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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPI MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, OCTOBER

FISK

All-Cords

AIR-FLIGHT

PRINCIPLE TIRES.

THE MOST

CONCLUSIVE

EVIDENCE

of superIORITY

**F.SK ALL-CORD" ORDINARY CORD

Note that the cords are. This photo shows a sect. absolutely parallel in alig. lon of ordinary cord dig- Aller individual playing cross r meat each

that chafe cord is ins lated and posi-threads tively separated from the and disintegrate the cords others and free from cross causing friction and early

fallure, or filler threads.

No other make of tire can offer you these EXCLUSIVE Fisk features.

THE SEVEN POINTS OF SUPERIORITY OF FISK AIR-FLIGHT PRINCIPLE TIRES

2. All-Cord Process

1. Larger Air Chamber 3. Multiple Cable Bead 5. Stream Line ¡read.

4. Increased Flex'Aren

6. Greater Road Contact

-7. Air-Flight Balance.

Obtainable at all Garages, upon request,

GILMAN

N. Z. CUSTOMS.

Tel. 28011.

Sole Distributors:

& CO., LTD.

Motorcars will be subject to them Power has been taken to increase New customs imposts expected the duties on foreign goods with to produce Zealand House of Representatives preference to British imports.

£800,000 were

BRIGHTER LIGHTS.

FISK ALL CORD PROCESS.

Result of 80 Years' Development.

RUBBERISATION.

The present high state of quality control and manufacturing eth- ciency in the production of All- Cord material for lyre carcasses has been the result of over eighty years of development. From s small beginning with crude ex- perimental equipment the process has been improved step by step antil to-day we have available a manufacturing unit which for quality control and production eff- ciency leaves little to be desired.

It was realised from the very in- ception of the use of a multitwist cord in tyre carcasses that the prac tice of weaving the cords into a fabric which contained a very light filler thread was a makeshift. The filler thread was not of any value in the tyre. On the other hand, it has proved a distinct detriment in that, as weak as it is, the constant. lexing that tyre CARCASS in, service Causes undergoes

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the

carcass

it to chafe through

resultant with cords failure. The presence of the filler) thread is also objectionable in that it prevents the cords from lying flat. A woven cord fabric coated with rubber has a very light coating at that point where the cord eros ses the filler thread. A consider able amount of ply separation in the finished tyre can be traced to this condition.

1930.

BLESSING MOTOR CARS.

Abbe Thuault of the Church of Saint Christophe-le- Jajolet, near Parie, standing in front of the statue to the saint and blessing automobiles as they pass,

[By Minott Saunders.] Paris,'

The good man took the child on his back and started to wade, but Aug. 29.-Reckless)

A3 he proceeded his burden At driving and traffic tangles are became heavier and heavier. increasing annually the popularity length he could hardly stand up under the weight, but with great of Saint Christopher, the patron saint of travellers,

and courage he staggered on As the record of road accidents finally reached the other shore in mounts, an does the number of safety. Then in his exhaustion reverential requests by owners of he saw that he had been carrying vehicles for blessing and protesthe Christ-child.

The impracticability of wovention from harm in the name Hence he became the patron cord fabric is also very clearly Saint Christopher.

saint of travellers.

fermed

Annual Blessings. Every summer thousands of

is what by

This ceremony is taken serious-) shown

This is a slack con-ly in France, and somewhere an "bagginess." dition in a portion of the width of the majority of cars, usually on the roll, which, with all the study the instrument board in front of cars are blessed in France and the driver, may be seen a Saint Saint Christopher's day this year iven it by cotton mills, has never Christopher plaque, a metal disc established a record. Mass is said been eliminated. The fabric can bearing the image of the saint. and holy water is sprinkled as is driver past the 4A, Des Voeux Road, 20

he used, but only by feeding it into This indicates that the car has each car calenders with a very heavy ten-been blessed and that the spirit celebrant.

The Saint Christopher plaque, seen in a over it.

car, is but a modern bulbs, it is now permissable to usexion on the cords in the remainder of Saint Christopher is watching 2 candle power, providing they of the width so that they will So popular has the ceremony version of the cloth scapulary by devout travellers in New Jersey has authorized the are used, in approved devices stretch and allow some tension on become that children have their worn

Tourists who come to Paris are announced last week in the. New the abject of affording further use of brighter globes in the throwing a beam at no greater the baggy portion. This results, of bicycles blessed and even little olden times,

head-lamps of its automobiles, height than three and a half feet course, in a tyre containing cords tots may be seen drawing their!

having widely varying ability to scooters before a priest in solenia usually amazed at the speed with

worship..

which cars are driven through the streets of the city, and taxi stretch. It follows then, that these

Travellers' Patron Saint,

drivers especially are noted for eords having least ability to

The followers of the early their antics. But as like as not stretch absorb all of the strain.

