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THE HONGKONG · TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

THE AUTOMOBILE BRINGS PROSPERITY. Transportation Knows No Boundaries.

[By Rabt. R. Thien of General Motora Coy:].

GIGANTIC FUSION.

CAR CRIMINALS.

Gen. Motors Touch. Burglars Who Drive

AIRCRAFT FIRMS WELDED.

The automobile manufacturer, of the United States or of England Having entered the aviation | or of France or Germany turns to feld by acquiring a substantial

to Work.

"BORROWED" CARS.

The ordinary professional man export for profit. There is interest in the Fokker Aircraft of 1929 still goes to his work in denying that simple fuct. But Corporation, and buying the All-the same manner as he has done paradoxical as it may seem at sou Engineering Co. (which bullds for years by train, labe or first glance, the countries which fagro engines), General Motors omnibus, import cars and trucks benefit Corporation is extending its activi-,

Sometimes he is sufficiently greatly, los. For, countries pro- ties in a manner which indicates affluent to go to and from his office gross economically as they develop that it may create a General Air-in his own private car. their means of transportation. craft Corporation.

When countries pay out money

Travel to-day from Iceland in the. North to New Zealand in the South, from Detroit to Bagdad, from Flint to Shanghal, and you will find motor vehicles in use, of benefit to the owner and to the country in which the vehicle is used. There are more than 700; automobiles in the Fiji Islands, the jungles of Pagua boast 136 cars and trucks while Borneo, at one time noted for ita head-hunters,

A big group has been welded is abreast of Papua in the number for motor vehicles they are not together under the name of the of its motor vehicles. Even Gurun, unsettling their trade balances. Bendix Aviation Corporation. an American cable post in the The resulting econonile benefits Through the organisations In- Pacific, bas nearly 300 eary, if from the improved transportation volved, this company will control one insisted upon going to a facilition, more than offset the nearly all the aviation accessory -country where, there are no motor] money paid out. The world over, bustness in the U.S.A., and.

rebicles he probably would have there are innumerable examples obviously, is designed to link up The crook has a job of work to

It is all so simple. to turn to Tibet where the total to prove this statement. The with the Fokker and Allison condo, and a speedy method of trans motor vehicular population, con- automobile is literally and actually eens. General Motors sport is necessary to carry it out

| a creator of economic wenith, organised the fusion..

It is encouraging to those of us

But the crook of 1929 travels to his work neither by train, tube nur omnibus. Nor does he go to work in his own car.

lle merely appropriates some one else's for the space of a few hours.

No More "Fences". to the police as having been The car is then officially report-

atojen.

course.

it.

practically impossible 10 sel

SATURDAY, AUGUST: 3, 1929,

NEW PISTON ALLOY,

Chrysler Innovation.

INCREASES POWER.

Contributing in a most important manner to the smooth, speedy and powerful performance, of the Chry- sler-built DeSoto Six are the Chry ster-designed Iso-therm, Invarstrut platons with which it is equipped. These pistons, combine the best fea- tures of both aluminum alloy and cast iron pistons.

Aluminum alloy has two funda- mental advantages

piston material. First, its light weight and second, its high rate of heat conductivity. Light weight is essential to overcome inertia, to produce a smooth flow of power and to reduce pressures on con- necting rod and main bearings to à minimum..

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essential to maintain piston head High rate of heat conductivity is temperatures below the point at which detonation or pre-ignition at which lubrienting oll will 'crack' occurs, and below the temperature and carbonize. Piston rings will not seal effectively against cont pression and explosion pressure unless kept at temperatures below the ofl's carbonizing point.

other designs.

The Is-therm Invar construction

sists of one, lone motorcycle.

