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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
THE AUTOMOBILE REMODELING LIFE.
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The Age of Communication.
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[By James D. Mooney,]
SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 2, 1929.
LOWER BODIES.
Smaller Wheels Predicted.
Spain; to the men who produce taxi-cabs pound over cobbled pave- graphite and barium and asbestos ments. The narrow streets and tantalum and tungsten and Cairo and Bagdad and all the cities Hilk and cotton from a score of
of the East are as warm with the lands.
the sume ears. the same trucks, Shippers and haulers, dock men same buses that ply the boulevards and stevedores feel the direct ef of Denver and Boston and Los fects as the raw material posses Angeles. At a "dangerous inter- into the factories and the complet-section" In the city of Suva, in the ed product moves out again. Then, Fiji Islands, n half-naked, bushy- reaching in the other direction, is haired traffic policeman solemnly
A few weeks ago a car another endless chain, embracing turns his "atop" and "go" signala the men who sell the cars, the men at regulur three-minute intervalaing Pennsylvania "license plates bobbed up in California and later. who service, them, the men who from dawn to dusk.
Realty Values.
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GOOD ADVICE.
Walking to the Common Danger.
A COSTLY HABIT.
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"This poor woman appeara to have acted like a silly Eon," said Mr. D. Cowbarn, the coroner at a recent inquest at Camberwell, SE, Benefits of the Low-slung Cat, after a jury had found that her However, this is not a disserta- manner in which she stepped off death was due to the careless "On the night of July 13, 1789, Mass production and mass consump-sell all and gasoline. Behind these I remember a trip I made a year in New York City. It drew ation on front wheel drive cars. the parement. young Parisian cobbler named Jean tion were made possible solely as a are the workers in the oil fields,ago up-country from Rio de Janeiro fcrowd wherever it happened to be They are merely mentioned as one Lenoir went to bed at his ac consommence of the development of the distilleries and the tank yards, in Brazil through the vast State lower than the average car on the his sleeve to make cars lower if be a warning to others not to
much of the ways the engineer has up parked. This car was so
"only hope that this case will eustonted hour. On the morning of mass transportation, and maas all creating new wealth.
of Minas Gerace. In a little village
was the public over insist upon it. Press the road heedlessly. It has road that it immediately July 14th ho arose, dressed and transportation remains today the
more than 100 miles from broke his fast. He then laboured determining. Factor in the growth Then there are the less, visible nearest railroad I stopped at a evident that some different type of From an engineering standpoint been held by His Majesty's judges until nightfall in his tiny shop at of the economic structure.
but equally potent factors attend-modest building which housed what construction was employed than there are many arguments for and that there is a duly a judges drivers to take due care, but there 14 Rue Piépus. After a dinner of
Parallel with it runs the supporting the use of the motor car. Per we would know here as the "general that used in the ordinary car. against the front drive.
And this certainly was the case.)
It is certain that with present pedestrians to take reasonable is a duty equally imposeil on thick soup, potatoes, black bread ling factor of improved communica-haps the most obvious benefit re-story" of the community. The pro-The car was a front drive type. and wine, he took his diary and tion of ideas. Without the telephone, sulting from the growth of automu prietor had. prospered, in his way. The front of the car toward the road speeds it is very desirable for care, and not suddenly to dart wrote in it: "Rien d'extraordin the telegraph and the wireless it bile registration in the United and a year before had bought an driver and the propeller shaft was a car to have a low centre of gray-backwards and forwards, giving aire aujourd'hui" (Nothing, out of would be impossible to build up and States is the increase in realty American, automobile. Prior to
There is feeling about a drivers no chance.' ity. a short unit that took the drive to the ordinary to-day),
to maintain is an intelligent and values that has accompanied. it that it had taken him, in his but the two short axles at the front low hang car that inspires con- The Rue Picpus is situated a coherent state the complex organi- Suburban areas have erept steadily lock curt, more than ten days to of the car. The rear axle
fidence in
When the driver.
