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HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MARCH 1, 1932.
SPARKS FROM THE PLUGS
News from Everywhere
FUEL IN THE U.S.A.
| bound thore for dranonstmation pur- понев, The vehicle was called for nt short notice by the Marques do Sales, who, in A,EJQ's solo dís- tributor in Spain, and no time, was given either for the proper suning up of the sugins or the usual test.
loft England The long run, to Madrid therefore, was in itself in
the nature of a test,
The journey, including deviations from the direct route,' amounted
BOY GUNMAN EXECUTED.
TWO-GUN CROWLEY MEETS DEATH WITH SMILE,
REFUSES TO SEE HIS GIRL FRIEND.
With a smile on his lips and jok.
Gun Crowley, the 20-year-old gun- 'mun, was electrocuted in Sing Sing
prison.
His last words were:
Send my regards to my mother.
ber of postuards, each depicting by means of a line drawing and coning of the chassis before the vehiclong with the executioner, Two- Patrol consumpsion per average viso description various
Harvion motor vehicle in the United States operations such as lubrication, i continuing to inervage, despite broke adjustment, washing abc. the fact that the average numbes The reverse side bore the address of motor vehicles in use last summer of the firm and a few words to wna less than a year ago. Tho the effect that the sender would call demand for autor, fuel was & per at a certain time for the parti cont. greater fh the third quarter oular operation to be carried out of 1997 than in the corresponding on his car. The cards were sent to period of 1000. This condition is all the customers on the mailing reported to have been brought about Kat of the firm and produced a con- in part by the increased use of siderable volume of replies and
taxicabs. The average taxicab, or subsequent business, stock motor car that has been, con- vorted to hire use." will consRNA anaually from 10 to 15 times 129 much petrol is the average privatė | motor car. The number of taxicalss
CONVERTING LOSS TO
PROFIT.
In three years the Chesterfield
Hulla, sergeaut! I don't think
that hold the electrio ebair] those things referring to the straps are tight enough for me.?!'
The death chamber was filled with witnesses when Crowley entered.
approximately to 1,058 miles and it was accomplished in 1 hours 10 minutes running time at average speed 34 m.p.h. No in- volantury atop WAS met, the only pauses being for rest, refresh After taking farewell of his foster. ment and fact replenishment; fur-mother to whom he said: "I'll tako ther the toolkits and spares ar rived with their seals unbroken, y medicine gracefully Mum," he want to the end of the chamber and, On rouching Madrid, the Regal was looking towards the crowd said: met by a Spanish demonstration.
"I don't mind it, an I appreciate driver and, within an hour, was
everything Mrs Lawes [the wife of
which lasted for
$. א וּ]
operating in the United States last tramways debt of £11.000 has been demonstrating and andarging the prison warden] did for me" Hemmer was reparted no 110,000, wiped out by electrio trolley huwa compared with 115.000 a year pre-and it is significant that two
vious.
“LONG AND FAITHFUL SERVICE."
Not infrequently there appear in
the Press references to bus which
vehicles have just been delivered to-the-Corporation` by Ransomrs. & Jefferies, of Ipswich......
The buss are 48-senter 4-wheel double deckers and there are sends for 24 pass ngers in each sudoor.
haustive nearly 5. hours,
Ji
BUSY FACTORIES,
Holland, Portugal and Denmark te among the European countries to which Commer vohicles havo been shipped recently, In addi
Els Mother's Rosary. While he was sitting in the electric chair Crowley thought of the mo- ther he had never known, but who had sent him a rosary by post dur- ing the afternoon."
have earned -renown by long years The Corporation specified that the tion, Empire markets are well re-tity of his mother, who had sent him
carour.
LH
of har usage during which they have, achieved stupendous milenges sometimes runing into hundreds of thousands. Just lately, however, details have come to light of motor body which has an unusual
This is
Hooper limousine, originally suppled to the Earl of Derby as long as 1905, when it was itted to Napier chassis. Later it was employed on another chassis and then, auch were its wearing qualities and comfort. it was fisted 10 a 30 hp. Armstrong chassis, with which it is still doing good service.
overall height should be specially low to enable the vehicles to pass under, certain bridges and the bedies have therefore, been con- acted on the Tina principle, The chassis is designed, on the 'douisle motor system, the motor driving the rear road wheel through propeller shaft at the present time. worm reduction gear, the propeller shaft being of the Ransunes Gar- rett pittent Buating tubular type.
presented in the list with Raiders for India. Africa and Centaurs and Raiders Avengers for South
for Australia, Production at the Luzon factory, in fact, is hard pressed to keep pace with orders
He was an logitimate child, and he died without knowing the iden-
the rosary at the last. This gift was accompanied by the simple mes- sage From your mother."
During his last hours Crowley, who for a time seemed to be losing his nerve, nought solace from his
foster-mother and the comfort of religion."
In Glasgow, there is no sign of Albion works, alackness in the
He refused to see his aweetheart wide apart from the usund pro-Helen Walsh, who had twice begged: duction of standard goods and him to allow her in his cell for one passenger models, good progress in last kiss.
The vory tp-to-date feamures of theas vihleles coupled with their pleasing appearance, are bound to Attract the public so that it seems safe to prophesy even more satis-being made with the order for 110. He had learned that Miss Walsh factory financial results than ever special 30-ewl. chitis for the Corporation Transport De- partment,
Indina Government,
for the
Highly prized by its makers as relic of the past is the gift to Ley: land Motore k n 1910 Leytonik engine, which has just been taken off the road. This "X"type on- gine has been in the regular server (IN THE SPANISH REPUBLIC. preparations are in hand for
of the Burnley Corporation for 91 yours and is now making way for n more modern type, though actual
ly capable of farther work,
L.
