HONGKONG TELEGRAPH – MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
HOW TO GET GOOD SERVICE FROM
MICHELIN TYRES
We can tell you
Keep tyres pumped up to correct pressure for the load they have to carry. what this should be.
When tyres are under inflated there is con-
tinual internal friction between the foundation cord and the rubber, causing overheating of the tyre and consequent rapid deterioration.
Water can also enter causing rust, resulting aventually in the rims having sharp edges which cut the walls of the tyre near the bead.
Most cars in Hongkong run on under inflated
tyres with the above disastrous results.
Have your wheels examined front and rear for trueness and tracking alignment. If they are at fault in this respect the tread of the cover is subject to a grinding action which quickly destroys the cover.
Keep tyres free from oil and grease.
Start and stop gently and take corners slowly.
Lastly-buy MICHELIN tyres from us and follow the
above advice and tyre satisfaction is assured.
EUROPE-ASIA TRADING CO.
Telephone 3438.
China Building, 1st Floor.
NERACAR
Reliability Economy Comfort
Cleanliness Simplicity Safety.
THE LIGHTWEIGHT MOTOR CYCLE WITHOUT A PEER
With the advent of the "NERACAR" and clean two-wheeled transporta tion, the best known families of Great Britian are taking to this economical and comfortable means of transportation. Prominent among English users are the following:-
The Earl of Haddington M. C.
The Earl of Bective.
The Earl Fitzwilliam. K.C.V.O.
Col. E. V. North, C.M.G., D.S.O.
Col. Sir Edward Ward. Bart. G.B.E..
K.C.B., K.C.V.O.
Lt. Col. C. Winterscale. D.5.0.
Capt. L. F. Sloane Stanley.
Professor E. Emrys Roberts.
Pr. J. P. Broom. M.B.E.
Dr. E. H. Felton, M.B.F.
The Rev. F. W. Has-ard Short, M.A.C.. T.A.
and many others too numerous to mention.
Her Grace' the Duchess of Mai-
borough.
The Marchioness of Headfort. The Lady Joan Wentworth Fitz-
william.
The Lady Donatia Wentworth
Fitzwilliam.
The Lady Mary Stuart" Wortleg. The Lady St. Germans.
100 to 113 miles per gallon of gas. 35 miles per hour. This means satel
ane driving without speeding.
Free demonstration. Sold on easy terms.
DE SOUSA & CO., LTD. Sole Agents for South China.
2nd. Floor. St. George's Building.
Tel. No. Central 1264.
"Not since we introduced the "So great was this interest in
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SATURDAY, MARCH 1. 1944
MOTOR NOTES FROM GREAT BRITAIN.
CURRENT COMMENT ON MOTORING DOINGS.
(BY THE R. A. C. CORRESPONDENT.}
London, Jan. 4.
tinue to work afficiently under The Royal Automobile Club the most trying possible condit- has made very complete arrange ions, tending towards overheat- ments for the comfort and con- ing. venience of motorists visiting Great Britain for the British Empire Exhibition. Triptiques will be issued to all visitors who
FOUR-WHEEL BRAKES
TESTED.
Another interesting test has are members of affiliated Clubs been that of the four-wheel brakes and on landing every facility on the Bentley 3-litre car running will be provided for speedy on Brooklands Track. With four clearance and for the issue of passengers in the car the four- the necessary registrations and li wheel brakes pulled the vehicle,
up in remarkably short distances
censes.
1.
Those who propose to utilise At 10 miles an hour, the distance the opportunity of visiting other was only 3ft. 6ins.; at 20 miles countries within easy reach of hour, it was 19ft. 9 ins.: at 30 Great Britain will be interested miles an hour, 46ft; at 40 miles, to know that the 8. A. Care So ft. Gins. and at 50 miles an now issuing a fair number of hour, 144ft 9ins. With only twa triptiques for the Irish Free State passengers on board, the distances wère in most cases slightly larger. and, in this connection, matters are working quite amoothly. Also The car weighed about 23 ewt. funladen and the braking system the Club has made arrangements,
THE OPEN- ROAD,
BY BERTON BRALEY.
We love the opan country,
The pleasant rural scene, The ozons rare that's in the air" So brisk and clear and keen, Where one is free as he can be,
Where-you know what I mean!
