1932-01-21 — Page 2

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LAYING UP.

Precautions to Take

Before Storage.

economise.

THE

CHINA MAIL.

THURSDAY, JANUARY 21, 1932.

MOTORISTS THIS IS YOUR PAGE

system is to blame to a very large; While the engine is still hot, even over the car.

extent for this tendency to lay up while it is still running, drain the Above all, it is necessary that the cars during the Winter months, and water from the cooling system and garage in which the car is stored 1 um glad to see that the motoring see that the engine is suficiently should be free from damp. If there. organisations are now protesting to hot to dry off any water that may is a means of ventilating the place the Minister of Transport and ap-remain. Some radiator drain plugs so much the botter.

TWENTY-MILLIONTH CAR.

ARMY LORRY.

10-Ton Loads Over Desert or Swamp.

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carry

ways, aro Axed and easy targets. One well-aimed bomb, one wrecked vehicle, and the whole transport column is blocked.

But if such transport were com- posed of powerful cross-country

AMERICAN CARS.

Famous Maker's Decision.

A Motoring Correspondent to a pealing for a more flexible system are not pnt in such a position that. Occasionally during the period of A heavy lorry has been produced vehicles these could turn off the Mr. Walter P. Chrysler, America's Home paper says:

of short-period licences than we all the water can run off.

hibernation the car should be ex- for Army service which avoids the road, climb over ditch or bank, crash third largest motor-car manufactur Some of my motor trade friends have at present.

When the engine is stopped and amined and the engine might be perils of air-bombing by its capacity through the bordering hedge, and er, has decided, in order to retain tell me that one or two of their Mr. Pybus said the other day in still hot, drain the all from sump turned by hand to keep the cylinders to go across open country,

pursue their way across the fields. the British market for his cars, ~customers-are laying-up-their-cars-the House of Commons that week-and refill with fresh lubricant ready well oiled...

In face of the air menace the best Once free of the road, vehicles are that he must erect a British factory, for a month or two in order to end licences would not be possible. for the next occasion when the en- In cases where storing is to be chance of escape lies in the power a difficult air target.

There has been for some time past The scheme was unworkable in the gine will be started.

for a few weeks or a month at the to get off the road. Therein lles the That is not the only advantage of A British subsidiary company, I wonder how much these car opinion of his officials.

It is quite a good idea to remove most, run the engine once a week special military advantage of the these new vehicles. Fower are re-Chrysler Motors Ltd., with works owners imagine they are going to He may be right. There are no the sparking plugs and inject, with for a few minutes. Obviously if new cross-country lorry recently quired because their load is so large at Kew, where Chrysler cars are as- save a certain smount for petrol doubt obstacles in the way of isau- a suitable aquirt, a little cylinder that is done some water ought to produced by Vickers-Armstrong. It and so the target becomes smaller. sembled and in some instances fitted and oil perhaps, and probably a ing licences for a week or a week-lubricant to prevent the cylinder be put into the radiator, and there meets, and may help to forestall, the Already this year we have seen the with British bodies and accessories. quarter's licence fee. But that is end, which the layman does not walls and platon rings getting rusty would be no need to have the danger of an army being paralysed substitution of S-tonners for the This company will greatly extend about all. And all the time the realise, but the matter can be very while the engine is not used. battery stored.

by a sudden air attack its former 30cwt. lorries as a means of its activities shortly. Additional garage charges, the cost of insur- easily put right by reducing the £1

Whether or not the car has its

transport.

reducing the number of vehicles. workshops are to be erected, and ance for theft and fire, and deprecia-per horse power tax to say 108. and bright parts chromium plated it is!

This cross-country lorry, moving The process may go further.

future cars sold here by the com tion are going on as usual, not to increasing the petrol tax corres- advisable to smear them over with;

on double hali-tracks, has an obvious

This new lorry is the product of pany will to a considerable extent be mention the inconvenience and pondingly. With a petrol tax you a little vaseline. In the case of Having crossed the western plains field of utility for ordinary civil experience with fighting tanks in its produced from British materials by humiliation of owning a car without pay as you use your car.

With a nickel-plated parts this is essential, and reached the Pacific Coast, the purposes in the Colonies and any air-cooled engine, its gear-box, and British labour.

its tracks--which have a life of having the use of it.

horse power tax you pay whether but it will do no harm to chromium historic Twenty-Millionth Ford car undeveloped region. It can

Mr. Chrysler thus comes into line One might as well invest money you use it or not.

turned northward heading for the 6% tons of goods, and haul a loaded 2,000-8,000 miles. They can be with Mr. Henry Ford and General far Northwest. which is paying no In a company

For the benefit of those car own-i Taking Care of the Battery.

trailer with another 3 tons, across quickly fitted with special "awamp Motors. These three producers are Ita dividend and the shares of which era who regularly lay up their Next remove the battery and got geles during the

An- the desert sands or through swamps plates" to enable them to "flost" responsible for practically 70 per are depreciating every day.

vehicles every year about this time, it charged and stored at the local celebration

Week where no wheeled vehicle can go. It over abnormally swampy ground.

cent, of the total American output. set Another point which is often it may be worth while putting for garage. charging plant.

a new. If that is mark for its tour across

high can climb the roughest slopes and forgotten 18 that when a ward one or two suggestions in or not done the battery is likely to be country. Douglas Fairbanks him- vantages in the roadless areas of

the ford streams. Ita commercial ad- HORSE CHECK ON MOTORS. car 16 stored for 稳 month der that the car may remain in the in want of lastant attention when self drove the car through the down-the Empire need no emphasis.

