MUCH OIL IN GROUND,
American Petroleum Institute) estimates there are more than 25,000,000 acres of ell·lands in the United States. Of this number) anly 2,000,000 nores are activoly] producing.
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SOLE AGENTS
The Republic Motor Co. of China.
"Successors A. LUNG & Co.
Auto Dept.)
30 32, Des Voeux Road
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,
OWNERS AS AGAINST CHAUFFEURS.
The Employers' Side of the Problem.
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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY, JANUARY
car out this afternoon, she has a huge tyre like a balloon on one short cireult.
of the front wheels. Enormous it was and totally out of proportion,
asked him...
"Whatever have you, done? I His eyes grew round as he looked. "Seems much bigger than the others," he said, "it took me two hours to get it on."
"My car has a short circuit," I told a friend, "nad my man says 'be can't drive me. What's that, do'
you know?" I asked.
"Yes," he replied, "that means the steering gear won't work and the car goes round and round in circles; vory dangerous!"
Later on I was walking when I BAW' a car which I recognized as my filled with singing people. My chauffeur was at the wheel, his cap on the back of his head, his face florid. They had all imbibed, not wisely, but too well. So the next No. 2 left my employ,
My first motor-car was purchased to Hyde Park and arrived there 26 years ago, in 1903, and with the without mishap and alighted at the exception of three years' spent in beginning of the Row. My wife South Africa have always and I decided to walk and lot the motored and always been dri-car pick us up at the Albert Gate.beloved Napier careering along ven by a chauffeur. I have never No car arrived. Eventually we re- driven a car, nor taken any interest traced our steps and at length saw in their mechanical features, and a crowd standing round our car, during these years have had some whilst my chuffeur was lying on experience of good and bad chauf-the ground. The engine had stopped; he had attempted to start feurs.
My very first car was. a second-it without retarding the Ignition, hand Napier, probably built in 1901, with the result that it back-fired with big wheels at the back and heavily and broke his arm. small wheela in front, four cylind- urs, four seats, and tonnenu body. with back entrance, and a fixed
My next man belonged to A canopy. I went for many drives different category. He Boon and usually came home in a trum, realized that I knew nothing of bus or cab, according to which way cars and profited thereby. I had available, or returned on foot. It ordered my car for three o'clock was, rarely the car would perform and waited and waited, both journeys satisfactorily.
Number Two was a “Joy-ride."
Presently a 'phone call came Now my first chauffeur young, a keen fellow, but his stay through: "Very sorry, sir, ." sald with me was short-lived.. We drove my chauffeur, "I can't bring the
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I then had a series of hopelessly incompetent men, and at last a good one who remained several weeks, Breakdowns were constant and he worked really hard, but the hand of fate was against him and he was suddenly taken ill whilst driving the.
This happend in a lonely read. Almost in despair I stopped a little man walking towards us and said, "Can you drive a cart"
"Yes," he said, to my surprise, and drive it he did, and at some speed for those days. I know we snt petrified, waiting for the crash, but strange to relate we got home safely, without even the customary breakdown..
When on
My next experience of motoring my return from South Africa in 1908, when cars were very different, and I bought a 40 hp. Wolseley landnulet at the Show. Yellow
it was, and christened "Mustard Pot" by a humorous bug driver.
Too Proud to be Passed..
- Chauffeurs had improved just as much as cars and my first wan was' undoubtedly the best I ever had or probably will ever have signin. He was as proud of the car as if it were his own and looked after it like a child. Unfortunately, it was this very pride that forced eventually to part with him. No other car was ever allowed to pass us, and as goan as one tried, down went his foot with the result that we had some too exciting racen and the over-keen attention of the police.
me
Time after time I used to stop him, and then he would crawl for miles at such a slow speed that we nearly went mad. At length, to my great regret. I hind to dismiss him.
