1930-11-08 — Page 12

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. MOTORING SUPPLEMENT. SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 8, 1930.

TOURING IN THE CANADIAN ROCKY MOUNTAINS.

Highways Have Opened Regions of British Columbia and Alberta.

that

AN ENTIRELY NEW PRINCIPLE IN PNEUMATIC TYRES.-NOT A NEW DESIGN AN ACTUALLY

NEW PRINCIPLE.

reveals in the road turn Almost at once the motorist is

The

scenery.

ELECTRICAL EQUIPMENT AT ITS BEST.

Usual Motorist Does Not Understand This Apparatus.

gears

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a motor car because the highway the tourist a few miles to the From it radiate reads and trails to

numerous beautiful spots, system there is not yet completa. northward.

Undoubtedly the best way to read across Yoho Valley winds Enough good roads already exist to enable any one to drive in com- approach the Rockies is from the through magnificent furt through

region for east. The great majority of Crossing the bridge from Field. Nor is it travellers will continue north the road finds a narrow footing. hundreds of miles.

to Calgary, between the swirling waters of the necessary to confine one's visit to through Macleod the Summer months-Autumn is where a left turn is made on the Kicking Horse River and the base, Mount Burgess. Directly i

Starters and dynamos are, in, that of a clock or a gramophone. equally attractive for such a tour. highway that leads upward into of

the mountains to Banff and Lake ahead are Mount Stephen and Into British Columbia,

Louise, Even from Calgary one Cathedral Crags, towering against the main, of similar construction If the spring is nearly run down and are essentially simple units.t cannot, of course, give any ap the super- It is possible, of course, to drive Until quite recently the scenic, westward through

Six miles from Field is reached There is only one rotating part and preciable power. It is the to the westward a long irregular

110 moving well charged-or fully wound up, BO attructions of British Columbia latively beautiful Banff and Lake westward from Manitoba through may see, on a clear day, far away, the sky. and the Canadian national parks Louise region must either drive Saskatchewan and Alberta, but blue line, like a jagged knife what is called the "Switchback," nothing that could strictly be with the battery. It must be kept The to speak. It must be fully charged, It is the Rockies, sixty drive. The road zigzags up the levers,

armature runx were open only to the compura-southward for many miles almost this way of reaching the moun-blade, with a glistening white the most thrilling stretch in the called mechanism.

on so that it is up to its maximum With every west-face of the mountain in a series dynamo

re-voltage and in a condition to supply tively few who travelled through to the international border or ship tains is not so interesting as that erest.

Even the ear by train all the way to from further south in the United miles away. that region, by railroad.

States. Perhaps the ideal way of ward mile the mountains grow of sharp turns which require ball bearings, which only

A few miles quire infrequent lubrication. The the sudden rush of power required snowcapped peaks skillful driving. now it is not possible to motor Revelstoke. continuously

Thus stands the situation at reaching British Columbia is to bluer, the from points in Southern Alberta to Vancouver, present. Much has been accom- motor first to Yellowstone Park whiter and the sense of enchant- further on a dramatic turn in the reliability of these electrical units o turn the engine and overcome its

The road road suddenly reveals the Takak-is such that the great majority of inerita

A half-discharged battery, al- car owners give them no attention on the Pacific Coast; and if the plished of late years in making and then northward, skirting the ment more profound. more southerly route is followed, the Canadian Rockies accessible to eastern side of Glacier Park and passes through the great ranching kaw, a shining waterfall.

Emerald Lake, only seven miles so long as they keep on working though it will "work" the lights, will not necessarily work the starter when the starting conditions the motorist will And it necessarymotor cars but certain links in the entering Canada at Carway, In the country and among the rounded,

Attention to the Dynamo. to ship his car by boat along a chain of highways still remain to extreme southwestern corner of grassy knobs of the foothills, from Field, owes its beauty to the satisfactorily.

This gradually approaching the massive peculiar colour of its waters and This work is now the Province of Alberta.

The dynamo commutator should are unavoidable.

It is rarely that there is any large part of Kootenay Lake, be forged. writes Leon A. Dickinson to the being pushed by the Canadian provides many wonderful views mountain barrier that for so long the charm of its thickly wooded

even before reaching Canada, and shut off direct communication; shores. It is said that in its try be cleaned, say, once in 6,000 miles, Government. ·

between the Pacific and the plains. stalline depths one may ecunt by detaching the inspection cover lectical fault in the starter if it New York Times,

However, let none be deterred serves as a fitting introduction to Again, those who motor along

Among the Peaks.

twenty shades of green, but never and pressing a piece of clean, soft fails to do its work. It is nearly By now the great grey escarp-one of blue.

rag on the commutator whilst the always the case that the battery is the northern highway that leads from lavading British Columbia in the. magnificent scenery awaiting

ment of the mountains, 2,500 to: Yoho Park is now linked with dynamo is running slowly, the en-not fully charged. Reasoning back- 3,000 feet high, rises up abruptly the outside world by railway and gine being throttled down to idling wards, the battery is dependent on like a wall. The eye searches in motor highway, while trails con-speed. This cleaning removes any the dyname if this falls below, vain for an opening in the barrier, nect Field with Jasper Park on carbon dust which may tend to par this condition will be repro- but it is there and soon a sharp the north and Kootenay Park on lodge between the mutator seg-duced in the battery and it will not

it. the south.

ments. No abrasive material, such get its proper charge rate.

The Battery. Spectacular Scenery.

as emery, should be applied to a

Every ear owner desirous of among lofty peaks. Wind Moun: From its eastern end at the commutator. tain (10.100 feat), Pigeon Moun- Kicking Horse Pass, the route to The novice should not try alter-keeping the electrical equipment in tain (7,845 feet) and the Three Gulden, B.C., offers spectacular ing or experimenting with the brush efficient order should purchase a Sisters (9,744 feet) stand out pro- views of the mountains. Together gear. He will probably learn as he battery hydrometer and test the minently almost as soon as the with the Banff-Windermere high-gains experience that, there is a gravity of the acid, say, once a entrance is passed.

