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SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 5, ..
1931.
PIONEER OF AIR-COOLİNG.
JE BUILT THE FIRES
IN HIS FIRST BUSINESS
HIS EYES HAVE WEAKENED FROM PORINO OVER BILE PRINTS)
NEA
(ly James F. Donhue).
Syracuse, N. Y. Aug, 3. When old-timers get together and discuss early automobiles and their makers, one pioneer who Keis equal mention with Henry
Alexander Ford,
Winton and
jany,
from Underwood and
came to
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MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
Special Report to the Hongkong Telegraph by R.A.C.]
Motorists and the Law.
ting into the oil and so damaging. engines during their run on the
The Home Once statistics of test bench, Leyland Motors have motoring offences committed in adopted a most effective method England and Wales during 1980 of protection. Immediately clean bring to light some interesting oil has passed through the oiling inets. Analysed on a percentage circuit of the basis, the most frequent
engine, It draina were directly to a dirty-oil Lunk. From at 25.0 por
It is pumped to a battery "driving
chute cent. there" And
of centrifugal oil were responsible for 12 and 12.1 which all the solid particles that purifiers in respectively, while the highest have been pleked up by the oil percentage among. really serious in
passing through the engine are offences was
was 9 per cent. in respect extracted. The centrifugal force of reckless driving.
developed is approximately equal The
outstanding feature of this to 150,000 times the force of analysis is that over 03 per cent.
abrasive materials are instantly
of all the charges brought against vity and by this treatment all motorists concerned purely techni- removed. eat offences, leaving only, a very
The advantage of engines being small proportion of those con- completely flushed out with a con-
with publ
tinuous flow of pure, oil during
cerned
public safety, The Discovery of Safety-Gluse. their test be run is obvious, for in this way the bearings, com- mener their working life in per-
condition,
Juna of this year SOW the twenty-first birthday of the filing
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of the safety-glass patent, but fect probably few people are aware how this boon to motorists was originally discovered.
It had contained a
Troms Are Superseded. At a time when so many munici
A French chemist. Edouard pal authorities all over the world are superseding their tramway Benedictus, one day dropped undertakings by trolley bus ser- H. H. Franklin, whose autos never steam.
bottle on the stone floor of his vices, it is instructive to examine laboratory and, although it was the experience of an important Franklin' bought the invention starred inside like a crystal, it did town in the English Midlands.
not break.
When the trams in Chesterfield. mixture of various chemicals were discontinued in 1927, a debt Syracuse to set up his first busi-which had evaporated and coated of nearly £11,000 was taken over,
ess-die-casting. His plant cost the interior with ร transparent and the
Committee aises Transport Benedictus noted the bore the cost of reinstating the him $15 a month and, in 1896, the enamel. young die-caster was found get formula and there the matter rest-roads, the total burden placed on
ed for some time.
the trolley bus undertakings being The patent was filed in 1919, but £21,400, With this year's profit, others is 11. II. Franklin, presidentting down to work at of the Franklin Automobile Com-morning, starting the fires and it was not until a pioneer British however, they have wiped out the setting ready for the day's work. motorist. Mr. Reginald Delpech. whole of the old tramways debt. took up the idea and founded the and have carried forward £700 Diligent application resulted in The principle of nir-cooled on-
Co. that safety-glass was towards the road reinstatement Triplex his business growing and, in а gines brutscht Franklin to the
manufactured. In 1913 the sales account. ball of automobile fame. But few years, the die-sinking vinntwere only 15,500 square feet, but Ransomes, Sinus and Jefferies to-day the output of the Triplex have just received an order for factories is two million aquare two double-deck 4-wheel trolley
buses for this town and also Personalities.
vehicles for Nottingham Corpora- Talking of pioneer motorists. tion, which is already operating der happened in 1892, when as a John Wilkinson, an engineer, who Sir Henry Royce, the founder of B of the same make. lad he worked in a small print elnimed to have developed an air-tha Rolls-Royce Co. again authority is just spending over shop at Coxsackie, N. Y. learning cooled engine for axioma-present at the Royal Air Force £200,000 on the establishment of the trade. But printer's devil biles. Franklin investigated the Pageant at Headon this year, new trolley bus route. wasn't just the job for Funn Franklin.
