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THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 12, 1929.

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BRITISH HIGHWAY

THE MOTORIST AND ACCIDENTS

giving them facilities for and comfortable travel.

Highest Efficiency

speedy

CAR WASHING

PRESERVATION OF GOOD

APPEARANCE

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THE CHINA

MAIL,

“SAFETY FIRST"

SPECIAL BRAKE-TESTING

PLANT

Under normal weather conditions It is probable that no device yet the regular, systematic, thorough known contributes towards the washing of cars, no matter how in safety of motoring as much as one expensive. has a most important which has recently heen installed at bearing on the preservation of good the factory of the Hillmar Motor appearance, which must always be Car Co., Ltd., of Coventry. This

a vital factor in pride of ownership.consists of a brake-testing plant There are cars whose mechanical which is now in operation at the condition is perfect, while that of end of the finishing line.

their coachwork is best ignored, but

"Every motorist," says "Modern not many. In a majority of cases Motoring." the official organ of dirty, shabby, neglected-looking Routes. Ltd., the world exporters of af externally, is one which will

Hillman cars, be also in not the best of trim danger of ill-adjusted brakes, but "appreciates the mechanically. Unfortunately, car- washing is work of the kind which accurate adjustment is not easy to most motorists whose leisure accomplish by hand. In fact, hours are in many cases too pre- told of this new brake test that cious to devote to such drudgery when a car, the brake of which had are inclined to shirk after the been carefully adjusted by hand, "newness" of a new car has worn was placed on it, it recorded a uf, even if they do not keep difference of 100 lb. pressure on the chauffeurs, and so there is an un-two rear wheels. This, of course, (mistakable tendency to relegate the would be more than enough to cause; washing of the car to a position a skid with certain road condi among the things which receive tions."

only perfunctory, vicarious atten- All such possibilities are pre- tion. This is bad. A car which is vented by the new test at the Hili- ! washed regularly, and thoroughly is man works, which is, incidentally, all the better car for that fact. the first of its kind to be employed Squeaks which develop themselves by a British motor-car menu- in car washed only when it must facturer. At the end of the be washed, for common decency's finishing line, the car is placed on sake, would never develop if it were the braking plant, with each wheel regularly and property washed.

in contact with a pair of rollers.: These rollers are revolved under electric power, and the car wheels, of course, turn with them.

A Tip

and

Marquette

Marquette

WORTHY OF ITS BUILDER.

Obviously, then, the tip is to seek some competently, efficiently-

Each of the four devices has a staffed local garage, equipped with dial, which records brake pressure modern car-washing plant, and

In pounds. First there is a text for come to an arrangement with its "drag"; then the hand-brake is proprietors or managers for the re-applied, and the brakes are adjusted | gulur, systematic performance of so that there is exactly 300 lb.

this admittedly exacting

Marquette had to be worthy of pressure on each of the rear wheels Buick before Buick would accept laborinus job. There is as much difference between a good wash and The foot-brake pedal is operated by it for production.

in the same polish and the other kind as there

a graduated rod and, a good meal and the way, adjustments are made so that is between

So night and day, for weeks and other kind.

each front brake records 400 lb. months, Marquette underwent the The essentials of carwashing and each rear brake 200 lb. most gruelling tests that the corps which is satisfactory are few and

The whole test occupies some 17 of experts at General Motors simple. but very few amateurs, no minutes and at its conclusion the Proving Grounds could devise. matter how gifted in other matters, brakes have been thoroughly bedded ran wash and polish a car as well down and adjusted to scientific its performance over every sort as can a man who does nothing but requirements. The superiority of of road hilly sandy, muddy, and wash and polish cars all his work this to the hit-or-miss methods of Jing hours, and this washing is one hand adjustment is obvious. The more of the little things to do with Hillman Company is to be Con- motoring which are best entrusted gratulated on being the first Bri- to professionals-always provided tish concern to install this "some- that they are controlled and super- what expensive apparatus, and to vised by people who know how a pass on its benefit to Hillman car should be washed and polished, owners in the form of even increas- should be turned out to look its bested safety.

and smartest.

