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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SATURDAY, JULY 30,

1927.

STOLEN PETROL

HUNT.

FOR TRAFFIC BOARD.

I. J. Router, automobile manu- Tracing the Dealers.facturer of Lansing, Mich., U.S.A.,

proposca the formation of national traffic commission, with each representative from

Its purpose would be to state. draft a national code covering and traffic rules, signs, signals driving practice.

London, July 1, Dealers in petrol from British oil- fields in Russia which were stolen by the Soviet Governmeat now find themselves in an awkward predica ment

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The warning issued by the Baku Consolidated Dilfields, Ltd, on be half of an important group of com-obvious they are selling is na cheaply panies whows, properties were con as possible, and it is equally obvious fiscated without compensation by the they are able to sell it cheaply be Soviet Government is clear and cause they stole it.

Twa days later, sponking omphatic. It says in effect that im portors who handle crude oil or potrol Amsterdam at the meeting of the dorived from the stolen oilfolds and Royal Dutch Potroleum Company, denlers who sell it aro dealing in Bir Henri Deterding, the chairman, stolen property, and that in futuro said As to Russian competition, they will be held responsible.

the Soviets might sell cheaper petrol, but they have stolen it from the

£75,000,000 Loss.

Stops are now being taken to disRoyal Dutch." cover those who are handling petrol from the extensive fields owned by! the four big companios en behalf of whom the warning was imed,

Mr. Leslie Urquhart, chairman of The Russo-Asiatic Consolidated, Ltd., Other important oil concorne whose who was intimately connected with Bells were stolen by the Soviet, British interesis in Russia when the Government are watching the posi-ields were confiscated and the staffs tion closely, and further develop on the spot thing into prison, ments may take place.

Cheap Because Sjolen. "It will be reenllor that the benchs! of great petrol firms have descriland in very definite language the origin of-po-called Soviet petrol,

Speaking at the meeting of the Shell Transport and Trading Com- pany on June 21, Lord Bearsted, the chairman, said:

estimates that British capital directly. and indirectly invested in Russian oilfields amounted to £75.000,000.

Before The Daily Mail started its lan for letting motorists know where they could buy motor spirit free from the Soviet fint by means of the now nimiliar No. Soviet Petrol Sell Here" posters, more than 1,000,000 gallons of Soviet petrol were being sold in this coun- iry each week

It will be seen that very important We all know Russian petroleum is james are at stake as a result of the being sold in this country under decision of Baku Consaldiated OD- various guisen anul disguises. It is helds,

THE

MOTOR UNION

INSURANCE CO 17

Incorporated in England

TO MEMBERS OF THE H. K. A. A.

NO WORRY ABOUT THIEVES WITH THIS CAR.

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The coincidental lock on the steering post of all Studebaker cars which locks both ignition. and steering wheel is an added safeguard as well as a great convenience to women drivers. Last year, according to police greater than the bare figures leaving their Studebakers instead figures, $300,000,000 worth of an- would scem to indicate. Most of turning. off the ignition tomobiles were stoten in the Unit insurance companies require 60 separately. For short halts ed States, As a result, theft in or 90 days in which to search for coasting when the driver sits surance rates were increased, in the stolen car before settling in behind the wheel and does not many instances as much as 200 per surance claims. During that wish to lock the steering wheel, cent over the previous year's time, the owner is deprived of the yet desires to turn off his motor, premium,

service of his machine. If the the ignition switch may be used claim is settled, the amount re-independently. ceived by the loser is seldom enough to replace the car.

Another Indication af the

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Motorists, who had heretofore considered the stolen automobile problem as more or less of a neces- sary evil. have now bogun to ask Viewing the problem through lengths to which Studebaker has questions. Who was to blame for the eyes of the manufacturer, gone in simplifying the process of the tremendous number of thefts? much of the blame which inaarlocking the ear is shown in the (Under the auspices of the Automobile Association)

the police? the manufacturer? or ance adjusters and police now fact that the same key which un- the owner himself? Why was it place on the shoulders of owners locks the coincidental lock "also that some ears were stolen in far must be assumed by the car controls the locks on the doors, the greater numbers than others? PRIVILEGES

manufacturer GRANTS SPECIAL

builder. The

of spare tyre lock, and on roadsters, Analysis of the stolen car situa- any motor car is under a moral coupes and victorias the lock on deck compartment. tion seems to vindicate the police obligation to the

prospective the department and divide the respon- owner to equip his cars with locks Thus, one key controls the entire sibility between the manufac which are not only capable of pro- car, doing away with the necessity turers and the owners. Investiga-tecting the cars but which are also of carrying three or four different tion discloses that in the great so simple and easy to operate that keys with the attending inconveni- majority of instances, stolen card the chance of forgetting or being ence and danger of misinying some were not equipped with locks unable to operate them is reduced of them. which adequately protected them, to an absolute minimum.

