CARS AND TYRES.
"KNOW YOUR MOTOR'S VOICE."
purr which is the only noise that suddenly.. will be heard when a properly- tuned engino is running well with in its power. If this be done, any
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 29, 1930.
MOTOR NOTES.
Tyre Lore.
RIDING COMFORT.
WILLYS SIXES AND EIGHTS.
features aiding greatly in establish- ing a now riding quality to the
cars.
fitting snugly to the driver's body.
comfort..
In these two models, however, a convenient turn-serow has been provided which enables the driver to move the seat forward or back to the most convenient position.
Although a melor-car cannot speak it can give the observant owner-drive a tos of useful inforunuse all cylinders would be afleet-rate of wear will be necelerated. It mntion. "Know your
motor'sed in the same manner and to the is perfectly true that an underán,
The cuions are heavily uphol voice" is a slagan which every moaine degree. A sudden loss of en-flated tyre gives more comfort to
stered and come up under the turist should take to heart, writes gine power cannot be due, say, the car occupants, but it is a case
The matter of comfort does not driver's knees giving him comfort weak exhaust spring, low com of securing comfort at a high cost.
depend entirely on the mechanical able support which is necessary in the motoring expert of the fan-pression, or too small a jet opening The pressure gauge attached to the
equipment. Another essential is in order to eliminate the fatigue which elyster Guardian. The first thing in the carburettor, because the two majority of tyre inflaters cannot
providing wide and roomy bodies often comes in long drives. Regardless of the price one pays which permits the designs of scats. It is fomer fault, do not develop sud-be relied upon altogether, the owner-driver should do when denly, while the last mentioned is infinitely better to invest in e
for a motor-ear, whether to be in that will add materially to the com.it has often proved a handicap to Where the driver's seat is rigid, taking over a car, whether a new a constant factor. In the same special gauge. The best of these the low, medium, or higher pricp fort of the driver and passengera, one or a second-hand, is to neus-way a gradual loss of power can ar axtremely simple to work, and classes, the buyer demands per.
Natural Position For Driver. '. formance, economy of operation, tom himself to the gentle, rhythmic not be due to any mechanical de the four tyres can be toated in a
power, speed, stamina, but above fect, as such defect shows itself few tuonients,
An inspection of the Willys sixes all riding and driving comfort. As and eights shows how well this has Under-inflation in a low-pressure matter of fact, the modern car been accomplished. In either car tyre is more serion than in a manufacturer gives as much study when the driver takes his position high-pressure.
Say the normal to the development of a car of out behind the wheel, he immediately pressure-the maker's recommen-standing comfort as he does to its notes that he is in a natural and driven these cars on trips of 1,000 Hundreds of owners who have dation-should be 2016, por squnro engine design,
restful driving position. This is miles and more declare that cover- given balloon tyre and
becnusn the sent has been scienti-ing long stretches of driving in ono how sight, will be noticed at once, ing means a short and by no means 80lb. per square inch for a high
Willys-Overland engineers, infically designed with the back com- day, is done without the least feel- and it will be realized that somsa happy life. Rapid acceleration pressure tprato fit the same wheel their developments of the Willysing well up on the shoulders anding of fatigue. ..thing Amiss. To continue run and deceleration are both fatal to and carry the same weight. sixes and ceights, devoted much of ing the car when a strange noise a long life, as they impose a strain the pressure be too low by bib. it their time to perfect the riding is heard without at once discover-upon cover and tube alike which is a drop of 20 per cent in the Thousands of miles were covered in qualities of these two models. Jug is cause is Hikely to load to no rubber can withstand. The lat. former case and only about a per test cars in order that no point trouble.
ter is more common than the forent in the latter case,
would be overlooked to bring a new mer, because it is more easy of
conception of riding comfort to accomplishment owing to the eff-
theso models. Every kind of road from the smooth city streets and was employed in this test work, paved, highways to the rugged, rutted type in hilly acetions.
Exhaustive Tests.
The service which a tyre gives is very largely in the hands of its
alteration in sound, no nattering life; thoughtiess or bad driv.ch for
owner. Careful driving means
"Find Out!"
that
To
apply the brakes suddenly means that the friction between the tread and the road surface is increased a thousandfold, and many shillings may be knocked off the value of tho.cover every time it happens..
