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THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 23, 1930,

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PARKING PROBLEMS

Solved in America by

Electricity

LIGHT - CARS

Ascent of Mottarone Peak

Light cur owners know that their small and handy vehicles have a de- cided advantage over bigger and more powerful care when it comes

In our large cities of New York, Buenos Aires, Río de Janeiro, Paris, Havana, London and other typical urban centres, the congestion re to mountain climbing or explora sulting from moter car traffic has tions into inaccessible regions, but become a most serious problem, it is not often that this is so com- writes H. D. James in Westing-of an Italian motorist owning a 9 pletely demonstrated as in the caso house International.

The universal acceptance of the motor car as a pleasure and com- mercial vehicle has ao crowded our city streets that movement of traffic

h.p. Fiat.

Overlooking Lake Maggiore and the Lake of Orta is the beautiful peak of the Mottarone, 8,280 feet high, the summit of which can be reached only by a track railway is practically paralyzed during cer- starting from Stresa. Recently tain rush hours.

the Alpine Motor Cycle Club or

the

The

As a logical solution of the ganised A gathering on serious motor car parking problem Mottarone, making use of the track on these busy city streets, the railway. Mr. Palmiro Albarganti, Westinghouse Electric Company owever, despised such a common has developed an unusual

and place mode of locomotion and, aided unique motor car parking machine.by three friends armed with picks Entering this new type of storage and shovels, he set out for the garage, a motorist drives his car climb at the wheel of his Flat, tak onto a platform, pulls a lever, ob-ing advantage of the mule track as tains his check and the car is auto- far as it went. At times the track matically whisked upward out of was not wide enough for the car, eight. The device immediately but the ploneers made it wider. 'places another empty platform at The gradient in many places was 1 ground level, ready for another car in 5, but this did not prove a ser

When ready to leave, the motoristious obstacle to the Fiat. pushes a button corresponding to sun was hot and the navvying was his check, and his car is delivered heavy, but the crew never allowed to him at ground level almost im itself to be discouraged and finally, mediately, without any of the to the amazement of the spectators, ordinary vexatious garage delays.the car came to a stop in front of

This new motor car parking the hotel crowning the peak. machine occupies a ground space Honesty obliges us to say that equal to that of only a

small this

was not the first time the private two-car garage. It can be Mottarone had been climbed by car. bullt into old or new buildings for Twenty-seven years ago, one of the almost any capacity or can be set first cars built in Italy was taken to up on small, unoccupied lots, the top of the mountain. Some Several machines grouped together say that its owner carried it up, would constitute a large ultra- but at any rate it got there. modern storage garage.

Doubtless it, too, was a light car.

The machine consists of two end- less chains passing over wheels at the top and bottom. Platforms, 'suspended between these chains, each provide space for one auto- 'mobile, The house or section of 'the building occupied by the machine is unique because it has no floors. The motor car remains parked on the machine until called for..

With such equipment built Into office buildings, hotels, theatres and public buildings, and constructed at convenient locations 011 unoc. cupied lots, city streets could be kept cleared of parked caTE and made safer for, moving traffic,

or

A group of motor car parking machines built into a theatre store building would permit motorista to drive from their homes directly into the theatre or store

LEVEL-CROSSINGS

OLL

A simple thing. lubricating oil. Just a black or green or red fluid.

Yet represented in that simple oil are thousands of years of nature's work to produce the raw material of which it is made. Represented in lubricating oil are years of scientific research to determine the exact mixture of raw material required to make the finished product perform a certain function. Represented in it are hundreds of hours of laboratory experiment with methods of manufacture and tem- peratures. Represented in it is the actual labour of a thousand pair of hands assisted by machinery costing millions of dollars. Yes, a simple thing, lubricating oil. Yet men have poured their souls into making it. Just lubricating oil, it is true-but nevertheless a masterpiece, for it contains the hopes, the ideals of men. Such is the New Mobiloil..

