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HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

HOW TO GET GOOD SERVICE

FROM

MICHELIN TYRES

We can tell you

Keep tyres pumped up to correct pressure for the load they have to carry. what this should be.

When tyres are under inflated there is con- tinual internal friction between the foundation cord and the rubber, causing overheating of the tyre and consequent rapid deterioration.

Water can also enter causing rust, resulting. eventually in the rims having sharp edges which cut the walls of the tyre near the bead.

Most cars in Hongkong run on under inflated

tyres with the above disastrous results.

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Have your wheels examined front and rear for trueness and tracking alignment. If they are at fault in this respect the tread of the cover is subject to a grinding action which quickly destroys the cover,

Keep tyres free from oil and grease.

Start and stop gently and take corners slowly.

Lastly-buy MICHELIN tyres from us and follow the

above advice and tyre satisfaction is assured.

EUROPE-ASIA TRADING CO.

Telephone 3438.

China Building, Ist Floor.

NEW CYLINDER DESIGN.

a car is as good as its ACCESSORIES

MOTORISTS who keep their

cars in top form realise

the value of promptly replacing

a wornout, faulty part.

Our big stock of Tires, Tubes, Parts and Accessories is of great

convenience to car owners.

And our prices are rock-bottom,

always..

The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.

- Expert and Constant Europeatí Supervision.

Telephone Central 3950 A. 3. Allison Service Manager.

HALF AUTO-HALF AIRPLANE.

When this now car gets started the occupants don't know for auro whether they're flying or riding. The latest in Paris speedsters, it carries a small airplane motor, bulit la a light chassis car and tho-propellor pulla the car along at lerillic speed blowing up a whirlwind of Aust end making a deafening nolso.

THE DISABLED.

DRIVER.

WHAT HE CAN AND SHOULD DO.

SATURDAY, JULY 5 1924.

U.S. MOTOR LAWS.

THE NEED OF UNIFORMITY.

Tho nood for fair and uniform fogislation' on the use and, opora- tion of motor vehicles throughout Disabled drivers ozoite one's tho.United States, and an invita- sympathy, more especially in tion for oxohange of ideas on view of the fact that many of legislation botwoon the National then are physically impaired as Motor Vehicle Conference com- a rosult of the war. But the mittoo and motor vehtele associa- subject romains a difoult one in ❘tions abroad were high points in present-day circumstances, anys the address of Mr H. H. Rico." Capt. E. do Normanville, in the Chairman of the Legislativo Com- Daily Chronicle.

mittee of the National Automobilo Chamber of Commerce, at the With what measure of physical World Motor Transport Congress disability is it safe to drive just hold in Detroit. The Con- motor-car? It is oxtranoous to my, province to offer a dofinite reply to the query. But with all the sympathy in the world for such people it is necessary to

rge caution.

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gross was attended by 140 delo- gates from 42 foreign countries, Mr. Rice pointed out that up until 1004 are wore practically no motor vehicle laws in the United States and that since that The driving of a-motor car to-timo lawa had boon passed by the day demands all the attention of legislatures of every stato in the ovon the physically fit. It is not Union, covering both their tax- the actual driving of a caration and operation. In the mat- which acounts for the fact. It in tor of registration or license fees from extraneous causes that the alono, he pointed out, thore'ls so much lack of uniformity that the dangora noarly always ariee-

100 on a fivo-ton truck, for ex- There are the defects of the amplo, varies from $40 in one Lothor drivers, and the defects of state to $300 in another. Honaw other road users, moró parti-the same need for uniformity cularly the thoughtloseness of in laws affooting the operation, pedestrians and children.

| RUBBER" STREET.

Rubber paving blocks, are being tried but in Boston streets, They are sald to take the noise out of traffic and to wear better * than many paving materials. Mr. John. A Rourke, a Boston city official, is shown laying the first blocks.

particularly those relating to Bize, weight and speed NATURE'S COMPENSATION. and traffic regulation. "At the prosent time," states Mr. Rico, Consequently, to the many there is so groat a diversity in would-be drivers who are dis those laws that a driver going abled and their friends who in-from one state to author, or oven quire of the Daily Chronicle from one city to another in the on their behalf. I would say that same state, may be confronted Boston, May 24-The first conoroto road foundations. The the first consideration must be with an entirely different sot of rubbor street ovor laid in America blooks are laid in hot rubberized the measure of the disability in traffle regulations. The condi-is being put down in Boston. cemont, uniting the blocks to- relation to car driving, and tion makes it necessary for the Near the contre of a drawbridge gother and to the foundation, secondly the area in which it is driver to familiarizo himself with on Northern avonus the second making a water-tight roadway | intended to drivo.

the rules of all the difforont statos, section of rubbor pavement was over the street or bridge founda- and municipalities as well, if he placed recently at a place where tion. wants the neeurance that he is severe dorso-drawn and notor

The speed and accuracy with truck traffic conditions exist. which this rubber pavement can driving properly.

"It is hoped that public opin-The first section of rubber was be laid was examplified by a crow

of four bridge mechanice, a cement. The rubber pavement consiste pauror,coment layer, paving block

I know a deal of drivers, one- armed drivore, and one-loggod drivers who have driven for many years without accident or ovon sorious incident. Nature has on moulded by experience in laid a week before. a kindly way of making up for inter-stato travel, will do much such deficiencies, and it frequent-In the next few years to bring ly doos No by intensifying some about great uniformity of laws. of blocks air by twelve inchos placer and a apikor who laid the other sonse or ability.

