MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPI
Saturday, Sept., 22nd 1923.
Being the Official Organ of the Hongking Automobile Association).
LOCAL MOTOR NOTES & NEWS
From and after the 2015 in. This is an evil which ought to sant, during the temporary as fo stopped if herbskafy sence of M. P.M. Bodgson, the legislation
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TUNING A MOTOR CYCLES
For Record-Breaking at Brooklands.
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at various heights in the piston that experiments can be made with ditforeni compressions! They are usually done-heated a and have two, or perhaps only Cone, extremely well fisting rings.j
MOTOR "SPEED
The Hongkong Limil Criticised.
a grvas naas engines, atten. cition is not paid so much to good.We have received the following
conpression is illis to obtaining ter for publications
avory free moving "piston, aird Sir. Not being so drum sunced relying
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A NASTY MIX-UP.
"This car was emished when it ran into a train in Erie, 1.S.A, the occupants being killed.
ROAD RULES FOR NEW MOTORISTS.
Memorised.
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I have personally mad to use the brakes pretty freely no fewer than three times this week to javoid an accident through the ather follow-neglecting this es Be sential rule. It is one of the Absolute essentials" of Safety- First driving.
lun. Secretary of the Hangkong cars can Be a fruitful Saree
There is no more fascinating the "Charge "for prapulsive hesita e bfore writing a letter al Automobile Associatiofigall coni-, of argident, experially when,
than Le protest (which I trust you will munications should be addressed as is liften the Mese, the joycemption thay tuning a moor effort
The charge consider worthy of publication in Mr A. Ruworth, of the riders are up to all manner of eyele, osprcially tuning it ti pro- compression of General Ehretrie €, Luk pranks. In any case, not nor ter reeurd-breaking speeds, bat, Special attention is paids to the ex allen moring Section of drm one passenger should beat the same film, it ran he, and lubricating of the gudgeon pin the Telegraph a gainst the ruther "Members of the Hongkong permitted to sit beside the driver, safteng is, à, most heartbreaking (and theru" is usually an oil leadjabsurd and irritating regulations are beause to cramp him for space business, chielly because it is such to each cylinder as wellas in the governingspoed" of for cars
terackish. The connecting rods jänt exiles în 11 zu (kong. notified that they can obtain is in immede his movements in "hit and mis?" husiņess, "Sorong" gasoline at the moments when he may geed all", "Before as mudor eyele can be arc of machined steal an Are! following redged rates fight his wits to carry hing through. Kamed to producë speed, it must be drilled. Thy shorter the record In carlain controlled areas Inforial Kalbins, $1.10 for We do not know how moturists made to produce speed and eighty to le attempted, the mere they speed of not more thin ten miles gilbons, $3.55 gallons, $1.80; generally view this question'. Bu per cupt. of the record-breaking may be drilled and th Eghter per lente is stipulate! which..
Brooklands It may it does appear to us that this machines at
are the piston and valve gear may really is utterly ridiculous." "It: albin, 40 cents
"Brooklands only: bel
for example, I am driving my t be obtained at any of the follow practice of overhouding vets needsamalle for ing ganges; Põnniugi Mutar tu be taken in hand without delay. Ithey could not be assim a road. Obviously it is unsafe amak, from Wes Point to Causeway Bay and I follow the tram ronte, the In most firms, the designer is råd an attempt on a londietane a Garage East Point Garag Hastern Charige („Mohn Gatug A correspondent fedag, raisesito design a machine to break record with engine parts lightenaw means that I must not pass at
Juram eiroven though I happen to Palie Garage Star Garage a question of some importance icefain reefirds it possible and he ed to the extent they would be, World Garage; and N.K. Sifth whether the fixing of an arbitrary immediately proceeds to turn out for a short distance. The big endistart at the same rinja'ns on from Garage. It is necessary for mom pad-limit should not be abou-a maghing for that purpise only invariably works on roller er ball West Point, hocuase I am sure Some firms, of course, use their bearings. Besides reducing fric-15 th trum would work out very
that the average rate of progressi hers to have their badges on their domed in Hingkong. This is
so able to ears to denote membership of the familiar fopieskrangst motorists standard producions, but they in they are noi
inar an-aydraze of ten miles per HK.A.A Ahy complain!». it soms to always cropping jare some standard productions Seiz orrun as a plain bearing.! this subject should be addressed up wherever the fixed limit is n when they are ready for the trael The flywheels are polished töj to the Hon. Secretary,
