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THE CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, OCTOBER 23, 1930.

FACTS

MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGES

PERHAPS once in fifty times a guess may be right. But

fifty times in fifty an actual test tells you what to use and what to avoid.

Facts are the foundation of business. Facts are callous things. Recognised or not, they keep right on. Facts are discovered through tests, and tests are often astonishingly profitable.

Here is a letter taken at random from many we have vn file.

For years have read your Mobileil adver- tisements, and for years I have smiled at your effort to create greater demand for your product. Like hundreds of other people, I didn't believe that there could possibly be the difference in 'lubri- cating oils that you have heen telling the public there is.

Recently, more, out of curiosity than any- thing else, I drained my engine's crankcase while the engine was hot as you tell us to do

I filled up with Mobilail.

and

You may well imagine my astonishment when

I found that my car casily climbed a hill on high that formerly I negotiated on second gear, with difficulty.

All you say about the quality, economy and efficiency of Mobiloil is more than frue, and you have my wish for greater success in your effort to be of service to owners."

A similar test

of the recommended grade of

Gargoyle Mobiloil will, perhaps, surprise you; for,

'you, too, may discover

that

Mobiloil is the most efficient

and economical of all motor.

car engine lubricating oils.

VACUUM OIL COMPANY.

CARGOY

OBILOU

DODGE MONO-PIECE STEEL BODIES

The Mono-Piece Steel Bodies on the Dodge Six and Eight-in- Line are immune to tropical and semi-tropical weather

conditions.

There is no wood in the Mona Piece Body shell. Its sections are welded into virtually a single piece of steel-rattle proof, squeakproof and strong-especially treated

so that neither salt air, mois- ture, nor high temperatures can harm it.

DadgeMono-Piece Steel Bodies, like Dodge Internal hydraulic brakes and the many other evi- dences of advanced engineer- ing, join together with Dodge. dependability and sound qual- ity to make Dodge values of today the greatest in history.

DODGE BROTHERS

SIXES AND EIGHTS SOUTH CHINA MOTOR CAR CO

Tel. 25644.

83, Des Voeux Road Central

Tel

SAVING TIME.

'Plane Built by Ford Company

Offeials of great industries are turning more and more to air trans- portation because of the saving of time possible in modern aircraft which now

comfort and enfety as well as speed.

One of the first ships put into commission for the directorates of

assures

AVERAGE LIFE.

Estimated at Eight Years.

A motoring correspondent says

In a Home paper:-.

BY PRODUCTS.

TRAFFIC FILM."

Increase in Ford Co.'s Important Hint to Car

Business.

Owners.

When a dar comes from behind. An increase of $2,570,100 in the by-products business of the Ford you and passes you with a deri sive toot and a cloud. of dust; it What is the average life of

Motor Company last year as com- means more than just a fellow It means motor car? There are still some pared with 1928 is shown in a re- traveller in a hurry. pre-war vehicles on the road, but port made public by the company that, another layer of "traffic Alm".

to the top and the number is decreasing rapidly, to-day. Sales in 1929 totalled has been added

sides of your car.

This traffic film examined under and the 1913 model is now regard- $19,344,778 while in 1929 they were

a microscopo may show 20 to 60 ed as almost a curiosity except in $16.774,672,

to flustrate, different kinds of grit and sharp The report serves

edged dust, sticking to the body according to officials of the com- and the fenders.

a great concern was the "Stanolind," the case of one or two makes such purchased by the Standard Oil Comas Rolls-Royce.

pany of Indiana. So successful Even cars of the immediate pany, the extent to which modern was that tri-motored, all metal Ford, post-war years-1919 to 1921—are industry

It is important to get this film

can reduce the cost of off your car as soon as the drive Is over. But avoid.continual transport plane that other planes fast disappearing from service, manufacturing and consequently washing; wipe it off with a soft were purchased and "Sanolind to have any value except as scrap. the cost of its products to the con- cloth.

