1929-03-23 — Page 17

UNIFORM LAWS.

Motoring in the United States.

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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

The code grew out of a confer-driven a car at the time when the THE CAR AND THE ence organized in 1924 under the law is first enacted may obtain chairmanship of Herbert Hoover licenso upon application. which was attended by traffic nu- 6-All new driven must pass

thorities from every section of the

an examination.

7-Re-Licensing shall not be re- quired more than once every three years.

CHEMIST.

Development and Improvements.

BEHIND THE SCENES. It does not need the artful aid

SATURDAY, MARCH 23, 1929.

PEDESTRIAN CONTROL IN TRAFFIC.

Holding the Scales Even."

[By Walter P. Chrysler.]

President of the Chrysler Corporation.

country. Its chief features are:',

1-No person shall drive a mo- tor vehicle unless licensed by the

8-Courts shall report to the NEW CODE DESIRED. atute vehicle department,

2-Licenses shall not be issued state department all convictions to persons under 16.

for violations of motor laws and New York, Jan, 21.

B-Licenses shall not be issued may recommend suspension of li- In most of the 43 states whose to persons unable to understand cense. legislatures convene this month, signs in English.

9-Any person who has been of alliteration to help us to ap

Seventy per cent. of all traffic during hours when there was no the National Automobile Chamber 4-Licenses shall not be issued denied a license or whose license preciate the contributions of the of Commerce will seek to have the to habitual drunkards, drug ad- has been revoked may appeal to chemist to motor car construction. fatalities result from collisions nood for this precaution.

In the modern car, whether one between motor vehicles and pedos Los Angeles finally adopted the "Hoover Uniform License Law" diets, insane or feeble minded or the courts.

considers the special metals for trians. It follows that any help present regulation, which calle for those afflicted with physical or 10-Application of minors un- adopted.

the street. Those It is already in effect in 11 states mental disability such as to pro- der 18 must be signed by parent the engine and the chassis, the ful plan to segregato motor the prolongation of the sidewalk

or employer, who petrol or other fuel, the lubricat-vehicular and pedestrian traffic lines across where, according to National vent reasonable, control over or guardian Safety Council figures, motor ne motor vehicle.

then becomes liable for any negli ing oil and grease, the rubber for must necessarily command atten-lines are divided in the contre s Today we have motor another white Ene, making in the tyres, the paint or varnish, or tion. -Those who have previously gence in driving by such minor.

The

move effect an elongated letter "H" cidents have been cut 20 por vént.

the glass for screens, and so on, vehicular control. the master mind behind them all ments of passenger cars, trucks tween the curbs, it be and buses are regulated in most bar of the letter in the centre of is that of the chemist.

The development of the light communities by electric lights, the street. The motorist is com- weight, high-speed car is largely hand semaphores operated by pelled to stop and remain standing due to alloy steels. Highly stress-traffic officers, and by signals given while a pedestrian is in that part of ed working parts have to be made by traffic policemen, But in most the lano on the side of the street on of metals specially adapted for the cities we haven't much in the way which the motorist is travelling until the pedestrian has passed purpose, and naturally the metal of pedestrian control.

"Pedestrian control" is probably

It beyond the path of the vehicle. Jurgical chemiet must determino

unfortunate expression. Los Angeles' next stop was to the composition which gives the en

soparate pedestrian and vehicular stole, but in the development of some one is trying to deprive the traffic by constructing pedestrian required properties. Not only in seems to carry with it the idea that lightweight alloys with aluminium pedestrian of some of his right. tunnels. An approved bond issue or magnesium base, the metallur The main truth is that the ad of $350,000 has made possible the building of 40 'of these 'tunnels, gress of the extremely efficient on simply wishes to get into the po practically all of which have been zical chemist has assisted the pro- vocato of pedestrian

destrian's mind that traffle rules,

completed. gines of to-day.

regulations and signals are equally Los Angeles' experience is par as much for his safety and con- ticularly worthy of study when it yenience as they are for the is remembered that in Los Angeles. motorist.

County alone are nearly 050,000

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The Case of Tyres.

control

on Large cities can well afford to automobiles a car to every two

of Los and a fraction persons.

It is common knowledge that, though thousands of pounds are spent annually in research rubber, many fundamental prob-study the experience lems remain obscure. The chem-Angeles, which has learned that The pedestrian does not resent ist's work goes right back to the pedestrian control le, like practi- being regulated when he realises rubber plant, investigation of the cally every other safety measure he is getting a "60-50 break" with latex, and of the elusive problem a matter of education.

the motorist. This equality is a of the constitution of caoutchouc. Complete control both of pedes chieved when the pedestrian is not lie is concerned with discovering trians and automobiles followed a required to wait an unreasonable improved accelerators for valories of experiments in dividing length of time on the corner, and canising rubber and proving pro the right-of-way between the is given some protection when he tection against wear, ageing, de-motor vhicle and the pedestrian. happens to be in the centre of the terioration, and perishing. The For a long time Los Angeles has street when the signal changes. success of his efforts is readily to had a regulation compelling aute In Los Angeles, it appears, the be gauged from the mileage of mobiles to stop behind standing practicability of pedestrian control present-day tyres as compared cars, which provides protection to

la being definitely demonstrated. with the results obtained ten years pedestrians desiring to board or alight. Next, primarily to pro- The chemistry of petroleum is tect, school children, white lines extremely interesting as well no were drawn across streets where of children re- Industrially important. The pro-large numbers

Motorists were cess known as fractionating, or gularly crossed. cracking, the petroleum yields the required to stop before crossing Jubricating oil as well as the these lines. This was not success- petrol spirit. The development of ful, because it compelled many the modern high-compression en-motorists to come to a full stop gine accentuated the trouble of

ago,

engine knock or pinking due attention, and the chemist has to detonation. Here again the now achieved the apparently Im- chemist has been called in to dlag possible in the invention of or nose the complaint, and by means ganic glass, for which, no doubt, i of metallic dopes has succeeded there is a considerable future. in producing anti-knock fuels. Without detracting in any way The chemistry of cellulose is from the contributions of the me- playing an important role in the chanical engineer, the designer, body finish of modern cars. The the mass production manager, and chemist's achievements in the others, who have assured the in- paint and varalsh industry are dustrial development of the auto- illustrated by the synthetic mater mobile, our debt to the chemist is ials which are coming more into so plain as to need no emphasis, general use, and his researches It is not beyond the limits of ac-

INTRODUCING

THE 1929 MODELS OF THE

UNAPPROACHABLE

NORTON

into the resistance of painia to ex-curacy to state that the industrial MOTOR CYCLE

ponure, darkening, blistering, chemist has made motoring as we cracking, and so on, are continual-know it to-day a practicable pro- ly improving the quality of this

position. important body-finishing material. A new degree of caso and safety Motor upholstory requires tre-in steering has been introduced mendous quantities of loather into the field of low-priced, light The chemist has solved many dif- automobiles by the new Model A ficult problems in connexion with Ford. This steering gear is of leather manufacture, in particular the worm and sector type hereto as regards the tanning operations. före used only in cers of a much Safety from the Laboratory. higher price class. It is known Everyone appreciates the pro-as the "Three-quarter irrever- gress indicated by the manufac-alble" type, which means that a ture of unsplinterable glass, and very light hand on the steering tribute must be paid to the cham-wheel will hold the front wheels ist for the production of glass straight and true even over road which has provided greater dur bumps and ruts, but that the ability, reduced brittleness, and driver always retains that much given

greater shock-resisting desired "feel of the road" which is powers. A glass that can be bent lost with the full irreversible type without breaking attracts popular of steering mechanism.

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