MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
.OP
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
Saturday, the 1st. March, 1921
(Being the Official Organ of the Hongkong Automobile Association).
tun.
11
LOCAL MOTOR
NOTES & NEWS
One of the problems of local of graceful design. the specificaTM motor car owners is undoubtedly tion is such as to appeal to practi that of garaging their cars in, cal motorists whilst there is an The amount of storage electric self-starter and lighting The wheels are Michelin) room available in the City has set. always been inadequate and the detachable disc wheels, the drive) time will come when the pro-is on the right hand and there are vision of a really large space will many features which will attract have to be considered. In the the attention of those of moderate meantime, it will be learned with means who desire a little car for The Hongkong. interest that the Hongkong Hotel personal use. garage department has this week price is $2,400. opened a town garage for the storage of private cars. this being situated off Des Voeux Road at
the back of the Bank of East Asia,
As has already been
in the premises which used to be Bounced, the February shipment occupied by the
210.
Daily Press, ¦{
of Studebaker Big-Six cars
the Hongkong) There is accommodation for 28 imported 65 cars and it is being rapidly taken Hotel garage department were all sold before arrival, but it will those be interesting news to thinking of investing in a Stude baker to know that it is now An advertisement appearing possible to order the big-six in elsewhere in this Supplement different colours. In addition to gives an interesting list of dis- the usual black, there is Venetian tinguished English personages Red and a Royal Blue-two st- who have adopted the popular tractive colourings which are "Neracar as a means of com-proving very popular elsewhere, fortable, reliable and clean tran- sport. Here in Hongkong, this excellent little machine claims a awide circle of enthusiastic.
It will no doubt interest local!
CINEMA STAR AND HER CADILLAC.
FIFTH IN 500 MILE RAGE.
Viola Dana, the celebrated Metro star, is an enthusiastic Cadillac owner. She is shown above with her Cadillac Sedan, which daily carries her to and from the Metro studio,
BRAKE ACTION.
HOW TO EQUALISE IT.
PRICE OF PETROL.
All through the run this Fronty Ford moved smoothly along, never far behind the leaders, never extending itsell in the field of twenty-four of the world's fastest specially built racing motors on the Indianopolis sp eedway recently, It finished fifth. This remarkable finish of a 75 per cent.' Ford car was dus solely to the performance of the Frontenac, cylinder head.
Menace of Single Headlight.
Brake Adjustment.
The brakes of a motor car never! should be adjusted too closely Question of Substitutes. when the car is without a load.
Used Car Market. The brakes will bind when the car
Readers often ask which is A car driven at night with only. On dry firm roads, if the foot- The gradually rising cost of is loaded and the wheelbase brake on one wheel holds more gasoline holds out little hope for slightly extended. Cases have been the best period of the year to one of the headlights burning
no more serious results than the writer.
ment of the brakes broke the towing extracts from a list of opposite direction to be puzzled as excessive wear of the tyre of the
brake band, with serious damage prices realised at auction sales to which side the lamp is lighted. resulting. strongly-braked wheel mayensue,
held by Messrs. Goddard and If he guesses wrong, only a quick Smith in London during the turn of the wheel will averta col, Crossley Successes.
month of December aford an lisian. Drivers should look out Two Crossley 14 h.p. touring answer, says a Home writer: 1920 for the safety of others as well as cars scored a remarkable success Bean, 90gs.: 1922 Overland, 67gs.; for their own.
Cubitt. 100gs.; 1921.; at Malmo, Sweden, on January 1921 13th. These cars obtained first Calthorpe, 95gs; Chevroletsaloon and second places in Class III in 95gs.; 1923 Maxwell, 120gs.; 35)
owners, and the new machines motorists to learn that track strongly than that on the other, the motorist, says an American known where too tight an adjust-buy or sell a used car. The fol-causes the driver coming from the
races are nowe popular feature observed on the road indicate
It is the inevitable reaction to that the circle is growing. The in Japan, thanks to the energies Racing "Neracar" has bad ample op of the Tokyo Auto portunity to prove its worth since Drivers Association. Last year, but on slimy roads, marked lack the reductions in prices that stir- it appeared in Hongkong for the a series of excellent races was of equalization may result in bad red the country late last summer. It was expected throughout oil first time some twelve months held at Susaki and Osaka, but'skidding, whenever a sudden stop!
is attempted. Sometimes, when and automobile circles, because it ago) and during that time it has arrangements are now in hand the which, it is hoped, will cause
was too certainly substantiater
the foot brakes with gradually volt for lower fuel costs makers claim that it is unique these previous contests to be driving on slippery roads apply had been understood that the re
It is altogether outclassed. in respect of economy in running, i
fully on and then stop the car, Prices were expected to rise cleanliness. reliability and sim-planned to hold the first track creasing effect until they are unusual to last long-
races since
the earthquake walk back and notice which again, although not to the peak the Tachikawa aviation grounds. which is large enough to permit wheel slipped first a conclusion of 1923.
readily arrived at by observingį
plicity.
the Kilometre Ice Race. Class b.p. Mercedes landulet, 76gs. A would appear from this that midë III was for cars with a cylinder 1914 15.9 hp. Calthorpe touring winter is the buyers' time, selleze volume of 1,5 to 2.5 litres. It is car fetched only 19gs, and an should wait until just before winning Crossly was a lady, Mrs.
the construction of a three-mile the chain or 15re tread marks. The cause for this return tooteworthy that the driver of the old Albion 30cwt. van 10gs. It Easter.