Near the little mining town of Way, it affords a circuit of more control brush which is adjustable, month. He should also get the

than 300 miles.

so as to regulate the output of cur-battery manufacturers booklet of From Canmore come the first glimpses

that this adjustment is originally learn the gravity readings corres- of the Hoodens-queer eroded boundary of Yoho Park the high rent, but it must be kept in mind instructions, from which he will If a ponding to the state of charge of pillars carred by the action of the way runs along the wide valley of fixed by the manufacturers.

A few waters in the glacial sit

the Kicking Horse River, follow-

About a mile greater output of current is desired the battery. Generally, the fully miles further in the road passes in easy grades.

it is the wisest plan to have the charged reading is 1.280, although animal paddocks. fenced

west of the boundary of the park readjustment effected at the man some latteries it is less, say, There! 11.260. Much lower readings in- clastres in which are seen the road enters its most specta facturers' service station. shaggy buffale, elk, deer, goats cular section. perched high up

be good, technicaldicate that the battery is in a lis- may, however, and even the elusive yak. Then along a narrow defile on the wall reasons for not altering the output charged condition. Inspect the zeid a short run of about a mile brings of the Kicking Horse

For instance, it may overload there from time to time and keep the visitor to Banff, headquarters splendid vistas of the Western

dyname and cause it to run hot,it above the top of the plates by of the Rocky Mountain National Rockies

to restore the level. Remember that Park, Few places are so ideally Selkirks beyond are here It may also tend to overcharge the adding distilled water, just enough

battery,

The general condition of the over-charging the valley Perhaps the chief asset of Banfl Dropping to the is the variety of attractions it Goldon, the route then turns dynamo, so far as "enerating its Waste the acid and it will need ofers. There is much to see and southward toward the headwaters full output of current is concerned, frequent additions of distilled

It con- can be gauged from the ammeter

The top of a battery should be much to hold the interest alike for the Columbia River. of the sportsman, the student of neets Firlands, sixty-seven readings. The system of controll- wild life, the quiet stay-at-home miles from Golden, with the Banff-ing the output ensures that it willy and there should be no corro- sojourner and the motor explorer. Windermere Highway, which any not increase when a certain speed sion on the connexions, as this in- Beany corrosion detach the connexions There are sceres of lovely dis-be followed back to Banff These of the war is attained; this is sdicates mid leakage. If there is triets accessible by road or trail.bound south, however, may con-ually 23-30 miles per hour. For the motorist with suflicient inue along the Columbia Valleyyond this speed the ammeter-charge and scrape them thoroughly clean; Jover them. If, however, corrosion time at his disposal there are to the international boundary at reading will remain steady or it replace and smear some vaseline three especially fine trips: The Kingsgate, B.C., from which point may even go back to a small exreoccurs, let the nearest battery

of dynamo drive to the eastern boundary of connexions may

made to tent. Any falling-off

as the leak-proof devices may need from the battery, the national park, a distance of Spokane, Seattle. Portland, Van-output will mean that a discharge service depot examine the battery about thirty-two miles; the tour couver and Victoria. San Fran-is being taken

whereas there should be a small attention. As most cars are equip along the Banff-Windermere high-cisco and Southern California."

of the battery terminals connects way, wesi over Vermilion summit. The Banff-Windermere Highway reading on the "charge" side of the red on the single-wire system, one iammeter when all lights are in use to the frame by a copper tap or to Sinclair Canyon, and the jaunt is

What a Battery Does

cable. Note that this is in good to Lake Louise and the Great length, while the distance from

An electrical fact that should be condition and tightly screwed up. Divide.

Ban to Golden, vía Lake Louise There are also number of and the Kicking Horse Trail, is always kept in mind. Is that it is A bad connexion here will lead to drives about the

Two the battery which supplies the store trouble. If a battery goes wrong Lown: Up almost exactly the same. Tuune! Mountain; the drive to the days will probably be needed for of energy for starting and that the internally, such as developing faulty Upper Hot Springs, a spot which the run from Lake Louise o starter is only a convenient means plates, there is nothing that the affords a particularly fine view of, Spokane via Golden. Windermere of utilizing that energy. The bat user can do. It is entirely a job the Row Valley; to the Cave and and Cranbrook, as the distance is tery is comparable with the energy for a battery service depot, of which

in a wound-up spring-for example, there is how a very large number. Basin and on to Sundance Canyon, nearly 400 miles.

FIRST CAME SOLIDS--THEN

THE

THEN

PNEUMATICS,

A NEW

THERE IS NOW TYPE. BALLOON PRINCIPLE STILL. IT IS CALLED THE

PRINCIPLE TYRES by

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mileage

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TEL. 2011,

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Time To Retire

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situated.

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and to Lake Minnewanku, passing. the buffalo paddock, Along the motor road west Mount Edith! Pass, Johnston Canyon and Marble! Canyon are also favourite objec- Įtives.

. At the Great Divide, the summit of the Kicking Horse Pass (5,339 feet), the traveller passes from Alberta to British Columbia and from the Bant Park to Yoho Park. The steep descent of the western slope was formerly made by the railway in a series of thrilling curves. The old roadbed has become part of the highway from Lake Louise to Field, and the modern motorist may now slide easily down the steep'incline. The panorama is superb, affording a glimpse of the blue gorge of the Yoho Valley to the right, with the great icefields at its head

The little town of Field is the headquarters of Yoho Park.

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about ninety-five miles

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