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Life's Little Chances,

Near Market Drayton an owl few into a car's, winscreen and smashed-

"it."

Big Figures.

"During 1990 the Californian oil. fields produced nearly 300 million barrels of oil.

Production..

It is estimated that last year the Ford Company turned out no fewer than two million cars from its De- trait works. » Skittles at the R.A.C.

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"The up-to-date skittle bowling alley at the B.A.C. clubhouse in Pall Mall, London, is becoming in erensingly popular." Interesting Case.

THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, MAY · 14,. 1930.

MOTOR NOTES.

Pity the Pedestriani

A feature of a wealthy American's motor ent is a specially constructed horn which, when sounded, emits the word "Jamp! "instead of the usual noise,

Wireless and Cars.

The A.A. is informed that tourists may take wireless sets to France, A motor cyclist has been awarded either mounted on ears or in their £3,000 damages against the Couls-personal luggage, but the duties and don and Purley Urban District taxes must definitely be paid: no Council for injuries due to a "fall; refund wil be granted on caused by the neglected condition portation. of a road in the locality.

Oll Supplies.

A scheme to lay a pape line more than 10 miles long is being con. sidered by the Soviet Government to ensure a constant supply of oil to new refineries at Moscow. The pipe will have to cross the Caspian Sen from Baku to Mahatah-Kala, a distance of 250 miles,

The Car Reeponalble.

No matter what trude, sport or profession is mentioned there is always a woman champion--there is even a woman champion rat catcher. She is lamenting a decline in busi- ness, and when asked to give her reason for the failing off, said simply,

"Motor cars do not eat

Por

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Some Achievement.

There has just been taken to the scrapheap a Wolseley car, with an honourable record. It was a 16-20 h.p. touring vehicle, built in 1919, which has covered over a quarter of a million milea-as a private vehicle until 1922, and since then as a furniture van. It is stated that nothing whatever had been added to the original parts of the engine. Sacrifcial Rites..

Safety-Last!

re-ex-

Owing to the fact that the dark blue mocks of the street cleaners in London blend with fog and mist and at times render it diffealt for drivers to see these men, a white panel is to be placed on the back of the smocks.

An Unpleasant Habit.

The National Roads and Motor- ints Association of New South Wales offers substantial rewards for information leading to the detretion of persons who are in the habit of putting sand in the tanks of cars parked for pienie, parties. Licence Renewal-New Method.

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A motorist was held up by the police for inspection of his driving cence, which was found to be out of date. but the blank pages bad been covered with stamps to the value of five shillings. This, the motorist imagined, was the correct manner of renewing the licence! Spending Where it Earns.

The Shell Oil Company has ahen edn new waterside bulk storage installation at Geelong, Australia, The policy of this company is stated to he to spend where it earns; thus There are stories of human sacrie lorries used in Australia by the company are British-built, and fice in the gods. In Lincoln, Neb., 1.5.A., a car sacrifice was offered petrol pumps of Australian

manufacture. To the Devil of Traffic Congestion. Offerings were brought from all parts of the state and firemen satarated over 200 cars with petrol ned yet them on me. The police sunrded the remains to prevent youths from removing parts with which to repair collegiate "fiv

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Cars and Aeroplanes,

NEW BRIDGE LINKS UNITED STATES AND CANADA

At the dedication of the new Ambassador bridge connecting Detroit and Windsor, Canada, a fleet of forty Cadillacs made the drat official crossing between the two countries, following the example of Antoine de in Motte Cadillac, founder of Detroit, who more thin two nuadred years ago was the first while man to cross the Detroit River at almost the same place now occupied by the bridge.

Following the example of Antoine de la Motte Cadillac, founder of the City of Detroit, who more than two hundred years ago was the first white man

to cross the Detroit River between what are now the United States and Canada, a fleet of forty Cadillac cars made the first official "crossing between these two countries at the dedication of the.

new

international Ambassador Bridge at Detroit. As Cadillac, the man served to settle this section of Amerien, so Cadillac cars served

Bar Mountain Bridge across the Hudson River in New York State.

The centre of the span clears the surface of the Detroit River at a height of 152 feet, which is 17 feet higher than the clearance of the Delaware River Bridge and of the bridges across the East River at New York. The Ambassador Bridge was erected at A cost of ever 822.500,000, and will handle motor pedestrian traffic only,

Over 100,000 prople attended the dedication ceremonies which were

to bring out the first interming-made an effcial part of the Armis ling of the people of two great nations on the new bridge. Longest in the World.

world on the Delaware River Bridg., connecting Philadelphia and Camden. It is 253 tect longer than the Brooklyn Bridge, and 19 feet longer than the span of the

The Anbassador Bridge is the longest suspension bridge in the Safeguarding Schoolchildren.. world. Its free, span neasures 1,950 Following the introduction in feet, 100 feet greater than that of Mancheste of automatic traffic the hitherto longest span in the sizimis zoperated by pedestrians, it is understood that should these prove satisfactory they may be in troduced in London. They will probably be erected in the frat la stance outside a number of L.C.C. schools and will be operated by the teachers, the children, being for hidden to play with them. & Wise Move.

