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OIL-DRIVEN BUSES.

Manchester Corpora-

tion's Experience.

The working of Manchester's 124 ofl-driven buses is discussed by Mr. R. Stuart Pilcher, the general manager of the Corporation Tram- sport Department in the Bus and Conch. The first bus was put in- to service on Dec. 12, 1930, and by the beginning of this year had covered over 45,000 miles, so that Mr. Stuart Pilcher bas now plenty of data on which to found a cop- sidered judgment.

"The buses," he writes, "ar be- ing used on the longest all-day services, which average 202 miles per day, so that under these condi- Lions the severest test is being made on the vehicles."

The oil engine gives good pull- ing power at low speeds, so that it is possible to drop to a very low road speed in traffic and then ne celerate without changing down to a lower gear. This, Mr. Pilcher points out, means much to a driver who may have to change gear as often as 160 times in a journey of 35 minutes--this number of gear

OF.

THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.

SATURDAY 13th AUGUST. 1932.

Being The Officiat Organ of

THE HONGKONG AUTOMOBILE ASSOCIATION

THE WORLD'S MOST COSTLY FILLING STATION SITE.

The above picture shows the petrol service station recently opened by the Hammond Pump and Equipment Company, in what was the forecourt of Lansdowne House, Mayfair, London, where land is said to be worth £400,000 an acre. Even so, Hongkong can boast some artistic Service Stations, especially one on the Praya Reclamation built by the Texas Company, and a fater building erected by the A.P.C.

changes was actually counted on PERTH TO several journeys on the route.

"There is also a very consider able economy in fuel consumption. and saving over a petrol-engined bus works out at practically 20. per mile. The ail engines are also

BRISBANE. Australian's Long Motor Trip.

When he arrived in Brisbane on-

comparatively free from the dan-Sunday, June 6, Mr. J. J. Cadden ger of Gre, and Mr. Pilcher says completed a journey of 3,650 miles that he has Bitle doubt that the from Perth in his Vauxhall car. cost of fire insurance will be sub-Mr. Cadden travelled alone. slaintially reduced in the near fu ture.

gine."

FLUID TRANS-

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Dispensing With Gearbox.

HUMAN

ENDURANCE

CONTESTS.

The Desire to Establish Useless Records.

THE QUEST OF MRS. VICTOR BRUCE.

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would be a pardonable desire to remain in the air although in auch an eventuality, the question of re- fuelling might, and probably would, nepative the intention.

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WITHIN THE S.K.F. ORGANISATION are iron ore mines, steel works, rolling. mills and manufacturing plants of the most efficient and modern kind concentrating solely on the produc- tion of raw material and the manufacture of Bearings to the most exacting standards of quality and finish. Designers, works managers and plant engineers the World over have depended on the con- sistently high quality of S.K.F. Ball and Roller

Mr. Cadden left Perth on Mon-news that Mrs. Victor Bruce had lying would certainly be achieved. Last week-end Reuter cabled the testing the mechanical factors of day, May 16, and proceeding via "Although the technique of Northam, Southern Cross Coolgar-

act out (or up) with the avowed Even assuming that such a test driving an il-engined bus is die, Norseman. Bellodenia sheep intention of surpassing the record were necessary, or that it would rather different from that of driv station, Corklebiddy, Aunt by the Hunter Brothers in the add very much to flying knowledge, ing a petral bus, the bus drivers derabilla station, Nullarbor, Pen-United States, who remained alott it would be extremely foolish, low

for no less than 23 days in bave very rapidly adapted them- jong, Wudinna. Port Augusta, ar-

an much more so is it for & mere Belves to the new conditions and rived at Adelaide on Saturday,eroplane. The intrepid British human to attempt to conquer the now definitely prefer to drive an May 28, after a journey of 1,780 airwoman proclaimed her inter-endurance of a machine? oil bus. Some drivers, he adds, miles.