Tyres in the Garage,
However slight the uncoustomedetency, of the braking system.
It is not only when the car is noise may be it indicates that
actually running that attention something is amiss. It may be only
should be given to the tyres. They a very slight "knock" when the car
should also be carefully looked is called upon to take a gradient
after when in the garage. With ander loud; this indicates that the spark is advanced too much or that
tyres, as with any other parts of the machine as a whole, it is The outcome after these exhaus- the engine needs decarbonising. A thud will suggest that a big-end
Go Slow on Bad Surface,
the frequent inspection and attentive tests resulted in the produc- is worn and needs taking up.
tion which reduce excessive wear tion of the Willys sixes and eights Spasmodic ring will show
Whenever a road which is under and tear. Every work or so, or embracing a quality of riding and the carburation or ignition is at repair has to be traversed parts more frequently if the car is co-driving comfort entirely new in fault. In a hundred other ways
cular care should be taken, for rac
stantly on the road, the exterior their respective price classes. With the driver will know for a certaintyg over a patch of unrolled or of each cover should be minutely ample spring length on either side, that some part requires adjustment. Partially rolled road metal may examined for the presence of pieces bydraulic shock eliminators were When over any untoward sound to result in a multiplicity of cuta ap of grit, glass, and other foreign installed, both front and roar, these heard the cause should be discover nearing on the covers.
Take a
zabstances. These should be remov instantly. It may prove to lin stretch of stony road' at eight milca with a pointed piece of wood, only a trifling matter. On the other per hour on low gear, and the the cut washed out with a little hand, it may mean a serious brenk-covers will come out of the orden) petrol, and filled with the special down if not attended to immediate unscathed; take it at fifteen miles solution sold for the purpose, In iy
per hour on top gear, and much the event of the cut boing a large serious dainage may accrue. The fono, give two applications of the reason for this, of course, is that solution and finally fill in with er transmission may be rather a when low gear is engaged the move. cemont.. lengthy business. All maladjustment is ever but when travelling Another essential duty is to ox- mente which cannot possibly be at lowly on top gear the car is proamine the inside of the rims for the root of the trouble should first pelled by a series of more or less rust whenever
Fall be liminated. This will sudden jerks. It is the unevenness changed, save much time. Then take into of the movement that causes the account whether the fault be local damage.
Unless a proper system bo adopt ed, tracing a fault in the engine
tyre is being Water often finds its way bolow the cover, rusting the rim and rotting the fabric Buing or general; whether the trouble has It is a great mistake only to test of the cover. Remove all rust and developed suddenly or whether it the pressure when the tyres look paint with rim enamel. Check and has been manifesting itself for, fat, as so many are in the habit correct the alignment of the wheels some time.
of doing. Tyre makers state de periodically, so that the whole will finitely that for certain ears the always roll with the minimum of pressure should be so-and-so. Iz friction and the tyres will not be their advice to disregarded and subject to friction across the direc lower premure be maintained. the tion of travel.
If a knoek, for instance, develops in one cylinder it cannot obvious ly be due to ignition or carburation fruits, sine if either were the
FATAL. MOTOR ACCIDENTZZ.
FAMOUS LADY GOLFER'S STORY.
Miss Enid Wilson, the Inmous lady golfer, gavo evidence at the. inquost at Chesterfield recently on Luke Sampson, chairman of the Pilaley Colliery Company, who waB fatally injured when his bicycle came into collision with her father's
car,
.
Miss Wilson said she was riding in front by the chauffeur, and when the car slackened speed at a bend in the road she looked up from a book sho was reading and raw Sampean right in front of the car. and his bicycle fell over the car's After the collision both Sampson bonnet, came through the wind. sorcon against her, and fell on the other side of the road. She went in the car to summon Dr. Alexan der, at whose surgery she patched herself up a bit."
Harold Salt, the chauffeur, said crossing the main road and there Sampson emerged from a Iste
was no olmties of avoiding him.
The jury reburned a verdict of accidental death and exonerated the driver..
SHELL MOTOR OILS
TWO
"Every drop tells."
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