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GENERAL MOTORS'

RESULTS FOR 1932.

New York, March 28-The ar nual report of the General Motors Corporation shows that the 103% net earnings from operations were 8164,079, after full depreciation charges. This compares with earn

HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, APRIL 18, 1933

SPARKS

FROM THE PLUGS

NEW GREASE FOR WATER

PUMPS

VACUUM OIL CO. SPECIAL

LUBRICANT

Not every motorist realises the importance of correct lubrication of the water pump. Apart from the need for a lubricant to prevent seizure of the pump bearing ad- ings of $115,220,507 from opera-jacent to or forming part of the tions in 1931, but before deduction

of extraordinary and non-recur- ring losses other than those of an operating nature, amounting to 320,574,614. Earnings available for dividends in 1931 totalled 890,877,

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JOHORE TO

SINGAPORE

"By-Passing" on Bukit Timah Road

"TRANSFORMATION OF A

HIGHWAY

THE ROVER TEN SPECIAL RUBBER MARKINGS

MEETS DEMAND FOR REFINEMENT AND ECONOMY

The Rover Ten Special saloon, which its engine flexibly mounted, Automatic starting, a gearbox with helical constant-mesh second well as third, and a controlled free wheel, hydraulic brakes, and roomy and fully equipped body with silent poachwork, meets the demand to-day for refinement and economy.

Singapore. "By-passing," the gland, another function of the modern road builder's unromantic fubricant is to assist the gland in name for the part of establishing preventing water leakage, and yet the shortest route between two it must not be of a character that given points on an old road, has come to Singapore, and the first will result in a slimy deposit on the interior parts of the water- big road work of the kind in the island has just been completed and cooling system of the engine.

To ensure adequate lubrication, opened to traffic on the Bukit Ti At the end of 1932 the Corpora and also to assist in the prevention mah Read, at a point a little dis- tion's net working capital amount of leakage the Vacuum Oil Com-tance beyond the village of Bukit a special Panjang. It cuts out one of the ed to $225,437,104, a decrease of pany have introduced $48,478,720 since the end of 1931. ubricant for this purpose; it is worst curves on the whole length During the year surplus real estate, termed Mobilgrease No. 6, and is of a road which once had many amount available in 40s, cans, which can bad, curves, but which now is plant and equipment, in

everywhere carried be bought for 6d. each, and which straightened out considerably. 8115,491,946, previously

Thanks to the efforts of the road sufficient lubricant at cost, was adjusted to an es- contain timated salvage value of 822,779, about 12 months' use of the average builders in straightening and short the mileage to Johore A special feature of this cutting, 411, the difference being charged car. against reserves for depreciation, grease is that it withstande high Bahru from Singapore is now ap. which had already been provided, temperatures, and will not molt preciably shorter than it used to so that the net book value of plant and run into the water stream, be. account remained unchanged at even though for any reason the $328,273,745.

water should overheat and boil.

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RUBBER MARKINGS įvarious materials, such as alumi-

FOR TRAFFIC

CONTROL

nium, buve been tested for this. purpose. After lengthy tests of rubber blocks made at selected points by several municipal authori- tice, the Dunlop Rubber Company has standardised a series of differ ent shapes and sizes, and of a de sign that ensures the individual block remaining firmly in place, irrespective of vibration and load arising from heavy traffic and the wearing away of the surrounding

road surface.