We love the open country,
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The trees, the hills, the sky, Our lungs are filled, our hearts are thrilled
As we go touring by,
Where nature smiles for miles on miles
To glad the questing eye.
We love the open country,
The road that stretches far.
But find the air is chilly there-
You know how those things are-- And lest the breese should make us sneeze
We use's sedan car.
We love the open country-
But you know, I suppose,
The sun shines down and tans you browa,
Puts freckles on your nos8,
A good sedan avoids that tan
And shuts out wind that blows
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We love the open country.
It's such a change from town. We cannot see sly, hill or tree,
When leaves are green or browo, But, ob, we ride so anng inside
With all the curtains down!.
are also to provide power for the neces- ANOTHER BRAKE TEST
in the interest of those who con-is such that all four sets of shoes are adjustable from a single can- template touring in Italy. Hilberto duty has been charged al point. Moreover, each in- on all petral entering Italy by dividual pair is fully compensated road. but the new concession and the two systems provides that henceforth no duty compensated. The shoes are lined sary electric lighting during the with a new kind of friction display of the pictures. In this will be payable on the petrol actually contained in the tanks material perfectly silent in action. work it is doing about 5,000 miles per annum with a 1-ton load. of cars going into Italy.
MORE ABOUT FRONT
Thus this fifteen year old car WHEEL BRAKES.
has now covered upwards of The four-wheel braking system 200,000 miles under conditions by The R. 4. C. has taken steps is now standardised on the 14-400 means favourable and still to co-ordinate the arrangements h.p., 16-50 h.p. and 20-60 h.p. of the various organisations in
Sunbeam cars. The Company Great Britain and Ireland pro- find that the four-wheel brakes posing to holdcompetitions during
are perfectly safe and distribute 1924. The idea is to get out the wear more evenly over the deänite sequence of fixtures and
COMPETITIONS IN 1924.
remains fit for work."
A VINTAGE YEAR.
·
SURPRISE.
Second" for Braking
Purposes.
A Home writer has been dealing at length with a worry. ing motoring problem due to the findings of Mr. S. F. Edge in a series of carefully conducted
RELIABLE FIGURES.
It is strongly suggested by tests on Brooklands test hill. The Autoca" that 1924 will!
Mr. Edge found that on the to avoid clashing of dates. Antyres. The Sunbeams which dis
tinguished themselves in the become to be regarded as a vint-steep portion of the test hill the Advisory Committee On com- Grand Prix of 1923 were equipped age year for British automobiles.se of the engine as a brake on peition rules has been formed, its with four-wheel brakes, as also The constant downward tendency the A. C. car was slightly more purpose being to suggest to the + Club Committee such rules for as the 2-litre Sunbeam which in prices notable at the Show has efficient with the switch on sad led to a position in which manu- the ignition retarded than with open or closed meetings as may won the Spanish Grand Prix.
facturers are giving extraordinary the switch of Personally, says from time to time be found In a recent instance in which a value for money and it is main- the writer, I am unable to ad- desirable. The Advisory Com-Sunbeam driver was prosecuted tained that, unless some entirely vances tenable theory to account mittee consists of six repre- far excessive spead it was shown unforeseen changes in the cost for this proven effect in practice. sentatives of the R. A. C. and an that the car, though travelling at of raw materials and the rate of equal number appointed by the over forty miles an hour, could be wages occur in the near future, And here's a "wusser" one for Clubs promoting competitions. easily pulled up in about thirty either equipment must be re-you-again due to the public- spirited action of Mr. Edge in RECENT OFFICIAL TESTS. Fards, the Company, in fact, ins-duced or prices must go up.... isting on a standard of braking
making these interesting The position in respect of motor vestigations. During 1923 eight lamps or efficiency such that a 24-70 hp devices applying to lamps have car travelling at forty miles an cycles is not dissimilar. Accord-
Having carried out his tests on bean officially tested by the hour can be brought to rest in ing to "The Motor Cycle" the the steep portion of the hill in
yards, which is exports of R. A. C. The method of test has twenty-two
British machines conjunction with the rest of the been standardised, so as to give stated to be less than half the during the first ten months of hill, some demon of inquisitiveness accurate comparative data and distance required if ordinary rear 1923 were equal to the record suggested to him that he should atr award for the most meritorious wheel brakes are used. In the pre-war figures for any whole see what happened on the normal The British industry is type of hill as encountered in performance of a complete lamp case mentioned the magistrates year.
