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KAIPING HOUSEHOLD COAL

NOTE REDUCTION IN RICE

In Lots of not

loss than

1/2-ton-

Delivered

to

Peak District (above Bowen Boad), $24.00

to

per ton. Delivered Bow on Road and Lower Lavola, $22.00 per ton.

Delivered to Kowloon,

$20.00

per ton.

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Orders shente be sent in will:- ing at least 24 hours before the Coals required.

All orders must be accompanied by Dash, Cheque, or Compradom Order payable to "The Kalian. Mining Ad- ministration."

THE KAILAN MINING ADMINISTRATION.

Head Office:-TIENTSIN. DODWELL & CO., LTD., Agents, Hongkong.

Hong Kong's Artistic Photographers

The

YING MING STUDIO

Queen's Road Central'

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BRAND

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Telephone C. 989

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SUCCESSORS

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15, Connaught Road Central,-HONG KONG.

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Satisfaction unsurpased.

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CHING IU NAM

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Factory:-Canton. Hong Kong Office, 148, Queen's Road, Weet, lat Floor: Telephone No. C.3882,

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One Taste Will Tell Yes-You'll Like It.

Ask for it at your dealer's.

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FOR SALE. SCOTT-ŠEALED PACKETS. guaranteed to contain Genuine Stamps Only. Senle 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's

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THE CHINA MAIL.

MOTORING SECTION

A ROADLESS VEHICLE

TRANSPORT THAT MAKES ROADS.

Early during the drought in Queensland the need for a quick and efficient transport was brought home rather foreibly to the Man Outback. The railways were found

SKID PROBLEM.

IMPORTANCE OF TYRE DESIGN.

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RIDERS AT FAULT.

COSTLY ERRORS IN TYRE INFLATION.

Tyre design plays an important About two motor cyclists out of part in the efficiency of the per- every 100 get full mileage out of formance of the modern motor vehicle, To-day, we have left be- their tyres. A sweeping assertion hind long ago the problem of com-but true, bining durability and resiliency

Our observation has shown

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to be incapable of doing the haut with freedom from punctures, and that, there is no doubt that motor |

axes required of them, and motor trucks, while greatly helping to end the congestion, were, due to a partial absence of roads, unable to cope with the work. The result was that a cry went up for more and yet more, roads and railways, Unfortunately, both these services, apart from being costly, take a long time to construct; and even then it must be admitted that the railway train

painfully limited. It can only run backwards and forwards over its own line.

now nearly all the well-known tyre

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matter of pressures and that this abuse is due to the lack of appre elation of users of the necessity for correct inflation.

Too much emphasis cannot be given to the importance of correct inflation pressure.

even manufacturers are turning their cycle tyres are, in general, sub- attention to the urgent question of Jected to considerable abuse in the the elimination of skidding. company, has produced a tyre with a deep cut tough lozenge tread, which seems to offer a remarkable resistance to skids. On wet and greasy surfaces the new tread bites through to the road bed and tends to obtain a firm grip. that is a rebuff to every alipaing tendency.

However, akids, like disenac, wili! always persist to the end of motor ing, and so we all should be pre- pared at one time, or another to The road-using vehicle has provdenl with such occurrences, It la ed a success (says "The Queens generally accepted that the most lander") because it can be operateneient way of coping with a skid ed on either side of a railway-line, is to declutch and debrake instant and can transport goods to

ly, at the same time turning the place where there are roads: pro-wheel in the direction of the skid. vided, of course, that they are in There are some motorists who are 4 trafficable condition. Here its

any

Too little pressure is a very costly matter from the tyre point of view, but on the other hand a very high pressure is neither asked for nor required. The pres- sure should simply be correct for the load-and the very little initial trouble in determining this will be repaid over and over again in extra

Proceed as follows:

First put the back wheel only on

sphere of usefulness ends; for with expert at handling their cars mileage, comfort and freedom from out roads the motor truck is useless whon under the influence of skida tyre trouble. and it leaves (in an undeveloped that these rond dangers have no

are those which is being carried by ench country such as ours) considerable more terrors to them. The skids Determine the total loaded weight

For this areas of territory over which effi- referred to, however,

a substantial clent transport is out of the ques-usually caused by a stoppage of the wheel.

hack wheels through over-zealous weighing machine is necessary pre- tion.

