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SATURDAY, DECEMBER 22, 1923.

HONGKONG- TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

INTERESTING PICTURES OF THE CADILLAC.

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By actual performance in the mast strenuous service, the superiority of Fire se Gum-Dipped Cords and Stan-Welded Tubes has been, and is being. demonstrated time and again. This is why Firestos is the unanimous choice of America's greatest racing drivers. And, ilease da 101 forget that these deivers . purchase their tires from Firmtase in preference to using the product of other manufacturers gratis. The Ingas Firestone has famed, in the gruelling service of the speedway are applied to the building of their regular fam-Dipped Cards and Steam Welded Tubes. There is na beitt proof of the suitive so- periority of Firestone equipment than their contimus victories in all of the great American racing events,

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(D). A new V-63 in the sand and alkail dust mear Flagstad. Arizona. Left to right. A. U. Widman, Cadilac Manager of Manufacturing William R. Strickland, Assistant Chief Engineer: Lynn McNaughton, Vice Presi dent and General Sales Manager. (2) Rain soaked and rutted, the blue clay roads near Elko and Winne mucca, Nevada, were all but impassable. (3) Bad going in the greasy gambo on the Omada, Lincoln and Denver road at Hastings, Nebraska (§. Descending Pike's Peak in chase formation. (5). Lyan McNaughton, Cadillac Vice-President and General Sales Manager, a member of the party through the hardest going from Denver to Los Angeles. (6). At the summit of Pike's Peak. (7) A bold promontory unconquered by man opposite Glacier Point, Yosemite Valley, California

ECONOMY IN CAR DRIVING.

Treatment and Cost of Maintenance.

How is it that one hears so fre quently entirely opposed state- ments of their running expenses

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HOW TO FIGHT. PETROL FIRE.

Precautions to Minimise Car Damage.

Have you ever meditated upon the possibility of your car catch- [ing fire, and your probable actions in such an event? Admittedly it is an unlikely event, but such things do still happen, and it is just as well to be prepared.

Befora considering how to pur the fire out, let us take the mat. Iter in order, and find out what starts those flames, says a Home writer. And, to go right to the very beginning. I have noticed” that quite a number of people treat petrol with surprising care- lessness. Familiarity breeds con- tempt. I suppose.

DANGERS OF SMOKING.

You simply must not smoke while you are emptying peiro! into a tank, and you ought not to smoke while in a garage. There are usually large No Smoking”. notices posted in public garages. but they are not always enforced so far as customers are concern- ed. They ought to be.

If you are filling your tank io the open air it is unlikely if not impessible, for a spark from your pipe OF cigarette to ignite the petrol. The trouble is that some bystander, kncon- sciously wishing to follow your example, lights up, throws down the blazing match into a pool of petrol that you bare spilled-and up goes the car!

OTHER POSSIBLE CAUSES. In the case of a car catching fire in this way, if you were not smoking yourself you might argue that it was not your fault. But I think that to keep an eye open for too-closely approaching! strangers who are smoking, or liable to start smoking on the lightest provocation, is only a matter of reasonable precaution. And it is not quite so complicat- ed as it looks on paper!

Apart from carelessness, are STUDEBAKER OUTPUT. was dismissed and war was im

pending for this country the there any other ways in which a fire? Is self- Studebaker Corporation was the car may catch first to offer its plants to the ignition by the car possible? Some Facts and Figures. service of the government. It As a matter of fact it is possible, In the course of an article ini)

went into the war with both feet, unlikely. A blow-back into

the carburetter took 160 different war orders and

may set the the Boston Nrus Burton (a promed out $30,000,000 of war liquid in the flcat chamber alight. minent financial journalis writer,

work. Its sixty thousand mine Another possible cause is extern-- Says

anchors held fast the North Sea al sparking froni a faulty high- In the spring of 1924 from the for the Allies. But profits went tension lead. The wiring is short and well away from the of the new six-story autem down from $9,000,000 per annum bile body building plant of the to $3,500,000 per annum. They is worth while remembering, if carburetter on a new car, but it Studebaker Corporation at South came back to Bend, there will shine forth a

$9,000,000 four

from owners of exactly similar cars? A will declare. proud-i ly. tha: his recently acquired 11

fuel consumption of 35 m.p.g the country for miles around and will be not far from $20,000.000 tidiness is not only disadvantage h.p. two-seatergives him a regular beacon light that will illumine: years ago, went to $11,000,000. ever you have occasion to over- in 1921. $18,000,000 in 1922 and haul the plug wiring, that un- of badly-planned or carelessly- guide aviators as well as motorists this calender year. on the horizon line rwenty miles

fried festoons of wire. A continental development by A leeky exhaust pipe in an- wagon, national industries in other potential source of danger, Everybody interested in the national defense, and the six-more especially if the "B" will lament that his car development of the United States cylinder gasoline motor at the screen is so constructed as to under. of the same make will never do should keep his eye on that beacon price of one thousand to two allow a prol of petrol to lodge in more than 30 miles ca a gallon of light, for it represents more the thousand dollars in the service it. We all flood our carburetters fuel, while the average consump advertisement, aviation or motor

and in the 4,000 miles he has done on the car he has used only four gallons of oil, while his tyresj are almost new,

distant.

tion is nearer 27, and in his dom. Underneath it will be the of the people represent three at times, in spite of the makers completed 4.000 miles nearly six index of American prosperity and three for Studebaker.

