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Motoring Notes:
A Weekly Review dealing
with matters of interest to all local motorists. The Great Show-A Twelve Cylinder Engine The Prophets-The Ladies and Cars-The Constantinesco Car-Modern Coachwork.
[BY AN OWNER-DRIVER.]
THE GREAT SHOW.
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THE GEARS. What is this new product of the mind of a great geniust Is it a rotary engine or is it the true and trusty petrol engine with some new form of transmission mechanism 7.
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It must be remembered that great pro gress has been made in the control of The vast hall and annexes at Olympia motor care. The modern vehicle speeds
That last is probably what it amounts were crowded with all the latest noveltiesing along at forty miles an hour can to. This inventor has always had the is motor cars and their accessorica be pulled up to rest within forty yards seat ambition to eliminate the mechani
cally unsound method of speed control during the last week in October. The hy means of the present, mechanically now always used on petrol driven cara nows of the record, attendances were cabled | operated system of brakes which uses all Goare are useful but ——! out to us at the time, and we heard also four wheels for the purpose,
Those of us who have driven a steam ear know the great advantage that re- of the record sales.
As if four brakes, operated autoinsults if there is no gear changing. The writer now makes bold to attempt tically by one motion of the driver's foot, two prophecies about the 1997 models. is not sufficient there is also a hand brake It will be a year of the multi-cylinder which helps to pull the car up when it is engine. There will be motors carrying utilised That is the emergency brake only two cylinders and a number carry-
which is seldom used. ing four cylinders, yet Olympia, October, 1920, will, it is certain, be a place and date associated with the new era of the six and eight cylinder engine. Espe cially the six.
Why so sure. During the last few months the writer has been in corren pondence with three prominent English Arms 'about a new car. That correspon- dence has been amusing and, at the same time, informing.
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Those firms are trying to clear their four cylinder models, but for a time they won't give a local agent any encourage ment to handle six cylinder models in stead of four cylinder cars. Is it not fairly obvious that they scent the demand in Great Britain for "the silken six" cylinder car
A TWELVE CYLINDER ENGINE. This show will also be famous for the new twelve cylinder engine exhibited by a British firm. The engine is arranged in an ingenious manner-it is a double six. The writer does not suggest that this beautiful car is within the means of any but perhaps half a dozen people in Hong Kong.
On the other hand the writer does think that, despite recent bad times, the tax payers of this Colony ought to pro- vide the very best car possible for the representative of H.M. King George V. In the old days H.E, the Governor of the Colony, had a carrying chair that was really the most dignified and in- pressive affair of its kind in Hong Kong. Is it too much to suggest that His Excellency should be provided with a twelve cylinder cas that would make alt and sundry realise that an important personage is being conveyed through the streets of Hong Kong, at any rate on stato occasions? Noblesse oblige:
The present Government House cars ara vehicles about which much praise could be written. For lowly people, such Hy are most of us who enthuse about mechanism, such cars are beyond our hoper, so expensive are they compared with our modest resources.
However, we have no appearances to keep up-we who are, not high officinis. A GREAT NEED.
Many years ago the late Hon. Mr. Percy Holyoak made the same sort of suggestion at a meeting of the Legis lative Council. The inte Sir Henry May, when motors were first introduced to Government House (about 1916-or was it later 7) used a car that really was not quite in keeping with his position as "No. 1 in Hong Kong. The Hon. Mr. D. G. M. Bernard, as President of the local Automobile Association, must see tp it that the new twelve cylinder, car that attracted so much attention st Olympia this year is added to the cara garaged at Government House
The Chief Justice maintains the dignity' of his office with a beautifully kept Rolis Boyce car.
THE PROPHETS.
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Writing about the prophets brings to mind that really remarkable versc written by Erasmus Darwin one hundred and twenty years ago. He must have had a vision of the future when he
wrote:-
**Soon shall they arm unconquer 4
steam afar
Drag the slow barge, or drive the rapid
car,
Or on wide-waving wings expanded
bear
The flying chariot through the field of
air."
