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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
Saturday, the 8th. December, 1925.
(Being the Oficial Organ of the Hongkong Automobile Association).
A
Motor
LOCAL MOTOR NOTES & NEWS
on the Racecourse: on Saturday:
nor
hax
been!
A NEW DEVICE. MOTOR CYCLE POLICE. : : HOW LONG. WILL
Water as Motor Fuel.
An automatically-operated de vice which enables water to be. used, as an admixture of petrol,
or stoppage.
Praised by
Mr. Lloyd George.
Mr. Lloyd George is the latest
TYRES LAST?
Periodié Care Essential.
Is winter time and wet weather
NEW CAR-CLEANING METHOD.
A new apparatus has been invented by which, tha various parts of the car are cleaned by combinations of air and water, oil and water, or oil and air under pressure. Photo shows how the pressure sprayer is used on the engine.
At long last, after many fruit After the big typhoon in August less eForts to obtain a suitable and the subsequent heavy rains, ground, a venue has been found the condition of Gascoigne Road, for motor fuel has been designed witness to the efficiency of the harder on tyres than the warm for
[entitled to expect, but very seldom the
Gymkhana Kowloon, sinng which passes the and made by Mr. William New York motor cycle squad, and dry weather that we are of the motor bus ane other traffic on its Pickard), of Pickard, Dobson, and which escorted the former British get, in summer?...Many people Through the courtesy Stewards of the Jockey Club, the way to Hunghon and Kowloon Co: Manchester. Its practicabi- Premier during his stay there.would answer that question in the event is to take place at the City. became dangerous and al- lity I have had demonstrated in The ex-Premier called Capt. affirmative. I agree that it is,
The Public the course of a shors run on a car Racecourse on Saturday next, most impassable. December 15th. This is an alto-Works Department, however, are fitted with the invention says the Anthony Howe of the motor says. & Home writer,but I don't! jand road conditions as such that gether admirable place for such a to be congratulated on the very transport editor of a Home paper, cycle men over to him as he stood believe that it is simply climatic function, and the kindness of the thorough manner in which they! In slow running through traffic in the Grand Central station just are responsible--and for this Jockey Club in granting use of are now carrying out surface re the effect was not very noticeable, before he left for Montreal and reason the ground is much appreciated. pairs. The lighting standards but once clear of obstructions and
Take any car, and not merely Many a sports meeting has been which were formerly in the on a fairly open road the added told him that, although he had
new one purchased in the held there, and one of the great middle of the road have been power of the car was obvious made a careful study of the police advantages of the venue is that removed and there will shortly be The machine ran without trouble, systems of Europe, he had been spring, it is reshod with nice naw there are such excellent facilities one of the Colony's best road and picked up speed easily and impressed and amazed by the tyres throughout, or at least the for spectators. The public has been stretches, from Nathan Road to smoothly after every slow-down efficiency of the New York motor tyres are thoroughly overhauled
and doubtful ones replaced. used to seeing Pony Gymkhanas Hunghom.
cycle squad and particularly by The water is used in the form the rapidity with which they had Some thousands of miles are next, mater cars and cycles will It is, however, unfortunute of superheated steam, and the taken his party through the run off during spring, summer be seen in place of the quad-that such slow progress is being exhaust manifold of the engine is streets.
He also praised the and early autumn, naturally, rupeds.
made with the removal of the used to raporise the liquid and efficient traffic regulations of the ly so, without anything serious in since the tyres were now, or near-| dangerous bend at the junction superheat it. In this form it of Coronation and Gascoigne
the way of tyre trouble. Aid)... The removal of the which is the basic principle of
passes to a special carburettor metropolis. It is hoped that the enthuRoads.
then comes the definite closing
siasm
The police commissioner re-down-of 'the motoring.pleasure uf neither the com-nfending hill which causes the device. To this carburettor
bend the public has the petitors
long
both petrol and steam feed are ceatly issued a statement telling season the car is still used been dampened in conse-pronised, but the work of remot connected. Ou starting the power of the perilous work of the motor during fice week-ends and may be quence of the postponement of the ing it is proceeding slowly indeed is given by petrol fed through a cycle squad, of which he said that also for business. But the bulk Gymkhana The fault has cer- We learn that tenders have been slow running jet, and this petrol each day fount eight of its mem-fof the year's mileage has already tainly not been with the Commit- called for and accepted regarding
is electrically assisted to vaporise) bers in city hospitals recovering been done. see, which has done everything this work and it is to be hoped quickly. The result is that the from injuries. He pointed our The bad weather starts, and so spitable that it will not be long before this mixture of steam and retrol can that the motor cycle men must do tyre troubles. But they occur possible to secure &
And now we come to the two ground. At one time, it almost awkward bend is done away with be brought into action within often ride over slippery pare simultaneously merely by coin-
kinds of electricity-high tension looked as if the event would have. The road at this point carries an eleven seconds from starting meats in pursuit of crazed drivers cidence, and have only indirec
and law tension-that do concern to be abandoned altogether, but, enormous amount of traffic and Once the engine has started de of powerful cars.
connection. The fact is that win-į
us. As we use them on the motor. thanks to the Jockey Club, such public safety calls for prompt pression of the accelerator peda!