eras in our national progress, and statement that this is unneces- albes of oil have been used, progress, for Studebaker is this while bis tyres look almost worki

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SETY. AS & result, in certain cir- cumstances, it would be possible for the inside of the bonnet to be

year rounding out the largest A COMPLETED UNIT. modern automobile building plant! Further, while "A" repair in the world and marvelous to Studebaker is now completing come filled with a more or less. expenses have been ril.B" has relate is doing it out of earnings, the rounding-cut of its proposi explosive mixture, and a flame spent quite a nice little sum on with increasing cash in the bankition and will be an independent from a lose exhaust joint would

manufacturing unit within the have interesting possibilities. garage jobs, and his brakes are and no debt.

next six months. In seven years giving signs that before many more miles have been covered

it has put $37,000,000 into build-I Whatever the cause of the fire, ings--all out of earnings. This the results and the remedies are they will need relining.

Studebaker has three historier year it is putting $7.000.000 into much the same. connected with the development South Bend and Detroit.

The first thing Its to do, if there is time, is to tore

VARYING USE AND ABUSE

HISTORIC ERAS,

THE REMEDY.

It has turned out 124,000 cars under the dash within reach of

of America. It was pioneer in There is only one possible the covered wagon crossing the plant investment has risen in off the petrol from the main tank the carburetter. explanation, and it lies in the plains, its history beginning with even years from. $13,000,000 to or autovac to

850.000.000 its capacity from The tap ought to be accessible on different treatment that the cars: 1852, and for two generations it 40,000 cars to 180,000 cars. receive from their owners. If was the world's largest wagon

every car. On my own it is one owner lives in the Scottish manufacturer. Highlands, or on the north coast! Fifty years from its birth at in the first nine months of this my foot, and I can close it at an of Devon. and the other South Bend, or in 1902, it was year, of a value of $139,000,000 instant's notice.

There is only one way to put lives in IDE Fen district, launched in the automobile busi. In the whole of last year it turn- and if both use their cars ness producing electrics and twajed out 110,000 cars. This year it out a petrol fire, and that is to will probably turn cut not far smother it. Water is worse than almost entirely in their own years later the gasoline motor.

useless, for it simply extends countries, some discrepancy may In 1915 and 1916 it had reached from 150,000 cars. be expected, and will certainly the point of $9,000,000 a year net It has no present plans for any the active area of the blazing arise. A car that has to climb earnings. But when Bernstorff great future expansion. Solidifi-spirit without putting out the cation and conservation, with games. You must attack the fro and descend Porlock every dayį will inevitably consume fuel and

economies in operation, will be directly by depriving it of air. lubricant, and will wear its brakesi

watchwords in its future.

Perhaps the handiest method is more rapidly than one that is used

It is just finishing an additional the use of one of the little pumps, continuously

new building of reinforced con-containing a chemical prepara- in level, easy country..

crete with brick facing. six stories tion which can be carried in- high, to increase its closed body conspicuously on the car. Fail- But apart from unavoidable! differences in the use of the car

building capacity 150 closed fing this, the fire must be beaten bodies daily. It will cost $1,800,- out with coats and rugs, or in "an according to the nature of the

Nothing seads up running costs 000. But it is figured that it will emergency even road dust, if country in which it lives, even greater differences arise from so much as -ontinual high speed. pay good retums upon the invest there happens to be a nice fidily the varying manner in which cars Because a car is capable of its ment in the reduced cost of body swept-up heap handy, may cal are handled by different drivers. 45 or 60 m.p.h, it does not follow manufacturing, to say nothing of led into serviceat, plan

that the best results will be obtain-the advertising value of the high If the fire is simply at the care One man handles and treats ed by its being driven babitually power electric light which will buretter and you have turned of his car as if it were a living thing at a figure near its maximum. blaze from its roof tower-a bea the petrol at once, do not throw able to appreciate and repay care Excessive fuel consumption is con light in the motor world. dirt or sand on it. Even if you do and consideration. Another man the first price to be paid for Studebaker as a motor concem not smother if the dates will looks upon his car simply as a continual bigh speed work, ex- had a good foundation in great soon burn out without doing dead, unfeeling, mechanical pos- cessive tyre cost is the next, and lumber yards, needful in the vast worse damage than scorching the session, able to endure without an all-round increase in main-business of the Studebaker wagon bonnet, but a handful or so of flint protest neglect and abuse alike.

factory. It was thus easily able and granite dust will give you a

course it will make its protest: and, conversely, it will tepay its owner for sensible and reasonable treatment.

THE COST OF SPEED.

tenancé cost the third.

The modem car is not a de- Every car has its most acon to become the largest automobile few hours work in cleaning the licate piece of mechanism fit only omical speed in regard to fuel concern trailding its own bodies. carburetter and magneto before for careful pursing, and requiring consumption, which means not It has a million and a half cable the car will run up always to be treated as a tender necessarily the speed at which it feet dry kiin capacity. 2. The grant thing is to keep cool. thing on the verage of a break-will use least fuel, but the speed. It now has 190 acres at South Close the petrol tap if possible down; it will stand a surprising at which it will give the best Bend and occupiam 35 acres of and, if the fire le obriously be- amount of misuse and neglect: results for the amount of fuel land in other cities. In floor 17und control, save what you che but there are some limits to its consumed. As a safe average space it has altogether 7,500,000 (of the car's contents, and fit capacity in this direction. In duo his figure is about 23-25 mp.b.square feet.

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