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Garden Rond,

MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

CURRENT

COMMENT

Trees Removed.

There appears to be a mistaken!

A much-needed improvement is impression that when the improve- being carried out at Leighton Hill ments are efected at the lower Peak Road by the removal of trees, there- Tram Station, there will be leas; parking room than previously. Wey increasing the road space by have heard several iemarks to this some ten feet. Although trees add effect, but instead of the spare

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH

SATURDAY, 1st DECEMBER, 1928.

Being The Bificial Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION.

FIRE-FIGHTING.

A Novel Appliance.

USEFUL FOR PEAK.

Specially designed for use. In isolated positions, Messra. A. J. Stevens & Co. (1914), Ltd., have just completed and despatched for use in China a very compact and powerful form of fire extinguishing apparatus. The appliance is In- stantly rendy for use anywhere owing to its dominant feature boing rently to the attractiveness of the rapidity with which it can be ing restricted, there will actually be district, there are places where they rushed to the seat of the fire by

auch larger area available.

do enuse a certain amount of dan-menns of the 7.99 hp. A.J.S.

er, and publle safety is, of course, machine to which it is attached. For primary importance. Other The chassis frame on which the Although the police have laid trees around Happy Valley cause a platform for conveying the appara- down certain conditions in connex-certain amount of obstruction, tus is mounted is an A.J.S. Stand- ion with car-parking at Seth's taking up a considerable portion oi|ard Commercial Chassis, as regards Corner, one or two owners, probably the roadway, and we expect that ere in error, have recently failed to oblong, these will also have to be serve the desired practice. If cara suerifieed to modern konditiona. park at the netual corner, there is

Seth's Corner.

practically room left for other At Home.

vehicles to back when turning round, and it is in order to provide.

Born are doing at present, Peak Garages.

We notice that even in snual

dimensions, but the front and rear springs are specially strengthened

to carry the increased weight. The tubes are made of a special quality material, and the axle tube is strongly re-inforced. The plat- form itself is constructed of well- seasoneti enk, the framework being edge plated to give the required strength.

this room, that drivers are request-towns in England, it has been found

absolutely necessary to ed to park east of the telephone]

remove post, and not to the west of it, astres bordering roadways, the ob- struction causeil by the trees them-

The fire-fighting equipment, com- selves, and overhanging branches prises a Merryweather Standard being the reason for the action. Pattern Chemical Extinguisher, new Fortunately the matter is not no having a capacity of 20 gallons, under. Very serious In Hongkong, beenuse This Is of the soda and premises here is ample room alon many of acid type, the keld being The Peakur roads for the cultivation of liberated by the

trees and shrubbery, the hillsides of a handle which is normally lending themselves to this most

kept in position by gunmetal can. solve the garage shortage problem, beautiful form of naturn! adorn-The cylinder is mounted on bolsters

In addition to the Peak Garages, WA stand that other are being erected. Mansiona will also acconmmodate a number of cars, thus helping to

Within a few years it is probable

ment,

that ample garaging facilities wil|104,000 Miles,

be made available to motorists in

movement

and secured in position by two steel straps, sulfielent clearance from the platform being allowed to admit of

the hill district, because summer or The' record of a 1923 Morris-access to the drainage plug of the later the demand will be mel. The Cowley, owned by Mr. A. Lingard, cylinder, Two 20-feet lengths of grent point is however, the inonthly of Sydney, Australia, is a fine tri-lose with gunmetal couplings and rental rates. 11 is quite a burden to laite to the moderately priced Bri- nozzle are provided for use with the the moderately pursed car owner to Lish ear. The car has coveredtylinler, and are carried in a light have to pay $25 or $30 per month, 164,000 miles and is still running wire basket fixed In front of the and there should be no reason why well h the service of its owner, who eylinder.

In addition four Merryweather he is a traveller for a elty arm and suitable buildings could not

"Fir Suda" extih- erected which would provide much teen the car on business, averaging two-gallon

180 infles day, and sometimes guishers constructed to Board of more reasonable accommodation.

[carrying very heavy londs in it. Trade requirements and tested to During the time he has had this 350 lbs. per square inch, mounted It is satisfactory to note that fear in use Mr. Lingard has spent on the off side of the platform, and spure bieres of land on the Stubbs £21 in "repairs on it, including the three "Pyrane" extinguishera are Road have been converted into car cost of a complete overhaul. Dur-carried on a strong angle iron parks, thus enabling, motorists to ing recent heavy rains he cavered frame at the rear end of the cylin leave their cars nif the direct line 485 miles over mountain diatricla der. The equipment also includes of trafle. Notices are displayed re-and experienced no trouble, al-two crowbars fitted, in quickly do questing motorists to park of these though many higher-powered cars tachable clips; one large axe secured

were held up in different places. reserved places..

in spring clips; and one extensible rake, or preventer,

Stubbs Road..