It ta only fair," said the com- begun. The tyres, at the end iter completes what summer has
they are different but an untoward development has action.
cuts off the slow-running jet andi
tension really means voltage. "that the public now been avoided.
opens the valve for the admission missioner,
lot the fine weather. have
We want a voltage or pressure of Siter private, mator cats were of the mixture. Deceleration should learn something of the reached A point
As a result of correspondence some thousands to break down at which
taroused by articles on magneto the insulation of the air gap be special cuts of the mixture and brings gallant nature of the work per-
them for future use in general, and and battery-and-coll ignition, and tween the points of the sparking All we want now is fine wen- shelter provided for them at the the slow running jet into opera- formed by the policeman hastrid they require attention ther and a good crowd of specta Star Ferry, Kowloon, and since tion again. The whole operation ing a motorcycle. He starts when for winter ase in particular. jon how to remedy lighting faults, plug. We could get it by using a Home writer says he has come a sufficient number of securcula- An excellent list of entries, there has been better control of the device is automatic from the dancer signal i given like a
The treads are full of flints and to the conclusion that there areltor cells, each giving two volts. has been secured, and with a of the motor buses arriving and the working of the accelerator runner in the 100-yard dash
leaving the tape, and he never hobnails, and holes where flints many motorists who are not We should require some three band in attendance it should departing at this point, the traffic pedal.
stops until he comes back with and hobnails have been. The re-electrical engineers! He proce-thousand cells. should prove a bright and 'metry tangle
who won lessened. Further improvements It is claimed that the device his men, let danger take him maining puncture-causing factors eds: meeting. Motorists either first or second places in have been suggested and official- gives more power, that there is a where it may. It is indicative of are rapidly disintegrating the The difference between high the recent trials will have theirily approved, these including the smaller petrol consumption, and the splendid morale of this de- cover and working through to the and low tension current seems to prizes presented at the close of widening of the road between the the mileage per gallon is increas partment that those who are tube, while water and grit enter be a mystery, and & bothersome
are the holes and eventually rot the one at that. Oce reader, In fact, to the current much the same as the Gymkhana. and it is hoped sea-wall and the "island" alonged some 33 per cent. As the injured. often seriously. that winners will make a point side which the buses now stop, an mixture of steam and patrol con- never quite happy again until fabric, ba it cord or canvas. of being present in person to improvement which will materi- tains no carbon, there is no car mounted once more and gliding
The moral, of course, is that ag receive their awards. Furtherally assist to do away with the bonisation of the cylinders or the through the streets, in the per- details will be announced during present difficulty experienced by valves, and so sooting-up of the formance of their duty. Casualty should have periodic atten- The initated will understand
'bus drivers.
plugs. The device is compactly ties sustained by the Greeks at ion in the way of removing fints the reason for that exclamation tons of horse power. One horse installed on the engine, it does! Marathon in perhaps the greatest and this should be done even more any farther, because I.. am goingjiift 33,000; one foot in one not interfere with the rccessibil- of all battles were less in prothoroughly when, or before win to try to explain both why the minute; or to lift 1. 33,000h. in
tors.
the coming week
MOTOR CAR HEAD-LAMPS.
made 11: URE the
has been considerably!
The Danger of Retaliation.also to draw your attention to
use.
bere."
to
and so on, and filling the holes,
[:er starts.
tyres
1917-STILL
GOING STRONG.
If the other driver has stronger ity of the parts, and is simple to portion than they to-day average lamps, you must just take thej jeztra care necessary—that is all. That is the chief warning that I had in mind, but I would like
the fact that some side-lamps, Do not, on any account, use which alone should remain alight your head-lemps na a means in towns-besides the rear lamp. of retaliation against another of course!-are nearly as bad in motorist who does something that their blinding effect as head- you do not like.