During the past few years since |

properly. He searches for a like The Bendix Aviation Corporalanking car which has been left the war, the United States has in the automobile export business. tion will be capitalised with an outside someone's front door while been visited by numerous commais- here in the United States and in issue of 3,000,000 shares, and will the owner pays a visit, and drives Rions and committees of business) Europe, too, that this fact is being, require the assets and 'business vit. men and bankers from different comprehendid more more of the present Bendix Corporation,

and countries, who have come here to throughout the world. In fact, the Bendix Brake Co., the Eclipse learn the secrets of America's there is a country in Europe where Machine Co., the Delco Aviation

Temperatures Lowered. prosperity. And without excep- the Government itself is making Corporation, the Stromberg Car-

Name for the first five letters tion these groups of business men an investigation to learn why the burettor Co., and its subsidiaries,

No doubt the crook would con- in the word 'Invariable," JAVAT and economists have gone away people of Chat, country, a country and the Scintilla Magelo Cor-alder this a harsh word. In his metal is no slightly affected by heat convinced that the United Sintes] whien hus an automotive industry | poration. owes much of its material success of its own of which it can well be General Motors will give to the view, he has merely "borrowed" that it undergoes practically no to the automotive Industry, 11 proud, are absorbing such a small new company valuable rights in it for a few hours, although, of expansion or contraction. It in was recognized first that any inpercentage of the total number of the aviation accessory held, and in prevent his returning the car tu conductor in comparison with alum- pressure of business will also an exceptionally pour hent dustry which employs nearly 4-| Vehicles manufactured in that connexion with other devices, 000,000 men and women directly untry. That Government views while the Electric Auto-Lite Co the spot from where he "borrowed" inum alloy. Engineers found that the proper procedure was to build and pays them conuully, six bif-] the nutonibile as an instrument will contribute pulent rights.

It will be found eventually by a strut or brace of this special In- Jinus of dollars in wages, must of) ni progress whose use should be Parts Coys, Involved. mvessity make a trememkus eneisarared rather than discourage; "The Hoard of Directors will the police abandoned in some aut var steel Into the alloy piston, form- ing a rigid bridge connecting the reikumie contribution {n the

jave Vincent Bendix as its prest-of-the way spot.

"There is no real trade In head and the skirt. Heat generated country's welfare. It provides I am one of those in the esport|dent, while members of the board employment, Jays liberal wages, business who believe that the will represent all the participat stolen cars nowadays", said an by the explosion of gas in the cylin places muy in circulation, adds United States will find its majoring companies mentioned, as well oficial at one of the West End der travels downward to the Invar-

sintiona Lo il

comparatively poor heat to the purchasing power of the automobile markets overseas in as executives of the Wright, Acre police

Daily strut, a

conductor which insulates the heat representative. "The Expresa nation, in brief. is real thuse a nuntries which-käve no au-¦ nautick! Corporation (makers of

of

registration

make from the top of the skirt. When precautions economic benefit, Bot these same | Tomobile induntries of their own. Weight molors), Curtis Aeroplane)

it eventually reaches the latter, the groups of business men also went Countries which have automotive C, United Aircraft and Transport

heat is much less intense than in away impressed that the United indistries maluially will take Corporation, National Aviation States has gained much by aak-steps to build up those industries Corporation, and the Aviation

has lowered piston hend tempera- ing it easy for men and women in Their first and natural impulse is Corporation" all walks of life to own motor | la levy High import duties 021 More than half the 'planes now

tures at full engine speeds appro- vehicles. Here in this country motor vehicles. That's reason-built are equipped with Bendix,

difference in heat means that the ximately 150 to 175 degrees. The may be seen daily the economic uble but it is also reasonable to Machine Co. makes starters for benefits of good transportation ask whether protection can be aero motors: Stromberg carburet- and there is a pretty fair weekly oil retains its lubricating quality. Sacilities. Hore may be observed carried to a point where a penalty tors are med hy large producers average of such thefts bring re-little carbon forms and that wear the benefits to be derived from the is imposed upon the man who for aviation. chines: Selat la posted. In nearly every case the on cylinder wall bearings, pistons common use of motor vehicles. wants to buy a motor car.

magnetos

developed for lost car is found within a few and other parts is greatly lessened. For after all an automobile is It cannot be denied that the aviation purposes, and are stan-hours of its having been reported Expansion and contraction are con simply a means of transportation. American automobile industry hasdard equipment on most plane stolen, After people have supplied them- profiled much from keen competi-engines, while the Delco Aviation1 selves with food, have obtained tion. Trenuudous strides have Corporation developed the ignition lothing and provided themselves been made in automotive engineer-system used on Liberty aviation with shelter, they just naturally) ing and mundafacture because com- engines, tura 10 transportation--thej pětilive conditions have compellest Huge economies in manufacture dinvement from place to plier of such progress. Conditions over and distribution of planes and people and goods.

