MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. Saturday, the 10th. November, 1923,
(Being the Oficial Gigon of the Hongkong Automobile Associati
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LOCAL MOTOR NOTES & NEWS
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MOTOR GYMKHANA.
HOW TO STOP SKIDDING.
List of Competitors. An excellent entry has been Preliminary Remarks on secured for the forthcoming an Ever Present Danger.
SOLO CYCLES-
In this section, there are 11)
rection.
Motor Gymkhana, the date and
In the first of a series of Motorists will be interested to cars, but a complete range of Venue of which will be announced articles
shortly. Below we give some de- Capt. E. de Normanville says:- on skidding: dangers, learn that the attention of the tyres. tools. accessories and Hongkong Automobile Associa- motor luxuries finds well tails of the entries
The first point to remember' tion has been drawn to the arranged home. Everything is on
is that "prevention is better than cure"-at dangerous condition of the road view to a prospective customer 25
nay jate antil! at the lower end of Morrison Hill he enters. The fittings and de entries for the decorated cycle you have acquired a reasonable asone approaches the Racecourse comtions have been carefully event, 18 for Tilting the Bucket, measure of skill in skid cor- from the Royal Naval Hospital chosen and the showroom is one for Spearing the Rings, and 21 We understand that the Govern of which the Curapapy can feel each for Potato Race and Skilful, Remember, therefore, that so! ment has been approached on the proud...
soon as summer says "au revoir"} Darving between Balloons.
and the roads become wet, you The list of competitors is asj It was fitting that when the follows:-Messrs. G. T. Padgett,an no long drive in your usual; The attention of motorists is showroom W3x opened on A. A. Rurajshn, V. Walker, E. J dry-road manner, if you want to directed to the many landslides the 1st. of the month sever: Herod, H. V. Pearse, E. R. Dover, maintain your usual degree of and the repairs now being under al models should have been R. Kendall, H. S. Komor, H. Lo, safets. You must always make! taken on the road via Caine Road introduced to the public. A D. Carless, L. R. W. Han, E. J.
adequate allowance for wet roads.t and Pokful to Repulse Bay complete range of 1924 Stude- Spradbery, L. E. de Sousa, W. These call for very careful bakers was shown, ranging in Woolley, L. Ellwood. J. Smith. drising, particularly at night value from $2,600 in two-seaters H. T. Chaney, 1. W. McEwen, K. The road via Shaukiwan is in, to $6.500 for a limousine de luxe. Lee, A. Samy. H. Smith and A. good condition and is at present This latter car is one that has. Young. the better route to take.
attracted much attention already and represents the acme of motor comfort. The Arrol-Johnston car,
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Motorists are advised to study
the new system of lights at the bottom of Garden Road, which, controls all traffic at this point.
with
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COMBINATIONS.
For these machines, there are
a British product, was also shown, nine entries for Decorated Com
wants.
ing.
secur- терце.
SPRINGS.
and especially at this period of
the year.
PREVENTION BETTER THÀN
CURE.
A good driver should always make mental allowance or the actual piece of road he is using And this allowance in big towns may vary considerably every quarter of a mile.
HONGKONG HOTEL MOTOR SHOWROOM.
A corner of the Hongkong Hotel Company's new motor showroom. Photo by Ming Yuen.
SELECTION OF A SPARKING PLUG.
Engine and Plug Must be. "Mated"
stuff."
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Reply to Correspondent. "Scrutator's" reply to a query by Mr. W. S. Lee is as follows: If you do not use your car for two for three weeks at a time before
small
the starter switch, and the engine
especially, has gone out of fashion) is caused design on the performance of sa ¡you.
On very bad
be
DUNLOP'S WORKS.
