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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH,

GETTING UNDER MADE EASIER.

NEA,

There's nothing to "gotling under" to-day. Tor hydraulic lifts are being installed at service stations over the United Statos, to permit "getting under" without difficulty. The lift operates in small space, and can be rotated to suit tho service man.

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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT, SATURDAY, JANUARY 16, 1927.

FOUR-WHEEL BRAKES.

Dennis, Distinction.

TEST BY SOFT SOAP.

An unusual air of expectancy to experience personally the characterised the group of mon effact of the Sorvo-applied 4- standing near the entrance of wheel brakes. With them as pass- big North London garage. ongers a steep hill was descend. There was something special ed, considerably faster than the on to-day-something that would driver of an ordinarily brakod bo a pleasant change from the or bus would care to. do. But horo dinary routine, and full of in-again the effects of the system terest, whatever the outcome. In word as Astonishing as before. tho briof interval they talked with The bus simply stopped. Smoothi keen anticipation of the probablely and gently stopped, without results of the test. Scotland Yard any jerky throwing forward of authorities, for whom the pro- the passengers that provious ex- parations bad been made, discuss-porionco in other buses had lod ed technicalities, that they had one to expect.

And this is how it camo about already investigated, their spéculations tempered by a wealth that the Dennis "E"-type low- of experience in such matters. load-line chassis was the first The Press, too, was strongly, re-vohlole fitted with 4-wheel brakes presented, for this was an event that the Scotland Yard authori- that would provide a very in- ties approved for service in Lon- torosting" story. Some thought don. Previously they had boon afraid of front-wheel, skidding, that the insidious layer of soap. BRITISH VEHICLES. that overspread the "garage floor but such conclusivo tests as these was carrying things a little too show that the best makers know. "Super-Safety" far. It would be impossible for a how to make a car even to manoouvro under: Bus."

A word or two. about the 4- such conditions, let alone & bus. Why it was dangerous to venture wheel braking system of this new of Olympia has come and gone, That the British motor manufac-one's foot on the prepared low-lond-line. bus chassis

Messrs. Dennis Bros. will provo What WAH its outstanding türers are pushing their machi-surface

of interest. In principle it is Suddenly chatter gave place to identical with that employed on feature? Undoubtedly, says The" nos vary effectively in Australis

is indicated by the fact that in silence. There was a bus hurry Rolls-Royce cars, and is mado "Autocar, the provision by almost ono woek no lass than six repeating to the entrance-one of those under Rolls-Royce patents; the

all makers of reputo of a" orders for Albion commercial

pnoumatic-tyred depression of brake pedal causes comfortablo vehicles were notified to the single-deckers, and yot not quite two friction surfaces moderato-sized cylinder car.

factory in Glasgow by their agent those that had already been run- brought into contact. One of Groat things are expected of in Sydney. Such well-known

ning in London for nearly two thono new cars, and they promise firms as Nestles and Anglo-Swiss years? Rapidly guthoring speod.those, being goated front the pro- Milk Company and the British it rushed into the garage, with peller shaft and rotating so long re Australian Tobacco Company are its treacherous door, at 25 m.p.b.tends to turn the other, which,

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At a sign from one of the brakes. These are inter-connects watchers the driver placed his oil in such a way that, the re- foot lightly on the pedal which tarding effort on the rear wheels brought into operation the Servo-is always slightly greater than operated 4-wheel brakes. With that on the front. An ingenious the precision, that is charac-arrangement, incorporating teristic of a perfect machine, tho swinging link, enables the Servo- bus came to a standstill in its assistance to be brought into play own length, neither front nor rear whether the machine is travelling wheels deviating a hair's broadth backwards or forwards, while, from the trua line, the wheelsbould anything chance to put track in the soft soap as clear the Servo out of action, depres- and sharp as if die-cast,

sion of the pedal will apply the brakes direct.

Tengues woro found again congratulation, amazement, grati- fication, but particularly amaze- mont.

The distinotion of being the first to socure approval of the Metropolitan Police for the run. But thero was more to follow. ning of 4-wheel operated buses in So far the machine at each do- the streets of London is not the

fallen monstration had only travellod only one that has

to

in u straight line. Now the driver Mossrs. Dennis Bros. It was as was instructed to carry out sharp long ago as 1904 that the firm in- Lurns, followed by complotoftroduced the worm drive into the circles; and at the word the construction of the commercial brakes again' brought suddenly chassis, and in the following into action. The result was al-year they put into service Lon. ways the same--no harshness, don buses employing this form of no jerking, no suspicion of sliding drive, in the foeth of a good deal withor forward or sideways. of adverse criticism form the fox. After a time the bus was driven perts." It is sufficient to say qut, and, for the sake of com-that for some time now all busos. parison, again entered at the in service in London have been same speed as before. But this worm-driven.

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time, on the order to stop, there There is still one other advanco was a terrifying skid the bus; in London that was due to the seemed to face in all directions progressiveness of Messrs. Dennis. at once and shot broadside on Bros, which, combined with their across the floor,

soundness in design, has secured Why!

for them a foromost place in the Because the driver had on this industry, and that was the licens. occasion applied the hand-brake'ing, for the first time, by the which operates only the rear Scotland Yard authorities, "of whools like the brakes on all buses fitted with

pneumatic other London buses.

tyros, thus completing a trio of Finally a portion of the tost-distinctions of which this well load was removed, to allow some know firm of commercial motor of the Scotland Yard authorities manufacturers may well be proud."

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