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TRANSPORT.

VITALISING A ROAD SCHEME.

The scheme for constructing a

THE HONGKONG

TELEGRAPH;.

CONCRETE ROADS.

INTERESTING EXHIBITION.

A completo section of a rein- now road from Liverpool to East forced road was exhibited by the Lancashire was revitalised when,British Portland Cement Associa at its recent meeting, the Lanea- tion at the Roads and Transport -shire County Council agreed to "Exhibition, which opened in the contribute a sum not exceeding Royal Agriculturai Hall, Islington, on Thursday, November 19. The £377,000 towards the cost.

The project has been hanging rond had a carriage-way of 21 ft., fire for some time. It came into and two pavements each 3 ft. 'being in 1922, when the then. Par-wide, with herbs... liamentary Secretary to the Minis-

The construction consisted of try of Labour, Sir Montague Bar-4-in. Thames ballast-concrete) low, asked Alderman Hampson, (6 to 1 mix) and a 1-in. top then Major of Salford, whether dressing of granite chips (4% to 1 Bome scheme could not be devised mix). Reinforcement was carried to find work for the unemployed. fout with 1-in. mild steel bars,

done In one As a result, what was first known

The work was as the Manchester-Liverpool ar-operation, and occupied only five terial road scheme was devised, hour.

Ferracrete cement was and since then it has intermittent used, and the concrete is stated ly attracted attention. It is too to have been hard within 12 hours recent history to dwell on the fact and capable of bearing a 20-ton that Manchester is not enamoured load.

of the scheme; it points to the

Introduced into the construction

existing road communication, to were three different kinds of ex- the Ship Canal, and to three lines pansion joint: one a plain butt of railway, as giving adequate joint, another filled with liquid transport facilities, and, there-bitumen, and a third into which fore, in the result, the project has the bitumen had been hammered. become one for an East Lanca-

shire road to tap the Mersey port.

Whether it will come into exist-speedy car cannot do the short? ence at an early date is perhaps journey from Liverpool to Man- yet doubtful; the fear that the cherter in under two hours be- Chancellor of the Exchequer will cause of the pressure of heavy try to lay hands on the Road Vehicles on the road. It is the Fund is present before the promo- fact, too,, that on the present rond ters and the supporters, and cor-traffic is growing greatly. In 1911 tainly if the money were so divert-the average daily tonnage was ed there could be little hope of 325; last year it had reached obtaining the grant towards the 8,847, and in the course, of that cost promised by the Ministry of year rose to 11,694 tons a day. It is traffic which will have to be ac- Transport.

commudated, and the reason work has not been already begun on the scheme is not so much the indif- ference, if not the opposition, of Manchester, but the fact that so many local authorities through whose areas the road is planned to run have had to be brought into

That there is need of better road communication is beyond doubt. Motor transport, even in these days when industry generally has not wholly revived, is growing. The latest estimate is that we have something over 224,000 heavy motor-vehicles in' this country, and if we take into account all line. forms of motor road vehicles-

cent.,

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

RUBBER PRODUCTION.

POSSIBILITIES IN THE PHILIPPINES.

SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1926.

MOTOR CAR TRADE IN CHINA

WORLD'S PETROL CONSUMPTION.

20,000,000,000 GALLONS

A YEAR!

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(By Capt. E. de Normanville, in the Daily Chronicle,)

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I do not know what the total

consumption of petrol is in the whole world of motoring; and I don't suppose anyone else does. But for what it is worth-not very much I fear I have been trying to compute it.

Obviously, the figure so arrived at can only be a wild computation.

I have, for example, assumed average annual mileage and miles por gallon, factors which can bo nothing more than probabilities.

Making all allowances for a wide margin of error, I have jestimated the yearly petrol con-- sumption for the world at some 20,000,000,000 gallons, and a prob- able annual growth at the rate of nearly 15 per cent.

We cannot really comprehend what this quantity means, but one' thing is definite: 'it cannot go on for ever.

When We Run Short. That fact is leading to some very interesting experiments, not only in this country, but also in America. The risk of running short of petrol has to be faced, though experts differ as to the probable date of the shortage.

Looking ahead to that date, experimenters are endeavouring to meet the situation by "doping" petrol, and designing a special engine to use the "boosted" fuel Already some astonishing results have been achieved.

more

In comparison with th size of China and its vast population, the motor car trade in China is still in an Infant stage and remains to be developed The cause is attributable to the paucity of roads sult. able for motor traffic But within the last few years, a movement. has been started to build good roads, which has caused a growing de- mand for motor cars, motor trucka and motor-cycles in many parts of the country.

The actual number of motor cars now in Ching, according to

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the latent official figures, is 8,508, in addition to which there are also 1,130 motor trucks and buses and 1,100 motor-cycles. following table shows the distribution of the cars by provincos:

Province Passenger Cars Trucks and Buses Motorcycles

Chihli Fengtien Kirin Kwangtung Kiangau Kukien Hunan

1,998

49

..183

262

42

17

371

100

.14

⚫ 1,003

283

455

4,248

586

336

35

17

.6

4

Shantung

253

18

68

Yunnan

1

214

11

39

12

10

105

10

3

(Including

some cars of

Kalgan) Total

8,508

Hupeh

Cheklang Mongolia

1,130

1,100

Statistics of the Chinese Maritime Customs do not 'show the number of cars imported into China any year, only their values. The values for the past five years in Hafkwan teels were:

.1920 1921

"1022

1923

1921

Motor-cars

Motor-cycles

Hk. Tle, 3,780,785

Hk. Tis. 96.035

3,760,110

107,818

2,103,865

2,501,296

3,205,232

91,124

117,852

97,879

Note: A Haikwan tael is equal value to $1.50 approximately. The following countries are the chief sources of supply: United States, Great Britain, France, Italy, Germany and Canada. The United States furnished in 1922 about 50 per cent. of the total importation in value, and 75 per cent. in.number. Cheap American cars, like the Ford, predominated. Germany came second, the value being Hk. Taols 422,265, or, about G. $300,000; and Canada funished 169 cars, valued at G. $136,000.

