BRITISH MOTOR. NOTES.
Specially Written by the RA.C. Correspon feat
HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
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first, than in the fact that all thre Sunbeams finished among the fis faur, every one of the British care completing the whole distance of
From the standpoint of Foreign and Overseas Empire Clubs the recent action of the Royal Au- tomobile Club in constituting a Committee known as the Foreign the race. Relations Committee is of extreme interest. The terms of reference
Leaders of Industry. The elections of officers of the
provide that the Committee will Society of Motor Manufacturers deal with the negotiation and and Traders for the coming yeat maintenance of agreements and relations with foreign Over- have recently taken place, Mr. $040 Empire Clubs and kind. M. Hobson becomes President red organisations. The Chair.of the Society. The new President man is Sir Julian Orde, the has been connected with the former Secetary of the R. 4.0
motor industry ever sincs 1903. to whose initiative I believe te has been a member of Council this new development is largely since 1909 and honarary Trea- due. Sir Julian bas personally surer of the Society since 1920. The new Vice Presidenta are visited the headquarters of a large number of Overseas Clubs and M. J. Maughling and Lt.Col; J; has been deeply impressed with Sealy Clarke. Mr. Maugdling, who the desirability of establishing is a Director of Thornycrofts, the closer relations and, providing for Well-known manufacturers of! freer and more certain inter Commercial
vehicles, marine
change of information. Undoubt. engines and motor craft, is the edly, every Club would benefit retiring president of the Associa materially if some means were tion of British Motor Manufact- established for keeping it in touch urers, whose new Presidant "is with all that is being done by Mr. A. J. McCormick C.B.E., other Clubs, so that experience the Managing Director of Walse- gained in any
quartor ley Motors. Mr. Maughfling. becomes directly valuable in all was for some years Honorary other quarters.
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Differential Gears and Tyre Wear.
In view of the varied opinions that are held as to the saving of wear on tyres resulting from the use of differential gears, a certifi ed trial held recently under the auspices of the R.A.C. is of particular interest. This trial was conducted on an A.C. car entered by Mr. 8. F. Edge. Two back axles were successively fitted, one with the differential gear in action, and the other
without. The car made two funs
of fourteen miles each at the same
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This car looks like a submarine tractor, but it finished ahead of all other French cars in the Grand Prix race in France. However, Seagravo (inset), an. Englishman, finish- ed first in a British Sunbeam car, covering 121 kilometers an hour for a distance of 799 kilometers.
MOTOR ERRORS.
Treasurer gi the Society, Mistakes Often Made by the Colonel Sealy Clarke was the
Average Driver. Honorary Treasurer last year and is the Chairman of the British
turned off or without gasoline in Start the ongine with the switch
the tank.
Here are sonte things we Rubber Туга Manufacturers motorists often do, says a motor Committee, Mr. Frank Churchill,
expert whose intereste are associated with the Hallford Commercial vehicles, now becomes Honorary Treasurer, in addition to being Chairman of the Commercial Vehicle Committee and of the sub Committee formed to deal with the Society's collective exhibit at the British Empire Exhibition of 1924.
New Models and Developments.
*psed of 11.3 miles per hour As the Show season approaches without A circle of 70 fit becomes possible to give brief diameter, the off side wheels boing: particulars of a few of the new nearer the centre of the circle.be staged for the first time models and developments that The car was a four cylinder A.C. with a two-seated body and a
at Olympia this autumn. At the total laden weight of about Irir Show (November 2nd. to cwt, rather more than baif the 10th) one of the most interesting weight being on the back axle newcomers will certainly be the The tyres used were 26 ins. by
10.0 h.p; Triumph, the first car
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thickness of the Iread of the near front tyre WAR 19 Whout in differen'i',
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production of the famous firm of
Forget that using the starter a certain number of times will ex. haust the supply of current in the battery unless the engine is run sufficiently to recharge it.
Fill the lubricator in the engine and neglect to lubricate all other
parts of the car.
Advance the spark when start ing the engine.
Allow the clutch to engage sud- denly,
Apply the brakes suddenly when it isn't at all necessary.
Pugh in the starling button when the engine is running.
Blame the starter when the en-
Shift reverse gear when the car is moving ahead...
Neglect to investigate any unusual sound which may develop
HOT WEATHER MOTOKING.
How to Keep Passengers and Engine Cool.
Skys
The sudden spell of hot weather has quickly brought its usual quota of minor motor troubles. London motor writer "set in with their usual severity," Recont British summers having
a spell of hot weather takes many motorists unawares:
When it is really bot, the firs thing to consider in regard to personal comfort ie how to keep cool. But you must remember that to some extent the engine and the car generally have simi-
lar feelings.
their interests, they will let you know all about it!