Christian saint will relate to the the hard-boiled taxi driver shrugs uninitiated how he stood on the his shoulders as he wondrously bank of a stream and was hailed winds his way, for his car is in Another affect to the heavy ten-by a child, who asked to be carried the care of Saint Christopher and

he has faith, sion required to remove bagginess is the shrinkage in width with con- sequent lack of the number of cord per inch. This is serious in that it

board. sheet. The operation maintaining sufficient from the collector thread precludes

is carried under conditions which are space between cords for insulation. Tension is varied as required by on

In place of the 21 candlepower from the ground.

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Insulation of Cords.

square woven

across

..

The necessary complete insula-changing the number or position of ideal. Both coats are applied to the tion of all cords, in the case of a the bars. The tension unit is also cards and, between the cords, to woven cord fabric, cannot be effect-equipped with an expanding comb each other before the cords have ed except through frictioning. On of the lazy tong type to provide a ost their heat and before the first

fabric fritioning preliminary width control of the coat has lost its plasticity.

The Wind Up. presents no problem at all but on a sheet of cords. flimsy cord fabric it results in seri- The drying and heating unit

After emerging from the calen- ou distortion with its attendant consists of a stack of copper sur

roller der, the new rubberized fabric disturbance of the uniformity of faced drums revolving on cord stretch. At best frictioning bearings. The sheet of cords pass-passes through a continuous au- can be carried on only by maintain-es over their surfaces and emerges tomatic weight indicating and re- ing a very heavy tension with eon-in a properly hot and dry stage cording device and to the wind- Aequent loss of the most valuable having lost its uniformity of ter-up. The wind-up is so designed characteristic of the cord, that ission.

its ability to stretch...

overcomes all of

Spacing Unit,

as to allow changing rolls while the calender is operating at full speed. It is equipped with an elec- trically operated cutter which a perfectly straight cut It con-across the fabrics and an automatic

The spacing unit is mounted on

The present producing equipment very effectively these difficulties. It consists of a the calender frame directly back of makes creel, a tension unit, a drying and the middle calender roll. heating unit, a spacing unit, a four sists of an expanding comh, a final device for feeding the fabric into roll calender, and a continuous spacing bar, and a presser roll, all the liners without wrinkles.

The product of to-day's All-Cord windup. The cord is wound on mounted on a horizontally adjust-

The expanding Process equipment is beyond com. cones weighing twelve to fourteen able carriage. pounds and containing from, 14,000 comb provides a final width adjust-parison with woven cord fabric, to 16,000 yards. The inside end ofment. The final spacing bar is no matter how carefully and ex- the cord is allowed to hang free round steel bar on which has been pensively processed. Laboratory cut a screw thread of a pitch re-tests indicate an infinitely greater. for. about twelve inches to allow splicing the outside end of presenting the number of ends de uniformity of cord elongation. Uni- The [formity in number of cords per cone to the inside of another, sired in the finished fabric. This makes it possible to provide presser roll- is a solid steel roll, inch and space between cords is very accurately machined and controlled absolutely. With the grounded. It provides means for elimination of the frictioning pressing the sheet of properly operation it is possible to control spaced cords into the skim coat on total rubber deposits within very

The close limits. The ereel is so laid out that it the middle calender roll..

a continuous supply.

"The Process

"

haa spindles for each end in the pressure adjustment is hand wheel The effectiveness of applying finished fabric. One of the spin-operated."

both coats at once is very clearly dles holds a, cone from which the

The sheet of cords after leaving indicated, by microscopic examina- cord is running while its mate holds a second cone spliced to the the heating and drying unit passes tion of the finished fabric. It is first one. When a cone has run through the expanding comb, under found that the rubber is. driven so out it is immediately replaced by the spacing bar, one" cord to a completely into the card that it. a full one which is spliced to the groove, around the pressure roll thoroughly fills in even the hell- and on to the skim coat on the cal twist spacings in the various then running one. The cord, after middle calender roll. The calender strands making up the cord, a con- leaving the cone, is threaded

and is of a type having the fourth roll dition obtained by no other prac through a tension device through various guiding thread offset at the top. The offset and tical production process. boards to a central collector thread top rolls form one skim coat on the board. The tension device and all top roll while the middle and bot- a akim on the thread boards are equipped with tom rolls form

middle roll. It is equipped with | porcelain eyes to prevent any pos aibility of injury to the cord. Conveyors from the warning mills which provide a continuous They are also arranged so that

the point of leaving the cof-uniform feed of stock. Mill and lector thread board each has been calender roll temperature indies problem of traffic congestion in subjected to a very slight but tors and recorders with the result London it is understood that the that the stock is constantly held at number of buses on the streets absolutely uniform, tension,

between 10 a.m. and 4 p.m. is to a proper and uniform plasticity.be limited. at first as an experi

LONDON PROBLEM.

In an endeavour to tackle the.

The proper operating tension is obtained in the teusion unit which consists of a series of polished steel bars over which the cords arc leased paire immediately after emerging skim into the other side of the system.

The sheet of corde, after having ment; while in another direction been pressed on to the middle roll it has been suggested that New carried up on that roll to its bite and Old Bond Street, W., should with the top roll which forces its come under the unilateral parking.

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