Would it not he "better if the “du. Herë ju Hongkong pro! We will take the case of aj prevent oif drag je to prevent |
serations are often based on the speially-desimed machine and the oil in the crankcase causing practice in force in the greater A few evenings ago we watched alternative charge excedine give its history. The designer is friction between the oit, and fly part of England and the Contius, the gyrations of a combination, the limit or driving to the danger fuld, what rears the firms in-wheels. Some designers favour atent applied here? The law there! the thriver of which wanted to get at the publies and sometimes for tends to attempt. This is most "wet-up, fail in the crank-praseentes a driver for driving to Ess ntials Which Should up Garden Road. There had been both the one and the other. The important, as a machine can be mise others favour a "dry sump." the danger of the public, or,ml-İ aule rain, which made the goa Tcolumns of this Supplement are made much lighter for a short io. no oil in tranke se system ternatively, driving recklesslÿ. just wat, and liarden, Blad “just open to meorists for expres- distance record than it could beuf lubrication. The dry sump
I am a reckless driver by Capt. E de Norm unville.writes
Another common failing with wet is feursuņie "uning. Thisjans of opinion on the matter, for a long one. He gets out his system has twi pumps, one of
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new motorists is the making of "Bmb the slope under such coindi- A few lettelson the Subject might drawings and they are given to which pumpssil into the top of any means, and yet I cannot in kein
a. decisive right-hand, turn with- tions is almost like trying to drive serve as a guided show what the the various shops which make the crankcase, and the other my bus out without being aware follows:
greased banip-post one notoring public really thinks carlesgrything with most serapulous pumps it cut from the bam so of the fact that I am breaking theft is obvious that the new out giving adequate warning to
Recklessness should be simply slips off. The combination the question.
exactitude and care, the whole, that there is a continuous Streamfawf
motoris dan only acquire road following Traffic: was ding this and shave:
making and assembling having golgg right through, and il desheavily dealt with but surely it
It is
no use turning the countless
parience is also obvious that steering wheel for a right-hand Combinations A batch of the latest model mare attention bestowed on it na remain in the crankcase to is aboal tim that the voice of sense in the mill of practical ex and solo, matureveles tipp-hp. Triumphs have arrived in the than the winner of the Derby, get churned up and lose its reason whispered in the carsfantil he or she has acquired that
those responsible for the traffic and sense an abnormal amounting that turn with your right turn and simultaneously indicat- ed off the mud into the sidething, and one would have to "The "cylinders are first east.
lubricating properties.
Haws of this Colony, " channel. Cars are not so bad.go a very long way, find an then machined, "ground and sand-.
of care should be exergised whitst hand. You must put your right They have two driving wheels other machine to beat them,
driving. Alblasted externally, as well as the
hand out 100 or 150 yards before. „and four road wheels with which Triumph has always been eylinder heads valve pirts etc.
to grip. New tyre treads don't)
machine em- The cylinder head is as near as help in the slightest; there is lying the best me engineer-possible a perfect hemisphere and nothing for the tread to grip,
ing principles combined with is sandblasted, ete, until it is per- Trail Solid English workmanshipfectly smooth and shing.
The We realise it is rather allifliculta capacity for going anywhere valve ports are as carefully it is replied by the The matter to remedy, Sand the land everywhere and a reputation polished and they are sucesigned Shanghai Police that drivers of
I will therefore give a few of asual 'remely, is useless here, as, fy "reliability afd lasting wear that they offer a perfectly stream- motor vehicles operating under a of course, i just get washed offshond to hong - The latest ined passage for the ingress and trade licence are frequent con-of motor cars hearing trade plates the more essential rules which all wing to the slope of thy", road, Triqmphs artsenue dous improve agress of the gases, With the traveners of traffic regulations being used for criminal purposes motorists should adhere to and wed. The Tomber. The exilber ar-lei- on previous models almost universal use of overhead and licence conditions, and have als come to their nice which movies should know by And the newer the conats" for the slipping off the albende the general design re {valves, the, cylinder heads are several CANON have recently To remedy this and to enable heart.