The present mills were com
company axceed 10000 in Bir- mingham alone. The Dunlop organisation throughout the world employs approximately 21,000
for the first time. The models binations, 11 each for Tilting the being brought to Hongkong are Bucket Spearing the Rings and You should for example, say tol the firm's Empire Model, specially Musical Chairs, and 12 for Skil-yourself. "This is wet road. It built and geared for the Colonies ful Driving between Balloons. must allow more space for slow, We learn that a good deal of and Hongkong, and are being The contestants are:-Messrs.ing down or stopping." Again! racing. fast driving and passing offered at the Home ex-factory A. B. Allen, V. Walker, F. H. you must say to yourself. This of cars in controlled areas has price of £350,
Dillon, A. L. Servy, H. S. P. Way, is a confoundedly greasy patch. been reported lately to the Hong-
A. Macfarlane. J. Chca, C. W. I must avoid any need for sudden kong Automobile Association.
Jeffries. L Peterson, A. Gascon, stopping or steering effon.” With its agencies for the Gray, O. F. Paul and M. Smith.. Owners should warn their chauf-
If you will only make a prac-
Fine British Enterprise. Cadillac, Studebaker and Rolls- feurs against these practices, or
tice of doing this, it will soon be and Thornycroft
MOTOR CARS. they may find themselves in the Royce cars
come an automatic sub-conscious! truck, the Hongkong Hotel Here there are three entries for activity. You will no longer have!
The huge works of the Dunloy Courts.
you put it away, you should re-Co. At Fort Dunlop were recently garage, can supply cars ranging Decorated Cars, seven each for to think it out, but you will A small car that I tested ra- Much interest is still being in price from $1,600 to $27,000-a Musical Chairs and Backwards find yourself acting ap to the cently (says a writer in a Homemove the accumulator aud have it visited by a Home writer, and evinced in the forthcoming Motor range wide enough to cover all Race, and eight each for Spear requirements by instinct. And paper) insisted on developing a the car. Before starting the car up figures of this gigantic British fully charged, then put it back into some, outstanding, facts: and Gymkhana, which, unfortunately the management of Mr. T. R. between Balloons.
The department is under ing the Ring and Skilful Driving that is the best type of driving. popping back into the carburetter after it has been at rest for a con- enterprise are worth recording. owing to circumstances beyond:
But the first rule in regard to whenever the throttle was opened the control of the Committee, had Parsons, who has under him a
The competitors are: Dr. C. skidding is to remember that, by more than half its range forsiderable time, you should inject
into each cylinder to be postponed from last Satur. staff competent to wait upon the W. McKenny, Rev. G. E. Upsdell:"prevention is better than cure." more than half a mile at a stretch quantity of kerosine. Before put menced in July, 1915, and wafe." day. Enquiries are being made, needs of all interested in motor Messrs. J. Parsons, A. H. Rowe, The less experienced the driver, It was
very good little carting on the switch, flood the The estate at Fort Dunlop eam- in production by November, 1916. P. C. da Roza. J. Smith. H. Aithe more important the rule. view to the
really; and, indeed, by many cap Jones, C. D. Lambert and the of
ble critics is regarded as one of carburetter, give the engine a suitable
prises 481 acres, of which 115 WHY SKIDS HAPPEN,
few turns with the starting the very best among our "light handle, now switch on and press facturing side. 47 acres to housing, enabling
function It may interest local motor Asiatic Petroleum Company, Ltd.:
acres are devoted to the manu-. the
But in spite of all this you to take place at an early date, cyclists to learn that recently a
will have a skid soonaz or later!i and there are hopes that the most successful paper chase was
My own opinion is not so bigh It is comparatively easy to Gymkhana will be held on Satur- held under the auspices of the
as this but I am very glad to have should start. You should have and the remainder in process of
development correct it, when you know how had that car because it showed your battery tested by an expert day, December 1st. Negotiations: Cerion Motor Cycling Club. The Springs are much exposed and We will deal with the common or that even yet some manufacture-rect specific gravity and that the working day and night to meet to see that the acid is of the car- The Birmingham mills“ aré are still in progress, and it is run covered was about 35 miles, need both protection and lubrica-garden type first.. hoped that a definite announce and the competitors were, require tion. Graphite grease or hot! The ordinary rear wheel skiders have a poor appreciation of level is correct. This can be done the demand, which continues to ment will soon be made.