Always of a mechanical mind, he soon went in business with II. . Underwood, of Yonkers, who devised a means of making east bga by a process of forcing metal into steel moulds so that smooth castings were produced without muchining.
it wasn't for John Wilkinson, wies in success.
Franklin's Rir-cooled product
would not be on the market.
Franklin's real start up the Jad-
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"Just look how easily and surely that new Buick dodges in and out of traffic!"
"Yes, Sir, it's no wonder that owners of all cars
from the lowest to the highest priced envy the driver of the new Buick."
.
Notwithstanding the tremendous flow of smooth power and speed the new Buick valve-in-head eight in a line motor places at your command--the new harmonized steering gear and balanced chassis give the owner perfect control under every driving and parking condition.
This outstanding quality is but one of dozens of qualities which have made Buick so popular throughout the world for the past twenty-five years-a con- fidence enjoyed by but few cars except Buick.
114' Wheelbase Buick Models
118' Wheelbase Buick Models
124" Wheelbase Buick Midols
132 Wheelbase Buick Models
The New
HK80,955 to HK$ 7,525 HK$8,257.to HK$ 8,775 HK$9,820 to HK$ 9,980 HK$0,820 to HK$12,295.
BUICK 8
The Eights with Buick's Prestige
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
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33, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.
Hires Wilkinson.
Early
in 1900 Franklin
met
feet a year.
This
engine, and then and there made where he was to be seen inspect Europe Buying British. up kis mind to enter the automo-in the designing which he him-commercial vehicles include one bite game,
He employed Wilkinson on July 1, 1981, to turn out an automobile with an air-cooled motor. The following winter the first success- ful four-cylinder air-cooled engine
ing some of the latest nero engines
Overseas orders for Britian self has paid a large part.
from. Athens for 12 A.E.C. As a matter of fact this event "Ranger" single deck chassis, is about the only function for which are to form an addition to which this "father of motoring" some of the 50 A.E.C. vehicles, emerges from his retirement, and which have been doing excellent he is always to be seen with old service on the streets there for friends among the Service and the some time past. The new models trade in the enclosure where neware of the driver-behind-engine experimental types are type with left-hand steering and
19 ft. wheel-base.
The bodies, of a luxurious style
and
ever made in the United States WIB ready. It' had U 10- parked. horsepower engine.
The name of Sir Malcolm Camp- Another model was built and soon 10 stock with land and air transport, but length of 30 ft., a width of 8 ft. I familiar to all in connexion for Near East conditions, have a bell
cars were out.
Franklin's automobile plant grew much faster than his die sinking shop. The results of its growth are shown in the success of the man to-day.
few probably realise that he is and provide room for 30 passen-
iso keen on motor beating. gera.
A motor yacht hus, in fact, juat So great has been the success been bulit for him by Thorny in the South of Greece with crafts and has been named "Blue the Morris-Commercial ""Middle. Bird" bat this is not his first Weight Champion" and the "TX" venture as he has already owned 13 ft, wheelbase model, which is "Bilduan," a 36 ft. cruiser. built Employees Like Him. - for him by the same firm, Blues used for bus work, that lue vehicles are now being shipped to Bir
more the more important ap-country Millionaire many times over, he ambitieus, however, being 52 ft districts and also to Crete and
Komewhat
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is still the ordinary mortal bein length with a beam of 11 Corfu. was when he first began his Sho particularly seaworthy and Vehicles of this make are also struggle in life. A pleasant man comfortable and her two 50 bhp now being used to a considerable Land a fair man, his employees engines give her a speed of 10 extent in Ramania for light bus work. Indeed, in various cities,
call him. Well along in his fifties knots.