letachalde and are easily made rcurred where, cars have been ready identification, it has been matorist, the more rigidly should
ho adhere to them.. the themispherical, the idea, of course, driven on public roads tecided that 1730145 vejticles The engine, Fraine, etc., are being to avoid nooks and crannies without any lience amber operating under a trade jemnej Overtaking on Bend. à loss to imagine. Surely the
unaltered, but the mudguardsjamuud the valve ports where dead plates, the offenders escaping pro- shall be mirad to carry an gradient will carry all surface have been much inprosed. The as may collect; also to provide a scention owing to the fact that i lentification plate at the front as Never in any circumstances water without the help of 1
another driving mirror for "right-hand camber. which will one day beft one few bring of the more swirlin's action which throughly the absence of any identification well as at the back, this require attempt to overtake
Burns. But if you are only going indixes the gas. Hemispherical plate was not observed antil the ment to he made a condition of yehicle ong bend in the road or responsible for a serious acidem, ventilaal valanced
The tank los been widened andheads are also much less liable to hielo had passe 1 the police and the ligence, and "cong "inte]ât any other time when you can to use one method, it must be tho
not see ample clear road ahead. "now" holds over, two galions of unequal beat disurtion than an iglate to be stoppe le Instances forge from October': While on the subjees of fiarden pärit The dich has been muele, adiary side-by-side valve heal."" Road, why does the PW.D; con- impovad and can now be lift. The chief danger to be guarded Sider it necessary in lay a witbon twinch layer of sand on the
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azuinst in an overhead valve' engine is valve breakage, as Road Sa The chif differemus are, how-jobsjousiy a broken overhead the winter! We an undejstand ever, in the standablising of valve means" a more or less them putting sand in ratiofidynamo, lighting and de, fting wrecked engine, but modern valve en the rouls in summer, when thejof a Triumpkyoun-Druid type of alloys are wonderfully reliable.! mae" is soft and liable to ges front fork while the wheels are There is an increasing tendency
The fighting fit. Your overhead valvesį ton, up, but why is it necessary; now 26' x 3'.
is nannfactured by Ter cylinder. TWO to lay a mid-surface, which set
and is, causes every vehicle to kid and leas
of yoursijand two exhaust, for high speed
valves per." solo machines to fall i wiatr 2ithe heat of its class. The con work. With two We,slave a good supply of solo pistersen consists for a magdyrolylinder, some designers again-j motor cyclists, but, if the P.W.D.|battery, which is contained in ajefined to think that the engine) will insist on putting two inches very neat box out the seat tube does not get enough gas at high of and on dangerous corners, we switchliox, and hind and tall engins revolutions. The valves A bull horu is aisö întedjare very light and- tulip-shaped. the time fast approaching lamps. when the supply, will nowhere turn the muschine but ready for The Rear equal the demand. Let's the roud. have sand if it is necessary, but in moderation Blouse.
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valve operating geur is. rather a weak point on an oversi head valve engine, as there are!
The frontfort has been entira-Imany more parts to wear, and y redesigned. The fruitful source unless special lubricating facil
A matter upon which we have of trouble the old barrel springlities are provided, friction of the been asked to comment in this has been eliminated and road valve rockers, etc., is liable to bei column is the tendency locally shocks ardanken up by two coill great as to cause breakage, i 10 uverload motor-cars. This is springs on the sides on the fork isually, rocker return springs. particularly noticeable amongst which combined with the 3" tyres are provided to assist the valve pienic parties and also on the give extraordinary riding confort, springs, and two valve springs of part of Chinese joy-riders. WeFor anyone wanting a reliable, different strengths are often used have often seen a five-seater, cargo-anywhere, simple-to-drive, on each valve to prevent or with anything from seven to ten decarbonised-in-an-hour mount minimise valve bounce. people aboard--two or three weighing only 240 lbs (against Aliminium alloy pistons are crammed in beside the driver and the American 360 lbs, per solojalmost universal, and there aro athers perched about the sides of machine) at $8975, we would say several made for each cylinder. the car.
"Get one before they are fold out." These liave the gudgeop pins.kot
SANGHAI TRADE MOTOR VERICLES.
Enclosing my card,
Yours gte.
LAW "BREAKER. Honeking: September 18th. 1923,
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I am afrail most experienced the turn, and hold it out whilst motorists encounter so many bad slowing the car down and work. jexamples of all wrong" driving ing gently towards the right
And it is a good habit to make that the blame must be laid on the shoulders of new motorista.
la point of also glancing in the
THE PARKING PROBLEM.
With the adoption of overhead street cars in large cities, as shown here, the motorcar parking problam might be solved. The torpedo-shaped ear is the invention of Privais Detective Fletcher E. Felts of Los Angeles, "It has been approved by that city's police department and California railroad companies have asked that the sales rights be wita held until their engineers can study the plans of the proposed system.
SAFETY FIRST.
Keep your eye on the roud when changing gears.
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Rules for Corners.
I un rot going to tell you never to cut a right-hand corner, because it is correct to do so in eertain circumstances, This is the point that counts.
You must never "car" a right- hand corner, or bend, unless you have a clear view of a clean road ahead. When you have a clear view of a clear road ahead you are legally entitled and "driving properly" if you cut the corner. But in no normal circumstances must you "cut" a blind right. hand corner of bend..
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Then there is the left-hand corner. There is only ono correct way of taking it. You must not take it fast: Blow down and work gradually towards the loft and turn the corner at such a speed that no sudden braking is necessary Immediately before the (corner.
In other words, the slowing: [down on the straight road should. be such that there is no need to take the corner wido
These are the chief" must "and. must nets which the now motorists should memorise,