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THE CHINA MAIL,

THURSDAY, JULY 31, 1930.

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UNFORTUNATELY the impression has been created

that lubricating oll in sealed tins is greatly more. expensive than the same oil drawn from a tank. The fact of the matter is that the difference in price is infinitesimal- and consider the protection the slight difference in price gives."

At our refineries Gargoyle Mobiloil is poured into tins. The tins are then securely sealed - protection against con- tamination and fraud. If the seal is intact when the tin is purchased, the purchaser may be absolutely certain that he is receiving genuine Gargoyle Mobiloil.

As even an experienced oil man can not, by sight, tell the difference in quality of two lubricants similar in colour, how can a motorcar owner know for a certainty that he is receiving what he is paying for if the oil is drawn from a tank?

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And then there is contamination to contend with. The air is full of dust. Oil collects dust. Therefore oil exposed to dust can not possibly be as pure as oil sold in sealed, dust- proof tins:

Good quality, clean oil is a protection against unnecessary and generally expensive repairs, and Gargoyle Mobiloil is the most economical and efficient motorcar engine lubricant of all the so-called quality lubricants offered to motorcar owners.

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Stick to the sealed container — the seal is your protection.

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MOTOR ADVENTURE.

A Few True Words Spoken in Jest.

JACKING WITHOUT TEARS.

Let me explain how this article came to be written.

However, It's

an ill wind that KILL 31,000 IN YEAR. DRIVER CHARGED.

blows nobody any good, and at the ensuing ball the owner took rat prize in the Fancy Dress parade'as. Guy Fawkes.

There are a number of morals to be drawn from this cautionary tale.

The Morala.

In the first place, do not wait until a wet winter's night to discover how, if at all, your jack works Examine its operation by daylight and in comfort, and you will reap your reward when the inevitable happens.

Alarming Toll of Motor Crashes Revealed.

Washington, June 12. Automobiles will kill 31,000 per sous in the United States this year, thousands of them little children, according to estimates just quoted by Secretary of Com-

merce, Robert P. Lamont.

Nearly half of these, people already have met their fate. Thousands more are marked for a tragic end before the new year, and the total may rise far above estimates.

Sequel to Death of Mr. J. J. Conway.

Times.

a rash" and

A sequel to the death of Mr. J. J. Cenway, of the Singapore office of the American Express Company, who was involved in fatal motoring accident at the There was once a new owner of

Johore Causeway, was heard in a new car who was going with his And, in examination, if the jack

the Johore Police Court on July family and friends one wet winter's appears to have insufficient reach to ralee the car, make sure, before

14. when the Malay driver of the night to a dance. It was the type writing bitterly to the makers, that

deceased's car was charged with of dance at which one appears there is no extension concealed in

causing death by garbed sa a Mandarin or a Pillar Its aside. Secondly, satisfy your Box or a Polar Bear, or indeed as self that the manufacturer, who

Altogether more than 1,000,000 negligent act, says the Straits anything except normal human probably leaves these little things persons will be injured or maim-

to his chauffeur, has equipped youred for life, it is estimated. Their According to the evidence of being. The owner and family were car with a jack handle that is long number will far exceed the wound- the prosecution, which was con- tastefully arrayed as Elizabethan enough to clear obstructions and ed among American troops in the ducted by Mr. Jafar bin Marklan, courtiers, and-being late they were will allow you to work in the natural world war. The death list will be proceeding at speed...

posture of a man-upright, on two nearly as large ns that of AmeriO.C.P.D.,, Johore Bahru, the ac- legs.

can soldiers shot down in battle cused overtook another car and Personally, I consider that a jack during the war.

hit a projecting, corner stone at. operated by the pump-like move-

Reports of casualties and ment of a long lever is preferable deaths due to automobiles coming the Johore end of the Causeway. to one involving a rotary action in from State, and municipal "read The car turned ipside down, pin- like those of a war conducted on ning. Mr. Conway underneath, and up-and-down movement of many

fronts," according to the car which was following ran sufficient amplitude.

Secretary Lamont. Even Pre- into It.. Thirdly, the spot at which sident Hoover has publicly called puncture is most likely to occur is attention to the alarming situa- First, that the designer of his not a smooth, flat road offering ation he recently saw here, ruff, bonnet, and velvet cloak must good purchase for the jack bane, but! The great loss of human life in have been an impractical fellow, one stony and full of potholes, and street and highway accidents and with little experience of garage possibly having a steep camber the toll of affering among sur- repair work.