To meet this a large firm of Bri- braking, or at least a misjudgment ferably a weighbridge. tish manufacturers has developed as to the amount of useful friction "roadless" vehicle, with which provided by the surface of the is possible to travel successfully roads. The worst type of skid is the weighbridge. Drop the stand and economically over ordinary that known as the front-wheel so that the machine will remain up-i

no variety, which develops quite sud- land areas where there are

is denly sometimes when one's car is ronds. This roadless vehicle able to operate two-dimensionally; travelling at speed. For this there the road using vehicle is unindiree is prnetically no known remedy, as tional, that is to say, it can move its action is so swift and unexpect

a mude road. ed, and the car goes completely out only where there The value of roudless transport in of control. A frequent cause of undeveloped countries, therefore, front-wheel skids is for the front cannot be overestimated. It can wheels to be slightly out of track, either "feed" railways, or it can re- or for a "pull" to have developed in place them altogether. It does not the steering, require any expenditure of money to be made on roads before it can uperate; and, more important still, there is the fact that this new vehi ele actually makes roads.

The principle of the vehicle' is the replacement of the rear wheels with an endless chain, or

band, which takes the greater part of the load that is carried (together with the greater part of the weight of the vehicle itself), and this weight is spread over a very much larger area of ground than is the case where rear wheels only are employ ed. Fundamentally, a wheel only a "point" contact with

Klves

the

THE PROXYLIN FINISH.

The Ford Motor Company was one of the first firms to realise the possibilities of Proxylin or cellu- lose as a body finish for motor cars,

and experiments in this direction began some time ago.

Stage by stage the difficulties and objections natural to an ex- perimental period were overcome

right and sit in the saddle. Weigh in this position and the result is the "back tyre load" or "back axie weight." Then put the front wheel only on the weighbridge nyd sit in the saddle. The weight imposed in this position is the "front tyre load" or "front axle weight."

For example, suppose the tyre is a 2in. gestion, the front tyre load is found to be 172lbs. and the rear tyre load 200. Reference to the pressure table will show that the correct pressures are 27lbs. front and 38lbs. back.

If a pillion passenger is carried both tyre weights must be ascer tnined with both driver and pas- senger seated on the machine: The necessity for this will be seen from the following experiments made by us for the purpose of this article.

The motor cycle unladen

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SATURDAY, JULY 2, 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.)

12

115

120

125

216

39

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47

50

HORIZONTAL 1-Grow together 4-Stupid

7-A beverage

B-A garden Implément 10-Everything 12-Realdue of curdlad

milk 13-intoxicating drink ́14-An entrance

16-Barnyard fowl 17-Producer of motion 18-To court

20-A small tumor- 22-A heathen

26-Trimming an front

of drows

29-A puzzle 30+Quick

31-A quantity of yarn 33-Obeya

35-Sheep cry 37-Cook with fat 40-An animal

THE INTERNATIONAL SYNDICATE.

| HORIZONTAL (Cont) { 41-Palid

43-To blow a horn

VERTICAL (Cont.)

15-Put to fight 19-A but

45-A measure of fength 21-Insipid 48–To beckon

47-A rough prickly flower head 18-Alto 49.inatot

60-Wealthy 81-Fruit skin

VERTICAL

1-Acuto 2-Negative answer 3-To hurt

An evli spirit -Extremely angry

-To emit a current

air

7-Articlo

-Farthest from the

center

11-A card game 12~To flog

23-Balst by Noah 24-An excleMATION {25–A religious person

20-A sweet conserve of

fruit

27-A place for coal {20-Strange

$31-Ductila 132-Forbid

$34-To depress

$5-Bleeping

sempartment

26-Zen!

138-To sten!

3D-Porscanive pronoun 41-To direct one's

course.

42-Perform

44-Prefix. Three 46-Bur

SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

Start out by filling In the words of which you feel reasonably sure, These will give you a clue to other words crossing them, and they in turn to still others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running rither horizontally or vertically or both.

(The solution of the above cross-word puzzle will appear in Monday's issue along with a new cross-word puzzle.)

been lost. The use and maintenance of correct pressure is the whole secret of successful tyre usc.

You can spoil the finest tyre in the world and prevent it from doing its duty by depriving it of the only thing that makes it pneumatic.

surface over which it rolla; and and the results obtained to-day found to weigh 312lbs., the front Safety Glass Co. experienced con- {

the weight of the load and the truck are concentrated at this point, with the result that a very high pressure is put on the surface, which, unler it is very hard, gives way und breaks up.

In the roadless vehicle the action of "spreading the load" has the result of infnitely decreasing "point" pressure on the ground, so that the surface, instead of being broken up, is gently pressed down and consolidated; and, after two or three trips of the machine over virgin surface that surface is well

on the way towards becoming a good, solid road. The front wheels: of the vehicle carry only a small portion of the load, and are prac- tically there for steering-purposes anly.

