HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
HOW TO GET GOOD SERVICE FROM
MICHELIN TYRES
Keep tyres pumped up to correct pressure for the load they have to carry, We can tell you 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 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 actión 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.
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With the advent of the NERACAR" and clean two-wheeled transporta- tion, the host 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 Beclivo.
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. Winterscalo, D.S.O.
Capt. L. F. Sloane Stanley.
Professor E. Emrys-Roberts,
Dr. J. F. Broom, M.B.E.
Dr. E. H. Felton, M.B.E.
The Rov, F. W. Hassard Short, M,A.C., T.A..
and many others too numerous to mention.
Har Grace the Duchess of Mal-
borough.
The Marchioness of Headfort. The Lady Jonu Wontworth Fitz
william.
The Lady Donatia Wentworth
Fitzwilliam.
The Lady Mary Stuart Worlloy, The Lady St. Germans.
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suné driving without speeding.
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DE SOUSA & CO., Sole Agents for South' China.
2nd. Floor, St. George's Building.
Tel. No. Central 1284.
*be3-141-1«l-
Oldsmobile
Price $2.500 fully equipped fueludiog,
Die Wheels, Spare Cord Tyra & Tube, Double-Bar Bumper.
The Oldsmobile Poor Oylinder Five Passenger Touring Car now selin at
price heretofore unknown in ita olanı, soppartually that you cannot afford to overlook,
CARROLL & CO.
It offers you buying
Telephone Dentral 401.
Distributore.
SATURDAY, MAY 10, 1924.
FUNNEL AS GARAGE.
The historic smokestack of the U.S.S. "Maino"-of Spanish War fame, has been made into a gorago. `It la in Philadelphia and it holds two cars.
USE YOUR EYES.
PREVIOUS RECORDS
BROKEN.
DODGE BROTHERS DIG
OUTPUT.
BEARING BUSHINGS.
NOW MADE INTER- CHANGEABLE.
An'automobile engine's orank- shaft is of hard metal, with its surfacos ground and polishod to a vary smooth finish, and it runs in bearings busted with rotativoly. vory soft babbitt motal with tho result that tho wear upon the shaft itaolf is oxooodingly slight, 80 that, its boaring portions rotain
their dimensions practically unaltered, ovon after very long uso. It is thỏ soft hablt boaring bushings which suffer most of the wour and in timo dovolop looseness.". Thoso bushings are made in. halves, which are held together, around the shaft, by a bolted oap. Bo- tweon the halvan of oach bushing is a sorica of very thin metal shoots or shims and by removing one or more of those the halves of the bushing can be drawn!
THORNYCROFT CUP..
together more closely and any Abovo wa raòproduce a photo- looseness which may have dovol-igraph of the Thornycroft Cup opod, between the shaft and the watch has boon donated by the babitt surfaces, can thus be 'ro-wall-known motor frm of "that moved and a proporly tight 'ad-lname fora competition regarding Justment again socured; but this the best kopt Thornycroft Lorry le in practice a vory fussy job in sorvics in this Colony. requiring much of a moshanio's
A MOTORING DUTY: As the athleto trains his or hor musclos, so must the motorist train his or her oyes; if you do
Since December 1st, Dodge costly time. With labour coste as As was recently announced by not, you will never be the com- Brothers dealers have consistont-high as they now are, bearings the Garage Department of the plote motorist" in the full Safety ly broken all previous records for adjustable by means of shims are Hongkong and Shanghai Hotels, First interpretation of the idol, delivery of cars to customers. becoming obsolete and their plece Ltd., who *TO local agenta saya & Home writer. Wo do not Matorially increased factory is being taken by inadjustablo, for Thornycrofts, tho cup want to get into too deep waters capacity and unusual demand for shimless bearing bushings of will bo awarded to the on this question but I think I shall carry the House with me in this porformance possible.
their now line of cars has mado dimensions standardized to the owner of the bost kept and shaft with which they are to be conditioned Thornycroft lorry in saying that all accidents and
In Dacombor, January and used so that instead of having the Colony, whilst the sum of closo shuvos" are primarily
February retail deliveries to main and connecting-rod bearings $100 will be given to the driver of govornod by two factors-Timo
customers were 32 por cont. in tightened up, when excessive woar the vehicle. The idea behind the and Spoed. I think wo can pass excess of any similar quartor in has taken place, the worn bearings presentation is the encourage- that without a division, n'est-ce the history of the business. are removed and discarded and ment of owners and Chinese Following this, retail deliveries new ones, of standard crankshaft drivers to take a pride in looking WHAT 30 M.UI. MEANS,
for the first two weeks in March giza are substituted for them, after their vehicles, and the Haying passed the rubicon, we have boon over 4,000 each wook, with considerable saving. Injawarding of such a handsome cup may now turn the waters of de-which is the first time this figuro labour cost. Another rouson for and so substantial a sum of ductive logic on to these twin has been reached ab early in the this innovation, lies in the in-money should do mugh winners and study their inter-
yoar. Each work's deliveries creased use of high pressure encourago thoughtful up-keep Telationship and as oach is establishes a now high record. lubrication, with oil distribution and careful driving.
