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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 21, 1931.

MOTOR NOTES

NOTES FROM FORD TRADE.

EVERYWHERE.

WINTER MOTORING PAYS.

In days gone by, when motoring was more. of a recreation than a business, and whew road conditions were often deplorable, there was Bome excuse for the man who de

cided to lay up his car during the winter months; in fact, it became alinust a traditional practice on the part of many. Traditions die hard, add this sxplains why so many people have not bothered to ac quaint themselves with the ameni. ties which winter motoring now affers. The Light Car and Cycle. ar states that many enthusiasts believe a car to be of even greator value in winter than in summer in these days of crowded public conveyances, comparatively doar country roads and 100 per cent. reliability in

themselves., Wisitor motoring, admittedly, has its problems, but, thanks to the ingenuity of motor-car designers and accessory manufacturers, there are hone, which cannot be few, or Buived by

a very moderate outlay.

SILENCING MOTOR BOATS.

cars

With the object of eliminating the exhauss noise of motor-boat and stationary ongines which is a fre. quent cause of complaint in nor row waterways and factory build ings, a London engineer has placed on the market a novel and very effective type of silencer. Its ap aplication to speedboats operating

SCHOOLS.

TO BE ESTABLISHED IN ENGLAND AND RUSSIA.

Trade schools closely patterned after the two divisions of the Henry Ford Trade School for Boys located at Highland Park and Dearborn, Michigan, are soon to be established in England and Russia, it was all- nounced rocently.

The English school will be tem- porarily placed at Manchester, near the British plant of the Ford Motor Company, Ltd., but later will be

WOMEN MOTORISTS.

DO THEY TALK TOO MUCH?

The Reading County Court judge, who recently crested a stir in Eng. Jand by saying that women motorista talk too much, is not alone in criticising them. From the moment that it became possible for women to take out mechanical- ty-propelled vehicles on the public roads there was an attempt to re gard them as butie. --

In this there, may have been age-long sex- something of an antagonism. The carliest cars wore vehicles at for only heroes to drive, and man, already threatened in some of the old provinces once re-

moved to a point adjoining the company's larger works now under cotistraction at Dagenham, London. served for him, imagined that here The school will operate under the

was a new province in which he supervision of the Ford Motor Com-might rules unchallenged. But with pany, Ltd., and following the exam-automobile engineering improved ple of the Detroit Trade School, there was less danger of break- will be restricted to boys between down on lonely roads. There was, 12 and 18 years old.

leta necessity to crawl underneath For the purpose of making a study the body of the car. The spare of the Highland Park and Rouge wheel reduced the inconveniences of Plant divisions, A. R. Smith, gen-puncture to a minimusy. cral manager of the Ford English So woman was launched upon the company, has spent a week, at the highways, and man, who thought two schools. He thought it prob- he had received such a start as to able that the first students in the forbid his ever being overtaken, proposed British school would be heard a menacing horn behind him, selected from families in London's looked over his eboulder, and began to think out disagreeable things to East side district, started at Man-, say about this insistent competitor. cheater and then returned when the Dagenham plant is completed.

Caution: Female Driver,

MOTOR GANGSTERS IN LONDON,

SHOPPERS HELD UP WITH

REVOLVER.

Motor bandits armed with in revolver and iron bara held a crowd of Christmas shoppers at bay în Bethnal Green Road, E., while they raided a jeweller's shop owned by Mr. Henry Goudee.

Mr. Gandes, a one-armed man, dashed out of the shop and seized one of the 'mon, who wrenched him- self free, and tho bandits esesper in the direction of Hackney, taking with them haul of jewellery said to be worth £500.

It was just after seven o'clock. The pavement outside the shop was crowded, and thousands of shop- pers were buying from a street market on the other side of the road.

Suddenly dark yellow open. touring car containing five men drow

up outside the jeweller's shop.

"One man remained at the wheel," Mr. Albert Samuels, of Pollards-row, who was standing in shop entrance near by, told a Press reporter.

Two stood, armed with iron bars, on the running boards and another stood in the car brandish- ing a revolver.

Crowd Dumbfounded.

The fifth man-a young fellow with a trilby hat pulled down over his eyea-rushed as the window and smashed it with a hammer. Behind this was steel trellis, which it. took him nearly a minute to break down.

"People stood by dumbfounded, not daring to interfore.

The bandit helped himself to a tray of rings, diamond pondante and ear rings, and was, making for the car when Mr. Gandee rushed aut of his shop. He made a gallant. attempt to stop the bandit, but was thrust aside.”

The bandits had difficulty in get- ting the car the number plate of which was covered by an old mac- kintosh--to start.

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Several men made a movement towards it but stopped at menacing

movements by the bandits.

