Overland "Whippet" Cars.
Unequalled in either Quality or Price. See them at
THE DURO MOTOR CO., LTD.
132, Nathan Rd., Kowloon.
or Apply
To the Distributors
GILMAN & CO., LTD.,
Hong Kong Bank Building."
Teleph. C..290..
CAPTAIN
THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, APRIL 27th, 1927.
MOTORING NOTES
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
MALCOLM
CAMPBELL'S
car
was fitted "with
DUNLOP
TYRES
PERFORMANCE IS PROOF!
BRITISH
Another gruelling test for Dunlop" Tyres. All our ex-
MADE
AND
perience in racing
IN
BEST
ENGLAND
-tests is embodied in the "Dunlop Tyres you buy.
"PERFORMANCE IS PROOF!
DUNLOP RUBBER COMPANY, LTD.
AT HONG KONG.
LOCAL BRANCH: 16A, DES VEUX ROAD CENTRAL. TELEPHONE: C. 4554.
Bean
CARS
HAVE. THESE FEATURES
Perror.rva four-wheel brakes, Dunlop Lulicon cord tym with spare wheel and tyre, pred gear box with right hand
gate control, greuse gu
chassis lubrication. detachable cylinder hend, genuine fir
iry kather upholstery. licence helder devina mirror, speedometer, perrol gauge, electric and bulb horn, cute.
matic windscreen wiper,
shock absorbers, luggage
grid, sprang gusters, liper
mati and complete set
of tools in bo
Models and Prices
12hp Chase-
1267 water Toro (35
12 hp. der Towe S
12 bp. Four-dun
Saloon.
10hp. Chaska - 114 hp,2/3-water
Yourer
14h45 raz
Tourer
•
Nhp Four Jo
Saloon
- 030
£45
Lang 14 h. Chaus£295
Lang 14 hp out "
dour Salon 440
Lang 14 h.p. Salon
di Luse
Lung 14.0
Landauletre.
19:50 hp. 6cylinder
1850 hp. 23-
Inner
19/40 9.5
Touter
• £35
1574
··· 2365
14 Four door
Silan
··2479
- £472
13/50. Landaulette £630-
The "Fourteen" 4/5 Seater
[A.P B.]
A New Invention-Experience and Youth-A £4,000 Chassis-Pressures and Heat-
Motor Cycle Football-The Roll Call
[BY AN OWN ER-DRIVER.)
NEW INVENTIONS.
law makers as well as the designers; of machines need that encourage ment or is it stimulus ?
Overland "Whippet" Cars.
EASY TERMS TO SUIT ALL PURSES.
Cylinda 6 Cylinder
13.8 II.P. 31.6 HP.
5 Beater Touren................. G$ p00
5 Sextor Roadster...... GS 975 5 Seater Coach G$1,000 5 Seator Sedan (4 door) G5 1,100
G. $ 1,075 G $1,125
Sester roughim.... G$1,130
@ $1,200
$ 1,272 G8 1,325
GILMAN & CO., LTD. "1 Snow Room:
Distributors.
HONG Kxo Bank BUILDING.
and it is worthy of the reputation of the men it is named after-which is saying a great deal.
At the seventy-fifth birthday ban EXPERIENCE AND YOUTH. quet of the Studebaker Corperation. held this year in New York M. Erskine sal believe in young men. He went on to say that we are seasoned in experience. yet young in spirit and possessed of ideas that are ever new.
Albert Russell Erskine is one of the most important men in the motor industry of the United States, Seasoned in experience himself be eleves in the energy and vitality of young men.“
During the expansion stroke both pressure, and temperature fall. At A local motorist recently enquired the end of the expansion stroke What is to be the line of deve-in Ricardo's engine the pressure at lopment in the near future of the the und fell to 72 lbs. per square motor car a difficult questioninah and the temperature to about to answer because in engineering"] 2000 degrees. Fo developingut it is the unexpected! Engines that run at about 1,000 that often happens.
revolutions per minute practically However, it is always of interest. all modern petrol engines exceed to speculate about progress. Mr. | that, speed-have such a short in- H. G. Wells has done that with con- terval of time between the begin. The well known Erskine Six cart siderable success and he was aning and end of the expansion biologist rather than a man with stroke that very little heat is lost mechanical training. Perhaps if te to the cylinder walls during the had been in the workshops he would expansion stroke. have been much more reluctant to suggest the probable development of applied science.
A Heet of such cars will not help the traffic problem a little bit. The room 'taken up by four or five pas.. sengers would be grudged in a crowded city.
Without any passengers the car weigh just over 2 tons; the width of the track is 5 feet and the wheel base 15 feet.
THE ENGINE.
..
"
COOLING EFFORTS.
That does not mean that cooling the engine is not necessary. It is essential for the engine to have cooling water, beemuse otherwise the very high temperatures would soon cause the piston to seize in the cylinder.
