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ROAD. HOGS.

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DRIVING EXAMINATIONS NECESSARY,

When I was a lad, my dad would

say,

A NEW MARK.

LOW PRICED CARS BRING GREATER DEMAND.

DODGE SALES.

MYSTERY SHIP.

AND A MOTOR ›

CAR

THE LA SALLE.

THE CHINA MAIL,

TRUCK SALES.

CONDITIONS BRING MORE OPTIMISM,

BETTER BUSINESS.

Business conditions, through out the country point to increas ed sales volume in the truck and commercial car and truck sales for Dodge Brothers, Inc.

Comfort and appearance are marked tendencies in the motor truck field, Mr. Sneathen points out. Manufacturers are building commercial cars with these fea- tures incorporated with stamina, economy and dependability usual

"Keep in the middle of the road in any week last year and sets a new thought to be the "Grilon," it was y associated with truck perform.

For whose best-remembered scrap of Latinity must be in medio tutis simus ibis.

The middle of the road has its appeals, but I am getting a little nervy about the growing number of motorists who either cannot or win not drive anywhere else, until head straight at them, Klaxoning in a most offensive fashion.

Our highways and byways range from twenty to sixty feet in width Twenty feet gives plenty of room for There is two streams of traffic. ample space in twenty feet for three average vehicles abreast, so that a 20-foot road will still accommodate north-bound and south-bound or east-bound and west-bound trafle while one vehicle is stationary by the roadside.

ance..

THURSDAY, JULY 5, 1928.

You Can't Beat Our Prices for Miller Tires

GEARED-TO-THE-ROAD/

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A. LUNG & CO.

Tel. C. 1218.

19, Queen's. Road, C. SERVICE STATION:-215, Percival Street, Wanchal.

Tel. C. 4316, **

FOR CHEVROLET.

BOARD OF ENGINEERS RECOMMENDS OIL.

The Board of Automotive En-

now recommends Mobilott "A" for

and trucks. This recommendation

"NEW" MOTORISTS.

With the added stimulus that 180 miles almost due north of Ever since the war I have defend- ed, in so far as he could be defend. has been provided by the Intro Detroit, near the western shore ct, the "new" motorist; but I am duction of the new low priced of Lake Huron is a small lake beginning to realise that he is only Standard Six, retail deliveries by known as Lake Solitude and in human when he is a she, almost, Dodge Brothers, Inc., for the connection with it, the inhabit

Week ended April 7, in ants of the Tawas district in startlingly human.

America and Canada, exceeded which the Lake lies, have for For six months past, and during factory shipments by 67 units, ac generations told a story about a Whitsuntide particularly, I have cording to John R. Lee, general mystery ship which was silted been meeting people whose favour-sales manager of the company.

over with mud and gradually dis- ite ballad would seem to bo:

Retail sales of cars and trucks appeared. totalled 6.232 units which exceeds The name of the ship is

high mark for 1928. Factory built almost 250 years ago in 1679 shipments were 6,165. It is signi- on the Niagara River above the ficant that domestic dealer re-world famous Niagara Falls, by paved roads and wider highways The rapid construction of ports show an increase in sales of Rene Robert Cavalier Steur de La and the manufacturing facilities passenger cars of 52 per cent., Salle, a Frenchman of high, over the corresponding week in birth and daring adventurous to build trucks or commercial cars

The retail 1927.

de spirit.

particularly adopted to every line liveries were 18 per cent, over La Salle had hopes of building of business are awakening execu those of the preceding week, and a great inland empire in America tives to the possibilities of motor dreamed 32 per cent., ahead of those for for his beloved France. His plan transportation never the same week last year. was to build a ship to sail the of before," said Mr. Sheathen, "While the public acceptance great lakes of Erie, Haron and "For the same reasons, operators of the new Standard Six line has Michigan. These lakes are so of truck fleets are finding expan met every expectation, as evid-vaat that together with Lake St.sion profitable and necessary in enced by the retail sale of op- Clair which lies between Lake a competitive, market that de proximately 8,000 of these cars in Eric and Lake Huron they have a mands economy, speed and de-gineers of the Vacuum Oil Company the first eight days upon the mar surface area greater in extent pendability in transportation. ket, the heavy demand that is than that of the islands of Java, "Figures in our company show being made for all of our lines is Madura, Bali and Lombok com- truck orders for March this year exceptionally pleasing," said Mr.bined.

totalled 4,342, compared to 3,160 Lee.

