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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

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SATURDAY, AUGUST 10, 1929.

MATTERS.

When

Car Tyre Bursts.

Which is the more dangerous——|

a burst front tyre or a burst fear.

tyre? The true answer probably

Perished of Under-inflation. Anything less than 10,000 miles!

stops must not grumble at their tyre bill.

A dozen other causes of rapid wear are cited by these rubber men. Bud roads, hilly ronds, 111- Indjusted. Over-inflation is almost ¡ns bad as under-inflution. Areny tyre 10 lb. too hard will wear out in half its proper milenge.

CHAINED TO WHEEL

200 Hours

ENDURANCE TEST.

A new recurd for sleepless driy- ng been established in U.S.A. by [Elmer (Red) Steele, who drove a

ear for 200 hours without a rest

Pregress and Stagnation.

Using a De Soto sealed in lop After residing this brochure you gear, and with radiator and oil in- Is that it depends, but in normal is a very poor life for a modern conditions the general iden that atyre, especially when used as feel that you ought never to take Lake also seated, Steele drove about front tyre buret is more to be my case, on a light car which is

the wheel. Though the engine was dreaded is, I believe, wrong, generally driven half-empty over your ear out if the sun is hot Oakland chained and handcuffed to thinke Mr. A. G. Throsell. I have goodish roads at moderate speeds. (wet ronds are best for tyres, by running for eight daya, aight always thought au, on theoretical in point of fact there was plenty the way) or until tyre pressures, nights and eight hours, it was cool grounds. Now I can submit evi-of rubber left on the trends of all brakes alignments and everything and in good condition at the finish. dence based on practical experi.] my disvards; including the one else have been tested, never go tended by two nurses, and his pulse ence of a specimen of each. They all died prematurely from more than 20 miles an hour, or and temperature were normal after are not so common nowadays) under-infintion, butchered by an

rubber men to tell us how to make collected both specimens in one owner who habitually ran them arods. It is very noble of the week. I was driving my own car little soft for the sake of his own our tyres lust for ever, but they along a good Sussex road when a comfort and added to his cruels | know well enough that we won't

und by neglecting the periodic gauge take half their advice.

Curiously enough-for bursta

that burst.

During the drive Steele was at-

drive up hills or along cambered the ordeal.

I have since been reading all I am still a little unrepentant

PACKARD-DIESEL.

Test in 'Plane.

front tyre, went with reminiscent of those one-pounder tost. shells the Germans used to pepper us with during the retreat. Beyond about this tyre business in a little about, under-inflation. It certain- the noise, it was utterly harmless, brochure insued by the Rubber ly is bad for the tyres, but a few LIGHT AND FLEXIBLE.

aft the manufacturers'

Successful trials of an acroplane which was just as well, seeing Association of America. Under pounds

inflation, it appears, damaged gure enn make such a difference time I had four passengers.. Maybe because the car was doing tyres in two ways. By allowing to one's comfort in a car which powered with a Diesel engine were Detroiter 'plane piloted by Capt. only 40 m.p.h. at the time, there them to squash out, a wider sur-weighs well under the too, and held in U.S.A. when a Stinson- no swerve, no perceptible face is brought into contact with whose springs cannot adapt them- M. Woolson flew from Detroit to snatch at the steering-wheel even. the rend; thereby increasing fric-selves to varying loads,

AVAB

Tyre.

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The engine used on the flight is light and flexible, and thus over- comes the two great drawbacks of the Diesel when applied to nero- plane use.

Langley Field. The running costs tion. Squashing also means that Safe Place for Burst Tyre...

Tyre progress has been great, for the flight, which took about The accond Affair happened a the walls of the tyre bend more,

Sometimes tempted seven hours, was five dollars, and the few days later, not to me, hat which Increase their heat, and but I almost at the gate of my house. heat is one of the most potent almost to regret the invention of engine was a Packard-Diesel, the the balloon tyre. But for that ear result of 20 years experimenting. The great radical improveniente This time it ended with the car's causes of rapid wear.

makers would have been compell-made possible by the Diesel are The Life of a nase deep in the hedge and its

ed to discover and adopt a more elimination of, ignition and car- wheels in the ditch. It was not

efficient system, of suspension.burettor troulile, great saving in One thing that was news to me In this respect the most modern east, and weight of fuel and reduc going particularly fast, but when the tyre burst the driver complete was the effect of speed on the life of cara is but little better off than Lion of fire risks,

upted, with of a tyre. It is obvious, of course, the chariot of two thousands yeng ly lost control. interest, that the peccant tyre that tyres don't last long at ago. That had leaf springs. All was on the nearside rene; wheel | Brooklands, but I did not realize that the wit of man has achieved and that the car had swerved that it made so much difference she is to add a contraption to clan across the road to its off what speed one drives, at on the make the springs less springy. - side. Lucky for the driver that road. In a recent test one set of nothing was passing him at the tyres lasted 12,000 miles at 351 miles per hour, while another set Why a near-side, burst should of equal quality lasted under the make a car awerve in the opposite same conditions but at a miles dirreton

miles: cannot pretend toper hour only 6,000 explais. But this dual experienceFifteen more miles an hour cat has confirmed my belief that the their mileage life in half.. safest place for a doubtful tyre, As average speeds have risen so if it must be used is on a from much, thanks to balloont tyres,

better ronds

four-wheel wheel.

My own burst was entirely my brakea, the life of a modern tyre own fault. The tyre was one of a compared to that of the pre-war set which had all done under article is refilly astonishing, 10,000 miles. Two of its fellows Another test was a sort of high-

moment

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