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THE CHINÄ MAIL.
THURSDAY, JANUARY 9, 1930.
THE MOTORISTS' PAGE A
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In order to give way for 1930 models which are coming, our stock of motor cycles have to go at greatly reduced prices.
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Roads Cit
RECORD BROKEN
Fine Run From Madras To Ootacamund
According to a cablo just received
SAFE DRIVING
Ten Simple Results To Observe
The conscientious observance of by the Studebaker factory, the re-ten simple rules for safe driving cord between Madras and Ootac-prepared by one of the fore- amund, India, has been broken by most trams authorities would nearly three hours by a stock materially reduce the number of Studebaker President ‘Eight Road-trale and highway accidents 'and at the same time result in a de-
ster.
The car was driven by A, L. cidedly more efficient use of our Nageldinger, resident of Madras. motor cars, according to A. R. Ootacamund is a large hill station | Erakine, president of The Stude to which residents of Madras and baker Corporation.
the surrounding country migrate "The many complications and with the advent of hot weather. Inew safety requirements imposed The distance between the two points by modern traffic conditions are ably is 102 miles, the last fifty miles covered in these ten commandments over winding mountain roads for motorists," said Mr. Erskino. climbing to an altitude of over "They were compiled at the request 7,500 feet. Nageldinger completed of safety workers by Dr. Miller the trip in 9 hours, 10- minutes, McClintock, director of the Erskine nearly 3 hours faster than the Bureau for Street Traffic Research which The Studebaker Corporation former record.
car.
The feat was greeted byen-endows in Harvard University as thusiastic press comments through-ts contributiot to the solution of out India, particular stress being modern traffic and safety problems. laid on the fact that the Stude-studies made by the Bureau in city "The rules are based on traffic baker used was a strictly stock
and suburban areas with, an eatimated total population in excess "This achievement recalls the of 10,000,000 people. The tea amazing speed records established pointers which It fa belleved last April by C. L. Clark of the motorists should always bear in Swias Engineering Company of mind whether driving in the city Bombay," said the Manager of the or in the open country are: Hong Kong Hotel Garage, the local Studebaker-Erskine dealer, in com- menting on the record. "In 1 Cross country run between Bombay and Calcutta and Bombay and Delhi, Clark likewise drove a stock Stude- baker President Eight Roadster.
"Four hours and twenty minutes were clipped from the Bombay- Delhi record, the President over- coming mud and sai storms which
at times all but obliterated the road. In face of these difficulties the Pre- sident covered the 904 miles in 24 hours, 10 minutes clapsed time. The Bombay-Calcutta run of 1466 miles was made in 40 hours, 15 minutes. 7 hours and 20 minutes faster than the previous best time. Here again, obstacles fnnumerable beset the President, including oven wild animals at night which were attracted by the lights of the car.
"Several months prior to this run, C. E. Perry, a business man of Rangoon, made motoring circles in Burma sit up and'take 'notice, when he blazed his own trail between Rangoon and Mandalay in a stock Erskine Tourez. The trip was made in 48 hours.
"Although the distance is only 385 miles, the utter absence of even a semblance of road and existence of dense jungles and wide stretches of thick elephant grass barring the way, made the record breaking time even more significant.".
MOTOR BALLROOMS
Party Dancés On Wheels
A dance-complete with band and refreshments when motoring along country Janes at thirty miles an hour is the latest luxury afford- ed by the advancement of the motor coach.
You take a grämephone and a ekulele and the coach builders, as shown at the Commercial Motor Transport Exhibition at Olympia, have done the rest.
There is a piano that. folds up when nobody wants it.
The seats fold back, leaving a space of polished dance floor; you touch something at the back of the seats and. down come glass-topped
1. Keep your car in sound condition. 2. Keep your car under control:- it is dangerous if you cannot stop in the *ssured clear distanco ahead,
3. Keep your eye on the road:-
inattention -one second's
mean an accident.
may
4. Never Aght for "the right of way: the only real utility of right of way ralex is at inquests or damage suits.
5, Go along with the procession:-
you have no mare right to "drag” | traffic than you have to jeopardise yourself and others by unnece sury "cutting in."
