THURSDAY, MAY 14, 1931.
ARE YOU DRIVING TO DESTRUCTION?
THE CHINA MAIL.
The most cer
the same time. tain of them is to over-inflate three tyres while leaving the re maining one яoft. This allows one corner of the chassis frame
Things At Which The Inexpert Motorist Excels. to be much lower than the athor
(By J. Harrison, A.M.I. Mech. E., A.M.I.A.E.)
Now that the motoring season has commenced in real earnest adequate opportunities are af forded to anyone who is deter- mined to get the worst out of his Par. Of course, he can run into a brick wall and smash it up com- pletely, but this is scarcely artis- lic. The methods of the accom- plished carwrecker are more subtle
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An engine, which is raced when cold, is working at the same speed as it does it 50 or 60 miles an hour.
Besides allowing the engine to come under load before the bas time to circulate, excessive ese of the strangler assists the
three, and so it puts a decided cross straty on the whole of the car. It overloads at least two of the springs and twists the body.
Although not quite such an effective means of chassis wreck- ing, running with all tyres near ly flat helps to keep up the divi- dends of the tyre companies. The repeated flexing of the walls as the tyres bulge, when they come into contact with the road, sets
| sur-wrecking process in a num- friction between the cords of her of ways. It directs a spray the easing, and, if the car is of liquid petrol on to the cylin-driven really fast and fully load- der walls which the pistons carry ed. the tyres can be burst in into the sump to dilute any less than 2,000 miles.
at is there.
When starting away first, thing in the morning, while the engine is still cold, he presses the start
Thrills When Brakeless, er button impatiently, discover-
Just Feel the Grit.
The car, wrecker who takes a ing too late that he has left the The really conscientious auto-pride in his work will try fast car in gear and that the ignition mobile destroyer never, on any cornering when his tyres are is fully advanced. Thus the account, changes the engine oil, partially deflated, for if he is starter is strained and the start- or that is a certain way to in- really swift and the tyres are er ring teeth get the full force crease the pewer units longevity sufficiently soft it is possible to af an
incipient back-fire when When the cylinders are east wrench them right off their the engine does spring to life. certain amount of foundry sand rims.
In this way he can and fre- remains on them although the
There is a man I know who quently does in less than six foundry make streams efforts to wins cups and medals in races Bonths cause the starter to jam, remove it by chemical cleaning.nd reliability trials. Only the teeth in the starter ring to To this sand, in the process of recently, before the London- break and the battery plates to machining, is added a few micros-Land's End trial, 1 kelped him fuckle. This last-named processcopic metal chips, and later, usjack up the four wheels of his he assists by studiously ignoring the car wears, further chips are car and adjust the brakes. the battery-maker's instructions rubbed off the bearings and fall held the brake pedal down one In add distilled water until the into the oil. Tiny specks of car-neh by jamming a stick between level of the liquid is 4-inch bon from the combustion chum-it and the driving seat, and then above the plates.
burs, fine road grit, water con-he adjusted, the brakes until all densed from the atmosphere and four went on together, the unvaporised, heavy consti- To reassure himself he de- tuents of the petrol, too, help to contaminate the lubricant."
Wrecking the Engine. As soon as the engine com- niences to run he shows his neigh- bours a really impressive way to destroy a motor. By holding the strangler partially closed he is able to force the unwilling engine irvolerate rapidiy while still colti.
This is very effective, for the pistons and crankshaft bearings are brought under load before, the oil has time to reach them, and metal rubbing against metal, without an interposing oil film, rasps like
a file. A past pre- sident of the Institution of Auto- mobile Engineers told me that you have only to wear five-thousandth parts of an inch off every bear ing surface of a car to reduce it to rap-iron.
Think! If a layer of metal as thick as a page of this news paper is torn off your elinders, pistons, crankshaft and gudgeon pins, you have nearly succeeded in wearing out the car. for this paper is over three-thousandths- of-an-inch thick.
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If your friends do not believe that your oil is as dirty as I say it is empty the contents of the sump into a clean basin. After the liquid has been allowed to settle they can rub their hands along the bottom of the basin and feel the grit for themselves
If that does not convince them, pour the liquid through a sheet of blotting paper and then they can see the dirt adhering to the paper.
There are some men who allow a cold engine to tick over for minute or more before engaging gear and who change the oil re gularly every 1,500 miles. They are still running cars that they bought five years ago and they have not succeeded in wearing them out in 50,000 miles.
He
pressed the pedal a further half- inch and then tested the power of each brake independently by pulling on the tyres in turn.
He
He was not satisfied, until he had tested the car on the road. braking hard and noting the length of each skid mark. applied the brakes when the car was doing over "fifty," and it nulled up without a waver al- though the steering wheel was not held.
There is no fun in motoring on a car like that. It is far more exciting to neglect the brakes entirely, but if your family ob- ect to riding in a brakeless car give the adjusters a few turns. Try giving one five or six turns and other half a turn; slack one
and ignore the other.
Most Potent Method. In this manner you will throw There are quite a number of all the work on to one brake, and ways in which tyres can be de- in a very short time you will stroyed, and some of them dam score the drum to destruction age the springs and chassis and tear the lining to pieces.
BUYERS' GUIDE
MOTOR CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. Tel. 24759.
BUICK-The Dragon Motor Car Co. Ltd.. 33. Wong Nei Chung
Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228.
CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage. Queen's Road, Tel.
21759.
FIAT MOTOR CAR-A Goeke & Co. China Bldg., 7th floor.
Tel. 22221.
MARQUETTE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 23, Wong Nei
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tol, 30228. MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. OLDSMOBILE.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.. 33. Wong Nel
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. ROLLS-ROYCE-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24769.
