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Motoring Notes: A Wookly
Review dealing
with matters of interest to all local motorists—
Filtering the Air-The Lady Motor Cyclist--A Great Organisation -High Compressions.
[BY AN OWNER-DRIVER.]
FILTERING THE AIR.
It seems curious that it is only recently that cleansing the "sir be fure it goes into the car-burretor has been accomplished on care
When we remember that about 95 per cent of the cylinder capacity.i el an engine is filled by air drawn it from a region very near to the front wheels and the toad it is easy to understand that dirt must get in with the air unless some method is arranged to intercept the dirt.
When sand is placed on the road with the object of preventing akid ding some of the sand gets churned ap with the air.
GOOD REASONS. There are good reasons for clean sing the air before it is sucked in to the engine cylinder. They are:
(1) Carbon deposit in the cylin ders is reduced. In modern road dust there is a silicous element which forms a large part of it. That aids carbon deposit.
(9) Cylinder wear and tear is re-
cluded.
duced if grit and dust is ex (3) Carburetters do not get chok-
ed so often if only pure air is drawn through them. In England the cost of decar- bonising and value grinding is quoted as. £2 but the writer knows of cases where three times that
Motorists must not be frightened by those who threaten them with all sorts of penalties for trespass."
THE LADY MOTOR CYCLIST.
*
The voxed question of the attitude of the law towards those who ride on a pillion has agitated the Press that the matter should be discussed in Great Britain. / It vai inevitable" in Hong Kong. –
The consumption of electric power in the works is about 2,000 Kilo watts, which must be a figure not lar removed to the total amount of electric power needed to light up the whole of the island of Hong Kong after dark.
Perhaps the Dunlop folk were hampered by the disastrous coel trike but we may be quite sure that no organisation in Great Britain carried on in face of all the re sulting difficulties caused by the strike with more efficiency and vigour than did the Dunlop People
made of increasing thickness The thicker the brass the higher was the compression pressure and also the higher was the pressure in the cylin der after explosion.
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All of that was found out about
of a century ago. Materials have improved since those days. We can safely use pressures now that were considered to be unafe in those days,
Mr.. A. J. Haker is an engineer holding a very responsible position in the motor car industry of the United States. He says that one important reason why the Overland 33 miles to the galion is because of whippet bas averaged better than the compression of per cent. high figure as compared with the compressions in many American
as
The figure 993 means that when esport to at the end of the com pression stroke the mixture la forced. into a space) per cent of the original volume that it filled at the end of the suction stroke. Gener ally speaking high compression spells economy.
-- FACTS THAT SPEAK
It is an amazing fact that "to COMPULSORY INSURANCE, A focal motoring expert has ex-day Dunlop is able to view a busi should be a special police test for enter realised than it was only three pressed the opinion that there ness which is no less than slaven times greater in total motor tyre motor cyclists who wish to have the sal
The Estate at Fort Years ago, privilege of carrying a pillion pas Dunlop comprises 431 acres. The whole organisation employs about 28,000 persons. The Birmingham section of the business provides work for 10,000 people..
Incidentally it may be mentioned that at Fort Dunlop there is pro duced the famous blue Dunlop ** Linzgli” golf ball.
adagar.
A difficulty about that seems to be connected with the pillion rider.
A cool headed individual would be quite safe but an excitable girl might very easily clutch the arm of the motor cyclist at the critical fraction of a second when the clutch would spell disaster,
THE GIRL TO TO-DAY. The peril of the business is that day is zot likely to be the pillion the cool, steady nerved girl of to- rider. She would-be the person driving the machine.
A friend who recently returned from leave in England said that two impressions shout change in the old country stuck out in his mind
One was the evolution of the lady motor cyclist.
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Many a local golfer has had a happy day at Deep Water Bay or Fanling thanks to the enterprise of motor trip uninterrupted by the Dunlop Company. He bas had punctures because he had Dunlop a game of golf uninterrupted by re- tyres on his car. He has enjoyed grets because he had the good sense to use a "Maxgli." May many readers remember that actions speak louder than words. It is much bet ter to buy British made tyres, golf balls, etc., than to shout music halls songs about what we will do. Deeds are needed to provide em
has been paid in Hong Kong. In How do they do it!" he asked fast the problem of local repair and raplied almost in the same costs is a serious one. It is true breath. I really can't make it that native labour is cheaper than similar labour in England but the the fact that it was the cleanly ap-
out. Further enquiries elicited | ployment. cost of supervision so much
pearance of the girl eyclist that greater in Hong Kong.
