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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1, 1928.

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It

to accommodate herself and maid,

provided for the cast.

· A LIFE-SAVER

THE CHINA MAIL,

DEVICE FOR ROLLING VICTIMS TO SAFETY

ELECTRIC 'MASSAGE! MACHINE

CHEAP MOTORING

NEW ERA FOR MOTOR TRANSPORTATION?

SUCCESSFUL, TESTS

If certain further tests which Are we on the threshold of a are about to be made In London new era in power production for the on a new life-saving device for motor, transport? writes motor vehicles prove successful, it Daily Express" Motoring Corres-

pondent.

.

is possible that pedestrians will no longer dread the prospect of be Tests, as I have already revealed, ing run over in the street. In- are being carried out by the R.A.C. into the powera and capabilities of stead of being thrown violently on the Diesel crude oil engine, which the ground and crushed under the it is claimed does the same work wheels of an oncoming car, the as the ordinary petrol engine with- "victim" will be struck a series of out the assistance of carburetter, harmless, glancing blows by an magneto, or sparking plugs. electric "massage" machine, and I hear splendid accounts of the then rolled over and over on the performance of the lorry chosen for ground until the colliding vehicle the experiment, from a friend who comes to a standstill.

followed it when it made its first

This ingenious device is the in- test along the main London-Oxford vention of a well-known London road.

surgeon, Dr. V. J. Clifford. It has My friend was between Gerrards lately been demonstrated with Cross and High Wycombe when he such success to the English Home came on a lorry and trailer moving Secretary and the Chief Commis- at the rate of about ten miles an sioner of Police, that the London hour and was at once struck by the General Omnibus Company has fact that the combination, whose promised to fit three of their total weight was about twenty tons, lorries with the appliance and was moving unusually-silently and He also carry out tests over the next six extraordinarily steadily. months.. Sir William Joynson noticed a smell which he likened to Hicks stated in the House of burnt varnish exuding from the Commons that if the Chief Com vehicle.

missioner of Police considered the "I have never heard a lorry move ( invention necessary in the public so silently-it was as quiet na a welfare, he could make it a con- limousine," he said to me.. dition of licence for a vehicle.

Second Experiment

The device is an electrical‘one. The second test by the R.A.C. It consists of a long roller carried wil be carried out but it

in a horizontal position in front of is unlikely that the results will be the vehicle about eight Inches clear of the ground. As soon as made public for some time.

Both

it strikes any obstacle a trip tests are being carried out by the mechanism drops the roller almost club's observer, Mr. R. W. Sprague, on to the ground, and simultane- and he is paying particular at- ously acts in motion a ten or tention to the following points, twelve volt electric motor, which which the makers of the engine takes its current from the starter claim give the engine a superiority for the lighting circuit. The driv over the ordinary petrol engine:-

er can also operate the motor by! means of a switch.

150 Revs. a Minute

This motor, by means of a worm gear, drives the roller at a speed

of about 150 revolutions a minute

The fuel is inherently safe, being non-inflammable; if poured on an ordinary fire it will put it out.

It is cheap-between 8d. and 6d. per gallon-and is not subject to tax.

The engine has a wide range of in the opposite direction to the speed and will "tick over" well and' wheels of the car. The effect of eurely at low revolutions.

this is that the "victim" cannot be A lorry fitted with this engine run over. Instead he is rolled will climb steep hills on top gear. over and over on his side, and by and without any undue strain, being kept in front of the car he Is in no danger of being run over by another vehicle coming up, be

hind.

There is no need to warm up the engine at all, as it is fitted with electrically-heated plugs fitted into the combustion chamber, so as to During the last few weeks the warm the contained air up to the most exhaustive tests have been required temperature thus over- made in London, where the Clif-coming the usual difficulty of a ford "Lifeguard" is fitted to a lorry driver in starting up · his twelve-ton motor lorry. Men and engine first thing on 3 cold boys have allowed themselves to morning.

be run into at speeds up to 10 Many other, advantages over, the m.p.h. In every case they have ordinary petrol engine are claimed, been uninjured. Their clothing and those who are handling the has not been torn, and it has been engine believe that it will found impossible even for an over-not be long before the Diesel- cont to become entangled in the engined touring car for the “man mechanism.

in the street" will be on the The Lifeguard is really a form market. of massage machine. The roller consists of a number of light hol-1 low cylindera made of Paxoline, or

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As the slightest so that on location she has no need touch Instantly sets the relfer In for the usual messy make-up tent motion, even the initial blow the

"victim" gets being a glancing! one, the subsequent ones are like Unique Devices

of Bebe Daniels, has a "beach car"a somewhat vigorous form containing all sorts of intriguing - Statistics show that at least) closets for the storing of, wraps, sun-shades, bathing suits and three-quarters of motor accidents picnic equipment.

massage.

the pedestrian would escape with

ONE WILL HELP OTHER SOME REVELATIONS

What effect aeroplane develop The following article by Rob

involving pedestrians occur atment will have on the automobile Wagner will make interesting read

Norman Kerry, recently bought speeds between ten and fifteen has frequently been discussed by ing. to local cimena fans.

