HONGKONG - TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMEN
SATURDAY. FEBRUARY
LINCOLN
LIMOUSINE Seven Passenger
Massive in buk, vigorious in line. The LINCOLN, with body by Beauts, splendor of finish. Fleetwood, is an inspiring, and dominant car.
completeness of appointment, perfection of action, endow it with commanding individuality whether parked at the Club, threading crowded traffic. or heading the resplendent parade along the Boulevard.
Buy the best in the world, and order through
ANDREW HARPER
Authorized Dealer, No. 2, Cueen's Road Central.
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Phone apult the supt why d warla finants
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is demonstrated by the recent order of the City of Tokyo for 20 Two-ton
"BT" model Trucks.
This order was placed after the Government had made extensive tests on the fuel consumption. 43 miles to 5 U. S. Gallons of kerosene was the enviable record made by a
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in these keenly competitive trials.
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Stocks and Parts carried in Hongkong by -
THE HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS, LIMITED.
LINCOLN CAR.
DOES A FINE LUM,
SIR HARRY LAUDER IN HIS OAKLAND.
Sir Harry Lauder (who is coming to Hengkeng next year) "r-rr-roam*
in the gleamin'" in a Six-cylinder Cakland touring car.
FORD
FIGURES.
THE MOTOR YEAR.
machine – which “by
Citroen-shamis, with dis has successfully trans-Australian journer, [beyond doubt that it will
means of establishing inexpens and effective transport services between points in sparsely-peopl- jed parts of the Empire which cannot on commercial grounds be Baked by roads, and in connne- tion with which it is not worth building rail sòrvices...
Twenty thousand fon motor passenger liners have been laid down this year. Motor shipping on the principla of using the Diesel liquld fuel internal com- bustion engine, and variants of that basic principle have gana ahead to an unprecedented exteat, designs employing greater power than has ever been attempted with liquid fuel explosion engines.
At the opposite axtreme, in the case of aerial motering, progress in connection with which has lain hitherto almost entirely in the direction of increasing horsepower, we have had. both in the Lympne light aeroplane trals and in Mr. Alan Cobham's fight from London to Brussels on a de Havilland 53 with a 6-h.p. Blackburn motor cycle engine. proof of the fact that we are be- ginning to improve aerodynamic efficiency, otherwise the ef- ficiency of the aircraft as such. At the beginning of flying it would have been impossible for anybody to get off the ground with six nominal hp. Now we are planning to carry two people with that amount of power. Moreover, Many things have happened to where powerfal engines are made the Ford Motor Company pro-show, and the fact that quite a make 1913 notable in the annals available, as for the Schneider duced 1.11111
number of people are now taking of motoring says Mr. H. Massac Air Trophy, which we lost through Highland Park plans bėra. to the heel for the first time, or Buist in the server. Even in this lack of support of the native
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be cheere deblence, the "back country horseless artillery is now industry, we have to note the went off the axeenib y line art dring" problem has been rather accepted as at assured type of astonishing fact that seaplanes, was shippa je do 1. - Anceles. On provninently brought to my notice the future. At present we lack otherwise machines handicapped Deceiver 7. Mong No 8989898, during the last few days, says simple, powerfully-engined stand with all the resistance of floats, was gompleted and was shipped. Capt. E. d- Normantille in the ard machines equipped with the of boat-form hulls, can travel to Chlear o
ASTOUNDING PRODUCTION.
Detroit. Mich. Der. O -1. tween June and December
WHY THE ENGINE "BACKFIRES."
Causes and Remedies.
Either as a result of the recent
Some Outstanding Features.
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Kegresse tractor to haul the at over three miles a minute to And. as gather that the rest heavier guns across country. But day, and can average nearly that sons for Dark-fires are, not so this is a handicap which time speed over a triangular course on Future Prospects. thoroughly understood as is de will cure. More powerful ma- which, of course, both speed and distance are wasted on making It appears that an American sirable, perhaps better-informed chines will be available at
the turns. As to 1 fiying- statistician calculates that, with readers will Brrive me if I de- distant daze.
Pulitzer race, an output of five million cars an- vote a little space to an element.
The part of the tank in war has machines, the been recognised by the granting America, was won at over 243 which is the ec one in nually, the number in use should are sulyser.
In the first place, then, what of a Royal Warrant this year. -on le thirty-five millions, and state that no such number of are the precise operations that whereby that hranch of the Ser- miles an hour bis year.
In regard to car competitions. ears can be used in a constey leause a back-tire to take place? vices is now known as the Royal
Britain has come out supreme that has only twenty-one million Must of gau know, of course. Tank Corps.
(for the first time since 1962 in The trans-Sahara route has w langs den twenty-dep mil that the main cause is an attempt
This is repuntered po start the engine with the been established and will be the Blue Ribbon event of the New York paper with the ignition to far advanced. But operated regularly by the Citroen world. the Grand Prix Race of
this Kegress service.
This class of the Automobile Club de France....
