“WHIPPETS.”
Model "95." 5 Seater Coach- G. $1,000.
SEE THIS CAR!
Study the specification and put the Car to
..any tent you wish.
You will realize that,
although you may bay many more costly care, you cannot get better value for your money than Whippet" offers you.
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GILMAN & CO., LTD. | DUBO MOTOR CO., LTD.
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KOWLOON.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 14th, 1927.
MOTORING NOTES
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
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Motor Notes- Gigantic Ford Machinery-Automatic Spark Plug-Dimming in Lighted and Unlighted Places Ford in Japan-Motor-cycle Race Ban-Great Britain and Motor Racing-More Motor Cycles-Unarmed and Alone."
DUNLOP
TYRES
AS STANDARD EQUIPMENT
THE Car Manufacturer natur
DUNLOP BUBBER CO..
LIMITED.
16A, DIs Vœux ROAD
CENTRAL
ally has to take responsibility for the entire excellence of his product-even though he pur- chases certain component parts (such as tyres) from outside sources. No wonder that he takes every precaution to ensure that everything he fits is the very best obtainable, and no wonder that" practically every British Car. Manufacturer fits.
DUNLOP TYRES
It is
as standard equipment! wise policy to rely on the know- ledge of the car maker and replace with Dunlop when the original tyres have lived their life (a long, long life when the tyres are Dunlop)!
DO YOU-
CAN YOU REALISE
that the owner of
Austin Seven
is paying less for transport than the hirer of rickshaws and chairs?
45 miles to one gallon of petrol 1,500 miles to one gallon of oil Anything up to 13,000 miles to a set of tyres
BUY AN AUSTIN
AND YOU BUY COMFORT AND SAVE MONEY.
ALEX. ROSS & CU. 29 LTD.
Prince's Building and 18, Chater Road,
íhones: C. 27 and ̃C. 2487.
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MOTOR NOTES.
THE AA. DINNER DANCE.
GIGANTIC FORD MACHINERY.
PREPARATIONS FOR CHANGING MASS PRODUCTION.
The second annual dinner of the Hong Kong Automobile Association will take place on Friday, Decem- ber 6th, at the Hong Kong Hotel
DETROIT, Oct. 31st. Roof Garden, from 8 till 12.30. After dinner there will be a dance. "From end to end the Fordson Every effort has been made to plant of the Ford Motor Company make this affair
The hums and vibrates with prepara- B euccess, proceedings will be in the main tions for producing the new Ford informal, and the only scheduled car," the Ford News, house organ speaker is the President, Comir. of the company, says in its latest | Hartford; RK. (ret.), who will give issue.
a short resume of the activities of the year.
Special menus and programmes have been prepared and those ar ranging it have done everything in their power to ensure that mem- bers and their friends shall feel that the evening has been well spent.
in
"Some of the most interesting units especially designed and built for production on the new car are the hot metal spinning machines. Placed in, one of these machines between vertical rotating dies. discs of hat metal are radically transformed in area and shape within a few seconds. The manner in which the change is brought about reminds bos of clay on a potter's wheel.
The present membership of the Automobile Association Hoog
Another striking group is com. Kong standé at approximately 600. It is to he hoped that this dinner posed of six huge power presses. may be instrumental in bringing The largest press used in produc into the Association many & wavering the Ford model weighed ing car owner.
about 215,000 pounds. The largest pair of the new presses weigh 480.000 pounds each. With its die in place one of the largest part
UP TO THE PEAK IN THE weighs 535,000 pounds.
9 H.P. FIAT.
A GOOD PERFORMANCE.
I was able to test some of the capabilities of a Fiat yesterday. The car under review was a 2-seater 9...p. model 508.
The car was taken up to the Peak, which it reached without once baving to change down. This would not have been so surprising
DIMMING.
IN LIGHTED AND UN- LIGHTED PLACES.