LONDON'S LUXURY

TRANSPORT.

NEW MOTOR-BUS PLANS.

Aeroplanes are Inst becoming almost as popular as cars with those people who are fortunate enough to be able to afford them. Several of the well-known automobile dis

A drástir mave, has been made tributing agents handle adroplanes by the authorities in Vienna to in the same way as they do cars,

overeami the traffic rongestion as, for instance, Auto Auctions, problem. All horse-drawn vehicles Ltd., Burlington Gardens, W., who

are to be prohibited in the inner recently supplied a fleet of machines city. It is stated that this measure the National Flying Services. is found necessary by reasor of the The aviation department of this increasing number of cars which company is under the control of

block the streets of the old city, Squadron-Leader C. A. Ridley, more particularly in the evening, D.S... M.C., the firm possessing when the offices and shops are closeditiously sole selling rights for Blackburning. Bluebird light aeroplanes.

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She Was Annoyed.

tic Day programme at Detroit. Speakers, headed by Governor Fred W. Green, of Michigan, and the Honorable Charles McCrea, Minis ter of Mines for Ontario, char- acterized the bridge as another, tie between the throbbing, friendly life

of two nations.

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A joint programma was held at the American and Canadian termin- als during which memorial tablets were unveiled and silk ribbons, symbolic of former barriers between

irculation in the saloon and re- duce the tendency for passengers to form a queue. In practice it should also assist in reducing the time spent at atopping places.

The stairway is provided with a deep leather covered handrail and pluminium kicking plates.

A GOOD SINGER.

THAT MANUFACTURER'S

HANDBOOK.

QUALITY IN CARS.

NUMBER OF FIRSTS " CAPTURED BY CADILLAC.

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It is sometimes said that, there is no such thing as a price class. in. the motor held. Proponents of this belict claim that the same high standard of quality which may be had in a 83,000 car can also o obtained in an $1,500 ear. Mass production has made this true to some extent, but the refinements found in high-priced cars are these that cannot be included in cheaper makes. Ultimate quality in ik motor-car is to be had only at a price,

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Too often, unfortunately, a mo torist looks askance at the instruc.

There is no middle ground be tions concerning maintenance which

Lween a minimum and a maximum ሲሮ contained in the manufac-standard. Cadillac does not build turer's handbook, "Grease these care to a price at all. It builds

parts daily," says the book, "these parts every week; check the level of oil in the gear-box and back axla. every 1,000 miles." Etcetera.

Too often, also, these instructions are disregarded. At first, perhaps, the motorist executes them with me-

ticulous care. Then the novelty fades; greasing is cut down to an irregular fortnightly operation; and the car goes on running just as

well.

cars to a single mimum standard, and that standard is the best car that human skill can devise,

A practical indication of how this standard, has been repeatedly ac "firsts" in the Cadillac record.. hieved is seen in the number of Cadillac was the first to produce n standardized car with complete in- terchangeability of parts: first to adopt Delco ignition system, first to provide a complete electrical system of starting, lighting and ignition.

Thermostatic control of automa tive cooling systems was first de- Yet all the time the owner is ster-veloped and used by Cadillac. The ing up trouble for himself. Squeaks Cadillac plants were the first in the United States to adopt Johann- and rattles appear in due course,

sou gauges; Cadillac was the first and this or that minor repair bus to build quality cars in quantity.. to be effected at a garage. Eventu- first to use the thermostatic carbure

tor control, first to complet-lv Forty Cadillac sedans, gaily deally there is a heavy overhaul bill. equip its cars with non-shafterall corated with American and Čana-

security plate glass. dian flags, carried the officials and

the United States and Canada,

were cut..

party of invited guests on the first official trip across the bridge. At the international boundary line the American party exchanged greetings with the Canadian party. Fifty-Year Scheme.

Dedication of the, Ambassador afty years to span the Detroit Bridge crowns the efforts of over

River between the United States and Canada.

Actual construction of the bridge commenced on May 7, 1927, and the structure was completed eight and a half-months prior to the time limit in the contract. Over 24,000 tons of structural steel went into the making of the Ambasunder Bridge, Las did 40,000 barrels of cement and

more than 2,000,000 rivets, are 25.000 cubic yards of masonry in the bridge and its supports.

There

An example of what reguler light maintenance will do came before the notice of the Singer Company recently. Over three years ago, a Coventry resident bought a Singer

car and since then he has covered over 3,000 miles. The engine has never been dismantled-except for three years running he took it into decarbonisation and at the end of

the works, merely as a precaution- ary measure. The makers found that all the repairs necessary con sisted of four new scraper rings and a few minor adjustments.

None of the original tyres was replaced until 20,000 miles had been covered and two are still in use." with several months wear left in them. In appearance, if not "in- distinguishable from new," the car certainly would not be estimated at more than 12 months' old.

car

It must be pointed out that this Both the front and rear windows He has done nothing to his

motorist is no mechanical genius. are of unsplinterable glass, and which could not be done by the three windows on each side of the seriest navice, for the only atten upper and lower saloons are dividtion he has given it is that prescri- ed with the top part free to be bed in the manufacturer's hand- raised or lowered by passengers.