This "roadless" truck consists in the main' of a standard chassis, lengthened, and with a double re-

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are so satisfactory that the whole range of passenger car bodies are now finished in Proxylin.

The result obtained in the case of Ford cars is a satin-like finish and it is exceedingly durable. It is claimed that it is unaffected by moisture, grease, strong light, air, mud or water, and is capable of withstanding heavy and care- lesa usage to a far greater extent than the very best coach-finished paint and varnish.

A further merit is that it gradually improves, both in lustre and texture, by use, so that a car, after several months usage, is normally of a better appearance than when it was first purchased.

the

During the last year the Triplex { siderable difficulty in meeting the tyre lond being 146lbs. and

over-growing demand for their pro- back tyre load 165lbs.

With driver weighing 1501be.-aduct both at home, and overseas. total of 462-the distribution was: A further new factory, however, is now being completed and, when this is finished, the company will possess no less than five factories in various parta of the world.

Front tyre load 172lbs. Back tyre load.. 290lba. Only 26lbs. was added to the front tyre load as against 124lbs. to the back.

With a pillion passenger weigh- ing 142lbs.-total weight 604ibs.-- the distribution was:

Front tyre load. 154lbs. Baek tyre load .. 450lbs.

It will undoubtedly surprise most

owners to find that the weight on the front tyre is reduced by the addition of a passenger, while that on the back tyre is increased by more than the weight of the pas- senger.

The determination of the correct pressure to use and the testing to ascertain that it is put in at the

duction gearbox midway between that portion of the track which the ordinary gear box and the back comes in contact with the ground. Axle, thus duplicating the gear The forward wheel is in the nature time of Inflating is not quite the ratio, and giving, in all, six speeds of a "jockey," which, keeps the whole story. What remains to be forward and two reverse; the low chain tight: at the same time en- done is to see that the pressure is For many gear being in the neighbourhood of abling a grip to be obtained where always maintained. G5 to 1. The engine is standard any unusually bigh projections are years the valve used for motor

Ordinary four-cylinder water-cooled unit of encountered.

brakes, cycle tyres did not permit the pros- type that has been thoroughly having 16in, drums, are fitted, and sure to be ascertained, 28," once tested in all parts of the world; are mounted on the back wheels. closed by the pressure of air Inside and to meet occasions when hard The truck is designed to carry ait, it could not be opened from the spells of driving are carried out on load of 25cwt. over any

sort of outside. On Dunlop motor cycle bottom gear the radiator is en- country. In fact, it will even haul tyres, however, the standard inner larged and fitted with a bigger through a swamp. Another fea- tube valve is of a special type tank. Apart from this there is no ture is that the machine is

con- which does enable the pressure to other complication, and therefore vertible very easily into an ordine be checked, thus giving the motor nothing to make the vehicle less reary four-wheeled vehicle. tiable than the ordinary four- chain track can be replaced by cyclist an advantage previously wheeled

machine.

pneumatic-tyred rear wheels, the only enjoyed by the car user. The rondless chain-track is of al time taken for conversion

The Dunlop pressure gauge, pro- type that has been developing ever only four hours. In order to test perly designed accurately to regis since the War. It consists of a the economy and general efficiency, ter tyre pressures, bogey attached to the chassis by of the vehicle several trials have chased from any properly equipped semi-elliptic springs, and incor-made over a period, and it has garage for a small sum.

Rubber is not absolutely imper- porating four wheels, one of which been found that the cost of operat

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is the chain-driving wheel, atted fng, after allowing for deprecia-meable to air, and pressure may on to the ordinary back axle of the tion, interest on capital, drivers' very slowly fall. Test, therefore, vehicle. Two centre wheela are wagea, fuel &c., worked out at 1/8 at frequent intervals (sny at least pivoted, and are the weight carry per ton per mile. A rather excel- once a week) and restore by a few ing members, being situated over lent record..

pump strokes any air that has

DON'T BE 'LONG AS I'M NOT SO

KEEN ON TAKIN. CARE OF A BIRD THIS SIZE!

BRINGING UP FATHER.

IF THIS ELEPHANT DECIDES TO RUN AWAY-1 WONDER · IF JICES THINKS I COULD HOLD HIM!

HEY- JUST A MINUTÉ- YOU'VE GOT MY WHISKERS!

PHONE

5, Wyndham Street. Telephone Central 22.

SAY,JIGGS-YOUR ELEPHANT JUST. DEVOURED MY WHISKERS AN MY CIGAR YOU BETTER COME DOWN AN' TALK TO HIM, HER OR IT-

DON'T EVEN KNOW ITS NAME!

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