Amazed him.
THREE TYPES. There are three types of air filters. They are (a) the centri "fugal type which it fitted with bales to trap the dust; (6) the stationary type which it fitted with absorbent pads; and
Air (c) washers.
Не
gets Elthy when he rides à long distance but the girl, arrives at the end of a 100-mile run per factly clean. He suspecta face cream and other devices.
After the girl motor cyclist came broadcasting He-had been on a motor trip with a friend and when
centrifugal type, i to impart to country they heard the broadcast The main idea of type (a), the they camped out for a rest is the the air rapid swirling or centri-programme although the two of fugal effect. There is a rotor which them were miles away from rotates at a high-speed. This not human habitation.. only sucks in the air bat causes it
HIGH COMPRESSIONS.
What amazing results come from hat been true of engineering deve small beginnings Especially has
lopment.
It is more than & quarter of a century ago that the writer heard first of the idea that more power
combustion engine if the compres might be obtained from an internal aion ratio wers changed.
ECZEMA ON NECK TEN YEARS
Itching and Burning Were Ter
rible. Healed by Cuticura.
* For ten years I auffered with externs which broke out on the back of my neck. "The liching and turn- 'ing were terrible, causing me to
· scratch." After seratching the grupu" (Rona-water dama from them, and.
then they scaled over,
**I tried other remedies but they did not help mai · sent for a fron sample of Caticure Soap and Dine- tent which wave immediate relief. I purchanad' more and now I am compistely healed?! (Signed) Mire. Florence E. Close. 13, Beresford Bldgs, Beresford Bt., Camberwall,
don, 8. E. J. Eng.
your skis clear and your pores active hy, dally was of Cuti- cuta Scap. Heal Irritations and rushes with Cuticura OintmRTIE.. Soap and Ointment gold throughout the
Alão formal weders with priori Bug Try the Catleara Shweing Silaka
POR HET FLETOR KEMBET.}
House of Commons not long aga A statement was made in the that the question of compulsory in THERAPION No. surance against third party risks is THERAPION NO. 2 under consideration
At first sight one would be in THERAPION No. 8 Ka 3 Jar Bladine Canech, In. 3; he Blood & Ikta. clined to say that if a man owns a
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It is generally believed that abort 80 per cent of the car owners in l Great Britain have insured them selves against third party risks.
What the proportion is in Hong astonishing to hear some owners. say Kong can only be guessed but it is that it is too much trouble to take out a policy
It is clearly wrong that anyone should run the risk of being injured through the fault of the driver of a car without being certain of some monetary compensation.
AMERICAN PLANS
The idea of compulsory insurance
has been put forward is the United States, and the subject has been very fully discussed. "
The problem that worries them over there is whether policies should be issued by insurance companies or the State or by both.
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Chemists and Stores sell them throughout the world. Proprietor MARTIN" Chemist, Southampton, Ligture
E QUESTION OF A CAR
methods of any State managed con
Owing to the usual red-tapel
THE cern, the average person would beg that the State should be kept out of it
To all coming home on leve The best plan would be for a
will be issued unless a receipt from WRITE CABLE what make you want, regulation to be issued that ANY MAKE OF CAR will be waiting annual license for motor vehicle for you to usa - fully licensed and insured
to have a rapid rotary motion. The girl astride a motor-bike is a picmonstrated beyond cavil the best can refuse to insurance companies
Just being heavier than air, is flung outwards and, impinging on louvres, it falls while the air goes on to the carburetter.
ture that bas an indescribable ap- method of increasing thermel effici. peal. He saw Suzanne Lenglen atencies.
a policy to ans
A little gaz angine of about an insurance company has been with 5 cheque as deposit.
