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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

SOCONY SCORES AGAIN! CANTON-SHANGHAI

NON-STOP FLIGHT

BARON VON HUENEFELD

CHOSE AND USED

SOCONY MOTOR GASOLINE

(NOT AVIATION GRADE)

THE SAME GASOLINE SOLD FOR MOTOR CARS

BY

OUR DEALERS AND SERVICE STATIONS

EVERYWHERE

STANDARD OIL CO. OF NEW YORK.

TYRE FRAUDS.

New York's Queen Industry.

JUNK RUBBER USED.

In one instance a plant was dis- covered by following truckloads! of junk castings carled from gar-: bage dumps and secondhand des- lers shops.

Nico Discrimination.

Even in the "gyp" tyre trade there are first and second grades. The firsts are unbroken casings, Tons of reclaimed rubber, salv-and the seconds are blow-outs ed from worn out, hot water hot-which have been cracked or split. les, and discarded hose and tyres, The retreaders frequently use are used every month in New York! tyre moulds obtained from com- by "gyp" tyre retreaders who re-panies which have ceased busi- ness. Reputable tyre names and juvenate old castings and

trends are also forged, and the re- them as new, first-quality tyres. trends are wrapped in fresh paper ! This was discovered by an in-to simulate a new tyre.

vestigating committee of the Bet-l

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eauses

Retreads are sold in various

ter Business Bureau of that city, ways. Some makers will not de- which found that the desire to get ver, others will send by mail, but will not deliver locally. something for nothing motorists to buy useless tyres at Usually the tyres are sold from apparently bargain rates. The unmarked vans in busy streets to motorists found in their cars. commitee considers the tyres

the The salesmen whisper that mennee to life as well as a gigan-low prices of the tyres are due to tle fraud.

the manner in which they wore Obscure factories in various obtained, and that they must be parts of the city turn out the tyres, sold in a hurry.

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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 20, 1928.

MOTORISTS SUPERSTITIONS.

"Coolies Rush in Where Evil Spirits Fear to Tread."

STEP ON IT.

U. S. Speed Limits Raised.

CARS NOW SAFE.

Satisfied that modern cars-and

Probably avery motorfat knows Such a practice is not recom- good roads-mako fast travelling some other motorist with a 'peau-mended for the busy hour in Pitt-quito gafo, 10 of the United Staten. Har fad when he is on the road. stroot, Sydney nor is it advisable have increased their spoed limita There are some who consider it to turn round in that thoroughfare on highways, and one State has bad luck to pass a funeral, And so as to approach the horseshoes said to its motorists: "Go as fast on Saturdays, in New South Wales from the right direction to invite as you like, except at --" and no- at least, there seam to be an good luck. inordinate number of funerals. {~ Japanese Are Useful, What happens to the man who refuses to drive further. when ho Japan is rightly renowned for Bees a funeral? Ho can't over get the courtesy and civility of its far on a Saturday,

minated danger spots.

Some limits wore raised as much as 10 miles an hour, and nearly alj now have legal speeds of from 38 to 40 miles an hour on open roadé, In cities, speed limits Trahgo

nationala. There is a pocullar from 16 to 26 m.p.h., varying with

Quite a few persons will drive joustom in Japan with a very on the width of stroots.

miles around the country to avoid aible application. All cars in uso passing a black cat. You probably in Japanese streets are required to

laugh at a man who has the have splashguards for use in

Any

"Can't-pass-a-black-cat" complex, rainy weather. Even a Studebaker Germany with that number attach But Isn't it true that you won't President recently purchased for ad, receives quite a deal of sorrow- park your car outside any building Princo Kitosirakawa, of the Royal ing. deference,

household, had to be fitted with In India, the lowly cow, which, which is numbered 137

Actually, we all have some fad them before delivery could be on the road in Australia is treated with scant ceremony, and may or other in respect to moloring made. Thus equipped, when a They are world-wide, however, and car runs through a puddle, the have a piece of her hide shorn of no one nation can say it is devoid resulting spray is deflected by the by an irate motorist's, fender, in of them, for in some countries they guards. It is a custom which regarded as a sacred animal, and Tre so pronounced as to have be- might well be adopted by others always given the right of the road, no matter how the traffic is come customs. And not all of countries.

Japan, like New South Wales, disorganised behind her. chem have a sensible application. demands a tail-light which cannot driver who touched a cow wander There is a man living in a be extinguished from the dash-ng across avon the busiest inter suburb of Sydney who always board. But Japanese authorities section would soon know some nicks up horseshoea on the road also insist on a dome light for thing of the penal code of India. and nails them on his garage door constant use at night. Maybe Kussian commissars have, es- at home. Not because he thinks this is to prevent exuberant love-tablished a custom which has for a moment he is saving other making in public. Incidentally, something of good senec in it as motorists from tyre troubles, but in Japan, one must have a bulb well. When one of the common because he thinks it is good luckhart, in preference to the up-to-motorists meets a commissar's car to do so.. Yet in its wider applieninte electric horn, and no driver it is the custom to pull right over tion this superstition is doing can smoke while driving.

and make a clear path for au- vood to all other motorista travel- ling the same rond.

Must Point Right Way.

In Hongkong the old adage thority. It is founded not only on might be construed. to read courtesy, but on safety. for com-. "Coolies rush in where evil spirits missars are generally in a hurry, fenr to tread," for the coolies have and brook no interference by the In Manila, in the Philippines, a peculiar superstition that to lowly "comrades."

Some countries, notably Mexico, native drivers regard horseshoes rush in front of a moving car le

ns being more than ordinarily to frighton away ali evil spirits attach a religious significance to burdened with good luck. If the which may be hovering in the the purchase of a car, and invari driver spies a horseshop on the vicinity. It is a superstition ably the purchaser has the family. rond, with the points towards him, which often results tragically for car blessed by the local priest. one St. Christopher being generally, The stops his car and picks the those who possess it, and horseshoe up. He does more. If which gives drivers no end of faceopted as the patron saint of the points are showing away from worry," him, he drives round and comes back to pick it up from the right

Commissors and Cows.

motoring, St. Christopher emblems Jaro carried, by motorlats and

aviators the world over.

Judging by recent occurroNCES Hirection. He just picks it up and In Germany the antipathy to

more tu Sydney, aaveral motorists have tosses it over hia head on wards the number 13 is occasions. But in the majority of pronounced than anywhere clac, a superstition against atopping instances the horeshoe goes from and motorists all over the country when they have run down a pedes the road, and

This is a superstition other drivers are refuse, that number-plate.

Any Brian. saved from the nuisance of punc foreigner who has the temerity to which police are anxious to stamp tured tyres,

accept it, and drive his car in out.(Sydney Sun).

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