CAR BUDGETS AND "M.P.G.”
CARBURETTORS ARE NOT YET PERFECT
HONG KONG DAILY PRESS, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1933.
SPARKS
FROM THE PLUGS
Some five thousand patents for, 35,600 miles were covered and 1,550 carburettors or improvements there- gallons of petrol consumed. That of have been taken out since 1920, works out at 211 miles to the gallon; writes the London Daily Telegraph, and the cost was £130 12s. 6d. Sup- Motoring correspondent. Possibly posing, the owner had been able to there have been as many attempts get 25 miles to the gallon, he would to produce the perfect gear-box. have needed only 1.494 gallons, cost- But the automobile engineer willing £112 11s. 8d. That would have tell you that from the point of view bean a saving of roughly 18-worth of efficiency the worst gear-box is having, of course, but the total run- far ahead of the best carburettor, ning expenses for the two years which uses, I believe, rather less were 270, and they did not include than 25 per cent. of the energy con, tent of the petrol.
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anything at all exceptional for re- Ipairs, while garaging was
usually cheap-only £8 10%, a year.
The Duo-Vaporator,
MUSIC WHILE YOU MOTOR
GRIM RACE AT BROOKLANDS
LOCAL A. A. PATROL
EASY CHANGE SECONDS
THE IMPORTANCE OF BRAKES
{Motorenre equipped with wire Brian Lewis First Home Jess sets, a refinement already com- MOTL in Ed., are about to be offered to English purchasers.] Motoring gadgets bring boon after
boon,
Except when we have difficulty in starting or a choked jet or dirty filter gives trouble, we seldom worry
Some times, however, a car is, or about our carburettors, and general becomes, excessively greedy of ly it is best to leave well alone, petrol, and something has to be The car manufacturer can be trust done. I was recently a sufferer in ed to instal the carburettor which this way. I went to the carburettor best serves his engine, and; besides, experts, and they gave me good per efforts to cut down fuel consumpformance with likely pick-up, but tion seldom show a profit. Provid-my fuel bit was alarming. I went ed the car and engine are in pro to the car-makers, and they gave'] per trim, what happens most prob-me one more m.p.g., but spoilt the ably is that you spoil the perform performance. Then, on the advice. ance (and make the engine run bot) of a fellow.owner who is also an to save an unimportant fraction of engineer, I bought and fitted a the year's running expenses.
gadget called a "Duo-Vaporator. This, for all its fine name, is really an extra air inlet valve which responds automatically to the en- gine's needs.
Fuel Consumption. Many motorista lay too much stresa on m.p.g. The agent or dealer tells them when they buy I have had this installed now for their car that it should do, say, 25 over 2,000 miles, and the result is miles to the gallon, and then be that without changing the jets the cause they get only 23 they fuss and performance is back to what it was fume, Consumption can vary enor before, the slow running is so good mously according to the conditions that I can do less than 4 m.p.h. on of driving with the same car and top. and my fuel consumption is same carburettor. Not so long ago reduced by 16 per cent. a standard Morris Minor was made t For this improvement I to do 100 miles on 1 gallon on a road vouch. Owners of cars with other
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can
circuit near Coventry; but the ordi- types of carburettor tell me of
nary owner, seeking similar figures similar or better results. The god would certainly fail and probably get costs £1, and is easily fitted. go insane in the attempt.
Like the 3,000 patents above-men-
Here is a car budget for a six-tioned, it is evidence that the best teen" of a well-known make: In of carburettors is still capable of two years ending last February, improvement.
Wrapping the driver in softest of
of tissues;
Lo! the proud owner of brand new
saloon Touches switch and
melody issues;
*
sweet
OFFICIAL HURT BY FLYING WHEEL
LONDON, May 2.
TO MOVE TO
CHATER ROAD
N. T. Arrangements
A-FAULT IN BRITISH CARS NEW LINING THAT ENABLES
the Midlands where the roads are":
Most British cars being built in
mainly level there is n tendency
EASY DRIVING
out a product entirely different in action, and according to all road ani service tests, superior in, per- formance, wear and resistance to water,
The searchlight of science bas among designers to regard the top, been directed into another major and third speeds of the pear box as division of the automotive indus- As has recently been announced all that matters. First is for omer- 'try-brake lining, and has brought in the Press the City Hall is short-geney use and second for very, very The Jucior Car Club's Interna-y to be demolished and this will occasional hills which may be just tional Trophy-Brooklands first mean the abolition of the car park. too steep for third.
