HONGKONG
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PPLEMENT MOTORING:
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DECEMBER
Firestone
The Three Flag Run starts at the Canadian border, extends along the Western Coast of the United States, and ends at Tisjuana, Mexico, Iria 1,581 miles long. Within the last few months the Three Flag Motor Cycle Record has been kraken three times, each time by riders an stock FIRESTONE MOTOR CYCLE TYRES. The sala record is held by Wells Sempett, his time being 46 hours and 9 minutes. The combination record is alsa held by Wells Bennett as be returned from Mexico to Canada in 54 hours and 42 minutes, lowering by 11 hours and I minutes Cannonball Baker's Side Car record made in 1919. FIRESTONE MOTOR CYCLE TYRES AND TUBES HAVE NO EQUALS.
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DISTRIBUTORS: The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
Arrol Johnston
BY FAR THE BEST VALUE IN THE MOTOR WORLD TO-DAY
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COLONIAL MODEL
The All British Car
DEMONSTRATION INVITED
Price £550 ·
SPECIALLY BUILT AND GEARED FOR HONGKONG
HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
PHONE C. 32.
Brief Specification
MOTOR CYCLE AS AID TO SPORT.
The in tor excle combination is much used in sporting expeditions in the States. Taese duck-shooters are making good use of their Harley-Davidson.
THE MOTOR SHOW.
Mechanical Tendencies" Analysed.
existing
vanishing poigt
CADILLAC'S NEW MODEL.
CAR SPEED AND DISTANCES.
How to Improve Your Judgment.
COASTING" AND CAR
EGONOMY.
How to Reduce the
Petrol Bill.
Realising that speed costs manay, let us investigate soma of the points in the handling of a car that will go a long way towards ensuring economy over a long period of use, says a writer in a Hame paper.
Waar.
We will consider first econom- ising in the narrow sense of using as little fuel as possible for the covering of a given dia- tance, and of similarly saving the tyres
from aronlabia Economy in engine and other lubricant will follow as a mat- ter of course, but unless the casas be very extreme-as, for instance, racing. on the one hand, and mere ambling on the other-hubricating oil costs are
so very small over, say, a thous- and miles, that they are not worth serious consideration.
Of what may be called direct and simple aids to economical running, coasting is perhaps the most important. It is surprising how few car drivers realise the chances offered to them of travelling along the highway litorally for nothing beyond an infinitesimal tyre wear. The art of descending hills is an art that lis seldom Isuspected to exist. which explains why it is so seldom applied.
AN EXTRAVAGANT METHOD. Notice how on cuming to the top of a moderate hill some drivers simply relcase the acce- lerator pedal and allow the car to overrun the engine. The car- buretter is then in its slow-run- ning position, which-means that it is delivering to the engine the richest mixture that it ever sup- IN GREAT DEMAND.
plies. This rich mixture is sup "So far as mechanical develop Final reports for the first six
plied when the throttle is all but How many motorists are good ments are concerned, says Capt. weeks after the announcement of E de Normanville in writing on the new Cadillac V-63 show an judges of car speeds and dis-shut on account of the setting of the Olympia Motor Show, there increase in sales of 44.8 per cent tances asks Capt. E de Norman the slow-running device, because and is necessary to give that slow is little departure from previously over the corresponding period in rille. In the case of those who rich mixture is slow-burning record. the sale of the preceding type. are not favoured in this respect,tick over which is so ap το practice Popular principles have become Production for the same period is what is the best way to effect an preciated. But when descending. la hill at, say, 25 m.p.h. car speed. more firmly established, and some also running 42 per cent. higher improvement ?.
When you are driving a cat the engine is turning over quite developments have than with the type 51. accordion there is always the closest pos- fast, and it is inducing into the tentative
Mr. Lynt McNaughton, either disappeared Or are at to
Cadillac vice-president and gen-; sible relationship between time
and distance. Many people" find cylinders a very rich mixture.
