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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

19 SINGER 26

Specially Geared for Hongkong

The 1926 Singor represents the

highest standard of British Motor Car

Engineering a standard which

grantees that övery purchaser

seguiros a cor made to last.

FOUR SEATER "DE LUXE"

£265.0.0.

British Throughout

TWO SEATER "DE LUXE"

£265.0.0

Equipped with overhead valves, four whical brakės, automatic windscreen wiper, pneumatic upholstery, Dunlop reinforced balloon tyres, complète all-weather equipment, large radiator, e'c.

For Full Specifications and Particulars apply to:-

GILMAN & CO., LTD.

HONGKONG BANK BUILDING.

INDIAN

Stock Carried. ·

Salesroom at Ta, Chater Road, open every day (San- days excepted until 5 p.m.

ALEX. ROSS & CO (China), LTD.

Bank of China Building, and 1A, Chater Road.

SOCGNY

SOCONY

MOTOR OILS

GASOLINE

A. J. S.

Stock Carried.

Salosroom at 1a, Chater Road, open avery day (Sun- days, excepted) until 5 p.m.

ALEX. ROSS & CO. (CHINA), LTD.

Bank of China Building and. 1A, Chater Road..

USE OF STEEL..

MPORTANCE TO AUTO

INDUSTRY

MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, MAY 29, 1926.

Consumption of steel in the United States far surpasses that of any other country in the world. So widespread has become

TRANSPORT.

INCREASE AT HOME.

primarily involved are taking up. protty well at the road space, Given that there is a "thruster" among the crowd of vehicles con- verging on this spot, and the chances of an

In an address givin recently to Colonel Wilfrid Ashley, the Minis the County Councils, Association, increased. accidente Vehicles which are peculiarly ter of Transport, mentioned that noisy, as one carrying milk cans 4,000 now vehicles, presumably or empty barrels or iron sheets or motor vehicles, were coming on to plates, should be specially provi- the road, each week. The state-ed with safeguards.

Drivers of

AUTO COST SMALL.

ده

Only Bicents of the average ago and income dollar of Amort can workers during 1925 wont for motor vehicles, according to 10 timates runde by the National Automobile Dealers Association, went for pleasure resorts, not in cluding theatres and similar

This is compared to 6 cents which

the use of steel that fow ment as reported is vague enough" | such vehicles should be more tha amusements.

a time when road conditions: do mand the use of some such device And given that a mirror is carrie, and used, drivers should be taught when and how to signal another vehicle to pass them,

Is it not enough to leave plenty of road room; an equally sound doudition is that there, should be room ahead and that no signa! should be given unless the driver seca that the road ahead is clear. Yet what too frequently happenr is that a driver will pull on ono site when nearing a bend and give the signal to pass, regardless of what may be approaching. round the bend. The old motorist will refuse to shoot ahead unless he is certain that the way is clear: experience tells him that it is un- wise to trust merely to the signal he receives in these circumstances,

dividuals realize what a vital to be alarming. If this increase usually alert, for they are in part it plays in their daily lives: is meant to apply to every week effect deaf drivers, and it should in the year, then we have a total be compulsory for them to carry This pr sent method of stool of over 200,000 new vehicles on

mirrors. Not all vehicles, not all making originated at Wyandotto, the road, which is alarming he-cars, are so equipped, and this at Mich, USA. at the door of cause our roads are not yet fitted to take up all this traffic, nor ará Detroit the hub of the automotive

our traffe regulations modern industry. Patrick Kelly, a me enough to keep all this maas tallurgist of the period following within control. If the addition the Civil War, conceived the "pplies only to six months of the year the result, from this point of formula by which iron oro, mixed | ylow, is still bad enough. "We are with lime stone and other in-adding a big mass of traffic to a gredients, in a specially construct. volume already largo without taking any measures to provide for ed furnace, produced an unusally safe and reasonable driving firm grado of metal known as Experiences dating no further atdel.