WHAT SERVICE. MEANS.
The first shipment has been made
the despatch of a further large bitch.
had been walking cut" with a policeman ance he had been sunt to Sing Sing. It was one of his prou- dest boasts that he hated enga.” He said:
FEWER DRIVING LICENCES. the kiss of Judas. She's going out To be with her. It would be
9
Ong of the latest Leyland Titans has been ordered for Spain where i will be the first double-deck, bus in the Republic. This chassis con- tains many interesting features. in- Statistics issued by the Ministry luding among others a fully-font-of Transport show that 72,000 fewer ing" rear axle. a Sull tube type | driving licinees were issued for the The London
of radiator vatuum gagister 4-wheel year distributors
1031 than in the previous. Vauxhall cars. Shaw and Kilburn. brakes. Marles steering mud in 4-welyn months. Yet 30,000 more recently adop'ed' an interesting speed gearbox.
motor vehicles used the roads last method of drawing their custom-A remarkable run was perform-year, as 1,45;340 cars, motor omni- ers' attention to the service facili. 1 rth between the A.E.C. works at ties available at their West End Southall, just outside London, and premises. This consisted of a mun Madrid by an A.E.C. (Acko) Regal
MICHELIN
THE NON-SKIDDING TYRE..
Tel 22221.
Tel. 24821.
MICHELIN
Distributors : «
A. GOEKE & Co. "China Building, 4th Floor.
DEPOT FIAT GARAGE:
Tel. 22221.
350, Hennessy Road. Tel. 24821.
We give free tyre service to Michelin owners at our Depots.
buses, conches, taxicab, and goods vehicles werd Hensed, as compared (with 1518,701 in the previous year. Registration oficials attribute the reduction in drivers to the decline
Si
BUMPERS FOR SMALL
CARS.
ri
with a cop, and wants to sell hor
story to the papers,"
As seven weeping women, the "foster mother and foster sisters of the condemned man, all of whom were in black, left the prison after the final farewell, butside in the drizzling rain gas Helen Walsh.
People crowded round" ber ear, but she refused to speak and subbed
in the use of motor cycles. There bitterly. was a drop of lä;11) în mator oycles lionnen-003,728 as compared with The events leading up to Crow- 608,878 in 1030. It is suggested |ley's arrest began when a polico that compulsory third-party insur-officer started to question him about nes is possibly the main cause of a series of small robberies. After this reduetion.
the police officer had taken a re volvey from him, Crowley, pretend- ing to reach for some papers in his pockets, drew another revolver, shot the officer in the leg and escaped.
Shortly afterwarde a constable found him so a girl in a parked A special range of bumpers for motor-cay on a lonely road. Crow. the Austin Seven and Singerley shot the policeman dead. Junior are now being marketed by When the police discovered his. Wilmet-Breeden, Lady Eastern hiding-place Crowley, who was au Works, Camden Street, Eirming-companied by Heten Walsh, held ham. The bumpers are of sturdy them at bay for two hours with & construction and are chromium hail of bullets. pinted, the plating, by the way, being guaranteed to withstand a Lost of one hundred hours in a thirty per cent; salt spray. Single- and double-bar types are available for bath care, and in the case of the Singer Junior wing-fenders are supplied for the rear section in order eo accommodate the luggage Carrier fitted to this machine.
For the Austin Seven a pair of single-bar bumpera costs Box, and for the double-bar model 808., while for the Singor Junior 573. d is the price for a single-bar set, and
8ta. for the double-bar.
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MOTORISTS' COMBINE.
COINING DEN UNDER A
VILLA.
LAW EXPERT AND WIFE ARRESTED.
"
Sensation was caused in Berlin
by the arrest of Dr. Cornell Sala ban, an eminent authority on In- ternational Law, and his wife on a charge of uttering baso money.
The couple, who are said to have made a completa confession, lived New Zealand motorists are cun- End of Berlin, and employed
in a handsome villa in the West bining in a limited company to import petrol for sale at 6d. a cook, a gardener and a chauffeur. gallon lean thom it is now offered By day they lived, apparently, by the four main distributors. The the irreproachable life of prosper directors of the company are ous people, but it is alleged that! Member of Parliament, who is also they paseo most of their nights in past president of the South naisa-proof, controle-lined cellar Island Motor Union, the presidents | under their villa, working on the of the North and South Island manufacture of "silver money. Motor Unions, the chairman of the Over £3,000 in two-mark pieces Wellington Automobile Club, „the Lare said to have been made and, put i presidents of the Canterbury and in circulation in recent maths. Olago Motor Automobile Associa- The false money was disposed of tions, and a prominent member of at public markets. It is allegu the motor trade, · Patrol is now that Dr. Balaban and his wife, 28. Id a gallon, including Bd. tax, dressed as working people, used to in the cities and up to nearly is.drive in their car to within a short.
gallon in the remote country. distance, of the market where they The capital of the company is had decided to operate. The ecuri- £100,000, and shareholders will be terfeit coins were disposed of in natitled to petrol' at cost price. petty purchases at market stalla,
STANDARD
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Telechron
THE ELECTRIC TIMEKEEPER
J
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