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There was such an unaccount-
of special design has been made were so impressed with the evid-now supplying absolutely suitable normal motoring. Would there to the Craftsman Lamp Company, ence that they refrained from machines of all classes for Over- be any difference? Ltd., of 21. Ironmonger Lane, endorsing the driver's license. seas use and marketing them at London. E. C. The proposed This is an unanticipated but by prices which compare extremely able difference that I haven't had award for the performance of an no means negligible advantage favourably with those quoted a night's sleep since the results
before the war. There is a feeling came to hand-or, to be precise. adapatation for existing lamps of four-wheel brakes.
that in some cases prices will not since I got the assurance that has been withheld, as the Com-
There are, however, still many admit of profit being made unless there was no mittee were of opinion that motorists who do not care for the
clerical slip în regard to the figures.. device submitted showed
The results in question were so sufficient merit. The Craftsman stem and some manufacturers equipment is cut down.
agree with them. The result is lamp is of a type having a
astonishing that I asked for that on many 1924 models four- specially formed polished metal wheel brakes are optional. Thus,
confirmation, only to learn that equal surprise had been engend- reflector and a plain front glass. in the case of the 12 h.p. West- The merits of the lamp appear car, customers requiring four- to be due to the shaping of the reflector and the arrangements made for exact focusing.
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"MANUFACTURERS'
BALANCE SHEETS.·
AN EXTRAORDINARY FACT.
Despite all difficulties there are rered at the other end, but that wheel brakes are provided with at least a certain number of the figures were quite right, and cars having strengthened front British firms that are showing that "facts is facts," whatever I axles, though the makers believe results satisfactory to their share or anybody else thought about Interesting results were obtain that the ordinary braking system holders as well as to buyers of them. ed in a recent test of a P. A. S. is so efficient that auxiliary brak their products. injector, which is a device for ing is really unnecessary.
For the nine months ending hill of one in eight is the drawing a mixture of air and
Similarly, that excellent "Over-September 1923 the Austin normal type of steep hill which steam from the upper portion of
seas" car the new "Fourteen Company issued a report show you encounter in the radiator into the induction Baan is marketed as a standard ing a gross trading profit of over travel. The one in four part of pipe. A sports model two-seated
net balance, Brooklands is a gradient you type, with the ordinary system of £380,000 and car was tested over equal dis- brakes, but provision is made for after allowance for interest on only meet in 'terrors" such as tances with and without the four-wheel braking at a slight debentures, depreciation, and so Sutton Back-to quote one we device in action, the speed being additional cost. The system used on, of over £205,000. Cash at known example. kept constant in both cases ari
2.
about 29 miles per hour. With has been thoroughly tested and the bank and in hand stands at
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proved free from danger.
SOME GOOD PERFORM- ANCES.
main road
HAVE YOU A THEORY? The situation is rendered more
(as they say in
On the one in eight portion of over £243,000 and the directors the test hill. Mr. Edge found this the device out of action the fuel
have been able to reduce the de- extraordinary fact: the braking
éfficiency consumption was 31.55 miles per
of the engine bentures by nearly £300,000. gallon, and with the device in
practically the same whether the” action the consumption improved!
In another branch of the in- first or second speed is in engage. The demand for many British materially, reaching the figure of 39.05 miles per gallon.
motor cars is largely due to their dustry, namely the manufac- ment.
Personally I give it up! Hav-`' exceptional performance on the tare of commercial vehicles, TEST OF AIR-COOLED CAR. road and accredited instances of Dannis Brothers' balance sheet, ing queried the possibility of durability and reliability are alrecently issued, showed a trading clerical error, and been answered.
an No"-my bolt is shot. I THE NEW CADILLAĆ.
