Auto Motor Journal, Volume 9Stanley Spooner Pictorial Press, 1904 - Automobiles |
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Page 1284 - If the driver of any car who commits an offence under this section refuses to give his name or address, or gives a false name or address, he shall be guilty of an offence under this Act, and it shall be the duty of the owner of the car, if required, to give any information which it is within his power to give, and which may lead to the identification and apprehension of the driver, and if the owner fails to do so he also shall be guilty of an offence under this Act.
Page 1009 - But though research laboratories are the chief centers of scientific invention, and colleges, institutions and schools train the mind to scientific methods of attack, yet in mechanical, civil and electrical engineering the chief work of practical investigation has been carried on by individual engineers, or by firms, syndicates and companies. These not only have adapted discoveries made by scientists to commercial uses, but also in many instances have themselves made such discoveries or inventions.
Page 913 - ... (4) If any person commits an offence against this section and on the application of the master of the steamer, or any other person in the employ of the owner thereof, refuses to give his name and address, or gives a false name or address, that person shall be liable to a fine not exceeding twenty pounds, and the fine shall be paid to the owner of the steamer.
Page 812 - ... and to carry on the business of manufacturers of and dealers in...
Page 1092 - Into their gizzards. Confound such knavish tricks! Yet know I five or six Smokers who freely mix Still with their neighbours; Jones - (who, I'm glad to say, Asked leave of Mrs J.) Daily absorbs a clay After his labours.
Page 892 - FLIGHT" are on sale everywhere. When any difficulty is experienced in procuring the Journal from local ncwsvendors, intending subscribers can obtain each issue direct from the Publishing Office by forwarding remittance as aboi'e.
Page 1088 - According to the South African Trade Journal, an extensive field offers itself in South Africa for the sale of motor wagons by a firm with sufficient enterprise to send out representatives to the spot to examine the local conditions, and thereupon undertake a series of lectures and practical demonstrations for the benefit of farmers on a large scale. The same remarks, adds the Journal, also apply to ploughing by steam or motor traction.
Page 1016 - Against this, however, has to be set the loss, whatever it may prove to be, involved in any mode of transmitting power that is substituted for the locomotive. But on the other hand it has to be borne in mind that the locomotive exerts its power under most disadvantageous conditions when it has to climb. The work done in taking a given weight over an incline of one in twelve and a-half, at eight miles an hour, is only about six times as much as that of conveying the same weight over a level at fifty...
Page 868 - We are glad to be able to inform our readers that the salmon have been safely deposited in the tank prepared for them at the Badger.
Page 842 - View, at a greater rate of speed than ten miles an hour, in violation of said ordinance.