HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT
SATURDAY, MARCH
HYDRAULIC FOUR-WHEEL BRAKES,
Firestone
The motoring public may be price-conscious to-day, but they are quality-conscious as well.
There is no competition which FIRESTONE GUN DIPPED CORDS at present prices. do not meet and beat. There are few, if any. car owners who do not openly prefer genuine quality at the right price. FIRESTONE users do secure extra mileage.
Most Miles
Per Dollar
DISTRIBUTORS: The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
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A TYPE FOR EVERY REQUIREMENT
TRUCKS
FOR HAULAGE
FROM
2 TO 6 TONS
For Passengers or Merchandise
BUSES
SPECIALLY DESIGNED FOR THE COLONY.
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THE BUICK MODEL "50"
LIMOUSINE SEDAN:
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Combining the qualities of a chauffeur-driven car with those of a closed car for family use, the Buick Limousine Sedan is a distinctive addition to the Buick line for 1924. It is another evidence of Buick's policy of furnishing a car for the majority of motoring needs.
The one-piece curved glass that separates the driving compart- ment from the tonneau can be lowered completely out of sight by simply turning a small handle on the back of the front seat.
The car is then converted into a Sedan for the use of the owner or members of the family.
Sole Agents
Hongkong and Kowloon Taxicab Co., Ltd.
Telephone No. 1036.
SIMPLIFIED DIAGRAM OF HYDRAULIC BRAKE ACTION, AS PRESENTED BY EDWARD S. JORDAN, AUTO. MANU FACTURER FOOT PEDAL "X" OPERATES ON MASTER CYLINDER "A" PRESSING NONFREEZING LIQUID (CASTOR OIL AND ALCOHOL) IN COPPER TUBING. "B" INTO IN- DIVIDUAL WHEEL CYLINDERS, "C" OPERATING SMALL LEVERS, "L". PULLING THE BRAKE BANDS AROUND EACH DREX
Four-wheel brakes -yes.
cannot be claimed for hydraulic
PUSH OR PULL ?
But, having generally accepted system. these as more or less necessary equipment on our automobiles, But there's also a difference of the controversy now turns to the opinion between the users of thei kind of brakes to be adopted. intemal expansion and the ex- There is the internal expansionĮternal contracting brakes. Be- tween users of cables from pedals
type.
The external contracting brake. Į to brakes, and those relying on The bydraulic brake.
rods connecting these parts.
The compressed air system. And, of late, the electrically- operated brake.
There are variations of these. such as a combination of internał and external types on one car. But these five contain the under- lying principles of brakes for all wheels, at the prent time and for some time to come.
OPINIONS VART. Engineers differ
over
|
The question, between the first two groups, is "Does the Push of internal brakes result in greater or less brakeage than the Pull of the external type ? **
And the argument between the cable and the rod advocates resolves itself into a difference between cable stretching and rod Tattling-
A NEWCOMER.
Compressed air brakes have the been spoken of for some time, but advantages of each type. The the difficulty with these has been engineer for a car using the theirexcessive frictional capacity. bydraulic brake will bring up the Air, powerful enough to stop a point that here, and here only, train, would have to be controlled can the driver be certain of much more Snely before it can be direct. positive, brake action. applied safely on comparatively That little foot pressure is need-light automobiles. ed in proportion to the amount of pressure put against the wheels, In Europe, the electric brake.) and that the durability of the under control of electro-magnetic | mechanism is almost limitless. action at each wheel, has made Yet advocates of the internal, its appearance recently. That and of the external friction types needs just the touch of a button; will come forward with the claim for their application. that here are the truer types of No information has yet reached brakes. That with these, the us as to how such brakes could friction on the front wheels can be controlled in varying degree. be adjusted to slightly less force Ferhaps a rheostat arrangement than that on the rear wheels, tofis included in the mechanism. present locking of the steering! Or perhaps, the system relies on: wheels. That if one-fourth of the direct and full application, at mechanism gets out of order, the short intervals, instead of slight) remaining three-fourths can still prolonged brakesge that can be be applied for brakeing-which applied on other systems.
BIG 1924 PRODUCTION. more than at the corresponding
Itime a year ago.
Ford Trying To Reach
10,000 Per Day.
TYRE FIRMS ALSO HOPEFUL. Still further strength is added to the prediction of greater pro- duction by reports that tyre; manufacturers are preparing for big year. Manufacturers say earnings will not approach those
Detroit, February 9-February appears to be bearing out the Joptimistic note sounded in the
motor industry the first of the of the
year.
first sir months of last year because of higher raw materials and Increasing employment is re-costs for ported with factories fully under lower prices for tyres, but way after the holidays and in- increasing consumption will war- ventories. New high production rant higher levels of output and schedules are planned. Super-redaction of costs. exhibitions of cars have been suc-i Word is being passed around cessful in New York, Detroit, that some manufacturers are con- Cleveland Chicago and Kansas sidering dropping open models City.
and concentrating on enclosed
TRIUMPH
1924 Model Motor Cycles.
Just Arrived
4 H.P. Triumphs Model S.D. equipped ready for the road with
Electric Magdyno Lighting · Set
Roller Chain Drive, 3 inch Tyes. Price:-H. K. $800.
SOLE AGENTS
Alex. Ross & Company,
(China) Ltd..
Bank of China Building. Duddell Street.
Telephone C. 2487.
Studebaker
LIGHT SIX FIVE-PASSENGER TOURING CAR
Price $2.700 Completely equipped. Colour. Green or Black. New Models Arrived.
Befor deciding on your car obtain "specification
And let us demonstrate a 6 cylinder Studebaker.—
The Worlds Greatest Light Weight Car.
ones to effect substantial Tel. 32 HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE- Tel. 32
TEN THOUSAND FORDS DAILY.
economies in manufactore. The Nothing. however, is more increasing demand for that type. indicative of conditions today was indicated at all the shows than the hum of activity in the this year. Closed models exceed- Ford plants where workmen ed open by about 2 to 1. Motor! recently began on a 7-day-a-show officials are predicting that week-schedule in preparation for they will in time almost displace the mammoth production planned the touring models and will sall by the company. Daily output cheaper, because higher produc will be worked up to 10,000 carstion means greater economy.. and trucks in February, an out- put almost 50 per cent. greater than the highest of 1933.
CLOSED CARS, 35 PER CENT. Production of closed cars in 1923 represented approximately Added to that is the statement 35 per cent. of the total, and there by E. R. Erskine, president of are many who expect to see that Studebaker company, that the increased to 50 per cent. in 1924. motor capacity of the United Ten years ago only fifteen cars States is now 5,600,000 cars out of every thousand were closed year
cars, and the bulk of them cost over $2,500. Now 350 out of every 1.000 built are closed, and increasing numbers are being priced at under $1,000.
Willys-Overland is expected to produce 23,000 cars in February and also in March. This will give production for the first quar- ter of the year approximately General Motors Corporation equal to one-third of the total for has expanded in Flint, Michigan, last year.
with the purchase of the Arm-
When, two of the largest pro-strong Spring Company.
duders are stepping up their out
put so early, there is every reasoZS
to believe that the nation's motor
capacity figures estimated by
An Improvised Vise.
Erskine will be almost reached A pipe cannot be hald very this year.
VI securely in the ordinary" type Employment gained here, large-bench vise, as th ly among motor car maqufac- | only a single line com turers: averaged 112,562 in the side of the pipe last three weeks of January. monkey-wrench, Several thousand were added by placed along the the opening of the new Jewett the effoot. plant, which got under way "KI JADE AT few days ago with production to wrenc average 500-cars daily Employ-Boun ment now is about fifty thousand adri
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