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THE CHINA MAIL,
THURSDAY, JUNE 14, 1928.
WOL INTEREST
NTEREST OF TO MOTORINOSAS
B.S.A.
POWER with SILENCE SPEED with SAFETY
2
In the Stock Machine Trial for standard machines selected from stock by A.C.U. officials B.Ş.A.'s won
4 GOLD MEDALS and TEAM PRIZE
DUNLOP
TROPHY
Premier Award in the M.C. and A.C. Dunlop Trophy Trial won on B.S.A. 4.93 h.p. O.H.V. (W. Johnson)
Also won on B.S.A. In 1926.
B.S.A's won the
COLMORE CUP
2 years out of 3-in 1926 and 1928.
In the Victory Cup Trial B.S.A's won
Frank Hallam Cup
Watsonian Team Prize For 2nd year in succession 6 GOLD MEDALS
In the Paris-Nice Trial B.S.A‚'s won
TEAM PRIZE
for 5th year in succession and 3 GOLD MEDALS.
In the recent A.A. Silence Test, every one of the 15 models in the B.S.A. range (including 2 O.H.V. specially tuned models) was tested by A.A, engineers and awarded the A.A. Silencing Efficiency Certificate.
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THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
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BUYERS'
GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen'a
Road. C.4759,
BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 23 Wong Nei Chung
Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
CADILLAC-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C4769. CHEVROLET-Hongkeng Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769, CHRYSLER A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel. C. 1219. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. OAKLAND.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C. Tel C.1219. OLDSMOBILE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 83 Wong Nel
Chung Road, Happy Valley, C.1247..
PACKARI). The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 38 Wong Nel Chung
Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
· PONTIAC—A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Road, C. Tel.-C. 1219.* ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769. SINGER-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Veux. Rond' Central.. STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. WHIPPET.-Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Rd., C. WILLYS-KNIGHT Gilman & Co., 4a, Des Voeux Road Central.
MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759, G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung Road,
Happy Valley, C.1247.
GUY.-A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd. C. Tel. C. 1219. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage; Queen's Road. C.4768. STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Rond. C.4759,
MOTOR CYCLES:
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES.
RIGOROUS TEST.
·CHRYSLER ENGINEERS”
DESCRIPTION
"ROAD SHOCK MACHINE."
THE STUDEBAKER.
WHAT IS DONE IN THE SHOPS.
OTHER MAKES.
What, is described as the most (By D. G. Roos, Chief Engineer.] terrific punishment ever meted The Studebaker Corporation is out to an automobile is the "road not placing its bets on any one shock test" given to Chrysler cars man; this engineering organiza on a specially constructed testing tion as we have put it together is machine developed by Chrysler an institution. When we go into engineers..
executive session on any of our en These engineers explain that gineering problems, there is no the plan was devised because they chief, there is no research engineer, had long felt that outdoor open there is no designing engineer. We road tests, given to determine are a group of technicians in search the ability of chassis, motor sup of only one thing, and that is the 'ports, body and other parts of
the car to hang together, were best answer to our problem.
to meet I want to try and convey to you entirely inadequate Chrysler standards. It was be the attitude of the Engineering De- We cause of the limitations of out partment towards the field. door testing that the new ma-have a Proving Ground and we a Laboratory, but the most chine was developed, and it is have 'unique in its application to this valuable and the most important in- formation we get is that which type of work.
- With this new device two ele- comes to us through the service re- mentary features are possible of ports and analysis sheets that come attainment, the engineers explain, in every week and month from the
First, the subjecting of the car, feld.
As you know, we went into pro-
The Erskine. The Erskine frame now
has a
The
to an enorinous mileage of severe road shocks within the space of a duction in September with a new a new Director few hours, a feature held to be Commander and impossible in roadway testing, be- and we are now in production with cause no driver could physically a new Erskine chassis, and a new stand the continuously severe President. jabuse and still record the vital performance details while the car is in operation.
Second, and regarded as more, double drop and has been lowered important, is the fact that Chrys an inch in the centre so that more ler can exaggerate the bumps of head room is obtained without un- an ordinary rough road from an due increase in height. The frame equality to 40 or more times their stock was increased 5/32 of an normal severity. It is impossible inch from 1/8 of an inch. for an owner to conceive of a car front end of the frame is reinforced being driven a distance equival- from the engine support forward ent to the normal season's mile- and the whole constraction of the age over roads 40 times as rough frame improved with the purpose as those he will travel, and all of adding rigidity and a steadiness within the space of a compara- to the mudguard and radiator. In tively few hours. Yet this is addition, the rear, end of the frame what the Chrysler road shock where it "kicks" up, has a large test was designed to do in order reinforcing cross tube which very to overcome the physical handl-materially atiffens that end of the caps of highway testing, since the frame and reduces the weaving of latter is inflexible and calls for a the frame, so that body squeaks are long-drawn-out period of time for reduced to a minimum. The completion of such à test.
springing of the car has been im- In this test the car is driven proved very materially. The radia- Hinto a machine in which are tor has been redesigned, with add- mounted eight specially con ad cooling capacity and is material- structed rollers in pairs. The ly beautifled.
The Commander.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
believes in the
OLDSMOBILE SIX
Our reputation as an organization in this community depends upon the product we handle and its service to our : customers..
We sell the "Oldsmobile Six" because it is our honest belief that with It we are giving you the product and service you are entitled to.
