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"TYRES AND THE MAN..

A number of home truths for motorists were tellingly put by Mr. W. H. Paul F.I.R.I., Technical Director of the Dunlop Rubber Co., Ltd., in an informative paper read before the members of the Institute of Automobile Engineers, which is now available in booklet form.

The maker does not supply a complete pneumatic tyre, saya Mr. Paull. He supplies a cover and a tube, and it is the user who sup- plies the vital column of compress ed air which carries the load, pro- vider the yield and recovery to cushion the car and gives that rigidity to a flexible cover through which the engine power can be transmitted to the road.

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UNIQUE ROYAL CAR.

THE KING'S LATEST

PURCHASE -

The rapidity of King George's recovery from his serious illness is well indicated by the purchase of three new motor cars for the Royal Household, the first which have been bought for five years.

One is a grey saloon. The second is a new brougham in Royal red and scarlet, for use in London when the King and Queen pay private calls, or by the King when going out to dinner

But the most interesting of the three, all of which are of British design and make, is a six-wheeled Baloan which will now replace the pony traps hitherto used for tak ing "the King's shooting parties across the moors.

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"If we could imagine," continues Mr. Paull,"cara being delivered without springs-the user being left

After his long illness, when, for to provide a spring of suitable strength-no one would be sur time, he will be unable to do prised at a collapse if a spring of mach walking, the King himself. only half the proper strength were will use this car for visiting his

It ha Stted. There is no more reason for model farms and dairies. surprise at the collapse of a pneu-heen made travel over rough matic tyre carrying only half the ground which no ordinary car could proper inflation pressure.

buckle. hut instead of, a " cater. As regards the nower consump-pillar" tractor the six wheels are tion of tyres, Mr. Paull states that fitted with strong Dunlop paeuma- each portion of the tyres of a car tie tyres. travelling along a road at 30 miles A novel feature is a second an hour is compressed and released leneedometer within the raloon to about six times per second. Five- allow both the King and Queen to inch high pressure tyres fitted to a watch the speed at which they are large car running at 50 miles an travelling. heur consume 7.2 h.p.: 6.75 in. halloon tyres on the same car con- sume 11.5 h.p. at the same speed; at 23 miles an hour the four tyres of a light car consume about 1.8 b.p. if the tyres he 3 in. high pressure inflated to 40 lbs., and hp. if they be 4.40 in. at 25 lbs. Under normal conditions the power losses in the tyres repre- seat about 30 per cent. of the total energy losses in the whole car.

"The tyre maker,' states Mr. Paull,"has по *eason to be nshamed of the progress in tyre manufacture, for tyres have been made which have stood up to speeds of over 200 miles per hour, to 160 miles in one hour, to 2.724 miles in twenty-four hours. There is still the greater test of provid- ing at least 145 million tyres for cars in current use operating under every conceivable kind of condition all over the world."

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A special staff of mechanic will tend the three ears at Buckingham Palace. Part of their work is to remove scratches found paint-work when the Royal cars i return to the Mews, marks which are often the result of people out. ting their initiale, or even their names, there in the hope that the world at large may know that they have been 80 Dear the King at England.

FATALITY NEAR COWRA.

Cowra A motor-car driven by Alfred Simeon skidded and over- turned resulting in fatal injuries to a passenger, Mr. P. Callen, 33. married, of Lockhart, who died shortly after his admission to a private hospital at Woodstock.

The driver also was injured, and was admitted to hospital, but he

recovering.

Now

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY 29, 1929.

MOTOR NOTES

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A RING ROAD FOR LONDON.

ELEVATED HIGHWAY FOR TRAFFIC ROUND THE

METROPOLIS.

What London is suffering from 10-day requarks The Motor, is not only an abnormal growth of traffic but the persistent attempt to a commodate that traffic in thorough- fares that were never planned for it. London is a city of streets plotted haphazard at a time when road transport as we know it to day was never visualized. It began to get bad during the closing stages of the horse-drawn vehicle era; it has grown steadily worse over since the advent of the motor, and it will grow increasingly worse unless the matter is grappled seriously.

Our contemporary publishes a special article by Mr. Mervyn O'Gorman, in which

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ides of a ring road round Londen elevated if practicable is put forward. This ring road in so planned as to encircle tha ten ter- iminal railway stations and mary of the great road. termini from which at present masses of persons and trafic emerge and endeavour to find their ways by labyrinthine thoroughfares across London to

various destinations.

FABRIC, BODIES.

Just now fabric bodies appear to be becoming popular; to a certain extent they save the owner-driver work, in that he has no body to polish; on the other hand, fabric requires occasional cleaning. The idea, of course, originated in France, after the Ware The French roads were in a very badestate after five years of war, and so manufac- method of springing. M. Weymann tures were casting about for a better conceived the idea of building a wooden frame with fexible joints, thus getting lightness as well as easy riding.

CONTRIBUTION TO MUNI- CIPAL MOTORIZATION.