He also planned to build an- for February, a gain of 1,182 "The Senator Six is rapidly other ship on the Illinois River units or 37 per cent., and indica- finding its place in the higher to sail down it to the great Mistive of the trend to increased class passenger car field, and sissippi and then on to the Gulf of sales. judging from recent reports, it Mexico where he was convinced But I seem always to be meeting will undoubtedly be necessary to the Mississippi emptied into the car and truck registrations shows people who have a mortal dread of substantially increase our produc- sea.

that gains or losses in the trade

3. Improvements in Mobiloll "A". anything in the nature of road-tion schedules on this line. Dur-

The "Griffon"

for the first two months of 1928

A number of conditions have camber, and so will hold on to the ing the past week, retail sales of

La Salle completed his original compared to 1927 are well dis- changed with respect to motor, car crown of the road until the last posthe Senior Six gained 37 per cent. programme and arrived at the tributed among agricultural and operation during the past few years, sible moment; and when the road over the preceding week, while head of Green Bay, Lake Michi- Industrial states. It indicates especially during the years 1926 is anything less than twenty feet in the Victory Six models which gan. There he pitched camp and that while some sections of the and 1927. In the United States, width, or when they and I have to have been great favourites with after a period of successful hunt-country have dropped behind last fuels have changed considerably pass stationary vehicles, their ad- the buying public since the day ing loaded the "Griffon" with year's mark, no depression in any and non-detonating fuels are to-day herence to the crown of the road of their introduction again added valuable furs which he sent back particular industry is evident. constitutes a frightful nuisance. 23 per cent. increase to their to Niagara en route to Montreal On an empty, open road 1 will already many sales records. in order to repay the people who spend the whole day with my near- "In addition, a continued heavy had financed his expedition. side wheels a bar two feet from the demand holds up for our trucks The "Griffon" and her brave kerb, or grass, or wall, Having and commercial cars. We are ex-sailors ran into a violent storm a good suspension and steering, ceedingly optimistic

over sales few days after she had set out on con prospects for the second quarter." her return voyage and has never knowing my job, am tent to do NO, But people

since been heard of, but the whose suspension und steering

people living near Lake Solitude are less meritorious, people who are

claim, from the stories handed on still nervy about the camber of the

to them by their ancestors, that extreme edge of the road, seem to As Cars become faster there is the hulk which lies buried in the presume upon my modest claims, a tendency for their chassis and mud of that Lake is the missing and every day and every night I am coachwork to be built nearer the ship. La Salle Waited but no **shaven" by them.

ground. This makes for stability. "Griffon" returned so he again set and safety and also to a small ex-out on his adventure, crossed to tent for economy owing to the the head of the Illinois river; fact that wind resistance is re-built his second ship and sailed on duced. The latest range of im-to the Gulf of Mexico. proved coachwork designed some

MY CRASH.

ENGLISH COACHWORK.

.

My present car is only five feet in overall width. Why, then, on roads of the width of those from, say, the Royal Exchange to Ports

The General Motors Corpora- muuth, should anybody need ever to come within two inches of my off what on these lines is that an- tion chose this great adventurer's side running-board, my near-side Bounced by the Armstrong Sidde-name for the La Salle car and running-board being only two festley people, who have taken a line ever since have striven to build from kerb, grass or wall? Day somewhere between the ultra-low into it the indomitable will and after day. night after night, my and the over-all type of body. determination to get there, which

Their new designs include a six-imbued the great explorer. mest frequent companion say's

window fabric model, the princi- Phew! that was pretty close!"

pal features of which are a re 25 YEARS AGO.

duction in overall height, an in- crease a accommodation and a

appearance.