ате
During the last week or two, circular dirt track, with two By repeating this experiment a former prices is seen in reports C. Schultz, of Malmo, her time Stubbs Road has been mentioned fairly long straight-aways. With few times, the question is de of consumption of gasoline not being 39 secs, equal to 92 kilome rather frequently in these notes, a track of this size, higher speeds ficitely settled as to which wheel only in the United States, but tres per hour. and the latest point a motorist than those hitherto obtained in reader requests us to emphasise Japan are expected, and many sips first and hence has the throughout the world. Besides stronger brake and after so doing producing for the country's auto- is the matter of lighting. Althrills are promised the spectate other brake can be adjusted mobiles, the cil fields of the ecough tighter so that both United States have been sending
efforts several though we have not had an op- tor.
being wheels are found to commence out more and more of their pro- made toward economizing in the portunity of verifying the facr yet, we are told that no street
sliding under about the same duct to other countries.
ase of the fuel. The US. Bureau lamps have yet been installed
The idea of the promoters of pedal pressure. Another method
Heretofore production of gaso- lof Mines leads in this attempt. from the Indian Temple end to
According to experts, from 3 to Magazine Ciap. Our informant, these track, races, which are to is to jack up the rear wheel, start
sumption in that state and abroad. suggests that this road right up be held early in April, is to the engine, set the wheel spinn-line bas been keepingahead ofcon- to the Peas Hotel, will probably attract a large crowd. and con- ing or high gear and then apply an oversupply of one billion gal: 4 per cent. of the gasoline accum- become very popular with visi- gequently it is proposed to have the foothrake gradually. tors passing through the Colony, free admission that is, admis. wheel which stops first has thelons of fuel was reported lastulated during the winter for sum- of several hundred million gallons providing as it does, such an sion by tickets which will be prompter acting brake and the year. But this over-supply is mer supply is lost through
none at all, with the growing de- enchanting view of the harbour given away free through various brake on the other wheel should seen to dwindle into practically evaporation. To prevent the loss and Kowloon by night, and in agencies. It is hoped, so far as be tightened until both wheels stop mand for fuel from more and more the Bureau of Mines has been spinning almost simultaneous- view of this, he urges that special prizes are concerned, to have a attention be paid to an intensive first prize of Yen 1.500, with some 17. Because of the fact that the new motorists sud the increasing experimenting on various me band brakes are generally applied exportation of American gasothods. One is the use of cooling
check dissipation of the gas. lighting system. which, in itself, Yen 4.000 devoted to other prizes. violently, if at all, it is very im-line, with no importation at all systems in vapor tight tanks to
Το offset this threatening would further add to the fame of
portant that they should be close-
increase 61 consumption, Hongkong scenic attractions..
ly equalised. We think the idea an excellent
one.
In preparation for the events, a number of new racing cars are being got ready. Several hundred used cars have been imported Another entirely new make of since the earthquake, and the car has just been introduced professional drivers have been into the Colony by the, able to obtain their choice of Hongkong Hotel garage depart-these at fairly low prices. Some ment. It is a little two-seater of the Osaka drivers have new 10.b.p. car, made in Strassbourg, mounts, amongst which are a France, and is known as the number of eight-cylinder mach Mathis car. The first model to ines of great power. One garage arrive was placed in the show-is now engaged in curting down room yesterday morning, and its Packard Twin-3ix, and there certainly attracts attention. The are two Cadillacs, one with a very two-seater torpedo body with con-short wheelbase, in the hands of cealed dickey seat at the back is the racing drivers,
Watch the Joints.
If more owners would watch
Emergency Primer.
When it becomes necessary to prime an engine, and one finds
the universal joints of their cars himself without an oil can, a for grease as carefully as they piece of waste can be held under which the gasoline tank for the carburettor drip cock until it mileage, there would be less is soaked with the liquid, and touring to the shop and more then squeezed into the cylinder touring on the road..
cocks.
The
BAIRNSFATHER IN HIS SUNBEAM.
Capt. Bruce Bairnafather and his wife in their 24/60 h.p. Sunbeam Baloon.
In the process of evaporation, the first fractions to escape are the most volatile, leaving AD inferior fuel in the storage tanks. A perfect fuel mixture consists of about 07 of a pound of gasoline to a pound of dry air. Yot most motorists use early twice as much fuel as necessary, say fuel engineers. This is one of the greatest factors in the present wastage of gasoline, they add
Substitutes for gasoline are so many and so frequent that there need be no fear of any marked rise in fuel prices. If gasoline over FiSCS to inaccessible heights, even alcohol might be, substituted at a cheaper rate.
The latest substitute is one de- vised by naval experts. It is about 70 per cent. gasoline and 30. per cent. denatured anhydrous | alcohol making a mixture efficient
especially for aircraft use. may result not only in a batter, but a cheaper, fuel than the pre- sant high test gasoline used for air travel.
It
HOW THE "A.A." AIDS TOURISTS
AMERIC
This photo shows a member of the Automo sociation being advised en foreign tours at a Southen