Although an almost imperceptible quantity of heat is removed during the expansion stroke yet, if the engine is running at 6,000 r.p.m. there are 3.000 expansion strokes in There are eight cylinders in line
a minute and so the amount of and the length of the cylinder block heat removed in a minute mounts exceeds 41 feet. There are all sorts up. of dodges incorporated in the de- sign which reveal the ingenuity of! Mr. Bugatti and his associates. The car is capable of a speed of 125 miles per hour which is con- siderably in excess of aarthing that would be safe in Hong Kong.
Although only one car of this size has so far emerged from the fac. tory they say
Eye.
A WEAK MIXTURE When we have a 20 per cent. weak mixture we get a lower maximum flane temperature but a much alower rate of burning, In an en- gine running with a "correct" mix- ture the mean pressure on the piston during the expansion stroke.
inch. per square that the designer was 17.4 lbs. has such confidence in the pattern When the mixture was 30 per cent. that he is putting through twenty weak the mean presure was 115 lbs. per square inch. A 20 per cent. the horse- rich mixture increases power, by rather less than 5 per
THE GEAR BOX. Fer at least twenty years meckan- ical engineers have been saying that the gear box must be eliminated from the ear. Yet the gear box is fitted to almost every car that is turned out of a factory to-day, feels that the gear box must go. Somehow or other, however, one 1 is useful, but it is not really scientific.
There are certainly more than twenty-five people in the world whe can afford 24,000 for a chasses or shall we say, about £6,000 for a complete car. It is, however, at least arguable that the owner of a tiny car obtains much more fun out of his small "bus if he drives it himself.
THE DELIGHT. Anyone who drives a 300 berse- power care in England at 126 miles per hour, even on the new broad highways, will know what is the meaning of the phrase to live dangerously." There is always a thrill when danger is near but it is rather unfair to involve other people in the danger when they have not asked for it.
cent.
.
hope of the motorcar enthusiasts is What is to replace it. The great
out in detail one of the most in- Constante esco. He has worked genious speed changing devices that it is possible to imaging. Whether cial success or not remains to be it will prove to be a great commer-
It will be of great interest to know what is the cost per mile-seen. including depreciation-of running a 300 horse-power car,
The Comprehensiveness of MOTOR-CYCLE_FOOTBALL.
Bean
CARS
Bean Car models for 1927 offer you a compre- hensive range of types and styles. There are the Bean "Twelve:" the "Fourteen," the Long "Fourteen," and the 18-50 h.p. 6-cylinder. For coachwork you have the choice of 2/3 Seaters, 4/5 Seaters Saloons, De-Luxe Saloons, and Landaulettes. And every type and every model represents the highest possible-value. WE ARE BEAN AGENTS
JANE CRAWFORD, ITD.
as
It may come news to some readers that motor cyclists play football. The 350 C.C. overhead valve machine has proved itself to be the most convenient type of achine for the game.
doubt about the genius of the in- There is hot the slightest
ventor-the success or failure of the invention as an article of commerce will not effect that.
TOO LATE!
There is something that is almost tragic about the fate of such a mechanical genius 45 Constan tauesco. le bas beca unrecognised by the millions and until he had In this Colony we are at times passed the allotted span of life the privileged to sec pole being played general public were in tuiciently end any lover of horse-flesh must educated to recognise his genios. A feel an interest in the game. Whe. lm star or even a daring novelist ther motor cycle football will ever or writer of plays may leap into be played in Hong Kong will all fame in a your. The great inventor pend upon the enthusiasm of the seldom reaps any such reward. The reuiger generation. At present the moralists say that it is all to the local motor cyclists take their re-inventor's good that he should be creation in uniforin as a useful auxiliary to the local police force. When we go home on leave it will be a novelty to see motor eyele football.
unrecognised. Yet he is usually a very human fellow and would be variably stimulated to greater. efforts by some encouragement.
LANCHESTER. Constantanescc and Lanchester "appeal to, the writer as the two era. They have done something, in really great men of this mechanical the way of mechanism that will give then a niche in the hall of fame if it is built one hundred years.
PRESSURES AND HEAT. The petrol engine is usually known as an internal combustion engine but it is sometimes regretted to as
an explosion regime." Anyone who knows
Anything hence! about the working of the engine is
that,A Awarc
The bridge builders, the road mixtare of air pioneers and the makers of motor and petrol vapour is drawn into cars and aeroplanes have altered
our ideas of time and of distance.
WE SELL AT ENGLISH PRICES PLUS FREIGHT, &c. the cylinder and exploded" "by
SOCONY
MOTOR
OIL
MODERN OILS FOR MODERN MOTORS
"REFINED UP TO A Standard NOT DOWN TO A Price
means of an electric spark,
a
The inventors will go on reducing Mr. H. R. Ricardo, one of the the weight of the machinery of experts on, engine construction, motor-car and some years ago published some,very of a car is coming down-although every year the price interesting figures about the pres the latest luxury car will always
be Aures and temperatures that occur expensive. The social revolution at different parts of the stroke of has been the great price reduction a petrol engine,
of the least expensive type of car.