This being so, make the best of a viving victims, is a national con- bad job. If the road le sprinkled cern of grave importance." with puddles, avoid stopping. im- United Press. mediately opposite one. Avoid the camber and the kerb for the reasons

Some miles from their destination an ominous bumping made itself felt. Could it be a puncture?

It could: it was.

With a murmured "Tut, tut" of annoyance the owner levered him self out of the car, into the rain and set about the task. of changing a wheel. He then made a number of discoveries.

Secondly, that in order to reach the fack and wheelbrace it was necessary to derant the passengers and grope amid an oily collection

always provided there is room for

an

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FUELLING CHARTS.

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Dr. W. J. E. Phillipa, Medical Officer, Johore General Hospital, said in the course of his evidence that Mr. Conway was only able to give his name before he died.

of Iron-momgery beneath the rear previously mentioned, and choose Beat. There being

no Raleigh the firmest surface available for present to lay down his cloak, the supporting the jack ladica of the Court stood in a sha bering for the sake of one's personal now supplies of Oiling Charts for matter of uncertainty as to whe-

A minor point well worth remem

instruments 'necessary.

It may be of interest to our motoring renders to learn that the Vacuum Oll Company have the following cars, and will be only too pleased to forward same readers who may destre same:

low puddle, what time the owner burrowed profanely in search of the safety is to take care when chang

ing a rear wheel at night not to This done, the passengers re-stand in such a position as to ob-free on application to any of our embarked and the ilfting process, struct the light of the rear lamp It is easy for an oncoming driver to began. A third discovery here made, namely, that the fall entirely. to see the stationary machine if the owner is standing handle provided

insu Wag

In the light. ciently long td' clear tha Jaggage grid; this resulting

Another point that should be

fa one barked knuckle for each borne in mind le that a hydraulic jack should, whenever possible, ho turn given to the jack handle.

For a while there was allence, carried upright. I know the makers guarantee that it will not broken only by the protesting leak; they say the same of fountain groans of the rising car and the

heavy breathing, of the operator, pens, and they are usually right. who had adopted the only practi-But if there is any method of carry- cable position for working by bending it upright, why tempt. provi ing almost double underneath the dence?-Singapore Free Press,

a position tending to mu

on the doublet and profanity in the wearer. A few minutes of this sort of things brought home the next truth, namely, that the vehicle was too close to the kerb to enable the wheel to be removed without fouling it. Mote business with the jack (in the raverse direction). The car was then manhandled into the centre of the road and the pro- ccas recommenced.

Coming up for Air.

At intervals the operator came up for air, atriking his head, regularly upon the projecting corners of the luggage grid as he did 20. He took these opportunitles of urging that the task was not made lighter by the refusal of the passengers to walt in the rain until he had finished. The passengers declined, however, to discuss the matter, polating out rather bitterly that as they were half an hour late already a few minutes more or less were of little consequence, and that the more he talked the wettar he would be.

The next discovery. was, the extreme difficulty of loosening wheel nuts after, a wheel has been Jacked up. The difficulty was overcome by the owner jamming the wheel with one foot the method proving neither efficient nor cleanly..

This finished, the actual removal and exchange of wheels was a simple matter. After all, mud washes off more easily than all The lower- ing of the car was accomplished without any incident of note, the vehicle descending slowly for the first half of its travel and more. rapidly for the remainder, owing to its slipping off, the Jack The. owner, whose head was immediately beneath the luggage grid at the moment, rose up from his cramped. position, and was understood to comment unfavourably upon the car, its designer, and, the designer's forefathers.RANG

The last stage of this, oventful history was the attempted return of jack to its home with

the

the other tools Lack of time prevented the attain- ment of complete success, but a good half of the Instrument went In the remainder serving as a sup back seat

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Armstrong-Siddeley

Bujck Citroen

*Chevrolet (Chinese)

Essex Six

Morrig

Fiat (English and Chinese) Jowett

Overland Whippet

Singer Standard Trojan

Wolseley

After other witnesses had been axamined, Mr. E. Rhodes of Singapore, who represented the accused, Mohamed Sarin bin Abdul Aziz, submitted that it had, not been strictly proved that Mr. Conway's death was a result of the accident and that it was a ther it was the act of the accused which caused his death or whether the death might not have been caused by the heavy collision which occurred when the which was following the de- ceased's car ran into it after the deceased's car had overturned.

car

The evidence, said counsel, showed no negligence on the part of the accused. If the accused had been guilty" of negligence it was not of a degree compatible with the very grave negligence which was necessary to found a 'criminal charge,

The further hearing was ad- journed for a week.

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