10
BIG SALE
NOW ON
BARGAINS
IN
All Departments.
YEE SANG FAT CO
GOOD LUCK
"GOOD LUCK"
BRAND
NEW SEASON GINGER
Most reliable, good strong colour, mellow and well preserved.
The China Ginger Preserving Co., Ltd.
No. 16, Bonham Strand, East
Telephone C. 989
KAIPING COAL
FOR HOME, FACTORY & POWER HOUSE
HOME.
FACTORY
AND
BUNKERS
For Price Apply to
POWER
HOUSE.
TUGS &
LOCOS.
THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.
DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hongkong.
"PEONY" EVAPORATED MILK
Of Creamy, Delicate Taste and Color, Ask for it at your dealer's.
CHY LOONG.
New Season. Preserved Ginger. Best quality-Prompt attention to Exporters.
Office:-231, Queen's Road Central, 2nd floor. Tel. Central 2530. Factory:-500-504, Canton Road, Yaumati. Tel. K. 869.
Hong Kong's Artistic Photographers
The
YING MING STUDIO
Queen's Road Central
(Official Photographers of the "China Mail.")
FOR SALE.
SCOTT-SEALED PACKETS. guaranteed to contain Genuine Stamps Only.
Seal by Scott for Safety
., and
all packets sold by us carry their
""unqualified guarantee."
You can be sure that every stamp in the packet is listed in Scott'a Standard catalogue
GRACA & CO.
Dealers in Postage Stamps, Gur- den Seeds, Pictorial Post Card, Toys, etc.
No 20, Wyndham Street.
· P. O. Box No. 620- Hong Kong.
THE CHINA MAIE.
MOTORING SECTION
GOOD SAMARITAN.
A HABIT TO BE ENCOURAGED.
་
SOME SUGGESTIONS.
IMPROVING THE CAR.
Á NEW CAR.
HOW THE OWNER SHOULD HANDLE IT.
For some time the "Motor has With the modern car such aj been calling for suggestions for monument of reliability (and this improvements to the motor car, and is no figure of speech, although has received a wide response. Many many who have not bought wisely of the suggestions were trivial, and may be inclined to jeer at the state- some impracticable, but others ment), it may seem, writes Chiltern, seem well worth the consideration beside the point to mention a few things which will be for the benefit Among of automobile designers. the suggestions were the follow of the inexperienced, but it fe necessary, for cars are but pieces of ing
mechanism and want careful hand- ling
(1) A central all reservoir for lubricating every moving part of the chassis so as entirely to avoid the use of grease-gun and oil can.
(2) An infinitely variable gear to. vary the ratio of engine and rear wheel revolutions without the trou- blesome - manipulation of a clutch and gear lever.
(3) A body for all seasons which could very quickly be converted from the equivalent of a saloon to the form of an open tourer,
There has been many a car ruin- ed by ill-treatment or caraless ac- tion In its early life. First let us take the man or woman who has never owned a car before.
If he has bought from an up-to- date agent who has realised that it means less trouble for him and his service department If he teaches his client to drive properly, he will know the rudiments of tooling a
(4) A more flexible engine, · car. achieved by the wider use of mal- The new owner is all oxpectant of ti-cylinder designs, or possibly, by the day when the beautiful car is the development of the petrol tur- handed over to him. bine.
If at about five o'clock, in the afternoon your motor out of Lon. don over Putney Bridge and across Wimbledon Common, a couple of miles this side of Kingston you may be astonished to see a barri- cade of about twenty young women at the side of the road frantically signalling to the cars that pass. It may be equally surprising to find that not one in every thirty or forty of the drivers takes the least notice of the signal to stop, but merely swings out into the road to get past. Should you de- cide not to pass by on. the other side of the road but pull up, your car will be surrounded by a group of young women who sak for a lift into Kingston. Then, having fitted in as many as the space per- mits, they will tell you that they work at a factory close by, and that there is no 'bus or other means of getting into Kingston, Unless they can get some paasing motor- ist to give them a lift they must walk, tired after heavy day's work, up Kingston Hill and down again to the town where they live. Now, when one remembers that this is one of the busiest ways out of London. lending to Portsmouth and and Winchester. Dorking Southampton, with a continuous very heavy stream of traffic, it would seem the easiest thing in the world for these young women to get a lift as far as their homes, Yet often they will tell you, after standing half an hour by the road-would not require attention until
the linings were worn out. side, signalling to every oranty car that passes, they have to abandon the idea of getting a "lift and start walking home. In the case of an unusually pretty young woman it Is generally different. There is always room for her on the carrier of some motor-bicycle. But the rest-neatly dressed. respectable
The probability is that in his en. (5) Flexible glass for wind-thusiasm, forgetful all the time that screens, etc., which would bend he is so Inexperienced, and unaware without breaking, would not splin- that almost every car even of the ter but would be superior to cel same type has its little vargaries, luloid.