I can remember twenty-five years

DARKEST AFRICA.

"Analysis of new commercial

Conditions of this type are far more encouraging than if figures revealed a slump in several trade lines."

IF I WERE

MANAGER AS MOTORING POLICEMAN.

IBy W. M. W. Thomas.]

(General Sales Manager, Morris

Motors (1926) Ltd.). In proportion to the increase in volume of traffic motoring is far less dangerous than it could quite reasonably be expected to be,

the engine of 1928 Chevrolet cars facludes the 1925, 1926 and 1927 models also. The reasons for this change are:

1. Difference in driving condi- tions.

2. Improvements in the Chev.olet motor..

the rule rather than the exception. Possible road speeds have increased from 20 to 30%. Many connecting inter-city and inter-state highways with smooth concrete surfaces are extending in a network throughout the United States. Not only have there conditions made higher speeds possible, but in addition have permitted of theen higher speeds being maintained for long and extended periods.

Automotive manufacturers have been quick to realise these changed conditions. This has resulted in koen competition among ear manu- facturers in the various price classes. They have "atepped up” their engines to greater perform- ance with a view to obtaining higher car speeds and they have made alterations in design which permit of these higher speeds being sustained for long and continuous periods.

Consider these facts. New cars

Ahead of the Field. are coming on to the ronds at the rate of 2,000 a week, which, even

The Engineering Division of the allowing a high figure for the scrap-stantly keeping pace with these Vacuum Oil Company has been con- ping of old care, means probably a

changing conditions. Our field en-

ago feeling nervy about the camber, Very distinct improvement in 11.9 ILP. MORRIS CAR BLAZES total addition of 1,500 vehicles. Ogineers have been conducting ser- |

the slippery-looking slope toward the kerk. But that camber, is never.

as herce nowadays as it was then, and latter-day tyres do not slip even

on wet ronds. No: it is just ner-

vousness in some cases, and infernal

carelessness in others.

The new ex-window fabric saloon is a definite improvement]

on the old four-window type. It

TRAIL

LAGOS TO MOMBASA.

Amid all the propaganda dir-

had

these many are handled by people who have had no previous experi-vice and dynamometer tests to de- ence of motor-car driving and also termine accurately the require- have not had the benefit as

ments of lubricanta to meet these is better lighted, permits wider ected against the British small road-sense in horse-drawn vehicles been and is being improved from many earlier motorists, of acquiring Mobiloit in the various grades has changed conditions. Our Gargoylė

angle view from the interior and looks altogether more dainty car and all the much boosted, but The average speed of traffic has time to time to keep abreast, and I have only been crashed once in and better proportioned. Side by carefully planned "stunts" con~{ also gone up appreciably during the in fact a step ahead, of the actual i

side with this fabric model the ducted so often by the manufac- last five years.

Even the most mo- and anticipated requirements. a coach-built design, the shape English official has quietly driven adays are good for an honest fifty Armstrong Siddeley Company list turers of big foreign cars, an destly priced cars sold now- and accommodation of the two his Morris Cowley 2-seater right miles per hour, whereas their pro- cars being generally similar and scross the heart of Africa from totypes of 1823 or so were nothing the bodies peing available not Lagos in the West to Bomba like so fast The flow rate of mo- spectacles and his wind-screen (of only on 20/50 and 15/35 h.p. six on the East Coast without anydern traffic is much faster than that and production methods with a view. | convoy of spares, without publi- city; indeed, without being con- of five years ago.. scious of having done anything very remarkable.

an open car).

swept hill, in darkness; by a car a quarter-century; it was on a rain- driven by a man who wore glasses aearly a quarter of an inch in thick ness and had rainspots on both his

He cost me £105, cylinders, but also on the 14/30 and cost one of my passengers ah.p. four-cylinder type. broken nose and an eyebrow. I was On the lowest powered chassis serry for him, because he was so another innovation is a four- obviously upset by the outcome of window fabric body which only costs a few pounds more than the open touring body on the same chassis and represents remark- by millimetres, actually ably good value.

his handiwork.'