His successor, a big, red-haired giant, was the absolute opposite; no finesse, no respect for the car, just brute foret. If he missed gear he crashed and ground it in; so long as the car went it was good enough. I looked dirty and neglected and he rapidly deteriorated.
My next man was frightened of it He cleaned it beautifully, made himself up like a fashion plate, played the piano in his spare time, Ing up pretty curtains in s quarters and was a regular dandy, He was keen on higher ma- } thematics, but Wha 31 hopeless driver and I had no confidence in hin, so eventually fired him.
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4 This time another" new type! A little man, always smoking, always sniffing, a jolly good mechanir, a jolly good driver, talked your bend off, very obliging, but so dirty! Dirty he was in appearance and his car never looked clean, but I kept him until the war broke out and he went to do his 'bit driving lorry in France. And I'm sure he loved the mud and dirt and was njolly good soldier.
and
Then came the Armistice petrol once more. The car (a 24-80 h.p. alx-cylinder Wolseley now) was wheeled out and my latest driver prepared for action. The magneto wanted adjusting. He took it of and dropped It. He smashed it really well, and, a new one had to be obtained.
He took me out, but forget to fill up with oil There was a sudden stop. I was told that the engine had "seized," und we had to be towed to a garage. The subsequent bill was for some £80. He left.
In due time the Wolseley went the way of all cars, and was fol lowed by a Talbot and then a Rolls- Royée, à Silver Ghost model. I had an excellent man at the time and sent him to Derby to learn tho course, after which he drove me for Rome years. Then trouble cropped up between him and the gardener and he left.
A Genius for Doing the Wrong Thing.
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It was about this time" that the general strike, took place
and. 1 found it impossible to get a Rolls man immediately. As I had also a small 14 h.p. saloon I obtained a temporary chauffeur to drive this and put the Holle away. He was certainly an amusing, although costly, experience.
I remember I wanted a new cover on one front wheel, so sent him to. get one, Instructed him to fit it whfist I lunched at my club and to call for me at an appointed time.
On leaving my club I beheld him". waiting, by the kerb and signalled him to come up to the entrance. The car looked odd, lopsided. I stared with growing amazement
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"Well, go, and get it off again," I replied, "and fit one the proper size. How he ever got it on I do not know.
On another occasion he fixed one)
1930.
RIDING FATIGUES MIND.
dering even now that took place each time the brakes were applied, when I used to wonder if the body was going to leave the chassis or
An experiment conducted b the wheels were going to part com- Dr. Fred A. Moss of Georgs Pany. And yet this man was one Washington University tends to of the cleverest and luckiest drivers prove that automobile riding dulls I ever Bad. He took amazing riske, mentality. did astonishing things, executed blems to solve, worked them arat Porsons given pro- wonderful maneuvres, which left before riding. After an automo me frozen and terrified, but never bile ride, it was found that mental once did he touch anything or meet multiplication was decreased in with an accident.
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of those mechanical air lines to After this, I used the Rolls again.
Thought he was the Owner.
inflate the tyre and forgot to re- Then came my most amazing move it, until the explosion, which perience. 1. cngaged a chauffeur blow the cover off the wheel, recall-whom I kept one week. Had I kept ed him to his senses.
him longer I am convinced I should!". Looking back now, I think (al-have become the chauffeur and hej
The aeronautics branch of the though I did not think as at the the owner. He told me when I U. S. Department of Commerce time) his greatest deed was the could have the car and when I could urges that highways be marked adjustment of the four-wheels not, demanded most elaborate al- with large numbers from 10 to 801 breaking system. He read the book terations and decorations to his feet in height, in order to guide most carefully, but unfortunately quarters, enamel instead of paint airplanes across the country. By gave the front-wheel brakes a con- work, a porcelain bath, a couple of nequainting avlatora with highway siderable lead instead of the rear amart lounge suits, etc. I think I systems, it will be an easy matter ones. I can feel the horrible jud-| shall trade places with him.
to follow a course in the daytime..
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