he will jump into the driving scat, press the starter button, let in the clutch and get away, only to find that in the interval between his driving lessons and the delivery of the car he has forgotten the exact control movements,
(6) Easter engine starting so as to make cranking entirely unneces sary even on the coldest morning.
(7) Really adjustable seating for the driver and passengers, which could quickly be altered in respect of position and angle.
(8) Self adjusting brakes which
(9) An automatic adjustable sus- pension system conferring equally comfortable riding under all loud, road and speed conditions.
(10) Convenient tool storage to render the tools Individually and
Little Necessary Things. Just a small false move, and It will not be the countryside for that car but the repair garage and a disappointed family with a pro- nounced grouch.
The car will have probably been delivered to you by an agent'a em- ployee who has run it into the garage. First thing in the morn-
go to it, see what little readily accessible to the driver. ing you
(11) Anti-dazzle lighting which space you have to get it out, and would illuminate the road'adequate. I get a bit nervy.
without troubling other drivers. bright parts.
(12) Untarnishable metal for a
young women who certainly wouldly not hurt the most luxuriously up- holatered limousine find it ex- tremely difficult to get a lift at all.
Just go over every one of the con- trols, refreshing your mind which way they work, which are the first,
(18) Oil economy and less fre-second and third gear positions, the reverse, the position of the igni tion control for advance, the hand throttle control, the position of the brake pedal and the accelerater pedal, and so on.
ing the carburetter.
If they do happen to be lucky, itquent crank case drainage achieved is nearly always a man in one of by straining and rectifying the lub- the small cheaper makea of carricant and by cleaning the air enter who has the good manners to stop. For a woman or a chauffeur driven car to give them a lift is the rarest thing in the world.
"Babbitt."
It is not that the thousands of people who motor by without stop pink are ill-mannered. The fault heen brought up to include the is that the English motorist has not
giving of lifts to the motorlegs in
his code of good manners. During the strike those people who stop ped their care to rive lifts to any- one they found walking in the same direction thought that they were doing something unusually kind and public-spirited. In America such actions are only considered one of the everyday rules of motoring paliteness.
"Babbitt," in the Sinclair Lewis novel, stopped almost automatical- ly to give a man a lift on his way to his office, even though he was late and in a hurry. I doubt if the average English motorist gives
(14) Interior heating systems worked either electrically by ex- haust gas or by the engine cooling
system.
(16) Windscreen.cleaners to keep the whole of the screen clear from moisture rain or dirt.
(16) A tyre pressure indicator ther the tyres needed attention. which would show at a glance whe-
sibly of a type never needing in- (17) Unpuncturable tyres, pos- flation.
jacking systems to lift one or mare (18) Automatic or semi-automatic wheels without effort.
(19) A bulit in luggage container to obviate the trouble of securing luggage.
Then get into the driving seat and familiarise yourself with the action of shifting the foot from acelerator to brake pedal, and putting on the hand-brake.
.
SATURDAY, JUNE 11, 1927.
DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLE.
(This cross-word puzzle has been made by an expert but our readers are, warned to look out for occasional. phonetic spellings, such as harbor, plow, and altho.)
8
19
to
12.