The result is that the fuel con- eral sales manager.
it hard to judge either factor sumed in the descent of a hill by "The comparison is an especial-accurately, and when the two this method is probably much 1 clear inder of increased have to be judged simultaneously | greater than it would be were femand."
M-. Mc- the problem is rendered more the throttle opened wide and the Naughton. "because the type 61 difficult.
car driven as fast as it would go. was announced at exactly the
Before we start talking about
A POPULAR FALLACY. same season of the year as the ways and means of effecting an
It is a fallacy to think that 63, with the same seasonal improvement. please remember trend in effect. It indicates that that there is one golden rule in switching off the ignition will the fundamental improvements in all cases of doubt. It is summed make any difference to the fuel
Purch's up in the latest type have won the full
monosyllable consumption when the car is engine. It approval of former Cadillac advice-"Don't." Whenever you over-running the owners and of prospects who
are in doubt- play for safety. might make some difference if the throttle were kept wide open. have more recently arrived in the class of Cadillac purchasers.
This ability to judge speed and but it is doubtful
Descending hills with a wide- From the outset of the V-63 distance varies considerably with season orders have been coming different people. It is, in the first open throttle is a practice not to in faster than they could be filled place, a gift of Nature, and, be recommended except under the and there has been a particular secondly, it can be developed by eugine is being used as a brake shortage of the models most observation and experience with the lowest gear engaged. desired by foreign buyers.
particularly the latter.
Some drivers, realising the But when one uses the world fallacy of descending hills with
The four-cylinder engine, for instance, is stil! enormously in preponderance. The six-cylinder is establishet as the power unit for the luxury car, and the eight- cylinders, whether of V type or with the cylinders in line, has not succeeded in seriously shaking it.
FOUR-CYLINDER MAJORITY.
states
THOUGHT AND ACTION.
4 cylinder 17.9) H. P. 5-Passenger Touring Car. Cape Cart Hood and Storm Curtains. Upholstered in Antique Brown Leather. Dunlop Detachable Spoke Wheels. Dunlop (British)
At a guess, I should say that One Spare three-fourths of the new season's Cord Tyres.
cars have four-cylinder engines, Wheel and Tyre. C.A.V.
and about three-fourths of the! Electric Lighting and
remainder that is, slightly less than 20 per cent of the whole- Starting. Speedometer
have six cylinders. The residue Clock, Bulb, Horn, Lugo 6 per cent or so are fairly gage Grid, Petrol Tin and equally divided between eight
cylinders and two.
The overbead-valve engine has undoubtedly made progress,
It is the performance of the largely owing to racing experi- ence but the gain in efficiency new cars which has especially "judge." it should be explained their engine working, depress the which bulks large and vital on the impressed buyers and prospects, that it means in this connection track is not appreciable to the and with the new owners who the.instantaneous forming of an clutch pedal and allow the engine and switch off the engine, re average motor owner on the road. have taken long trips. or have opinion. The ideal is rather an to tick. Others go one better driven away their own cars from instinctive intuition than a judg-starting it at the bottom of the So designers think. apparently, i
descent by gently letting in the for the conventional patter of the factory, the great smoothness ment.
You should not have to think: latch again. The first method side-valve engine is still comfort and dependability in operation
is. indefensible the second is are commented upon even more "Shall I clear that child all right?" ably in the majority.
than the engineering develop Instinct should say, "I shall not better. but the following is best ments that make the performance clear that child unless I accele because it does not impose extra, rate," or, as the case may be, and avoidable work on the clutch possible.
"I cannot get by safely, I must
withdrawal mechanism put on the brakes."
Holder.
The Hongkong & Shanghai Hotels Ltd.
New
Net
1924 HARLEY-DAVIDSON
MOTOR
FUL-FLOTEING
SIDECAR SPRINGS
ALEMITE LUB- RICATING SYSTEM
UUTS VI-
OLIVE COLOUR BRATION IN HALF
FIRST IN, ACCELERATION · AND FUEL CONSUMPTION TESTS FOR COMBINATIONS HELD IN RECENT TRIALS.
