HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1930.
MOTOR NOTES.
1831 Motor-cycles,
In general, enyn Motor Cycling, the mator-cycle is being developed more strongly than over for utility purposes. The rider who uses his machine daily for business and pleasure, but to whom motor cycling sport has but a secondary appeal, has been studied mero closely by the industry during the past twelve months than ever be fore. The 1031 mitchine should be
Speed King Saya “Go Blow,"
"Never attempt any clover stuff
·Car Parts that Work Hard! ·
During the course of a long, loné. on public roads," says Wal Handly main-road run in my Armstrong toy, writing in the current issue of Siddeley, writes Focus"in The Motor Cycling. My firm opinion Light Car and Cycleer, I fell to is, and always has been, that high pondering upon the jobs which werd being done by its numerous working. speeds on roads which are open to parts-always an interesting and the public should never be indulged educative means for whiling away in wantonly." Coming from a man 4 long journey. I pictured the crankshaft making 3,197 revolutions who is probably the most intrepid per mile, the camshaft having an motor-cycle road racer in the world, casier time with only half that who holds several speed records and number to complete, and the arma- to ruir half as fast again as the erankshaft. Glancing at the speedo. meter I noticed that the car was doing 45 m.p.h., and a little mental arithmetic showed that the magneto contact points were breaking 9,350) times a minute!
SALES OF USED CARS STEAM-PETROL FOR
IN HONG KONG.
FIRST AUCTION TO BE HELD
NEXT WEEK.
Hong Kong Used Cars, Ltd., ins tend to hold weekly auctions of notor-ears, etc., in the Colony. The first of these will take place on Thursday, October 16, at Whitta's Auction Rooms, Cameron Road,
Hotel Garage).
MOTORS.
GREATER SPEED AND
MILEAGE.
EXPERTS ASTONISHED.
I an ordinary" motorist saw man putting a gallon of water in
a better mount for the average man who won this year's T.T. at a higher ture of the B.T.H. magneto having i Kowloon (next to the Peninsula his petrol tank, he would faint with
than its prederemora
"Banked Corners" for Main
Eoads,
corners,
average speed than anyone else has ever done before, Wal Handley's advice is sure to be treated with respect by those young motor-cyclists who think that "blinding" on public roads in the proper thing to do.
Pioneer Aviator's Unique Motor-
cycla,
Thero, is a distinct tendency amongst county councils and other road-controlling bodies in England to run riot in the matter of anfety lines, says The Light Cue and
Sir Alliott Verdon-Ros, the Cyeltear. In most cases white lines represent the best principles of pioneer aviator whose experiments the "Bafety First "--but they can be in aircraft design led to overdone. Any other scheme, there foundation of the Avro concern, fore, which tends to remove the need has designed what he calls his ideal for them and to make driving auto-motor-cycle from a utility point matically safer, such as banked of view. A machine was actually to be commended. made from his drawings and it is Banked corners, too, make a real described in the current issue of contribution to safer motoring by Motor Cycling. In appearance less tending to eliminate the risk of like a motor cycle than a car on skidding and by giving a driver two wheels, the machine, which has much better control of his car when already covered 30,000 miles, offere cornering. It is all very well to far better protection to the rider say that if drivers cornered at than the orthodox motor cycle can reasonable speeds and drove with do; the saddle having been dis- the greatest care on wet roads the placed in favour of a comfortably negotiation of any kind of bend upholstered seat. The machine is would present no hazards; but ni started from the stand, which is drivers do not wear haloes and not stowed away by the operation of a all, by any means, can be expected; hand lover. On the road, the steer to know when the margin of safety ing is described as exceptionally
easy and rather like car steering, is reached.
Old Fitands With Now Faces.
Although theee auctions will be new to Hong Kong, they have been held with a great deal of success in other countries.
anxiety.
If he were told that the power! and elciency of his engine would be improved by anything from 3 to 12 per cent, by that water, in con- junction wibk a device weighing a pound, he would inbel the man á simpleton.
The Inventor..