This fine car of low price, as a division of General Motors; enjoys the advantage of tremendous purchasing power, of wide- spread engineering' expérience, and of all the scientific discoveries of the General Motors' Proving Ground and General Motors' Research Laboratories.
The reputation of the maker, therefore, backs up and strengthens that of our house.
Both are content to let their reputation stand on the worth of this fine new car of low price.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 1246 Telephone Central 3500
33 Wong Nel Chung Road.
33 Des Vœux Road Central.
A FINE CAR OF LOW PRICE
distance between the correspond- ing pairs of rollers on each side is adjusted so that each of the We have developed a speciali front and rear wheels of the car roadster model of Commander. rests on two rollers..
The boys in the laboratory have The power required to drive, christened it the "Wild-Cat" We the testing machine is furnished have increased the horse power of by, the car itself through the rear the engine from 76 to 95 and it is wheels. As the rear wheels, this increase in power which made rotate between two pairs of roll possible the performance at the At-port from a three-point support to jers, specially constructed gear lantic City Speedway. The engine a four-point suspension, thereby connections operate the forward in the passenger cara has been in-securing greater rigidity which, to- rollers. Through this means the creased from 75 horse power to 86 gether with the reinforced frame front wheels of the car are rotat horse power and may be increased and mudguard brackets, is a very ed exactly as though they were still further. In addition to this, marked improvement. The axles operating on the road and at a we have a new frame, which is very have been redesigned-so that they speed equivalent to that of the much more rigid; also, an improved will now permit the use of wire, rear wheels, paralleling highway front end construction to steady dise or wood wheels. driving.
the radiator. We have designed a The braking system has also been Mounted on all rollers are irre-front and rear axle, so that we now changed and the more modern type gularly spaced, raised metal have an axle construction that per- of four-wheel brakes applied. The cleats which severely bump and mits the use of disc, wire or wood springs have been redesigned and toss about the entire car, exagger wheels equally well. We have are now practically flat under nor ating the effect of driving over
changed the braking system mal load. By so doing, and by the the roughest of roads. With this machine, the intensity and fre- and installed an improved, mo- use of shock absorbers, we have quency of this terrific pounding dern form of four-wheel brakes, been able to make a very marked which are much more power improvement, in riding comfort. and wrecking can be continued in. definitely and can be exactly dupli- ful and effective than our original The petrol tanks have been increas- ed to approximately 16 (U. S.) 'gal- cated day after day. Automatic brakes. controls attached to the throttle)
lon-capacity. make possible an irregularity of Pussing on to the Director WB acceleration and deceleration, made a slight change in the Direc-1 that assists in producing a wide tor engine in July when the horse placed on Studebaker models by a fuel pump, which, aucks the petrol range of driving over these power was increased from 45 to 54 from the tank and delivers It bumps. No owner will subject by changing the camshaft and
"
The Director,
The vacuum tank has been re-
.
his car to such punishment in valve gear slightly and by putting through a filtering device to the hundreds of thousands of miles. more water around the valves. In carburetter under pressure of about three pounds maximum This So uneven are these cleats and so September we put into production exaggerated their effect that the what is known as the GE Director: means that you cannot run the car- wheels of the car are tossed about chassis. The GE is the previous buretter dry on the steepest moun- like a chip upon a rough aka
Director engine in many respects, tain grade; you will always have It is claimed for the road shock but in many respects it is quite petrol at the carburetter under pres machine that there is not a B. 5. A. The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. C.1087.
single unit in the entire car which new. The valve mechanism is sure. This is a device which we have long sought in the automobile, changed entirely to a construction ROYAL ENFIELD. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88, Wong Nei is not severely tested under these similar to the Commander. The industry. It, has at last been per-
Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
conditions. Front axle, steering assembly, wheels, springs, body, mushroom tappets are operated fected and is now standard on the
Studebaker lins. chassis, engine mountings, and directly from the camshaft and
The President Eight. every rigid and semi-rigid assem- the valves are vertical. The im
The new President which is now ACCESSORIES-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Rodd. C.4759bly is subjected to terrific abuse, mediate effect of these changes is
It la argued that. If these parts that they permitted us to put a dif. in production is an entirely new, ACCESSORIES The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon, K.220, will stand up under this exaggerfarent type of combustion chamber car from front to back. It has s AUTO-TOTAL FIRE EXTINGUISHERS, Keller, Kern & Co., Ltd.,ated hammering for hour after in the engine which, with the mush 181-in. wheelbase. The wheels
16-19, Connaught Road, Central
hour, then Chrysler cars must room cam action, has made a mark are 18-in, equipped with 6.20 x 81, COLUMBIA BATTERIES. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd, 88, certainly stand up under the most ed increase in power from the orl G-ply balloon tyres. The axles are
Wong Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
severe conditions met on the ginal Director of last year, which identical to the new Commander highway.
developed about 45 horse
axles. The engine astraight FIRESTONE TYBES, The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88, Wong
tor: eight of 818 on faches developing Nel Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
e-approximately 100 brake horse MILLER ACCESSORIES A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd., C.
Work The springs, on the rest Tel. 0.1219.MAR
Hptic 24-Int.?
MILLER TYRES A. Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd.; C. Tel. C.1219. PRESTOLITE BATTERIES Hongkong Hotel Garage;
Road, C4759%
to 70 of the present GE The record made by the two
It Is Interesting to note that the tors at Atlantic City Austin Motor Co., Ltd, of Birming 12 will convince ham, recently despatched their Ing this: change seany? This in no way sacr
provas, unda
this model the engine to take
favourite keep going
We have changed the engine sup
produce
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