1929-06-08 — Page 19

HUGE AIRSHIPS.

Goodyear Undertaking.

U.S. TO EUROPE.

Acronautical engineers in the United States and Europe are making definite plans to establish commercial alrship routes over water. They are ploncaring in this 'endeavour because the most logical route for an over-water ship.would be the heavily travelled Inne be twoon the, United States and Europe.

Over water travel has been con- templated before over land travel because it affects more stable wen- ther conditions and a greater saving in time as compared to the steamship.

For this reason the Brat all- American passenger ship was de- signed to meet these conditions.

In building.military ships it was recognized that they must answer long-distance cruising require- ments, so that they could accom pany & sea fleet and should be able to cross the Atlantie with full load and ample fuel reserve.

These two different types of ships were taken into consideration when The Goodyear-Zeppelin Corporation of the Goodyear Tyre and Rubber

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH, MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

CHARIOT RACING UP-TO-DATE.

The above picture shows light tanks rehearsing the chariot race which is to be given at this year's Royal Tournamen t, by the 3rd Battalion of the Royal Tank Corps from Lydd...

Company, designed the two ships FRONT-DRIVE CARS.

that are now being built at Akron, Ohio, U.S.A, for the United States Navy.

Better for Body Designers,

RESULTS OF TESTS.

AMERICAN SPEED-; GENERAL -MOTORS.

WAY.

Elevated Run for New York.

Invests Big Sum

Germany,

In

MERGER WITH OPEL.

General Motors has formed an

The two radfeally different types of ships were merged into a new type of shin, to be inflated with bo hum and of about 6,500,000 cubic feat capacity. They will have about the same cruising range as the 5,000,000 cubic feet ships belig White engineers in Europe and built by Great Britain since America have been building rac- hydrogen, while less safe, ing automobiles with the front-ling somewhat better lifting properties.

There will be,

wheel drive, to test this new kind' of course, Differences in engineering detail be of transmission, manufacturera tween a 6,500,000 cable passenger have been contemplating its adop ship and a military ship of the tion for quite a different reason.

same size.

Staterooms for 100 passengers,

ship, in case of emergency.

the

The practical reason is the use

of a much lower body than is planted on our chassis to-day.

£10,000,000 PLAN,

A £10,000,000 speedway encir-sociation with the Adam Opel

the entire island Manhattan, which would motorists Ar unbroken. of more than 30 miles, is

of

give run

Company in Russelheim, Germany, a substantial interest in that com- pany being taken at a cost of about $30,000,000...

ан

cara.

pre-

is con-

A

invisaged in the ambitious traffle the Opel automobile, as well

The Opel Company manufactures plans of the borough president, other Opel products. It Mr. Julius Miller, just made public among the first ten German in- ranks dinhig rouma, promenade decks,

along the West Side and at points about 64% of the German

This roadway would be elevated dustrial organizations and makes smoking rooms and the like in pas

nger ships, will be replaced in the,

along the East River. A £3.000,- The present management which ha military ships by machine guns,

The Arst manufacturer to try 000 elevated drive to Atraddle homb racks, and the airplanes this stunt is the Alvis Company of

"Death-avenue" and the New Yorking success will continue to operate already made it such an outsland- carried with the ship. But in a England. Yet it has been sug-River would be one link of the big

Central tricks along the Hudson the company. general sense the two ships have gested quite often by body design-circle. many similar points,

The proposed East River the European economic situation The General Motors analysis of This fact has added significance ers in this country.

drive would be the other longest justifies the conclusion that Ger- The new front-wheel drive Alvis stretch. The West Side elevated many has effected during the past in thut a passenger-carrying ship le easily convertible into a military almost a foot lower than the highway has already reached the few years great industrial

former car, although the height of paint at which bids will soon be gress. It is believed in so far as In planning the passenger ships | the liody compartment itself in the Jasked for,

The East Side drive, the automotive industry the cabins and promenadé decks | same, Besides, the body can be under the new scheme, would excerned, Germany's present position were laid out along the twin keels made integral with the chassis,

tend to a point opposite the Canal is somewhat like that of the United of the ship. The windows tilt out-while a simpler springing problemet terminal of the West Side States at the beginning of the de ward so that the passengers can for the rear promises more com-

drive.

velopment. of enjoy

the way, Support for Project. changing panorama fortable riding.

great expansion appears to be cer- sprend out beneath them.