In Scotland at in most parts of obstacle race; but, assuredly, not From June 1 the A.A. patrol will its last-was won on Saturday by be removed to Chater Road to sup- the British Empire, notably Hong the Hon. Brian Lewis and his new ervise the Car Park behind the Kong, the second gear is about as He shall have music wherever he Alfa Romeo, the only one of the Cricket Club ground. Arrange ... goes.
eight big cars to survive a gruell-ments are being made to install an 'A.A. telephone at this stand so that Richly provided with song anding and exciting struggle.
with dance,
it will be possible for a member of Down the broad highway he
the A.A. employing a chauffeur to ring to the patrol on duty when rapidly surges; Fed up with England he fiddles for
his car is required and he will in-
Valves in the dashboard right under
his nose,
France, Turning the knobs till each
For
station emerges.
Bach and the highbrows he
hasn't much use:
It
is
"On with the dance!" as he steps on the juice.
At
twenty he trifles with tunes from
Cologne,
At
At thirty to distant Vienna he
changes;
from
programme
forty the Rome is his own, At fifty "from Milan to Moscow
he ranges. When the pointer's at sixty and
regions beyond, Schenectady alls from across the
Big Pand.
There is only one point where some
"people might feel That a
little discretion were wisely expended- As he plays with his valves let him
look to his wheel,
Or he may get a station he never
intended,
When, hulled by much music, his
具 faculties tire
And he crashes right in on the
heavenly choir.
Three M.G. Magriettes wore so cond, third, and fourth, and three baby Austins and Widengren's Amilcar were the only other cars to finish out of the 28 starters.
The official result was:
important as third, and the second
Firestone engineers and chemists. gear of even a fairly high-powered developed for their brake lining. car may be required quite often. factory at Akron a lining called. Yet tou many makers seem to think" Aquaprul" that "enables the The action of the lining. that having provided a silent third driver to stop as quickly as be“
makes it very easy for the driver or a synchro-mesh third nothing warte,'
One trusts that Scottish Rally ex- to stop almost instantly, or he can more can be needed. form the chauffeur of the car con- cerned. This should be of consider-perience may at least do something slow down gradually, and this at- able benefit in the hot and rainy to correct this view, Even without tion is known as "soft pedal.”
The waterproof quality of the 1. Hon. Brian Lewis, Alfa-weather. It is hoped that chauffeur aids to easy changing, the change
Romeo, 2h 28min 12sec; aver driven cars will make use of this from top to third is fairly easy, but new product, from which it takes age speed, 88.07 m.p.h.
stand and leave the part of Chater that from third to second, which its trade name " Aquapruf,?" is im- Tests have shown that 2-E. R. Hall, M. G. Magnette, Road between lee House Street and entails crossing the gate, has gener
3h 9min 37ee; speed, 62.77 the Post Office for owner drivers, ally to be done hurriedly, while it portant. m.p.h
Road Patrol on Mainland. is generally a big stop in ratios. even on exterial type brakes, the 3-ra E. M. Wisdom, M. G.
Another development is the pro-Yet this gear, which is the most im supreme test of waterproofing, the A driving rain or going through Magnette, 3h 13min 1458; vision of an A road patrol be- portant of all, is rendered no easier braking action is effective even in speed, 81.94 m.p.b.
tween Kowloon and Castle Peak in most cases, but rather more diffi- 4-Earl Howe, M. G. Magnette.
on Saturday aftergoons, Sundays eult, because the top to third change water. When car is washed, soap: Team Prize: Three Austin Sevens and public holidays. Should these has been made easier and so much and water get between the lining. and the brake, but this new lining entered by Sir Herbert Aus developments receive the support of practice in changing down is lost.
Where a free-wheel is fitted or recovers from this condition more tin drivers, L. P. Driscoll, the motoring community it is hoped J. D. Barnes, and Cto extend this service by providing where the Wilson box is used all quickly than other linings-in fact, Goodacre. The
Magnettes a telephone to call chauffeure from changes are equally simple, but if with one or two applications of the synchro-mesh engagement is brake. Moreover, any variation were not entered as a team. Statue Square and also to provide A Things began to happen from the road patrols on other frequented favoured it should be used for that may be noted in such extreme second as well as third. In that cases is on the safe side the ten- fall of the flag. From the massed roads. start Kaye Don got away in the
The rond patrol will leave Kow-case the conventional gear-box is dency is for increase of gripping lead, only to be passed by Sir loon and Castle Penk at present, as brought very near perfection. Ceraction of the lining on the drum, so tainly several makers are now pro-if anything, it may be said to be Malcolm Campbell on
SATURDAYS
viding constant mesh seconds as better after its surface-has been Leave Castle Penk well as thirds, and in a few cases
wet, This is the opposite of the all gears are constant mesh. ... 3.30 p.m.