Ferhaps be lamps. There is no excuse for seems inclined to persist in hold this, for you very seldom drive ing the crown of the road and by them, and consequently there forcing you down the camber. It is no need for them to give a is not allowable to 'blink" your brilliant or far-reaching light. head-laraps at him, nor to steer You can cure the fault if it so that you blind him as much as exists, by putting some tissues or possible.
grease-proof paper inside I ought not to have to give this lenses, or by lightly painting the adrice it's self-evident, says back of the glass white-a coat- Capt. E. de Normanville. But ling of domestic whiting will do -- have seen quite a number of cases, by altering the adjustment of the especially of "blinking." by lamps so that the beam is pro- drivers who want the other driver jected downwards on to the road to do something, or to desist from instead of up into people's facas: doing something, and I rather or by using bulbs of lower candle fancy it may be a common plan power. with some people
the
A spol-light may be legitimate- And I have met one man wholly used in fog, or when meeting! actually argued that he was cars with dazzing head-lamps, ffj justified in acting in this way! one's own head-lamps are poor or You must not retaliate: for one non-existent. In the first case tning, it is no earthly good. You the beam should be directed on to Tisk precipitating an accident, the left-hand hedge ar kerb, with and are personally no better off the head-lampe switched off.
The other driver may have a simply as a guide to one's posi- reason for what he (or she) istion; in the latter it may be doing. Perhaps he (or she) is trained a little further ahead, but Marvous or aware of the skidding still well to the left, and low propensities of the car. What town, to pick ont pedestrian«, ever the reason, just *grin and farm carts, or lampless cyclists, bear it”—and steer for safety," who would otherwise be invisible.
Mr. and Mrs B. L. Wass, with their 1997 "one-lung" Cadillac, being welcomed to the factory of the Cadillac Motor Car Co. by the president, Mr. H. H Rice, f the course of a 631-mile tour watch the tank to see the homs of their sacient but dependable vehicle.
MOTOR CARS & ELECTRICITY.
An Elementary Ex-
planation.
aaks plaintively why be cannot run a dashboard lamp off his
mark. And they need not read
quency is one million alterna Hons jof direction par second.
car
POWER VERSUS SPEED, Obviously this is impossible, so
we use another method. We do
we do to the car when, having surmounted a steep hill on first speed, we get back into top on the leve Wo gear it up.
Recall the "alternativa defini-
power is the power required to
ordinary magneto cannot earn its one minute. Thus, in a given Astonishingly large tyre mile living as a lamplighter, and also time, the engine will propel the ages bave been put up in recent the essential difference between weight of car and passengers a
trials,
and amateurs high and low tension electricity. little way up a steep hill slowly, naturally wonder whether they DIFFERENT KINDS OF CFERENT. or long way on the level fast, can-and why they don't!--gati In the first place, then, there according to the gear in use. · similar results.
are four kinds of electricity with So with electricity. We can DRIVING AND TYRE MILEAGE Which, we deal domestically use it for the heavy work of light- They are all descended from the ing lamps and driving the starter Thoss mileages were pheno-basic electrons and protons, just motor shallow Foltage with high menal, and I do not profess to the saine as the four different-amperage: vr by sacrificing the account for them, except on the coloured rates of mankind are amperage we cam gear it up obvious basis that the tyres tested descend from the same orginal (by means of induction coils, com were good tyres and the car on type
apartamontained nowithin the magnetol to which they were tested was w-The first of these four kinds is give high voltage and negligible driven. But I would not recom-known as "stalië.”- Itis merely amperage. meid readers to anticipate quite condenser charge. Two un- such big figures from their own connected
THE WATER ANALODY. places such as the The water analogy is a useful Styren
earth and a cloud, or two separateį It must be remembered, for one charged at opposite signs, our water and let it "fop" gently clouds at different levels, become to sid naderstanding You [can take a given quantity of thing, that in an RA.C. trial the positive and the other negative outs large-bore tap, or force it. car does not exceed 20 miles an whan the charge becomes sufficit high pressure through a par hours, and the tyre wear at 20 istently high the attraction between row pipe. In each case the same out of all proportion lower than these opposites. becomes so great
it is at the speeds at which you that the insulation of the intersame time, the difference being quantity of water is used in the habitually drive. Every time you rening oir is broken down, and that you get either pressure or brake or accelerate violently, or lightning charge results.
I let her out to see what she can) [do, you take miles off the life of ¡your tyres. ́***
the
volume, each, the expense of THE MEANING OF VOLTAGE the other, according to Then there is the high-diameter of the outlet frequency alternating current Substitate voltage" for pres I think, however, you can safely upon which sweet music floats to sure and amperage for reckon on a minimum mileage of many of you nightly from 2LO. volume; or, to hark back to the 10,000 on a set of modern cord 51T, or 2ZY. We are not con-motor car's gears, hillclimbing tyres, with every likelihood of erned with this at the moment spillty and spied respec pleasantly exceeding your eati-out as a matter of curiosity, I will tively, Reinember also that is, mate. But, good as the tyres of all you that the alternating fre- is the imparage, rather than the to-day, may be, they cannot do juency of radio current at broad-voltage; that lights your lampe, without care, and if you never casting wave lengths is about god the voltage rather than the give them the attention they need 50,030 times greater than that. camperage, thakkaskes the plugs they will have “their own back your house-lighting apply. A mark, and I think the idea will
1500 metres" wave length the free clears)
on you