Tests made re those close to both industries, as endeavours to reveal the eccentric

a new Packard and after having miles an hour. it torn apart and rebuilt to suit his cently with the Lifeguard show well as by laymen interested in the motoring tastes of movie stars. That the job is difficult the author light-hearted fancies, equipped it that is practically all these cases transportation methods the future admits.

with huge truck tyres. Norman says: "Harold may be fancy, but he's going to be As a conservative figure it is ahead? Will the aeroplanes rele

at worst a few slight bruises may evolve. Wagner Rob

Is an era of keen competition Lloyd and I were quictly walking safe, by gad¦ on Beverly Drive when suddenly

timated that 70 per cent. of motor gate the automobile to a place be Buck Jones has a little statuette fatalities would be averted. down the street came roaring a of himself on the radiator cap,

side the horse and buggy? Since their inauguration, more! big Packard car embellished from while Tom Mix has his car than 6,000 life-saving appliances Mr. H. J. Klinger, general sales Decidedly no, in the opinion of bumpar to windshield with every holstered with crocodile skin and

have been submitted. to the kind of squirt-light, hore and other his name shamelessly emblazoned LG.O.C., but out of these only 40 manager of the Chevrolet Motor

John Monk have been considered worth a gadget that could be hung upon it. athwart its aides.

Company. The two industries As the kaleidoscopic monster sped Saunders, author of Wings has a trial. Every one of these 40 have will rather follow parallel lines of by, a grinning face peered over the unique, device to accommodate his

failed utterly in its object. development, with each one uid- side, while at the same time a siren peculiar needs.. One of the

many cases the effect has been to ing the other, the Chevrolet sales like a steam calliope kiddingly auxiliary seats when turned over; involve the dummy figure in the leader declared in an interview. greeted us It was Monte Blue-becomes a portable typewriter! mechanism. In others it has been. Little Competition the eternal boy!

Curiously enough, Richard Dlx to throw it to the aide of the "There will be no more competi- Nearly every star in Movieland with his ebony-black ear and has at least one Packard, and the furnishings, attracts attention by vehicle where it is in danger from tion between. aeroplane. and the other vehicles. Dr. Clifford's in-automobile than there is between agent in Beverly Hills tells me his attempted modesty, that when he sells a car the fun is don't expect such things from movie ent note because it is in motion, Mr. Klinger stated. When the vention strikes an entirely differ the newspaper and the radio," just beginning. If the thing is blue stars.

and because instead of diverting radio first began broadcasting they want it pink; and if it's pink And the big studio cars! Tom Mix the "victim" It keeps him in front news despatches, there was talk

has a huge bus that holds eight or ten people, camera equipment, re- of the roller where he is compara- of it supplanting the newspaper.

tively safe.

To-day the newspaper prints The diameter of the roller is radio news, and the news items that becomes a platform from which only five and a half inches, so broadcast by the radio rather to shoot running shots, or is used that it is not at all unsightly. Dr. whet the appetities of news for a grandstand during exciting Clifford hopes to reduce

paper readers. Each one servės

they want it purple-a lower top, a longer body, a changed this and a new that!

Lady Stars

The women stars for the most part, knowing nothing of mechanics,

Folke

flectors and what-not with a top

this

close-up stuff. Then there is Fred dimension to about three inches tile other are interested only in externals Thomson's famous camera-cart for private care.

Fred is a mechancial genius and he has built upon a Packard chassis

the smartness of the body and the colour.. Leatrice Joy wants her

limousine a deep maroon, while a whole battery of trick cameras with which he can take every im- aginable running shot or sensa tional fall. Silver King, Fred's blg white horse, is the snobbish

Fay Wray insists upon a blue body and grey top. Lole Wilson prefers a certain shade of tan while Colleen Moore's Packards have always been

a deep blue. Incidentally, Colleen's member of the troupa. He insists husband, John McCormick, recently upon Kaving his mobile palace all bought a car, insisting that the roof to himself and his private chauf- be high enough to permit his wear-four must drive a separate car. ing a top hat.

Yes, the Mummers of Movieland

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I believe the aeroplane and the automobile will follow similar | lines" of development

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"I believe that for every serv plane that gose in the air at least two automobiles will go on the ground,

She owner of an aeroplane wil need an automobile to take him from his home to the airport.

SERVICE He will need another car to take

But if the movie girls are shy on have the freakiest motor-car notions mechanical knowledge they certain in the world; but as Charlie Chap-|| YES SIR, IT'S A- ly demand domestic comfort. | lin's Japaness chauffeur: sald ́re- Corinne Griffith has had her big garding/some guests awaiting out- Packard limousine arranged so that, side the studio "They are very she can instantly convert it into a nice people; they come in Packard I'

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