MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG. TELEGRAPH
Saturday, September, 15th, 1923.
Being the Oficial Organ of the Hongkang Automobile Association).
LOCAL MOTOR NOTES & NEWS
There has recently been a re-tion of the handbook is occupied duction in the price of petrol with maps and particulars of locally to the extent of one dollar motor trips from Bombay. on caнe of oight gallons.) - Motorista welcome this cheapon-
Some of the 1924 79 H.P.
ing in running costs, and some Harley Davidson motor cyeles say thero is still room for have arrived in the Colony, and further reductions. Elsewhere in this issue will be found parti-ry handsome machines they culars of reduced prices in the The thing that immediately Statos and in India.
strikes one is that they have reverted to their old olive 'drab colour, a shade we always though:) very handsome, and, moreover, a In this connection, the Hougerviceable colour in that i did kong Autonolite Association has not show the dust. The lining is arranged with the Hongkong just slightly different, being now Hotel Carge to supply members with "Shell" at $7.10 for eight Brewster Green,"
stripe, instead Imperial gallons; $3.55 for,four! Imperial gallons, $1.80 for, two Imperial gallons, and 90 cents for one Imperial gallon.
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Another extertial feature is thati all grease cups and oilers have been replaced by the very nea!! "Alemite" system of grease gun Arrangements have boon made lubrication. By this means it is by the local Assocation with the possible for a rider to oit his Star Ferry Company, Ltd., "to motor cycle in a very few minutes); alter the cradles to accommodate by merely hooking the grease gun narrow guage motor cars and over the nipple and giving the cyclo combinations for trans-handle one or two lumns. portation across the harbour.“ „
the
NINE COMMANDMENTS.
1. Always remember you are an an engineer, fully responsible.
2. Always test your brakes when starting; and have them inspected frequently.
street
3. Never pass a car when it is stopping.
4. Exercise especial care in crossing in front of ́a street car or in passing it as you cannot tell what may be coming on the other side.
5. Always signal with hand when slowing down. turning or stopping, oven though you may have an automatic or mechanical warning device.
6. Look before you back, and sound the horn three times,
7. Try to drive with using the haras little as pos- sible. A sudden noise may stop pedestrians in their tracks rather than warm them
8. Don't count too much un the coinman sense of the other follow. No one is 100 per cent, alert all the time.e
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-SAFETY FIRST:”.../-
Overhauling a 7-9 H.P, Harley Davidson.
ĮBY "NORTONIA.
MOTOR CYCLE TIPS. that the valve cages are making an air-tight joint. Replace the tank and see that the speedo- mator and tool-box are firmly screwed dowa: otherwise they will work loose and strip the threads from the top of the tank, screws, which should, of course, be tightened up, first, leaving the In overhauling a 7/9 H. P.three bolts andor the tank until Harley Davidson, the procedure the top screws are fixed. is practically the same as for anf Raconnect pipes and gear lover Indian Chief and Scout (see pro-and $93 that the safety device vious article), as regards the for locking the gears is really actual decarbonising. There are, operating otherwise, the gears, however, various hints and tips especially ton, will be always which should materially lighten jumping out of engagement. This dovico maroly consists of a key on the work
If pissible, remove the inlot the clutch oporafing shaft run- valve cage clamping ring and ning across the top of the gear jak the pages with kerosine box, engaging with a gear shift
when the engine"is warm: then rod
leave overnight. If the cages will The clutch should be adjusted uol lift out readily then, run the by means of the six tension screws engine very slowly for a minute holding the springs until there is so, when the compression the merest trifle of slip when the should shift them. The writer throttle is opened suddenly" with had one particularly obstinate good load up. The operating)
or
A CANTON' 'SMASH,
MUNG
Above is a picture of the ear of the Commissioner of Publio. Safety at Canton after it came to grief whilst passing another car One passenger was killed and six injured.
case when it was necessary to rod should be adjusted by screw- THE RULE OF THE ROAD. gently tap the key on the top of ing up the nut seen through
dut.
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*Cutting Across,”
And one can only assume that
cutting across "bwes its origin
to that feeling of being on the wrong side.
At the risk of getting into
the cage with a hammer and centre hole in the chain case. With Particular Reference to punch to slightly loosen the cage until the three lugs on the outer then a semi-circular piece of plate just touch the inner plate. metal was inserted through the This position can easily be found Amongst the motoring records dangerous waters, I must try and plug holes and the cakes prised by first loosening the nut and kept at the Daily Chronicle has give you a better understanding.