These, however, vary considerably action of "molded lining" which, 6.30 p.m.
not only as regards degree of silence when there is water between the ing Bore makers do not seem to all brakes, j realise yet that what the majority of their customers want is easy gear changing."
the Sun- follows:-
Leave Kowloon
| beam, who led for two laps, with Whitney Straight, Brian Lewis, and Rose-Richards on the fastest of the Bugattis close behind. -
The first of the few mishaps oc-
curred on the very first lap, As Leave Kowloon Leave Castle Peak but also as regards ease of changining and the drum, tends to "loan
a bunch of Midgets came round the difficult, bend into the straight, -Lucio in the Manchester Guar·|J. C. Elwes swerved, to avoid an dian.
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other car and, overturned; he was hurt, but not seriously.
Two lups later G. E. T. Eyston, whom the bookmakers had estab lished "favourite," was eliminated. Driving the Midget which was the first "baby" to do 100 miles an hour, he came down the straight at about so m.p.h. when his offside front wheel cams clean off.
Eyston, held the car successful- ly and pulled up at the pita, but the wheel sped on and struck an official, Mr. G. Roberte, in the body, and he had to be taken, off in the ambulance. He was not, however, seriously injured. Meanwhile, all eyes were on the big cars. In the third lap Straight shot past Campbell on the top eorner and, taking the bends electrifying speed, began, to open up a gap that, lap by lap, grew larger. Driving his black and silver Maserati with superb skill, he was actually overlapping some of the others after half an hour's :acing.
Back Axle Gives.
at
Then, to the huge disappoint ment of the crowd, came the end. Flying down the straight, the car suddenly slowed. It crawled round the hurdles, and as Kaye Don," whom he had lapped, repassed him, Straight threw up his hands.
His back axle had given, trouble that eliminated many other cars unequal to the terrific strains imposed by the bends and the speed combined. It was not Straight's fault; his engine was still in per feet condition, and, as he told me, afterwards, he was driving with "something in hand."
This left the rice to Campbell and Brian Lewis, who almost from the start had been having a glori ous duel The Sunbeam was the faster, but the lead it established on the railway, straight disappeared bit by bit at each obstacle, and there was Lewis each time right on Campbell's tail as they swept round the hurdles."
For an hour and a half this. battle endured. Then Campbell came in to All up and change wheels. The operation took two minutos. When Jewis came in a little later the same operation took him only one minute, and that gave hiur three-quarters of a lap lead. Staniland now had the Sunbeam. He set out after Lewis very "fant, but the car began to give trouble, and the fight was over. **
امه دارد
As Lewis orossed the line, a mosi popular winner by even laps, or eighteen miles, Campbell and Kaye Top, were walking thao solately back to the pits from their cars Abandoned at the fork.
Magnettes made a fine
no trouble. Mánby-
10 a.m. ̈
2 p.m. 3 p.m.
SUNDAYS AND HOLIDAYS
11.30 a.m. 3.00 p.m. 1.30. p.m. 4.30 p.m.
8.30 p.m. JORDAN ROAD FERRY SERVICE Commencing as from the 30th instaat. Time Table of Passenger Service.
From HONG KONG AND FROM JORDAN ROAD
Every 20 minutes between :.
m. on
5 a.m. and 6:40 am, 8 a.m. and 6.90 a.m. Every 10 minutes between!
am. and 10 p.m. Continued on next Column)
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STERLING
SERV
6.46 a.m. and 9.30 p.m. Every 12 minutes between:
10.12 p.m., and 11.38 p... 10.06 p.m. and. 11.54 `p/m/ Followed by:..
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11.40 p.m. and 12 midnight 12. midnight:
SPECIAL LATE FERRIES Every 20 minutes between:
12.70 a.m. and 2.40a.m. 12.20 a.m. and 2.40-8.m.
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