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now

of

pany

Land most of them have now ceased

im-

As a matter of fact the in commission trans- Twenty pounds is probably the sumer by the elimination of watse film being composed of minute and the utilization of by-products. particles of grit, acts as gentle porting officers

members limit of their value. 'and

and if abrasive for your finish, In the 1930 edition of "The

In the Ford plants nothing is

wiped gently and carefully the Board of the .Com. British Motor Industry," published

thrown away. Raw materials not proves rather than harms the on inspection trips and recently by the Statistical and In-

Then apply Duco No. 7 Department of the only serve their purpose in the polish. other journeys where economy of formation

Society of Motor Manufacturers, production of automobiles, but they Polish, and the result will be Aircraft pro-

nost gratifying. Mud on the con- time is essential.

and Traders, a good deal of apace are made to yield vast quantities of trary should be washed off as motional work also is being continu-

is devoted to this interesting still other raw materials that are soon as possible. Mad allowed to ed with the new ships.

question of the average life of aj

The first beauty and sheen of car, for the simple reason that it used in the plants or sold in the dry and cake in bad for the finish. concerns the manufacturer as well market.

your car

can "be as the car owner.

The more than $19,000,000 worth simply. It is amazing what re

retained

BO

taking

The first Stanolind" made its malden flight from Dearborn, Michigan, to Chicago on May 21,

The manufacturer now looks to |1927, carrying several of the com- the replacement market for the o! by-products mentioned in the results can be obtained by the use Be careful to avoid too high pany's directors and officers, to- bulk of his sales. It would there- port represent only the sales of the of a soft cloth.

fore suit him better if cars did not company. In addition several mil-

speeds over Ireshly tarred roads. gether with William Mayo and

live so long as they do at present on dollars worth of by-products The tar will splash up William B. Stout of the Ford Motor If they were everlasting his re- Company... Such a large group of big, business executives never had flown together in one plane before.

They arrived in Chicago within a few hours of the time Lindbergh landed at LeBourget, Paris, on the greatest of all flights.

when dry, and hard.

placement trade would dwindle to were used in the company's own hard particles of gravel with it, and pit and spot your finiak, be- nothing. On the other hand, the manufacturing processes. car buyer naturally desires a The greatest single increase lasting almost impossible to remove vehicle which will give him the year was in the sales of scrap

Consideration for your car will maximum service over the longest which amounted to $5,672,000. This

repay you In the end, and the possible time, and when he has is an increase of $2,053,000.

satisfaction of retaining the orl- Last year coal valued at more ginal looks of the car is worth finished with it and is pre- pared

д buy

new one, than $2,758,000 was sold,. repre- the extra time and supervision.

of he hopes to be able to sell it for senting production of the company's The permanency du Pont a figure in excess of the scrap mines in Kentucky and West Duco"renders this much easier, of its own re and there is no reason why your Virginia in excess quirements. Coal is shipped by car should not look as good after

The craft was purchased primarily to transport company officials quick-value. ly and safely to distant pointa on their business and Inspection trips. but it was also used extensively for encouraging avlation by actually demonstrating to the general public the safety, speed and utility of air travel at its best.

to

Why They Survived.

SIX-WHEELERS FOR INDIA.

The Government of India was

In the table and chart given in all to coal dealers in the Middle a year of use, as, the day it left the Society of Motor Manufac- West and from the Ford dock at the factory. turers and Traders' book, it is Duluth, Minn., for use in the North- shown that 1913 models have sur-west.

From coal, the company produced vived the longest, in all likelihood: because they were not in very ac- and sold $4,813,000 worth of coke. tive service during the war years. in excess of its own requirements. Cars made in 1921, it is calculated, In the production of the coke, one of the first to recognise the great possibilities of the Rigid worth of ammonium The "Stanolind" was the sixth had a useful life of 814 years. To $825,000

Six-Wheeled type of motor trf-motored plane built by the Ford arrive at a definite figure is, of sulphate was obtained and sold Motor Company and the first sold to course, very difficult, but no doubt through Ford dealer organisations vehicle which is capable of taking a commercial company, the other the Society's figure is not very as a concentrated fertilizer. Light heavy loads across open country, oll was retrieved in the process of almost regardless of surface or

gradient, Eve being placed in service on Ford

The 30/45 h.p. Albion is one of One way of calculating the making coke and from it in turn

the most successful 'machines of lines.

average life of a car is to inquire the company produced $2,367,000 The oil concern's promotional pro-what the motor agents, the men worth of motor benzol which

and sold through filling atations in this type and was naturally one of who are handling all kinds

those who was tested by the In- gramme was to send the plane to conditions of cars every day of Detroft and vicinity,

dian Government in their initial various towns and cities in the ten their lives, have to say on the Waste wood from the Ford saw states in the Middle West where the matter, Various dealers whom I mills and body plants. in northern investigations into the suitability The result of the distillation into company has marketing facilities. have consulted tell me that they Michigan is converted by des- of the type of machine for Indian

suel conditions. are inclined. to regard most tructible

products Upon arrival it was on exhibition to vehicles which left the factory be useful

charcoal comparative tests was an order for no less than 223 Albions, prob- Sales

wide of the mark.

