D
OIL AND OIL.
SOME LITTLE DIFFERENCES EXPLAINED.
Many people seem to think that buying branded cil is very much like ordering a Johnny Walker or a Black and White whisky in a Now York speakeasy-that is, what ever one may ask for, it all comet out of the same barrel...
They never made a greater mis- tako, writes "the Scribo" in the Autocar.
My present car has been in my prissession over two winters. Dur ing the winter of 1929-30 I had a certain amount of trouble in start- ing on cold morning due to the -pistons gumming up through in
structing the local garage to send me so many galling of oil without specifying the grade or the brand. It was not bad oil, but apparent 1ly it was not suitable.
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, AUGUST 18, 1931,
SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
News from Everywhere
Last winter I used an oil sup plied for my particular engine by the Vacuum people, and although. the garage is not heated I went through the winter without enec wsing the starting handle. Some. thing of a test for the batt/ries, it' is true, but they stood up to the work. I have only used the start- ing handle once in twelve months, and that was because I left my "Stop" light on when I locked the car up for a couple of days, and so ran the battery right down, Myed the fines in the motorcar casta readers will understand that I use
that came before him.. a magreto, an instrument which, it would scom," will soon be some- thing of the past through no fault. of its own, excepting its cost.
And to think that in the year nighteen ninety something, on the purchase of my family's second car, we did not like "this new- fangled electrical contraption, and actually removed it in order to, substitute tube ignition, which We understood !
for Economical Transportation
CHEVROLET,
HONG KONG DELIVERED PRICES.
INDEPENDENCE SERIES “A E" PASSENGER.
RA.C. Horse-Power Rating 20,55.
Brake Horse-Power $8 at 2,600 Revolutions.
Piston Displacement 194 Cubic Inches. Whest-Bass 109 Inches.
Speed 60 M.P.H..
X+del
Boadster.
Roadster Sporla...4-pass 2,830-lbs. 405 Rondater Deluxe...4-part 2,350-185.
F. 0. D.
Nett Weight
Factory
Price
Extrai
Packler ..Nhipping
Assembly Delivery
Pric
2-pas, 2,965-lbs.
G$175 0$97
G$188 G$700
37
189
750
590
49
·101·
820
Tourer
6-past. 2,360-lbs.
$10
37
189
735
Pat
Coupe() window)..2-pa's. 2,480-lba. - Coups (8 window)...pam. 2,480-lbs.. Coupe Sports: 4-pam. 2,555-lbs.. Coanh (z doors)....pinas. 2,575-lbs. Sedan
2,676-ibs, Sedan Spécial ...&-piu. 2,713-lbs.
336
+42
$93
810
545
42
-293
820
675
54
241
870
545
42
233
035
49
243
$20
920
830
44
251
945
Hong Kong Prion includes spare rim Bight Hand Drive (5.00) Spare | Tyre and Tubo (12.00) Bumpers (18.00) Expert Refinemente and Bulb Hora (10.00),
INDEPENDENCE SERIES "AE" COMMERCIAL.
RAC. Horse-Power Rating $6,35,
Braka líorse-Power 48 at 2,000 Revolutions,
Piston Displacement 194 Cubio Inches. Whel-Base 109 Inches.
Spord 30 MPH.
Half Ton ('hateis
+19 x 4.75 Tyra)....1.870-lbs.
Half Ton Delivery Track...2,100-lbs
GS35 0$37 G808 01490
420 37 193
650
Hong Kong Price include Right Hand Drive (5.00) Sparo Tyre and Tube (1 *.00) Front Bumpers (18.00) Bulb Horn and Refnements (10,00).
INDEPENDENCE SERIES "L'T" COMMERCIAL
R.A.C. Horio-Power Rating 20,59,
Brake Horse-Power 48 at 2,600 Revolutions.
Piston Displacement 194 Cubic Incher Wheel Base 131 Inches and 167 incho).
Speed 46 M.P.H.
If Ton Chain 131 w....2,550-lban.G$520 6340
14 Ton Chieris, 10 D2,750-lbs.
2Ton Chassis 157 W., D.9,880-lbs-
545
.500;
$140 160
165
G$700
740
800
Hong Kong Price includes Right Hand Drive (5.00) Spare Tyre and Tube (23.00) Bulb Horn (10,00),
All Prices and Specifications subject to change without notice.
THE HONG KONG HOTEL GARAGE
25, Queen's Hood Central. Stubbe Road,
Tel: 24759,
A Stoke (Brimingham) magis trate adopted a novel form of ob sorving "Safety Week." Ho doubl
The High Commissioner, for the Irish Free State made the an
nouncement that the State in, with-- our exemption, the biggest custom- er for British motorcars. This is borng out by the returris,
to the spirit of gang warfare, and told the police, who ordered Mr. Roms to cease construction of the Meantime, the wedding, has been postponed.:
cor.
...
CHINESE AND 1998 ROLLS
ROYCE,
SINGLE PIECE MOTOR
BODIES.
VARIETY OF MATERIALS
USED IN ENGLAND.
DIFFICULTIES OF
PRODUCTION.
Considering the extensive use which is boing made of non-metallic sheet materials, sich as fibre, com- pressed paper, Bakelite, cts., in buildings of all blade, in not
Recently a Mr. A. H. Rasmus. During the progres of n race at sen, who is at present in Tientsin, really surprising that they are now „Buenos Aires one person was killed in China, came upon an old Rola. f being exploited for motorcar body and nine others injured' as &
Royer which had left Derby in work: Pressed-steel construction, sult of a collision between two of 1908 and had been knocking about.
which has made great headway, the competitors.
will probably remain" pre-eminent the world until it was found by for a long time to come wherever Mr. Rasmussen, "dirty and neglect.