H Schedule lock nyt and letting the spring been started
of the Rule of the Road as it Next detach the tank, but re-push the plate outwards. Then Readers' Complaints about bad is interpreted legally, and as it. metaber before loosening any of push the plate in by hand until driving and similar road dangers binds you and your road be- the holding screws that all pipes you foul the lugs touch the inner which can be improved.
haviour. The organisation is essentially, must be removed; otherwise, if plate. Then tighten up the nuts The inle valve push rods now
In the first place failure to 9. Drivy slowly in streets he screws are taken out and the till they touch the plate and just simple, Any complaint received keep to the left is only an offence Gradually, the roads damaged have adjusting screw at the top
ts scheduled under adequate when meeting approaching traffic. during the recent #ods are her instead of the bottom of the rod. where children are playak, allowed to fall apart the give one turn more.
soon It is worth while spending a cross-references. So ing reopened to traffic.
Socondly the left of the road only ing Remember your own nipples and pipes will suffer. The This obviates the necessity of
childhood.
Remember also that unless you little time adjusting the "Harley" three readers have complained means to "the left of the centre Stubbs Road is again open and removing
relurn spring!
are very smart in plugging up the clutch as when correctly adjusted about one specific point, the not on the extreme left. Thirdly, the P. W. D. are to be congratu-cover to get at the adjusters and
611 socket in the bottom one could hardly wish for a bet-trouble is dealt with in this in all legal cases, the "rule of the lated in view of the big sub-of course, makes adjustment mucli
the tank to which the ter one. Tune the carburettor as colume. Here's the first batch:road" is accepted as one of don- sidences which took place. A more busy.. The battery box!
the oil pump pipe connects, recently described, and the elec- Motor cyclists and cyclists venience and general fety, in big retaining wall came down, cover now has two winged nuts)
the oil, will escape and make tric system, if working correctly, have complained once again terests, rather than as of didactico whilst at another part of the holding it in position, and the
everything oily. Use the plug should be left alone. It will pay about the old trouble of cutting regulation. road, there was a breach of handle bar grips are slightly
The Legal Aspect. provided with the tools if you you, however, to get the battery across" overtaken traffic. This some twenty yards but this has different.
use waste the oil will soak churged at a garage. When you is a common driving fault-and,
machine incidentally, one to which a fairly no legal need for you to hurry Consequently there is absoluta- We are glad to learn (says through and set up a continual are overhauling "tho Auternally, the most important Calcutta insturing paper) that drip. The writer puts a tap in adjust the inlet valves that number of motor-eyelists are ad-back to the left of & clear rosd alteration to the whole motor has been decided to pure a safety the oil pipe a la Reading Standard, there is no clearance when cold; dicted. But I do not want to after overtaking other traffic. On
this effect course it should always be turned freely, but there should be no we will deal with cutting across of you is clear there is legal right. is among the resolutions of the on until some adjustments make perceptible clearance. When the irrespective of
of and moral obligation to stay on nection with certain drainage of the
the right until you tire fully clear works, there is a good deal of advantages"
theiri
Keeping to the Left
if the overtaken traffic. 1921, by the Government ofpipe. The steadying holts hold-will be correct. theko
When you overtake any species shoring being done, and the Amongst their
Please understand, therefore, Bombay, to consider the questioning the tops of the cylinders to The exhaust valves should have disadvantages palings have resulted in two or might be
of the better regulation of traffic the under tank tube have a babit 4-5/1000 clearance and the dis-of road traffic it is obvious that that on
cloar road mentioned:--Pistonsi three accidents
a position there is no legal or moral in passenger slap when the engine is cold]
in that city. Steps are being taken of sticking; so it is well worth tributor and plug points 20/1000 you must assume alighting from tramcurs. We do owing to the fact that aluminium the Education Department to while getting a special substantial If any point is not clear or any nearer to the right of the road (or any other fr moral reason advice is needed on the electric than the traffic unit being over- back to the left after overtaking not know whether anything can has a greater expansion than cast issue, pamphlets painting out the spanner made to fit the nuts. be done to render this spot less iron and therefore more clear-explaining the various traffic rules carbonise exactly the same
dangers of the. streets andi
Remove the cylinders and de-system, etc., write to "Nortonia," taken.
other traffic. The fact of being temporarily In fact, on an open road, and Motorists also find
ascio Hongkong Telegraph. some inconveniencë herë, as for a old so that the piston does not movement might well be starteto the valves in the same way.in tuned for record breaking at leads many people to too great a you are legally entitled, to drive"
Jance has to be allowed when and caution notices. A similar previously described; also attend
Next week"How a Machine on the "wrong side" of the road until approaching traffe appears lengthý stretch it is impossible seize when hot. They are more in Calcutta, where, though traffe Replace the cylinders and see Brooklands.""
hurry in getting back to the left on the right. But it would be silly and dangerous in most cases to exercise that right.
been filled in.
