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MZEE SE AVALLARIN QAYLA

MOTORING

SUPPLEMENT

OF

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY 911 JULY, 1932.

Boing The Official Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION

ROADSIDE AID.

A.A. Assistance.

or

The Automobile Association kas just compiled a Return of the me- chanical assistance rendered by. A. A. patrols for the montha April, 1932. The various rond- sitle troubles' are classified under different headings, and thus at interesting insight into the most common causes of defeet and delay is obtained

enforced halts. Tyres come next on the list with 2,060, back axle and transmission 539, and clutch fuilurr also takes a prominent place claiming 386 victims."

In

In all the patrols rendered as sistance approximately oner every two minutes of each working a total of day during the month 10,673 cases, of which 95.4, were enabled to proceed under their own steam.'

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SHIPS THAT PASS IN THE NIGHT.

Lindbergh Beacon of 2,000,000,000 Beam Candle Power: 40 Per Cent. Night Flying.

ation.

If

The United States

OIL V PETROL.

NOT A "JOY RIDE.”

Heavy Oil Engines for Another Attempt on A

Road Work.

In

The chief contribution during the month of May was one order from the London Midland and Scottish Railway Co. for 137-4LAV engines which had been used for the conversion of a portion of this Company's fleet of lorries from petrol to oil and it speaks well for the Gardner engine that this well

Himalayan Peak.

The Nanga Parbat Expedition left Srinagar on May 23rd. Their baggage was sent on previously by boat to Bandipur and the person- nel went there by cafa kindly lent by members

Himalayan Club.

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There was at first some difficulty in getting permission to attempt: the ascent of Nanga Parbat from the north owing to the state of the tribes in this part, but the expedition has given an undertaking to keep to the higher parts of the mountains far above the inhabited valleys and on this understanding the necessary per- mission was given.

GROWING DEMAND. If you halt the aviation beacon fleshing as they go through the The world wide interest which

Building inuight air lanes. atop the Palmolive

is being shown in the conversion Chicago and direct its beam at a But while the bencon in Chicago of road transport vehicles from group of people fifteen miles away, in the biggest and the most power-petrol to heavy oil engine drive

The expedition's 100 ponies are a snapshot could be taken at thatful of all, it must not be forgotten indicates the great future for this distant point without additional that America's airways up and economical type of power unit, waiting at Bandipur and they hope light, writes Morrow Krum In the down and across the continent The report from one firm, there to reach Trabal soon No less than 2,300 A. A. then-Wheel," the magazine, published have been provided with illumina- fore, Messrs. Norris, Henry & first stage of the journey to Aator the The members are very keen and if tion to guide the pilots on their Gardners Ltd., makers of bers called upon the patrols for by Studebaker.

famous Gardner engines will be their skill is equal to their enthus carburation If you were sitting in an aero-way. assistance owing to

No longer do you have to still read with much interest in long-arm then Nanga Parbat is already

as good as climbed. trouble, whilst magneto and igni- plane forty-six thousand feet

This expedition is evidently not tion failure accounted for 2,296 above Cleveland on a clear night an instinctive shiver in your back-kong.

which is highly improbable, he bone when a mail or passenger Ten years ago the total amount

of toplane goes over in the dend cause aeroplane rarely ascend

of horse-power booked in one year intended by the members to be a the night. The pilot or passengers are represented 5030 B.H.P. Fivejoy ride as they have cut down that alitude--you could ser Palmolive Beacon in Chicago with going to get where they're going years later the amount advanced their supplies to a minimum and

or they wouldn't be out.

10 15.560 B.H.P., while lust year all luxuries have been eliminated, the naked eye.

In the first place an uirline must If the beacon were not retaling.

the figure reached 20,260 B.H.P. even beds, baths, tables and chairs if it were possible to bend the not be dependent on the sun.

the first five months of the being classed in this category.

