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BIG SALE

THE CHINA MAIL

MOTORING SECTION

NOTES AND QUERIES.

TRAFFIC SIGNALS.

PETROL PUMPS.

SATURDAY NOVEMBER 12,

DAILY CROSS-WORD PUZZLES

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LADIES' RAIN COAT

$5 Start

WHITE SHOES

SUMMER HAT

ALSO

$1.00

$3.00

Remarkable Reductions

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

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"PEONY" EVAPORATED MILK

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I SAND-LIME BRICKS.

Best machine made bricks

Highest teats and uniform qualities.

For Econoray, Quality, Beauty, Durability and

Satisfaction ansurpased.

YEE YICK SAND-LIME BRICK CO.,

CHING TU NAM..

Manager,

Factory:-Canton. Hong Kong Office, 148, Queen's Road, Weet, 1st Floor, Telephone No. 0.8882.

FOR SALE

YVERT'S

POSTAGE STAMP CATALOGUES

FOR

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GRACA & CO.

Box No. 6205

WHAT TO DO WITH A BROKEN -REAR AXLE.

A correspondent wishes, to know if there are any means or devices which can be applied in order to bring a motorist home any distance

after-breaking-a-rear-axle

QUESTION OF CONFLICTING- COLOURS.

· NAKED LIGHT DANGER.

Members of the American En- During the last few weeks there gineering Council Committee, have been several accidents, both which is conducting a survey of in Western Australia and in the traffic conditions in the principal Eastern States, In which patrol cities of the country, declare that pumps have figured. In more than tee on traffic control signal ays Officer of the W.A. Fire Brigades the findings of the joint commit one Instance there have been caused by acetylene lampe, and the Chief tems of the New York State Con- Board (Mr. J. M. Lambourne), ference of Mayors have brought when approached by the "West

of Impossibility for the car to be In any case it would be a matter propelled under its own power. Assuming that another car was handy to tow the cripple in, a couple of skida roade from neartT the solution of this Australian", gave it as hia em- the limbs of # tree, and problem. braced to the housing of the axle

phatic opinion that there should be Dr. Morton G. Lloyd, of Waehn regulation preventing the use of would enable the car to be shifted. ington, a director of the Eye naked lights on petrol driven If the break happened at such a Sight Conservation Council of vehicles. place as to be accessible when the America and one of a committee These accidents are due to the differential cover was removed, and, of twenty which is directing a imbecility or, perhaps, I should if a fairly large piece of solid rub- ber is on hand, it can be fitted in-national inquiry into light, and say ignorance of the people who allow petrol to be handled core- side the axle housing in such a safety, opposes the overlapping lessly," he said. manner that both parts of the axle of red and green, a recommenda- ace people handling gunpowder "I would rather may lay upon it. This would apply tion for which appeared in the than petrol, because they know that only when the break is made on a preliminary draft of the New gun-powder is explosive and would full-floating axle, as the weight of York report. the car is carried by the axle hous-

be careful accordingly. People ing and not the axle itself...the

Signals That Conflict

fall to racogaise that petrol is highly explosive, In a symposium of comment that it is very volatile, and when latter simply transmits the driving

The trouble is toque to the wheels. An addi- and suggestions as to this report, disturbed vapourises and immodi- tional support for the wheel would Dr. Lloyd, who is chief of the ately apreads. The consequenco la be a limb braced to the affected safety section of the United that a naked flame anywhere within side of the axle. Under ordinary States Bureau of Standards, says: yards of where the liquid is ex- circumstances, however, it would be advisable to have the machine tow-

posed is likely to cause a fire. ed in to a garage. -

Hard Starting. Another owner who signa him self as "Troubled" states that he finds it very difficult to start the engine frat-thing in the morning. and wishes to know how this may

be overcome,

,

opposite and conflicting instruc "Since these colours represent tions, they should never be used in conjunction. It would be better to extinguish both the short period of transition than to show both simultaneously. Much better than either is to show red in both directions."

"Another danger," continued Mr. Lambourne, "Is that people are in the habit of sitting in cars, while the tank is being filled. If they are moking cigarettes, there is every even if they are sitting in the front possibility of the vapour igniting, seat and the tank is at the rear. A lighted cigarette is not like a This may be due to a variety of

Another member of the Amer glowing coal. There is always a causes, and before condemning any Ican Engineering Council Com flame between the interstices of particular component it is well.mittee, E. W. James, chief of the tobacco, and a flame is much first of all, to see that the tappet Division of Design, Bureau of more likely to cause ignition than clearances are correct, and that the Public Roads, United States De. A coal. I think that every car ignition system and carburettor partment of Agriculture, doubts should be electrically lighted, and are clean and in good condition. the necessity of a lap of red and that care should be taken with the In particular, Investigation should

wiring and insulation to see that be made as to whether there are

green signals.

there is no chance of a short cir- any air leaks in the induction

cuit causing a spark." system, notably between the flange where the carburettor is attached to the induction pipe, and also up the valve guides. One of the chief causes of bad starting the use of a too heavy or unsuitable oil, the result of which is a gumming up of the pistons and zinge, thus making the engine very difficult to turn, even by use of the handle. Maladjustment of the carburettor

Use Of Amber Light

"The question of three-lens In answer to a further question, against two-lens control signala, Mr. Lambourne said that the petrol I know, is an important one and it pump, in his opinion, was the dispute, but my observation is safest way of storing petrol. He that the use of amber in the inter-cently in Perth where the petrol instanced a fire that occurred re- val between red and green result from a pump caught alight. The in a tendency to rush the intersec-hose leading to the pump was burnt, tions," Mr. James aays.

but the pump itself, although full

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12-Grows old

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SUGGESTIONS FOR SOLVING CROSS-WORD' PUZZLES -Start out by Bing in the words of which you feel reasonably sure. These will give you a clue to other words crossing thein, and they in turn to stll others. A letter belongs in each white space, words starting at the numbered squares and running either horizontally or vertically or both.