ed to keep an average speed of 17 melted tallow and graphite are (the correct name of side-slip the importance of sparking plug by the people who charge it for increase. The employers of the miles an hour. Anyone taking good. In winter 'less or more time than 2 hours springs should be protected, either by sudden brake application on a
engine The entries for the Gymkhana and 34 minutes lost five marks by covers or by winding one-inch greasy surface.
TWO TYPES OF ENGINE. are most encouraging. In all for every minute. There were adhesive tape round them.
may Motor-car engines To surfaces a sudden steering effort divided roughly into two very over forty individual competitors seventeen competitors.
apply lubricant, jack up the car may produce the same trouble.
An engine of this kind will run persons. have eutered made up of 221
broad and welidened types. On and work hard only with spark- at the frame, open springs with cyclists, 12 combination owners
The back of the car swings to the one hand there is what is ing-plugs having thick electrodes the power plant at Fort Dunlop, The coal consumed weekly, by and nine motor-car owners. So far, First of all, a paper-strewing an old screwdriver sharpened to the right or left, and if not cor
known colloquially as the hot that both require much more exceeds 2,000 tons. There are as decurated machines are con- car feft the starting point, and the edge or with a special tool, rected the vehicle becomes out of
staff engine: on the other hand heat to raise them to incandes- five miles of railway sidings and cerned; there are 11 cycles, nine competitors got off fifteen minutes and spread lubricant with a knife control The tendency to swing there is the "woolly" engine. cence, and are capable of con- the company possesses its own hlade. For severe work, auxiliary right or left will almost invariably The first is the type that has made ducting away the heat that is locomotives. The canteens cater combinations and three cars en-¡later. The time-judging of.
aking spiral springs attached between follow the camber of the road. possible the modern light car, the generated in the lesst possible for 7,000 people every working tered. The number of care is not as the majority of those hrge, as was hoped, but, with part
excellent, and the centre of springs and frame are And the greater the camber of the Was
second is characteristic of the big time. road the greater the tendency to: over 20 machines of varying types, first three places were secured useful.
American cars that sell so cheaply quite an imposing parade should respectively by 234 h.p.
iskid in any given surface condi-i
and often rua so extravagantly.
The Dunlop Co. is: stated to be seen. Elsewhere in this issue Douglas, a 3 h.p. Harley-David-
itions.
In the matter of behaviour the The points of the plugs on the produce a greater proportion “of will be found the names of the son and a 4 hp. Triumph. The namely, the question of
AVOID ROAD CAMBER. jessential difference between high car to which I referred were too its total requirements in raw competitors.
winner was 11 seconds too early pedestrians' rights. No-one, of It follows therefore that when and low efficiency engines is that thin for this absorption and dis-rubber, than any other rubber at the finish: whilst the second course, excepting the motor driving on greasy roads you the first run much hotter than the sipation of beat. I replaced them manufacturing company in the The Gymkhana will not only man was 15 seconds over time. maniac, would think for a moment should always avoid the camber-second. And this difference in by some plugs having thick elec-world. Its estates in the kalay furnish 2n enjoyable and In next year's contests & mator of curtailing those "rights," but ed part so far as practicable. That working temperature is a differ- trodes, and the trouble disappear Feninsula, cover nearly 26,000 amusing afternoon's sport, but at cycle paper chase would no doubt it must be generally agreed that means keep as near the centre as ence much more deeply seated ed, never to return until the old acres.
whole of the cotton close of the programme appeal to Hongkong cyclists.