Perhaps the most interesting V-type eight back in 1914 had so. New York that 292 persons were
ways interesting. Recently we profit of just on £89,000, NOVEL BOOSTING SCHEME many fundamental changes been given a ride in the new 3 recent Club lost was that of an had a good example in the case of improvement of about £16.000 as acknowledge myself beaten f
model. during the first day of its show-8 h.p. air-cooled Rover. This a 40-50 hp. six-cylinder Napier of against 1922. After placing a An interesting and unforeseen incorporated in change in attitude on the part of Except in a few details we had ing. One distributor, who had was run continuously for three the post-war type designed a substantial amount to reserve,
hours on Brooklands Track at prospective buyers of Cadillac en entirely new engine. We had only a limited number of the forty miles per hour, the idea baero engine principles and owned this prot permitted payment of complex
by Mr. Lionel Repson. In two dividend of 10 per cert, with a 3 the detective stories). by the care was witnessed with the in-introduced the new car. with the new cars on hand at the time ofling of course, to test the car un-years this car has covered no less per cent. bonus. It is interesting fact that in the tests taken
things. the announcement. was forced by
the whole length of troduction of the new. Daniser We had amplified that slogan a the pressure of requests to limit in cause overheating. At the comparatively new type to prove have never received less than the test hill, the results accorded manager of distribution, of the few days later to Expect great first rides to once around a city end of the three hours acd with its durability in a remarkably this amount during any of the with what we shopid all expect...
things when you ride in a V63'. square.
past ten years. short period.
· Cadillac Motor Cer company.
That is to say, top speed on- very frank "The Chicago branth immedi-put stopping the car, the bottom "While we have always en-And there was a
gagement was very little use 25. gear was engaged and the car our ately after the announcement|
An interesting instance of dur- In the motor cycle industry sa braking medium, second speed couraged salesmen to demon- curiosity on the part of strate Cadillac "driving qualities, Cadillac owners and prospective found its original plans for de- was driven "all cut" over a dis strange as it may seem, prior to owners to know just what those monstrating the new car entirely tance of 234 miles, which was ability comes from Australia. A good example of prosperity is was distinctly useful, and the covered in sixteën minutes. Wolseley car sold to a Melbourne revealed by the balance sheet of first speed markedly more useful.” inadequate. To take care of the Even after this deliberate attempt motorist in 1909 averaged about Messrs. A. J. Stevens and Comp Why in the name of all that is the introduction of the V-63 a great things could be.
There was the operation of demand it organized what was to get the engine into an over-10,000 miles a year in private any of Wolverhampton, makers wonderful should these commone very considerable portion of
Cadillac Owner Week', heated and inefficient condition, service for two years and was of the famous A. J. S. machines. sense results be turned upside without a demonstration ride be-ed: and for many their first taking several additional cars the car was immediately driven then transferred to hire work. It The year's trading shows a profit down and inside out merely Cadillac owners purchased cars the new engine to be demonstrat called a
four-wheel from the showroom flours and from a standing start up the performed this exacting daty of over £22,000 and, after trans because the same tests are made. cause they were already familiar experience with Cadillac performance," states brakes. Many owners have since inviting every Cadillac owner to gradient of the Brooklands test for about nine years, covering an ferring £10,000 to reserve, son bill of normal gradient? commented upon the sense of come and enjoy a ride in the new bill, which is in part no less average of 20,000 miles per an- dividend of 123% per cent. per the second speed as efficient Mr. Dunivan.
than 1 in 4. The ascent wasnum. It was then transferred to annum was declared. The prices the first as an engine brake But following the V-63 an-security in the quiet action of the car.
So many expressed a desire made easily and without any in- Company owning a portable of A. J. S. machines have been medium? nouncement the situation was engine and the smoothness and
Very sorry, ladies and gentle. entirely changed, and every absolute sureness of the four- that they could not possibily he prospective owner was as to wheel brakes, stafing that it is accommodated during the first sixident and the test seems to have cinema outfit, by whom it is sull substantially, reduced and the
ossibility of producing an air-dynamo, picture machine increased by 25 per cent as "hand it over to you! I get into the car and experince en experience that cannot be days, and Cadillac Owner Wook ved quite conclusively the employed. Its job is to carry export trade of the Company has men, but I can't solve 130
was extended indefinitely."
light car which will con- and four people and, in addition, compared with the previous year. many minds there is wisdom." its riding qualities.
described.
with
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