Chinese taste at present seems to be for a medium grade car, suitable for decoration and ornamentation. This is apart from the demand for purely serviceable cars. In this regard the very cheapest are sought for. Cars are expected to last longer in China than in probably any other country.

Nearly all sales of cars are effected through the medium of garage companies, who are, in most cases, the agents of manufac- The explosive mixture is enor-turers. Equipment and accessories are supplied by the garages mously

powerful than as well as by hardware dealers.-Chinese Economic Bulletin. ordinary, petrol, so that much stronger cylinders, pistons, and"

PRIVATE BUS SERVICE. NEXT GRAND PRIX RACE, crankshafts have to be used. But whilst the engine is made so much

A regular service of solon Miramas track "near Marseilles, stronger, it is, nevertheless much

couches is to be started shortly by has been selected for the location smuller for a given size car.

The consumption of petrol is the Michelin Co. between their of next year's French Grand Prix attempts were made to cultivate reduced by nearly, half for an works at Clermont Ferrand in cen-race, the probable date June 28. rubber plants for commercial par-equal power output, and the tral France and their Paris offices. The event will be open to 91 1-2-

Some of these have met

The service will be a private one inch cars with super-charges, hav pores.

for the use of the officials of the ing two-seated bodies 31 Inches with considerable success.

The outlook is now more hope- those, that is, liable to taxation-ful. Of the estimated total cost we have in the neighbourhood of a of £3 millions, the Ministry of

The hap above shows the areas suitable for rubber. million and a half, operating on Transport will contribute 75 per the Lancashire County

plantation development in the Philippine Islands. The some 177,000 miles of roads.

lower photo shows a giant rubber three which has thrived! That speaks of a coming conges- Council the outside figure given

for more than 100 years in los angeles. tion, and we shall have to look above, while the Liverpool Car-

The Philippine islands are dismissed, ahead. But congestion is already poration will pay £362,000, the felt in industrial localities, and Mersey Docks and Harbour Boardbeing regarded as "n source of particularly on eertain, points £100.000, Warrington £45,000, America's future robber' supply.

If these islands were properly With all along the line of this proposed and Bootle £35,000. road. Warrington, for example, these bodies agreed there seems a developed, it is estimated that ik. ä notoricus bottle-neck, and chance of the scheme reaching the they could produce one-fifth of the total amount of crude rubber there are times when a reasonably status of active work.

consumed in the United States at the present time.

No

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HAPPY VALLEY

Experts who have made a study report that conditions in the Philippines are favourable for the production of 70,000 Lons of good: grade Para rubber annundly,

In the years that followed, other:

Big Production.

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"dope" added

minute iA quantity and a available in ample supplies.

A large rubber industry has

It is easy to see, therefore, how been developed on the Island of Basilan. One organization, con-far-reaching such possibilities as with most new trols an estate of 795 acres on are. But,

developments, there are difficu}- which are grown 89,500 trees.

The prospects for the develop, ties. The chief one at present is ment of the rubber industry in the to get refinement into the perform If such a development were Philippine Islands are excellent ance of this engine, which has so realized, the Pacific possessions and it is believed that rapid, far baffled all efforts. woule become the third greatest advancement will be made in the

rubber producing territory in the near future.

world.

Large Area.

are

American manufacturers' anxious to have the United States There is a total area of approxi-control a good proportion of the mately 1,500,000 acres on the three rubber industry.

islands of Mindanao, Basilan and In addition to Philippine and Jolo which is suitable for rubber African territories, some authori- growing...

Lies have suggested that southern The greater part of this land is California be used as a field to within easy reach of water trans-cultivate ribber trees. portation. The remainder could

Too Dry.

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be served by a few well bult Many authorities declare that roads.

rubber trees will not grow in There are already a few species southern California, but Los of gum, and rubber producing|Angeles owns a rubber tree which- plants which are native to the is more than 100 years old and islands. However, no attempt is the largest tree in the city, was made prior to the American having a spread of 150 feet. occupation to develop the rubber The Carnegie Institute at planting industry,

Tucson, Ariz., has been working During the year of 1906. an at- for years on his subject, Planters tempt was made to develop the have succeeded in growing a few rubber indiastry in the Philip trees, but they have not yet found pines. F. J Winters planted a way of growing them in a suf- Cetra rabber, but extraction was ficient number for commercial Lunprofitable and the project was purposes.

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It has been estimated that if Great Britain continues to hold control of the crude rubber situa- tion, American tyre users will pay Britain $300,000,000 during the current year, An increasing uae of rubber has been noticed in the United States,

GAS TAX BUILDS ROADS.

Michigan state gasoline tax of

2 cena a gullon goes to road éon- straction. The annual revenue. from this tax is expeeled to be $6,500,000.

AUTOMOBILE COSTS.

An estimate made in Montreal shows that the average Canadian family apends $420 annually for automobiles and supplies.

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Plans for the construction of un- Kansas acquired 35,291, passen- ger motor cars in the 10 months derground garages to reduce the There are now street congestion in Paris are now ending Oct. 31.

passenger cara being considered by the municipal

council. 406,242 licensed in the state.

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