Then the car shot forward and disappeared in the direction of Cambridge Road.

He has thought out disagreeable The Russian school is to be built things enough Not long ago a car and maintained by the Soviet Gov was observed which bore behind the erniment at Nijni Novogorod and Driver." This may have been an Caution: Female strange device: will be adjacent to Autostroy," inrult imposed on her by some mulc the name given to the plant to be relative with the power (that is, the" built at that point for the manufac-power of the purse) to do so; it may have been her own impide reply at seaside resorte and industrial | ture of motor caTS. The Russian to much ill-founded criticism. In engines employed for construction-school will in no way be connected either case, it summarises the pre- al work should also be much appre- with Ford, interests, though the cat position neatly enough. Men motarists are in a conspiracy, un- inted by the public. The principle benefit of lienry Ford Trade School organised but real, to prebend that involved asocitatos the passing of methods, experiments along educa-women are unsafe drivers. A well-cut off," Mr. Inchem, & shopkeeper, the cooling water from the engine tional lines, and present manner of into an expansion chamber through teaching have been placed at the

disposal of Soviet representatives. a number of tangential slots. This induces a swirling action which causes the gases to absorb the water

in the form of "rain," which forms an effective sound deadening nedium, whilst back pressure is eliminated and the gases are re duced in bulk to about one-third the volume they would occupy if not cooled.

One of these silencers was fitted to

24 h.p. engine installed in a Thames tug and, according to The

Afotor Boat which carried out a

test of the device, "even by loan- ing over the side of the boat and listening within a few feet of the exhaust outlet it was impossible to detect any nice beyond the burble of the exhaust and the rhythmic beat of the engine. Judging from the success which has already been achieved the general application of the silencer should do much to dis- pense any opinion that the internal- combustion engine. is necessarily noisy."

Girl Btudenta.

It is said that the school at Nijni Novgorod will be the first of

known humorist has said that when a woman extends her left hand it means that she is going to stop... or to turn to the right.

. or bo turn to the Jeft. or to drive

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straight on.

These are specimens. A. more prolonged searcs in the cupboards of memory might produce ten times ag many instances of equal in: terest and a hundred times as many that would be a hundred times' serious contemplation of the whole more tedious. Bus По more

case lends one to discount the efforts of the humoriste.

several similar institutions to be established in Russia. According to Leopold A. Montz, assistant chief engineer of U.S.S.R. for the con- sont plans call for facilities sufficient struction of automobile plants, pre-

to accommodate from 650 to 750 students. Of this number twenty per cent, will be girls. Mr. Mortz recently headed a commission that charge of cars on the roads mal- In actual practice, women in visited the Henry Ford Highland tiply not merely year by year, but Park School. After talks with the month by month. The number of instructors he was of the opinion cars possessed by the population of that the Russian school would fol- Great Britain goes steadily up and low the student ago limits of from with every new dar set running it 12 to 18 years, the practice of serv.

ir something better than an oven ing a hot noon meal within the chance that a woman will have the. school, and alloting the same Boor main handling of in When the afea of approximately eighty square owner-driver was rare, then the feet to each student. A second roman-driver was rare. The call- delegation inquired into the Fording of chauffeur was, and for the school curriculum and adopted the most part remains, ono better suited plan of two weeks of school shop to the male sex work alternated with one week in the class room. The proposed

But nowadays the new car tenda Soviet course will include Russian, physics, chemistry, auto mechanics to be as much a part of th and shop wechanics.

domestic fittings of the house as The visitors were impressed with the kitchen-range. The wife at the Ford Trade School thethod of home has both more opportunity of tenching the younger students by using it and more need; for it en means of specially prepared and | five days of the week than the hus- illustrated lesson sheats, the band in his office. And experience scholarship system by which 2,500 shows that women do take to haml- boys cara while they learn, and the ling cary auth extraordinary Answering the question,, How fact that the students make nothing aptitude. The modem woman in no does a anpercharger work; and has | for practice but always. produce more nervous than a man, and is it any advantage other than that of | articles of service and value.

is nervousness that makes the really increasing the power obtainable Plans for the Russian Trade bad driver.

Road-sense, which from an engine The Motor re School are being prepared by the makes the really good driver, segama plies:-

Austin company of Cleveland. The to be bestowed with an equal hand drawings provide for two-story | upon both sexes. It is time for us segment for academic instruction, to abandon easy jokes and to tarn library, laboratory and administra-our eyes upon the facts. The main tion, and one story structure, which facts are that the percentage of

HOW A SUPERCHARGER

WORKS.