And if you do not lock after
Many motorists,think that the (opon touring car is the coolest. They are wrong. You have only to study the problem in any really hot country to prove that fact Motorists in such places. found out the fallacy of the 'open car
long ago.
On really hot sunny days, it is. much cooler to travel with the hood up-moro especially if it is a light coloured one. The black
Then there is the windscreen, The adjustment of this unit has an important bearing on how to koop cool on hot days. The adjustment will vary with the length of your coachwork and the speed of the car,
gine doesn't start, without look ins, and had all-ruther treads with circumferential ribe. With motor cycle manufacturers. This ing into the gasoline tark. the differential in action, the small car, but the makers have reduction
Neglect to inspect the level of of the
managed to turn out something! which, from the point of view of the acid in the storage battery, driver and passengers, stands even after two or three weeks leather hoods make open car have gone by, and overlook a motoring much hotter than the of much comparison with cars the figure was 3.9 m.m. For the of larger size and power. The four-supply of distilled water needed.khaki-coloured Lypes. But even Shift from third to second or the black hood will keep you front tyre, the corresponding cylinder engine has its crank- figures were 0.5 m.m. and LG mm.
case prolonged upwards to take first gear when the car is running cooler than no hood at all. For the near rear tyre 175 mm. the submerged cylinder barrel at a high rate of speed. and 1.9 mm. and for the off rear block, the skirts of the barrels be tyre 1.5 mm. and 4.4 mm. The ing oil cooled, and the upper parts total loss of weight of the outer and heads being water-cooled. The covers with the differential in engine has been designed by Mr. action was 10 ounc ́s. Without
Ricardo and is extremely well the differential, it was 44 ou icep, balat.ced. It develops 23.4 h.p. Toe car itself All possible steps were taken to at 3,000 r.p.m. make the test a fair one, and, will travel up to 50 miles an hour, while the official ceruficate draws and the average consumption is no deductions from the figuresive is through a four-speel about 45 miles per gailon." The mentioned above, they would "certainly seem to the ordinary gear box and an open propeller observer to afford conclusive shaft to a spiral bevel gear on the evidence of the beneficial effect back axle. Both brakes operate upon tyre life that results from direct on the back axlo in 10 Both chassis and loch drume. the presence of a differential gear. The French Grand Prix."
are admirably fioiched, body great care having been given to The French Grand Prix, the all details. most important international At the cycle and Motor cycle motor race in the year, resulted | Show (October 15tb. to 20th.), a fectly aware that neither one is in a great triumph for British in- new model of A J.S motor cycle good for our tires.'
in the car,
Drive fast and attempt to stop suddenly on a wet pavement. Generally speaking, however, Overlook keeping the tire arrange it so that the maximum properly inflated.
draught is felt on your hand just throttle is open very wide.
Release the clutch when the behind the front suat-spoaking
of four-seater
cars. This will Benevolently allow every Tom, probably mean that you put ■ Dick and Harry to drive our car, single pi ce windscreen rather without admonition or chiding. * flatter" than usual.
Use the startor to run the car, even while understanding that excessive overload on the battery is very injurious,
Allow our car to sland in puddles of oil or water, while per-
If the windscreen is of the double type, you will generally get the best cooling effect with the top half at about 45 degreep to the vertical, on "half open," as you might say.
But do not run away with the idea that a fully open windscreen
gives the best cooling draught on very hot days. It is rarely that
dustry and its representative the will be shown. This is a ma- Overlock the fact that pan, Sunbeam car. France was repre- chine selling in the British engine and other mechanical parts sented by a team of three Bugatti Isles at £60, It is rated of a car should be kept clean, it does so. cars, by two Rolland-Pilain, and at 204 h.p. and has on Turn corners too fast, liking to There is an important Safet of one Delago, and by four Voisin all-chain drive, three-speed be spectacular even at cost of tires. First point to remember wheny cars. Three Fists represented gear, clutch and kick starter. Open the throttle quickly, with-setting the windscreen for "cool" Italy, while a team of three Sun- It is, in fact, one moro evidence out giving the motor a chance to ing draughts" in bot weather beame took part on the behalf of of the determination of British pick up gradually, Great Britain. The race was manufacturers to produce fully Find it 100 much trouble to keep over a distance of 497 miles of equipped machines suitable for our brakes adjusted-or at least road, which was covered by the the world's markets at quite too much trouble, to keep our winner at an average speed of reasonable prices.
mind on it.
