THE
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 18, 1930.
TRAFFIC SCHOOL FOR WOMEN.
Traffic school for women in Kansas City, with F. C. Lynch showing them how to park properly. Mrs. Harry C. Stewart, inset. got 95 in the final texts.
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Classes are conducted through ut a seven-weeks' term. romen meet one hour three times week. Instructions are by mem-
"FINDING FAULTS. ITALIAN FORD.
Detecting Trouble by Odour.
USEFUL HINTS.
[By Israel Klein] Many a difficulty in the opera tion of an automobile can be de tected by its odour. Outside of the familiar burning rubber odour, however, few drivers can locate the cause.
New Venture.
FACTORY AT MILAN.
Henry Ford's latest venture is a factory in Italy to produce, an Italian Ford....
DUE TO WEATHER!
California's Motoring Accidents.
CARS NOT TO BLAME.
San Francisco, Sept. 3rd, Motor vehicle accidents iu The construction of a manufae California could be reduced con- turing plant for the Italian-Fordsiderably were it not for its fine Co. is to commence in Milan (Italy) weather, enabling motoring on a early this mouth.
large scale all year around, ne- Though basically the same, the cording to Eugene W. Biscailus, Italian mode: will be modified to apsuperintendent of the state high- carpeal to Italian tastes, with a lower-way patrol.
set body and slight changes in lines and accessories.
A survey of odours that indicate something wrong with the therefore, might be helpful.
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"California suffers in compari- son with other states by renson that her climate is such as to That First, burning rubber.
Same parts will be imported from encourage and promote all-year means generally too frequent use of the brakes, especially when travel- the U.S.A.. and some from Eng-driving, while in other states cars ling down a long hill, or forgetful- land, but 70 per cent. of the manu are tied up by snow and incle- in Italy ment weather for periods ranging ness in releasing the hand brake at facturing will be done
to six months," The average price per car will be from three the start.
But far more serious is the rub-about £100, which is about £40 less explains,
But even if its climate ber odour from burning insulation than the cost in France.
sembled that of other states, there' in the ignition system. Most likely The new company has been form would be many instance in which it means a short circuit is impend-ed by Henry Ford, Isotta Frans-accidents could be eliminated, A survey ing. It is caused from overheated chini and the Commercial Bank of Biscailus believes, wiring, which is a sure warning of Italy, with a capital of 100,000 lire taken by his department shows something wrong in the ignition approximately approximately £1.-that the human element is directly system.
050,000.
The entire system must be checked over until the cause
of
overheating is found and correct-tons, which permit gasoline to be
ed.
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"blown down" into the crankcase and dilute the lubricating oil.
THE EVERLASTING CAR.
"Give a car proper treatment, and it will last forever. All you need to do is to replace the parts," said a motor mechanic to Judge Curlewis, at Sydney recently explaining that his car had been pur- chased 1910, and was still running as sweetly as ever,
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Observe this pretty Whipprolex-
By Careful out of Cash Mayhap you can define its sex
Though, since its recent smash, It's lost that vague, éxclusive
style
And looks more like Tringobile. The motor punted, in its youth,
Within a four-ton truck, Was salved, rebored, and-this is
truth-
The pistons promptly stuck And pulled the crankshaft out of
shape, The current shaft's a Butiape,
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The body graced an Oakrillac In eighteen ninety four; A coupe, ere it took a smack,
We cut an extra door
responsible for nearly 99 per cent.
of all accidents and that about 95 per cent, of these can be avoided. Can't Blame the cars. "Modern automotive engineering has made the motor vehicle so safe that less than one per cent. of can be traced to accidents mechanical defects," he says. "If you will analyze the list of motor you will find the truth of the assertion accidents and their causes
preventable. that nearly all are Somewhat similar is the odourFor example, out of 2244 deaths of frying grease which betrays a in the past year we find that 757 leaking universal joint housing, involved pedestrians. the grease being spattered on the
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"For the careful driver there is scarcely any excuse for hitting a pedestrian. Yet this type of acei dent continues to mount.
And made an ultra-smart sedan; The dashboard was a frying pan,
Four radiators broke and burst;
This one's been in a fire; It's not the same shape as the
first
and dangles in the mire. A Morritoen supplied the clutch; Brakes from an Austandodge, or
such.
Here's proof of how a car can
last
When owners spare some care; Of course it isn't quite as fast
Because there's been some
wear,
Yet, though it's slightly re-
arranged,
The chassis frame has not been
changed.
TALKIES GO BY TRUCK.
The next most common odour is
An overfilled crankcase might that of gasoline. A leak in the fuel system or continued overflow. declare itself by this odour. Oil ng of the vacuum tank might be escaping into the drums or brake detected by the odour of raw gaso. linings develops this odour, reveal Kansas City, Mo.. Aug, 29.---This;
ine. The overflow in the vacuuming that the axles need repacking ity's women drivers refuse to b
ink might be caused by a clogged or tightening. belittled by male motorists
tie vent in the gasoline tank.
Burned gasoline odours may be Seventy of them have attended the third annual drivers' school bers of the Kansas City safety traced to the exhaust side of the conducted by the Kansas City council, heads of motor car repair engine-in the connexions be safety ecunell this summer and establi hments and members of tween cylinders and exhaust mani-hot muffler or exhaust pipe. have learned who has the right-of-the police trathic department. fold, in the carburetor of intake way at intersections, where the When a woman completes the manifold heating apparatus or in
An overheated engine can be de- "We could go on.down the list transmission of a car is, what the course, she is considered ready to the car heater. A leak at any of parking limit is in front of the drive in any kind of motor traffic these points will permit the burn-tected by the smell of steach or naming one type of accident after
in any city. postoffice and other things.
ed exhaust gas to escape and war scorched metal, as well as hot another to prove that most of them lubricating oil. This smell comes lare avoidable. The list is ininum- The school, now an annuall Traffic regulations, engineering us by its odour.
However, if a strong wind is from the vapourization of oil on erable-drunken driving, fast affair in Kansas City, each problems, study of traffic light and
Idriving, cutting in, and so on. awards diplomas to sign regulations, lubrication, types blowing from behind, the odour the outside of the engine,.
Whatever the odour, however,
Auto's Huge Power. women who attend all classes, of motors, differentials. crank might come. from the gas that is
driver,
The pass a final written examination case dilution and speed laws are escaping naturally through the
"The average person has an realizing that he is covering, ble to alleviate these conditions with an average of 70 per cent. some of the lecture subjects in exhaust pipe. This gas is not the danger is flashed to the
answer lies not in doubling the and then demonstrate their know- the course.
carbon monoxide gas that is the and the car should not be driven amazing lack of knowledge of the ground at the rate of from 70 to and to reduce traffic toll.
"The California highway patrol force of traffic officers, but in an ledge in an actual driving contest. Members of the Kansas City result of the complete combustion farther before the cause is found power potentialities of his car," 100 feet per second.
at 50 and 60 miles an hour, little is doing all that is humanly possi- aroused public consciousness.” The woman receiving the safety council, financed mostly by of the fuel in the cylinders, but and corrected.
is what escapes not completely highest grade each year is award-local business firms, are firm in ed a silver cup. This year Mrs. their belief that the school accom-fired and still has the elements of Harry C. Stewart answered 95 plishes much good. Many of the the original gasoline in it. per cent, of the final test questions women students, they point out, Another odour is that of burning Similar hand on to others the knowledge oil. That might signify loose pis. correctly and made grade in the driving contest. Igained in the school.
Jummer
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