A descriptive booklet concerning this new Dunlop activity explains and illustrates the many advantages

INSIST ON

RIV

For Automobiles and Industrial

Mechanism

A DUNLOP PRODUCTIONS 27 at 3,800 r.p.m; number of main The need for permanent white or overrun with quick release of load, coloured lines at a reasonable cost and a driver would never guess to displace the lines ordinarily that it was a two-bearing unit. It painted on roads, at corners and is lively and does not mind being elsewhere, to guide and control' wastraffe has been obvious for a long pushed. The clutch action light, progressive yet firm, and the while past, and embedded blocks of normal gear change simple and

of rubber blocks in comparison effective. The lower

bearings, two; overall forward with painted lines and metallic quiet not only in name. With the gear ratios, 5.44, 8.97, 11.5, and 22 blocks. The rubber is of a special The coachwork is built by hand free wheel the gear lever can be to 1; petrol capacity, eight gal- composition, and the blocks, or casts as they are termed--for in the company's works. The body put into any position without a lens; maker's approximate petrol is mounted on a sub-frame insulat sound

and without use of the consumption, 32-34 m.p.g. tires, they are of inverted channel section ad from road shocks, and insulat, clutch, and the quietness of the en- 5 by 18in. turning circle, 40ft.-have an inturned edge at the ex- ing material is freely used between gine is useful in the pick-up. The wheelbase, 8ft. Gin.; track, ift.tremities of the channel sides, so 7in.; affording an interlocking effect with the frame and the body. The body back brakes by hand wanted tak- 3in.; ground dearance, joints are treated to save squeaks, ing up; those by pedal were strong weight of car, 2lewt, ler; price, the material of which the road is

fitted to the yet requiring but light foot prea £928.

made. and silencers are doors. The very full four-seater sure, well graded, and acted equal- saloon gives really good space ly well in reverse. The car held and is thoroughly | the road well, and there was the with excellent ED- comfortable,

least wheel bounce. The steering was firm yet finger-light through- trance by all four doorways and a good view all round from inside out the lock, while the wheel, as There are six side windows, a slid the other control, is weltplaced. ing roof controllable by a single The car, with its long bonnet and handle, sliding front seats, & tan-

scuttle and deeply balanced. Bukit Timah Road during the dem wiper, bumpers, a luggage wings which help to keep it clean, past few years has been changed grid, and a spare large hub paint attracts the eye. Fifty milles an almost throughout its entire ed wire wheel which is reversed hour is fairly easily reached, but length. Shortly after the opening when the grid is in use, a toolbox, between, say, 53 and 60 takes some at the cause-way across the Johore under the bonnet, and a cover un- working up to, as of course is to Strait the final stretch from just der the bonnet by which easy access be expected with a little engine! beyond Mandal Road to Woodlands can be had to the back of the in-and a comparatively big and fully was reconstructed along J. new struments by day or night.

equipped body: Thirty and 43 are route which eliminated that!

obtainable on second and third. "nightmare" of local

On the nearside under the bon. There was a strong

cross wind which now exists as a private road net the sparking plugs, the dyna slightly against the ear and the to the Marsiling Eetate. Num-mo, the exhaust manifold with its roads were wet, but 49 was reach- erous straightenings have also been brass nuts, the coil, the make-and-ed on the stretch. The 30 at the effected on the more acute beads, break and distributor, with its defoot of the new Dashwood Hill was and the road level has been raised vice for mainly controlling the creditably increased to 34, and in place to avoid the frequent timing of the spark automatically, with a standing start and a good flooding which used to take place. and the starter below are all to get-away on third at the foot of the

Twice as Wide.

hand. A plate over the flywheel old hill the crest was passed at 19. The new by-pass is of particular can also be removed by hand from There was rather more than the interest to those motorists who here. The exhaust pipe is taken usual load. knew the road as it was before. I down at the back. A water pump Just beyond the railway bridge a is in front of the timing case; short way the other side of the there is a drain tap below. A fan village of Bukit Panjang the old is fitted and the belt can be ten- road, lined with trees on A grass sioned, and the honeycomb radia verge, described a sweeping "B" tor is inga shell with painted dum- bend, the nature of which made it my veed shutters in front, a danger spot to modern fast valves are overhead and worked by traffic.

