THURSDAY, AUGUST 11, 1932.-
THE CHINA MAIL
~AM THE MOTORISTS' PAGE ME
HOW PETROL IS WASTED.
Some Economy Tips Outlined.
RUBBING BRAKES.
Motorists who are desirous, from choice or necessity, to economise in petrol consumption can do so by avoiding certain driving habits that are common to the majority.
THRILLS OF THE SENIOR T.T.
"Hell Diver" Handley In Ditch,
HAIR-RAISING ESCAPES,
The winner of the junior motor- cycle TT race, Stanley Woods, the Dublin toffee manufacturer, came in first in the senior race at the Tour- ist Trophy meet at the Isle of Man.
It was a day of hair-raising es- In the first place they should "restrict their average and maximum capes, marred by a serious crash by speeds, Instead of driving "all out" Wal Handley his first in whenever it is safe to do so. Every years of racing.
car has its most economical speed; on top gear. It usually ranges be tween 25 and 35 m.p.h. on a level road. Above that speed the rate of! petrol consumption increases almost in proportion to the Increase in
that runs. m.p.h. A car
ten
The Norton team triumphed the results being:-
Maintenance Hints For BRITISH CAR SALES
Owner Drivers
Sticking Valves And Their
Treatment
PREVENTION METHODS
CHANGE OF OIL IMPORTANT
FACTOR,
ADVANCING.
Continued Prosperity
Indicated.
SPEED LESSONS.
London, July 20. Recently published figures of imports and exports for the frst five months of the year make en- couraging reading for those with i the welfare of the British motor industry at heart, and are fine tes- timony to the ability of the manu- facturers, în, admittedly difficult !times.
The imports of cars and chassis have fallen from 6,870 for the first
5 months of 1980, and 2,229 in
This question, of valves reminds, than do others. Prevention being 1981, to 1,394 during the same;
miles to the gallon when doing 90 Before the race was five minutes noise developed in an engine and a is usually found to make the valves 15,840 this year. The latter result
Gear Changing.
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record.
team.
enormously
The
4-CYLINDER MODELS
8-CYLINDER MODELS
OPEL MOTOR CARS
90" WHEELBASE MODELS
100 WHEELBASE MODELS
OPEL MOTOR CARS
Ni
DOUGHNUT GEAR INTRODUCED.
Steering.
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR
C COMPANY, LTD.--33 WONG
A NEI CHUNG ROAD-HAPPY
VALLEY HONG KONG.
BRITISH CAR MAKERS ARE BUSY.
Encouraging Export Figures.
1 Stanley Woods (Norton): 79.33
m.p.h. 2. J. Guthrie (Norton): 78.47
m.p.h..
us of a case which we came across better than cure, it is a good plan period this year. As for exports, YOU ARE CORDIALLY IN- say, 30 3. J. Simpson (Norton): 78.88 the other day when, in the course of to mix an uppercylinder lubricant the corresponding figures are
m.p.h.
a long run, a pronounced tapping with the petrol in the tank, which 14,356 in 1930, 10,427 in 1981 and VITED TO TELEPHONE 30228 OR TO CALL FOR m.p.h. may run only 28 m.p.g. at.
both tendency towards missing was less liable to stick.. It is also a is the largest ever recorded with 40 m.p.h., 26 m.p.g. at 45 m.p.h..old "Tim" Hunt, who won and m... less for every 5 m.p.h., senior and junior events last year, noticed at low speeds." As the driver good plan to employ really, good the exception of the period 1927-9, A DEMONSTRATION. was flung from his machine at 70 was in a hurry and the noise did kinds of fuel and lubricating oil when exports were increase of speed.
swollen by very large consign- Novices have been met with whom.p.h. while rounding the Braddon not get any more prominent, he for the engine,
completed his journey of over 100 Frequent draining of the sump ments of chassis to Australia, imagined that the quicker a given Bridge "S" bead.
