THURSDAY, AUGUST 20, 1931.
THOSE CORNERS.
Should Be Banked and
Not Cambered.
There are signg that the high- way authorities in certain parts of Britain are constructing main road hends and corners slightly banked instead of cambered in the ordinary way. The development is one which every motorcyclist should welcome with the greatest enthusiasm. In a leading article on the subject Motor Cycling *says:-
THE CHOKE.
Pitfalls Amateurs May Avoid.
Nearly all automobiles produced equipped with a to-day aro
for use in strangler or "ghoke" obtaining a rich mixtúre when starting the engine. It is a device which is very necessity and won derfully oflicient if it is used pro perly. In many cases however, the motorist has incorrect ideas, as to its use and the effects which it causes. Considerable damage may be caused by improper use of this simple fitment.
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NORTONS.
THE
New Features: Rubber Shock Absorber,
Several interesting features are included in the Norton machines, which scored such sensational suc- cesses in the recent British Junior and Senior Tourist Trophy races. radical In the engine itself no changes have been made. The same system of dry-sump lubrication is retained and
the characteristic bevel-driven overhead camshaft re- mains unaltered. The frame also is identical with the cradle frame used in last year's race.
"We sincerely hope that the ten- dency towards this more rational
The strangler is a shutter fitted Mounted on the engine shaft is a method of roal building is ond which will be given every en-to the air inlet of the carburettor, new shock absorber, which is of so that the driver can reduce the the rubber-buffer type. There are couragement by the Ministry of
amount of air drawn in and in- four vanes on the driving member Transport and which will rapidly
erense the suction on the jet. Thio and four on the sprocket, which is spread to all parts of the country. Banked main-road- corners and results in a very rich mixture being free to float on a bush, and le driven benda are to be found in many Con- supplied to the cylinders a mixture by a series of rubber buffers be- tinental countries, particularly in which in the ordinary way would between the two sets of vanes. The
far too rich for efficient working assembly is very neat. Italy, where they are 'recognized as being an important, factor in pro- if allowed to continue. moting safety, and so far we have heard of no disadvantages-angociat- ed with them,
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Too Rich a Mixture.
difficult to
The rich mixture caused by the closed strangler makes with the air
A four-speed Sturmey-Archer gear box is fitted, and it is con- trolled by foot-operated striking mechanism on the right-hand side." The primary chain is lubricated by an adjustable drip feed from the main ofl tank.
It would soot up the insulators of the plug and reduce the efficiency "Motor cyclists, by reason of the of the spark and cause misfiring. exceptional controllability of their The sole reason for the strangler is machines, are not so much affected 10 get a proper mixture into the
Fixed to the bottom of the cradle by the camber of the road an cylinders for starting. When the
frame is a nont east-aluminium cen- bend as are car drivers, but cor- engine has been left idle there is rectly bunked bends would be a more or less pure air in the cylin-tral stand of a height permitting. great advantage to us because theyders. If the correct working mix-the machine to be lifted easily on would remove the-temptation-from_ture were admitted, it would mix to it. A fuel tank capable of con- which so many car drivers suffer, with this air, and the result would taining 3%, gallons is used, and-a-
be a weak mixture
very simple "snap-on" filler cap is to cut corners so as to enjoy the ad-
fitted to both oil and petrol tanks. ignite. vantage of n.favourable camber.
Incorporated in the lower link of "We look forward to the time when all fast main-rond bends and
the apring forks is a shock absorber corners will be suitably banked und in the cylinders, the right mixture with a large hand-wheel for in- when, in consequence, cutting for starting. Once the engine bas stantaneous adjustment. The ma- corners will cease to be a tempta- started, the strangler must be open-chine, which, of course, is of the tion. The assistance in cornering ed at once, or else too rich a mix-single-port type, is the most work- which is afforded by a slight bank-ture will be supplied. Some motor- man-like-looking job, and, except ing has been recognized in railway ists try to warm up their engines for the size of the engine, the engineering for over a century, and more quickly by keeping the choke funior machine is identical with came into considerable prominence fully closed for an appreciable time: the 490 cc. model. when Brooklands track was first This is a great mistake and may opened 24 years ago, It is surely well result in serious wear and rather surprising that our highway trouble. If the engine requires authorities are only just beginning warming up before it will pull pro- to appreciate its importances and perly use it in the normal way with to allow its silvantages to be en the strangler as far open as 'possible. joyed."
and run steadily for a few minutes
BUYERS'
GUIDE
MOTOR-CARS.