External regulation push-rods. To-day the rond continues for the timing, chain is provided, straight on from the railway brid- and thers is a convenient inspec ge, is more than twies the width tion plate for feeling the chain. of the old one, and is metalled The pressure oil fitter can be drawn with the latest type of non-skid out of the aid of the sump. On surface. Hundreds of tons of the offside the oil filler tube with earth wore filled in to make the the gauze-it acts as a breather, foundation for the new portion, also, and I would prefer a separate which will eventually link up the breather-the dip-rod and the car- reconstructed part on the south burettor are get-at-able. An air 'side "with that on the north side. silencer is fitted across the valve In the old days it was quite cover, and this might be better common for parts of the Bukit Ti-facing forwards. A pump supplies mah Road to be flooded after very the petrol; the glass bowl is rather heavy rains, but there is little low. Drainage of the oil must be likelihood of the new road suffer done from underneath.

Steering. ing that fate.

motorists

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Details Explained,

The

raverse -and

The work of reconstruction is go The steering box, which contains ing on throughout the length of cam gear, is placed well forward. the road. Large portions of it The tank for the fourwheeled Lock- near the foot of Bukit Timah have heed hydraulic brakes is on the been completed, and work is still dash. The pedal for the single- going on within the portion which plate dry clutch is held to the lies inside the Municipal mit, frame, but there is compensated up to Reformatory Road. When leverage for the withdrawal. The the work is finished Bukit Tiraah clutch has a flexible take-up. The Road will be one of the finest mo- grease or oil valve for the clatch dern traffic roads in the whore and the top filler and dip-rod for world.

the gearbox can ba got at from The Railway Diversion, under the carpet without disturb- This work has gone on side by ing any floorboard, and there are side with the diversion of the rail- traps or holes over the universe! way line into Singapore. The old joint and battery. The speed lover line run beside the road for a num- sprung against ber of miles out of the town, but works centrally and flexibly. Like in 1928, when it was decided to re- the gearbox and the brakes, the build the station at Singapore, it fres wheel, which is incorporated whs decided niso that the best in the back of the gearbox, is not thing to do would be to divert the an added component. The back line to enter the town from the suspension. of the assembly is effect- west side. Accordingly from a ed by a rubber-lined banjo cross- point near Bukit Timan village a member which, surrounds the back new line was constructed through of the box. The fixed or free to Tanglin, skirting the town to turning a large hand wheel on the transmission is obtained by merely enter near Keppel Harbour."

Everyone knows the fine new sta- dash in front of the driver. An tion which is now one of the land open propeller-shaft with metallic marks of Singapore. Equally, the joints and a half-floating spiral new bridge which carry the line bevel axle with a banjo case and across the Bukit Timah Road are level, filler complete the transmis. landmarks. A level-crossing at the sion. A proper hand-brake lever, point where the line passed into centrally pinord, works the back Bukit Timah station has been eli brakes mechanically with rods, and minated in the diversion, and a there are wing nuts at the rear for four. bad bend in the road will now be separate adjustment. The

11in, drums are ribbed. The sus out out by the road builders.

pension is haM-elliptical with hydraulic shock absorbers.

ROLLS-ROYCE PROFITS

(Special. Air-Mail Borvice)

LONDON, Marol: 28. Another good year was experi- enced by Rolls-Royce, Ltd., net

1

On the Road,"

This Rover a very light and салу to handle. The engine is smooth and quiet at all times. Even under sudden and heavy load there was no vibration nor any

prits totalling £150,978, against against £392,568 previously, and

Barration, Previous year. The cash at $282,708, -Bgainst £199,"150"

as already announc: | Indebtedness of subsidiary com

ed, is maintained at 10 per cent, panies has been reduced from as for the past five

The balance sheet shows an ex-trade je bi

2002 £143,605 to: 244,027, while stock in

ceedingly strong financial position, with investments in British Gov érnment securities at 2604,373,

been reduced from

2387,231,The £1 Gmarket value of 485.

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Specification.-No. of cylinders, four; size, 63 by 85mm; capacity, 1,188c.c.; nominal h.p., 6.8; b.hp.. (Continued on next Column)

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