The question of the dimming of headlights was mentioned in the Police Courts last week. This point, has been widely discussed, for there is no definite ruling by the A.A. and consequently the decision is left in the hands of the motorist himself,
This is the opinion put forward by one motorist on this question of dimming or dipping.
When driving in lighted thorough. fares headlights should be kept per manently dimmed. The full beam of headlights tends to limit the field! of vision of the driver, blotting out i anything which is not immediately in the beam. On the other hand. with headlights extinguished, the driver is able to see the sidewalks, to watch the movements of pede strians and to see by the light of street lamps quite ne far ahead as should be necessary for complete saloty
Headlights Useful As Warning. It has been said before now that headlights are useful as a warning of the approach of a car. This is, of course, true to some extent, though the glare of headlights also New Welding Machinery. Not only has the amount of tends to dazzle pedestrians and the welding machinery in use been in-drivers of other vehicles. But apart creased by hundreds of units, but from that, it is unquestionable that a large variety of new machinery the ultimate onus of avoiding a of this type has been developed. accident should lie not on the pede. so the driver should be as advan- particularly in the spot, butt and strian,, but on the motorist, and scam welding fielda.
tageously placed as possible for the active avoidance of accienta. The horn, or the headlights fulfilling the duties of a horn, are useful as giving warning of approach, but it is to, brakes and steering that the motorist must look when a crisis occurs. The more the driver can trust himself to foresee difficulties, and the less he trusts others to driving, avoid them, the bettor will be his
line.
"The strategic location of de partments has been carried to a point far beyond that existing In the steel mill, for formerly. example, several manufacturing if we had had a straight run, but departments have Been placed, at in the course of the climb we slack-points where they will receive ened speed several times, either their stock direct from the cool. owing to trafic or to test the cap. inz beds of the rolling mills which abilities of the cagine. At one have prepared it. Their product time the speed dropped to about will thus leave the mill in a forti 3 m.ph. but the engine seemed to ready to be used on the assembly have no difficulty in picking up.
The main assembly line has The performance of the car was really impressive, The engine is joined the motor assembly line at surprisingly lively, and answers the Fordson plant. Body assembly immediately to a touch on the ac-bas celerator. Its running is aleo very smooth and quiet.
The low centre of gravity of the car allows cornering at far higher speeds than is possible with most other types, and both at sharp corners and over bad surface the car holds the road well. The four wheel brakes are both silent and efficient.
I also spent a few minutes with a 6-cylinder a litre model 812. Without putting it to any test, it was obvious that there was plenty of power in the engine, while the upholstery and general turn-out of this model was of the highest quality.
Deen' vastly improved. Separate body lines for the different body types have been superseded by a new arrangement which makes possible the assembly of all types on a gingle line.
Converted Steel Barges, Five of the steel merchant ships bought from the Shipping Board have been converted into barges and hauled in pairs by Ford tugs. They are plying re- gularly
with cargoes of fav. material up and down the lakes, I has been found that the tug' and barge aystem of carrying coal, iron ore, lumber and other raw materials from Ford properties to Fordson and other ports has ad vantages which make the new craft In all their cars Fint seem to valuable additions to the Ford have catered well both for the conlake feet. fort and the pleasure of their pur chasers.
R. H. H.
GREAT BRITAIN AND MOTOR RACING.
As to dimming or switching off when meeting other cars, this should only be done if the approaching car just before passing, even if the other is sighted at some distance. To dim car dims as well, is worse than use- less, as the driver is unable to see anything in the sudden darkness. If a driver finds himself.close upon
another car he should leave his lights, burning, and draw in close to the left hand side of the road. looking to that side, rather than at the approaching_car.
This, of course, is merely the private opinion of one motorist. It would be interesting to hear the
this question. opinions of others of our readers on
MORE MOTOR-CYCLES.