This honour has been won by ACodiward vg, aert column.),
the Sunbeam Company. More- Jover, it is the last Grand Prix race that will ever be "run, the title having been changed now to the Grand Prix d'Europe.
rent that, there is no passet do you know just what
imitarion to the industry in America be
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BARLY AND LATE FANITION, On the second stroke of what is known as the four-stroke cycle- that is, the cycle upon which the the back pressure, and all the
forma of the explosion is exerted adtin, compression, tiring. ex- in forcing the piston violently British prowess has come out on top. too, in Latin countries, 2. She and "Vier will hang the piston is freed up downward.
SOME REMEDIES.
such as Spain, where Sunbeam but note happiness, healty sal wards with both valveseloser, und
The most obvious remedy is to has been supreme for the third Serving out of a mother can than the previousiv indrawn explosive
succession. Spelt in feduellen Berta "rand mixture, which normally almost take rare that the ignition is not year in
fils the ryttaler, is compressed more than half advanced when terms of solid business, this A Lincoln Car is credited with
Dewar Tropps.
into the decreasing space be starting up especially by hand. means that one agent alone has the fastest run on record i etween.) The Dewar Challenge The Ween the head of the piston and Unfortunately the majority of taken for export 400 cars this magnetus are so designed that year. There is. Besides, the reflex police headquarters South, warded annually by the Real the top of the cylinder.
The succeeding down-stroke is the hottest spark occurs at full action on the Scuth American, Bend, Indiana, and the State Automobile Club for the wast House & Indianpolis. The trip Meritorous performance held the power stroke, and according advance, and in some specially market, which will offer stilf
is whether you allow (with the bad cases the spark is not hot greater trade. of 1337 miles was inade in. The under the general regulations for ition lever) the spark to take enough at any other point in the We have had an unprecendent- minute, an average of the onial certihed tals, between place exactly at the instant the range of the ignition lover toed series of motor shows, which a mile a minute, despite treplent. Monoer 15 in
I will be repeated year by year piston reaches the top of its up-start the engine. slowdown in- cites and towns October 14 in the following rest. Kard travel, or whether you time With some machines, and with owing to the long term lease the along the way and occasional has been awarded to the Rap-on it to occur just after this "dead all battery and coil systems, the Society of Motor Manufacturers has taken of pauses and stops due to traffie Tyre and Jocs Company, Li centre." so the ignition is said spark is of uniform intensity and Traders and road conditions.
The tyres were flued to a 4-9 to be "advanced" or "retarded," throughout the range of control! Olympia. The car was commandeered by h. pour, having a weight. faden.
early" or to this case you can definitely In regard to standard cars. or, alternatively,
avoid danger by invariably re- these are marketed to-day at the Chief of Police. Mr. Laurence of cons-quite a commercial J. Labe, recently in urder i transport wugs. The trial was FIRING POINT FOR EFFICIENCY. tarding the ignition about half unprecedentedly cheap prices. secure the fovernor's signature the upon the club's standard The idea is that the roostway for starting purposes; but in There is a notable development to extradition papers which were routes, the weather being good. powerful explosion is obtained any case you should form the in the production of moderate- powered, six-cylinder engines Never grasp the handle as you and this is the year in which the moment of greatest compression Mr. W. W. Farrar, Lincoln were inflated to a pressure of 45 when the mixture is fired at the habit of preparedness. sales manager for W. B tinkle per sq. i. One of the tyres that is actually at the dead would the heire of a hammer British industry is beginning to Inc.. South Bend Ford dealers,overed the full distance of 40,003 centre. But as the Bame does lot the thumb rest on the same exploit brakes to all four wheels,
uiles. The other
as is the American.
urgently needed.
one year, and
and the roads fair. The tyres
three ran
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piloted the car on the Osing P14477 miles. 33.115 miles and not occur instantaneously, but side of the badle as the fingers.
to the capitat.
1:51 miles respectively."
REFLECTIONS"
takes
an appreciable time toj spread throughout the gas, it is necessary to make the spark just a shade too soon, so that by the time combustion is complete the resultant.expansion shall by er- eting all its force apon the head of the piston at the beginning of its down stroke.
You will see, therefore, that the critical factors are speed of com- ibustion and engine speeds. If tie lengine is not running fast enough Ito carry the piston past the desd centre by the time combustion is complete, some of the force of the explosion will be wasted on the piston, in the shape of back presj sure, while it is still endeavouring i to travel upward on its compresi ision stroke.
By thus reversing the thrust on the connecting rod bearings, this back pressure causes the "knock- ing that is accepted as a WAT- ing of too much "airanes."
The degree of advance, there fore, must be nicely adjusted in relation to the, speed and the actual work of the engine at any given moment, in conjunction with the "combustibility" of the mixture that is being used.
Coming now to backfires of the wristbreaking variety, these oc- cur when the engine speed, is so low-as when it is being started up by hand-that there is not sufficient momentum to overcome.
HARLEY
DAVIDSON
1924 MODELS IN STOCK FOR
IMMEDIATE DELIVERY SHEWAN TOMES & CO.
Sole Agenta,
Tel. 781
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