This metal withstood back than the Easter holidays greator shocks than the iron of confirm the impression that traffic and trafileregulations need other days and was destined to moderniaing. How, for example, is revolutionize the iron making the driver of a car, or a vehicle industry in general.

capable of a good speed, to notify his approach to a driver of a flat lorry laden with milkcans? The rattling of the cans drowns. the beat of horns, and unless the driver of the lorry keeps a special lookout he can only be aware of an overtaking vehicle moment it pushes its nose past him. The situation is not ex- nggerated; it happens often on country roads, and almost invart ably the noisier vehicle carries no driving mirror. Almost as bad is the cab-enclosed industrial vehicle; here, too, the noise of the machine, the rattles and the bumps, drown the signals of an overtaking car or faster lorry, with the result that the over- taking driver has to swing But this grasp of the stogt perilously close to the ditch to. "If the

But meanwhile all these thou- make safe his passing. industry was challenged in the road happens to be crowded, the sands of newcomers are adding to early 90's with formation of the

trouble is cumulative; all the congestion of the road. Many United States Steel Corporation. vehicles, oncoming and following, of them come inexperienced and Steel making in the United Statesfeel the effect of those few so are in themselves a source of had been growing steadily before minutes when the two vehicles peril. The road is becoming more the formation of this gigantic corporation, but John W.. Gates and others who had seen the vast possibilities in production and lowering of manufacturing costs in bringing together the various steel making units, set about to assemble these properties under one management and control?

Kelly's early operations in steel making were somewhat crudo and the output limited. News of this achievement soon reached other sections of the world. A man named Bessemer, then engaged in iron manufacturo in England, seized upon Patrick Kelly's idea and had it patonted, which Kelly had failed to do. Bossomer at once began improve monts in the stylo of furnace and soon England, was leading the world in the manufacture of this new metal. England for many yours also led the world in the manufacture of steel products, especially in fine cutlery and machine parts.

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Engineering brains of the Unit- ed States wore not slow in determining the worth of stock in more general use. It rapidly began supplanting the use of wood in building, marine con- struction, railroad equipment, nilice forniture and, with the advent of the automotive in- dosury, its use became giuch more "general" -

The use of steel in building construction permitted of more stability, greater and roomier buildinge with a minimum of fire hazard. In marine circles the wooden type of vessel gavo way La one of steel and today the amount of wood in such vessels whether on the Great Lakes of the high 5028, is almost negligible.

Railroad oquipment gave way to steel constructed passenger coaches and freight cars. The use of stool permitted larger cars, thus permitting greater loads with an accompanying in- crease in revenue with the same motive power. Very few busi- ness offices or counting rooms are complete today without the use of steel furniture and fling cabinets as a 'a protection of re- cords in case of fire'

Although with the advent of the automotive industry the uso of steel entored upon a new era. it was not until 12 years ago that its use as a safety factor in the manufacture of bodies was under- taken by Dodge Brothers, Inc., who startled the automotive on- gineering world by making com. pleto all stool body for touring

CATE.

The public at once saw the ad- vantage of this move. Dodge Brothers experimented further and five years ago achieved an even inore remarkable goal- steal bodies for closed cars.

Today Dodge Brother motor Cars of every type aro equipped with all steel bodies, giving maximum safety to passengers and clearer road vision through the use of narrow pillara. Steel has supplanted wood throughout in the manufacture of those bodies. Dodge Brothers example, it is hoped by the motoring public, will soon be adopted by the in dustry as a whole, as safety is today an issue of the utmost im- portanco.

at the

common

sense.

If we are, going to have this rapid growth in the numbers of road vehicles, dictates that those who operate them should know at least the elements of road practice, and should not, through ignorance. even though there is goodwill, involve others in risk. Some time or other this year, next year, sometime we are going to have new and modernised regulations. They have, we understand, been framed and are about ready for presentation to Parliament when a convenient opportunity comes along.

and more congested, yet we fail to deal with a situation out of which accident after accident is emerging. For their own sakes it is high time all motor-vehicle owners demanded that reform should come." (Daily Chronicle.)

Paris. Over 10,000 doctors prescriptions in which cocaine and other drugs are included havo been, seized during the last fow days at certain chemists' shops. They bear the names of about twenty different doctore, and have been issued to patients in all classes of society. The examining

magistrate who has the inquiry in hand will hear the.doctors' con-

cerned before deciding whether action against them is to bo taken... The wife of one doctor, who has already been arrested for dealing in drugs, declares that the blank forms of the prescriptions. were stolen from his surgory.

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