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WHIPPET

FOURS & SIXES

INCREASED POWER

LONGER WHEEL BASE

CHROMIUM PLATED RADIATORS

LONGER, SPRINGS

GREATER BEAUTY

And LOWEST PRICES in their respective classes

SHOWROOM

“DURO" MOTOR CO., LTD. SERVICE STATION NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON.

DISTRIBUTORS -GILMAN & CO., LTD.

BEAUTY FOR

THE

PETROL PUMP, .

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PROPOSED BAN ON ALL ADVERTISEMENTS.

AIRPLANE TYRES.

NEXT TO MOTOR IN

IMPORTANCE.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3, 1929.

Much of the experience that has gone into the modern automobile Eight suggestions for improvingyre is being used to advantage in the appraznive of petrolling the manufacture of airplane tyres. stations, which have been univer the demand for which is rapidly in- sally condemned as unsightly blot erensing na Governments in many on British country roads, are made countries subsidise commercial air by the Petroleum Filling Stations transportation, Committee in a White-Paper issued recently.

The committre, of which Sir Lionel Earie was chairman, pro- pose that their suggestions should he incorporated in a code of by laws. They are:-

The method of production is the Bame for both types of tyres, how. ever, the airplane tyrea must be manufactured strictly in accordance with Government regulations. An airplane tyres are being core-built, but as soon as production warrants will be changed to the flat-built

process.

In an airplane weight is a ser All advertisements should be pro- ous item. Considering this fact, hibited, except the sign, the name the weight of the tread stock used of the proprietor and of the pre- for airplane tyres is not nearly so mises, trade marks, proprietary heavy da in automobile tyres, nor is it necessary for ground contact names on or affixed to petrol pumps Nevertheless, Jór & safe take-of and cil containers, and the guarand landing the airplane tyre must anter disc of quality.

be built exceptionally strong to Uniform colouring should be em carry the load of the plane and ployed throughout the station, ex-withstand its speed. cept that a band of distinctive It is generally held to be no colouring not exceeding nine inches exaggeration that in an airplane in depth, may be painted on petrol the tyres are second in importance pumps, and a similar band not ex-to the motor. ceeding six inches' in depth may n Puncture-proof tubes will shortly he included, and thereby the grave danger connected with the failure of the airplane tyre equipment will be minimised to a still greater cxtcat.

painted an oil containers.

Unsightly material should not be used in construction or roofing of the station.

Flashing lamps should be pro hibited.

The premises should be kept in a tidy and orderly condition.

As regarde existing stations, visibh galvanised or corrugated iror should be painted, but its use in any visible positon on new stations should not be permitted.

Pints and specifications of any proposed filling station, and of any existing station, proposed to be af tered should be submitted to the local authority six weeks before erection or alteration is to be com menced.

Similar to a automobile tyre, blow-outs in airplane tyres can be eaused by overload, improper in- flation, or landing conditions.

The Goodyear Tire and Rubber Company, of Akron, Ohio, U.S.A.. started making airplane tyres in

1910.

At present two principal types, the beaded edge and the straight side airplane tyre, are manufactured in 16 sizes. The lat ber is made in either smooth or in all-weather tread.

MOTOR NOTES

SLEEVE VALVE ENGINE.

MOTORING PUBLIC

INTERESTED.

the

WOMAN'S CHASE IN A. MOTOR.CAR.

A

ESCAPED DOG AND A COLLISION,

£100 MOTOR-CAR.

NO CAMSHAFTS, VALVES OR

TAPPETS.

London.-The Morning Post's correspondent discloses woman's chase after her motoring escaped dog in u friend's motor-car thas a motor-ear costing £100 will had a sequel at Feltham police shortly be put on the British max- court, when Mrs. Gladys Crois, oft, as the result of co-operation a British company and Harfeld "Road, Sunbury, was âned between £1 for driving a motor car segi-well-known engineers av home and gently" and ten shillings for driving the car without a licence:

abroad.

Arrangements are now being made to manufacture this car on à large scale in England.

With a noticeable trend on the part of automobile buyers toward the new Willys-Knight 70-B," the public in general is disclosing an increased interest in the sleeve- valve type of engine such as is employed in these Willys-Ove and products. Many times the question is asked in what way the Willys Raight sleeve-valve engine differs from the poppet valve.type, such as

Mr. C. M. Melville, prosecuting is employed in other tiotor-cá za.