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

SAIGON TO BANGKOK.

A correspondent who was with

"You can see it on Sixteenth of patrol, was intact. On another Street in Washington almost any occasion a burning, building fell on is another of the many faults of time and day where the amber to a garage containing a bowser. hard starting. Flooding the cylin- lights are used. The question of The garage was destroyed, but the ders with pure patrol, thereby pre-lap between red and green re- pump and its contents were not the Saigon Rugby team which re- venting a proper mixture with a quires, I believe, very careful con- harmed. Mr. Lambourne also cently visited Bangkok forwards - a constitute an explosive mixture is lap is necessary and I feel rather always perform the operation out on September 21, at four in the certain proportion of air so as to sideration. I am not sure that a considered that people who used brief description of the journey. petrol for cleaning clothes should The footballers left Balgon by car a very common fault. Sparking plugs are also a contributory cause strongly that it is only necessary of doors, as the fumes in an en-morning and reached Pnom Penh to atarting troubles, being either from the point of view of the closed space were likely to cause at 10 am. After tifin, the party dirty or having a gap that is too pedestrian. big or too small.

"All the cars held on the red lights are stationary as the pedes- trian walks in front of them. For & drive to start forward, under such conditions to deliberately run down a pedestrian is unlikely, so I question whether a lap of the red and green signals is really re-

Repairing Spark Plugs. "Plug" atates that he has several damaged, but unused spark plugs on hand and would like to know the most suitable material to use for the insulation.

Pedestrian Movement.

unconsciousness,

Fireproof Petrol Pump.

flammable object in that area-the

Mr. Lambourne that the petrol In support of the contention. of pump is the safest method of stor ing petrol, the following para- graph, supplied by the British Im Usually the insulating material is

perial Oil Co., and referring to a of porcelain, and cylindrical inquired.

fire which completely gutted a shape. There are some plugs on the market which have a mica in-

garage in Melbourne, in of Interest. "On the kerb outside the garage sulation. These Insulators are re-

"I think that there is no ques-stands a "Shell": petrol pump.. The tained in their position by a thread- tion that where traffic is suffi- fire raged in all its fury, wreaking ed bushing within the metal cup ciently congested to require con- bavoc in all directions. A foundry which separates the two electrodes trol that pedestrians should be at the rear of the garage was gut- In the modern spark plug there is compelled to observe the same ted also, while several adjoining an annular clearance between the control, because for the time be-properties sustained considerable insulating material and the faalde ing they also occupy the traffic damage. And in the midst of this of the metal cups, while in some lanes and not the sidewalks. blaze stood apparently the most in- makes an additional annular clear. The value of standardising ance is provided between the insu- laring material and the insulated regulations of this kind can hard- electrode. This clearance is pro ly be emphasised too strongly. vided for the purpose of reducing The greatest value will flow from the danger of short circuits, by the use of common signals and leaving a larger space between the two electrodes than would or dinarily be filled with Boot. Ac- 'cording to some designers, it also ensures a vortex for the gases, cir culating in the primary combustion chamber, under the impulse of the'- piston strokes, thus expelling a So mild that they act like Da-vapour-tight and without fumes. large part of the deposits. It is ture, yet thoroughly efficient in Although the tank containing the possible for the insulating material their results, Pinkettes are the spirit is six feet underground, the to fall through becoming covered Ideal laxative remedy to keep handy absence of any one of the above- with Boot, which, possessing con in the house, When constipated, mentioned advantages would allow siderable conductivity, affords an casfer path for the current than the air gap. It may also cause short- circuits through saturation with conducting matter,

It has been found that two-thirds

AS GOOD FOR YOUR WIFE AS FOR YOURSELF.

Pinkettes

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petrol pump-safe and sound, ex- cept for a little discolouration through scorching. This was in spite of the fact that it had that. day received delivery of 100 gallons of spirit On the following day. Bales of petrol were made from the pump as usual. N

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This incident furnishes con clusive evidence in support of the claim that these pumps are per fectly safe, being leak-proof,

fumes and vapour to arige ·round the pump and Become Ignited in case of fire."

common regulation everywhere,

of the total amount of sales of goods liverish, billous or headachy take a that drivers venturing into on the instalment plans in the little dose at night and you'll be places where they are unfamiliar United States is represented by better, in the morning. Of chemists with the streets or roads will find purchases of motor cars in Last everywhere, or post free 60 cents both the type of signals and the year, over two-thirds of the cars the vial, from Dr. Williams' Medi- regulations the samesmas those Bold in U.S.A. were on time pay, cine Co., 60 Klangse Road, Shang- they know and are familiar with ∙ment

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at home."

BRINGING UP FATHER.

MR.JIGGS, I'M FROM THE EMPLOYMENT AGENCY: THE SWISS GUIDE YOUR!

WIFE TELEPHONED FOR:

CAN YOU YODEL?

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DE E E LU ́U ÚH;

left Paom Penh at 2 p.m. reaching Battambang at 9 p.m.. Starting early next morning they reached Here the track prohibited further Sisophon and the Siamese border. motoring and so the party walked milles to Aran Prodet, and en- trained for Bangkok,

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