HOW NOT TO GET THE BEST OUT OF IT.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, JUNE 9, 1931.
SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
MORE "PUSH-A-BUTTON"
YOUR MOTOR-CYCLE. [sible: having picked yourself up Never turo on extraoil when NO TROUBLE GEARS. and ascertained that no bones are indulging in a burst of spoed ou broken, you can
walk
over to the the main rod road, as this will, machina, and wheel it to a garage, increase your oil" bill, and it is here no doubt a purely nominal weak to humour an oil-greedy en charge will be made for the neces-gine: the engine may concievably sary repairs.
[BY THE CYNIO"
Always, when about to start your engine from cold, prime it with a liberal dose of petrol; this destroys the oil film on the cylinder walls and piston faces, and is a short cut/l to a distorted cylinder and a peach
of a seizurel :
turn the oil on before starting.
object to this sort of treatment, but that is the makers's business, and you care above that sort of'] thing anyway
How to Change Upt If by any chance something dould go wrong with the above. process, and at the end of it you
Some Golden Rules, find yourself still on the machine
Always apply your brakes sud- and on the move, you should pro-denly, if only for the purpose of coed to change up in the following showing the tyre people that their way. Do not in any circumstances, products are no good anyway, Immediately the engine fires, rev the engine, up in bottom gear Always accelerate violently, as it warm it up by racing it fat out before changing into second, as that is much better to stretch the driv- with the ignition fully retarded is the kind of thing riders du ating chains to their limit oarly in and the air as nearly shut off as Brooklands where they know their lives, for you will then have possible: some engines are so nothing about riding motor cycles, to take out a couple of links, which rottenly made that this may also and you must not pay any atten will surely come in useful one day. result in a seizure if you keep it tion to the way they ride It ¡¡
Nover use the front brake; tho up for about ten minutes without much better to have the machinistories you have heard about old- a break, especially if you omit to travelling at about five miles per hour when you change up into If you faithfully adhere to the second, as in that way you will get above instructions you need not plenty of starting practice, to day read any mord of this article, but nothing of exercise. When yon had better save your time for the have tired of thrilling the onlookeri perusal of the garago repair bill; with your brilliant riding, try you may find it more interesting. ・・ aicelerating up in bottom until the It may happen, however, that in engine is reviving fast but not moment of forgetfulness you peaking, and using the clutch on omitted to do something that a a change; you will find that more experienced wrecker of en- passing riders will ridicule such gines would have done as a matter commonplace way of changing gear, of habit, and at the end of ten but do not be perturbed, because minutes of this warming-up process you can still have lots of fun get the engine. shows no signs of anting from first to second and second early demise. In the event of such to top You can, for instance, being the case, the best thing to keep the clutch out until the machine has lost practically all do is to crash the gear lever into rand speed, meanwhile keeping the revving at about two thousand a alip your finger off the clutch lever minute, without bothering about then nocord. Always remember and it jump into engagement of beastly clutch lover. If this doem t to relax your muscles as you fall. cause the gearbox to spread itself | If; by some strange freak of date
eventually you
find yourself over the adjacent landscape in an travelling at a reasonable anced in even"layer of jangled metal, you top gear, begin immediately to will know that the dogs have flatly observe the following rules. ⠀ icfused to fraternise under such
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CARS.
BRITISH MODEL WITH CHOICE OF ENGINE.
The body is one of the marketed. The front sent is so
wide that three could use it with
te of the roomiest NEW A.A. ROUTE MAPS
"FOR" ENGLAND.
out incommoding the driver, and | FOR LOCAL MEMBERS OF A.A., recesses over the wheel arches, give pronounced albow room for the passengers at the back.
One splendid feature is ventila. Motor car design dever stands tion and the complete absence of still-almost nory month sees a fumes. The springing of the car new development.
|is"good in design and action.
In the early days only engines and transmission seemed to mat-
to to designers. Then they tackled"
fort.
Road Performance.
t",
NOISES BURIED IN RUBBER CASINGS.
SOME OLDSMOBILE INNOVATIONS.
We have received from the Secre tary of the Hong Kong Automobile
"Noise is relative.
e If the loudest Association a specimen copy of the
and most apparent noise made by new A.A. map-routes. A staff of
an automobile is eliminated the 40 A.A. experts has been working next loudest sound commands
atten quietly, steadily, intensely" and tion. When the operation of an the result is "A Revolution in engine is quieted, & hitherto un- heard body noise will likely he Routes" so that the A.A. member
-noticed. should have the best and quickest.
This year, however, the Oldsmo service: The new A.A. map-routes bile engineers believe they have are now available and applications. from members are invited
All complication has beon the appearance of the car, later eliminated from the brake moul drivers comfort, and lastly Pachanism, and while to compeñan sengers comfort. Now we seem to tion is incorporated the adjust have gone back to transmission mont is of the simplest one for again, but from the angle of com- each brake. Other convenience" features are chassis lubrication reduced to 14 points where a grease gun must be used; oil can be drain ed from the crankcase by opening a tap in the side of the sump, and the water-cooling system can be emptied by two taps, one at the bottom water joint and the other in the base of the pump.
There are in Coventry alone two makers with experimental care fitted with automatio gear change devices, in addition to the firms which adopted the ides 18 months ago. Other firms are also nibbling at ""no trouble" gears.
A
The spesimen copy in question iế being issued free of charge to riem. bers. It describes new routes from Windsor to Berkhamsted, from Kingston-on-Thames to Windsor and from Hyde Park, corner to Kingston-on-Thames.
called most of the sounds and
buried them in rubber caskets. This has been accomplished by
seeking out every noise, sometimes using a stethoscope, locating its.
cause and then finding a cure.