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THE LADIES AND CARS. An experienced manufacturer of motor- cars once said to the writer Can you twenty-two recommend me A young fellow about age for my staff to act as & salesman.” Now it so happened that a young friend of about that age had just graduated in engineer- ing at the University of Liverpool, So the manufacturer was informed that a clever young engineer was available.
Clever be hanged," he said, "What I want is a good looking young fellow with nice manners. Ninety per cent. of my sales are decided by the ladies. want a young fellow who will be persona grata with the opposite sex. matter a bean about engineering know ledge, what he needs most of all is a nice manner."
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Ladies pow-a-days drive cars and find no dimculty in doing so. The engineer has made the control so much easier The starting is now no great trial-the lady just presses the button and the self-starter does the rest.
A slight pressure of the foot brings.on full pressure of the brakes. The steer ing of the car is easily managed. Even if the lady gets a punctured tyre she only has to wait and some polito male comes along with, an offer of help.
Therefore, there is no exeuse for any one to refuse to learn to drive a car. Perhaps some of the middle aged of hath sexes have not the ambition.
Young twenty-one, male or female, bas no hesitation about the matter. In the old days our parents paid for us to have lessons in music. Our sons and our daughters use the gramophone and de- mand tuition about motor cars..
THE CONSTANTINESCÒ CAR
One of the recently arrived letters, from Paris motor. show says that the stand a friend in England, who visited the that attracted most, attention was that which exhibited the Constantinesco car.
What was the great attraction 1
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It can be applied by an ordinary paint brush and it must reduce the cost of doing up" car,
Is it not an application of lacquer for which the Far East is famous ?
At present the owner driver who takes a pride in the appearance of his car is often put to a great inconvenience if the body work is scratched. The car must be acut to a coach painting concern which possesses the necessary equipment for applying cellulose enamel." It usually takes about ten days to get the work done...
With this new cellulose paintwork there will be no such delay.
The Indies love the brilliance that has of oil paint and varnish. An equal been obtained, in past years, by the use
Instra is secured with the new method of finishing off the body work.
INSURANCE GAINS.
This cellulose paintwork can be clean ed dry if necessary. The more it is rubbed the better it looks.
If damaged it can be repaired so as to make the damaged part look like the rest of the bodywork. It is not neces- It is the gear changing that always sary to strip the whole vehicle of ali worries the learner. Almost anyone can of the old paint. The damaged part is steer car, but it is great adventure simply repainted. learning how to change the gears. Thus there is promised a great saving
Good luck to you, Constantineson car! in the repair bill. May you be a great a boom to the Incidentally it may be mentioned that general public as some of us are sanguine the insurance companies will greatly will be the case.
bencft by
a reduction in the cost of re- Even if you are, there will still be pairs. Now-a-days if one wing (cr plenty of opportunity for other inven- mudguard) is buckled, the other three have to be repainted. That means re- tors.l
There are so many improvements that moving them for stove enamelling. This experts want to see accomplished in con-new method is a great improvement and it will be particularly welcomed in Hong tection with motors and motoring
Every year is really a record of pro-Kong where the body work is subjected gress. Sometimes we, of the older gene- to the beat of summer and the great ration, come to the conclusion that we humidity of the atmosphere. were born about forty years too sour. On the whole the general standard of What a good time young twenty-one has the bodywork seen in Hong Kong is very to-day with his almost fool-proof, silent high. Host of the car owners are very car as compared with those of us who, proud of the appearance of their cars at twenty-one, had no other form of and rightly so. old push bike. locomotion for the country roads but an Most of us spend some money, each year, on repairs for the sake of appear- cre of 1550 is hard to say. He will prob- last we say "The car must be repaint. What it will be like for young twenty- ance. Bodywork gets scratched and at ably be using an Austin Seven" aero-ed." This new lacquer Buish does not place for his annual summer boliday. scratch and repairs to paintwork are soon He will fly across from Hong Kong to completed if it is used. London with about as much preparation for the trip as we make when we go to Shanghai.
