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We have pleasure in announcing that this Com- pany has been appointed Sole Agents for Hongkong and South China for ARROL-TO INSTON, LTD, Manufacturers of the well known
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The prices of these cars in Hongkong will be the local equivalent of the listed prices ruling in GREAT BRITAIN.
We have made arrangements with the Arrol Johnston Company, whereby a visitor ta.. Great Britian from the Far East will be enabled to purchase at list prices an Arrol-Johnston or a Galloway Car for his use in the Homoland, and on his return to the Far East to have the car sent to the factory to be over- hauled and suitably geared for the Colony of Hongkong. In addition, the car would be packed, insured, and shipped to us for delivery in Hongkong, free of all charge to the owner.
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Further particulars can be obtained from our Garage Showroom in Pedder Street,
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QUESTIONS & ANSWERS
Scrutator" Replies to Queries.
"Serutator" is prepared to" an swer questions relating to motor ing Queries should be addressed to him clo. Hongkong Telegraph. They should be sent in not later! than-Tuesday oach week. Below will be found à question and answer.]
H.A.S. writes: There is stilla! knock in my engine, after having! jall the bearings adjusted, and 11 suspect that it may come from louse piston-pins, Is there any test that will show whether or not this knock is from the pins?
Answer "You can set the prigine running idle and attach a valve lifter, so that the exhaust valve of one of the cylinders can be opened. at will. I, when it is opened, the knock ceases, there is good reas to believe that the piston pin of this cylinder is loose. The rest of the cylinders can be tested sus eessively. This test is based upon the following „considerations: When the valves are operating| normally, suction exists within the cylinder during the intake) stroke, while during the com- pression stroke there is pressure within it and the effect of thei sudden reversal of the force acting on the piston, is to bring mit any looseness of its pin. With the exhaust valve open, the piston jis practically under atmospheric pressure during whole cycle, with
WENT OVER, BANK,
This machine, carrying three" women and a man, plunged over a 40-foot embank." ment at the Virginia end of the Chain bridge near Washington. One of the women was seriously injured. The panwas cut about the head:
SOUNDING THE HORN.
Unnecessary Hooting a Source of Danger.
CHEAPER PETROL,
The Reduced Rates in
* America. Washington, Ang. 3. For the
FOUR-WHEEL
BRAKES.
More Popular but Need Doubtful.
Although four-wheel brakes are gaining in favour among the Ja" question whether they are
no gaseous pressure on the piston abuse the electric horn was the first time in nearly 10 years Automobile manufacturers it is
and play at the pin is developed.
PETROL PRICES.
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while.
How to use and how not to subject of an article in a recent motorists are coming, to know Home paper. And letters received in some states the meaning of eally necessary or really, worth from several motorists in Devon, "cheap gasoline,
This doubt as to the practic particularly in the Exeter area. Back in 1915, when consumability of four-wheel brakes is show that the sounding of the ton was not so great because the warning device is a burning number of autos in use was de expressed by several automotive question in that district.
cidedly less than now, gar sold engineers who have been among As the difficulty is one which for 11 cents in New Jersey, 13those studying their use. Yet, it
is believed generally that four." might be started in other parts cents in Massachusetts, and even wheel brakes will come into of the country. I will deal with 10 cents, in linols and other it, Says Capt. E. de Normiuville,placest in the course of an article.
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That this belief is well founded
Reduction in India.
wider use, even on middle-priced jcárs. Following on the news that the
That, however, was held to bel price of petrol at Home had been It appears that the police the "marker" price at the time, reduced from two shillings to Is-authorities in Devon are not and the Federal Trade Com- proved by Buick's adoption of 814d. per gallon only 14d, per enamoured of the quiet motorist, mission, in a ruling declared its such system.
But that doesn't mean that the gallon above the pre-war price Traps have been set. and opinion that Standard Oil eomfour-wheel brake system is fully came the announcement that in motorists have been fined for no panies virtually fixed the price improved and ready for general consequence of the heavy supply sounding the horn when taking for the entire country.
adoption. There is much to be of petroleum spirit in America bends in the road.
Followed then a period. esperidone toward making it practic affecting the world market prices, ; Please mark the word "bend "cially after the war, when monerable for use on the medium-priced the price of petrol in India, as I should have no criticism to was plentiful, and motor car jear. The cost must come down, Burma and Assam would be offeruf such, tetion were taken in prices were not beyond the reach and yet all four brakes react as reduced by 2 aunus per gallon with regard to closed or blind corners of the average man. The demand evenly and perfectly as those effect from the morning of July. And in justice in the police for gasoline-shot up.
now being installed on the 23rd. The price of petrol in this activity which 1. proposen price. And as a result, producers Duesenbergs and other high- country is now Re. 1/12, which is criticise it must be admitted that and other seaking fortunes. ipriced motor cars. still 71 annas above the Home| 1 have only second-hand rushed to the oil fields of Texas, price, and we understand that the knowledge of the type of bend Oklahoma and California and Automobile Association of Bengal in question.
period of drilling set in unequalledį in history. ... intends to push on its campaigni with unabated energy, and to
A Safety First Rule.
So did tho!