6.
Be as courteous on the road 03, you are in your own home-give other drivers and specially pedestrians a fair chance.
7. Know your local traffic rules and obey them exactly they are the motorist's safety code and book of etiquette combined.
8. Tako, pride in your driving ski
-if normal people are nervous to ride with you, Bomething wrong with your driving.
ja
2.
Don't mix liquor, worry or anger with petrol
10.
Study local maps and experiment for shorter and less congested routes; you may be surprised a the time you will save.
refreshment tables; shillings put Henry Ford, billionaire, automobile Into machines produse cigaretten manufacturer, on his arrival at the and chocolates
White House, 2 member of the
The driver shuts himself away group of Industrialists who con
ferred with President Hoover On
problem
the room the lights glow softlyton Laring the 11-
from the party, the heat pipes warm the
under painted parchment shades,
DEN
Mr.Ford
and the pretty coloured curtalin 'info Puttins
troit
a Roodt at his Da Long Island City and
are full of sandwiches and felllesatfecting nearly a hundred 13-
and other suitable provisions for a party,
Then away you go to Derby shire or Devonshire or anywhere you please: There are no neigh" bours to be considered, no parking! problems
You can stop on some deserted moorland and go for a moonlight Stroll, and you can draw up for oggs and bacon in the morning at Come village Inu.
These gleaming giants of the rgade ch_show at: Olympis braá
workers. Mr. Ford's Optimistic statement follows so malartion that prospects for better business mee secure
ALL KIND
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REPAIRS.
FIAT
CHEAPO
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FALSE ECONOM
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When the price of those commo dities upon which we depend for livelihood is barely sufficient to cover production costs, strange as it may seem; but nevertheless true, many motorcar and motor truck owners go for cheap lubricating oil, reasoning that the cheaper the oil the greater the saving, and conse quently the lower the operating expense.
Believe it or not—the truth of the matter is that the cheaper the.. lubricating oil, the lower the quality and the higher the operating expense. Cheap lubricating oil like everything else—is expensive. because it can not economically do the work it is supposed to do. It can not, and does not form - a perfect seal between the piston ringe and cylinder wall. What's the result ? Blow by of compressed zas and consequent loss of power. The compressed gas escapes into the crank case, and is wasted. The greater the quantity of wasted gas,
the greater the quantity of benzine required and benzine coats
money.
And what about lubrication ? ' `If an oil is so poor in quality as to be unable to form a perfect piston seal, it simply means that the piston rings are in actual contact with cylinder walls-m and metal to metal contact creates friction. Friction destroys metal. Destroyed, or worn metal means replacement. And replacement is expensive.
So, boiled down, the use of cheap lubricating oil eventually necessit- ätes expensive replacements otherwise entirely unnecessary if the best lubricant obtainable is used.
And there is nothing in the lubricating oil line to touch the New Mobiloil.
When times are bad it is unwise to forsake quality it's penny wise, pound foolish policy vendors of cheap lubricating oil advocate because they know no better.
VACUUM OIL COMPANY
# RACING CARS
A Vanishing Type At Home
The true racing car, if it be not dead, is at any rate moribund: No longer do eager motorists rush to get a glimpse of the latest projectile from some famous factory, nor does the fierce blare of an open exhaust aerald the approach, on some road or track, of that engineering miracle: a special, racing car (says the ("Motor").
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There are many who lament the passing of this special type of vehicle which may be described as an elaborato testing plant for all its
designer's theorica. It is neces sarily expensive-very expensive, for probably not more than four or five cars of this type will ever be manufactured. It takes months to design, months, to construct, and may, after all that, prove a failure so far as winning a race is con- cerned.