The foundation of the business rests upon the firm giving a true and faithful report on every car they sell before the sale actual. If one can judge from the cars ly takes place. If there is any that have already made their public work to be done to any car, an appearance in 1831 guise, we are in estimate of the cost will be furnish-
If, further, he was told that with for a change in radiator fashions, ed to the prospective buyer, so that tins device be could run his engine says The Light Car and Cyclecor, he will know that the price he bids Already the Standard and Rover for the car will be plus necessary for its entire life without need of decarbonization, be would laugh the models for the coming season have repairs.
Two days before the sale intendides to scorn, made their bow with entirely now radiators embodying a chromium-ing buyers will be able to have plated centre line, while the new demonstration run, If it is impos A.J.S., which is only just out of sible for a person to try out these care, they can absolutely rely on its cradle, started life with a radiator of this type. Then, of the firm's report. course, there is the M.G. Midget, which has been graced with this style of radiator since its incep tion and, in the light car field can claim to have originated the fashion. In the case of the Midget however, the lines are low, squat and racy, whereas the radiators of the other three cars are tall and imposing. The Singer is another car which will have a very different And attractive radiator for 1031,
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The red ring where tire wall mente, trend in the Eail- mark of India Super Tires. Enthusiastic users of India British-built Super Tires, know, from experience, that the red ring is their guarantee of service from their tires.
Built of the very finest of materiale strong, élastic cord fabric-pure amber friction frut, long wearing, ground-gripping tread-India tires will outwear, outrun any tire made. And their black beauty with the dis- tinctive rod stripe adds greatly to the appearance of any ear.
With India tires, and our complete service, you have. doublo assurance of complete tire katisfaction.
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Master of Mileage.
The auctions will not be confined to used cars only. Sometimes new cars and trucks will be put up for sale. As regards the charge for selling cars, the rate of commission has not yet been decided upon, but there is one thing that buyers can be sure of, and that is," "No sale, no charge."
Tire first action will be held en Thursday week, when a good range of cars will be put up for sale.
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On a fuel mixture of half paraffin and half No. 3 commercial spirit, the device gives to the car fitted with it an increase in maximum speed, a big saving in lubrication, oil consumption, and 100 per cent. economy in miles per gallon of fuel, the exact Egures being 28 miles per gallon as against 14 miles per gal lon with No. 1 spirit.
The inventor, Mr. Robert Wood, of Laxey (Isle of Man), a Scottish scientist and a locomotive engineer of the highest attainments, claims that all motors fitted with the de- vice will produce more power, have less carbon deposit and less spark- ing plug and ignition trouble.
The mechanism producing all. there established wonders is a small device which can be fitted in: half an hour by an averago mechanic to
any car.
One valve, joint is fixed in tho exhaust manifold, a second to the header tank of the radiator, and a third to the induction pipe on the engine side of the carburettor.
How It Works.
Its operation is simplicity itself. In the header tank of the radiator in all cars, after the engine bas been ranning, is steam. This steam is sucked through the valve, pasaca through a metal barrel condenser no larger than the wooden reel of a twapanny reel of cotton, and then
travels by a short pips to a super- heater, in length and diameter no longer than an ordinary fountain. pen barrel.
This super-heated steam passes with the fuel into the combustion chamber, and naturally, on contact, heats it and smashes it up into an almost perfect state of atomisation. Actually, the invention is the re sult of discoveries in war research work applied to aero engines and ear and lorry engines.
Well Kept Secret.
The first tests were ande hy using in the engine sump a mixture of -half water and half lubricating oil. It was at once found that the en- haneed efficiency promised such far- reaching results that both Britain and America treated it as a military. secret of the first magnitude.
Huge Saving.
-What this invention means to the ordinary motorist's, pocket is better. explained by figures.
There are approximately 1,200,000 cars and commercial motor vehicles in use in Britais. These "rün' an average of 10,000 miles in a year.. This must mean at least one de- carbonisation of the engine annual. ly. Say the average cost of decar- bonising is £4÷a' low figure-that would be £7,000,000 saved, if every had this proved deviens. PÅ motorist with a car of 18 h.p. doing 10,000 miles annually and using the asual No. 1, spirit would spend, £35 in petrol a year. If he used paraf fin and No. 3 fuel, half and hil, the cost would be roughly 10d. per gal- lon used and on the basis of only a 50 per cent. inrrence in milèngs for every fuel gallon used, the fuel cost would be $13 779. Od., against £25.
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