The climbers do not expect to beam an that it would travel in aeroplanes cannot go places and present year the total horse-power circle around the circumference of carry passengers and mail at night, has reached the handsome total of encounter any serious difleulty till no their real value is lost. Tra19,666 R.H.P. so that there is little they reach the Burmial Pass. This nt present open but, if the earth and if there were

pass is dust or moisture in the air, a man sportation cannot be retarded by doubt that 1932 will prove a standing with his back to thelurkness,

record for this type of heavy oil heavy snow fails, there may So the airline operators, the U. Jenging and particularly o for great difficulty in getting ponies beacon could see the source of the

across and, in fact, they may have light with the naked eye and if he . government and municipalities Gardners, Larned the beacon on, he would see haye provided America with well-

to be left behind and the baggage The source of the light instantly lighted airways. There's a road

carried by coolies. because it would only take one-ncross America, from New York to seventh of a second for the beam San Francisco, as bright as day to to travel around the earth. an aviator. Every thirty miles on If why, there are so many "ifs" this new great white way is an to be said about this remarkable emergency airport, well lighted aviation bencon that one might go and marked. At ten-mile intervals

conjecturing for pages and there are twenty-four-inch-2,000, pages. It is the biggest, brightest, 00 candle power revolving beacons known Railway Co. carried out a most powerful thing of its kind and there are flashers between series of experiments over twelve the world-an object of superia-beacons. tives from every angle of consider-government is responsible for this months before deciding to change over one complete section of their "light way." The bencon was originally chris- But the "light way" across the present fleet of lorries and, in-

cidently, selecting Gardners. tened the "Lindbergh Light" after continent is not the only

The conversion of over 100 America's most celebrated fler. Where do you want to go? From Shanghai petrol driven motor-

Seattle? Go It, was erected by the owners of the San Francisco to

buses to Gardners oil engine drive Palmolive Building on North Mi-ahead-it's lighted for night By has proved in every way successful chigan Avenue as an aid to avia-ing, Detroit to Chicago? Dallas and the fact that they have been

Kansas City to tion-one of hundreds of rotating to Kansas City?

in operation for one year lends aviation beacons in America, but St. Louis? Washington to New support to the claim that the henvy, York or Boston? All these are oil engine is in every way desir- the most powerful of all.

The beacon itself is two billion lighted, you can use them in safe-able for road transportation pur- beam candle power; a bigh inten-ty.

In United Air Lines alone fly 6,000,- Rity carbon are lamp is used.

more a year at night, addition to the rotating light, a000 miles second or directional beam is than all day and night flying of thrown out from the beacon tower European nations combined. and turned in a fixed point upon Every 24 hours American mail Chicago's municipal airport.and passenger aeropianes fly on re- Obtainable from all Dealers-This guide to night flying has 11,-gular schedules 150,000 miles-and 40 per cent. of that flying is done HONGKONG MOTOR || 500,000 candle power.

The beacon is five feet in diame-without the aid of the sun. ter. ACCESSORY CO.

The tower which supports it Don't worry about the ship that is built to withstand a wind pres-passes in the night. The pilot in sure of one hundred miles an trained and licensed for night fly-

He Two light keepers are con- ing. has a multitude of in- thestruments that tell him his speed, stantly in attendance when light is in aperation.

altitude, course, motor condition The peripheral speed of the bea-and whether he's lying up or expansion of our overseas trade specified and developed by the War con-or the speed at which the down, straight or turning. He has In motor-cars. It was only a short beam is travelling when viewed information as to the height of the time ago that the value of motor- from certain distances is as fol-celling at his destination and the cars imported into New Zealand

at speed of the wind at various altishowed an overwhelming Iowa: 125.6 miles per minute 10 miles: 1256.6 miles per minute tudes. He has telephones at his ponderance in favour of American at 100 miles; 3769 miles per minute fear and he talks back and forth vehicles. al 800 miles.

with those on the ground about the Many are the night dying avia-weather, his ships, his speed, his tors who have given silent thanks faltitude. Ife has lighted airways otto guide him on his route. He has to the aggressive citizenry

his America who have pushed the powerful landing lights on lighting of the airways; All ship and he has emergency par pilots, whether they depend on the achute flares. He's going to get Palmolive Beacon or not, are a where he's going safely. And he

it knows it. ways cheered when they sce

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Greater Orders for

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We have before us, writes the editor of the Motor, some very heartening figures concerning the

pre-

The figures for 1931 show that New Zealand took motor-cars from Great Britain to the number of 2,414 and valued at £272,285. This compares with 475 cars valued at £59,975 from the United States.