The hiss and roar of air rushing into the carburetor has been quiet- We also take this opportunity toed by means of a combined air remind readers that members of the cleaner and ailencer. A torsional local Association can join the Home vibration dampener mounted on one on very favourable terms, ›
time pedal cyclists" going over the to" are all true, and that was only, about ten years ago anyway.
Never get into the babit of using the ignition and air levera on the handle bars, as when the Bowden cables break or the levers themselves. It is pleasant to know that mak. are in some way put out of action ors are at last listening to the right Two secondary features are in- the handlebars will have a strange note, that of the unmechanical teresting. "The shape of the water feeling to you. It may be that one family man and raveller who hads jacket of the cylinder head pre- day you will awaken to the fact normal gear changing a bugbear vents the formation of steam, that your machine is in need of a notwithstanding, "silent thirds" pockets the cooling when the car little garage attention: this is and the improved case of changing.in climbing a stop gradient. The most satisfactory state of affairs,
Two events recently give evid running of the engine is almost as and you must not be weak and be ence of makers' necelerated con- good on low grades of fuel as cn moved by the agonised screams ofsideration of drivers' and passeng the best quality. an engine in torment, and sacrificeers' requirements in cars. One a couple of days'-riding whilst the
was the launching of the new Hilleration of the 21 h.p. is above the driver puts the lever on the steer second to high and from high back
In road performance the
accer
the crankshaft has taken out, a. potential source of engine noise. Even the fan has been redesigned Actually Salerni has applied the to supply air in a noiseless manner. simple action of the normal back Olushing, grinding gears brought axle differential to the gearbox. the engineers to one of their big. No skill is needed in gear changing problems. The answer they pro- and thore is no danger of missing duced was the syncro-mesh trans- agyar by waiting too long or ac-mission with a quiet second gear. celerating over-much. Once the This shifts from first to second,
first gear whilst the engine is throttio wide opon, and then just is far better to ride it until it fallsh.p...engine, and the the other the average, the car will travel from ag wheel into position the gear to second without a murmur. After
Never change, down for a hill The strange clanking nose which emanates from the engine when your are nearing the top of a stiff hill you are skillfully climbing at about ten miles an hour in top gear is merely engine language for Excel
conditions, and it will be necessary to take out the clutch before you can move the gear-lover. You should then race the engine and let in the clutch as rubtly as pos- } sior!"
machine lies idle in the garage; it man with a choice of a 16 or 21 to pieces under you, for then you further development of the Italianom.ph, on top gear and res. can have lots of fun telling every er automatio, gear, which was
ponds splendidly to accelerator one what a rotten bike it was, and discovered more than two years ago. y quiet: the car's cruising spced movement; the engine is pleasant- writing vitameroun letters to the
is between 48-50 mph; driving manufacturers, so that an innocent
comfort is of high rank: and hill tester with a wife and kids to sup- port on about fifty shillings a week
climbing unquestionably good, is fired for deliberately ruining a machine before passing it on to the purchaser. You might, with your academic knowledge of motorcycle and how they should be ridden, even get his job. As I said, YOU MIGHT!
HAVE YOU SEEN THEM?
THE
new Fläts
are worth seeing for their
beauty alone, but
to drive are a
real joy.
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The New Hillman. In regard to the new Hillman there is one most interesting point: It is the first time a British firm has planned a model for home and Gverseas use with the choice of a
16 hp, or a 21 h.p. power unit. The 21 hip. is, of course, the ex- port model,
The writer spent some
hours with the modela: and there is no question that a splendid, and well thought out effort has been made to produce a car which embodies features to meet the age-old criti- eismas of British cars by buyers abroad.
Bhock Eliminated. The Salerni transmission has progressed far in two years. It is
now a "four-speed gearbox of epicyclic type, with the coupling or synchronising device and a torque transmitter, which performs some thing like our cld friend, the tuid flywheel
goes home.
Test Success.
The most salient pointa în...... the coupling leration is not affected, all the
and gear are that seco trouble is taken out of gear chang
ing, the driver cannot make a noise or causo gear damage in changing and the gears are always silent. In changing it is not necessary to declutch as with other automatics. Except for starting from rest a clutch is unnecessary...
that, designing rubber pads t
to be placed between the springs and rear axle, a fabric front universal joint and new rubber engine
mount- ings was comparatively easy.
Better Body Design.
A new type of body construction was designed which produces more
strength and greatly reduces the poscibility of noises developing evon after a car has been driven' over, the roughest roads. over the
There certainly appears to be
Noise is transmitted into the much to support the claim that so hody from the road, so they pro- far as simplicity of making is conceeded to insulate the body ageinst these sounds. Heavy fabric forms the base of this insulation. It ex- tends over the floor boards while the partition between the front compartment and engine is com pletely insulated.
All the ratios of the gearbox, corned it is in advance of "con including the revers, are selected temporaries. There are fewer parts automatically and without shock by than in other systems and its weight the movement of a short lever on is less. the stooring. The epicycle Salerni
A test car fitted with the devices differs from other epicyclics, for was a success, though it has not each gear in selected not by braka yot reached a finally developed banda and friction clutches but by stage. Changes were made up and engagement of "dogs" in a posi-down with complete sase without
Necessary openings through this insulation, to permit the use of the operating pedals and for the steer
Simplicity in the chassis and utility and comfort in the body form the keynote of the design. The wheelbase of oft, äin. is com paratively short, but the track is full width, 4ft 8in,, and the power-tive way. Jerk, snatch and pos declutching. The three devices are ing wheel, are closed completely as to-weight ratio of the 21 h.p. steel sibly damage are all avoided in ingenious yet simple and it in difa further guard against the entry body saloon gives it a lively per. in: selection.
ficult to see how they can be other of outside noise by live rubber formance.
(Continued an next Column.)
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