that they are often improperly possible without encroaching on than a difference in the tempera-plags were replaced when I was exercised and frequently ex-the similar desires of approaching ture of the cooling water, or even about to return the car to its material used in the manufacture motor trials will be presented.j The Ceylon Motor Cycling ceeded.; In this connection, it should be Club la evidently a very "live"
traffic, or the needs of overtak of such a thing as, say, the ex-makers. With my plugs the of Dunlop tyres is produced in Jing traffic.
baakt manifold Rather is it a jengine of this car was as good a the company's mills at Rochdale, in these trials there will be first also arranging, a 60-mile non or even & malicious pedestrian side of a greasy cambered road, ture of the engine, and especially find with its original plugs it mills in the world. They have a and second prizes given, and it
was a complete failure.
floor space of 30 acres, the spin- is hoped that winners will be stop reliability trial. One of the may easily endanger the lives of steer gradually. When you want in that of the explosion itself.
With the law efficiency_engine ning section alone being a seven- prosent to receive their trophies conditions is that any entrant a number of people by his failure to come up towards the centre CAUSE OF PRE-IGNITION.
It thus comes about that a the converse holds true. If plugs storey building covering 31⁄2 who dismounts or allows his to value his own, which is often again-teer gradually.
the logical outcome of insistence. In this way you will be avoiding sparkingplug with thin protrud-with thick electrodes be fitted to scrSS. wheels or engine to cease The mischief is that we are all the steering causes of skidding. Ing points will very soon have such su engine the points do not At Foleshill, Coventry, there is volving during, the trial will be The event of the month, so far disqualified, except in case of inclined to classify ourselves. If you likewise endeavour to these points raised to a state of in- become hot enough to barn away a very finely equipped factory as local motoring is concerned, slow traffic baulk, which has to We are motorists" or "pedes avoid any need for sudden brak candescence in a not-stuff the surplus oil that tries to ac for the production of motor car: has been the opening of the new be reported to the officials at the trians," and therefore often ating, you will also avoid the chief engine. After a short spell of hard cumulate on any and all project wheels and rims.
There are fifteen fully equip- motor showroom by the Hong-end of the trial for their decision, feud. It would no doubt help cause of rear wheel skides work, the engine will begin to ions in the cylinder head. kong Hotel Company in Queen's The same Club is also arranging considerably if we could all take And here endeth the Brst act, fire back into the carburetter as a In a short time this accumulat-ped Dunlop sales and servios Road. The premises were former-to hold its annual 200 miles res broader view, regard ourselves Remember that Prevention is result of preignition, and, if it be ed oil" shorts" the plug, and the depots throughout the British by occupied by Messrs. Brewer liability test, whilst the holding as units of the public and re-better than care, and that the given no chance of cooling down, engine refuses to work. Cleaning Isles, and Dunlop organ and Co. and the Nikko eurio of Gymkhana is also under cognize the duty, Srrespective of greatest Safety First factor in the engine will stop altogether the plug will send the car on its exist in practically every shop, but they have been en consideration
class, to consider the comfort and avoiding skidding dangers is the The plugs will attain a point of way rejoicing for a time until in the world tirely remodelled and converted
safety of other people as well as taking of extra caution in dan fincandescence which will cause the oiling-up has again taken Tyres are not the onl into what is, unquestionably,
ourselves. Incidentally, one gerous circumstances
them to fire the charge immedia place. Replacement of the thick for at Fort Dunlo the finest motor showroom in A subject of some interest to never hears the rights of motor- a further article on the subtely it enters the cylinders slectrode plugs by a set with this famous f the Colony. Not only is there local notorists is, we notice, ists" mentioned. We wonder feet will appear in next week instead of at the correctly timed électrodes will prevent the trouble, golf ball- 2room for the exhibition of several raised in one of the Home papers why ?
Motoring Supplement.
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the prizes won in the recent
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UNSUITABLE PLUGS.".
day,
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pointed out that for each event concern for we notice that it is As one writer puts it, a careless If you have to go ser to the difference in the internal tempera-worker as anyone could wish to the largest self-contained cotton
in person.
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