Seds are not lentical but they are accessories should be effected by Transportation knows no bound. comparable and it is perfectly this menger. ́aries. It was a natural develop-| reasonable to believe that the

ment that the American au- automotive industries of other facturing facilities would come Tomabile industry should have countries could-profit from a little improved motor vehicles. And and

markets additional competition. Such com-the wimber of them increased it Automobiles are unufactured to petition would probably result in is reasonable to believe that prices day in Europe and the United the elimination of what may he would be reduced. That would in States, alone, South America, obsolyte methods of engineering] turn result in more cars in use Asia, Africa, Australia and the and manufacturing. The modernith consequent ergonomic benefits. Islands of the orvants, all must ization of plant and machine | View this whole automobile turn to Europe and the United, equipment

ofasiness from any angle and you Stutos fro their motor vehlenlar] veanomic novessity. With i will find it inseparable from Iransportation.

HIPOFOmic progress.

1amed 10

NOTHING BETTER THAN

Would

beroved engineering and

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were

tolen car, and the one or two 'Tences' who some years ago did a large trafic ip stolen care exist, for bastness purposes, no longer.

Often Damaged, "Cars are still stulen, however

fit of pistons to the cylinder walls

trolled so closely that a ninch closer

in

as

The thief simply borrows' it for the particular job he has hand, and alandans it as soon he has finished."

In some of these cases reckless driving on the part of the thieves, the pressing need for exceeding the speed limit, results in a crash, und, while the miscreants frequently escape injury, as well as succeed in eluding their pur- surers for a short while, the rent owner of the ear has to sit down and make out a claim insurance company,

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If the thief is lucky he may senpe detection just as long as he needs the car, but in mans cases the efficiency of the police force does not allow him even this amount of rupe.

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is permissible. The DeSoto Six uses a learance of only .0005 of an inch to each inch of eyiinder bore. Cast iron pistona would demand. twice that clearance.

THEME-WITH

I have a dinky little car, In it. I love to travel far On pavements of cement ur tar; Alas! That some my joy should).

mar.

"

I have a dinky little car, I bought it with loud shouts of

glee.

And self-complaisant: "I'm in

luck,"

But now it seems that ev'ry

truck

Must try its best to bounce off

me:

·By agile skill I've not been),

struck,

But gone is my complacency. Alas! That some my Joy should)

mar.

In it I love to travel far

But how I hate a tyre that's flut At changing one my spirit quails| But soars in anger of the brat Who picks my ronds to strew

VARIATIONS.

with nails.

Alas! That some my joy should

inar.

On pavements of cement or tar That climb the crests of tree-

topped bills

Where sweet winds smooth the

wrinkles out

And wash away and put to rout The city's worries, troubles, ills, I love my dinky little car, But I get several sets of humps When toiling o'er long miles of

bumps.

Alas! That some my joy should

mar.

Alas! That some my joy should

mar"

Yet I cannot, in manner mock, Cease stretching for a distant

star;

For it's perfection that I seek On pavements of cement or tar

Monument To Motor, Transportation

The General Motors Building in New York dominates the automo- bile retion which centers at Columbus Ctrete. In this huge structure. is the home office of the General Motors Export Company which last your did a businewo of $400,000,000 in 100 countries throughout the world.

The Peak Garage.

IS NOW UNDER

THE MANAGEMENT OF LANE, CRAWFORD, LTD.

OUR SERVICE STATIONS

UNDER THE SUPERVISION OF MR. A.J. ALLISION,

IN CASE OF

EMERGENCY

PHONE

C. 3193

ARE ORGANISED TO RENDER

PERSONAL and PRACTICAL SERVICE.

ALL MAKES OF CARS OVERHAULED AND, TUNED TO PERFECTION.

LARGE STOCK OF SPARE PARTS CARRIED.

MAIN SERVICE STATION.

10, CROSS LANE, WANCHAI.

Tel. C. 3193

Tel. K. 1624TM

CAMERON ROAD,

Peak 208

KOWLOON SERVICE STATION.

PEAK SERVICE STATION,

LANE, CRAWFORD, LIMITED.