ARMSTRONG SIDDELEY.~ Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. Tel. 24759.
BUICK. The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Weng No Chung
Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228. CADILLAC.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24769. CHEVROLET.Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel.
21759*********
FIAT MOTOR CAR-A Gocke &, Co., China Bldg., 7th floor.
Tel. 22221.
MARQUETTE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nel
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 30228. MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garago, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759, OLDSMOBILE-The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd., 33, Wong Nei
Chung Road, Happy Valley. Tel. 80228 ROLLS-ROYCE.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24759. STUDEBAKER.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road.
24759. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET MOTOR CARS-Gliman & Co.,
Ltd., 4, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel. 28011.
Tel..
Tol.
OUTBOARD MOTORS—Rudolf Wolff & Kew, 54 Queen's Road
C. Tel. 22173,
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. 80228,
DODGE South China Motor Car Co., 98, Des Voeux Road. C.
Tel. 25644.
MORRIS.-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Road. Tel. 24759, STUDEBAKER-Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's Rond.
Tel
24769. WILLYS-KNIGHT & WHIPPET TRUCKS-Gilman & Co., Ltd.
48, Des Voeux Road C. Tel. 28011.
MOTOR CYCLES.
B.S.A. The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road. Tel. 27767. NORTON The Sincere Co., Ltd., Des Voeux Road C. Tel
27767.
MOTOR OILS.
GARGOYLE MOBILOIL-Vacuum Oil Company, King's Bldg. SHELL-Asiatic Petroleum Co., (S.C.), Ltd., Asiatic Bldg.
TYRES AND ACCESSORIES. ACCESSOR ES-Hongkong Hotel, Garage, Bueen's Road.
24769,
ACCESSORIE Tho Duro Motor Co., Nathan Road, Kowloon.
Tel. 562%3
FISK TYRES-Gilman & Co., Ltd. 4a, Des Voeux Rd. C. Tel.
www.28011.
INDIA TYRES.-W. IL Loxley Co., York Blags. Tel, 22285. MICHELIN TYRES-A. Gooke & Co., China Bldg., 7th floor,
Tel. 22221.
PRESTOLITE BATTERIES--Hongkong Hotel Garage, Queen's
Road. Tel. 24759,40 LA
C.Tel: 28011.
WILLARD BATTERIES-Gilman & Co., Ltd., As, Des Voeux Rd.
MOTOR PROGRESS. Growth of Industry in Britain.
London, July 3. That in a few years' time the manufacture of motors will be Bri- tain's largest industry, is the ex- pectation confidently expressed in the annual report of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders, which points out that the motor trade already ranks among the first five British Industries. The Bri-
tish motorist, however, will find in
this forecast little solace for he is the most heavily taxed car user in the world. For motor vehicles, ex- 'cluding motor cycles nearly forty-
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The BUICK 8
FLAMELESS PETROL
Experiments That Will Bring Safer Motoring.
That flameless combustion will be two millions sterling were paid in the outstanding development of the taxes last year, Including practical- future in automobile engineering ly sixteen millions in petrol tax. was the prediction made by Pro
The report_supplies a variety of fessor F. G. Bender, of Oregon' other figures and statistics of inter-State College engineering depart eat to the motorists. From its ment, in a discussion at a meeting of Automotive pages can be gleaned the informa- of the Society tion that the average life, of the Engineers. British car is-7 years 9 months The use of "dopea" for fortifying (compared to six years 9 months in petrol is a makeshift, he said: it the United States) that the average does the work, but it is not the final annual mileage is 7,000 and that 90 solution. Motorists want to use per cent of the new cara sold are straight fuel" and also prevent saloons.
detonation. of motors in the Experiments are striving for world is given as 35,781,395, an that ideal with a standard car overwhelming majority being from compression Increased to seven to the United States. The United one, and even higher. "I belleve Kingdom, which comes second, has flameless combustion offers the way a mililon and-a-half compared to out," sald the Professor, "It the nearly twenty-seven millions in differs from ordinary combustion, the former country. The report as the wireless is different from the mentions that Britain last year pro- telephone." duced 236,628 cars-1,877 fewer than the second figure of 1928.
The number
on a low gear.. Open the strangler fully as soon as ever the engine permits.
Using The Strangler.