Rare Racing Cars Because of the expense `and be cause of the need for getting down to production in these days of keen. competition, real racing cars bed. came more and more sare, Final- ly, aTaits reached such a pass that the organisera of Grand Prix races. were faced with the fact that only oné, or at most two, firms were left to compete with suitable cars. There fore, anxious that their efforts should not fall, the crganlaers of urator races took to a modification of what the Americana call stock car racing, and only those cars which were listed as being available for purchase by the public were allowed to compete in the premier European events,
Naturally, such a step was we comed by manufacturers, who could then, with very little extra expense take part in a race with a reason able chance of success. But car tain important personalities in the motor world are already lamenting this state of affairs, for they say that stock car racing has pat an out so progress of design, t
Manufacturer's Incentives This, to a certain extent, I tried That Incentive is there for mÅNDS
sate for two or three years, at the 'end of which timn real reliability, with a reasonably good performance; may be expected. If the mana- facturers wish to race with a new type of car or with some Important modification to an existing chassis, then they must, in order to be eligible for the content, undertake to make and to sell a certain num ber of similar cars during the year. Thus they are let in for producing a large number than is desirable of cars which, after all, may not prove to be as successful as was originally hoped.
IN AFRICA
Faurteen Weeks Of Adventure
What was described in the Cape Town press as "one of the most re- markable African motor journeys ever made", took H. R. Cope Morgan,
mining engineer, and his wife, 7,500. miles through the heart of the Dark Continent Into lands that a white woman never before had penetrated, and left them safely in British South Africa after 14 weeks of strange adventures.
The journey was made in a Ford truck. The Cape Argus, described the unusual trip as follows:
"For a thousand miles Mr. and
Advertising Value So far as the advertising value of motor racing is concerned, `a manufacturer can obviously make more capital out of the fact that a practically standard
car won event than if he beasts of the per- formance of an altogether special car which may have cost several Mrs. Morgan travelled through ter thousand pounds to construct. Anzitory in French Equatorial Africa other reason why events for "aports where a breakdown might have touring" cars have taken the place meant death. No food could be.. of the old-type Grand Prix event, is bought, and there was not a petrol that terrific speeds now commonly dump along the route, sald Mr. attained haye made road racing The Argus. First there was Morgan to a representative of In particular an extremely danger desert to cross, then thorn bush, ous undertaking. There are few men who have the necessary skill thicker bush, and finally the heavy and nerve to drive on the road at Jungle of the Congo. My wife was the first white woman to travel speeds of 140 mph, or so.**
through this wild territory............”.
*The fret great night encountered.
Ramadan by Moslem tribesmen in was, a celebration of the end of
Northern Nigeria
Speeds in Safety -
shore of the Wash, which Captain The proposed speedway on the Malcolm Campbell is trying to get constructed, may bring about a re- vival of the true racing car, for here, it seems, will be a place where the very last word in progress can be tested practically with a greatly minimised danger, both to the driver and to onlookers. It is true, that the regulations for some stock car races do permit of certain ex perimental & fittings, but there are always endless arguments as to whether a car is or is not a pro- duction model, and what partures from standard are to be permitted. The rules for races for specially bullt cars can, therefore, be much more simple Wa
The construction of racing, cars, however, seems to occur in waves. and depends on the petition in popu 1908, for Lamented the
how Ideas by the Grai
Prix races, ordeal of rasing if the | later, there came which enters in com... | the glories of
tely or Let us hope,
fa
sent lack of raced
the cars is but a panging
These men are splendia Horee- men, said Mr. Morgan, We saw a thousand of them at the gallop. many wearing old English armour shining helmets and brasat-plates which their ancestors captured, dur ing the Crusades. Some of the chain-mail we saw go back to the fourteenth century. It was a weird and magnificent sight to see in that remote corner of Afric
"The heat was the greatest hard- ship during that partő
the run, for the température from 62 degrees degrees at noon. bad quickly, and the tinned provisions
Once over the border, a fie ro the Keny found mo fun le
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