1929-02-28 — Page 13

THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1929.

Lucas "Motoralities"

The Best of Everything.

"King of the Road" Motor Horn

No. 38A with 33" Flexible Tubing

Automatic Screen Wiper.

No. 27 Complete

"King of the Road" Safety Observation

Mirrors.

No. 38T

No. 60T Motor-cycle

$16.80

25,00

10.00

15.00

Type 150 Round. Dia. of Mirror 5%"

8.00

Type 160 Rectangular. Dia, of Mirror 61⁄44"x33⁄41⁄4" Type 11 Round. Motor-cycle

8.00

5.00

"Milam" (all Moulded) Batteries.

"MILAM" MEANS MOULDED

IN

LUCAS ACID-PROOF MATERIAL.

Type ST W II A AMP. 126 1413 × 6 × 9% for Morris

WSMGA

STWIE LJWTE

»

& Morris Com. & Arm- strong 18 hp. 55.00

80 16 6 10 for Morris

Cowley (earlier models: 55 00 51 Special for Austin "7"..... 27.00 20 413 × 35 Motor Cycle

16.00 with fittings.........

"Girder": Wrenches.

No. 1 Length 4" Jaws open 1%" Gun Block finish.

"King of the Road" Electric Horns.

No. 12V Complete with Buttons

3c- 67

Electric Bulbs.

D 1236-12V 36 & 6 watts Double-Filament for Clyno

THE CHINA MAIL,

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LANES OF TRAVEL the requirements of inter-urban transportation. We must con- tinue to pave highways at the very peak of construction possibil- Children Transported

ities. By that I mean that the Nearly a million children of limit of physical possibility in rural districta are transported imit of our highway programme road building should be the sole

dally by motor to centralised union schools. Out of the 2,500,- for some time to come. No short- 000 motor trucks in operation. tions should circumscribe the pro- sighted restriction of appropria- | 500,000 are devoted to farm use. In districts boasting of good congress of the immediate future. crete roads perishable produce is If existing engineering and brought to market more quickly, utilised to their utmost limit dur- contracting organisations are more economically and in better ing the coming five years, if every condition-an obvious advantage facility for the physical produc to both consumer and grower. It

is interesting to recite, in con- tion of hard surfaced roads is nection with crop transportation, utilised at peak pressure, we shall that due to the conditions of not, half a decade hence, be transportation In Turkey, it was caught up with the demand for actually possible to lay down inter-urban transport facilities flour, milled in the United States created by the needs of our grow- from wheat grown in Minnesota ing population. and our Northwest, at Sansum on road pavement seems to be dor- When the subject of street and the Black Sen, 7,000 miles away,

at a less cost than milled from mant the dealer can advance the wheat grown in the interior of cause of good roads by keeping Turkey, perhaps 250 miles away. such facts fresh in the minds of influential fellow citizens. He can A dollars-and-cents estim- ate

contact with the local Press in- of the value of the service afforded to an annual forming publishers of develop- traffic of 414.000.000 vehicle-ments and providing themes for miles by a system of good roads instructive editorials.

The biggest obstacle which was made recently through a sur-looms in the path of our motor vey conducted in Connecticut by the State Highway Department transportation and which retards and the U.S. Bureau of Public motor car sales is a strictly local Roads of the Department of Agri-dealers can wield the most effec- problemn in which the automobile culture. In the report the valuative influence.

tion is set at 3 cents per truck- In this field-the field of city mile, and 1 cent per passenger planning and adequate construc- car-mile. These values for high-tion of municipal arteries- lies way service are conservative, in the greatest opportunity for im asmuch as they are considerably

less than the estimated differ-mediately beneficial constructive ences in vehicle operating costs effort. It Is in this field that we on paved roads as against un-most lack in public understanding improved roads, owing to the and public action. Here it is dis- fact that the system embraces tinctly the dealer's move. many types of improvement.