Until this is brought about, en- gineers say more attention should be paid toward perfection of the two-wheel brakes now in use. press for a further reduction of at But if these correspondents This frenzy was at its peak in They need further improvement. the summer of 1921 Production the opinion is, and the trans- Tnatumlly records were smashed. In July are Carreet ar least 4 annak per gallon.
misson brakes need development.- assume then the police author of that year" 569,711,415 gallons
The reason why four-wheel ities are either guity of per of gasoline were produced, brakes inpress motorists, engine- secution, as different from princrease of 44,000,000 gallons over ers say, is chiefly because the secution, or making an error of judgment.
FORD OUTPUT:
the previous month.
two wheel brakes they have But producers didn't stop there been using have not given real I have never heard of the; More wells were "drilled, and a
satisfactory service. The two- Exeter authorities being short time ago, dospite the heavywheel system could just as well
assume that this i Production of the Ford Motor motorist, só
Company continues to move up/campaign of theirs is intendedemand for gas; the supply was he made to perform better; and, to new records. During the week for public safety. If the fond Greater still. Guvernor McMaster in fact, well enough for present of South Dakota bought much of! automotive needs. If this could ending Tuesday, July 17. domes bends are really only gentle this overproduction" and sold it be accomplished, therefore, there to the public at 16 cents. Then would be no need of adding two tic assembly plants turned out curves, as I am informed, then
the "police activity for Safety things started for fair.
more brakes to the car. 140,803 cars and trucks.
First is undertaken through d' misconception, "
The new "record is 428 better than the previous high mark which was 40,375 for the week ending Tuesday, June 19,
Fordson tractor production - for the week was 1,131..
The Lincoln division of the Company also set a new record for the week ending., Tuesday with a total of 206 curs..
Ford
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SEDANS (WIRE WHEELS) - TRICKS
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DELIVERIES OF TOURING CARS AND
BEDANS FROM STOCKS..
TRUCKS FROM OUR NEXT SHIPMENT. ALL ELECTRICALLY EQUIPPED WITH
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Full Stock of Spares Carried
Oklahoma leads in production Inefficiency of the two-brake of petroleum. California and
You may take the following rule as an absolute fact for all, Texas are tied for second honors.stom, however, has caused The United States producesites siir among the safety ex- Safety First interests: "IST and uses unbelievable quantities Ponents and legislators of the Several states have country. an errur to sound, a wanding! of gasoline.." In 1922, when con-bren compelled to pass lows call." device at any time when such sumption reached a peak, thefing for regular brake inspection. warning is not necessary." wholesale value of gas consumed in smaller localities, also, police by domestic and export sources authorities see that the brakes on was approximately $1,160,000,000.automobiles work properly.
There are several logical argü-}| ments for this rule: We win! deal only with the more import-` Ant. And in this connection; there are two categories of Safety First consideration the motorist personally, and the motorist and other road users.
Familiarity Breeds
Contempt.
HONOUR FOR FAMOUS DESIGNER,
Brakes are considered now the Imost important part of the au- tomobile, due to the potential danger lying behind their faulti- A great honour was paid to Mr.ness. For this reason, the Na- F. H. Rayce when a statue to the tional Safety Council is pressing designer of the Rolls-Royce car, a nationwide campaign to educate was unveiled at Derby recently the driver into having his brakes
We will take the motorist and The R. R. factory was originally inspected regularly before he goes other road users first. To make at Manchester, but many years at any trip.
This organization has been the point clear. I will fake an oxago the growing demand for the treme case on the reductio ad car necessitated extensions which sending out circulars giving in- the existing site did not permit,structions on the proper care of absurdum principle. "
If every car driver who passed and the scene of operations was brakes, their manipulation, ad- a pedestrain walking on the path-shifted to Derby. way sounded his horn, the pedes-
train would get so accustomed to
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justment and maintenance., Sug.. gestions on the right way to stop the automobile in all conditions
the sound that it would cease to Exeter.police authorities if they of traffic are sent out, so that be a warning at all. it would be-took action against that danger-street safety may be increased.
An automobile owner who looks come an unpleasant additional ous small minority who use the noise to the normal sourds of warning device too much, and after his brakes at regular inter traffic arid
to convey rely on it as giving a right of way, vals, who tosts them weekly and "warning" at all.
But from the Safety First stund-reas that they are inmediately A more important defect of un-point it is extremely difficult to adjusted, if they show the least necessary horn sounding is the lay down with accuracy the pre-tendency toward slipping, needs psychological effect it has on the cise point where the horn should no more than two-wheel brakes to motorist. Ho will gradually, he sounded--apart, of course, from stop his car effectively, under any
conditions.. and even unconsciously, form the obvious occasions. the exceptionally bad habit of On a gradual and gentle bend,|
GLARE PROTECTION. "driving on the horn.
1 say emphatically that it is in- He will come to think that be- culcating greater danger to de- The most effective protection cause he has sounded the horn all mand the scanding of the born. against strong sunlight and glar is well. He will take bends on To force such action is simply to ing lights is a shield of opaque or the horn and even corners. teach the motorist." to drive on translucent material' placed in Such driving is a serious offence the horn." And that in one of the the left-hand corner of the wind- against Safety First principles, most dangerous types of danger-shield, behind which the driver and I would gladly appliud tholous driving.
may hide his eyOS,