Baid that M, H. P. Weils, of Put Engineers point out that fundamental principle of all interey, was driving a car along the nal ecmbustion or Kasoline engines Sunbury Road when Mrs. Croftely long wheel base and four- is the same, Gasoline and air, pro- drove out of a side road and crash." wheel brakes, it will do 50 miles per gallon, and is capable of a perly mixed in the carburetor in fed into him.

She said, when spoken to by the maximum speed of 60 miles per vapour form. ure taken into the cylinder where the vapour is com police, "I sounded my horn, and hour.

One of our It will probably be called the pressed to make it highly exploit was not my fault. tive igniting at the proper point dogs got out of the house, and Mever,

cam of compression, the resulting ex. jumped into a friend's car and The new model has no losive energy operating drove after it. My licence expired shafts, valves or tappets to adjust in 1998. but I have not driven a and is fitted with ingenious starr- car since."

ing and springing devices.

mechanism.

the

It is the difference in the meched of valving" the "Willys-Knight

distin sleeve-valve engine, that guishes it from engines of other types, valving being the term used for providing the entry of fresh vapour into the cylinders and the expelling of the burned or dead

asco.

How They Work.

In the usual type of engine the valve mechanism consists of a cir- cular plate of metal mounted on a

steru.

The valve is opened by means of scam, or bump on the push

camshaft, which raises a

turn raises the

rod," which in valve stem and as a result opens, the valve. It is chased by means of a strong spring which pulls it hack on its seat.

In the Willys-Knight sleeve vaive engine two cyandrical sleeves of grey fron, one within the other, travel up and down between the piston and cylinder wall in such a manner that when ports or open- ings, which are cut in the upper end of the sleeves, come into regis ter with each other and with the corresponding port in the cylinder wall, the valves are open. intake port which allow the fresh gas to enter is on one side and the exhaust port which permiss the burned gasses leave, is on the opposite side.

Mrs. Groft said that she Was

The

at the time of the accident. King at about five miles an hour dog that escaped, was an Alsatian and, without thinking of a licence. she jumped into a friend's car at once to try to catch it.

COUNTER ATTRACTION.

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MOTORIST'S ATTENTION ON HLS GIRL COMPANION.

Stanley Holmes, of Ladbroke Grove, Bayswater, who was 8- moned at Willesden Police Court for driving a motor-car dangerous- ly, was stated to have collision with a motor-cyclist.

come in

Ho remarked to a young woman who was with him, "I wasn't doing more than sixty miles an hour."

She replied, Yes, you were." Holmes, who pleaded that he was looking at the young woman instead of the road, was Bed £10 and

The 17s, costa.

The sleeves are actuated by small rods connected to

eccentric shaft, taking the place of the cam- shaft used in other engines. The operation of the sleeve-valve is similar to the operation of steam engine valves and has the same advantage of quiet operation and positive control at all speeds.

The entire Willys-Knight sleeve. valve engine has been designed to This array includes the sizes for keep pace with the latest engineer. airplane tail-wheels of swivel actioning developments, bringing to the for use in place of the tail skid, and where front wheels are equipped with brakes. The tail-wheel tends to increase the ease of handling the plane, and reduces the cost for n draw-in, 'bor that any imitations the maintenance of the landing should be placed on the size of feld Alling stations

We cannot recommend the pre seription of either a general scheme of screening or a general colour, ncr a requirement that all Alling stations should be provided with

Picturesque Villages.

FRENCH MOTOR ROADS:

ELEVATED HIGHWAY

SUGGESTED!

In the case of a picturesque village street," the committee say, it would be open to the council to make special by-laws requiring every petroleum filing station to comply with such requirements, for

[United Press.} example, as that no part of any apparatus should be visible to tho.

Paris-Mutor traffic has become public from any point in the street,

so heavy that engineers to-day are that every rood and wall visible to the public should be respectively seriously considering the construe tiled and faced with the naturation of a 9,000 mile elevated high- stone of the country, and that all way for high speed travel between screening used should consist of the principal cities of France.

This road, raised a level of walls built of such stone.

The committee formed the de-twenty-five yards above the ground,

will

across step

the country finite opinion that one of the main from Paris to Lyons, to Marseilles reasons for the unsightliness of so many filling stations is the india to Nice in one stretch; from Mar- criminate and haphazard display scilies the line will branch off to Toulouse to Bordeaux. To the of unsightly advertisements,' they recommend the obvious and North the line will touch Poulogus, easy solution of banning such and in the West Strassbourg.