The programme which has boon and one inch thick. The great first hundred at the rate of sixty approved by the motor vehicles difficulty in the way of success square foot per hour. It is interosting to note that

For examplo, one deaf friend conference committee and which of rubber block pavoment horoto- The first. aoction" of 'rubber Lovalshaped cylinders are employ-

od in several of the late models as a continuous knowledge of is rapidly gaining popular support fore has been the inability to pavemont laid has been in con-

what is bobind him without' evon |includol A basis

for uniform coop the blocks down, and tofstant use for nearly a week, and of British manufacture with

provision for provent thein from cropping much to the surprise of all ob- rather good success. The idea is appearing to look in his driving taxation

mirror. And-his road instinct for the

of the

Cemonting to the foundation sorvors, the sharpest horse shoo by.no moans now, as during the knowing when something quite coods in the administration of would not accomplish the result, calks or the houvy steel tyres war aeroplane practice allowed invisible is approaching from a governmental automotive depart. It is now being constructed with make no scratch or mark on the for tho, uso of non-cylindrical

cross road is truly uncanny. ments and in the maintenance two semi-circular flaps on one side pavomont. cylinders so as to get the most

of improved highways. It also and one flap on one end of the possible power into the least pos Consequently, it is ungunerous!

over the rubbor paved section the sible space. Whero a four, six or and lacking knowledge of the includes provisions for uniformity the baru of the block, which fit

In the regulation of size, weight into corresponding recesses

lack of noise is at onco noticed, eight in line cogine is used the subject to say that the disabled and speed, the use of common the inso of the adjoining block. thus showing the desirability of Joverall length is reduced most driver is ipao facta loss safe as a

Drive epikox are driven this class of pavement for streets appreciably by use of the oval road unit than the normal and carriers, traffic rules and regula

tions, and strong recommendá-through holes in

hospitals, the flaps around cylinders. A single crank pin can physically-fit driver! But in ex- tion for the universal adoption of into the

particular bridge flooring or rosidonces and high-class office operate a number of oval cylind-tremo cases of physical incapacity cartificate-of-title

or anti-theft the spacial dovico sock for buildings.

era where the circular bodios Jono cah none the loss omphasise laws.

would take up more room and the need for additional caro. toed mors driving force. Four- cylinder ongines with two houring crankshafts have often hoon pro-

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duced, but not possible to get With those qualifications I now awing to the crankshaft length bring to your notice an arrange- having a tendency to whip. An-mont of controls which goos be uthor advantage of oval cylindoreyond the normal in that it is is in valvo layout. Whofo over-designed for the benefit of the. hoad valves aro employed, it is unfortunate who has lost both possible to utilizo yalvos of larger logs. diameter, without the necessity

It is supplied by Messrs. G. W. for increasing the size of the K., Lid, and will be fitted to their Thoad or poekoting part of

standard model caso. without ad. tho diameter of the valvotion to the catalogue prices

Leakage of compression past

the gaps in tho piston rings with Briefly, the arrangemant con- consequent loss of power could sists of a pivoted steering column not occur with oval pistons and so connected to clutch and brakos rings. Like the fourwheel brake, that slight downward pressure on the ballon tyre, the onepiece the wheel frees the engine and chassis, and other European on-further pressure applies the ginearing Fuccesses adopted by brakes. The footboard is, of this country, look for the adoption course, devoid of pedals, the of the oval cylinders for quantity throttle being controlled by a production.

handily-placed lever holow tho wheel.

BEAUTY IN MODERN INVENTIONS.

So long as the whool is. pulled down from the centro, the stoor- ing is not uffuetod whilst the KEAT There has always boon in the other hand in making a minds of some the idea that the change or applying the brake jartist is a useless person, is lever. A car ao equipped is boing confined to canvas and paint, regularly and successfully driven and that beauty is an unhocos-in London traffic.

sary appendago, a mere decora-

tion. Close Investigation, how- aver, of the facts reveals this to

be a fullacy.' For the most

fins!

part the truly useful things are a problem of Euclid-as beauti- invariably the most bosutiful ful as the Ides that first grow up even in the ordinary utensils of in the minds of the men, truo life, but when it comes to such artists, whose inventive genius marvellous modern orcations as brought them to their aeroplanes, motor cars and motor perfection.. boats, with foir wonderful intor- nal combustion engines, such as the Napler Lion for aircraft, the

The man who has nover apont Rolls-Royce for care, and the cont on repairs belongs to "tho aqually famous Allea Craig same club with the man who bas marina motormado at Chiswick.nevor boon slók a day in his lifo.! London, by the Ailsa Craig

Motor Co., Ltd., one realises to

the full how closely allied aro

QBSERVATION.

AUTO AN CIROUB FREAK,

Such a curiosity in 1896 was

oirous Balloy's

oxhibited ak

the true engineer and the artlet. the motor car that Barnum and Are not thoir. productions marvels of beauty? What more glorious sight is there than a 'horsolosa carplago "among their graceful motor yacht, spoeding ourios.

along its course or 'an aeroplane high up in the sky Tho vùry | engines which give them thoir driving power are as beautiful as but you.

Everybody ban the right of way

LIAO

and

pro-

THE POPULAR

in

As the horses and vehiclos pase

HARLEY DAVIDSON.

Typical Photographs from America.

This shows an Harley Davidson enthusiast on one of the lock gates of the Panama Canal.

Helping themasive

be enjoying themäəlvəsil