$
one to
tis this grey-haired, venerable- It is worth noting that from the they have replaced buses which Booking man. Years have treated date of laying the keel to putting have hitherto been of American
him kindly, and he still walks her into commission only about Y make. with a firm step and talks with weeks elapsed.
The Municipal Handyman, Ja convincing voice.
A Fine Win
There are many small towns in The Neuerberg Ring over which various parts of the world which, His eyes have weakened a little the German Grand Prix wan re while anxious to employ motor from pouring over blue prints and cently contested in one of the most machines for the municipal tallet, he wears glasses as a result. He famous and dangerous road cir- has a neat full moustache which cuits in Europe; indeed, it has are unable to purchase all the is as grey as his hair. In dress been likened to the Tage Floripecialised machines and, indeed, he Is the staid businessman all elreuft on a small scale. This would be unable to keep such
fully employed, over.
year's event was made all the To meet their needs, however, more hazardous by rain, but the His chief pleasure' outside of standard of driving was very high. Dennis Bros. have produced a high most useful handyman" vehicle. work is automobile driving. It is In the unlimited class Gar- Common to all its duties are a said that he uses his ear more racion and his Mercedes-Benz 2-ton chassis, fitted with than any other sülomabile execu- won a magnificent race, but from rotary air pump
the British point of view, grunt caly-tipped, 650-gallon, 2-compart-
and tive, and in his business travels
a hydrauli he depends almost entirely on his praise is due to Dudley Froy who ment tank. The latter in equipped automobile.
loter his Brooklands
model with a number of fitments which Riley to victory in the 1.100 cc. convert the machine from class in the face of severe Con-another of many classes, all of tinental competition at little under importance to the Borough Sur- 60 mph.
veyor or Sanitary Committee. By Service Made Easy,
means of sprinkler Nowadays there is really very sprinkling can be carried out, and heads, street- little excuse for the motorist gutter-flushing,
*Carpool *and within reach of a good garage or gulley-emntying are among its revice station not keepin his cor duties. Further, the entire tank in the most efficient running order can be lifted away and be replaced possible, for there are machines by * tipping lorry body. which eliminate
45 Tons up 1-in-10. "bit and miss method the old and per
A very interesting road tractor As a result of his working hard form operations in a few minutes is now in course of design for a himself, he gets the utmost out which proviquely took houre and
Prm which undertakes almost any of his men. The organisation is then were not always successful: type of transport and in this caso one of the oldest, in point of
The question of brake adlust- employment, in the country:
ment, for example, is one which ing a load of 4 tone up a gradient requires a tractor capable of haul- does not always receive the atten- of 1-in-10. Statistics at the factory show than it deserves, especially in that there is less labour turnover these days of crowded streets. there than in any other automo-There is, however, now an In- bile plant. This also applies to genious machine which
the braking have been with Franklin since he power on each wheel so that any or heavy oil engine; an auxiliary
For sport he takes up golf.
Its stair reports that he is the executive longest at the head of his company of ali in the Automotive industry. Long and strenuous hours at his factory have been the order of things since he first entered business, and he seldom finds the opportu- nity for taking anything that
resembles a vacation.
The machine which is being by Hardy Motors, of is based on an A.E.C.
the executive staff, many of whom instant reading of gives an 8-ton chassis, Atted
first started in business.
JUST REVERSED.
in the
with
110 hp. 6-cylinder petrol gearbox, which automatically
necessary adjustments can carried out exactly and
the front wheel driva One of these machines ded, is fitted. A further Station which is part of Shaw Heduction the hubɛ And, by
the very complete Service
of the epicyclic and Kilburn's Wardour Street
type is fitted
Anal reduction at this placing the premises in London.
This connoint, the axles, axle shafts, dif Ten years ago only 10 per cent, corn is known to many Overseas ferentials etc., are of normat of the automobiles produced-in visitors to London by reason of its design and do not have to be in-
Safeguarding the Future.
the United States were closed "leave.cor" scheme, cars. To-day only 10 per cent, are open.
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creased in weight or size to take
In order to eliminate any risk the larger torque transmitted to of particles of foreign matter get-
the road wheels.