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Writing in Motor Cycling, Mr. Boulthee Brooks, the President of "The number of coke ovena at
the British Cycle and Motorcycle the Fordson plant
Traders' LAS beun
and Manufacture doubled, which insurce an ample Union, remarks:-"Wonderful as supply of blast furnace and founhas been the extension of matör dry coke and furnace fuel in the cycling in the past few years, shape of gas and tar, besides mak- still feel that we have not yet, as ing available a larger amount of a nation, realized to the full the stove and domestic furnace fue possibilities that the motorcycle for employees and, of ammonium places in our hands. The motor- Discussing the subject of future sulphate and motor benzol for the cycle is by far the most economical Grand Prix Races and the part public. The yield of motor benzoi and efficient transport vehicle that to be taken by Great Britain therein the new ovens is considerably mankind has so far succeeded in in, Mr. T. G. John, managing more than that of the old. director, Alvis Car and Engineer-
Another furnace of 200 tons evolving, and it seems to me that we are not yet making as much use ing Co., Ltd., in a forceful letter daily capacity has been placed in of it as we should. I believe the operation at the open hearth in time will come when every house- to The Motor, remarks:
addition to the four already in hold will have ita motorcycle: ar action there. Three more are in motorcycles, just "as nearly every. course of construction. This huge one now keepa bicycle or two building plays, the major part in about the place. When we reach the process of converting steel mer that stage we shall save annually chant ships into automobiles and a very great deal of money that contains hydraulic and mechanical would otherwise have been expend shears for cutting up ship metal, ed on more costly means of trans- The equivalent of 40,000 gallons of port and we shall also benefit phy- tar is needed to furnish heat to sically from the fitness that motor. five furnaces for a single day's cycling gives to its devotees." operation
Racing at all times is an ex- pensive business. Matters of de- sign and manufacture are not ex tremely difficult; but the cost of taking steps to ensure success be yond all reasonable doubt is very great indeed.
Huge Turbogeneratora.
I cannot give figures, but from information I received from one of the Delage people, I know that their expenditure on racing this year had been just 5 times what our own expenditure has been, and in these Grand Prix events, with
"Of eight turbogenerators, for the cooling coils of each condens out in the slightest degree desiring which provision has been made,ing unit during operation. to minimize their magnificent suc-
four are now installed in the main
The open hearth building cesses, they reaped the benefit of power house. The turbine and the representative of the company's this heavy expenditure. Any generator of one of these unite structural expansion, like the steel. British firm to achieve the same weigh, 360,000 pounds each. The rolling mills and the addition to practical certainty would have to rotor of each generator weighs the motors building. Its dimen- spend approximately just as much, 72,000 pounds; the rotor of each sions are 1068 feet by 240 feet. Its weighs 108,000 pounds, framework contains structural although, of course, if luck favour turbine ed them, it might be done for very Steam for each unit is condensed steel, in excess of 12,000,000 tons itta condenser containing nearly and there are 16.180 lights of much less.
21 miles of one-inch pipe, of which window glass each approximately there are 8,100 separate pieces per five feet by two feet, in its roof unit. 30,000 gallons of cold water monitors and walls. There is op- per minute are pumped through proximately a mile of raffroad (Continued at foot of next column,) track on the charging floor."
It is common knowledge that at least one foreign government directly and heavily subsidizes ita chief motor manufacturing concern for such efforts."-
WILLYS-KNIGHT.
MODEL "70" 6 CYL POUBLE SLEEVE VALVE. TOURING CAR-G.$1,600.
THE CAR THAT NEVER WEARS OUT.
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An Owner writes: " My Willys-Knight ban gond 140,000 Miles and has never given one minute's trouble.
Thời Cut bác biết vọng, "hard usage and every Mile has been a hard "'one. At 135,000 miles I becams saxious to
see just how it was wearing inside, so I had the pan taken off the alcovDS ware "perfect as was every other part of the engine,
•which showed no wear at all.”
GILMAN & CO., LTD. DURO MOTOR CO., LTD.
HONG KONG
KOWLOON.
Give your high gear
some
exercise on the hills by using Socomy, the gasoline that brings the mountains down to
the motorist
SOCONY MOTOR GASOLINE
SOCONY
Gastor Oil
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