Wise words which every rounding a curve, the car will not motorlat will endorse. little more than a kilometer from zation that alone can conduct com- outward from their urban centres. go to the railhead and back again. simply a dead member with a the Place de in Bastille. On that mercial opérations on a vast scale.
80 In many places waste land a mile His wife and daughter had been wheel spindle at each end. All tend to get up on two wheels 14th day of July, 1789, a mob of
But if communal transportation from the railroad station has he there twice. The rest of their steering and propulsion was easily, and it is easy to feel this stormed the has increased social activity and come solidly built
when driving. A car that hugs thei men und
up. Father lives they had spent barefoot, through the front axle.
Irond well is restful to drive as prison, freed the prisoners
and neted so powerfully as a stimulant would never have taken the family dressed in the simplest calico, in razed the building to the ground. to growth, what are we to say of into the hills unless, mother with the little village of 200 souls wherd Because of this type of con- compared with one which hus Young Lenoir could have seen the the development, only now reaching the trusty car were ready to drive they had been born.
struction, with no differential rolling tendency on curves.
A costly habit is that of "riding" clouds of dust over the housetops practical maturity in the United him down each morning to the 8:15. Today, with his motor car, this under the rear seat and with body
There are a few steps that every the clutch. Slight pressure on the had he not been so busy at his States and merely · nascent else.
Equally significant with the man goes down to the railhead at woll down in the frame, it was, bench. If he had listened, he whore, that is rapidly putting movement of the city dweller to least once a week, and once a month possible to make the car so low maker can take in keeping the car pedal causes the clutch to slip and
close to the ground. Some have consequently hent" might have heard the shouts of the mobility and mastory of destiny the open spaces is the return of the he takes his family with him. The that the appearance crowd and the spasmodic fusillade into the hands of that ultimate farmer to gregariousgess. It was wife and daughter wear silk stock striking. The way the passers-by not handled the situation in the burns the clutch plates and cheat of the handful of defenders. He social unit; the
family? The against all laws of human experi-ings now and emulate the latest stopped to look at it and thronged same way as others, but in gen-the friction surfaces saw and heard nothing. For him, necessity for mass transportation ence for the settlers of our West Paris (ashions. There are three about it was very good evidence tra lowness is being secured by the use of small wheels, the "rier: d'extraordinaire" had will always exist, but its advantages to, sentter themselves over
that the public is interested in this the radio sets in the village and nine
doubledropped frume, low mount- happened that day.
are being tremendously wigmented countryside at, intervals of
ing of body in the frame, under- One banana type of vehicle. Years passed, and then the age today, and will be augmented more five, twenty of fifty miles. Man grower has just discovered that he While it will never be possible, slinging of springs and low of communication dawned. There and more in the futuro, by the ex- has always huddled in and about can move his entire crop to the as far as we can see now, to lower seating. The lower seats require followed a complete revision of tended use of the automobile. small towns. He is a highly social railhead, instead of letting two the car which drives through the greater body length or else the car every practice, every habit, every
It does not seem an exaggera anitnal, and only economie necessity thirds of it rot on the ground, by rear axle as much as is possible will be short on leg room, value that mankind knew. In the tion to say that the motor forced him, in our own pioneer using a motor truck for his hund-with the front drive it is possible short span that, has since elapsed, car is' the greatest creator days, in the opposite direction. By red-mile haul. Prosperity is com-to make many of them lower than It is not likely that we will go the life of the, avegage inhabitant Jof wealth this world hast of the Western World has become known. The increased use of ing distance the motor car bussion is coming with it, and cor- to see some further developments teenth-inch
ever the simple 'expedient of annihilating to that little village, and educa- they are now and we may expect any smaller on wheels. The eigh
diameter wheel is straight belt line and hood give an richer by far than the lite of the indivishal motor transport has brought him back as close to the tainly a higher degree of happiness. along this line. As
small enough. In fact there are appearance far as
of length without wealthiest polentate in ages past. shered, in an era of unparalleled village as the pensant in previous Extraordinary Things, front drive is concerned, its future many who do not believe in using great height. This is what makes The social organism, and particu- properity throughout the world. It agos
Jean Lenoir could not write in is very problematient. There are wheels as email us this. With the
car racy in appearance, and larly the common man's part in it. a no mere coincidence, that national | There is no land so remote that his diary today "rien d'extraordi- at least two which are about ready smaller wheels there is always when the body is set low in the has altered more radically in the standards of living in each country it does not know the manifold bless-naire."
