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THE CHINA
MAIL.
THURSDAY, MARCH 20, 1930.
AN THE MOTORISTS' PAGE WA ANTHE
In The Latest Colmore Cup Trial
THE UNAPPROACHABLE
Norton
WON
COLMORE CUP
G. B. GOODMAN ON A NORTON 3.84 h.p.
ALSO
3 GOLD MEDALS
D. MACQUEEN, N. HOOTON & J. H. SIMPSON
AND
RUNNER-UP AWARD
(for Next Beat Side-Car Performance)
D. K. MANSELL
See the 1930 Model in Stock,
THE SINCERE CO., LTD.
SOLE AGENTS.
BUYERS GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel
Garage, Queen's
Road. C.4759. BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 83 Wong Nel Chung
Road, Happy Valley. C.1247. CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769. CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769. CHRYSLER MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China 30-82,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C, 1216 & 6262.
DE SOTO MOTOR CARS.-Republle Motor Co. of China, 80-82,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1218 & 6262. GUY MOTOR PASSENGER HUSES.-Republic Motor Co. of China,
80-82, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 8252. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4769. OAKLAND.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
OLDSMOBILE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88 Wong Nel
Chung Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
PACKARD MOTOR CARS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-82,
Des Voeux Road C. Tél. C.1216 & 6252. PLYMOUTH MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-82,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel, C. 1216 & 6252. PONTIAC.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759, STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. TRIUMPH MOTOR CARS-The Globe Automobile Co., Ltd.,
1, Canton Road, Kowloon.
VAUXHALL-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS. Gilman & Co.,
Ltd., da, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 290.
OUTBOARD MOTORS. Rudolf Wolff & Kew, 54 Queen's Road
C., Tel. 0.2178.
MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. BROCKWAY MOTOR TRUCKS.-The Asiatic American Co. Tel.
C. 244.
CHEVROLET.--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. FARO MOTOR TRUCKS--Republic. Motor Co. of Chlon,, 30-82,
Des. Voeux Road C... Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 83 Wong Nai Chung Road,
Happy Valley, C.1247.
DODGE South China Motor Car Co., 38, Des Voeux Road. C.
Tel. C. 5644.
MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759," REO MOTOR TRUCKS Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-32, Das
Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. **** STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. CA759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gilman, &. Co., Ltd.,
4a, Des Voeux Road C, Tel. G. 290.
MOTOR CYCLES
C.2007.-
B. B. A Tha Bincere Cog Ltd, Des Voeur Road NEW HUDSON MOTOR CYCLES-Republic Motor Co. of China,
30-82, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 0252, RALEIGH MOTOR CYCLES-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-82,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 8252 2 ROYAL ENFIELD MOTOR CYCLES Republic Motor Co. of China,
30-82, Des Voeux Road O. Tel. C. 1216, & 6262. TRIUMPH MOTOR CYCLES--The Globe Automobile Co., Ltd,
1,. Canton Road, Kowloon N
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. CCESSORIES-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Boad. C.4759. ACCESSORIES The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon, H.226, FISK TYRES Gilman & Co., Ltd., 4, Des Voeux Rd. O Tel
D290
ACCESSORIES.
Long & Co, 19, Queen's Ré, C.
longkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Der Vorur EL
MODERN FAMILY Requires Car for Every Member
IGNITION TROUBLE Talk on Some Common Causes
It can be safely assumed that if there is misfiring that current is being generated. On the other hand, there is the possibility of the ignition cutting-out completely, which proves trouble at its source.
The first detail to auspect is the contact breaker-a sticking rocker
Mr. L. A. Miller, President, the Willys-Overland Company, writes:
Not so many years ago, one Automobile was sufficient for the entire family. Soon, however, it became increasingly necessary for the average family to possess two which keeps the contact permanently cars. With lower prices and the open. It is not so frequent a defeat more exacting demands of modern as it used to be, owing to the im- day life, this idea of multiple cars proved construction adopted. I. however, it does occur, it is a simple has been even further expanded matter to detach the rocker_by_re- until the modern family is rapidly leasing the spring holding it; then reaching the point where every clean the pivot pin thoroughly. The hole in the fibre insulating buah will member will have his or her also require touching up, but not automobile,
with a round file or drill on any account. Use a tightly rolled-up plece of the finest emery paper to twirl inside the hole to clean it. The cause of a sticking rocker ta damp having got into the magneto. If a car is left standing in a damp garage this trouble may occur.
own
The reasons for this are obvious. When motor cars were new, it fre- quently was the case that only one member of the family knew how to drive. Usually the head of the family did the driving and when he
In the case of coll ignition this is was at business or away from home, not solf-generating, as is the mag- the others were deprived of the useneto, and any cutting-out, would in- of the car. Gradually the other dicate that current was not passing members of the family learned to through the coil. Therefore, the two terminals on the coll should be drive.