A Bombay Campaign.
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Mention of roads serves to re-jeycle is made--that is in the first." campaign in Bombay. This is very convenient, but of the rocker lever should move start a class war" argument so the contrary, if the roud in front
mind us of the dangerous con-fitting of aluminium alloy pistons recommandation 10 dition of the Praya East near the Alloy pistons have 3. few dis-
Wanchai Police Station. In con-advantages, but in the hand committee appointed in Februarylit necessary, to" detach the oil cylinder gets hot, the clearance vehicle.
dangerous.
инет average
outweigh
to pass transcnes at present. liable to seize than cast iron control has been carried out for
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pistons, though with modern
We are glad to see that in-alloys the risk of sezure is negli-me time pust, there is room for provements are being made in the Bible. They are liable to get griters are of course the Indian taxi- mprovement. The chief offend road just before entering Aber embedded in them which may drivers and the gariwallas, both deen village. This has for a long score the cylinder walls, and they whom habitually show u time been a had hit of road, but it are perhaps rather more brittle supreme disregard for all is now being tar macadamised, than cast iron pistons, and a great improvement should| result.
recognised rules of the road. They both commonly turn suddenly The advantages include Jight-across a roadway without the ness which gives much better slightest" warning, and it is not The Hongkong Automobile As-acceleration and speed; they uncommon to see them deliberate sociation is shortly to issue a have a much greater. heat con-ly drive past the outstretched handbook, which local motorists ductivity than cast iron; therefore arm of the policeman regulating will no doubt find extremely use. they keep the engine cooler and, the traffic. In this respect, ful. A similar publication has for the same reason, their rate of cyclists are perhaps even greater we read, jast been issued by carbonisation is much slower than offenders. It would be found the Western India Automobile that of cast iron pistons. It is difficult to educate the Indian Association. The scope of this quite usual to take down an taxi-driver and gariwalla to show book is a very wide one and in alluminium pistoned engine for consideration for others on the cludes reprints of the various decarbonising after a thousand road, but there is no reason why motor vehicle rules which affect miles or so apd find that the the attempt should not be made. motorists in Bombay, prefaced by piston just has a little bluck the rules of the Western, India grease on it with no carbon. Pro- Automobile Association and alvided aluminium pistons are care-
We have received an extremo- list of members. A large portion fully run in and the lubrication is occupied in hints on insurance, all right, we have no hesitation well-produced and informative little booklet entitled 'Corrent the care of tyres, repairs and recommending them. breakdowns, car wir'nz, magnet s
Lubrication for the Automobile" and a section of general hints to
which has been issued by the The side car has the Alemite Vacuum Oil Company. It con motorists. Another feature which grease gun system of lubrication tains over sixty pages and is well has been given commendable also, but the most noticeablealtera-illustrated, and in addition to prominence is "First Aid." Much ion is in the springs. Instead of much valuable information on harm is frequently done by people using "C" springs, the body is lubrication there is much useful trying to attend to the victims new suspended on two 49" semi-advice of accidents when they have elliptic springs which should give troubles and their remedies, as ongino not aven
knowledge of the some of riding comfort. Al-well the fundamental principles of together it might be truly said charts of recommendations. The
soveral pages First Aid, and tho hints given in that the Harley Davidson outfit local office of the Company will the Bandbook aro admirably represents remarkable value for be pleased to supply a copy of the simple and clear. The last sec-money..
booklet to anyone intorested.
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PETROL 11-CENTS A GALLON.
the type
A snapshot from Los Angeles showing patrol being supplied at the reduced of eleven conts a gallon..
Another complaint which has reached the "three readers mini- mum" antitling it to comment, is the sounding of the horn too late. "These readers complain that faster cars draw abreast before sounding the horm to give, warn➡ ling.
Sounding the Born. Always remember that the per- son driving the vehicle you want, to overtake may be a novice or of a nervous disposition. Always sound the horn at the maximum distance behind the traffic you want to overtake at which the sound is likely to be heard com- fortably. Then look for an Indi- cation that the sound has been heard, the normal factor being that the vehicle ahoud will move to the loft a little.
Then, just as you are drawing abreast, it is a wise precaution to give a farthor-if quioter-indica- tion of the fact that you are passing.
The third point is one which was dealt with recently--slow trafilc kooping to the cantra, of ho road to the inconvenience lof a volume of normal-speed
traffic wanting to pass.
As explained above a slow.car has a legal right in the case, but [courtesy "demands that if you know yourself to be slower than the average traffic on a busy. road, you should not inconven-
once it.