Tests have revealed the front- Mr. Miller proposes to recom-tain. Such a ship it is estimated can wheel drive quite practicable, ifend West Side highways at their cipate in that development to an The association with Opel mend a connexion between the East will enable General Motors to parti fly at 90 miles an hour and have not advantageous. The differen Southern terminals. With these Important degree. a cruising radius of 6,000 miles at tial is set over the front axle, suits completed he will then press. full speed and 8,000 miles at which is operated like the present bath highways northward until of General Motors into an inter The event marks the transition cruising speed.

It is estimated that with such wheels. This, it is contended, not

rear axle in driving the front they meet somewhere alone the national manufacturing, as well, as 'ship a business

on could leave only does away with a long, whip East Rivers.

Canal between the Hudson and distributing, organization. New York on a Saturday morning, ping propeller shaft, but elimin. arrive two days later on Monday morning at. London or Paris, apendates wobbling of the front wheels, Mr. Miller has set the City Engi- preparation for that period four days on his business affairs, even with the tyres deliberately

neers to work on estimates and de- Jeaving there Friday morning, tak-

under-inflated.

fails of the projects, either voted on ing three days on the return trip

The differential, clutch, ge or rendy to be voted on, but not against the prevailing westerly use and engine are practically to be concluded until the island is winds, arriving in New York again one unit, the elatch and gear ringed with an unbroken highway. Monday morning.

trananuission

between the It is known that elty agents are Complete designs of this sort ofjengine and differential in front. studying the old water grants made

OIL INDUSTRY. ship have been developed by the

Another mechanical advantage in deeds relating to waterfront pro- Goodyear Zeppelin Corporation, and of this type of drive is the gain of nany of the passenger ship features power by the elimination of the

perty along the East River, to ills-

Wonderful Growth. have been embodied in the two long propeller shaft.

cover whether it would be pos- sible to assess the property owner's

DUE TO MOTORING U. S. Navy ships that are now be ing built, although, of course, the

there for a large share of the cost. For an industry that has grown of the East Side speedway, passenger accommodations are not

from almost nothing in 30 years The East River water front is to a business of providing fuel for included in the military ships.

dotted with millionaire property-23,000,000 motor cars, the Ameri- ready, written to Mr. Miller ex-one of the wonders of the world. owners. Many of them have al-can petroleum industry has become pressing their support of his pro-"A gasoline filling station in the Jeet and urging immediate action.

self that offers the presitest prar- But it is the body of the cur it fical advantage.

With the elimi nation of the propeiler shaft and the rear housing, the body can be WATCH FOR NAILS.dropped almost a fent, sn that

en entered on a level from the sidewalk without the use of a run-

Examine Treads of ning board. The rear wheels are

Tyres.

MISPLACED HARD-

WARE.

suspended separately, without us- ing a rear axle, or that axle could be bent channel-shape under the rear of the body.

The only limiting factor in the overall height of the rar, using this tyne of drive, would be that If a motorist makes a practice of of road clearance. But with the examining his tyre trends fre-improvement of our roads, this quently when on the roads by the could be lowered to less than a eye or by running the hands over fool.

·

NEW DEVICE.

Shifts Gears for Driver.

Already the Export Company $65,000,000 in ita 24 operations had an Investment of more than overseas. The cars and trucks as- sembled there are sold by 6,000 dis- tributors, and dealers in 100 and more countries.

United States is as common as a grocery store," says a bulletin is- sued by the American Research Foundation, "The motorist drives up and orders his gasoline as he would a pack of cigarettes. But service performed by the petro- back of this apparently simply leum companies is the most highly Aystematized business on earth. The notable thing is that gasoline The newest thing in the way of whether he is on a remote high- ia always available to the motorist making driving easier for the mo-way in the Rocky Mountains or torist is an automalle gear shift, travelling some perfected by Oscar 11. Banker Florida.

swamp trail in

tion.