examined to ensure that the primary The women took to driving and leads are connected. Usually these liked it. They were quick to appre-are so well secured that it is unlike- clate the manifold advantages of aly a disconnection would occur. motor car in their everyday lives. lead might conceivably break, In It took them to market and it en-which case a new section can easily abled them to complete their shop- be put in. It should be kept in ping rapidly and comfortably. mind that a loose connection at the Furthermore, distance was no bar-coil might cause misfiring. rler and with a car they could easily Any serious internal fault in go ten or fifteen miles out of their either coil or magneto which may way to obtain better prices and bet-cause cutting-out can only be re- ter market products. In the after-medied by the manufacturers or noon, it enabled them to visit repairers, as it would be a case of friends and relatives. The motor a fault in the windinga, car became, such a part of their daily extreme instance of complete break. lives that they soon found it not down, another unit must be obtain- only convenient but necessary to ed, not a difficult matter, thanks to have their own car.
standardisation.
The Sparking Gap
A
In an
sot-
The older children, too, needed
Deteriorated Plug Leads their own car. It took them to
Faults in the plug leads, though school and in many cases they were very infrequent, unleas the leads able to attend better schools which have been many years in use, com- would have been too far from their prise leakage or short-circuiting homes and too hard to get to were due to deterioration of the insula- it not for the car. Young women tion, which may have developed in thousands of homes found they cracks through which the current needed motor cars to keep their will spark to an adjacent lead in a engagements and to get them to similar condition. It is always ad- their friends and to the shops and visable to replace these leads with theatres.
now sections rather than to wrap Lower prices with Improved them with insulating tape. This quality such as are found in the method, however, may be adopted Willys Six have made it economical for an -emergency and temporary for a family to own several cars. repair if a lend has short-circuited So the car for-every-member-of-the-on to a metal part and thereby family iden is a natural evolution of chafed or worn through. two-car-per-family idea. There la no reason why every family should
The setting of the gap of the not have sufficient motor care for make-and-break un the contact every member. The husband or breaker of a magneto is a matter of father has his own uses for a car- particular importance. This in business, for pleasure, for entering is determined by the manufac tainment. The wife and mother turers, who either supply a steel finds a car a highly necessary ad gauge or state in their instruction junct, not only to modern social booklet the width of the gap in life, but to modern housekeeping, thousandths of an inch, so that the The grown children of to-day have ordinary standard thickness gauges numerous needs for a motor, car.
Perhaps the mere thought of sell-can be used. These are sold by all
leading accessory concerns.
The Cut-out ing every family a car for every member would have been considered
A magneto is usually provided ludricrous a few years ago. To-day, with a switch on the facia board, however, automobile merchants and manufacturers are cognisant of the which is connected by a single wire to a terminal, on the cover of the fact that every family is a prospect, make-and-break If this: wire regardless of the fact that the should become loose at the terminal family already has one, or even two the magneto will not switch off cars. Unless there is a ear for
definitely, but the firing will con- every member, the family of to-day laue jerkily. If the switch wire and even more so the family of te becomes detached the magneto can- morrow is not 100 per cent motor- ised. No longer is it true that two not be switched off. Misfiring may! be caused if the switch wire should cars meet every demand.
touch the frame at any point through the insulation being w for damaged
MOTOR CYCLES
Coil Ignition Now that call ignition is so large
Spurt in Industry in used it is important to keep in
Japan
mind that the battery is the source of current. If, by any mischance the Lordon, Feb. 6. battery should get completely, run Motor cycles are apparently be down, the engine could not be start coming more and more popular ined until an auxilliary battery was Japan, as the figures for 1928 show connected up A run-down battery an increase over the 1927 figures of will, however, recover sufficient 296 machines supplied by British voltage to work the call if it be manufacturers. The figures for allowed to rest in open circuit from 1929 are expected to be even great one to two hours:
er. The Japanese are also appar ently buying more and more British- |är made motor cycle engines at, die- tinct from complete machines. These are being used to p motive power for a type of
gal parcel car which is rap favour among the Jay men. This vehicle cons
(rear)
motor cycle,
Is replaced
ALL KIND
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REPAIRS.
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FOR five thousand years or more consumers, again and again, have been "stung." Every living person everywhere is the offspring of ancestors every one of whom, for hundreds of generations, has been fooled, deluded, cheated, robbed, by the wiles of sellers. It may or may not be true that most people are marons, with the intel- ligence of a ten year old child, but it is certain that most people have
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