When, however, one of these gen-

try who will shave my running- board

Our 'roads must be safer to enable the big potential advantages of car C. M. Barton, a member of the larger circle of the public. And the Due for leave in England, Mr. ownership to be obtained by a still

decided he would proceed home ty is to institute the force of motor Nigerian Administrative Service, most direct way to ensure that safe- by an East Coast liner. Having ing policemen suggested In "The experienced the qualities of his Daily Mail." Moris Cowley in Nigeria he had

Chevrolet car is, of course, one of The 1928 engine employed in the the units affected by these changed conditions. The manufacturer has made many improvements in design

to "stepping up" the performance of this engine.

Where driving conditions require volumes of fuel must be burned in higher engine speeds, greater

temperatures throughout the engine a given time. This results in higher and in turn demands lubricants

heavier la body and possessing to a greater degree those characteristics which make for better lubrication. designed and produced to meet these The new Mobiloll "A" has been

new conditions,

Six-Cylinder Holidays

The noiseless movement→→ Softly flowing power......... Slashing acceleration, and Thrilling down-hill swoop of the Armstrong Siddeley will improve any holiday.

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touches it, I am going after him, -ventre-a-torre, going to "head" him,

Httle doubt of reaching Mom- If I were a motoring policeman 1 and then thump-into him some of newly- fledged, and I become more bass; and so on February 23, should expect to have power given

· SIDE-CAR TOUR,

STURDY 2-2 TON LORRY. the broader rudiments of common than ever sure that we must, sim. accompanied by hia Nigerian ser- me to deal with careless cyclists

When the B.S.A. world tour- The production of the Asso sense as applied to roadfaring. ply must, come to the examination vant, and taking with him an and even careless pedestrians. I

Why this blood-lust?

ists, B. H. Cathrick and J. P. ciated Daimler Model "204" Because of ability to drive of all applicants extra spare wheel, a piece of co- should not desire absolute authority when he shaves me he tends to make for driving licences, no matter how strips of expanded metal, he set sight, for in many instances the de- coanut matting and two short to convlet motorists or others at

Cantley (of the "Motor Cycle" 2-211⁄2 ton commercial chassis was me spill my own bears, or bump a many yeare they may previously out from Kano, where he had pro-arce of danger involved is a matter ments in design of the 1928 Chevro land and sea miles in 19 months tinued popular demand from cur

stuff) reached Southampton on stopped during the latter part of March 28 they had covered 60,000 last year, but owing to the com cyclist on my near side, and I don't have held licences. I could never like bumping cyclists any more than understand the objection to such viously arrived by car from of opinion and argument. I should, let engine do not apply to the pre-equal to 211⁄2 times round the tomers for this sturdy ligh examination on the part of anybody Lagos. Exactly A month later, I hope, not be expected to arrest vious years, models; the fact still world and of this figure 20,500 weight model, it has now been who can drive. It always seemed Equatorial, Africa, he drove into legal speed limit on safe roads.

and after traversing French drivers who were exceeding the remains that the prior models of miles were recorded on the decided to continue production Chevrolet engines are being operat speedometers of their machines. The chassis, as is well known

I like apilling bears.

"

A NAUGHTY GIRL

Almost the whole of road

ordinary looking car.

