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SATURDAY, 24th. JANUARY, 1931..
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BUSES V. TRAMS.
Another English City Prefers Buses.
ARE TRAMS DOOMED?
CURRENT
COMMENT
Kowloon Circus.
The provision of the new park- ing space apposite the Kowloon Fire Station, and the work of re- arranging the Kowloon Circus indicate that the Peninsula's busy traffic terminus will be a credit to the Calony. It is to be presumed that in due course adequate light- ing will be provided for the are at ca- parking, including lamps
trance and exit points. Much valuable space is taken up by the garage next to the hoarding, and It is reasonable to expect that it will be demolished within a few years in order to complete the acbeme.
The 100 Car.
Minor. Morris
has
UNIQUE IDEAS
Washington, U. C, Dec. 20)... Applications sent in to the patent offee here reveni twa of the most
And so the £100 car has come atual designs for aeroplane
ever attempted. One is that of inst! The
Ruric Jordan, of West Thorn- proved itself to be a sturdy littleton, N... and the other is that vehicle, and by bringing its price of Taylor McDaniel, of this city down to this level, a considerable Jordan's plane is based on an increase of trade should be re-old principle of dynamics-the gistered. As far as Hongkong is pendulum. It has its wings set concerned, is unfortunate that high above the fuselage, and has exchange should be such a low no allerons. The fuselage nets as point. although even that con- the pendulum, or stabilizer, owing sideration will not check trade too to its being set so far beneath the severoly, and it is easy to imagine wing. An auxiliary motor acts to the improvement which will be offset wing resistance. brought about in the event of the dollar reaching a higher value, as it undoubtedly must sconer or Jater.
Motor Busen.
The inventor says his plane can take off in 20 feet, land in 10 feet at 10 miles an hour, and climb at an angle of 45 degrees. He ulen avers it cannot go into a se dive.
tall spin or, side slip.
Glides to Safety.
J
FOR
AEROPLANES.
Charles E. Phillips pumping up the rubber plane which is the invention of Taylor McDaniel, left. Below is shown Ruric W. Jordan hoiding a model of his new type plane.
the plane will begin to fall in gliding position,
with air. The wings consist of xix air-filled spars, three on each side, and another such apar runs out to the rear on which the tall will be mounted.
McDaniel plans to run it as a glider at first, but after experi ments have been conducted in the air he intends mounting a motor on his invention,
As It gains downward speed, realstance of the air acting on the wing will have a tendency to lift
Rubber ribs are to be fitted into up the front edge and bring the fuselage to a level position, anys the wings, the whole thing cover- Jordan. Thus it will travel headed with a fabric, the tall put on and fall lightly at the rate of one and it will be ready to fly. The ever increasing number of
font in 10 of forward motion, and motor buses in the Colony, CS-
In model' tests of the plane itellect a safe landing. pecially on the Peninsula is in has been found that when the led a healthy sign, showing engines are shut off while the gradual progress in means of machine is in flight, or it loses lift Passenger transportation with the and thrust for any other renson, ullying districts. We hear that the pull of gravity on the centre 20/22 senter British buses of weight in the fuselage deflects have heen ordered
the the wing so as to bring the front Mong Kok-Un Long route, edge lower than the rear edge and
it is expected that these will be put inte commission within a few months. Much ngri- cultural produce is being trans- ported though the Now Territories
Hen
and
for
A Rubber Plane! McDaniel's plane is being built of rubber, and his neighbours think his iden Is a big joke.
The framework is made of rub- ber tubing, inflated to a rigidness
have to be machined from the casting, whereas formerly it was necessary to ma- chine nearly two pounds Trom the
"A PENNY SAVED." and one half ounces
The entire auißt will weigh only. 125 pounds and the inventor believes he can manufacture it for about $200 each.
INTAKE MUFFLER.
by motor vehicle transportation The Economies Effected forging. This represents a consi- Feature on 1931 Buicks.
these days, and here again, is a valuable indication that rural pros perity is increasing.
Chairs.
There appears to be no reason why chair coolles should be per-i mitted to pester the public from the lanes off Queen's Road between
Pedder Street and Battery Path Not only are they a nulsance, but a distinct danger when darting across the road in front of motor traffic. There is ample room to allow a line of chairs to park along the lower section of Battery Path, and this point serves for either; the journey to the Peak tram or the district above, as well as lee House Streut. Other chairs al- ready have a stand at the foot of Wyndham Street, so that. It is enally seen that the few who haunt Queen's Rond are quite unneces sary. We trust that steps will be taken to prohibit this annoying practice of touting.
GYP AUTO CLUBS.
at Ford Factory.
DAILY
WATCHING.
derable saving: but on top of it is a reduction of six cents in the ori- ginal cost of each reservoir, or twenty four on a car.
"POWER ROAR."