7 primary dimension" in our par-
Factory production in Docom- from the main bearings through ticular case, we can loavo, friend hor, January and February total channels drilled in the crank. The date and particulars of the ed 54,521, 25 per cont. greater shaft, to the connecting-rod competition. will be announced Wo want the greatest dimon than the same months of last bearings. This system, raquiros later. sion in the art of reducing accid-|
year, which was Dodge Brothers for Its Ruccossful operation ents. We have accepted as a poak for those months. Daily freedom from oil escape between promise that Time and Speed are production in March is averaging the bearings and the bearing the primary factors. Most motor virtually nine hundred cars per portions of the shaft, where oil ists have a fairly shrewd idea of!
pas ?
Einstein alone."
¡day.
enters the distribution channels
to
Balloon tyres are not being the importance of the spoed The constantly climbing deli-and the presence of hard metal made as fast in the States as tho factor. Lot mo try and teach you!
vory records, coupled with shine, batween the halves of the spring supply will demand. An the oven greater importance of increasing production, lead Dodge bushings
tonds to increase important causo is the lack of the time factor.
Brothers to believe that the first leakage, while with shimless agreement of manufacturers to Let us then get those twin six months of 1924 will total by bushings the intended flow of oil standardize on sizes and methods sinoors down to a lowest com- far the greatest six months in is rendered much more positive. of manufacture. mon denominator or something the history of their business.
But
akin thoroto. You know what a apood of 30 m.p.h. is like: do you know (you don't) that it moans your car travels 44 foot each second?
With all the forensic force of silent speech, do please lot mol inpress that fact on your mind;| 30 m.p.h. equals 4ift. per second. VITAL FRACTIONS OF TIME. Even when we set out our twin dimensjons in that simple guise, it makes you sit up and gay. Does it, really? I should nover hayo thought it.'
**
But, please, do think it-and think it hard. And now, think again. That last accident or narrow squeak of yours? If thoro, had been another 6ft to sparo it would have been quite all right ch?
I thought so and that is pro- cisely whore the vital incidonco of the Time factor onters into all these matters. You must train to watch Time as well as Spood.
The 6ft. that would have spelt;
a comfortable degree of safety, instead of an accident or a close) shave, are reprosented in Timo: (at 30 m.p.h.) by the ono-soventh part of one second.
Therefore, you must so train your eyes that they know whore to look for and how to save not meraly seconds, but, literally, fractions of a second. Your eyes must act on the Offensive-not moroly on the Defensive. EYES MUST TAKE THE OFFENSIVE. Just pop in the car with me for a short run. Hore wo are at a merry (and thoroughly resson- able) 30 m.p.h. Soo that blind Wo are informed that recently corner on the loft in front? Do a record day's output of cars, you notice how already 100 yards viz. 175, was delivered, the wook- before we got to, it, my eyes are ly production now having roach- Searching it?.
OUTPUT OF MORRIS CARS.
od 800 cars, while tho. factory is I've still got a porfootly keen ahead of its schedule of 35,000 straight ahead vision, but I'm cars for the your
Boarching that corner actively, not dofonsively. If a car is com- "Modernists will porhaps dis-ing out, I shall know before half cover that the Garden of Eden of the bonnet has passed from the hiddon stage to the visible stage, scandal was really caused by an
But if I wan-only using my oil lease in-Mosopotamia."
oyes defensively, probably three- quarters of the car-possibly the "John D. Rockefeller, junr., whole of It would have to pass says love is the greatest thing in the blind edge of the corner bo- the moro bulk of the the world, but it is John's good fore luck that fond words alone novor obstruotion Forced my attention. And I should. (assuming that kept a motor going.".
car to be coming at a reasonably slow spood from a minor road)
In 1910, Now York motor buses have Lost Half a, Bócond of oarried 6,500,000 passengers. Time--which, to our car, moans Bloven years later the busos bad |22ft, of distance in which to have rison by 610 per cent, in popul- started emergency aotivity if it arity, when they carried 51,000,- In nooded. 1000 passengers.
I hope you've got that point i
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Comfort, Safety And Long Mileage
Ο
NE reason why more and more motor- ists turn every year to Firestone. Cord tyres is the comfort which the live, buoyant body of the tyre provides.
Another is the sense of security which comes from the staunch resistance of the cross and square tread against skidding.
Comfort and security are definite Firestone advantages, added, always, to the economy of
Most Miles per Dollar
Firestone
The DRAGON MOTOR CAR Co., Ltd.
26 Nathan Road, Kowloon
24 Des Vœux Road, Hongkong...
Kowloon 226. Central 482,
Show Room & Service Station (Happy Valley. Central 8950,
(A full range of Motor Car and Motor Cycle Tyres and Tubes carried at each of the above addresses.)