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A Weekly Review dealing
HAVE DANGEROUS
ENDS
with matters of interest to all local motorists. The Obstructing Trees-A Punctured Tyre-Shockless Gear Changes-The Car with No Gear Box.
[BY AN OWNER-DRIVEE]
THE OBSTRUCTING TREES.
WATCH THE TYRES. Now it so happens that the writer does From time to time motorists complain not enjoy changing a wheel. It is one of about trees that obstruct the road, but the things connected with motoring in the tropics and in towns to which the nothing is done to remove the obstacles,
Those who do not drive a car genuinely fertile brains of clever inventors might believe that drivers are unreasonable in give much more attention! this matter. They argue, rightly enough," Anyhow, as things are, it means using that trees are very beautiful and that wiļa jack, spanners, etc. Some people can need to preserve the beauty of our local use these implement without getting highways. Although some of the old books themselves and their clothes in a mess describe Hong Kong as "barren, rock" And there are some of us who are less none of us really want the place to fortunate. We do get dirty, deserve such a description,
THE DRIVERS.
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The elderly gentlemen who rule over us do not like to take any action just because the young clamour about the lack of progress ar'd the conservative mind." They retort that there really is no great hurry and the young, if they bebare in an orderly manner, will have many years to live and will be able to speed along other highways when oa leave.
The big ear, however, must be paid for. The cost of running a car with a 3,000 C.C. engine is considerably more
than the cast of running a car with a 1,300 ENSURE WITH C.C. engine.
NO SKILL NEEDED.
The sponsors of the new constant mesh type gear einim that any novice 230 needed to operate these gears." obtain shockless changes. No skill, is
The mechanism is rather difficult to terms. The majority of drivers of car in explain without diagrams and technical these days are not, however, very well acquainted with the details of the trans- mission mechanism of their cars. So long as they keep the various parts of the
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Therefore, the writer always watches mechanism wall lubricated and the engine GILMAN & Co., Ltd.
his tyres very carefully. When the canvas appears he gets a new tyre. He acknow- ledges that he sees his friends running tyres that show a great deal of canvas. They have either a simple faith, good luck, or a very economical type of mind Some of us prefer to lose a few dollars rather than to have the task of changing a tyre in the heat of the midday sun or in Hong Kong central. If we begin to change a tyre in central every friend and chance acquaintance comes along to make the task more unpleasant. So we "scrap' the tyres before they ato really worn
The difficulty is that the young drive cars and realise fully the danger of the trees that obstruct the road. The elderly} out. gentlemen, if they are in a position of authority, invariably have chauffeurs who do not explain the anxieties caused by
the trees.
A CRIMINAL ACT.
writer that a tyre must be changed. In So that it happens very seldom to the these days the roads, on the island are so well surfaced that tho tyres are rarely punctured by small bits of stone.
Let us consider that great bugbear to all local motorists-the tree on Garden stitute. Time after time motorists have last, before the wheel was removed the Road just outside the Helena May In- "In this particular case, on Saturday tried to persuade the authorities to re- tyre was closely examined. move that tree. They have not yet! It had been deliberately cut in more succeeded although they will continue to than one place with a sharp instrument appeal about that tree until it is re-such as a pocket knife. moved.
It may, of course, take a coroner's in quest and a rider by the jury" to the effect that the tree was the direct cause of a fatality before action is taken,
THE MOTOR-CYCLIST.
A few evenings ago a car was coming down Garden Road with the headlight full on.
The local practice is to dim the lights when another car is coming to- wards the driver, but the practice cannot be enforced and there are some drivers
who probably disapprove of it. Anyhow they don't dim their lights.
On this particular occasion the driver
did not dim.
The motor cyclist coming up Garden Road could not ere ahead because of the blinding glare. He did what seems to be, n sensible thing. He watched the edge of the pavement to make sure that he was on the right side of the road:
Before he had gone very far he crashed into the tree that stands out in the road
On examining the other three wheels, similar cuts were found on the other rear. wheel. It was evident that some malicious person had been at work.
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that the car will go well. in good working prder they are satisfied
They will, naturally enough, be attract- ad by the idea of a car that requires no skill for gear changing
Evidently inventors have not neglected' the transmission mechanism of cars of late.
