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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 18th, 1928.
MOTORING NOTES
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
Motor Notes-Testing a 9-h.p. Saloon-Latest Fint Model-Powerful Engines-90 Per Cent.-Too Many Motors- Studebaker's European Distributors-Motor Roads for China-Flame-Proof Petrol.
the gasoline that brings the mountains down to the motorist
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MOTOR NOTES.
ONE STEP 'BUSES FOR
* KOWLOON:
LATEST FIAT MODEL.
A NEW LIGHT SIX.
SPEED AND FLEXIBILITY,
The Kai Tack Motor Bus Co. are supplementing their fort of huses with six new Dennis bures Quilt on the 30-cut chassis. These new
The Flat Company of Turia topk Eures are likely to emuse a certain
mount of comment when they first advantage of the Paris Salan to appar re the strets at the extroduce a new light six known as March for the chassis is built del 320, having an engine with en the low load lines principle, and This mestel is intended to meet the a piston, displacement of 2244 vee. instead of the anal three, only a single step is rewing demand for an econom
i ecessary from the mad to theal, flexible and comfortable five- indy of the bus. The difference in Passenger automobile at a reason- theperd of handling pussingerable price, and while its general traie owing to this will be surjapearance reveals the distinctive.
Fiat eleganer. With five-pasSOT - prising
in
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The Bounds huss which are al-fer open or closed body, the ear than ready in service for the Company has a road said of inore, have
fire record up-to-date,able for its flexibility, enabling 15 sixty miles an hour it is remark- They have now been in servies over your, and no one has been off the ronds for a single day. In is a telbute to the good work put in- do abesse basis that that they have
take all ordianry hills on high war and for its silence.
The engine has its six cylinders of CS by 30 mm, hore and strokis ch nothing but incidental one side and the head detachable. in one eating, with the valves an
pirs after twelve ktinaths' work in the sometimes unsympathetic hands of Chinese" univers.
A NEW TRIUMPH."
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The luder head is of the tu bulence type. The engine is silent and vibentionless at all speeds.
Engine lubrication is under pressure to the main hearings, the. By the end of February, a new connecting rods and the vanshair light ear will have reached Hong The oil is filtered as it pass Kong. This is the Triumph Super through the engine, and in addi- , which mu its fire appearancetion there is an oil purifier on the at the Motor Show at Olympia hast dashboard Water circulation is" October. It is a very attractive by pump mounted on the upper looking car, more substantial than partion of the cylinder block and the Austin, with which one feels having the ventilator fan on its compelled to compare it. The body shaft. A me piece belt drives is built on larger lines, and there is both pimp and fan.. more leg room, both in the back and the driver's seat.
To secure silente, the camshaft
is driven by means of a chain This car has raised a grout deal į This also drives
the electric! of interist at home, and the degenerator on the right hand side maid has been so great that the of the engine for the generator manufacturers have had difficulty shaft has a cecentric manting in keeping pace with it. It is not which enables slack in the chain possible to give the actual price at to be taken up as it develops, thus which this car will be sold in maintaining permanent silence of Hong Kong hutz it is understood Tile Engine that it will be about $250 more than the Austin.
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The carburetter is a Solex hav- ing an air choke to facilitate start- jing, and halted uff to an intake DEAF WOMAN MOTORÍST.
manifold or the valve side of the This woman rught net to have engine) heated by the exhanst motor driving licence at all. She manifold.
The nuria, supply of
is all fight wittlug in a bath-chair, indtrol is carried in a tank at the she dangerous driving a rear but by means of an autovar motor-car." said Mr. Hay Halkett, is brought in to a big entacity the Mardehoue
feed (tank) mounted threate the fing Mary Henrietta Witson, of jilashboard: the fuel passes through Chelsea court, Cholera, £4 for n gings fler, before going to the driving a motor-ear with an ost fearisuretter.
Inagistrate,
Jel
odate licence and with causing. Start is faci tnted by the use minecessary obstruction in Man!
deviņe-pinie, W.
A unstable said that she admit
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MANY AUSTINS.
red that she was deal, and had The Austin 7 has had the sucess
misunderstood his orders.
deserves wherever it has appear.
Mr. Halkett: Nice ort of per- son to drive a ex She could not. Nor is this success the eraze bear a GooLIT:
of a momeat: the car has undoubt. The defending solicitor said his illy established and consolidated client was calling at a pince, to 11a popularity. Recently for tain apparatus to relieve her for instance thee has been a sud deafness.