in getting enough frame in addition, with a top past thirty years than it had in are higher in almost direct propor-ings of the age of communication, things are happening. If the Bas- have been under test in this counter under the brake drums that is of the proper height and
for very extraordinary to be placed on the market. They problem the 2.000 years that went before, lion to the extent that the motor no people, far or near, whose lives tile should again be attacked, some try and abroad for a number of With this small, whee the brake with a narrow windshield, the Jean Lenoir no longer ente the car is used.
have not.. Iven Brendens and eager friend would certainly hasten years. A front drive car once drum is almost the size of the effect of lowness is greatly en- same soup nor stays dully in his! We do not need to look fur to brightened by the coming of the to telephone him about the interest-held the record for a lap around
hanced. Even though the other shop from "night to morning, froin recognize the benefits that the age motor car.
ing event. He would switch off his the Indianapolis Speedway, so it. What of the Future.
expedients were not employed, morning, to night.
of communication has brought. If In the tropical fastnesa on the electric drills and hammers and is not something that is altogether
the effect of lowness would be Communal Transportation.. we take the nytomobile, as typical, west coast of Africa, where It was through communal trans- we find the first and most patent railroad,
the rush out to the corner shop for the now oven though it has not been The double-dropped frame is ex-given by the lines of the modern any pensive, but in spite of this it is ear, and this, plus the reduction portation, at first, that impetus material benefits accruing to the the
and latest edition of Le Petit Parisien offered to the public in telegraphare unknown. He would see the photograph of quantity and at any kind of price, beginning to find its way down in height, combines to give the ex- was given to the age of communica- thousands upon thousands of men where the only habitations the first "sally, taken by that
into the lower price classes. It ceptional appearance of the new tion. The common carrier as who labour at these processes of are the rudest of buts, you journal's enterprising photographer
was at one time the mark of an ears. represented by the railway and the manufacturing. Behind these men will find the automobile truck haut from an airplane, and he would
expensive car. Its use permits steamship, operated for the benefit there reaches hack an endless chain ing copra and peanuts to the ports. read what his own
Reports from many sources all assured by an extremely persun- the body to stick up over the compatriots of the many. Great
the fact that the low masses of of goods and of men began to move miner who liga the iron from the will see a surprising number of pening. Then he would digest the und that the crowds were no longer same time the body is kept low at trend will continue, and if this is.
cennomic advantage-to the Sprinkled among the trucks you thought about this portentous hapsive announcer that all was well differential housing while at the bear out about Freely from place to place, earth on
the case, as it no doubt will ho, we the shores of Lake smart American passenger cars fill- comments of the press in London obstructing traffic.. he would take the centre of its length. New levels of economic welfare Superior; to the plantation worker ed to overflowing with
The lines of the car also con-forth some Interesting motor cars. can expect the future to bring came into being from the quickened in Java, drawing rubber for tyres blacks.
native and New York and Melbourne and his car from the garage and drive
tribute to low appearance. The ability to produce, exchange and from trees; to the wood-chopper
Buenos Aires. Returning to his to the spot.-New York Times. On the rim of the Arctic Circle, shop, he would listen in for a while in greater quantities; in Canada; to the cork cutter in in Reykjavic, Iceland. American on his radio, and after a time, being
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