The cost of the undertaking in forms of display and prohibiting advertisements, subject to certain estimated at about 8550,000,000, but it is pointed out by supporters of exemptions. They add:-

"We consider that the needs of the scheme that the materials could trade would be adequately met it be obtained from Germany as re- proprietors were limited to display. parations. Objections to the plan ing their name and that of the premises not more than once in a position not higher than the lowest level of the roof, in letters not ex- ceeding twelve inches in depth."

AUTOMATIC TRAFFIC

and

SIGNALS. Automatic trafic signals' are new installed in 21 towns in Great Britain. In most cases the system is the same as that in Manchester signals by three lights showing for a fixed period in rotation. The towns where these devices are installed are:-

Coventry. Liverpool.

York.

-Skemud~-

"EXT"

Southampton, A. Exeter.

Bristol,

Brighton:

Newcastle. Wakefield. Manchester. Nottingham

Wolverhampton: Preston. Derby. Doncaster.

Northampton. Bedford.

Accrington.

motor-Car field a new.conception of smooth and quiet operation com bined with a power and speed development to meet all needs of the driver.

BUS AND COACH." "THE NEW JOURNAL. FOR

OPERATORS.

"

"In its introductory remarks in its first number, Bus and Coach says: It is our privilege to in- troduce to 'bus and conch opera- tors throughout the English-speak ing world the first British journal to be devoted solely to their in- terests. It is our confident hope that they will grow to regard this journal as an indispensable source of inspiration and information.

It is admitted, even in the United States, that the leading operators in Great Britain know more of their business than those in any other part of the world. This being so, it is a curious fact that, hitherto, less experienced British operators at home and over- seas have had to look to foreign sources for a journal devoted ex- clusively to the interest of their in- dustry..

'Brée and Coach will cover every phase of the business; it will deal

with town and country 'bus work- are raised from the aesthetic pointing by municipal authorities, by of view, it being pointed out that public companies and by private firms; with railway companies' this road, crossing private estates and rivers, canals and farmlands road services; with long distance the length and breadth of France conch services, and with other would be unsightly and never forms of coach operation, includ- tolerated by French land ownLIS. ing touring, excursions, and the On the other hand the argument conveyance of public parties. It is adduced that this giant speed will comprehend all branches of way would mean a great economy the subject, from the selection, from many points of view. Con- maintenance and control of vehicles gestion on the roads of France to and their equipment to the staffing of the fleet and the management

Parlia day is enormous, the number of

and handling of traffic. sats now employing the ordinary highways being calculated Et mentary and legal questions and This number will be the considerations of peculiar con- wollen this summer by the tourist ditions obtaining overseas will not

be neglected..♥ cars which are increasing in num- ber each year. The possibility of the use of the speedway to supple- ment the regular rail communica- tion much in the same as is now being done in the United States is also forescen

2,000,000.

In this.comation, it is interest

Own

Passenger carrying by road has during the past few years become a specialised industry with an in- dividuality of its own. It has its interesta and peculiar problems, demanding an equally specialised journal such as we have changing, tha Chamber of Deputies would have dustry, in the government study ways and facilities for frank exchange of means for putting into effect a plan opinion and criticism, provided by for co-operation between motor the columns of 'Bus and Coach,.. trucks and autobuses and the rail-will be welcomed by every opera- roads,

ng these creatuse zove the Douro for the ins

tor."

Motor driver at Lambeth: The constable jumped from one side of the road to the other like a fairy.

With a two-stroke lour-cylinder moder- six horse-power engine.

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WOMAN MOTORIST FINED

£10.

Miss Marjorie Edwards, aged twenty-five, of Victoria Road. Chingford, who was fined £10 and ten shillings costs at Enfield Police Court for driving a motor-ear dan gerously, and failing to obey a policeman's signal, was stated to have driven. almost straight at the policeman, and he had to jump for his life out of the way. She said when stopped, "I am very sorry, but I lost my head."

** STUNTING” TAXICABS.

A taxicab driver complained to Mr. Hay Halkett, the magistrate at the Marylebone Police Court that he had been attacked by a motorist, who accused him of turn- ing sharply in the road and put-

Tam often expecting this to ting, him off his route. happen." replied Mr. Hay Halkett

You taxicab drivers suddenly, without the slightegt warning, turn round in the road. I have been nearly smashed up half a dozen times in that way, when I have been driving a car."