AUSTIN SALES GAIN IN IRISH od in a
'FREE STATE.
Tao Motor Vehicle registration figuron of the Irish Free State for the Month of April 1931 make in- toresting reading, in so much as they show the rapid advanco made by Austin cars in that country,
yoineso garage, where the production is on a sufficient seale
Chinese mechanics seemed to love
it for what it was, a beautiful piece of mechanism disguised by the ravages of time. Mr. Hasmussen bought it for £60, more out of sentiment than anything else, for he hated seeing it where is was.
and wanted it to have a good home,
Though Ford Motora still head A mechanic who had served with the Rolls armoured cars in Egypt was employed to strip the chastis, when it was found that except for half an inch of earhon on the pis-Į
tons and a broken piston ring there was very little wrong with, the car, so it has been put together again,
the list with 14 cars registored, Austins are a elcse second with 99, and Morris Motor third with 88. The figures apply to private cars only and do not melude hackney carriages,
tejustify the initial cost. Parti cularly in England, however, there are very many successful manufac turers who build care ju hundreds.
rather than thousands and to whom
the new moulded materials for bodies should appeal.
An excellent example is, of course, the now Laminoid body,
which was exclusively illustrated
in the "Motor" some weeks ago. The panels are made of a materi al, containing asbestos fibres whic can readily be shaped in inexpeu-, sive wooden moulds, but which dries as hard and strong as sheet-fibre. It is non-resonant and fireproof, forms an excellent base for cellulose, which dries with as glossy au sp- first-class metal-
pearance
a
COLOURS AND INDIVIDUALITY and will shortly make a 'cng trip into Mongolia. The trial trip proved that it could be frusted for such a journey. The owuer is an panelled job, and can readily be enthusiast where prefect workman; repaired if accidentally damaged. ship is concerned, and he aims at bringing the cld car back to ils original state.
A NEW SIDE-CAR RECORD,
1
The facility with which this ma terial can be rugalded into awk, ward shapes, curved in two planes or embodying abrupt re-entrant- angles, is a most important feature.
The panels, roof, etc., are, of course, secured to a wooden frame="
work in much the same way us are the stee! or aluminium pane's of a composite coachbuilt bedy, and the weight of the complete job, is much the same. We are told that an a production basis the BéTOR culded parts for s saloon could be supplied, cellulosed and ready for securing to the frame, at a cost of los than 210 These parts would be four door panels, the scuttle, the rear papel and quar ters below the waistline and a one-, piece moulding comprising the roof and the rear quarter, above the waistline.
In the old days, one famous manufacturer is alleged to have said that the public could buy bia cars in any mlour they like-provided that it was a shade, of black!
How different are things to day! The modern demand for bright and attractive colour schemes is such that the "ort department" of a motor factory must surely be one E. C. E. Biragawanath, riding & of its mest important sections. supercharged 938 e Brough Every colour in the rainbow is Superior in a three-laps handicap employed, usually in dual-tone race at Brooklands, broke the 1,000 schemes, and the upholstery sa.c. sido-car lap record, covering blonded to match. If, for instance. one lap at 101,04 m.p.h. This was the Singer Company made up a the first time he had happed at over sample of oach of the cars they can 100 m.p.h., and, accordingly, he was offer, no fewer thin seventy-six awarded a gold 'star-the first would be required to display the to be given in the 1,000 cc. side. present range. fet in 1920 munu- car class since 1927.
talking about "one facturers were.
In spite of his exceptional speed model only."
over one lap
Baraga wanath did not win the r
orace. He inished third. The winner was L. P. Driscoll (558 c. Norton), at a speed of 83.28 mp.h, and L. J. Arther was second. A high wind, blowing, in
xtremely as these materials are non-resonent. Busts, made fast driving difficult. During the Holliday Cup there is no need to employ a fabric 50 miles handicap for cycles not section in the roof, the whole of was which can therefore be cellulased." exceeding 350 c.c.. L J. Archer was
Even when saloon car model, thrown from his Velocette when tlie engine feired up." He was pick being produced in large quantitici ed up from the track by an official there will be a certain number of and was taken in an ambulance to people requiring coupës, sports hospital where it was found that he saloons or touring cars on the same had broken a shoulder bone. La chassis Hero, also, there should
NOT PLAYING THE GAME.
Nowadays moter manufacturers are striving to make their care as safe as possible—but in America at least it is against the law to
make them too gafe.
Salpaus map
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Mr. Jos Roma, of Denver, whe is the head of an organised bootleg gang, ordered a spatial car for his honeymoon. But Mr. Fata Carlino, a rival gangster, threatened to stand near the church and hump off the happy newlyweds as they set out on their honeymcon. Mr the 50 miles race for machines ex Roma had the the body of the car | voeding 859 c.1., A. R: Quino, drive plated with armour-steel and the ing Victor Borseman's Triumph, windows fitted with triplex bullet had a narrow ercapithe trand proof glass, but A
of a tyre sidered that this kill-joy attitude off. A piece of th on Mr Roma's par. was contraS the cover struct
A
point of interest is that
ho a field for these new moulded materjale, which would enable such requiremente, to be met, efficiently,
aptesnexpensivelgakkans
rubber-from
the und
wings, reinforced.
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