6.85d. per ton-mile, or $6 58. per ΟΣ two the owner prob- same good condition throughout the the car is again put in use.

How money is wasted owing to day, or £643 108. per year, town streets, accompanied by many ably is at considerable expense storage period.

There is no need to remove the famous movie stars. Before that of

But the ultimate significance of congested streets has been explained Mr. Marsden stated that in one hiring cabe and other conveyances Obviously anyone who simply tyres unless, of course, the car is time it was in the territories served seem to lie in the freedom which it According to Mr. Fred Marsden, the vehicles passed daily. If it is aa- this new development would to the Town Planning Institute. street in Bradford over 6,000 motor- when he attends social functions, drives into the garage, turns off the to be laid up for six months or so. by the branches at which are more frequent in Winter petrol, and leaves the car to its fate A good plan, however, is to jack up Colorado, and Salt Lake City, Utah. the overhanging menace of the light lorry is made to follow a horse one-quarter.. of an hour each per Denver, offers to an army's transport from City Engineer of Bradford, if a sumed that these vehicles only lose than in Summer. It is then that is asking for trouble. Depreciation all four wheels and do not leave the he misses his car most, and every will be much more rapid than one tyres flat. Check the tyre valves city the symbol of a great industry,"

"Denver officially welcomed to the future.

and cart moving at two and a half day through congestion it means, on halfpenny he spends in hiring re-might expect.

and see that none of them is leaking. declared a newspaper account pub-

Fewer Lorries Needed.

miles an hour in congested streets the average, between £600 and presents so much money thrown If I were going to lay up my car 1.

Air experts have recently told us it is losing money at the rate of £700 In the case of an open

А day. The conclu- away when he has a car stored away would first give it a very thorough hood should be left up and the side "With all the honour and ceremony are not a worthwhile target.. In so

car the lished shortly after the car's arrival, that the fighting troops themselves over 134d. per ton-mile in an hour.sion arrived at is that exist in the garage.

clean. Then I would ran it into the curtains

This works out to a loss of over Ing in position. All

narrow roads In which dust reserved for the city's most noted far as air bombers attack an army, £380 in a year. garage, turn off the petrol, and let should be

In the case of a motor-vehicles cannot use their en- removed from the up-guests, this black, shiny sedan was they will aim at its bases, or its heavy lorry weighing three tons the gines to the best advantage means the engine suck the carburetter dry. holstery and a dust sheet thrown extended the hospitality of Colo- routes of supply. Roads, like rail- loss is at rate for an hour of so much dead loss to the nation.

Licensing System to Blame. Personally, I think the licensing

parts.

Hydraulic-the only self-equalizing brake pressure system.

HYDRAULIC

Rigid cast alloy brake drums maintain even braking surfaces.

The hydraulic brakes used on the Dodge Standard Trucks are

BRAKES

Simplicity of the Dodge Truck Hydraulic Brakes insures long, dependable, trouble-free service

DODGE

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drums of exceptional thickness. They maintain their shape, do

not get out of round, and higher brake · pressure and harder brake lining can be used thus increasing life and improv- ing their efficiency. Hydraulic brakes are simpler, safer, more effective and less costly to maintain than any other type.

of the internal-expanding type, entirely enclosed and protected from dirt and water. Their pressure is inherently equal- ized and requires na lubrication and little adjustment. These hydraulic brakes

operate on expensive cast alloy brake

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at reception

Los

Fiesta

rado by a distinguished group of citizens and officials. The ceremony took place at the west entrance to the capitol"

Besides licence plates beur- ing the numeral 20,000,000. the car. was presented with B solid allver key to thu city; the dealer organisation gave it a silver loving cup for Henry and Edsel Ford. During the oven-) ing display the car was placed in the Denver Civic Centre directly in front of the capitol. It marked the first time that the Greek garden has been used for any purpose other than civic entertainment since It was completed eleven years ago.

At Pueblo a key made in the steel mills was presented to the car. En route to Colorado the car met with many interesting receptions In the Western States. At Cheyenne, Wyoming, licence plates were pre- sented; among those signing the log book were Governor A. M. Clark, and General ic. R. Howland, Brzy officer in command in that area. At Glendive, Montana, a troop of cowboys and cowgirls escorted the car into town on horseback. At Mandan, South Dakota, Chief Mato Watakpe and members of his tribe! of Sioux Indiana met the car and after performing tribal dances made it and its driver members of the tribe.

One of the largest crowds to view the car greeted it at St. Paul, Minnesota, during an open house and evening entertainment at the Twin City plant. The entire pro- gramme was broadcast over the radio.

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At Martnarth, South Dakota, aj

which had been hand- carved by L B. Huntoon, sheep herder who has A wide reputation in that Bee- tion for hand carving, was given to the car. The carving 'depicted the outstanding livestock brands of the entire country.

R.A.C. MOTOR RALLY.

Torquay The Finishing

mapa Point.

As satisfactory arrangements have been completed with the local au- thorities at Torquay, it was decided on December 22 that that town will be the finishing point in the British 1,000 miles rally, organised by the Royal Automobile Club. The rally will be held from March 1 to March 15.

Entries do not close until Feb |ruary-1; and the entry-fée-is-to-be ↑ 42 25. pár car, or for members and. associate members of the R.AC. ET 1s. The prize for the best perform ance by a competitor starting, from London will be presented by the Daily Telegraph.

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