It's a favourite with women

WILLYS

KNIGHT

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CARS & TRUCKS.

SHOWROOM "DURO" MOTOR CO., LTD. SERVICE STATION NATHAN ROAD, KOWLOON,

DISTRIBUTORS :--GILMAN & CO, LTD.

CAR AS RAIL AMBULANCE.

INTERESTING CONVERSION.

The Standard rgents in Brisbane, Messrs. Cars of Britain, Ltd., have recently carried out a most interest- ing conversion by constructing an ambulance body for a 9 h.p. Standard chassis and converting the chassis so that it would run on rails. This ambulance was to the order of the Charleville Ambulance Brigade. The chassis was converted by the removal of the pneumatic tyred wheels which were repinced by light steel fanged wheels, the front axle being replaced by a solid axle. The track was reduced to 3 ft. 8 in. so that the ambulance run 00 the Queensland would failway track fitted to the front of the chassis.

A cowcatcher was

The body, built by Messrs, T. Gardiner of Newmarket, Brisbane, has accommodation for one stretcher case and one sitting or lying down case in addition to the driver and attendant. Under the lying down seat a locker is provided to accom- modate all the necessary first-aid outfit. An interesting part of the equipment is an ingenious turn- table for furning the car on the rails. It is made in six sections which, when dismantled, store away in a locker under the body of the car. The turntable can be assem-

After completion and tests in Brisbane the car was driven to the railway workshops at Ipswich, where it was subjected to official tests, through which it passed satisfactorily, the railway authori- ties expressing the opinion that this Standard car was one of the best they had seen for this class of werk. In order fürder to test, the. car Mr. M. D. Dawes, Managing Director, and Mr. A G. Barratt, Manager of Cars of Britain, Ltd., obtained permission from the rail- way authorities to drive the car under its own power on the rail track to Charleville, a distance of 584 miles. During part of the journey heavy bead winds were en countered and a cheap grade of petrol, had to be used, but nevertheless an average of 34 m.p.g. was obtained for the whole journey.

During demonstration Charleville total weight of passengers mounting to 116 stone carried, and yet the negotiated the steepest grades on the line of 1 in 50 at a speed of 40 m.p.h. The Charleville Ambulance Superintendent reports that since taking delivery of the Ambulance Beveral long journeys have been made, and the performance sad comfort of the car are exceptionally good.

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ALLEGED CAR THIEVES.

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Car

Charles McEnarney, Alfred Salis bury, and Frank Caward, all young men, were remanded at the Thames Police Court on a charge of being concerned together in stealing a £200. saloos motor-ear valued at hled, the car turned round and the ten turntable repacked within the property of Mr. 'Lewis Levy, a minutes. The inside of the am-

costume manufacturer, of Sidney- bulance body is equipped with street, Mile End. powerful electric light, while theIt was stated that the car was stolen from a garage, which was usus electric equipment of the car is retained.

opened by means of a key,

So Beautiful So Easy to Operate So Economical

WHEN YOU SEE this New Chevrolet, Madam, you will understand why it has inet, with instant Fisher body craftsmen have provided not only good favour with women, drivers in all parts of the world. looks-but luxurious comfort and refinements that have heretofore been obtainable only in higher priced cars. WHEN YOU SII at the big, handsome wheel and feel how easy it is to guide the car at your slightest command-how smoothly the clutch works-how easily and surely the four-wheel brakes respond to a slight pressure of your toe-how convenient the gear shift lever is how smoothly the geare mesh/ -you'll be provided with further evidences for the unprecedented popularity of the. New Chevrolet among women like yourself.

AND WHEN YOU DRIVE it—and note the tremendous power and flashing acceleration and speed at your instant call, you'll want to own it.

And why this car provides as well such a revelation in economy of purchase and upkeep is it any wonder that it is such a favourite?

May "we take you for a ride to-day?

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THE OUTSTANDING CHEVROLET OF CHEVROLET HISTORY. "Ready for Delivery."

TOURER G: $790,

SEDAN G. $980. ROADSTER G. $790.

11 TON TRUCK CHASSIS G. 8755,

THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE

25, Queen's Road Central,

The new Chevrolet Coach upholstered in blue Corduroy,