. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. le dooropening on the back street and slippedout like a shadow. To be Concluded 1190 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE SINGAPORE AND ITS AUTOMO-BILING ADVANTAGES The island of Singapore may justly betermed the Emerald of the British Em-pire in the East. The island cannot boastof many hills and is, therefore, topo-graphically adapted to we do not readily associate thisfar-off island, kicked off, as it were, from ous combination of Orientalism and Occi-dentalism is to be observed on every the midst of tawdr
. Popular electricity magazine in plain English. le dooropening on the back street and slippedout like a shadow. To be Concluded 1190 POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE SINGAPORE AND ITS AUTOMO-BILING ADVANTAGES The island of Singapore may justly betermed the Emerald of the British Em-pire in the East. The island cannot boastof many hills and is, therefore, topo-graphically adapted to we do not readily associate thisfar-off island, kicked off, as it were, from ous combination of Orientalism and Occi-dentalism is to be observed on every the midst of tawdry looking nativeshops rise modern European establish-ments of commanding appearance; lum-bering ox wagons and hand drawn jin-rickshas move side by side with electricstreet cars, swift automobiles and smartequipages of all sorts. Even the hackneycoaches and jinrickshas are licensed thereand, together with the automobiles, mustcarry their numbers conspicuously, andthe name, address and photograph of theowner is entered in the register. Auto-buses. the toe of the Malay Peninsula, withsuch modern conveniences as electric andgasoline automobiles, it is none the lesstrue that they are to be found there andin abundance. The city of Singapore has, for the mostpart, wide and well kept streets. A curi- Package Delivery The roads are above the average, withbroken stone foundations and there youwill find the women are employed in roadbuilding work, as one of the picturesshows. As you look at the picture youcan almost imagine that you can feel thefierce, reflected heat from that stone pile. POPULAR ELECTRICITY and the WORLDS ADVANCE 1191 ELECTRIC TIRES SUFFER BY UN-DERINFLATION There are very few people who differ-entiate between tires for gasoline carsand the specially built tires for electric tire is highly resilient, andconsequently supersensitive to the evilsof underinflation and overloading. However, any automobile engineerknows that a gas car tire absorbs moreenergy than
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