." AUTOMOBILIOUSNESS."*
Automobilious12093" Southend-London.
02 the arterial road was referred to by Lord Hewart the Lord Chief Justice of England in an action for damages for per
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den rush to buy Austine in Hong Kong and now there are just about 150. of these excellent little ears on the streets, a letter testimony of
ear's popularity than any num
Jaudatory letters. ·
her
NOISY SPORTS CARS. sonal injuries brought by a blind- A vigorous campaign against maker named Samuel Joseph John-nolag ports cars is now being aged 28. of Dudley-road, carried on by the polic in Eng ford Essex, gadost Edward fand, and I should ingone," says John Boake, of Woodlard Lodge, Daily Mail correspondent, that Chelmsförd
most inctorists and the few non- motorists now left are in sympathy with this setion.
out
Mr. Johnson was injured on the Southend road in October 1926, when he was struck by Mr. Boake's I was following a very noisy and car, driven by a chauffeur.
rak's-looking little var..along the In evidence Mr. Johnson denied Thanies Elankment when that he rode his cycle into the pathstepped a policeman. He stopped. of the motor car, and stated that the car and with another constable the arterial road was often used proceeded to examine its silencing by motor-drivers for speeding" arrangements. The Embankment Lord Hewart: Does this road is popular ground for setting suffer from automobiliqusness?
Mr. Johnson replied that it did. The jury found for Mr. Johnson, with damages amounting to £e62, and judgment was entered accord ingly, with costs.
nriz
traps.
Usually my sympathy is with the moteris when he falls into the bands of the police, especially in seed traps on perfectly straight roads. But on this occasion I was heartily with the law.
Sports"
MOTOR VEHICLE INDUSTRY. One must admit that to the en- "The use motor vehicles for in-thusiast carowner there is a sere dustrial and agricultural purposes tain fascination in the musien! ex-. has made such amazing progress huust of a powerful engine But that to-day there are nearly 400,000 to others this is an unpleasant dis commerciał motor vehicks in ser-cord.
cars are the real vice in Great Britain," said Mr. offenders. But why noise should F.G. Bristow, general secretary of be considered necessary even with the Commercial Motor Users' As sporta cars in these days is beyond sociation (Ine), addressing the comprehension. Margate Rotary Club.
The motorcycle manufacturer no There is every reason to anti-doubt finds dificulty, in making his cipate that in a very short periodiny engines really silent without of time more than 300,000 auchseerificing power and speed. But vehicles will be in regular use in there is so excuse for the car the highways of the country, givmaker. He has plenty of power to ing employment to considerably play with. Some modern morts more than 1,000,000 workers, with fears are capable of a spiced of 00 results beneficial to the whole
and more. Even if efficient the of filencing
of the individual and of the com-two miles an hour off the maximun munity.
speed the owner would bave no rent cause for complaint.
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SERVICE
It is our earnest endeavour to ensure that buyers of Willys-Knight & "Whippet" Motor Cars are not only satisded at time of purchase, but remain satisfied throughout the lives of their Cars,
Our Service Representatives— THE
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DISTRIBUTORS. WILLYS OVERLAND MOTOR CARS,
of battery ignition, the errent i directions, By rows of this ampe metře, speedometer, and ofl for which is obtained from the principle the effort required to pressure bdicator. The the right
sitively driven gecorator.
apply the brakes is practically this contral portion is the igni- The engine which is attached by negligible. The hand lever applies on switch and the dashboard three points to the chassis, foruts the rear brakes only. Wheels are light switch: on the left is the unit with the clutch housing and Sankey all-steel type equipped with satch for the headlights and side- the gearbox, The clutch is aithe new Michelin Bibemlum" tyre Kers The starter is foot opernt- single plate type. There are four of 14 by 43. The steering is designed. The gallon advance lever is ds ahead and reverse," the top mounted either on the on the stoicing clumn and is sur banges being made by means of Left or right hand side.
mounted by the headlight dimmer, central lever, which is Auted with
has making it possible te dien the lock and key.
lights without taking the hands off Big diameter internal brakes AT
the wheek and by the electric horti " fitted on the four wheels and are
track 5 inches and beds length 7 switch. Wheelbase is. 9 ft. 6 inse
Ds. Chassis weight is 14 ewt 65 B.
The letric stem of this new Fat comprizes a 12-volt dynamo with ar adjustahe third trash, a battery of accumulators, and
rated simultaneously by the start motos under the bones, pedal. The shoes are of the salt on the left hand side of the pagine. wrapping type operating in bot's i The instrument board carries the
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