Tel.
STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
24769. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS.-Gilman & Co.,
Ltd., 4a, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 28011.
OUTBOARD MOTORS.-Rudolf Wolff & Kew. 54 Queen's Road
C. Tel. 22178,
MOTOR TRUCKS AND TRACTORS. CHEVROLET.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
24769.
G.M.C.-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.. 33, Wong Nel Chung
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. DODGE-South China Motor Car Co., 33. Des Voeux Road. C.
Tel. 25344.
MORRIS-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759. STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tei.
24759, WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS.-Gilman & Co. Ltd.,
da, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 28011.
MOTOR CYCLES.
B.S.A. The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. Tel. 27767. i NORTON.-The Sincere Co., Ltd. Den Voeux Road C. Tel
27767.
MOTOR OILS.
GARGOYLE MOBILOIL-Vacuum O!) Company, King's Bldg. SHELL-Asintic Petroleum Co., (9.C.), Etd.; Asiatic, Bldg.
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSORIES.-Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road.
1 24769- ACCESSORIE-The Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Tel. 56223.
Tel.
FISK TYRES,--Gilman & Co. Ltd., da, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel.
** 28011. T
INDIA" TYRES.—W. I Loxley Co., York Bldgs. Tel. 22285. MICHELIN TYRES.-A, Goeke & Co., China Bldg, 7th floor.
Tel. 22221., FUNKT
PRESTOLITE BATTERIES-Hongkong Hotel Garage. Queen's
Road, Tel 24759,
WILLARD BATTERIES—Clan & Co., Ltd., da, Dés Võeux. Ed: VALCO Tel, 28011.
You can then begin operations n another brake, but one at a time is the way to do the job, for if all the four brakes properly adjusted they will wear For years.
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If there is any advice to those who wish to get the worst out of their cars that I have omitted I must plead limitations of space, and I suggest that, next to doing things wrong, wilful neglect is the most potent weapon at your disposal. Daily Express.
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STRAWS IN THE WIND.
United States Automobile Improvement.
Telephone 20228.
33. WONG NEI CHUNG ROAD. HAPPY VALLEY.,
Direct evidence of a change for the better within the rubber manu- facturing industry is seen in the latest report of the Conference of Statisticians it. Industry prepared under the auspices of the National Industry Conference Board. ALL though the figures presented go only up to the first of February, the comparison with December figures substantially warrants the assumption that an upward indus- trial trend is beginning.
ex-
PRINCE'S BUS RIDE.
The day before the Prince of Wales set out on his long air-flight from Limu (Peru) to Arequipa, Automobile production increased high up in the Andes, he was taken, by 14 per cent. during January according to the Press, for a drive over December's level. The In a single-deck bue. Just what he seasonal increase for the month is expected his sensations to be in normally but 10 per cent. The in- riding in a public passenger vehicle crease in January follows the pre- are not recorded; but his journey seasonal up-turn in output was evidently something of a reperienced in December, which like- relation for when he alighted he wise showed a monthly gain of 14 said: "I didn't belleve travel in a per cent. New passenger car re- motor bus could be so comfortable." gistrations during December gain- The bus was British, built and ed 3.2 per cent. over November.
Crude shipped to Peru by the Associated
rubber consumed in Equipment Co., Ltd., of Southall, January showed a 33 per cent. England. It
standard gain over consumption in Decem- "Regal" model recently placed in ber, or a total of 28,557 tons. Re- service by Metropolitan Bus Com-parts indicate that this tonnage pany of Lima.
has been maintained if not slightly
was
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The A.E.C. are naturally glad exceeded during February. Tyres that what appears to be H.R.H's fon band on December 31, amounting first introduction to modern bus to 9,003,438, represented a 6.2 per travel should have been through the cent. decline from the November 24 per medium of one of its standard pro-inventory figure and was ducts working over 5,000 miles from cent. below the number held at the Britain.
end of 1929.
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AUSTRALIAN PRAISE.
Judging from the favourable movements already observed, the industrial storm so long endured "!A few years ago," writea neems to be finally clearing. prominent Australian motoring cor- Rubber Age. respondent, "it was the exception to find a motor car manufacturer in Britain building models definitely intended for the Australian trade.
"Now, however, it is difficult, among the larger companies at least,
"GUY" BUSES.
to find one which has not included Following upon an order for five In Its range models built to meet Guy "Invincible" and "Conquest" the definite Australian demand for doublé and single déck bus chassis high-gear performance, speed, good for the Johannesburg Municipality, looks and comfort, combined with there has recently been put into ser- reasonable fuel, consumption.” vice a 48-seater double-deck. "Invin-
Speaking of the Singer "Light|cible" bus with The Rose Bus Ser- Six," he says: “Hill-climbing per- vico, operating between, Johannes- formances were excellent, all the burg, Germiston, Boksburg, ́and hills ascended round the city Benoni. The Benoni servica, was (Melbourne) being climbed at good Inaugurated on Moddiy, December speed in top gear."- A. strenuous 8, when the Tramways Marager, test rum of 150 miles, during which Mr. L M. Barry, Mr. Ralston, the car covered 90 miles a two Superintendent, of the Municipal hours, demonstrated "how splendļā” Buà Clarage, Mr. Gibtions, Manager ly the company's engineers are of the Germiston Municipal Buses, catering for the
Australian de and the Mayor and Town Engineer mand."
* of Benont turned out in force to sce British magafacturers are at long this vehicle in operation, peng last dispelling the belief that Bris This is the firsts "double-deck „tish cars are not sulted to "colonfal": motor omnibus to be put into "ber-
conditioné,
vice in the. Transvaal.
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33, Des Voeux Road Central.
Tel. 25044.
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