MOREOVER in all brake horse power was obtained for handed in,
cases, excepting American Cars, we will refund you 65%. My friend says that the English the classical experiments that de. Of course the
Individual they may think means of the purchase price within six months" bad business for them. In the of you taking delivery, or after a longer case the rejected ones could fall paried a far market price will be given State would make them pay a heavy premium for the privilege ct prè sent we can advise all owners to Jermyn St, Piccadilly, LONDON
against third- insure especially party risk.
tennis, but for a real thrill he says What was the iden? Well, if you that nothing can in any way com- know anything at all about the in- pare to a girl rider on a motor side of a petrol motor you should cycle out to beat records
be able to understand what was done.
It seems that nowadays girls gycle with the aid of petrol to and from their work.
The idea of the stationary type is this There is a cylindrical shell which is perforated and has round it a wire screen. It is covered with felt. The area around this screen and felt is much greater than the
We occasionally see a lady motor- area of the induction pipe. The cyclist in Hong Kong. Some two sir, therefore, has a greatly reduced or three years ago an enterprising velocity at that stage of its pro-Chinese young lady drove about on gress towards the petrol. The dust, one, but she is now to be seen driv grit and sand separate out, mostly ing a small car.
Bome by gravity. The felt also allows the an to pass through as it is porous but it screens out the dirt. That type is used quite a lot in connec tion with air compressors..
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THE WET TYPE. This kind requires rather more care and attention than the other types and is not so popular. On the other hand power testa hava shown that the same engine gives |- out more power if fitted with a
of us who are getting old may think that a girl of sixteen is too young to have full control of a machinë that can go at fifty miles an hour. Mis 1927 who was born, in 1911 thinks differently. Anyhow she is plucky and that is the one virtue that has a universal appeal Thore will be more lady motorists. in Hong Kong in the not too dis- tant. future.
wet type than if a dry air filter A is used.
GREAT ORGANISATION.
It is impossible for the writer In Hong Kong there are market-
to give any personal opinion on the subject because he has not seen ́a wet air filter. At first the thought Domes that the prospect of getting any, moisture in with the mixture is of British manufacture. would not be enticing to the use o such apparatus..
However, enough has been written
ed various kinds of tyres but it may be as well to inform readers of this journal that there is only one make in this part of the world that
of
There are some British residents in Hong Kong who are determined to do everything
to show the reader that air filters the old country.ble to help!
have come to stay,
What is remarkable is that so many years have passed by since motors have cried out for some such arrangement and no one seemed able to realise the need. Now there are many types of air filters. It is hoped that all are efficient,
TRESPASS AND MOTORS.
A case of same interest to local motorists was recently reported in a law journal.
A gentleman at Hayling Island, near Portsmouth (England) refused
realise that
there is still a great deal of unem- ployment in England. They kno that the cost of the war that saved the world from disaster is being carried by the people of Great Britain in a degree that seems to them to be unjust So they say
Buy
British goods and be proud of it.
Those people can obtain British made tyres in Hong Kong. The Dunlop Company has the unique position of being the only tyre com. pany which provides the motoriet with the direct interest of the manu facturer through the medium of a
"
to pay a stranger without creden-Dunlop factory trained manager tile a shilling demanded because who bas been sent out to the Far he had parked his car on an un-East by the Dunlop Company, in enclosed space by the roadside. Great Britain. D
He was subsequently threatened * LANCASHIRE'S NEEDS. with certain actions, and he paid Hong Kong and Lancashire are aum of five guincas in order to connected by many invisible struts cape the bother of a prosecution of trade. The Dunlop Company for trespass po
* own their own cotton mills in Lan- The law journal advises motorists cathire. Nobody dobja the quality that if they park on an unenclosed of the canvas that is produced by space and commit ne damage, then those Lancashire cotton mills. Cot they should offer the sum of ton experts will appreciate the size shilling, at most, to the landowner of the mills when it is stated that provided that they have no resist they contain 210,000 ring-spindles cd any fores used to eject them. with the machinery necessary for It is related that many years ago finishing so na to manufacture cord s gentleman prosecuted some boys, for the famous cord tyres added famous Rupert Brooke, because theyThe works gives employment to hunted for moths in his woods nearly 3,000 work-people
The learned judge ordered pay- The size of the place may be BD ment to the plaintiff of one shillingpreciated when it is stated that the which had boca paid into Court for floor space of the works is approxi the purpose."
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