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Export of Components One of the consequences of a good reputation for durability is a British components to be fitted to very satisfactory demand for products in the main foreigu. It a universally admitted that the words "British-made" are some- antes, of quality In the motor thing nearly approaching a guar
producers in other countries are cycle industry in particular, meny taking advantage of this fact. A part can never be equal to the whole, but nevertheless manufac
in other countries fro- their reputations to embody cer- quently find it advantageous to You must be careful that the
tain well-known British compon-i angle of the screen and the posi
ents. tion of the sun are not such that the screen sends a blinding dash Trial which attracted over 100 For example, in the Paris-Nice into the eyes of oncoming drivera entries, a large number of British
In hot weather one usually en- counters a good deal of thie. components figured on otherwise An foreign machines. One of the observant driver should speedily ow
Gold Medals awarded see if his windscreen in rellecting went to a French machine with was leading, followed by two motor cycle with a complete Release the clutch before shiftinding flash. Change the British J.P. engine and this angle of the glass by an inel or power unit is fitted also to a num- other two Sunbeams. Later on followed in other quarters. The Accelerate too quickly, and so two and the danger will be overber of Belgium and Italian motor the English team established its practicability of electric lighting enjoy the car jumping and the come. supremacy. The three Sunbeams as applied to motor cycles having motor bounding, finished, first, second and fourth bean now established, we may Fall to or amino the gar occa .with a Bugatti third. The result assume that the obvious sionally for loose nuts and bolts.
must have been a disappointment conveniences of the system will Race our engine under any and to the French crowd at the finish appeal strongly, since motor all circumstances when we feel ing point but, nevertheless, the cyclists us Я class are now like it.
75 miles an hour. The circuit At this Show it will also ba Noglact to familiarize ourselves was about 14 miles in length, se interesting to sao to what extent with the use of the band lever that 35 laps had to be completed. the example that the Triumph brake and thus be prepare for At the end of len lape, a Sunboam Company have set in marketing emergencies,
Fists, a Roland-Pilain, and "the electric lighting equipment is ing gears,
"We might now consider some
cycles.
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of the points that the chassis feels "If you have an air adjustment in hot weather. Of chief import on the carburetter givo
hor" ance are the tyres. If they are plenty of air. The hotter the day, blown up to the makera stipulat- the more air the engine will take. ed prosaure, you can safely lot} If you stop for a picnic meal (or British victor was enthusiast demanding a much improved | Fail to heed the squeak that them down in bot weather till any other reason) never leave the cally welcomed, to the strains of standard in respect of comfort calls for oil.
they bulge just a little."
car standing in bright sunlight. the national Anthem.
and cleanlinоss. That they are Tako our car out without By the time you have run ten It will damage the tyres and also Races of this kind are not were also asking for improvements as noticing whether it is properly miles on a hot day you will find the paint. ly demonstrations of speed cap regards silence, weather pratec-lubricated.
them dead tight again. And if If the engine boils and you abilities. They are, as has beention, and so on, is instanced by Attempt to start without being you do not let them down they are want to fill up the radiator with pointed out on previous occasions, the production of such machines sure that the brakes are released. likely to burst.
cold water wait for ten minutes ane of the finest methods of im- as the P.&P. "Silent Three," The Make adjustments on our ear You may also find that the at least before doing so. proving the breed of the motor Exhibition will also show the before knowing whether we're engine is inclined to overheat, put cold water into a really hot vabicle by imposing upon it effect on manufacturing policy of right, just trusting to luck and Sse that the fanbelt is not slipping, engine you may easily crack the abnormal stresses, seeking out all the great popularity of the very the god of simpletons.
that the radiator is properly filled, cylinders or "spring" the radiator weak points. Tho significance of low-powered motor cycle of the Fold the car top back when and put some thicker oil into the into a leak. the rosult perhaps lias less in the type pioneered by the McKenzie wet, not knowing or careless crank case-of the same brand as fact that a 'Bunbeam car came in Flightweight.
about rapid deterioration, you are already using.
If you
Finally, nevertake the radiator cap off while the onging is act-
ally boiling.
BRITISH CARS.
By special arrangement with The Austin Motor Car Co., Ltd, we are now able to supply AUSTIN Twelve and Twenty Horse Power Cars in Hongkong, all charges paid, at the. English Factory List Prices.
Immediate delivery can be given on 20 H. P. Touring Models,
Prompt shipment on all other models. Catalogues can be obtained from
SOLE AGENTS
Alex. Ross & Company
(China), Limited.
BANK OF CHINA BUILDING, DUDDELL STREET. Telephone Central 2487
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