The survey covering a year showed 1,114 miles of improved highways in the system used by trucks travelling 59,700,000 truck-miles and by passenger cars covering 345,300,000 passenger car-miles. Annual highway ser- vice rendered to the trucks at 3

Every Saturday night there are 1,000 more automobiles on the streets of Detroit than there were a week before. Detroit does not build enough new street pave. ments in a week to park those additional streets on which to run cars, to say nothing of providing

them.

Automobile insurance rates in cents per mile was therefore 2.75

Detroit would be cut in half over $1,791,000 and to passenger cars $3,543,000, or a total of $5,334.000 night if by some magic we could double our area of street pave. annually. These astounding figures do not include the timements to-morrow. and place utility value which the roads place on the goods and com- modities hauled, or upon the in- creased property values that ac- crue to the land adjacent to the highway improvements.

20.00

12.06

etc.

2.50

6V or 12V D.C. or S.C. 18-24 watts ........ 6V or 12V D.C. or S.C. 3-6 watts

1.50

.90

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25 Queen's Road Central

RACING CAR

BUILT LIKE A SEAPLANE

Gordon Fraser, "Daily Express" Motor Correspondent, gives the following details of Major Segrave's new racing car in a mail week paper.

Tel. Central 4739.

This situation applies in some measure to every American city.

Street Systems Then, too, our inter-county and interstate highways connect cities and towns-make them in effect one community. No The salvage value of the 1,114 miles of improved highways was American city can, in planning its placed at $29,000,000 by the street system, consider only the State Highway Department.

traffic developed by its own popu- In lation. For with the improve- vielding $5,334,000 in service to

our highway system, highway users, the system earns ment of

an annual return of approximate- every community must give in- ly 23 per cent, on the investment creasingly serious consideration -enough to pay for it in a little to that traffic which these high- more than four years.

ways bring. And there are few cities in the United States now

Road Appropriations : Definite steps necessary to giving adequate consideration to secure road appropriations are this question of street improve vague in the minds of

most ment.

Detroit, through its Rapid people, and the motor car mer- chant is no exception. As he is Transit Commission under the able leadership of Colonel not in the road business primarily other problems occupy his mind. Sidney D. Waldon, and in co- The car is now ready. The But broadening of the motor operation with the City Plan Com- chassis and body. were finished market is decidedly his business, mission, has foresightedly laid some weeks ago, the wheels were So if he investigates he will learn out a master plan of development which will save us hundreds of put on just before Christmas, and that there are several Bources the tyres specially prepared to from which road building funds millions of dollars. For it visual- ises the growth of the metropoli- withstand the great strain to be can originate.

Money may be drawn from the tan area for a hundred years imposed on them when the Golden Arrow races along Dayton Federal treasury in accordance ahead and takes steps which cost Beach - were fitted. Engine with terms of the Federal High-nothing now but which will make adequate decen- tests have been carried out suc-way Act. The state has funds possible the cessfully.

available for highway develop-tralisation of traffic in the future. Chicago has Д similar The 1,000-h.p. motor-boat in ment. The county treasury fur

as the Chicago

Two entirely revolutionary ideas have been incorporated in the design of the Golden Arrow, which Major Segrave will try to nishes another source from which body known the 1,000-h.p. motor-car which capture the sea motor speed re- to draw. The township provides Regional Planning Commission. Major H. O. D. Segrave is taking cord off the coast of Florida, is for farm and market thorough-t, following in the footsteps of to Dayton Beach, Florida, to try expected to be ready for trials,

to

wrest from the U.S.A. the

world's motoring speed record.

He hopes to travel at from 230-

240 miles an hour.

CHEAPER MOTOR FUEL

even

fares. A draft on the town or the Detroit Rapid Transit Com- city treasury is possible. Bond mission, is laying out a plan which issues are frequently justified. will serve ultimately to unshackle. Individual contributions round Chicago and Cook County, Illinois, out the possibilities of financial from the hampering influence of bottle-neck entrances and exite in One of these innovations deals It is understood that the United road sid.

