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THE CHINA MAIL.
THURSDAY, APRIL 24, 1930.
AM THE MOTORISTS' PAGE A 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 Best Side-Car Performance)
D. K. MANSELL
See the 1930 Model in Stock.
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SOLE AGENTS.
HEAD LAMPS.
Sometimes I think that with this' kind of light the faster you go the
Obtaining Best Form of better you can see. Smooth light is
Driving Light.
Motor car head lamps and the light they give are subjects that Į have always held a particular inter- est for me, because I regularly per form a fair amount of night driving in country districts, and have fallen into the habit of taking special notice of the different types of lamps that come my way. At the moment I am thinking, not of the dazzle problem, but solely of lighting efficiency. Whenever 1 take over.a. new car I find that trial and error adjustments of the lamps have to be attempted many times over different roads at night before the best results are secured.
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deceptive.
In the matter of focusing head lamp bulbs correctly there is not a great deal of latitude with any given reflector. You must not push the bulb so far in that a black spot ap pears in the centre of the field when the light is played on to a flat sur- face, and you must not pull it so far out that the field looks a splatter of flecks of light. But round about the correct and clean-cut focus point there is just a slight margin of choice between a narrow field and a wider one.
Experiment, Well Worth While.
I try to set my left-hand lamp. on the wide beam side, and the right beam more narrow and penetrating. then when aetting the position of As most experienced night drivers the lamps on their brackets I aim know, there is a tremendous lot in for the left lamp to point.pretty well getting head lamps really well,straight ahead, and the right lamp focused, and also in setting the beam so that it plays along the direction of the beams to the best centre line of my half of the road. advantage, writes Montague Tombs This keeps the main beam a little in The Autocar. The ultimate aim out of the way of oncoming traffic. is to obtain a form of light that But I do not overdo it, because it is suits a particular driver's eyesight, inadvisable to leave the right of the and his method of driving. Adjust road too dusky. Incidentally, the ment takes time because it has to be worst part of writing about head made first on familiar roads, both lamp adjustment is the difficulty of broad and narrow, checked again illustrating one's remarks, hat any over anfamiliar roads, and, finally. one attempting to make these ad- checked once more to secure the best justments will soon realise what is average result for dry nights and meant after making a littlo practical: also for black nights heavy with trial. Experiment is well worth the rain. Lastly, the beat light is that making, for a short-sighted driver which tires the eyes. least over a needs quite a different lamp settling really long journey,
from that suitable for long sight.
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BUYERS'
GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, 'Queen's
Road. C.4759.
BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33 Wong Nei Chung
Road, Happy Valley. C.1247.
CADILLAC--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. CHRYSLER MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China 30-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252,
DE SOTO MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1215 & 6252. GUY MOTOR PASSENGER BUSES-Republic Motor Co. of China,
30-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. MORRIS. Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road., C4759. OAKLAND.----Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 83 Wong Nel
Chung Road, Happy Valley, G.1247.
PACKARD MOTOR CARS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-32,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C.1216 & 6252. PLYMOUTH MOTOR CARS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-92,
Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C, 1216 & 6252. PONTIAC.-Lane, Crawford, Ltd.
ROLLS-ROYCE.--Hongkong Hotel Garago, Queen's Road. 0.4759, 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 CANS.-GIlman & Co.,
Ltd., 4a, Des Voeux Road C. Tal. C. 290.
OUTBOARD MOTORS.-Rudolf, Wolff & Kew, 54. Queen's Road
C., Tel. 0.2173.
MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. BROCKWAY MOTOR TRUCKS-The Asiatic American Co. Tel.
C. 244.
CHEVROLET-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road, C.4769. FARO MOTOR TRUCKS-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-32,
Des Voeux Rond C.. Tel. C. 1216 &'6252. G.M.C.--The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 88 Wong Nel Chung Roed,
Happy Valley. C.1247.
DODGE South China Motor Car Co., 88, Des Voeux Road. C.
Tel. C. 5644.
MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759. REO MOTOR TRUCKS.-Republic Motor Co. of China, 30-82, Des ...Voeux Road C.. Tel. C. 1216 & 8252.
STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C4759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd.,
4a, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 200,
MOTOR CYCLES.
B. B. A. The Sincere Co., Ltd., Den Vaux Road, C.1067. NEW HUDSON MOTOR CYCLES.-Republic Motor Co. of China,
30-82, Des Voeux Road, C. TeL: C. 1216 & 6252 RALEIGH MOTOR CYCLES-Republic Motor Co. of China, 80-32,
Des Voeux Road G. TeL 0, 1218 & 6252. ROYAL ENFIELD MOTOR CYCLES Republic Motor Co. of China,
AS-80-32, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. C. 1216 & 6252. FRIUMTH MOTOR CYCLES The Globe Automobile Co., Ltd,
1, Canton Road, Kowloon,
LU TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES-Hong Kong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. C.4759 ACCESSORIES The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon. K.226. FISK TYRES Gilman & Co., Ltd 4, Des Voeux Ed. C. TOL MILLER ACCESSORIES. A Lung & Co., 19, Queen's Rd C 7 Tel 0.1219
PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
i Road (4759. WILLARD BATTERIES GIman & Co. Ltd., 48, Das Voeux Rd.
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Gar Wood, elderly motorboat racer, at the wheel of his newest water demon, Miss Amerles VIII, churning up the waters of Biscayne, Bay, during a speed trial. Mr. Wood is preparing his speedy craft for coming motorboat racing competition, which is growing stiffer and stiffer each year with new models from Great Britain being brought to America.