The strangler may be used to get enay starting without any chance other. of sooting the plugs or troubles by following certain rules. When shutting off the engine after run do not stop it by switching off with the throttle. closed. Instead, open the throttle alightly and speed up engine. Then switch off and, with the throttle still alightly open, close the strangler. The en- gine will then come to rest with a very rich mixture in the cylinders.. Do not close the throttle or open the strangler until the engine tas stopped otherwise the result of the procedure will be lost. When sub sequently starting the engine do not turn it over before switching on. Bwitch on first and start up in the ordinary way, In nine case out of ten the engine will start at once.
A trouble which is directly due to the excessive use of the strangler is the drawing of liquid petrol past the piston rings and into the crank case. This washes the oil from the cylinder walls, dilutes, the labricant In the sump and causes rapid wear
of pletons, piston rings and cylin ders due to inadequate lubrication.
The Eights with Buick's Prestige
"We are entering a new Beld of combustion engineering," he con-
tinued, "burning oil without flame."
Experiments are being made in the development of this process at several laboratories. They will be watched with interest by, motorists and the motor industry. alike.
2. Home registration.
.B-9
him wherever desired on the very
3 Insurance (covering use of car ( quay if necessary all ready for
of
tire- at home and overseas over 12 hip to drive, every A liquid fuel can be burnt with- months),
some formality having been fully out, flame in an apparatus in the 4. Membership Automobile attended to by Morris Motors, Ltd., On the com- college laboratory. The heat is so Association or Royal Autem during the voyage.
obile Club (if desired). pletion of the first 500 miles of his. intense and the fuel burns so rapid.
5 Delivery of car anywhere in leave motoring, a definite schedule ly that the carbon is entirely con-
Great Britain (at an inclusive of free service is offered him, either! Bumed and carbon dioxide, with no
charge of Gd. per mile). at the Morris Tactory itself or at poisonous monoxide gas, is formed.
of the 1,750 Motor-cars will be safer when Prospective "home leave" Morris the hands of any one this flameless combustion-becomes-a-car purchasers are-Invited-to-con-authorised Morris Home Distribu- suit in good time their local Morris tors or Dealers he may care to name. commercial possibility.
Distributors, who will supply full When his leave is up, he may either details of the Morris range and eub return his car to the Morris Works mit an inclusive quotation for any in person, or it will be collected from Morris model covering initial cost any part of Great Britain (at an together. with packing and ship-inclusive charge of 60. per mile) ment from England to the port of for the factory to examine, make return. Allowances on 'old care se
any reasonable adjustments free of part-payments will be gladly con- charge, and pack and ship direct to sidered.
Immediately a purchase the port to which he is returning. Morris Motors, Ltd., announce an extension of the facilities offered to has been arranged, the Morris Dis- It will be readily agreed that the those purchasing Morris cars for tributors provide an application row Morris "Home Delivery" Ser- use during "home leave" and sub- form for a home driving licence, vice enabled the overseas visitor to sequent shipment, in the shape of and negotiate with Morria Motors, start running a new Morris car in if he were completion by the Morris Worke of Ltd., for the provision of the ser- England as easily as
actually living in that country, and the following formalities:-
is calculated to increase materially the enjoyment of those on leave.
HOME DELIVERY SERVICE.
1. Obtaining of home driving
licence.
vices outlined above.
The new Morris owner arrives in England to find his car waiting for
FAMOUS MOTION PICTURE COMEDIAN VISITS PARIS
Charlie Chapling.
allonally popular screen star, usos a V-18 Cadiline during his visit to
TRAFFIC THROUGH THE
HOLLAND TUNNEL.
The Holland Tunnel which con- nects the states of New York and New Jersey is two miles long. Ninety feet under the mighty Hudson River, on which ferry boats, tugs, barges and great ocean liners constantly travel back and forth, this white tiled vehicular passage hums to the sound of a solid line of cars roll- ing along at a minimum speed of thirty-five miles an hour,
In 1930 more than 12,000,000 cars passed through the Holland Tunnel..They came from every state in the union; they included cvery make and every type of car-old and new. Yet only one. in 19,000 had motor trouble. Only one in 18,000 had tyre. trouble. Even considering faulty driving, only one in 28,000 had a collision of any sort
In these terse figures is con- densed the whole story of auto- motive improvement, and the most convincing proof of the safety and dependability of the modern motor car.