Perhaps a machine that uses a gas turbine as a power generator and that ban no gear box and that cannot possibly skid and that can be purchased now for five hundred Hong Kong dollars will appear to gladder the hearts of the people of inch and the temperature round future that time comes we must very moderate means in the near
At the end of the suction stroke the pressure of the mixture in the eslinder is at about that of the anosphere, SKY, 14.7 lbs. per square inch
With a compression ratio of five to one, the pressure at the end of compression is 193 lbs. per square
Before
about, 800°F.
A GREAT INCREASE, do cur best to persuade the local When the spark ignites the mix-l'authorities to widen the roads, to ture there is (practically) immediate round off the corners and to reduce combustion. Actually it takes about some of the gradients. 1/300th pare of a second for the completo combustion to take place.
In Ricardo's engine the pressure rushed up to just over 500 lbs. per square inchi and the temperature was nearly 4,500 degrees Fahrer-
heit.
We must also hope for good roads in China so that we may be able to motor across Asia when we go "home" on leave.
We can only expect to have pro- gress if we do our best to encour age people to be progressive. The
has been named after this famous motor manufacturer. It is a type of ear that is popular in Hong Kong
YOUNG MANAGERS. Evidence of the fact that Mr. Erskine practises what he preaches may be found in the fact that two of the highest executives in the
DURO MOTOR CO., LTD., NATHAN RD., KOWLOON.
Studebaker Corporation ate young men when the inunense respon sibility which they carry is taken
into account they seem very young. The Vice-President of the Com- pany in charge salas is Paul G., Hoffman and the Vice-President in charge of production is Harold' S Vance. Both of these men Bro under forty years of age."
The average age of the members of the engineering staff of the Studebaker concern is 37 Years The average age of the entire execu- tive staff employed by Studebakers. is under forty.
(Continued on page 9.)
MORRIS
COMMERCIAL CARS
12 C.W.T, MORRIS 11.9 H.P. 9′ 6' W.B.
카
Chassis only with 33" x 14" 8.8. Tyres
Lorry complete with Cab and drop sides
Popular Van complete with Cab
De Luxe Van complete with Cab
1 TON MORRIS 13.9 H.P. 10 2 W.B.
Chassis completely equipped with 33 x 5 tyres
Lorry complete with Cab and drop sides
Tipping Lorry complete with Cab General Utility Vehicle complete Standard Van complete with Cab De Luxe Van complete with Cab Bakers Van' complete with Cab Furniture Van complete with Cab Ambulance Type A complete Fever Van complete.
Colonial Ambulance complete
Charabanc for 14 passengers
Hotel Bus Type II
Bus De Luxe
Special Saloon Bus Type D3
25 C.W.T. MORRIS 15.9 H.P. 102 W.B.
Chassis Z. 1 complete with 33 x 5 tyres Chassis Z. 2 complete with 33 x 5 tyres & F.W.B. Type Z, 1 Standard Lorry complete with Cab... Type. Z. I Standard Van complete with Cab Type 2. 1 De Luxe Van complete with Cab Type Z. 1 Charabanc for 14 passengers
HONGKONG
CASH PRICE
£195
255
265
276
*** £235
295
310
325
335
350
370
370
430
450
485
510
516
570
675
0673
320
อบ
385
400
550
30 C.W.T. MORRIS 15.9 H.P. 10 2" W.B.
Chassis Z. 3 complete witn 32 x 6 tyres
£320
Chassis 7. 4 complete with 32 x 6 tyres & F.W.B. Type Z. 3 Standard Lorry complete with Cab... Type Z. 3 Standard Van complete with Cab Type Z. 3 De Luxe Van complete with Cab Type Z. 4 Standard Lorry complete with Cab...
350
385
415
430
416
30 CW.T. MORRIS 15.9 H.P. 11′ '6" W.B.
Chassis Z. 5 with 32 x 42" tyres, dual rear, E.W.B. Chassis Z. 6 complete with 321 6 tyres and F.W.B. Type Z. 5 Standard Lorry complete with Cab... Type Z. 6 Standard Lorry complete with Cab.... Type Z. 5 Charabanc for 18 passéngers
Type Z. 6 Charabane for 18 passengers
Type Z. 5 Special Saloon Bus
Type Z. 6 Special Saloon Bus
30 C.W.T. 6-WHEELER 15.9 H.P. 11′ & W.B
Chassis only equipped with 32" x 4" tyres
Chassis with War Dept. type Body
FULL PARTICULARS AND PRICES
£320
355
390.
420
620
050
870
700
£539
*626
OF SPECIAL BODIES & EQUIPMENT ON APPLICATION
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
(THE HONG KONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LTD.) SHOWROOM-25, QUEEN'S ROAD CENTRAL
TELEPHONE
CENTRAL
4759.