Life in Hong Kong since the coming of the car made trips around the land, to Shek-0, to "the" Peak and
THE INTERNATIONAL SHOW.
There are many motor exhibitions dur around the New Territories possible, is the year and they are held in all
parts of the world. very different to that lived in the good old days."
It will be better still when Hong Kong people will fly to London in a two-seater acroplane..
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Perhaps the Constantinesco car brought that happy day nearer to We hope so.
MODERN COACHWORK.
THE USE OF CELLULOSE LACQUER.
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A feature of the 1927 car will be the new ideas embodied by the coach build
ers.
For some years there have been notice- able improvements in upholstering and fort of passengers, various little things that add to the com-
There is, however, only one Inter national Motor Show and that was held at Olympia, London, towards the "end" of October.
Just as London is the centre of the world's trade and finance so is it now the Mecen of all good motorista-cape- éially during show week.
British, French, American, Italian and Austrian cars are to be seen at the International Show.
Why is it such a great event for the keen motorista î
Because many of the models for next year appear at Olympia for the first time.
It is true that the Paris show comes first but London is the centre of fashion for motors. Paris may be all very well for ladies' dresses and hats, but England is the home of modern mechanisca.. This year we have cellulose lacquer And the Olympia Show beat all of its on the bodies. This is being used extenown records in 1926, May it go on from sively in America. As Olympia is the strength to strength. For the motor car one control only-the throttle!
Well, there are uc gears, no clutch and great International Show We may be industry in Britain is a great one. Roads sure that cellulose lacquer is a feature and motors would put the bandits who It all sounds too good to be true,--for | of the exhibits.
infest China out of business.
a motor car.
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Some two or three years ago these pro- mises were made to the motoring world, but as they did not materialise motorists begun to grow sceptical.
Some of them said "Oh! it is just one of those
}j stunts of the yellow press. They lead you to expect all sorts of things but they always let you down, They "tuat about standard bread or sweet peas or eat more fruit" or "national economics" and now they have got hold of some cock-and-bull story. about an impossible invention.".
A REMARKABLE MAN. The engineer who has given his namö to this car is not a stunt mercbant. He is a very talented person.
Unless my memory is playing me tricks- he is the man who made what always seems to me to be the most wonderful invention of the war.
The problem was to arrange so that the an aeroplane should pass through the bullets from a machine gun carried on
without hitting the blades. air churned by the machine's propellor
speed such as 4,000 revolutions per The propellor rotates at some terrific minute. Moreover, the speed is always varying. !
ine job was accomplished. The tiniest fraction of a second out of step and the bullet must crash into the blade with a result that might be extremely unpleasant to those firing the bullet,
to me that the man who arranged that It never did crash. It always sected mechanism must be a genius.
A LITTLE PATIENCE.
The internal combustion engine was not. in general use until nearly...a hundred At the time of writing an Owner years after 1802 when Erasmus Darwin Driver" has seen nothing in the English wrote those words but it is true that newspapers-including the technical press steam did "drive the rapid, car" and-about the Constantinesco car and there may even do it again. The internal is only the few lines in a private letter combustion engine, however, does the about, the subject. work, to-day.
RANGE OF POWER. Olympia no doubt had tiny exhibita of seven horse-power cars £tted with saloon bodies and capable of doing forty miles an hour on the open road without any effort.
The powers of the cars exhibited must have had a range of fram seven to one hundred and twenty horse-power. It is said that the car fitted with this high powered engine will crawl along the road at one mile an hour or rush along at a speed exceeding one hundred milen an hour, if the open road will permit
It must be a wonderful experience to handle a car like that.
The antisfactory correspondent does Dot even say that this new invention is either better or worse than be expected.
Was it exhibited at Olympia What is it anyhow i
We must for the present, content our selves with the knowledge that the in- ventor is a genius and a mathematician as well as an engineer, integr
The old days when the big inventions were made by men who had no know ledge of the laws of physics and only elementary mathematics are gone,
The inventions of today are made by scientifically trained engineers.
Yet still it in true that the most won- derful piece of mechanism is the human mind.
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