By writing to his State High- the metropolitan area. with the cooling system; the other States Army Transport Service has

Too great emphasis cannot be with the transmission. Cooling naked for the specifications of a way Department outlining just an engine that will have to run at device Invented by Mr. Ernest what improvement or group of placed by automobile dealers such a high speed as that of the Godward, a New Zealand engineer, improvements he has in mind a everywhere upon the wisdom of Golden Arrow presented a difficult for the use of fuel all in equal dealer can readily secure advice the course being followed in problem to the designers. This proportions with petrol as motive and information as to the best Detroit and Chicago. The grow problem was partly solved, as I power in automobiles. Mr. J. procedure to be adopted for active ing traffic which has been pointed good roads promotion in his to in connection with our high- wrote some weeks ago, by the Queeney, vice-president of the

locality. If the project does not way, development, means provision of an ice-box behind the Philadelphia street transportation come within the province of the greater problems inside municipal engine, through which the cool-system, announced to a meeting State Highway Department the limits, and it is high time that ing water could flow from the of engineers that the device had State Commissioner or Engineer American communities, no matter radiators,

been tested on 40 buses and would can inform him of the proper local how small or large, think of the The cooling problem has been be installed on 580 others, and official with whom the subject future and begin to plan with its completely solved, I learn, by fit-3,000 taxicabs. The device, which may be discussed. The mayor traffic in mind. ting two radiators instead of one, is

It is the dealer's move-his a gas generator eliminates can supply full information as to These radiators are unusual carbon monoxide from the exhaust the needful steps in a plan for move to transmit enthusiasm to both in size and position. They fumes, and produces up to 15 per street widening and paving.

keep this subject a live one; to run along either, side of the body cent, increase in the original horse

With a definite understanding iron out difficulties as they de from just over the front, wheels power development of the motor. of the situation, the local dealer velop; to suggest plans; to domin- to the rear wheels.

Mr. Queeney said that he estimated way work intelligently and effec-ate public discussion of roads and The other remarkable feature that automobiles could be operated tively to secure better roads for streets in his home town; and in of the Golden Arrow concerns the 29 per cent, cheaper by the use of his territory and better and wider every way to further his business transmission of power. The car the device than when petrol alone steets for his town or city. He is prospects by tying up his local is cigar-shaped, and built on the was used.

lines of the Supermarine S5 sea- plane, in which the Schneider Trophy was won in 1927. Major Segrave's measurements have been taken and the body built to fit round him like a scaplane. He will thus have a central driving position, which would interfere with the normal central propeller shaft.

Captain Irving, the designer, has overcome this by conveying the drive to each rear wheel in- dependently by means of two pro- peller shafts and with the aid of a-special gear-box, which will con- tain the differential. There will be a power-operated clutch.

THE

aasured a sympathetic hearing by community with the great nation- those he interviews, for highway al movement to pave America. department officials, legislators These figures of the mileage and city authorities will respect cost per vehicle should not be con- his familiarity with the cause he fused with mileage cost per pas champions et desert

senger. Furthermore, they-in- cluile all items such as garaging, More Cars Than "Phones depreciation and interest onin There are more automobiles investment. They are, in other PRINCE the United States to-day than words, total operating cost u

there are telephonesiottele cluding replacement, and not phone numbers but instrumenta. merely the current running cost.] Professor Griffin of Ann Arbor,

USES A VAUXHALL CAR.

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Agents:

LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

A

was conservative in estimating Relic's Last Journey 27,000,000 motor vehicles in use A two-horse bus which has run in the United States in 1980. It regularly for 50 years between Ep is proper to point out that our worth and Doncaster has just made highway system will still be then its last journey and is to be replaced as it is now, inadequate to meet by a motor bus.

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WHEN BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT...HUICK WILL. BUILD THEM.

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