FRICTION GEARS.
There is one make of car that has an ingenious method of altering the gear ratio. For some reason which is not very obvious the device has not been used by other makera.
In this car-the G.W.E.-the gear con- trol lever alters, the distance between the centre of one disc and the rim of adise at right angles to it.
be obtained with this arrangement.
An indefinite number gear ratios can
The drawback is that it does not seem
friction drive probably slips at higher possible to transmit powers much abore ten horse-power by this method. The
powers.
beginner. It seems a pity that some such The car is, however, very easy for the. scheme cannot become universal.
DOUBLE DE-CLUTCHING.
One of the most difficult pieces of work for a beginner is changing from a high gear to one lower
This operation is best done with al nerve. It is as well to practice on a double de-clutch. That requires a steady fairly old ear.
An appeal is made to all local owners of cars to do their utmost to obtain a if he is caught may the magistrate who conviction against this local pest. And sentences him be the owner of a car. Meantime let us all keep & sharp look If the beginner has any doubt about out. Rumour has it that certain chauf- his ability to change easily from high gear feurs try this method of persuading to a lower one he can always stop the chauffeurs. If only we could catch these One of the local garages used to insist owner drivers to employ out of-work car.
In these days tyres are most reliable, the difficult Dairy Farm Hill near to gentlemen at the game!
on their chauffeurs stopping the cara at Modern motorists have, under normaal Fokfulam. They don't do that now but abrcumstances, practically no anxieties the drivers are very careful. however, will stand up against such tyres, but nothing made of rubber,
about
malicious usage.
tyres.
THE CAR WITH NO GEAR BOX.
The guards employed by the local outside the City Hall and at Kowloon th owner driver is that of the remark Automobile Association and stationed One of the problems that is puzzling might be instructed-even offered a re-able new invention, the Constantanesco He was lucky to escape with a few minor injuries. His machine was wreck to secure the criminal who cuts car. cd but fortunately- for him he was not In Hong Kong the normal wear and badly injured.
the on tyres is greater than in many many sharp corners. If tyres are kept other places because of the bills and the properly inflated they last well, even always pays to use a well-known make of under the trying local conditions. It
.
It was but small compensation to him to explain that the tree is really very beautiful.
Why do they make a road if it is not safe for trade?" be said, as we dis cussed his grievance. He wanted to claim damages as he was not insured but be was persuaded not to throw good money after bad.
BE REASONABLE.
Now there must be many spots around the Helena Alay Institute where trees can be planted. By all means plant as many trees ns is possible, always pro- vided that they are not likely to obstruct the highways.
When they do obstruct the roads, then remove the trees.
Someday a child or an unfortunate coolie will be killed at the Park Road end of Lyttleton Road where there still remains a tree more or less in the middle of the highway." :
tyre.
WHEN ON LEAVE.
The ideal method of spending a holiday in England is to obtain a car and tour through the West Country, Wales and the Midlands.
See this world before you are the next" is the slogan of the tourist agencies. It is curious that people who spent their childhood
England or Scot land have been known to travel round the world but have never seen the beauti- ful country near their own homes.
THE NEW TRANSPORT.
A friend who has just come back from
This car was the sensation of the French Motor Exhibition held in Paris a few days before the big British Show was opened at Olympia.
The car
is an English invention and, as far as can be gleaned from the short Press, the car is made in England. statements that have appeared in the
Apparently it was not exhibited at Olympia. In all of the many press notices about the show that have been rend by the writer there has been no mention of the car, without a gear box,
CURIOUS MECHANISM. There was a notice in one of the weekly illustrated society papers that described, in very general terms, the mechanism employed. It was, however, not a very, convincing explanation.
It said something about the principle of relativity and higher mathematics, but the general tone of the article left one with the impression that the author of it had set out with the fixed idea that it was impossible to explain to the non- technical man the curious mechanism
On behalf of motorists it may be, said that they wish to make Hong Kong even home leave is full of enthusiasm about which has enabled the petrol engine to nore beautiful than it is to-day. They the great success of his own ingenious drive a car without any clutch or genr advocate tree planting. By all means experiment. He said that he could not box. plant thousands of trees each year--but afford a car so he and a pal” went of j Why was this ear not exhibited at keep them well off the highways,
Olympia? Why have not the English on a motor 'bus jaunt..