tion of staying up for no less than The rountry between Norseman a month, and an elaborate plan for an era when the people of the earth One cunnot visualise the dawn of zaintain

better that they feel after driving an oil bus than and Penong. 778 miles, is a lonely

refuelling re-victualling her This is stretch, entirely free of any popu-machine was announced. As the air for weeks on end, unless will find it necessary to remain in after driving a petrol one. probably due to the absence of [lation, with the exception of the happened, her plans came to nought, this mortal sphere is visited by a poisonous fumes from the oil en-sheep stations at Bellodonia, Man-forced to descend owing to a broken flood as in the days of Noah.

for within 18 hours, she Was derabilla, and Nullabor, and lonely trapper with his camp petrol pipe. At the moment. of alongside the water tank, which is writing this criticism, news has not known as Cocklebiddy.

reached the Colony that the project This country consists of limestone has been re-attempted, but it is ridges, with stunted trees and fairly safe to asstime that it will saltbush and short stretches of ere long. plain. The journey from Perth to The question arises; What earth- The fact that the subject lends Adelaide was very lonely on acy good can be derived from any one itself for levity is sufficient count of the great areas which are or two persons staying up in an condemn it from the scientific and uninhabited.

acroplane for such a long time? If serious aspect. One might well ȧs!: After leaving Adelaide the jour-the object is to test the ability of Mrs. Bruce why she had decided to Iney was continued via Kingston, an aeroplane to stand the strain potter about the ether over Hamp-

Yambuck, Melbourne, Gundagai, fof actually flying for an indefinite shire and the Isle of Wight.

Sure- Sydney, and Uralla, thence through period, it should not be a difficulty, a month in the air would justify Toowoomba to Brisbane. The last matter to change pilots in the air.] one in seeking something different lap on Sunday, June 5. was from In actont practice. the most in the way of land or seascape! A development of the steam tar111 miles. The, total trip of 3,650 ploy the same machine in constant could be made in the direction of Uralla to Brisbane, a distance of strenuous strain would be to em- Why not see how much progress bine and the fluid flywheel has recently been produced in England. miles was completed in 20 days, lying, merely landing to change the moon, say, in two weeks, with and has emerged successfully from an average of 182 miles per day. pilots and re-fuel, and then up relays of supply aeroplanes along initial rond tests. The fluid fly- The Vauxhall car gave no trou-again, for by so doing, the aero- the route. That would allow two wheel is merely an automatic clutch ble whatever, and Mr. Cadden plane would indeed be subjected to weeks for the return if the worst driving through a gear box in the stated that, except for replenish-a particularly severe test, and one's came to the worst, ordinary way, but the new device ing oil and petrol, the bonnet was feelings would be with the pilots

known as the Vickers-Coats tor-not lifted during the whole of the fafter a month's running or so. que

an in-trip. It is interesting to note the that time, defects might nitely variable gear, thus dispens-petrol consumption, which was 147 anticipated, but the object ing with the gear-box.

gallons for the total distance of The device works on hydraulic ately 25 miles per gallon.

3,650 miles, averaging approxim- principles, and consists of three. Mr. Cadden is a eivil engineer main members. The drive ponent acts as a centrifugal pump, the rifle shooting world, having Hints on How to Avoid and after 10 or 15 miles you will have no need to worry; for the

comby profession and is well known and causes Hould to impinge won the King's. Prize in Brisbane against blades on a second mem on two occasions and the Long- ber connected to the propellerfeld Aggregate in Sydney.

STEADY ACCELERA-

shaft.

TION.

converter-acts

AL

Bisley, England, Mr. Cadden ob- A series of pivoted blades, secur- tained second place, thus winning

An Autombile Association patrol

vanca on the second (or driven)

member. As the blndes pivot nu-

note

If this sort of stunt is persisted

By in, we shall begin to think of the

be term "air-mindedness" in its most of vacant sense.-F.P.F.

SUMMER TROUBLES. pressure.

Them.

If the day is really hot you can safely let down the pres-

Bearings.