13
14
16
#7
19
21
22
זי
26 127
28
29
132)
33
58 159
मा
पध
HEY
46
W
52
53
55
156
156
HORIZONTAL t-Watchfulneca
-On the lankout 10-Later name of Esau
(Bible)
11-N. cen, State of
U. 8. (abbr.) 13-A settlement in
Greenland.
14-A, land mekeure
(abbr.)
15-To procialM 18-8. State of U. 8.
(abbr.)
19-5mati valley 21-One time 22-Bmali northern
waterbird 24-Perspires 26-Faucet
2-A thoroughfare
(abbr.) 28-Conjunction 31-Brother (Franch} 33-8trict 35-Greek prince who
carried off Halen
of Troy and so caused Trojan War
36-Formally polite 37-Prefix. Not
38-State Militia (abbr.)| 40-A pany
19
45
50
[SI
154
58 59
OTKE INTERNATIONAL SYNBICA"..
HORIZONTAL (Cont.) 42-Presenting a wide
apening
45-Mimica
49-An edible tropical
roat 50-A dock 52-A measure of
4
VERTICAL (Cont.)) 12-A European coin 16-At the present time 17-Lace
20-To allenate
23-A pastoral song
24-One of the seasone 25-Batiating
capacity (abbr.) 27-Combining form.
63+To save from decay 54-Tantalum
[chem. sym.) |55-Light-yellowish
brown
57-A doctor's degres
[abbr.) .. 58-A rour substance 80-Malicious glances 61-To shut up
VERTICAL
1-The extreme edga 2-An object of worship
The fashion or
mado (salfoq.) 4-A mosque official
(Turkey) B-Grigs 7-And (Latin) B-Extreme violence.
-Melts, a know 11-Ninth day before
Air
|30-River, outlet of
Lake Ladoga, .. Russia
$1-Fire plug tubbr.) 32-Prefix. Form at
"ax"
|13–6. Bista of U. 8.
(abbr)
34-North latitude
(abbr.)
38-Gonvulsion
39-81alled in deep mud 41-Fxmove tower of
ancient timna
43-Greek goddess of
malicious mlachiet 44-And not
45-Garden tosi {47-A brownlah-purple 148-To urge sharply 50-Marina mammal BL-suffix denoting
Inflammation
the Ides in Roman-Prefix. Agale calendar
|60-Prof. With
(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle, will appear in to-morrow's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)
·
Look at All Parts, Afterwards have a look at all parts of the car from radiator to necessary, letting the car roil, up rear number plate. By this time to it.
A Looseness. information given in your driving the car at more than 30 miles your mind will have recalled the
For the first 500 miles do not run lessons, and with the recollection hour, and after that you will be will come confidence.
able to drive faster without fear of hurting the engine.
an
YESTERDAY'S SOLUTION.
STUD HUBS MAR IRATESEAT
PALER GL18 GUN GATER TAP – BAN DEW WAD· WÄR FAG WAT DREAD LAD IN ART LOTA IDEN
CİRİ 100
TREAD ALL HARM SWE TOE PEA
30DA
When the first 1,000 miles figure on the speedometer spend a week- end going over the whole of the car.
ACA engine sump and this will be the most critical
action in its life.
Next start up the car, and do it only after you have gone through a bit of routine which should be- come a habit. See that the radia tor has the full amount of water, (20) Bumpers to be generally that the ofl level in adopted as a standardised protec-is as the instruction book states it tion for the front and rear wings, should be shown on the "dipper," lampa, radiator, tank and other valor by the gauge, that the petrol tap nerable parts.
is turned on, and that there is fuel in the main tank.
Gel into the driving seat and he fore you attempt to start the engine tral position, and always do this ser that the gear lever is in a neu
before you touch the starting awitch or starting handle, until it also be comes a habit.
If
a lift to a complete stranger in who is not doing his duty unless the same way once a year. Practi- he knows the position of every cally everywhere in the United obscure street in the district. States for a motorist to have spare the pedestrian felt that he would seats in his car means that he will get an occasional lift in return for offer a lift to someone walking in the dust and discomfort the motor. the same direction. In the case ist undoubtedly causes, his whole of elderly pedestrians American attitude would probably change. motorists are particularly good, but I have yet to see any English week-end motorist pick up some bent old woman, tramping along the road with all the heavy parcela of her Saturday's shopping.