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THE QUESTION OF SPRINGS. Much the same may be said in regard to suspension. There is
At this time of the year when
bodies with their improvements
and
in
simultaneously.
a well-designed half raising our sales to these high must decide, and the body act purposes
levels," elliptic spring is a little more than "good enough.”
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As a matter of fact, about half! of the new cars are sprung on semieliptics all round, the other half being divided between all other types-three quarter ellip tic, cantilever, "grasshopper," and
challenging the previous acknow ledged lead of the more simple thermo-syphon system.
A COMMON FAULT.
extreme circumstances when the
-com-
And then comes the further dif- ponent, of the car that needs no question that in certain cir- sales of closed cars are highest,
ficulty that not only, must the fabrication as much as any and cumstances cantilever springs our new give results that cannot be ob maDY
bat it must be turned into action engine and gear box but general- tained with semi-elliptics. But features which formerly were decision be made instantaneously. more than most outside the
obtainable only in custom with equal speed. The mindly gets least. the necessary conditions do not
been factors
If the gear lever be shipped into neutral the car will run with always prevail, and for ordinary jobs have
absolute freedom, and no part is How can a motorist who is not being worked except the road' gifted in judging speed, time and wheels and back axle, which, of distance, acquire a higher pro- course, are always working when- position, and allowing the car to- ficiency 2 As already indicated, ever the car is moving. Shipping two normal methods are observe the gear deser into the neutral ion and practical experience.
The bulk of motorists are fairly run under the influence of gravity This is a natural result of the good judges for all normal pir. alone is the simplest thing in the
world. development of supper-efficient
Occasionally you cumstances: engines. And yet one or two find yourself behind a driver who engines which are well up to the is worried about getting through
a clear make these sticks stand up in average in regard to efficiency are a space when there is to depend upon natural cooling vard each side.
the road with varying distancas without in 1924,
the even
Such a person will never learn. between. Start with the sticks a He's like the golfer who has yard wider apart than the ex- assistance of a fan.
played for years and goes round treroe width of the car.. in one under tens!
Starting from 100 yards away, When you are in doubt about drive through this "comfortable the space being sufficient for you clearance at varying speeds. to get through, it's about 50 to commencing at 20 m.ph. On the first occasion you will probably
EO DO.
FOUR SPEEDS GAINING GROUND, I am glad to say that there is an unmistakable trend in. favour of four-speed gear boxes.
one that there is enough space from reaching finality in motor- and a useful little bit to spare, think someone has put them
car design.
In spite of many specious argu- ments against them and in sup- port of the three-speed box, I am
POSITIVE FAN DRIVE still convinced that since we can- not have a perfect infinitely vari-
With this evidence of conflict able transmission on every car, four speeds make a better coming opinion on so simple a point promise than three. And, the it is clear that we are as yet far smaller the engine, the greater
Out of 1,000 average motorists, close) ! the need for a four-speed box.
With such practice you can There is a distinct tendency in 1999 would judge space on the A rough estimate shows that
narrow down the clearance until fourspeed gear boxes are at least this connection to eliminate belt small side.
You can easily improve your you will find yourself "at home" equal in number on 1924 cars, drives for such components as the and I rather fancy that a more fan, dynamo and speed indicator judgment in this respect if you when there is only three inches careful survey would show them and to substitute a positive drive are willing to take a little each side to spare. to possess a definite numericst by chain or shaft. And one or trouble,
two makers go a step further by superiority.
Water circulation, is another fitting the dynamo in a suitable căлe of two rival principles position so that the fan can be striving to gain the ascendancy mounted on an extension of the Patap circulation is seriously armature shaft.
Whenever there is a close NOW TO IMPROVE
shave look at the right wing Get two light sticks or walking only don't try to look at bot canes, and take them out to a sides.If the steering gear is on lonely country road. With the the left, then, of course, you will aid of a few stones or some mud. look at the left-side wing