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NICETY OF CONTROL. People do when confronted with
Distinguishing Novice from Expert.
...
A
situation requiring rapid thought and action.
A considerable improvement in ac celeration when executing thesd manoeuvres 'will be noticed if intelli gent use is made of the ignition con- trol, retarding it as the engine loses speed on top, and slowly advancing it again na it accelerates away in the lower gear.
In
In many ways is the "expert" more kind to his car than the most tender- hearted novice, although this may not jat first be apparent to him (the As on the road do the methods of
novice).
the expert differ from those of the Take, for instance, that early and novice, so in the motor house. well-timed change down to second or these days of detachable starting third-as the case may be when the handles, not many motorists bother to engine revs up almost to its maximum. crank their engines by hand before How many novices realise that it is using the starting motor, although in From contemplation of head lamp often far happler then than if it were cold weather. It is a procedure often adjustments made by other people Islogging uphill on top, almost thumpwell worth adopting. conclude that I set my beams higher ing out its willing heart? There is than most. I like a high head lamp, also no small feeling of satisfaction to few people are aware of it, is to re- But perhaps more important still, yet and 1 do not like a "splurge" of the driver as he executes his neat lease the strangler as soon as the en- bright light on the road surface double-clutch change down. directly in front of the car; it is methods. Most drivers come up to a up, the almost neat petrol sucked into Again, the same applies to cornering is used to help the engine in warming
gine will run at all. For if the choke, trying to the eyea, especially on dry, corner at their usual speed, then brake the cylinders rapidly washes away what white roada, and is opposed to the when they are either on top of it, or little oll there may be on their walls, ident of a smooth light. In daylight else halfway round, whereas it is far and in a few moments as much wear driving, one does not stare at the better first to brake when some little takes place in them on the pistons as road surface, but over it. So at distance away, then to night with a beam fairly well up one down and
chango in many miles of normal running. to go round with-With little thought, and a study of sees over the road surface and not the engine pulling, ready on the methods of good drivers, niceties on to it. Admittedly, there are a lower ratio to accelerate away of the expert soon become apparent to times of cloudburst and intense out of possible danger zone, rather the less experienced, and, when master. darkness when a more declining than to be ready to brake, and stop right (ed, please the driver as much as they beam fs better."
in the middle of the road, as so many benefit his car.-J. H. in Autocar..
It is my experience that the ideal light is the smoothest light, that which gives an even spread, and the introduction of proper diffuser glass fronts for lamps a year or two age helped a gent deal. Curiously enough, the smoothest light very often seems at first to the driver to be relatively dull, but he soon dis covers that he can drive fast behind it. That is why adjustment is diffi. cult. What appears to be a good penetrating light when one is stand. ing beelde a stationary car may prove to be a trying light to drive by.
One of the greatest difficulties is that a car in motion sways and pitches on its springs in accordance Normally the fairly high beam with the irregularities of the road setting helps to pick up cottage surface. For thle reason head roofs, tree branches, and hedge topa, lamps which throw a sharply defined and these landmarks are of great central beam are not always desir-use when finding a way over un. able, for if the lamp moves an inch known territory, as well da on the beam may dance up and down familiar: ground. Oply the other and round about over an area of day I was driving behind some yards on the distant hedge sides and rather low-pitched bead lamp beams tree tops, and cause a flickering that and I actually lost my way two or is very trying to the eyes after a three times over a hundred miles time.
route that I know, pretty well, juri A Smooth and Wide Field of Light. Normal Adjustment and Dazzle.
Head lamps have to be suited to Once more I ought to mention the car. Al exceptionallywall that dazzle is not under considera- sprung vehicle which is particularly tion at the moment, but if one's steady can carry lamps with 'anar lamps are fitted with "dip-and- row long-distance beam, but a little switch and one uses the control car that bounces needs P very with consideration for others, the smooth and Wide Beld of light, sa normal adjustment of the lamps as that flickering is reduced to a regards dazzle does not matter minimum These are very true much
facts.
Recently, I fitted a small and, rather fast car with some pst, head lamps which throw a narrow pene trating, but smooth, beam, for thought that it would be possible to travel faster when deserted roads. welcomed me. But those beams danced about so much; were strained and it
nga over soft, even spread.
and with
Sometimes people are heard to say that the cannot see, well when dipped and switched, but if the be the case, it is obvious that the left-hand lamp lapoint! (too much to the left and too far down
But, there is a and eventu
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PERAK MOTOR UNION
Formation of Sports Sub-Committee.
Motorists generally and sportsmen in particular will be interested to learn that an energetic Sports Sub- Committee has been formed in con-
Local speedmen have looked with hection with the Perak Motor Union.
envy on the motoring activities of other States and it is a matter of surprise that since the highly Buc-
made to foster the sporting side of two years ago, no attempt has been cessful Hill Climb held at Copong
Committee propose a number of motoring in Perak.
events during the present year in- The recently formed Sports Sub-
cluding a Hill Climb, a Reliability Trial, a Speed Event and a Gymk hana, thus offering a variety which will appeal to and attract all classes of motorlats.
The first event will be a Hill Climb on a hill within 20 miles of Ipoh and will take place on Sunday, May 18...
tish speed, deman, takes his curious-shaped racing car from the train to the beach
la where he hoped to break the world's speed record, but abandoned the attempt.
the terrifereed of 231 miles per hour achieved by his countryman, Mafe
send his car hurding through space at a rate of four miles par minuta. dich matter of winning race, according to the speedster, as it was to be a case.
Ballot" through the air at in imaginary target.