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the public at least half a day in fore 1924 as having only a scrap and industrial chemicals. each community. Then demonstra-value. But here again it is neces of charcoal amounted to $509,-ably the largest single order ever Pro-Albion Motor Car Co., Ltd., of tion flights were made in which the aary to state that this applies only 000 an increase of nearly $147,000 placed for motor vehicles.

to quantity produced cars and not over Mayor, members of City Council, to such makes ds Rolls Royce, ducts of wood distillation, which Glasgow, Scotland, now announce avlation committees, civic leaders Daimler, Lanchester and so on, find their way into manufactured the receipt of a repeat order for and prominent business men were which are very often sold to motor rubber goods, formaldehyde, arti- 59 of these remarkable machines, taken aloft.

These citizens fre. traders for hiring work after they ficial leather, lacquers, and a host making, a total of over 280 to a have seen many years of service as of other things, showed an increase total value of well over £300,000.

year. quently became so enthusiastic that private care..

of, nearly $287,000 for the Very few people nowadays keep Sales amounted to $561,000.

Slag from the blast furnaces was and ability to carrying on the work their cars longer than three or

they devoted their prestige, offert

to make the public air minded. four years at the most, and a great converted into Portland cement and

a new

car

Other slag In consequence, many new air many change to a new model every sold for $1,082,000. lince were formed and much money second year. In this country we was sold for $169,000 to be used for invested by people who first rode in have not yet reached the stage at ballast in road construction.

Surplus gas, sccumulated the "Stanolind.". Many good air which owners have

'do' week-ends, ports have been established so that every year

in Detroit company but gas the ship could visit them, since the in

plate glass, We $378,000, that company took the position that the I

factured in the company's own craft could not be permitted to land will come

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or take off from a field of inade short time, despite the fact that plants in excess of its requirements, quate size. Insistence upon good some of the new cars have engines brought. $679,000 in the market and of the field also was which will stand up to hard work lumber from the Ford saw mills in maintained.

for a much longer time than the Northern Michigan accounted for From May 21, 1927, until the ship engines of two or three years ago. $36,000. was sold in January 1929, It flow 966 hours at 48 minutes, travelled 81,404 miles and carried, without revenue, 6,168 passengers.

Johansson gauges, which have Desire For Change. made mass production possible, add- of sales. One of the effects of this desire ed $102,000 to the list for change and for the very latest These gauges, little blocks of shiny The Standard Oll directors flew in design and construction is that motal are the world's most accurate standards adopted as been' an aggregate of 87,438 passenger drivers are inclined to neglect measuring Instruments and have miles in this ship and made many their cars to an extent which they business trips at a great saving would not do were they prepared by the United States 'Bureau of of time, Incidentally they achiev- to keep them for a long period. I Standards and other scientific in- ed a marked saving from fatigue, find many owners whose attitude stitutions The Ford Motor Com- which the company considered so is that, so long as their car runs pany undertook production of them Important that it has given everything is well. "Why bother for use in its own plant, where emphaald to the feature in are about doing this or that to main measurements to within infinite tain it in perfect condition when fractions of an inch are often neces- port.

The "Stanolind III, also & Ford we shall sell it next year and get Bary. However, it has developed a tri-motored Transport plane, is a new one," they say. Naturally side-line business in the making of powered by three Pratt & Whitney this leads to quicker depreciation, the gauges for other manufacturers. Wasp engines, developing a total of and may even cut down the useful

1,276, horckpower. It cruises at life of a car by a year or more. you almost as much if not more to 112 miles an hour and has a top Sometimes I have heard it aug put it in order, and as often as speed of 188 miles an hour. The gested that it pays to buy one of not your repair bill is three or four company expresses confidence that it these eight or nine year old cars times that for an up-to-date model. is proving even more successful which can be obtained for "an old Furthermore, it will probably be

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Sole Agents:

than the first: Stanolindy" both for sont and recondition It. I refuse more extravagant in oll and petrol SINCERE'S

transporting: cials and in cop to believe that this la an economi- than you expect. Only a man who tinuing the

proposition. You may get the is an expert inechanic should slnk car for $15 or £25, but it will cost money in an "old crock."