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FATE OF OLD CARS. Rate of Scrapping in the U.S.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH:

NOTHING NEW.

Romans Drove

Themselves.

RENT-A-CAR SYSTEM.

Two or three years ago the com- mon assumption was that approxi- mately 2,000,000 of the motor-

The ropt-a-car system, an in-] vehicles produced each year in the novation of the past few years in United States were destined for the minds of many people, is in replacement purposes, and that the reality an idea conceived centuries: remainder might be considered as ago in Rome. additions to the total number in Some two thousand years ago, service. This was equivalent to the a group of enterprising Romans scraming of about 2,000,000 cars developed the idea of hiring out annually. Figures recently commuledrawn cars' called cislums. piled show that at present this catering for those whose means scrapping of used cars la proceed-precluded their owning private ing at a considerably higher rate. The estimate for 1927 is 2,367,000, while that for 1928, which is not yet completed, may reach 2,750,000. These figures replace the average of approximately 1,580,000 for 1924, 1925 and 1926, and a total of under 1,000,000 for 1923.

vehicles.

production of cars in the year, and the exports and imports are

all taken into consideration. The dif- ference between the total registra- thong of two successive years repre sents the gross gain in cars in use. In calculating the number of cars The difference between the produc- scrapped in any year, the car ption of a year and the net exports Istrations of all the States Com-represents very approximately the bined at the end of the year, the number of new curs placed in ser-

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vice in the year. The difference between this last figure and the gain In registration will be the number scrapped.

From December 31, 1922 to the same date in 1928 the number of car registrations in the United Statca practically doubled, rising from 10,864,000 to 21,317,000. In this six-year period the total pro- duction of cars in the country was 21,343,000, and the net exports ag- gregated about 1,950,000 cars. The difference, 19,384,000 curs, nearly double the number in service at the end of 1922, represents the num- | ber of cars put into service. Since the gain in registration in the six years was only 10,453,000 ears, | 8,931,000 cars must have been aban-

doned or sold for scrap,

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MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.

CHICAGO'S FAST DRIVING.

Motorists of Chicago start out of the city on 40-foot high- ways at the permitted speed of 45 miles an hour-and drive into 18-foot roads that slow them down considerably, as the two photos show.

Chicago. Aug. 9th-Forty-five. In contrast to this, the wider miles an hour is the maximum aighways in Cook country none of speed limit now in Illinois but it which is more than 40 feet in doesn't mean much to many motor-width, permit traffic to flow along ists in the Chicago area,

smoothly and safely. Indeed, when Cook county which Chicaga bida faravel is comparatively light, the fair to cover completely, has an all casual observer may be led to be- too plentiful supply of two-lane leve that there is no real need for roads. Holidays bring with them extra width. Yet roads must be de- traffic jams, and the concentrated ordinary week-end traffic is even

worse.

Traffic conditions in the metro- |politan area of Chicago are per- haps no more than typical of those

gned for peak traffic loads which come in the evenings and mornings of those days when labour is freed. Engineers Show Way Out.

Even the 40-foot roads in the

that exist around other large citice, Chicago area are on occasion filled yet there should be no wonder in to the point of uncomfortable the Chicagoan's mind as to why travel. However, traffic engineers there is traffic congestion. For are of the opinion that with the there are no more than six so-called widening of parallel routes, the adequate wide highways leading construction of highways with two from the city to the country and 10-foot parallel roadways and the some of these merge tog soon into -18-foot pavements.

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establishment of elevated grade separations at congested intersec- tions, complete relief from the traffic octopus can be obtained.

Three Miles an Hour! West of Chicago, on one narrow motor section of Ogden avenue,

Very little is being done in the travel on any Sunday evening is Chicago area towards providing comparable to the progress of a traffic relief. There are but two. anail. From 30 to 50 minutes may noteworthy projects; the Governor's be consumed in going three miles, highway, a 40-foot strip of concrete A little town with one traffic light extending from Kankakee, to Chica- aupplementing the 18-foot pavement go, and the elevated grade separa- makes this just about the choicest ton at the intersection of two bit of traffic congestion in the through highways, Dempster street country,

and Milwaukee avenue..

