6 CYLINDER
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LIGHT SIX
CARS
18 to 20 MILES
TO THE GALLON
Price $2.700
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WEIGHT CAR
SPECIAL SIX
Price $3.500
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Price $4.300
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CAR OUTPUT
TURDAY NOVEMBI
NOT
TOY
This isn't a toy. It's a real motor-car, with three The maker lives in Kingston,
speeds and everything. England.
HOW TO CLEAN A CAR ENGINE.
LAYING UP THE CAR.. To lay up a car for any period) Erst see that the place of storage is dry, airy, preferably dark and
Hints on Decarbonisation. free from rats or other vermin. Drain away all water, and makej sure that the pump is empty How often is it necessary to drain off all sump oil but do noti decarbonise the average motor-wash out; place blocks of wood carengine? And is it a job which under ends of axles so that all! the owner-driver can undertake tyres are of the ground. Accumu-! satisfactorily himself?
ators are kept in best condition! If you want a general reply, by being discharged through a the question "How often? lamp to 3.8 volts and re-charged, should say after every 30,000 to ace in every five or six weeks. 50,000 miles, says a Home expertThey can often be made use of in But there are many exceptions. a. bouse.
The car should be
I have a friend who is the thoroughly cleaned and brass possessor of a popular make of or nickel rubbed with vaseline. car who is always happy when he
Upholstery can be treated lightly! can Jo 1,500 miles witbout decar-with olive oil and the hood put! bonisation. As a general rule hej
jup. reckons to have his engine clean- ed every 1,000 miles-an almostį ridiculous state of agairs..
For an opposite extreme you •
average
and have two choices.
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may remember that the Crossleyged or covered, except the part Record Year in America. car recently wint through 25,000 you are working on, so as to
miles of officially observed trialjkeep grit or dirt out. Motor car and transport vehicle without decarbonisation.
It is always as well to have a production in the United States
SYMPTOMS OF WARNING.. spare gasket available, as more? for this year, has beaten all pre-
And there you have the two often than not you will find it vious records. In the first eight extremes. Unfortunately it is necessary or preferable to usel months of 1923 the total produce something nearer to the bad one the new one. tion of cars exceeded that of either which we have to consider for When you have affected, a of the two proceding full
purposes. You can thorough spring cleaning of the years, according to the Depart recognise when your turn has piston tops, valve heads, and ment of Commerce. Reports come by (a) loss of engine power pockets, the combustion head. from 181 manufacturers show an (b) tendency to overbest; sud (c) &c., you can reassemble in the output of 2,431,063 passenger tendency to pinking
reverse order and find it a cars and 258,774 commercial You are now up against it simpler job than the taking vehicles, as against 2,339,414 passenger cars and 244.832 com-bave been running on petrol you),
If you down.
The chief difficulty in the whole mercial vehicles in the twelve months of 1922, and 1.532.196 and can get rid of the difficulty for an-business is generally the removal! ther 1,000 miles or more by of the cylinder head. Don't get 147,158 respectively in 1921. The using a mixture of benzole and cross and hit it with a hammer highest production in the current petrol. The alternative is decar-direct, as you could readily crack year was in May, when 350,181
for braak it. After ten miles' bonisation. passenger cars and 43.228 corn- mercial vehicles left the works owner tackle the job successfully? Dead nuts again, as
Can the average inexpert motor running go round all the cylinder In August there was a product-It depends on the type of your then stand further tightening. ion of 304,010 | passenger cars i
And do this again, after the first; and 30,251 commercial vehicles,!
If your engine bay a detach-long run The full figures for the yearable cylinder head, and you your- must distance any that apply to self have a modicum of mechan former years. As petrol is both ical instinct-get on with the job. plentiful and cheap. this fact and this is bow to set about it. should assist the assurance that
HOW TO DO IT.
these cars are going to be run
engine.
Tel 32 THE HONGKONG HOTEL CO., LTD. Tel. 32 and used. Most of the increased As the cookery, book says,
Ford
THE UNIVERSAL CAR
TOURING CARS ·
SEDANS (WIRE WHEELS).....
TRUCKS...
H.K. S 1125
il
H.K. $ 1600
.H.K. $1150
DELIVERIES OF TOURING CARS AND
SEDANS FROM STOCKS,
TRUCKS FROM OUR NEXT SHIPMENT
ALL ELECTRICALLY EQUIPPED WITH
STARTERS.
ALEX ROSS ́8 CO. (CHINA) LTD.
NO CHANGE IN OUR AGENCY FOR
THE ABOVE
Spares Carris
oil production in the United "You must first catch your bare,” States-which has brought about which in this case means you a further reduction of petrol in have got to get the cyclinder England has been from the head off. Detach the wires from Californian fields, where the oil the plugs, and if there is no way is particularly rich in the lighter to know which wira goes to each class required for motor traction.plug tie pieces of string on the wires so that you will know
t'other from which."
MASS PRODUCTION.
Let the water out of the engine by the drain cock or ping pro vided for the purpose, and take the down the water joint between the
engine head and the radiator.
When one reads that German mark bas fallen a matter (of 50 millions or so the figures
You have now to undo the note cease to mean anything. the studs bolding the cyclinder American automobile production head down.. That is "dead easy"! but you mast do it properly. 011 figures are nearly as bad.
The August schedule for Ford the head
m43 ** spring * cars and "tooners, for instance, a trifle. Undo each nut only wer 183.735 complete units. As half a turn of the spanner firs considerably more than seven then a full turn each, and so er. thousand cars and tracks were And remember to do likewise turned out on each of several when replacing the head. days in July, it is probable that With a piece of bard wood in- the schedule was et least terposed between a hammer head adhered to. Ford, of course, is and the cylinder head, tap the way up" above everyone else, latter all round upwardsly" but the General Motors producuntil it is loose and can be lifted for the first half of the year of off. Take great care not to 397.318 vehicles, and the Willys-damage the gasket joint be Overland July production of tween the cylinder and the 23,121 cars are sin ost equally cylinder head If you stan staggering.
prising with screwdriver
Many other makers in the you probably will do damager firms mentioned close. Against RECESSARY. PRECAUTI the Willys-Overland record of When the head 1109 cars on July 31, Dodgelem tady to |Brothers daily output is “am and Form Pang, Loven thousand
BRITISH CARS
By special arrangement with the Austin Motor Car Company, Ltd., we are now able to supply AUSTIN twelve and twenty h.p, cars in Hongkong, all charges paid, at the English factory list prices. Immediate delivery can be given on 20 h.p. Touring Models..
Austin
Prompt shipment on all other models. Catalogues may be obtained from the SOLE AGENTS:
Alex. Ross & Company,
(China) Limited.
Bank of China Building, Dyddell Street: Telephone Central 2487.
"NO TROUBLE TAKIN' 'HILLS:
WHEN WE TAKE CARE OF 'EM.
That's our proud assertion and we back it up with SERVICE, the kind that keeps your motor snappy and full of perp
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This in addition to the regular cleaning and washing that is done with such care and thoroughness that your car never has a down-in-the-mouth appearance.
Prompt action is still another reason why ́. DRAGON ́ ́ MOTOR SERVICE · is popular" "with"-"
motorists."
Motor car storing and washing in our new concrete Main Garage and Service Station, Wong Nai Chong Road (Happy Valley), upper end of Raco'Course.
Per Month $20.00
they will The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Main Garage and Service Station. 'Phone Central 3956;
1924
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