Artificial lighting is effected by without trouble of any sort-and hook. Twenty five thousand miles electric balls canecaled behind

moral is obvious.

translucent. "Acetaloid" panels. then only minor adjustments! The" These are non-inflammable, and give an extremely restful diffused light.

Glazed destination indicators are let into both the front and rear panels and illuminated internally by electric lamps.

bulkhead. ed in the centre panel of the front

As the licensing authorities de The L.G.O.C.. has recently placed mand an emergency exit on all in service a number of experi- vehicles with enclosed stairways, mental, all enclosed, double deck | advantage has been taken in this buses. Known as the "ST" type, instance of the large upper saloon they are designed to deal more ex window at the rear. This is hing-

than the present ed at the linttom and easily open vehicles with peak hour traffic. ed by means of an interior handle. The principal feature of these Its movement would remain unim- new buses is a spacious enclosed peded should the bus fall on either A somewhat piquant scene was

vestibule taking the place of the the right or left side. witnessed the other day in London usual platform. This greatly faci. by a crowd after a collision be

itates entering and leaving, and tween a lorry and private, car. Upon the vehicles coming to rest, during rust periods will enable a greater number of passengers to. La woinan jumped from the car and

board the buses at the same time Boxed the lorry driver's ears. merely smiled and the woman was man, ever, the perfect gentleman, and thus curtail stopping periods. restrained from further violence be people in the ciond holding 'bar after the bus has started, a prae further five on seats at the rear comfort and protection. In the in provincial cities where the

arms,

40 m.ph. Backwards!

The

Once on board passengers will be able to find their way to the seats tice which is impossible with the present type of platforio.

In the "ST" models the usual

A batch of six-wheeler armoured circular stairway has been replac- curs for the mechanical cavalryed by a straight stairway ascend- its has been built by the Laning from the vestibule over the chester Motor Co. Ltd. on the inoffside wheel arch to the middle of structions of the War Office. These the upper saloon, This new posi- vehicles, which are fitted with 40tion is designed to assist free h.p. six-cylinder engines, have a speed of 40 m.p.h, over rough stuff, either forwards or in reverse. "There are three machine guns in the turret, while an interesting point is that the running boards are special- ly strong and made detachable for nise as bridging rampe. Tax Concession.

A foreign motorist. in Germany who wishes to leave his car for some time in garage can obtain.| cxemption" from tax during that period. He must apply to the chief customs official of the district,, who will send an officer to place customs seals on the car. When the owner rish's to take possession of his car he should again apply to the chief custom house; the officials will re- move the seals and give him a eertifiente of tax exemption for the herind during which the car hus been out of use, Smart Work.

A description of a Citroën 'ear which had been stolen was recently. circulated by the R.4.C. to its rond guides in all parts of England. Within half an hour of his receiv ing the description, a guide pa pointin raiyinah Stamford wazu sadar pro

eceding through the town which he recognised as the one that had been stolen, although the number was slightly altered. He called upon the driver to stop, and, after satisfy-

ing himself that the car was the one in question, ordered the driver

MODERN MOTOR SERVICE to proceed to the police station,

where the guide handed him over to the authorities.

The chassis selected for the "ST" type buses is the well-known A. E. C. Pneumatic power is used for "Regent." This has a cylinder, signalling purposes by the condus. 8 h.p. o... engine with unit con- tor, the old bell cords having been structed gear box, and an off-ceo- replaced by press devices of un-tred differential taking its place tarnishable metal. Two of these under rearside seat and allowing are located in the lower saloon and a low floor level to be maintained. one at the staircase head in the It is not unlikely that the man- upper saloon.

ner in which these L.0.0.C. ex- perimental models fulfil the desig- ner's requirements will evok, in- terest among municipal operators speeding up of services during peak periods presents similar pro- blems;

The new stairway led to some modification in the upper saloon seating arrangements. In the new models sixteen passengers are ac- commodated in ross type seats on

Full advantage has been taken each side of a central gangway at the forward end, three more on of the relaxed licensing regulations seats facing the stairhead, and a to provide the driver with better immediately below the emergency new "ST" buses he has a cabin exit window.

totally enclosed by glass with the In the lower saloon the seats are exception of a harrow opening on

the offside used as an entrance. all arranged crosswise with the ex-

An innovation worth recording ception of four opposite the stair- way. They are all super sprung, is the provision of a large bevelled sloped, of generous width, and up-mirror fitted to the side of the

staircase, and small mirror situat Lolstered in fawn coloured

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MOTOR CAR GOES TO SEA

Lowering the Admiral's car over the side of the U. B. 8. Pittsburgh, fingship of the U. 8. Navy's

- Asiatic fleet,-in-the-tarbor of Shanghal This La Balle is carried below the dock of the ship'ɑmaid' ix"

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