事

PLUS NOT VERSUS. Many of the railroads operate their

Railways, Motors.

PROSPERITY FOR BOTH.

"Far from injuring the railroads

own motor 'bus and truckling lines, which take the place in some instances, of short branch lines. This movement has encouraged the development of feeders, and, judg 'ng the results as reflected by increased earnings, has materially strengthened the position of the railroads."

Commenting on this phase of de- of the U.S.A., motor transportation velopment, Mr. Randolph referred to and its effielency has been turned the important part railways play in by them into an asset, and made an Australia, and their potential contri- adjunct rather than a competiton." bution to the revenue of the Mr. Innes Randolph, managing di-country. Railway versus motor rector of General Motors (Aust.) transport. in Australia may Pty., Ltd., noted this development not in some of its aspects be during a recent trip to America, an evolution identical in its where he discovered railway condi- development with experience in the tions are more prosperous than ever United States, but the essentials are before.

much the same, he thinks. Progress "Motor transportation has been in making motor transport con- accepted na inevitable," he added, tribute to railways revenue has "and railroads have made increas- taken the place of destructive com- ingly wide use of it, Instead of petition and suppression in the fighting against natural progress. U.S.A.

STRONG OPPOSITION.

What chanes have I to speak my

piece?

Who listens.when I raise my

voice?

Nobody. So I hold my peace;

Keep silent. I've no other

choice.

The growing circle of

friends

my

Mine's one, one only, vein of

talk;

Here's where their discourse

starta and ends--

"

Cars, care and care. That's

where I baulk.

I have no car.

I never will

Become, an owner if I must Learn reve., penke, gallons,"

grades and hills,

Carbs., hot-spota, mags... and

such--I trust.

They speak in

strange and

foreign tongues, These men who bore me hour

on hour;

Their ceaseless flow would make

taine wurms

Turn round and snap, with

visage dour.

I

Ench offers each absurb advice In thous, and angles, treads

and tracks;

Deplores or boasts each new

device,

Or boasts of trivial tricks and

knacks.

In vain, I seek to turn their

thoughts

.

To better, anor, nobler deeds; I try, but still results are

nought-

...

For no one ever hears or

heeds.

I will, I must, forsake these

men,

To find some friends who

think like me;

Then I'll tell, fully, how and

When

I did the long fourteenth In

three.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 14, 1929.

CAUSES CRASHES.

Failure to Signal,

́ ́Mortorists who fail to digitith their Intention to turn, stop wr start are asking for trouble, nud at the same me showing de courtesy to anyone using the roads the Committee considers.

REVERSE ACTION.

New Servo Brake.

75 FEET SAFE MARGIN.

Signala ard' required by law.adit. HELD OFF BY ENGINE.

Failure to "signal is reckoned should be givap, clearly, at leadi the most prolific cause of traffic 75 feet before a turn; they: 200 A Swiss engineer is the Inventor accidents by the California Com- vital to safety on the road of a new servo brake which is the mittes on Public Safety which is The horn should be soundia reverse in operation to that general-working on a campaign to reduce when overtaking other vehiclon

mishape.

and at turns and intersections. ly fitted to cars.

The orthodox plan for braking by A vacuum caused by the engine is Inverted, the springs which usually pull the brake off being the force which applies the new brake.

The mechanism le no arranged that the brake pedal operates an atmospheric valve which releases the vacuum. The brake is then pulled on by the springs, Varying degrees of braking pressure can be exerted by the driver, who can feel the extent to which he is retarding the car through the pedal? "The outstanding advantage of the. new brake is that braking power is not lost through stalling of the engine. Provision is made for releasing the brakes independently in the event of the engine stopping.

FORD'S FUEL CONSUMPTION,

During 1928, the fuel consump tion of the Ford factory in Detroit was 637,404 tons of coal. This is equal to a train load 100 miles long. An average output of 2,000,000 lbs. of steam per hour, making a total of 11,853,000,000 lbs. WAR generated from this during the year,

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