The position of the Studebaker or else the owner did not take. When insurance rates were coincidental lock, used on Stude- advantage aj the protection boosted,

owners of Studebaker baker cars, and also on Erskine afforded.

cars were in, the fortunate pcsi-cars, is in itself an advantage The problem of protecting an tion of being affected less than which you probably cannot fully automobile is in many respects any other group of automobile appreciate unless you have driven one in psychology. During the owners in America. This happy a car with a transmission lock on first few weeks or months of condition, however, was not mere-the floor of the, front compart ownership, the purchaser will pro-ly a happenstance. Rather, it was ment. With such a locking device bably take every possible precau- a testimonial to the thoroughness the keyEnle frequently collects tion against theft. He will con- with which Studebaker engineers grit in such quantities as to be- scientiously lock every protective had designed protection for Stude- come difficult to operate. Again, device no matter how many there baker cars.

because of its position, on the floor,

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Are or how complicated their Located on the steering column it is troublesome to operate, parti- manipulation. As the months of all Studebaker cars is a coincicularly at night. The Studebaker wear on, however, and his car re dental lock which provides the and Erskine lock is not only pro mains undisturbed, he is apt too double safeguard of locking both tected but is so conviently located

invites KAC. assume the attitude of the ignition and the steering that it. üft-10

Which it's the other fellow's car that: wheel.". And, what is more im-Jaccounts, in a large measure, for gets stolen, nul mine."

portant, it locks them both at one the fact that Studebaker is regard- Loss sustained through automo- operation. Many owners form the ed as a "preferred risk" by insur- bile theft is in actually even habit of using only this lock when fance companies.

BOOM, IN OLD CARS:

Expected in the United States.

'New

SUDDEN STOPS.

Causes of Engine Failure.

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Electrical apparatus. wears mechanically and electrically Cartwright points out. The bear- inga, brushes and commutators wear down with use. Corrosion, moisture and oil reduce resistence of the dielectric, or insulator around the wires, and short cir- cuits result.

York, June 20. Junk The most elusive trouble-maker dealers are rubbing their palms in for the innocent motorist is that

The heat of the engine causes ..in the electrical gleeful anticipation of a booming confined

expansion of the wires, and con- business from the wornout autemo-apparatus. biles that are expected to be scrap- The car suddenly refuses to traction results when the engine ped in great numbers henceforth.

The engine won't turn cools. Armature windings

subject especially This is the year when, it is be- over. There isn't a pus of a

changes. Heved, the great impetus in junk-cylinder.

budge.

ing used cars will begin, for it is Most likely the cause lies in the the fifth anniversary of the tremen-electrical system. dous jump in the sale of new cars locate the trouble is the problem. They require

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These forms of wear can't be

by But where to detected ordinary search, application of A responsible

in 1922 Five years is what some Perhaps it's only in the switch. special apparatus. engineers believe to be the automo- Perhaps it's only a faulty diatriba-garage electrician must be con- bile's average life. So the death tor. Sometimes the fault is more sulied. knell for most of the cars bought mysterious and unyielding to the

cent.

and in use in 1922 is being tolled efforts of the amateur electrician Maintenance neglect may be due the this year.

at the wheel.

to lack of lubrication in The automobile junk business

generator or ignition unit. - wasn't considered much of a spe- D. P. Cartwright, electrical The battery, however, is most cialty until 1920, when the number engineer, pointed out five classes often neglected. Let the owner of ears scrapped jumped 100 per of electrical road failures, when keep this part clean and watered he spoke recently at the annual and he will find little trouble due meeting of the Society of Automo-to maintenance, at least on his In 1924, the National Automobile tive Engineers. They are: Chamber of Commerce reports, the number of automobiles scrapped amounted to 780,769. The next year it went up to 1,503,127. Last year it is estimated to have risen to the 2,000,000 mark.

Doubled in Year.

This year, the junk yards will receive more than 2,500,000 dere- licts for disposal.

1. Failure fram

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reasonable

2. Failure due to maintenance neglect.

3. Failure to install first-class apparatus.

A. Faulty design, material und! workmanship.

part.

The faults of the manufacturer in installing units of insufficient, capacity are not in the owner's category. That bespeaks the car an i its reputation.

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Climatic conditions can't

be

6. Failures due to climatic foreseen. These, however, cause more trouble with the battery than conditions.

with other parts of the electrical "ystem, and therefore can be more casily corrected,

That's a conservative figure, for 1922 showed an increase of 60 per cent in the registration of automo-tomobile Chamber of Commerce biles in the United States. Given show the useful life of the auto- only five years for existence, the mobile to be increasing gradually cars of 1922 should therefore in-until now it is as long as eight years ercase the junking business by al- for the better cars most that amount.

Battery trouble has been taken up before, in this series, and need not be recalled.

.But that doesn't discourage the There's only one Injunction: junk dealers. Auto manufacturers Sco that the battery is well and dealers are encouraging them, charged, but never overcharged, in. fact, by selling a great many that it is clean and filled with pure used cars as junk, in order to water regularly, and there will bo make room for the sale of new practically no trouble from this

Roads Halt Junking, (» Improvement of products, how ever, coupled with better roads, may delay this end perhaps to 1028 on even 1929. Figures of the au- cars,

source.

Popular Auxiliary

Installations.

UNIQUE CONTEST. Craig Motor Co., Ltd., of Chiswick,

headed the list, having been select ed for inclusions in their specifica- tions by 50 per cent. of the compo titors. In such a design as that. culled for by the stipulations of the competition roomy comfort couplod A unique competition has just considerations. Built on the mono- with ample power were important been held by the well-known Yacht-bloc principle with overhead valves ing. paper, "The Yacht," for, the Ailsa Craig Marine Motors are most popular design of a cruising compact and highly efficient power yacht of about 8 tons fitted with units, while owing to the stand-"" an auxiliary motor engine and not played their cost for a high class dardised production methods em easting more than £550 complete engine is remarkably moderate, and Many interesting designs were sub- they therafero fulfilled all the con- mitted, and along the various speditions necessary for success. It eifications most of the principal Was, no doubt, these Important con- siderations which prompted so high marine motors were represented, but a noticeable feature in this con- this competition to incorporate a percentage of the designers in nexion was that those of the Ailsa Allsa Craig engines. "

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