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The British Motor Cycle

and to park their cars without ex- Concern to Thoughtful $14,103 and exports, £3,600,464. It

Owners

popularity of motor cycling is main. ly a post-war development, and, consequently, Continental design is only now beginning to reach the same standard as British, and it is, therefore, not to be expected that their products will find a ready

io market

Britain. The posi

tion, however, is somewhat differ

tinental manufacturers would make

a serious effort to capture a larger share of the world's trade, and, in this connection, the figures for motor-cycle production in France are highly significant. Production

Everywhere, people constantly are giving more attention to traße: conditions, and the time is coming soon when each building must care: for the motor cars of its tenants as well as for the tenants ther

The 1929 Motor-Cycle Show, selves. The building of parking

which opened at Olympia recently, machines into apartment houser

Is of particular interest In view of would solve the garage problem in

the almost unique position occupied ont from the point of view of our 'congested apartment house dia Patrolman Herman Winters,

of by the British motor-cycle trade.export trade. We have repeated- tricts. The devices could be erect Detroit, guiding traffic with the new In very few other industries hasty expressed the opinion that it is

electrically lighted signal belt. These foreign competition been so ed at frequent intervals in ears being deed in lieu of semaphores in cessfully met in our home markets,

suc-only a matter of time before Con. sidential neighbourhoods, thereby several cities. Green lights flash from saving motorists the coat of build the patrolman's arms and red lights and such a healthy balance of ex- ing And maintaining

private from his breast.

Dry cell batteries porta over Imports established. In carried in a pouch supply current for 1928, motor cycles and parts to the garage..

the lamps.

value of £17,288 were imported, *~* }and the export figure for the same

[year was £8,785,972. The corres in that country has increased from [ponding figures for the first 10 25,000 in 1925 to 115,000 in 1923. months of this year are: Imports. the latter figure being only 5,000 less than our own output in the i posing themselves to the weather.

is probable, therefore, that the final same year. By the 1180 of the parking

figures for this year will be even In addition to this, it is rumour- machines, considerable money now

better than those of last. Before ed that one of the largest car apent in widening streets to accom "Accidents at level-crossings are the war, the chief competitor with 1) makers in Italy is laying down modate parked cars could be sayed. not unknown in this country and the British motor-cycle industry plant for the continuous produc- By eliminating parking on the sides the authorities might take notice was America, both in Britain and tion of motor cycles.-Engineering. of streets through the use of the of what la being done elsewhere in abroad. The gradual perfecting of machines, existing streets in most the matter. ----

the medium-size - and light- cases would be wide enough to ac- "In Germany the number of ae- weight types of machino by commodate moving traffic.

cidents at railway level-crossings our manufacturers, and the An important feature of the new is becoming a source of grave con- steady reduction of prices, device is that it can be equipped corn to thoughtful motorists. It is are responsible for their present, to operate automatically by placing not only at the numerous 'unguard-ascendancy over the American acoin in a slot, thereby doing ed crossings that danger - arises, machines which, until recently, away with the necessity for atten-but, owing to human lability to were all of the large multi-cylin dacta...

error, accidents are by no means dered type, having engines between Tram cara could be parked at Infrequent where barriers are work- 750 e.c. and 1.200 s.c. capacity. As strategie centres on heavier ed by the railway staff,

it is now possible to buy machines machines of similar construction, "This state of affairs," says The having cylinder capacities of not for use when wanted, during rush Light Car, and Cyclecar, "has given more than 950 c.c., which are not hours. In largo cities, much rush rise to the increasingly held opinion only reliable and reasonably quiet, hour traffic now consists of empty that, na hand-operated gates but are capable of speeds greatly tram cara en route to busy corners necessarily involve an element of in excess of actual requirements, to pick up loads.

risk and as a mechanically closing the chief raison d'étre of the big The "cruising" of omulbuses in gate may itself cause an accident machine has disappeared in just rearch of passengers could be either by striking a passing car or the same way as it has done in eliminated as machine omnibus by imprisoning It on the permanent the motor car world. The two lead stands could be established at fro way at the moment of greatesting. American manufacturers have quent intervals, danger, gates and barriers should realised this position, and are now According to the engineers, mer- be abolished at level-crossings and producing small, single-cylinder chants have been the chief objec ba replaced by warning signals set machines: no serious competition tore when efforts have been made in motion automatically by each need, however, be expected from lubrication, cooling, transmission, to prohibli-parking on downtown oncoming train." etroete. They explained that with

the use of parking machines, motorists would be able

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