A certain amount of sense and discretion is necessary in the man- ner of offering lifts, but it is usually quite easy to tell the difference between people out for
Before pressing the starter switch get out and turn the starting handle three or four times to ease the cylin- ders of congealed all, and to give the starter less work to do.
Go Gently.
By this time you should be quite happy, and letting in the clutch evenly and gently, drive the car out of the garage.
Even If you feel absolutely con-i fident, keep the pace down to about 20 and amble along for the first two or three days, controlling the car by the accelerator pedal and not by using the foot brake.
Now, with the engine just ticking of engagement go through the move- over and the clutch kept right.out a stroll and those hurrying to ments of gear change again to get Apart from the question of feel- certain destination. In the centre the feel of things. ing that it is a pity let the of any crowded city like London Americans get so far ahead of us the congestion of the traffic makes in good manners, if the English the giving of casual lifts impos motorist would adopt the life habit sible, but in the suburbs few kind It might do much to eliminate thenesses are more appreciated than Il-feeling that does undoubtedly that of picking up a pedestrian orist. in the average pedestrian's rushing to catch the morning train mind towards the motorist. A good to the clty. But it is on country deal of it is doubtless quite un-roads that the great opportunity fair. After having driven a car for the giving of lifte comes in. daily in London for some years, IThe delight with which a ride in cannot but be appalled by the care-a car is welcomed by some woman less risks taken by the majority of with a week's shopping, a farm pedestrians. On the other hand, labourer returning from a beavy the average motorist's attitude day's work, or children coming towards the pedestrian is far from back from school should be ample encouraging. Apart from treating reward for the alight exertion him as an obstruction with no caused by pulling up to offer them right to cross the road. many a lift. And if that is not enough, drivers seem to think that the only their talk and anecdotes of the use of the pedestrian le as an neighbourhood should amply pay animated signpost whom they have their fare.Sybil Vincent in "Man- the right to stop and question, and chester Guardian."
GREAT HEAVENS- IT'S A VACUUM CLEANER-MY WHISKERS ARE GONE'
SAY-WHO TURNED THAT THING ON? 1: LOST A CIGAR AN MY WHISKERS IN THAT VACUUM
CLEANER
to
In a little while you will be sur-j prised how little you will use your brake because you will learn judge distances, spead, and what circumstances in traffic or road con- stitute possible difficulty which you must approach slowly.
Look well ahead and think well before you do anything, otherwise never let there be the need for an action of control which is nervously; quick. If you see that there is diffi culty ahead slow down early, if
BRINGING UP FATHER.
I'M SORRY · BUT ANYTHING THAT COES IN THERE IS ....
MASHED UP!
THIS IS
NICE!!
THIS IS THE BEST
BEARD IVE WORN YET-DON'T YOU. THINK 50?
There are almost sure to be quite
a number of fittings showing signs of looseness, and a careful survey and tightening up where a nut or bolt is found to need it will prob- ably give you silence for thousands
EG
TUB
©THE INTERNATIONAL, SYNTICATE.
neglects to do this will be worried and like parts before he has com- of miles, whereas the man who headlamp brackets, running boards,
by movements and rattle of wings, ploted 2,000 miles.
:
Storage Space Available.
REPAIRS
PROMPT...
& OVERHAULS
At Reduced Rates
AND
CAREFUL
ATTENTION-
TO ALL YOUR REQUIREMENTS
DAY & NIGHT HIRE SERVICE.
Liberal Discounts On Tyres & Tubes Stocks Always On Hand..
THE DURO MOTOR COMPANY, LTD.
Tale: K. 1226 & 226.
1.DO- DINTY-BUT FOR GOODNESS |SAKE-DON'T LOSE ·
'EM AGIN!
Nathan Road, Kowloon,
WHAT'S THIS IN MYROOM? I'VE SEEN LOTS OF ODD" THINGS IN JAPAN, BUT THIS THING'S GOT ME!
1927 ur. Eru Feature Service, Inc,
Bertan ngbie resor
1
No comments yet.
Private notes are available after approval.