Indications of continued pros- He rolled over and over for more miles and felt quite aggrieved when and replenishment with new oil is, distance is covered the less. petrol
than 100 yards, then plcked himself subsequent investigation at the undoubtedly, one of the most imperity in the trade are visible from will be used; that is, of course,
up unhurt, but his machine was service depot revealed an exhaust portant factors ensuring prolonged Coventry, where the Triumph Co. quite wrong.
smashed...
valve so badly burnt as to make its freedom from cylinder wear and reports sales 30 per cent. higber Next, frequent and forcible use:
Jimmy Simpson, the "win or replacement inevitable. Further bearing trouble. It may appear than those of last "year, of the brakes increases the rate of petrol consumption. The speed at bust" rider in the Norton camp, more, the seating in the block had cheapest to make up the level with Super Seven, which is actually possessed from suffered, so that had to be treated pints or quarts of oil every few more expensive than competitive which the braking commences has drove like a man
lap with a cutter before the new valve days but after several thousand cars, is selling extremely well, as probably been gained by using the the start, breaking his own
could be put in place.. '
miles the oil becomes so dirty and are also the 9 p. and light-6- petrol in the engine, and an ap-
His riding on the corners terrified If this owner had stopped as soon diluted that the small quantities cylinder cars. Today is certainly An Improvement In preciable proportion of that petrol is wasted if the speed is thrown most of the spectators, but he could as the noise developed, he could added are quickly contaminated, the day of the light car and this away" ie. reduced) In the form of not leave behind his rival, Wal have taken steps which would pro-and one does not gain the full concern which is the only British
Handley, chief star
firm specialising in the manufac- of the Rudge bably have cured the trouble, so benefit therefrom. brake friction:
saving the labour, of removing the Follow the maker's instruitions ture of both light four and 6- is reaping its re- Handley surely the world's finest cylinder head and the cost of re-and drain the sump every 1,200-cylinder cars, So to economise in petrol, corners
motor-cycle should be ap-
racer had thrown placing a valve. What had actually 2.000 miles, depending upon the size ward. and traffic blocks
New Cleanliness. proached with a gradual reduction caution to the wind and fully de- occurred was that the presence of of the engine, the sump.capacity
On the motor cycle side, the of speed due to the early release of served his title of "Hell-diver gummy deposits on this exhaust-and so on. For a small engine it
has introduced a valve stem prevented the valve from is advisable to do it every 1,200- Triumph Co. the accelerator. "
He shot down Bray Hill towards closing fully when the hump of the 1,500 miles and not allow it to go machine with outstanding, featurescribed as the solution of the new Delay in changing gear on steep
the tappet. Hot; gases (any longer. It will be found most as regards cleanliness. Stiff gide steering problems introduced by the corresponding month in 1931 hills may increase the petrol con- the sharp corner at the bottom, at cam left
et infrequently it more than 105 miles an hour, and were thereby allowed to escape past economical in the long run, and panels cover all the working parts "doughnut" tyres, has been deve sumption, for means that the lowest gear must be skidded round the corner, his rear the valve seating during the ring many enthusiastic owners who make and are turned outwards at the
The used where, with an early change wheel sometimes leading his front stroke, with the natural result that this a golden rule have found that forward ends to form leg shields, loped by Gemmer Mfg. Co.
wheel.
the head became overheated and after a big mileage, say, 15,000. The machine can thus be hosed gear has already been adopted an down from top to second, the latter
In the third lap. Handley took his burnt.
16.000 miles, there is no great in-down just like a car, while the standard equipment by one of the Ped during the eight months to would auffice.
panels actually improve the radia largest manufacturers of passenger
March 31, 1982, exceeded the pre- Apart from very obstinate cases, crease in oil consumption. Many gallons of petrol in all are final risk.
Dash Into Ditch.
sticking valves can usually be freed Make sure that all the aludge is tion of air round the cylinder, for wasted by drivers who keep their
cars, and will shortly be incorporvious 12 months shipments" by He tried to take the Barra by injecting a mixture of paraffin! removed by having the sump flushed they act as a scoop. engines running
over 500 per cent, and it is inter- In aporting, events, it is good to ated in a number of other makes, esting to note that, in addition to Garrow corner too fast, and to the and thin oll into the stream of air out if the work is done for you at with the car standing-walt-
of the this a service depot, or, if you do it hear
performance of particularly where "doughnuts" regular shipments to Australia. for Д
to get horror of the crowd his machine entering the carburettor, passenger
being done after setting the yourself, use one of the special Woolfe on his 850 c.c. S.V. Ariel ready.or to make some pur Handley was flung into a field-hand throttle in such posi-flushing oils. Any sludge left will in the recent Durban to Johannes used as regular or optional South Africa, New Zealand, and
a" shop,
equipment. chase in
for
India, these cars are being export- ample..
