1929-10-17 — Page 12

THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 17, 1929.

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FURIOUS GOING

SAFETY IN ROADS

THE INCIDENCE OF ACCIDENTS

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Twenty years ago no one could have imagined that motor cars

GRUELLING TESTS

EXPERIMENTS MADE WITH

CAR'S ABILITY

A HILL CLIMBER Praise for the championship per-would be placed on the road in formance of a Studebaker Directorgrent numbers with any degree of evidence that the field of automo- The new Marquette is a tangible under extremo conditions, has just safety. Yet critics of motoring active engineering is a dynamic one been received from an owner incidents always forget the enormous constantly Pensin, according to Arvid Lnumber of cars that are running better transportation, to reduce striving to produce Frank, sales manager of The Stude-daily and the very great mileage owner baker Pierce-Arrow Export Cor-covered. Obviously the greater the create new standards of perform-

operating costs and number of curs, the greater mustance, speed and beauty.

During the long months of de-

poration.

to

were

The trip, described by Arthur be the number of accidents. It is Upham Pope, American business the proportion of accidents in rela-velopment, Marquette cars Syrian and Mesopotamian deserts

What is important is that accidents of miles in all kinds of weather and ended in Teheran. Persia. 4 would imagine that this would be

should be avoided at all costs. One to test the car's performance. The distance of over 3,000 miles. The journey, undertaken as a business

man, started in Egypt, traversed the /tion to the mileage run that counts.driven over hundreds of thousands

be a

and

The driver, under the critical

supervision of the engineers,

We know of many cases where a motorcar owner sails so close to the wind that a fairly heavy repair bill has put him on the racks, Barring accidents, a fairly heavy repair bill is almost always the re- sult of faulty lubrication.

One way the best way, in fact to remove your motorcar from the fist of liabilities, is to provide it with the best lubrication obtainable. The New Mobiloil is the cheapest, and by far the most efficient lubricant obtainable.

A practical test is all that is necessary to find out whether the above statement is true or

not.

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the first thought in everybody's General Motors proving ground trip, was made in a Director Six one forcibly in connection with the all sorts of

mind, but the point which strikest Milford, Michigan, presenting The report by Mr. Pope was penned modern motorist is that very few roads with all kinds of driving rough and smooth following the party's safe arrival of them ever consider that there is conditions, in Teheran.

concrete, macadam, most furious going,curring to themselves.

any likelihood of an accident oc-gravel, dirt, hills, curves "After the the car looks and drives like new,"

straightway, was the scene of the Mr. Pope declared.

Many drivers appear to forget gruelling tests that proved the "It has gone that a car cannot be stopped in its Marquette. a car through snow and sand; in rough own longth from 30 m.p.h. informance.

of briliant per: valleys below sea level and over still ordinary circumstances. It cannot, rougher mountains nearly 10,000 Indeed, be stopped in the available ability as a hill climber illustrate The experiments with the car's feet above. It has travelled over stretch of road visible at the speed the severity of the tests to which good roads, poor reads, desert trails at which some people travel round the Buick engineers subjected their and parts of wilderness without a corner, Admittedly, most ac-new product. even tracks.

cidents have to be avoided by dedg- A Cruel Pace

ing rather than by braking, but if carrying a total load of

A five-passenger, four-door sedan "From Jerusalem, Paleatine to only 100ft. of the road is visible in

460 Teheran, Persia, with detours of front of the car, it is only reason Founds, was used to test the Mar- several hundred miles, in six daya able to reduce the speed to at least quette's hill climbing ability. This without change of drivers, would that from which the car can be. car was driven over a hill 1,400

tnx on any car, but our stoppet in 100ft.

feet long, one of the steepest on gillant Studebaker pulled through! To drive on the wrong side of the

the proving grounds-a hill pre- without trouble, even though cruel-rond ought to be absolutely inex-senting a climh more severe than ly overloaded, and at all times cusable in any circumstances, and

the average cross-country motorist passed at cruel pace.

It is one of the most fruitful causes

ordinarily encounters in n full "The trip from Damascus

of collisions. By driving on the

Benson's driving. tu Ruthbah Wells, 269 miles, was ac-wrong side of the road, it is not complished in 7 hours and 45 maant deliberately driving on the minutes, but times and distances in right-hand side of a straight road, approached the foot of this grade tite Syrian desert bear almost no either on the right-hand side of the per hour.

but taking a right-hand corner at a crawling speed of five miles ful capacity to climb the steepest, seconds and from 10 to 60 miles relation to times and distances else-road or just over the centre of the actually encountered

the hill wan hills, but where. Long stretches of sharp, road, where the nature of the corner was accelerated and, with a surge sought after by all automotivogether with a proven road speed

it has that unusual the engine combination

per hour in 31 seconds. irose stones, twisting trails in dry affords a restricted view.

of abilities so long The results of these tests, to- river beda, deep holes concealed.

of power,, the car swept upward at engineers, quick get-away, flash- well in the by dust, ruts and ridges, terrific

It is obvious also that cross-roads a rapidly increasing speed. are real danger points, since very crossed over the summit of the one achievement has been sacrificed, standard of performance in a car

As It ing speed and rugged power.

seventles, General dust clouds, uncertain tracks-all

No Motors officials say, create many collisions occur either at grade, 1,100 feet from the bottom, at the cost of the other. these things make fust travel difficult. That our car reached the tersections of one road with

cross-roads, or at what is called in- the car was going 25 miles per Ruthbah Wells from three to four other.

of the weight and class of the hour and steadily picking up.

Marquette. hours before any of the other largely due to

Such collisions are very

Quick Get-Away

Although priced twenty cars which left at the same security, because the speed of cars Marquette not only has a power-

struction of this new car. a false sense

Further tests prove that the

within the of

reach of millions, only the finest time shows the mettle of the Studs is not, as a rule, reduced sufficient-

materials have gone into the con- biker.

ly to give the driver a fair chance- "Everywhere we went," Mr. Pope if another car emerges from a side. concludes his letter, "we made bet-road and its driver makes a mis- ter time in our Studebaker than take. experienced drivers In the region had thought possible.

That is, when the real trouble- Never once exists, namely, in another driver have we been stopped because of doing something totally unexpect any failure of the car with the ex-ed. A good driver has to be on the ception of two halts an a terrific alert for the unexpected; this is the urade due to a tendency to heating. direction in which many people un- On both occasions it was a very hot doubtedly err. Numbers of persons day and we were dogged by a follow driving to-day are not experts, and ing wind which rendered the fan are not complete masters of their practically useless. After we got cars, never will be, and could not! rid of our excess baggage of over reasonably be expected to handle; 500 pounds, the car negotiated their machines faultlessly in an every hill like a breeze.

emergency. The fact that a driver "The Director was not secured for neither understands signals nor pleasant trip but for serious uses them properly is not due to business where time counted and ignorance, but is due to thought- dependability Was essential. lessness. Half the possibilities of had expected the Studebaker would trouble in modern traffic are due to fully meet our requirements and just simple little faults.

that is why I bought it, but I had no conception that it would have such reserve of capacity and stamina."

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