EÁSILY OPERATED.

them, the presence of nails and The car would ride much more other puncture-producing objects easily, because of its lower centre can sometimes be detected before of gravity, and they have pierced the inner tube high speeds would not be enhanc-by the Claybourn Process Corpora- petroleum

its stability at and being placed on the market: "Gathering and distribution of or at least before deflation has ed.

is a staggering been caused.

problem, but it โย solved A tack or a very short

The device is easily manipulat-by What makes body designers feel nail

methods. As Amooth да lodges in the tread may not pass drive, especially, is the fact that tion by the driver, that of disen-terranean sands of oil fields to the 84 eluted over the front-wheeled and requires only one opera- the oil itself. From the sub- entirely through the tube at once, at last the body can be designed aging the clutch and shifting a gasoline tanks of the nation's but If allowed to remain will finally prick through it, and nails that best and the chassis made to suff small lever under the steering automoblies the journey of pet- onter the casing obliquely can comfort and conveniences can be at-

Thus the ultimate in beauty, wheel.

roleum is a romance, Crude pil from United States wells ands its sometimes be removed before they tained without the handicap of de. speed of eight miles an hour the way in large part to refineries

When the car has gained. a car is automatically shifted into through underground pipe-lines, second. At 15 miles an hour it through which it flows in a never- goes into high,

ending river. Oil pipe lines of Several experiments conducted]

the United States total 97,000 with the invention have proven quirca 17,000,000 barrels of oil. miles, Merely to all them re- natisfactory. In addition to the They transport elimination of jerking caused by 1,000,000,000 barrels of oil cach more than shifting and making more "room

year. At the refineries the ofl

have caused punctures.

It is at least of advantage to dis. signing these to fit the demands of cover the prosence of puncturing the existing type of channis.

objects as carly as possible in order

to avoid the possibility of in- advertently running on a deflated tyre, Inspecting the trends when a car is garaged at night Is a barticularly good.custom, as it Lends to forestall disappointments arising from unexpected stat tyres in the morning. If a nail or other sharp object is found in a tread, it should be pulled out at once, and it ia well to fix the spot by pencil marka made on the side wall of the tyre as a guide in'plugging the hole in the e' sing. Whether or not the sharp o-Ject has pierced the tube can be told by applying water or enlive over the hole. If bubbles escape through it there is an actual puncture and the tube will have to be changed.

ACCESSORIES

A Big display of "Oridits" and Lucas storage batteries suitable for all juator cura and radio. Also accentorios of all kinds for, motsecara And cycles such as

Electric horns. Haud jacks Bumpers.

Foot pumps Spark plugs. Wrenches Tyre patches. Lamp bulbs Brakellalog. Body polish

End

Ac.. to... &c., &c.

All at exceptionally low pricer. Call inspect THE HONGKONG MOTOR ACCESSORY CO... Bank of Canton Building, Tel. 0, 677. "

in the front seat, it is claimed that transformed into gasoline, con- aeaving of from 10 to 15 por sumption of which in 1928 is cent. In gan consumption le gained estimated at 12,000,000,000 gal- through the elimination of the

lons, present standard gear,

"Trains of fank cars loaded with Hills offer ne problem for the gasoline are forover rolling to the automatic shifter. Just as the four corners of the nation to re- machine works on a level stretch,plenish the storage reservoirs. It automatically changes gears as Where the railroad tank cars drop the speed diminishes up grade. the job, the motor-driven tank The device is entirely mechani-trucks take it up and keep the gas- cal and le controlled by the speed oline filling stations, stocked up. of the driver plus the power load Last stage of all is the motor car through adjustments in the trans-playing its part in industry and Imisalon.-

human happiness.

SATURDAY, JUNE 8, 1929.

Get behind the wheel Get

and Get the facts !

Buy your car on a business basis --- check power, getaway, swift- ness, hill-climbing-in actual tests---that's all that's needed to prove Buick

Superiority

A kind and degree of performance so new-so' indescribably superior-induced more than twice as many people to purchase Buicks during the past year as any other automobile listing above $1200. Here is ample reason for discarding old buying habits. Take a Buick. Drive it in traffic, Try it on the hills and on the straightaway. Test it in your own way and at your own pace. Measure carefully every element of performance.

Get behind the wheel and get the facts... then you'll get a Buick! Buick Motor Company, Filat, Michigan, Division of General Mopri Corporation

Buick

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THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.

Telephone Central 1246 or 1247.

83, WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD, HAPPY VALLEY.

WHEN. BETTER AUTOMOBILES ARE BUILT BUICK WILL BUILD THEM.

DUNLO

as British as the Flag

PA107

GENERAL

FIT

DUNLOP.

The Tyre that Carries

London's

Buses.

Fit DUNLOP

WITH THE BUTTRESSED TREAD.

There's a Dunlop Tyre for every make of car or bus and for every standard rim.

DUNLOP RUBBER Co. (China), Ltd.

Pedder Building.

Tel. C. 4554.