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sure until the tyres bulge a little,ng the following thunder you TRAVELLING SURGERY. find them tight again.

lightning is quite a mile away. Morris Commercial Care, Lu Cooling the interior of the car If lightning is almost im-of Birmingham, have supplied to without causing draughts is a mediatoly overhead in the open the Isle of Ely County Council' By Chlitern in the "News. problem which can only be solved country-that is, if the flash of Education Committeo

Chronicle."

by experiment with windows and lightning and the thunder

what is come believed to bo Great Britain's first ed to a fixed sleeve comprise the the "Silver Cross."

windscreen openings. No two almost simultaneously-I should completely third member. The blades control

Summer and heat waves bring cara bohave alike in this respect, advise seeking shelter and leaving dental surgery.

equipped travelling the path of the liquid through the AN UNUSUAL TRUANT, motoring, pleasures and worries. conchwork and speed having to the car to its fate. When

tho The chasels is of the robust Among the worries are-keeping] be taken into account.

rond is dry the risks of the car Morris-Commercial long wheelbase recently received a request for us.

Patrols of The Automobile Aspassengers (and engine) cool:

"Car-Elbow."

being struck are intensified. "TX" type allowing a platform sistance from a lady member of tomatically, they ensure that the sociation have so many unusual minimising the dangers from The driver may And that he however, the road, car and tyres space of 78 sq. ft. The personnel tha A. A., who stated that her car angle is always correct for the experiences that they are

thunderstorms and avoiding the suffora from "car-albow" and are all thoroughly wat I doubt if of this interesting units includes a smelt of burning.

power being transmitted.

easily surprised, but regently a

annoyance of insect stings.

sharp pains in the forearm after serious damage would be done. Of nurse, in addition to the dental sur- The chief effect of hot weather a hot day's drive. patrol near Nutley (Sussex) rub- A steady acceleration is provid- work, and by a.process of climina-ed, and tests on gradients of up to bed his eyes when he saw « Wom-is folt by the tyres and the engine. rubber band at the bottom of the

A strong course, never shelter under a tree.jscon, and two distinct compart- ments are provided-a waiting- If there is an inclination for the cont sleeve and the keeping of the

Insect Pesta. he thought. 1 in 0% have shown that tho

bat straying on the rond.

room and the surgery itself. every possible cause of fire, but converter sets itself exactly to the simple matter, as the truant took fan belt is not allpping; that the remedies.

To capture the animal proved no vaging to overheat see that the elbow inside the

And now we come to the worst car aro the

The area covered by this tra- without result. The mysterious load.

aspect of summor motoring-for velling surgery le 1,160 sq. miles, smoll of burning still persisted.

and cover in a gully and stoutly resist. radiatur is properly filed

A number of readers scom

girls-the hornots, wasps, bees, the number of schools visited being Eventually the A, A. patrol,

The whole device to housed in ad. A struggle followed but oven- change the oil in the crankcaso perturbed about thunderstorms ants, gnats, ridges and mos- 90, possessing in all 11,000 who prided himself on his me the flywheel, a small gear-box tually the A. A. patrol munaged to for a thickar type of the same and lightning when in the car. Taquitoos, which love to inflict pain children. chanical knowledge, was relieved bring provided for reversing. A dislodge the Wombat by smoking

docide the proximity of lightning on silk-clad logs. It is a wise and amazed to fined a kipper roan- large cone clutch is incorporated in it out, he then lassoed the animal if they are rather worn, they are counting. If you can count five spread, to make more than a Sal volatile and oil of citron: are In regard to tyres, particularly a rough-and-rendy method move, before the plenic food is A preventivo from bitek in lodine. ting on the exhaust manifold.. the converter to provide direct and returned it to Pippingford likely to burst under too high a between seeing the flash and beat casual inspection of the ground other alliative when

Oh! these practical Joke fonds! drive when required.

Park whence it had escaped.

The patrol immediately got to

tion exhausted, as

brand.

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