There can now be but little excuse for a muricpality to be be hind the times in the adoption of modernized means for the many branches of its work for which motor vehicles and appliances can be utilized to advantage. The British manufacturers of municipal motors have made remarkable ad- vances during the past year or so.. and that this is being realized, not only at home, but abroad, ir prov ed by the steadily increasing de- mand for British products ex- perienced in the latter direction, and for such divergent articles as refuse collectors, fire-engine and road rollera

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Now the only thing that he could find to allow a little movement in the body was fabric. As the rogue spread motorists found that the fabric wore welf and required very

Financial stringency has hither- to been the chief excuse here for little looking after, English manj- tacturers stretched fabric over an the retention of ancient but un- thus obtained the appearance of a The Commercial Motor, why this ordinary wooden framework. They honoured methods and means, but

there is now little reason, Weymann body without the struc tural differences.. This type

should be the case, for the sacrifice i known as a Fabric Body, and near- every maker includes a model in his range. Some of the nicest look ing bodies are those on the new Arrol-Aster Six-Cylinder

Straight-Eight" models. Their sloping windscreen, few bodies and curved rear quarters give them an

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cleanliness and efficiency has not really effected a monetary saving. The motor vehicle and ap- pliance and in this term we in- clude petrol, steam and electric machines have been developed such a high degree of perfection that their operation does not in- volve extra expenditure except in

that is soon covered.

The plan which accompanies the article shows at a glance how this appearance of great distinction: rime cost, and in many instances

and the interiors are as comfortable a they look.

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ring road would relieve the ordin ary tortuous traffic routes of an an enormous amount of congestion. When it is remembered that the THE FOREIGN SECRETARY'S object of every one-way traffic centre is to facilitate and speed up the flow of vehicles (even in a place like Hyde Park Corner, where the 10-mile limit sign now constitutes a hollow mockery) the advantage of this ring road will be sufficient ly obvious. Traffic on it would How freely and without obstruc tion, and if the distance to any one spot were a little greater the freedom of movement would ade- quately compensate for it...

THE RESPONSIBLE AGE.

I think it is a pity, writes "Carbon," in Motor Cycling, that Mr. Herbert Stancer, the very capable secretary of the CTC should have told the House of Lords Select Committee that no. one under the age of 18 ought to be given a driving licence. The in- torest that Mr. Stancer representa lives in a glass house, and the secretary should not indulge in stone-throwing; if boys may not ride motorcycles until they are 18, then somebody will propose that they should be forbidden bicycles. The errand boy and his cycle are one of the proverbial menaces of the road, and it is quite on the cards that one day legislation will come along to restrict the activities of the youthful cyclist. :

is the time

to buy your Car.

Austin

WIRELESS LESSONS FOR ** JAY-WALKERS."

A 20 h.p. Humber Landaulettej/ "Jay-walkers". was the choice of the Right Hon Sir Austen and Lady Chamberlain when selecting a new car upon their return from abroad. This car was supplied by Messrs. Rootes, Ltd. from their Devonshire House show

TOOMS.

SHE'S A MODERNIST!

Blinks: "We have to disconnect our phone at night."

Jinks: that!"

"What's the idea of

Blinks: "Our daughter is a pomnambulist, but instead of walk-1 ing in her sleep she aays goes to the phone and call in taxi. "Contact" in The Motor.

are still да

numerous as ever, says The Light Car and Cyclecar, in putting for- ward a plea that the power of the microphone and the cinema should be increasingly used to educate the pedestrian. Safety-first principles are taught in our schools, with the result that the number of children involved in fatal accidents is stendily decreasing. however, are sadly neglected in this direction and it is high time that greater efforts were made to catablish contact with them on a matter of such vital importance. Could not the Ministry of Health. a donations to the National Safety First Association, take a band in the matter 1

Grown-ups,

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FREE-WHEELING IN A CAR.

MAKING FOR POSTERITY.

One of the

most important A number of interesting facts motoring developments of recent were made public in the speeches at years is the use of free wheels the last annual general meeting of which not only save petrol, but de- Joseph Lucas, Ltd., held in Bir finitely make cars easier to driveningham, when another year's high- Describing his Arst experience of ly successful trading was disclosed. a car with this fitting, a writer in The Light Car and Cyclecar says: To gain some idea of the sensa tion derived from driving a free wheel car

for the first time one must go back to the days when one changed over from a cycle with a fixed hub to a 'coaster.

with

nearly 11,000 employees on the At the "present time there are

firm's pay roll, and at the height of the season the figure is even higher. Referring to the qualities of reliability and durability of Lucas products, Mr. Harry Lucas said they really did not know jong Topping the brow of a hill the some of their articles would last. accelerator pedal is released, in the There were many known cases of ordinary way, but instead of the cylists who would not part with irritating noise caused by overrun

their Lucas lamps and bells when. the car gently shoots forward, they sold their old bicycles and silently And

bought new ones, and a few years' increasing momentum until, at the dictate Ago it was found necessary to make of caution, light pressure on the a rule not to undertake repairs of brake pedal reduces the gathering things made before the beginning of speed. Similarly, on the level, the present century. Mr. LucAL having attained L comfortable added that his son recently bargain-- speed, one can coast for a surprised for one of the firm's old bells ing distance until it becomes neces which he saw in use on a bicycle in sary to pick up the drive again. Stratford, and which was made at To add to the enjoyment comes the least 40 years ago, reflection that there is a saving in petrol and oil, far less wear and tear of engine and transmission and the need for decarbonizing at far less frequent intervala.

"To the novice, however, the big gest boon that a free wheel confers is in the use with which the gear lever can be moved from one notch to another, up or down, just as road conditions demand. those who profess that they love to "master" a gearbox easily fall a victim to the spell of a free wheel; it makes ear control such an effort "less and lazy job?".

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It is a long way from that bell, which was a succeer in its day, to the Lucas electric equipments now produced for motor-cars, but the same spirit, the determination to turn out only reliable and durable articles, has run right through and the entire staff is filled with the im- portance of maintaining the Lucas, tradition under all circumstances.

The range of products varies from 2. cycle lamp to high-powered Rolls-Royce projectors at nearly £30 a pair, from a small ammeter to a starting motor capable of starting a 1300 hp. tank engine."

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