He left London and managed to get technical journals given the" usual ad- down to Somerset all the way by motor Vanced and detailed explanation of this
bast He came back to London by 'buses apparently remarkable invention f that ran on routes different to those he started off on.
There are many trees that grow quite quickly in this climate. It is true that old trees cannot be removed to another place. They can be cut down and other trees can be planted in adjacent posi- tions.
If it were not for the fact that the man whose name associated with the new There is now a regular motor 'bus car is a remarkable mechanical genius service between Glasgow and Edinburgh. one would be inclined to lose all interest The single fare is 2, 9d. and the return in the subject. fare is is. 4d..
He is, however, a great inventor. With
There is a tree that some of us call the castor oil tree" (that is not its correct name; castor oil berries do not grow on it); however, the tree with this focal name, grows very rapidly in this climate. It has the great advantage that it grows erect, the top part is full of
It will come some day and the sooner foliage and the lower branches can be it does come the better. removed without in any way spoiling the appearance. Why don't they plant more of those trees! Not in the highway but) at the side of the road.
A PUNCTURED TYRE.
A few weeks ago attention was drawn to the complains that have been made by an owner driver about the wilful cut- ting of a tyre on his car. He left the vehicle in Statue Square..
On Saturday last the writer of the note had the misfortune to have a similar
experience.
He left his car on the parking space outside the Hong Kong Hotel, in broad daylight, for an hour.
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When are we going to have a regular modern mechanism he is perhaps the motor bus service to Fanling vid Castlewizard of his age. There are men like word "gyroscope" has been used as Peak?
Sir J. J. Thomson who can tell us of the term of comparison. wonders of the electron. There are many It must be about twenty-five years ago men of genius at work on all sorts of that motorist who had seen the work electrical problems.
ing drawings of the then unknown silent Knight engine explained the mechanism to the writer. The explanation was just enough to leave his mind thoroughly muddled, but a few weeks later he saw the drawings which at once reminded him of those used for the once famous but engine. now almost forgotten Williams steam
SHOCKLESS GEAR CHANGES.
Further evidence of the determination of inventors to make gear changing as casy as steering a çár is suggested by the latest announcement of the Lea and Francis firm in England
They have produced changing gear of the constant mesh type.
Levassor invented the gear box in the very early days of the automobile and it is often said that despite the obvious disadvantages of the usual mechanism for gear changing, there has been prac tically no improvement since the days of Levassor's first effort, N
This man, however, gives his attention to mechanism and has already made him self famous. Moreover, the car was on view at Paris and attracted quite a lot of attention.
WHAT IT DOES.
It is related that the engine has only no gear box, but the gear ratio changes two cylinders. There is no clutch and
automatically.
Apparently the engine continues to maintain any required speed. The driver
mixture in the venal manner.
ing drawings of this new Constantanesco if only we could obtain a set of work-
car in Hong Kongl.
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Or, better still, if only some wealthy local citizen would cable an order for ca a foot pedal to supply more or less a car to be sent out at once. He could invite the members of the Automobile As the load increases such as happens Association to see the works as Jin leaving a level road for a hill the the car arrived
transmission mechanism automatically
He might even present & car, or n adjust itself. The speed of the driving model of the mechanism, to the local road wheels drops but the speed of the Technical Institute. A mention of that engine is practically constant,
struction in driving at a cheap fee might The mechanism is said to be compar Institute suggests that a course of in-
lend to a reduction in the current of wages paid to local chauffeurs.
An attendant was in the driver's seat; The great improvements have been with but very probably was asleep most of the materials rather than with the details tine he was supposed to be on guard. of the mechanium.LANGK
Everything seemed to be in order as The reason why many drivers like to we started off "home. In a few minutes have a car with a big engine is so that
it became evident that there was a punce they are saved the anxiety of gear changable with the motion of a pendulum. The
ture.
ing.
(Continued on next Columa).