When. as is so frequently the

case, a car has been atanding, or

even travelling, in strong sunshine SAFETY MEASURES

ROAD PASSENGER VEHICLES

|all day, it should be allowed to cool- aff before it is washed. The cellu lose lacquers now used almost ex-i Jelusively apon metal panelled body work de ret perhaps react to heat! to the same degree as do the old- It is perhaps more by good for- style coach painter's "finishes", but une than anything else that the they suffe by being douched with very rapid development in road cold water while they and the passenger transport has not been panelling beneath them are still hot accompanied by 2 greater number from the sun's rays.

of serious accidents. Such as have. occurred, however, have served to draw attention to the necessity for Fabric-covered coachwork simply the provision of really adequate must be allowed to cool down be-brakes on the vehicles employed, fore it is hosed, because the ex- and to the further necessity. for parision under heat of the leather-door-handling apparatus which will finish on the textile material, and operate effectively in all cir- the simultaneous shrinkage of the cumstances.

Cooling Down

un-

cutivas itself; produce cracking, or While there are many highly at least blistering, which can never efficient braking systems on the te rectified satisfactorily.

market, it need not be assumed that For those who are unable to take further progress in this direction advantage of the service of profes-la impossible, but it is mainly in sional cleaners, we append a few the means employed for opening hints which may make all the and closing the doors that road difference between cleaning and transport vehicles compare spoiling a car.

favourably with that say, adopted If possible use a hose to flush on the underground railways. The the car instead of a pail of water latter have had the advantage of The highway engineer, and those and sponge. responsible for transport vehicles water, though not too strong, ou paratively long period, in which de

Play the stream of gradual development over upon the highway, should continual dusty or muddy parts until the dirt fective design has been eliminated ly address themselves to the en- softens up and washes off.

by trial and error, and it is dis- deavour, to secure the highest stan-

After flushing with the hose and tinctly to the advantage of pas dard of efficiency for both per-removing dirt spots from radiator, manent way and vehicle, so that the hoods, guaris, and body, take a sense

bad that the sengers trafell S

Hevelopment all too frequent accidents now occur-pailful of

ater and go over the ring may be reduced.

should appl erience gained chassis and wheels, removing all & It is well, whep either. con-grease a. 1 dirt in this manner.

vehicle to the structing a new road, or improving Use soap if necessary. After wash requirements of the other. an existing one, to think in termsing the chassis and wheels with

In Great Britain, there are 40,- 177 miles of classified roads, which carried, in 1928, approximately 2,000,000 licensed motor vehicles. This gives a rough average of 50 vehicles per mile. Having regard the congestion which such volume must inevitably create in re- lation to the intensity of this coun- try's growth, traffic control has he come a matter of great difficulty. Many roads in the provinces are sustaining a traffic density of 30,000 tons per day.

While it is not surprising that accidents take so large a toll, it is felt at Home, as in other coun-

ordinary mad courtesy and care, !

on the one chass

я com-

The firm of Messrs G. D. Peters

of 10ft. as the unit width. In pure-soap and water, immediately flush and Company, Limited, of Caxton ly rural districts this would mean with cold water. Do not let the House, Westminster, S.W.1., will

a metalled carriage way of 20 ft., soup dry, causing streaks and spots.be familiar to many of our readers enlarged as a big centre of popula-¦

40 ft.

tion is approached, to 80 F ami subsequently should be made wherever possible cold water

Provision

riageway, under which al cable, for polishing, the chassis.

After

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race track stretch - was proved by more than 100 scientific tests. Every qualification of power, speed, comfort, endurance and value was measured.

Marquette has been proved to General Motors' and Buick's satis- faction. Now you drive it and satisfy yourself.