Jn Africa the figures of Ameri- car registrations show A

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DESERT TEST.

Results of the War Office Trials.

6,000 MILE RUN IN THE

SOUDAN.

The resulta achieved by the War Ofice Experimental Convoy of four military vehicles of British manu- Tacture which early this year undertook a long distance test of nearly 6,000 miles from Cairo to Southern Sondan, are officially re- ported to have exceeded anticipa- tion.

The test proved that modern

vehicles British

of the types

Department are capable of operet- ing under any conditions likely to be found in the Empire.

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At the end of the journey the vehicles had developed no major defects. They were still shod with the same tyres as when they start- led in spite of the great hent boiling trouble caused by radiators had been experienced.

Freedom From Accidents The freedoin from accidents was remarkable. The most serious one wus when the decking of a bridge

a

marked falling off, and in Ceylon gave way under the rear wheel of the same position in revealed,

the heaviest lorry. There was in values of exported private cars while British cars in both coun-

danger of the vehicle falling 15ft. in the four months To British tries show increnses,

into the waler below. By remov South Africa, £85,475; New Zea-

Despite the serious conditions Fing the load and bridging the gap land, £47,321; other countries, experienced in Australia, which with sections of channel iron the £147,321, For the same period of have materially affected the im-vehicle

was reversed and the

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and

The Board of Trade Returns for chassis to Australia increased by able to record that of these dimin

the present year the value ports of motor vehicles, we are journey resumed by another route. April are satisfactory in that they £52,196, and to other countries by ished imports the. British porcen

The necessity for carrying large show an excess of export values of £6,622.

tage rose to 50.7 per cent, in the quantities of poirol, food; and vehicles and parts of £327,475 in

water over long desert stretches April, while export values execed- Imports of vehicles, etc., in first six months of 1931, as com-

as much as 20cwla., while on the od those of imports by £1,283,608 April show a drop of £68,554, con-pared with 1 per cent. for the made the total overload sometimes In the four months. In April thera trasted with March, but in April, same period of 1980.

compared with the same month of These figures justify the optim-return of the convy, the overload was 12cwts. The trial has satisfied was Increase in values of 1931, there

an

was an increase ofism of the Director of the British exports of vehicles and parts of £127,018. This was accounted for Manufacturers Section of the So-the War Offee that the development £11,311, compared with March, but largely by an increase of £124,071 ciety of Motor Manufacturers and of wheeled mechanical vehices

proceeding on right lines contrasted with April of last year in the value of imported parts. Tradors. thore was a decrease of £20,128, In the four months there was a A shot time ago, in dealing with verified the belief that the cardinal A cross-country and for the four months there was drop in the value of vehicles and the prospects of Empiro trade for necessities for

are high power weight! a declino of £320,182.

parts of £67,179.

1932, ho referred to oversens de vehicle mands, and expressed the view ratio, large low-pressurotyren, It is interesting, however, to Imports of petrol in April com that the avaliable facts and figures loquate and well-spaced

- designed analyse theao figures a little pared with the same month

of afforded striking evidence of the ratios, and properly closer. The value of private cars last year show an increase of mannor

in which, despite the cooling evetoms. It has proved exported in April this year lu-18,000,000 gallons, but on the four general oconomic position, the further that British car and lorry Kro producing creased by £78,684, and in the months there was a decrease of British motor industry was slow-manufacturers four months by £46,076. The 5,287,645. Crude oil imports show ly but surely making progress in vehicles eminently suitable for Im-

porial and Colonial employment. following are important increases all-round reductions.

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