"WHIPPET”
MODEL 196,"
See the "all weather Cabriolet Coupe Model."
H.K. $1,850.
GILMAN & CO. LTD. DURO MOTOR CO., LTD..
Hong Kong.
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THE HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 4th, 1928.
MOTORING NOTES
A Weekly Review dealing with Matters of Interest to all Local Motorists.
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Motor Notes-The New Kowloon Garage-62 M.P.H. Race in a Mist-Care of the Car-Testing Motor Engines- Training Ford Agents-Road and Rail-English Garages Sell Motor Boats-Motor Safety Devices.
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MOTOR NOTES.
LARGEST USER OF HARD- WOOD.
According to estimates of "Gen- eral Motors statisticians the auto- mobile industry consumes consider-
THE NEW KOWLOON GARAGE.
EXPECTED TO BE COM PLETE IN SEPTEMBER.
able more hardwood than the fur- WILL MEET A REAL NEED. niture and building trades combin-
ed.
AUTOMATIC
An
GARAGE 18 LATEST TYPE.
-"Butomatie " automobile garage is operated in Chicago, where the motoris: merely drives up, inserts a key in a lock and lets the machinery do the rest. The garage has a capacity of 600 cara.
MOTOR BOAT RACING IN SCOTLAND.
As the result of the increasing popularity of the motor boat-in England, quite a number of new motor boat clubs are being formed One of these "The Glasgow Motor Boat Racing Club has recently been started with over 70 members, composed mainly of Moter Trade and Motor Boat Building Firms principals, and their friends
NEW HYDRAULIC JACKS.
I witnessed recently says the motoring correspondent of a Home paper, a demonstration of a most attractive form of hydraulic jack ing,
As previously mentioned in the Daily Press the now Garage being built on the old site of the Hong Kong and Kowloon Taxicab Garage will be ready for service at about the middle of August or early September.
The garage is being built by Mesirs. Alex. Ross & Company the well-known Car and Motor Cycle Agents, and includes a showroom where both cars and Cycles will be
on show.
The plan of the new garage shows that when completed it will closely resemble the present showrooms and repair-ship of the Ford Dealers at Mongkok, Kowloon The frontage of the garage is 150 feet with a width of 42 leeb. The building it- self will be built of brick, with galvanized Iron roof. The show room 26 feet, by 12 feet is in the centre of the garage with two slid ing entrance doors on either side with similar opening at the rear
the garage as exits.
TESTING MOTOR ENGINES.
WHY GREAT INITIAL CARE IS NOT NECESSARY.
"This car should be driven care- fully for the first 1,000 miles ” is a piece of advice that happily tends to become out of date. The reason is the perfection of the moderu motor engine testing plant which does the work that is sometimes left to the client.
Take, for instance, the electrical testing apparatus used at the Arm- strong Siddeley factory in Coven- try. In this case the engine drives a dynamotor and dials on the facia of the plant indicats not only the horsepower but the revolutions per minute attained by the engine. Below these dials are coloured
lights which are switched on auto matically one by one, and indicate various phases of the test. Below. the lights is a wheel that controls the resistance, while conveniently arranged on the side of the engine are the throttle lever and the con- trol switches. Consequently every thing is directly under the hand and eye of the mechanic in charge.
In the case of the Armstrong Siddeley tests, the engine is start- ed by using the dynamotor as a motor, the horsepower absorbed being registered on the dial and one of the lights being lit to show that the current is driving the en gine. The mechanic then pressed
another switch and the engine is
speeded up and run on gas, and The total, ares available for the throttle is opened the first light as soon as this takes place and the storage of cats is about 150 feet | goes out and another one is lit, by, feel, the full width of the this showing that the engine is driving the dynamo and generat- Garage. This will comfortably holding current. The horsepower between 60-70 cars. On either side needle travels from the motoring of the garage are rooms Bet off to the generating side of the dial
and the r.p.m. are also noted
It is known as the "Jackall" system, which etrables the driver of our to jack up one or more wheels merely by operating a small dial and lever on the running board Four vertical jacks are fitted to the two axles, these remaining per- manently in position. When jack ing is required all the driver has to do is to attach the larer to smal oil pump on the running. board, turn the switch to the wheel for repair work and required, and then operate the lover.
From personal experience can testify that I have never raised a heavy car from the ground more easily, and the surprising part of this simple and straightforward device is that it is not expensive The price, according to the weight of the car, is from £8 to £10, pins a fitting fee, and brackets are being standardised for all the more popular makes so that a minimum
storage. Tower shaped erections are shown in the plan, one at each end of the building, and the upper floors will be used as quarters for the firm's servants. The garage will cost $28,000, and when completed will prove a very useful parking place for cars at the ferry...