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Sole Agents in Hong Kong & South China-

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as the manufacturers of safety The Radiators

appliances for railways, and we re cently had an opportunity of la Take another pailful of clean, specting a road vehicle to which and with chamois this firm had fitted the braking and tries, that a vast rumber of these for green verges, say, 10 ft. wide, polish the radiators, hood, guards door-control systems, in addition to are preventable by the exercise of on each side of the metalled car and body. Don't use this chamois other minor details. During a trial on the part of both driver and pipes, and public utility services the foregoing, take another piece of run, it was demonstrated that the could be laid, together with sewers, chamois and polish the chassis. | brakes, although very powerful, pedestrian, and an increased sense surface water drains, &c., and upon only. Remember to change the were exceptionally smooth in their of personal responsibility.

which the Postmaster General could water in the pail frequently, asing action, while the door mecharism 20,000 CHEVROLETS There remains much yet to be erect his poles and wires. At the clean water at all times. Rinse and operated perfectly on all occasions. accomplished, in the direction of the extreme outside of the verge, pro-wring the chamois often so that no

It was not of course possible toj regulation and control of motor vision should be. made

for grit or dirt can scratch the polls-demonstrate the behaviour of thiế traffic, and it is apparent that the pedetrians, thus, in the first case, ed surfaces.

mechanism after an accident to the next few years will be important in making it unnecessary to interfere

After washing the engine take vehicle, bat from a study of the the opportunity they afford to guide with the finished carriageway, and care to dry electric connections design, it would appear that every and direct this social and economic, l'in the second, making It inviting apt to cause a short circuit and that the passengers should not tees this car ran off the assembly the world. In every branch he is at Dagenham, Essex. This valu-

thoroughly as wet connections are precaution has been taken to ensure

then trouble.

trapped in such circumstances

element, which can so profoundly for the pedestrian to walk upon the

aid and advance human comfort and portion set apart and made avail national prosperity.

able for his use, in this way en-

Maybury in "Engineering."

JAPANESE AND MALAY WORKMEN

ROOF LIGHTING

I is significant that we have found the Javanese, and Malay workmen to be readily adaptable to .. Messrs: Dodwell & Co., Ltd., sole training. In the duce shop, the Agents in Hong Kong and South polishing, clothcutting, body strip China for Henry Hope & Sons, Ltd., On August 21, the NV. Generaling and sewing machine work, heBirmingham, have been advised Motors, Java, completed the assem-

halds his own with the labourer do, that their, principals have secured bly at the 20,000th Charolet and ng the same work in any of our the entire contract for the roof other plants situated throughout lights of Fords' new motor factory line, the performance of the com- pany was loudly cheered by the making good progress and the car able order, amounting to more than workers and office staff gathered to is solid evidence of how well £80,000 includes Hope's patent watch this interesting event.

the native labourer has accepted glazing, continuous opening lights, Mr. Harrington, the Managing the American system of progressive the gearing for which will be oper- wish to retain the lustre of your rinse off the soap, and then finish Director of N.V. General Motors, in car assembly, and mastered the idea ated electrically.

the course of an address said: Ab of high car not to use a polish which con- drying with a

quality production A short time ago Hopes supplied moist piece of

standards:

the whole of the metal windows, tains turpentine, kerosene, vinegar, chamois. Petrol should never be outstanding feature of the progress

skylights and door furniture for the muriatic acid, or other free acids or used on leather cushions as it will to which I particularly wish to call ingredients harmful to a fine finish cause them to crack and peel your attention is the fact that we

Imperial Chemical House, Millbank, The leather upholstery of the car mixture of glycerine and sweet off equal in quality of Buish and detall ported.

are to-day building cars which are A record holiday traffic was re- Lordon, an immense seven storeyed should be washed occasionally with in equal parts is ideal for keeping to those produced in shy. American thronged with motor-cars returning of The Imperial Chemical Indus- All roads to London were building forming the headquarters soap and water, using a sponge to the leather supple.

factory

tries, Ltd.

To prevent Lickelled surfaces Engineering. from tarnishing rub frequently with

In Great Britain the motor-car suring his safey, Sir Henry Pan oily cloth. This preserves the

industry has become one of the most progressive and successful în the country, providing a large amount of well-paid employment, and, assisting in the solution of the housing problem by making it poa sible for workers to live further and further away from their places of employment, whilst at the same time

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