run-contaminate the new oil. Make burg race in. South Africa. This. more than 10tion that the engine is The engine should be
"In more than one way, the ed in large numbers to China, that the drain plug is great speed event is open to motor steering problems incident to the Malaya, The West Indies and vari- ning fairly fast. It is rather sure, too, stopped whenever the car will have years' of motor-cycle racing.
He was taken to hospital, and curious that some engines seem tightened up thoroughly before you cycles of unlimited" power and isuse of the new doughnut. tyres areous European marketa,”
over a distance of 408 miles, the similar to the difficulties encount In the case of Vauxhalls, the road conditions being notoriously ered In 1926, when balloon tyres last three months of 1981 were by bad in places. To have smashed. were introduced," says E. P.far the best months of the year all previous records for the 850 Hammond of the Gemmer organi- so far as export sales, were con-
ing
unnecessarily
Handley."
dashed into the ditch..
ex-
his first crash in
а
"to remain stationary for more than
a minute or so.
was found to have a badly injured more prone to develop this trouble put in the new lubricant. Brakes that rub their drums in knee, a broken wrist, and alight the "off" position cause waste of injuries to his head." (Continued at foot of next Column.),
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"I went head Arst into a brick wall," he said.
Woods said that he had a fairly comfortable" ride in the circums tances.
His speed down the side of the mountain was about 108 m.p.h., he said, and added, “I had a few close) shares, but nothing to worry about."
Of the 38 starters, 17 finished. Amusing Incident.
BY MOTOR
TRADE EXHIBITION
OBITER DICTA FROM THE BENCH..
Motorists On Road On Sufferance.
London, July 20.
Party's Progress In Many Lands.
of unlimited
PROBLEM SOLUTION.
An improved steering gear, des
sation.
The latest available figures for car exports from Britain are de cidedly encouraging. Daring: April exports numbered 2,171, valued at $274,121, which com- pares with 1,228 and 1,497 cars in
and 1980 respectively.
The number of Standards ship--
c.c. class and to have Anished third - [against machines
"There was the wheel | cerned, but in the first quarter of power is a particularly praise shimmy, and it was successfully 1982; these results are said to have overcome by the redesigning on the been greatly exceeded. It is worth' worthy achievement.
part of the chassis engineers, recalling that in 1907 the total What Speed Has Taught, However, to the steering gear en-number of chassis produced was This year's Royal Air Force gineers fell the task of lessening 58, while to-day one day's average Pageant at Hendon was perhaps the considerably greater physical output is in excess of that num even more interesting than usual, effort of steering the balloon-tyred ber. The London distributors of London, August 1.
A Greenwich magistrate, has re- owing to the greatly increased car.
these cars are Shaw and Kilburn, The British trade development marked that "Motorists are on the speed of all types of Service air-
Perfects Gear...
whose Leave Car scheme is well
expedition through Europe, Asia road only on sufferance." He added craft, which results from Britain's "While most steering, gear mak- known to many visitors from After Prince George had watched Minor, and Africa, which started phrases which might be interpreted successes in the last three Schneiers compromised this situation by Overseas.
increasing, gear ratios. Gëmmer the Senior T. T. motor cycle race he early last year under the leadership as showing an attitude of considered der Trophy contests. presented the Trophy to the winner, of Captain Geoffrey Malins, has re-
hostility to motorists.
Many of the machines were perfected its worm-and-roller gear Stanley Woods, and distributed the.