After an hour's test the engine is stopped and the mechanic caro fully goes over it and makes any
adjustments that are necessary.
different numbers of revolutions.
Lastly, there is half an hour's final power test on petrol during which readings are taken at thres Even these tests do not complete the routine through which the en gines must pass, for as soon as they meet the transmission unit in the Messrs. Alex. Ross are the sole chassis a power test is taken at the of delay will occur. The demon- agents for many well known Cars rear axle, thus testing the engine and Motor-cycles and Motor lorries, and transmission together. The stration was by Mayfair Four- wheel Hydraulic Jacks, Ltd., including, the Austin 7 The latter has already received an conjunction with Pass and Joyce, Bros., the Standard car and many been run in tuned up for silence New Triumph, Messrs Dennis electrical test during which it has
popular motor-cycles.
and brake adjustment, so that the The firm is to be congratulated function of the chassis dynamotor upon the erectioa of the New feat is merely to see that the prin garage which will meet a very real cipal units of the car work well to need on the part of the ever-grow-gether. ng motor population of Kowloon.
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TRIPLEX ON WOLSELEY'S.
Every motorist admits the advan tages of unsplinterable glass, but many are deterred from having this necessary adjunct to safety owing to ita cost.
The problem is now being solved
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by certain manufacturers fitting | MOTOR SAFETY DEVICES. such glass as standard, owing to
the. fact that they are in a position to place largo contracts for standard sizes, and thus reduce the cost to the purchaser,
The Latest example of such an en- terprising manufacturer is Wolseley Motors (1927), Ltd., who announce that they will be able henceforth to supply any model Wolseley car fitted with Triplex glass at extremde ly low prices For example, the increased price on the 12/32 hp. Wolseley touring car is as low as £8,
ROAD AND RAIL.
PRIVATE CARS THE GREATEST COMPETITORS OF RAILWAY
Figures recently presented before the Balect Committee of the Lords and Commons on the Bills in which the railway companies seek power to run road transport for goods and passengers, serve to indicate that it is the private car and not to much the public service coach that is adversely affecting British rail way companies.
TRADE BODY OBJECTS TO
PUBLICITY.
A curious decision has been reach- ed by the. Society of British Motor Manufacturers and Traders, writes the Motoring Correspondent of the Daily Mail. In effect it has. expressed disapproval of advertise ments of safety motoring devices which call attention to the dangers of motoring..
Moter-car manufacturers, I un- derstand, have been oficially, re quested by the society not to allow their names to be used in commer tion with such advertisements. The action of this body has caused considerable comment in the trade, especially, in view of the fact that car makers had almost universally decided to make safety motoring a big feature of future design.
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After these tests the chassis goes on the road and receives two three runs during "which it is finally tuned up.
ENGLISH GARAGES SELL MOTOR BOATS.
ENGLISH ANTICIPATING A
NEW CRAZE.
An outstanding feature of Motor Boating activities in England, is the big interest being taken in the subject by the Motor Trade and consequently journala entering for this particular section.
In two recent issues of the Garage & Motor Agent two pages were devoted to the description of British Motor Boats and Marine Motors, and in expressing the opinions of leaders in the Motor Trade as to the imminent boom in Motor Boating, and the oppor unity offered to leading firms of Motor Agents to do big business in The decision of the society has Motor Boat sales. NOM been influenced largely by recent This fresh outlet for business advertisements of safety or unsplin which certain progressive British terable glass. These, as a rule, de Motor Boot firms are alive to, and pict cars which have met with an in one or two cases have even an nccident and in which the safety ticipated, is doubtless the.result of It is our belief comments The glass in windscreens and windows, the congestion in road traffic in the Motor, that private-car traffic will though cracked, his not broken sad country, coupled with the advent continue to do so in increasing splintered Attention is very na-of British Made Standardited ratio as the popular type of small turally called to the serious results types of Motor Craft, appealing to car is developed. Motor-coach that zaight have occurred if safety the ordinary motorist, which lend travel induces a desire to own a glass had not been unedog P
themselves to easy handling by small car, and, except for really The use of this glass is greatly Automobile distributors, re long journeys, the railway comou the increase. In the United The demand for this type of
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difficult to win back the motorist its use comptasory. Many British of British road conditions. As from the road to the rail. The firms have decided to use it as liberal terms are offered to firms newer the experience of the open standard on models which they are taking up the distribution of such raft, and the demand is by no road the greater the desire on the christening safety sakoma, part of the traveller to continue I understand protests have means restricted to the British it, and the longer it is enjoyed been lodged against the action of market, there appears to be no the less is the inducement to travel the 6.MM.T which will be conreason why British craft of this in confinement and relative dis- uidered at a meeting to be held delcription should not sell through comfort.
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