The intake silencer, a new en- New methods for machining the Saving a penny, a nickel or a
fly wheel permitted the elimination Kineering achievement pioneered dime in the cost of making an auto-of a number of expensive machines by Buick on all of its 1981 models, mobile may seer insignificant. Yet of mola, considerably reduced re-effectively overcome "power roar" when small savings like these are multiplied in the production of thou pairs to machinery, and at the same noises which are audible at wide
the
as in hill Lime increased production 1.000 open throttle, such sands of cars a day, the result runs wheels
shift. The Saving climbing, accelerating and at high per into millions of dollars a year.
speeds. Experimental work in the amounted to $1,062 a day.
laboratory and on the highway It is the little economies,
Formerly the fender bracket was located the cause of this roar not dally development of some new and
in the exhaust, where most noises forging. Someone suggested al better way of doing a job, that makes possible the periodic reduc-change in its design so that a go of this nature have originated, but tions in Ford car prices, the in-rolled strip could be used. This re: In the intake system creasing of wages, and the consulted in increased strength and stant improvement of the ear itself, rigidity and at the same time af- Quantity production alone, accord- forded a saving of 65.4 cents per ing to Ford officials could not do it, car.
The intake silencer removes this objectionable noise and gives one! the feeling that the engine is performing without effort and with quiet and intense power held
in reserve.
In the plants of the Ford Motor A change in the milling of the Company the employees. from the cylinder block resulted in a variety highest officials to the more pro- of economics. The output of the
The Buick silencer was develop- gressive of the machine operators, mills was increased 20 per cont, the are always trying to improve met remilling of blocks to remove roughed by Buick engineers in conjunc- hods of manufacture. Typifying surfaces, which formerly ran about tion with the engineers of the AC the Ford idea that nothing is per-110 per cont, was eliminated: ten Spark Plug Company, another divi manent but change, they cast pre-men were transferred to other work, sion of General Motors, who cedent to the winds. Because a thing and cutter beads were changed only supply this now device adopted has never been done before is no three times a day instead of 100 after an extensive series of test reason, they feel, why it should not times.
during which many types and de- Fake automobile clubs. fleecod be done now,
These are but a few of the manu-signs were used Wigan Corporation
For instance, push rods made infacturing economics effected bo yet Pennsylvania motorists out of
The principle of operation is two pieces with heads of chilled tween last November when prices based on the phenomenon of sound another Corporationi to favour the $300,000 during 1930, according to
iron formerly were purchased from were cut and the minimum wage substitution of petrol buses for the Automobile Club of Philadel
phia.
other concerns. Engineers of the raised to $7 a day and June 1 when waves. Every sound has a
But finite wave characteristic and the Not only have repeated ob- trams.
Ford Motor Company developed a prices were reduced again. foctions been made from outside
now iron. The puah reds are now they serve to illustrate how it is purpose of the intake allencer is made in ono plece with the result that the Ford Motor Company can that they give better service at a apparently wipe out all profits and cost of 1.46 cents less per rod yet make money. Since there are eight rods to a car that is a saving of 11.68 centa on each car produced.
Is
sources regarding the noisy opera-
tion of the trams and the way in bringing the fleet total up to 22. which they restrict other road Negotiations are at present in traffic, but, in the Council itself, progress between Wigan and the attention has been drawn to the surrounding Councils with the fact that over a period of six idea of replacing the trams now outside the Borough months the trams have shown a
and overything will buses have run with a comfortable soon be in readiness for an appil- ention to the Binistry of Trans- margin of profit.
port. An arrangement has been Some twelve months ago, Wighn made with Leyland Motors, Ltd.. experimented with its first doublo to enable the vehicles to be obtain deckor, a Leyland Titan, and was ed at short notice, so that, in all so gratified by the results obtain probability, trams will soon be ed, that a repeat order, followed completely abolished in the Wigan by yet another, has been placed, district.
loss of over £4,000, whilst the housin
GET SHORT MEASURE..
do-
to induce a sound wave counter to that of the original sound wave emanating from the intake system so that the two waves will coun- ternet or neutralize each other,
In order to make the allencer effective over a wide range of The reservoir for the Houdaille
Bound waves, multiple chambors shock absorber, which weighs one
of which acting pound eight and one half ounces, It is estimated by C. D. Baucom, are used each formerly was machined from a state inspector of weights and alone would neutralize one definite rough forging weighing three measures of North Carolina, that wave but, when acting in nories, were the 'noutralization is spread over pounds six ounces. Secking a sim-motorista in that stato
pler way of making this part, Ford short-changed to the extent of a wider range. Other features of employees contrived to shape it from $210.650 through shart-measuring the device are Its compactness, a casting weighing one pound thir-devices used in solling lubricating neatness and lack of resistance to
air flowing into the carburetor. icon ounces. As a result only four falls the past few months.
1931
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