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An Ambulance First-Aid Outfit, n Nife accumulator, and a double- DISTANCE TOURS. grades with cave. The cross-flow

radiator, exclusive feature of the note syren conveniently placed for! Oakland and Pontiac, is so design-peration by a pillion rider, com- ed that loss of water by evapora formidable fire-fighter.

plete the equipment of this very Mechanical Reliability. tion is practically nil. Water that

(We understand that the above dnes vaporize in the engine is con- article refers to the recently arrived densed and put back to work with appliance for the Honkong Fire TWO POPULAR CARS. out being allowed to escape from Brigade.—-Ed.) the radiator cap. The meebanten reliability of

Another feature" is the fact that the present day automobile is both cars are equipped with a important factor in the growing positive feed fuel pump. Gear- popularity of long distance toured to the engine, this pump ignores the decreasing atmospheric pres- Not many years ago, the motor-Lure encountered at the higher A New Principle. fat seldom dared to venture far altitudes and provides exactly the from town. If he did, he could be right amount of gasoline.

The new principle behind the reasonably sure of spending the The GMR eylinder head, stan- Arrol-Aster nicevo valve system is night in a farm house.

dard on both Oakland and Pontiae, bound to have a profound effect on

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SLEEVE VALVES.

But times have changed. The gives further assurance of un-motor car engineering as soon as motor car no longer is a mechani-interrupted touring pleasure. On its advantages become more gen- cal question mark. It has gained in the road, one frequently must buy crully recognised. It has for years speed, comfort and above all in re-any brand of gasoline that may been agreed by experts that theore Jiability. A thousand mile tour be available. But gas is gas totically by far the most efficient type offers 110 greater mechanical the GMR head. It has no pre- of internal combustion engine is the hazard than a drive around the ferred brand. And it drinks in single sleeve valve. It cuts out the block. This, of course, is due to moderation.

hammering action upon which the oppet valve engine depends, and substitutes for it the rhythmic

combined

the untiring efforts of automotive These are some of the major engineers. Eternally seeking that reasons why the Oakland and action of a rigid steel sleeve. But elusive "something better," theyPontiac Sixey are popular among until now there has always been have engineered the uncertainty | tourista. The excess power and gut of the automobile.

ease of handling permit sustained one cardinal difficulty with the single sleuve system, and that has No small part of this work has travel of 300 to 400 miles per day been the problem of giving the been done by the engineers of the without fatigue, and the cars

slcevo an absolutely continuous Oakland Motor Car Company.mechanical

motion. Arrol-Aster” have solved Working in conjunction with the with their long springs, Lovejoy the problem by means of the new General Motors engineere, they shock absorbers and luxuriously eccentric valve-shaft, and we can shave pioneered countless improve cushioned Interiors, make touring safely say it is one of the greatest ments which enable the tourist to a comfortable delight instead of Improvements in. modern motor start out, confident in the know-a hurdy adventure. ledge that he will return intact and under his own power.

stamina,

engineering.

LESS INNERS SOLD, .

FEW STATES STRICT.

For instance, if the reader, ra- calls the early days of mountain touring, he will remember at leasti two reasons for frequent roadside halts-the bolling radiator and the business for inner tubes.

Ballon tyres have made it a poor! Only 12 states require examina- he De- tion of all auto drivers, through dimeulty in feeding his engine

pariment of Commerce reports that the authority of their drivers sufficient gasoline on a long up waile the sale of casings has steadily license laws, reports the Ameri grade pull.

increased, that of Inner tubes has can Automobile Association, This To-day, in his Oakland or Pon remained practically stationery: enforcement is optional with the tine Six, he negotiates these same during the last three years.

proper officials in six other states. I

THE ACROBATIC AUTOMOBILE,

Not satisfied with taking a flip-flop by itself on a highway "outside Columbus, O., recently, this automobile caused anather to take a similar turn, landing on Its top. Yet none of the three occupants of the first, nor the sole passenger of the second was injured.

TWO

WHEELS PREFERRED.

You lounge at ense with your

rugged-up knees.

And your cushions shoulder-

high;

You are glass enclosed; but I'm

all exposed.

And my only roof's the sky; That's all I need, as my two-

wheeled steed

Is an arrow, piercing space; I want to shield; for my skin

la steeled

To the hard wind on my face,

I lip and skip with a cracking

"blip"

Where, cars can never squeeze; I away and play like a wriggling

Tay

Or a wand'ring, vagrant breuzc; I'm swift to drift 'ere the tre

lifts

Or the four wheels start to turn, It would take a snake to pursue

my wake

O'er the roads, my hot tyres

spurn.

My motor's bent mocks the

word: "Effete"

And ly muffler shouts this

truth:

That the winda rough wagh and

the rain-drop's splash.

Are the zest and the zip of

youth.

You may chase In packs in your

four-wheeled hacks-

I'm the long fox of the hunts; No back seat command shuts my

throttle. And Don't you envy me on punta?

(Sydney Sun.)

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THIS CHROME PLAYED TELESCOPE KELPE YOU TO SPEN WHAT, THE THUNDER THE JAM IS ALL ABOUT

• AFTER ALL CURBINGS HAVE BEEN PROPERLY "TREATED, THIS *DIVINING ROD WIEL POINT, TO

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THUS CUSHIONED ARM REACHES OUTANY PICHS UP FRIENDS FROM THE STREETS DURING FLUSH 'HOURS WHEN' YOU"

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