HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
-བ་ཅིན་ རཱ་
HOW TO GET GOOD SERVICE FROM
MICHELIN TYRES
Keep tyres pumped up to correct pressure for
the load they have to carry.
what this should be.
We can tell you
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 eventually 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, Iat 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 Prominent among English users are the comfortable means of transportation.
following:
The Earl of Haddington M. C. ·
The Earl of Bective.
The Earl Fitzwilliam, K.C.V.O.
Cal. E. V. North. CM.G, D.S.0.
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.
Dr. J. P. Broom, M.B.E.
Dr. EL H. Felton. M.B.E.
The Rev. F. W. Hassard 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 Wortley- The Lady St. Germans.
100 to 115 miles per gallon of gas. 35 miles per hour. This means safe,
sane 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.
SATURDAY, MARCH
OBSERVING DANGER - SIGNALS.
Tribute to the Motor Fraternity.
CROSSING CASUALTY
FAIR ENOUGH
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CHICAGO-Ninety-seven per-servation obviously careless
In thirteen states, the care-sa rent of the na.len's automobilists reckless. use reasonable care in approaching 3 percent numbered 7,566 car driv raitway grade crossings, according ers who by their failure to ober to Richard E. Kropf, supreme re-signals or slow down, pot unly gent of the Royal Arcanum, who je pardized their own lives. b: Speeding over cra their cars. cited figures compiled by one of the the lives of all the scenpants of great railway systems in an ad-ings was the chief fault found by the inspectors. Railroad compan-
in dress on safety here.
pro- "Grade crossings anatally exact les bare done their part ghastly toll of motorists, yet enviding proper markings and in of trains ST. ber using the crossings are cars in advance. less or reckless," said Mr. Kropf. grade crossing fatality, it is the Most of blam who as head of the safety move motorist who is to mn of the Royal Arca am them might be
the members The Royal Arcanum, numbering preaching castian of the 1330 councils of that order: 125. members, has taken a de in the United States and Canada inite stand in the movement to selected conserve life through the preven "Careful hecking of crossings during June. July and tion of accidents in all walks of August of last year, when trame is life. This is a public as well as always heaviest, found only 3 per a fraternal duty" the supreme re- cent of all the motorists under cbgent stated.
ly a small part of the total num- signalling the apptically" every
Touring Cars
Sedans Runabouts
and
Tractors
in stock.
1924
LONGEVITY AND. LUBRICATION.
BIG MUTOR BUYER.
Australia in one of America's best customers in the automotive
"Making the Car Lastfeld. In 1983 the country bought more than 23,000,000' worth of Longer
cars and parts from the United Although the modern car is States.About one out of every not a delicate organism, as were three makes of American cars a its predecessors of really only may be found in Australia. very few years ago, it will still respond handsomely to reason- able care. Nathing is more foolish than to "tinker" continually and uncecessarily with a car that is behaving as well as possible. Too
WIND RESISTANCE.
Riding at 30 miles an hour, a
many owners make the mistake touring car with the top up meats of thinking that to get the best an additional wind resistance of out of their cars they must always 157 pounds, even with the air be "tuning up" or doing some calm. Engineers discovered this on testing the riding qualities of thing to them.
As a matter of fact, superfluous car with the top up and the "tinkering" is probably respon- top down. sible for half the roadside troubles! that are encountered. The other! half is due to negleri!
IMPORTANCE OF LUBRICATION.
· Of the care that the average car requires in the garage about 90] per cent. may be resolved into terms of grease. Look after all] the working parts, keep them well but not excessively lubri- cated, and trouble at the road-i side apart from tyre troubles, ¡ will be unknown.
Think of the cars on the roads) with
binding brakes; in the
SAFETY FIRST.
A good driver never makes either a steering movement, or brake sp
The plication suddenly. more gradually you do each, the better for the safety of the road.
majority of cases this trouble is gear-box the fault is overcome, traceable not to faulty adjust but there is no reason why it tent but to lack of lubricant in should be present in the separate the brake-operating mechanism, construction design.
so that when misguided owner thinks he has released his brakes he has really done nothing but relax them.
Summer
THE CARE OF TYRES. There is a more or less erron-. eous but fairly widespread idea time tyres in that PARTS THAT ARE NEGLECTED.
Transmission details are often need to be less inflated than winter because the high awkward to get at, and so they in get neglected. It is largely the temperature of both roads and fault of the manufacturer or his atmosphere cause the air in the to expand and so the designer for incorporating on his tube
car parts that require attention tyres that may have been under in positions where it cannot inflated at the start of a man soon acquire an adequate pressure for readily be given to them.
Engines and gear-boxes are the loads they have to carry.
This is true in very hot weather. iseldom overlooked, but back'
axles are frequently starved, but it should be remembered that while the clutch withdrawal the friction between the tyres and mechanism is the most abused the 1oad is enormously creased part of the whole chassis. by inadequate inflation of the every former, in addition to a milar incorporate the increase in internal friction is clutch withdrawal device in the the tyre itself. Too hard tyres gearbox where it cannot escape are neither efficient nor comfort- lubrication In cars that haveable, but the other extreme must- unit construction for engine and be avoided.
Why does manufacturer
not
Fall stock of spares. carried at Service Station, -Austin and
Nathan Roads, Kowloon.
Fordson
HAVING
THE UNIVERSAL TRACTOR
[AVING shown what the "FORDSON" Tractor could do
in Pulling Stone Rollers and Repairing Roads
NEXT
WEEK
COME AND SEE IT OPERATE THE
TAYLOR GREYHOUND FORDSON TRACTOR SAW MILL
AT MONG-KOK.
Oldsmobile
The Oldsmobile Four Cylinder Five Passenger Touring Car now sells at a price heretofore unknown in its class. It offers you a buying opportunity that you cannot afford to overlook.
CARROLL & CO.
Telephone Central 8491.
DistributorsṀ
SMALL STOCK CAR TRIAL.
a
Preliminary details are nounced by the Royal Autom- obile Club of a six days' trial for small stock cars that it is pro- posed to hold about the middle of May next Cars will be limited to a total cylinder capacity of 1,600 cc., and will be tested over six daily routes of about 160
from miles out-and-home centre. It is intended that the records of the trial shall include
answers
possible to every question that a purchaser might wish to ask. Points that will be noted are Speed, hill clim bing, fuel consumption, reliabi lity, cost of any spares and labour required in case of failure, “pick-up," and comfort.
Where IT WILL SAW all the timber flooring etc., for one of the finest mansions in the new territories.
DON'T ORDER until you see it at work, and then place your order with the Authorised Dealer for the above equipment
ANDREW HARPER