Dockyard and Engineering
Jing of the ship, (Co. of Hongkong, Lid. Representa= tives from the Owners, Harbour
The main engines impressed by The propelling machinery, sup their steady running under all Department, Buftders Machinery Agents were present.
and plied by Dodwell and Co., Ltd. jeonditions of load and by the case
consists of a twin set of Gardner with which they
Machinery.
reverse,
for
The "Sun Chau" in designed for Fall Diesel, Crude Oil Engines, manoeuvring the whole operatlon the Cheung Chau Ferry service each developing 162 B.H.P. at nor from full ahead to full astern, and was recently launched at the mal rating. Each engine is con- Taikon Dockyard by Mrs. G. Fplete with its own circulating occupying a matter of a
pump, bilge pump and air com capable of starting from dead cold"
Hole.
General Description.
pressor.
Jew seconds. In addition they are
without preheating of any nature.
type, transmission Diese) Marine Engines installed gears are dispensed in tongkong and' judging by the is housed an awkward steam-pro- 10'0" moulded depth, and has one reversing pelled automobile. It is the work complete drek with long bride with, the shafting and propellers trial, when i mean speed of over of Dr. W. E. Aiken, a former pro-Built to scantlings approved being driven fessor at the university, who is the Hongkong. Government, the clutches. said by many to have been the vessel is designed to carry 300) An auxiliary set and electricaly very popular, especially for. har- pioneer in such vehicles in Amer- passengers, Electric light is driven general service pump are bour work, where constant stop-
fitted throughout, and all the included amongst the engine room ping and starting is the rule.
The vessel is 120'0" between As the engines are of the direct They are the first Gardner Full At the University of Maryland perpendiculars, 23′6′′ beam and reversing
jca.
Peak Parking,
CURRENT
COMMENT
the fact that the locality where the ice-cream was enjoyed (until a
conviction Wan
direet through 11 knots was easily attained, this type of engine should provo
HYDRAULIC VALVES.
Plungers Instead of Rockers.
NOVEL GEAR PATENTED.
RUBBER'S USE,
110
Parts in Ford.
PURCHASE EX- PLAINED.
there are 110 rubber parts in the In addition to tyres and thbes, modal A Ford. These serve
One of the reasons for Mr. Henry Ford's purchase of vast rubber We have been requested 16 draw trailie officer interrupted the
Jarcas in South America is revealed, attention to the distraction causid feast) happened to be a busy one,
A system of operating overhead by an examination of the rubber on Stubba Road just below Jar
registered. valves by hydraulic plungers re-components in the Ford car. dine's corner, and near the bridgeSuch cases can only be dealt with cently was patented by the Research which spans the real at that point facturding to the associating cir- Division of General Motors Corpora Every morning a number of
be per- tion.
various purposes.. Some are in the private rara park by the roadside cumstances, for it must
In this patent the usual, me nature of anti-rattle devices for even as far as the bridge itself, feetly clear that the mere act of thus making it necessary for removing one hand from the steer. [chanical rockers are displaced by such acctions of a car, as are likely vehicles ascending the Peak oing wheel does not in any way in-two plungers operating at opposite to rattle after continuous rough sides of a central oil réservoir. use. Others prevent aquesking. travel for Rome distance on the terofore, with the careful driving The lifting cam of the cam shaft. The engine mountings are cushion- wing side of the white line. a vehicle. It all depends on forces a pappet and its united ed in rubber. Some time ago, we mentioned the what the other band happens to plunger up into the reservoir, and fnet that an Accident had been be doing, and the mere act of hold- the pressure thus exerted on the Fibrous compositions for small narrowly averted jual by the ing mi ice-cream cone does not ap- oil, forces down a plunger on the working parts that take no strain bridge, but since that time, the pear to be particularly careless. opposite side. To this plunger is of speed, heat, or reslatance have number of cars obstructing the The other case, concerning joined the valve, which Is ilus long been regarded, because of as advantageous. roadway by parking there has young man whose arm encircled forced open and held open until their silence, increased considerably. There is the neck of his fair passenger, the can movement releases Lite Ford's use of rubber as the main really no excuse for it, because a can most certainly be held to be pressure in the hydraulic chamber component of these parts, parking space has been provided | dangerous and we are glad to see Equalising springs are eniployed, account of the greater durabí- but a few yards on the other al je that the traffic police are out to but the action of a valve so operatiity that material allerds, is of the bridge. There is ample stop auch ill-timed flirtationa. ed ghould be almost noiseless. room for three or four ears to There is another type of driver, park on the side rond lending to- very hard to catch in the net, and
tions are enforced on the Penk as
on
another step in the evolution of rubber an un Important element in Jear improvement.
WHOLESALE SCALE,
U.S. Car Thieves.
wards the Peak School, and we he is the man who removes both to visualise the needs of the can see no objection to this being hands from the wheel in order to futuro as far as car parks are con- dune, but they must keep off the adjust the windscreen, hot ao cerned, and this refers to Hong- main road as the winding nature much for the sake of the wind- kong as well as Kowloon. At cer- rendera positively, unsafe to screen, but rather to impresa upon tain hours of the day, it la-fre- park on it in the locality in ques: those who happen to be in his cur quently impossible to secure space
ian. By next week we hope to be what a really clever driver he is! in Pedder Street, while all Amongst its millions, the U.S.A. able to report that trafle regula Parking.
"Jadjacent stands are taxed to the horses a thriving population of car Recent traffic 'enses at the Kowloon utmost. The street from Queen's thieves.
Here are the stolen car statistica well as in other parts of the Magistracy serve to emphasise the Pier to Den Voeux Road is still Colony.
paucity of parking space in the wasted under the present lack of of the principal elties for the last One-Armed Drivers.
vieinelty of the Kowloon Terry. Batem, although we observed two 12 months:-Detroit, 12,330 stolen, Two particularly Interesting The question is quite an urgent private cars the other day, which 11,000 recovered; Chicago; 11,966 recovered; Тон enses have been heard recently me, and it is to be hoped that it were parked facing outwards from stole. 10,404 concerning the question of driv-will be possible to devise a scheme the kerb. A Regulation should be Angeles, 11,460 stolen 10,171 re- ing a car with one hand. The which will provide greater space. drawn up at once making it com- covered; New York, 10,699 stolen, first dealt with a member of the We have so often stressed the pulsory for every vehicle to do 8,900 recovered. N, S. MOSES & CO., LTD., fair sex who droven car whilst point that provision must be made ikewise, and notice boards should
Solo Agents,
ono hand was occupied in holding for the future, and yet very little be erected in order that there be 6,000 an ice-cream cone, and owing to is done. It is surely not difficult no uncertainty in the matter.
Arabian Send, Dawn Grey, Niagara
Blue and Gun Metal Blue.
→
In these four cities alone, nearly cars. disappeared forever from their owners' ken.
(For Solo or Bide-car)
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