"In ordinary engines the pump ing action of the pistóns is relied upon to draw the mixture into the cylinder. A supercharger is simply

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Part of Domestic Fitting.

a kind of gas pump what delivers includes a machine shop, foundry, women-drivers rises stendily and

forge shop, gymnasium and lunch

the hixture under pressure and, therefore, inoroness the weight of hall. petrol and air supplied to the 4ylinders. The improvement is par- ticularly noticeable at high speeds, when piston suction is apt to prove inefficient, The power is inoreased, roughly, in proportion to the en- haned weight of the cbargo, Various kinds of superchargers are: employed and the pressure at which they work is usually betweca 5 ̊tb. and 10 lb. per sq. in., for ordinary. engines. Much higher pressures have, however, Leen used for naing,

Apart from the increase of „power, a supercharger, by churning. the mixture and supplying it pof- tisely to the engine arratis, fáciou.

various cylinders.. For this reason it has in many instances been found to improve flexibility as well as power and has not actually involv ed any material increase in petro! consumption, The cams mood not be so abrupt in action" when the mixtura ia daliarod under pressure “no“that” “"brosats' in" the valve "gear"

are-reduced at high spoods.??.

that a good woman driver onn bo as good as any m

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Garages Searched, "A 'bus was passing at the time, and if it had only drawn in the bandits excapo would have been

said:

The scene of the raid is only half a mile from Cable Street, Stepney, where Mra., Sarah Gratolsky was killed recently by escaping motor bandits,

Police have descriptiona of the men, and detectives were last night combing the East End A number of garages were visited in a search for the yellow car.

SNAPSHOTS OF A MAN FIXING HIS WATCH

By GLUYAS WILLIAMS

LOOKS AT WATCH TO SEE IF IT'S

BEDTIME. WATCH HAS STOPPED

SHAKES IT MIGOROUSLY AND | USTENS AGAIN. NO ACTION

STARES SLOOMILY ÁT WATCH,

·WIFE SAYS TO LET HER TRY TO FIX IT

MUTTERS IT PROBABLY JUST NEEDS HOLDS IT TO EAR, BUT HEARS WINDING, AND WINDS IT

NO TICKING

OPENS, BACK OF WATCH AND PRODS INSIDE WITH PEN-KNGE

PASSES IT OVER, RÉMARKING' ITIS. NO USE HE'S ALREADY TRIED. WIFE DROPS WATCH ACCIDENTTILLY.

(Copyright, 1930, by The Bell Syndicate. Inc.).

"HUMBUGS AND

PUPPETS."

UNCOMPLIMENTARY VIEW OF MEDICAL PROFESSION.

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An extraordinary story of a man who preferred death to seeing a doctor, thought nurses puppets," and Pegarded health institutions as places of experiment, rather than of cure, was told at an inquest at Croydon.

Explaining why a doctor was not called, ho said that his brother generally treated himself hompso pathically and had said he would. sooner die than allow a doctor near him.

The Coroner. Did you not think it wouud be better to have one?

"No," was the reply."My bro ther did not believe in doctors and I don't. A doctor would have been called in had my brother asked, but in that case I should have had doubts about my brother's 'mind.".

"Decorated Pappéta:" "Would it not," asked the nurse been provided 2" Coroner, have been better had "Well said the witness," my brother abominated nurses as much as doctors, and would have refused one. He looked upon nurses as decorated puppets, or something of that sort.'

The man on whom the inquesta was held was Frances Jarnes Cross- ley, aged 73, of Pollards. Hill North, Norbury, a retired maker of engineering models, who died at his home at midnight on December 17. Clarence William Crossley; a brother, said that on December 10 bis brother fell and lost the use of his left arm and left leg. For a week they made him as comfort- able as possibls on the floor of the kitchen, and then he was carried more likely

them," to a couch in another room,

What about an institution or hospital 1" queried the Coroner.

"He said,'

was the reply," that

at his age they took people into institutions, not to cure them; but to experiment on

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The Coroner: What is your ob- jection to doctors That they are all humbuga.

Elizabeth Amelia Crossley, sister, was asked if she shared her brother's disbelief in doctors, and she said: Yes, very much, and more."

"It runs in. the family, then," said the Coroner.

Foroman's Statement. Medical evidence was to the offcut that death was due to cerebral hemorrhage and that no medical or nursing attention would, have saved or prolonged the man's life.

After returning 4 verdict of "Death from natural causes," the foreman of the jury added: "Wo desire to express the opinion that the deceased was badly neglected, and if it is within your provines to consurs Mr. and Miss Crossley, wo should like you to do so.

The Coroner, however, declined: to associate himself with the pro- posal, and it was withdrawn."

The relatives, said the Coroner, had to contend with the dead man's strong prejudices, and the fact that had a doctor or nurse been called it would probably have had a bad effect upon him..

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