Same Conditions. While it is true that the Improve

to me that the people who protested, Nairobi and then proceeded to Rather would I aim at forcing safer ed under the same general condt-This was the only motor cycle ex- fitted with a 28 hp. Leylinder hoggishness is explicable either by who vapoured about "quisitional Moghasa, having easily averaged driving habits all over the country tlong as the present raodels insofar pedition to tour New Zealand and poppet valve engine of monoblock ignorance or inconsiderateness, and methods," were not tob'sure of their 100 miles a day. The only in by warning and advice and not by as speed, heat, faol and oil are con- South Africa, the first to cross construction, 4-speed gear neither is excusable to-day. I read, on pa and q's why, otherwise, decident was the gutting of the shoals of convictions. I should cerned every week, that so many thousand prive an inspector of the pleasure of petrol trailer, which caught fire travel in plain glothes and in a very

Asia Minor the Sinai Desert and and overhead worm dri new cars have been licensed in this,sing a decent car decently driven?: rand days out of Kato,

The same speed conditions apply the Andes Mountains (at 10,500 chassis price (at home) with that, or the other area. I watch We cannot make, a whole nation

ft.) and to traverse Europe from tyres is £545, including and pray-pay that at least one and its visitors motoring cherubim.

The same heat conditions will South African tour of 5,600 miles

Lisbon to Constantinople. The lighting, apply to all

The same general fuels will be tinuous strain on the riders and in six weeks put the greatest con-

machines, and the longest day' The same great advantages em-ride of the whole tour (from

each thousand will be driven by somebody it to be entrusted with a garden barrow full of lawn mow Ings!

But we can assure ourselves that we

know how to drive, and we should,

so that when they have barged into

to all;

used in all

HIT AND RUN DRIVERS.

beer

city

to stop

The speed trap is out of date LONDON GROCERS IN ITALY. even if. for that matter, it ever Pad operated as a check on dangerous Sixty London grocers, all of driving at all. Its action is too cir- the village lock-up and put it four them members of the Institute of cumscribed. It also only takes into I see Gertrude, just-after she has paces to the rear, we can at least Certified Grocers; recently enjoy account speed pare and simple as bodied in, the new Mobiloil "A" Beaufort West, to Worcesters asked George to let her take the exculpate them from a charge of in-ed the experience of visiting the the deciding factor in dangerous should be made available to all C.F.) was accomplished on the cases wheel, and George has done so, I competence, Reckless tools are Fiat motor works at Turin, driving, whereas, as any motorist The new Gargoyle Mobiloll "A" last day, but one of the Southported know that Gertle has not even paid dangerous but fools who are is- Italy, by motor coach. So liberal knows, it is just as simple to drive in addition to meeting the lubrica African section. The riders were who herbs. for a driving ligenes. I feel competent as well as careless are is are these works laid out, that safely at 60 miles per hour on cation requirements of the Chevrolet given civic receptions throughout are the kind, that

the Bi Coaches carrying the tain occasion as it is to be criminal engine in an unusual way, effects Australia, New Zealand, Tesense of responsib tempted to sneak, and tell the next very fearful wildfowl, polleeman Iseo that Gertie Is a

The whole of motoring good man: Visitors were able to travel under ty, reckless at 10 miles per hour on greater miles per gallon, maintalau mania and South-Africa, and les travellers.

their own power down the long others. naughty girl-and a menace to the Aers can be taught, and learned, in line of machine shop passing The menace of the road to-day is ed high road speed conditions, with ly every town passed through in chief o

high compression under sustain- türed to motor cycle clabs in near-been termed by safety of everybody else within a very few hours. Let them be from floor to four by means of the night, which is much worse than both taught and learned, or by the elevators until they emerged on not the man or woman who drives stands dilation to greater degree, these Dominions, Cathrick has Vehicles in California,- being naughty, in my eyes. MTA time August Bank Holiday is the roof track. They returned to fast under proper conditions but and due to special improvements Jomed the Birmingham staff of cowards or criminals.

VAN #INQUISITION" [here. But don't let's look too earth by way of one of the spiral the person who uses the road care- made la it, considerably oxu the B.S.A Cycles, Ltd, while Castley case they

I begin, in fact, to reconsider my far ahead"Evening News Motor roadways built in this unique fas lessly and this does not only apply periods between, necessary carbon has returned to his former work no mercy, should be kindly, fatherly attitude toward the ing" Correspondent.

on "The Motor Cycle":

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tory.

to motoristam Daily Mail.

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