The Appeal Court has lately and specially released from the Air to a point where it offered even other awards. In a speech, the ported its progress from Rhodesia. rightly. — expressed its disapproval Ministry's secret list and were on easier steering with balloons than CHANGING TRAFFIC LIGHTS. Prince said that racing kept British The convoy of al British of irrelevant obiter dicta, and there view for the first time. The pre- previously was hadith (high- motor cycles and engines pre-vehicles, which includes two six-can be little doubt that it would sent holder of the world's speed pressure tyres. This steering gear
London, August 1. eminent, and he hoped that the T.T. cylinder Rileys fitted with floating strongly condemn an expression record, for instance, Fit-Lt. Stain is now used with very satisfactory
Recently a conviction for disobey- would fiqurish, and that this would apparatus to enable them to cross from any Bench which might show forth, flew a new type of fighter results on many of the heavier, ing a traffic signal was registered not be the last time he would wit rivers, is carrying a selection of a prejudged state of mind towards machine, the Terre, of which priced cars.
against a motorist who contended ness the race as a thrilled spectator.
British manufactured goods and a law-abiding section of the com- nothing is known beyond the fact "Our latest development offers that he was so close to the light that it is fitted with Rolls-Royce to makers of lighter models an in-when it changed that dangerously. "The Motor Cycle relates an exhibiting them along its route. munity, amusing incident that occurred as
Since leaving Europe the journey" Further, with all deference to his "Kestrel engines. This is the proved steering gear designed for violent braking would have been Prince George was leaving Craig has occupied 188 days, and 18,000 worship, no legal justification for engine fitted to the Hawker the condition that exist when the necessary for him to stop. This ny-Baz, one of the points from miles have been covered. In Syria the statement quoted can be found. Fury," the fastest ghter aircraft larger, low-pressure tyres, sé-call-case Illustrates a diaadvantage of which he watched the race. and Palestine the travellers found Motorists are not on the road on in the world. Specially designed ed "doughnut tyres or air, wheeld trafic lights against which al long, chum called out a jocular the roads equal to the best in sufferance only. They have equal for the defence of London, it will
are used. spectator. So long," replied the Europe, but they have had extreme- rights to use the road as any other fly at over 200 m.p.h., and will Royal visitor, cheerfully.
ly rough and difficult going in person; It is to be hoped that some climb 20,000 ft. in 9 mins. 44, secs. other parts." They spent six days higher court will And occasion to In the Libyan desert, with "the record this rule in some judgment, temperature, at 118 deg. in the and thos, contravene any misrepre-
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petrol. They may rub because they shade, and towards the end the sentation of are improperly adjusted or because convoy's water was in danger of magistrate the lubrication of the shafts, joints, giving out, so that the ration was intended. etc., has been, neglected; in the lat- reduced for each man to a quart a ter case the "take-off"? springs are day,
not strong enough to overcome the... In contrast to this experience Was excessive friction of unlubricated a 17 days' struggle through" mud and possibly rusty parta, obý and swamps after the crossing of Among other ways of gaining the Taurus Mountains. Exception- petrol economy are to refrain from ally late, zaina delayed them for using cheap and inferior grade ght weeks in El Obeld, and beavy of engine oil, to keep the igniti
tered on the journey detalls in good trim and the adjustments correct, and, not important to keep the
motorists must be on their guard. Has New Bearings"
The wisest view is that if a car "Much of the easter action of cannot be started before the Haute our new steering gear comes from change without dangerous braking uniquely arranged flexible, small- which might cause' a skid the driver diameter toolipilers which should proceed. The amber light tending practically the entire lasts long enough for this to be dona actually have The Austrian Touring Club has length of the cross shaft, takes the in safety, and it is one of the frec presented sum of money place of the former plain bronze ressons for fitting the amber light.
authorities Journal bushings on the cross Drivers, however, must not try,
ABOLISHING CARS IN CHILE. for
Gové
ers for the About
GIFT TO POLICE.
for shaft. This feature is new in the face the lights
to render art and the company bas batent 102 SARKlara,
applications pending.
meet with These new bearings have prov fundalusi
fed their superiority so clearly" in "It là revealed that the Ford Mater.
tests that they ay, being
fed on both types xaf gör
of the factured by the takiPRAY
the ing their sector"
ease and euclapet
(Co." (UE.A.) suffered (
1981 of $10,500
. During 1980 the profits were: 29,000,000, and in
the 1929 18,500,000.