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THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH. SATURDAY, the 14th. Janë, 1924
-(Being the Official Organ of the tiongkong Automobile Association).
MOTORING AT
WEMBLEY.
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placed a Motor Car on the public TRACKING TROUBLE. Fond with an internal combustion made under ficonse from Daim- lor.
THE MECHANICAL INSTINCT.
Shall We say, then, that Progress Made Manifest.. motoring really started so com-
paratively in recent times as One of the greatest assots for The age-old Euster hymn 1891. And is not the Develop maintaining a car in good con- R nowmont as witnessed at Wombley dition is the possession of o Those in the vicinity of the already effected sales. We notice resounds to-day with Kowloon Ferry wharf between that at Wembley, where the meaning. For today is the an epoch-making achievement mechanical instinct, says a Homo Hae: Dies to which all thosó That historic car was of 44 writer. Unfortunately but faw five and six o'clock on Tuesday Matchloss makers are exhibiting, evening-last were interested to the latest models are not in the who have boon making the Wom.p., had open change-speed gear motorists are possessed of this arabley Exhibition have looked mechanism (exposed to mud and subtie gift of nature. What is NUO the Capt. Superintendent of familar khaki-green, but Police (the Hon. Mr. E. D. C. Wolfe) enamelled in black-tanks as woll forward during many months of grit !), but in all its essential the next bost thing to do?
The "noxt bost is to try to engaged in inspecting a number of relieved by gold lines and, in arduous work, ways a writer at principles it stands good as the
survice one case, a green panel. Black Home, on the opening day. And
day. Of a truth it had an somewhat of a Hiborniciem in so on Kowloon Itends. An antiroly is undoubtedly more serviceable, of notable worth in this wondrous protoyne of the motor-car of to-cultivate that instinct which is new type of bus was among those at the Matchless colour was, Exhibition of Empire Achieve automatic inlet valve-but the many words, but quite feasible the Harley-Davidson or ment is the stagings of so much practice of to-day is morely (partially at any rate) in practice, insppoted. this hoing a large like
that is criterional of British
development. It had tube! And it is not merely in regard vehicle capable of, carrying 3 Triumph, a thing to know it by.
motoring development -alike at ignition--the magneto of to-day to knowing when anything is ap- passengers. The body has boen
Dominions,
was looked at askance when preaching the going wrong' locally built to the order of the
The increasingly large number one and in our. Kai Tack Motor Bus Company of well-to-do Chinese in Hong-specifically, of course, renitive first suggested to replace the stage that the cultivation of
tubo to motor production, Canada, Dennis kong
low tension mechanical instinct is useful. It bocoming aro and is mounted an
who
It is a day, then, upon which
It had obtain ignition a big enthusiastic motor car
final aids you in the correct handling chassis, and represonts
owners
UHor on some of the car and that measure of advance on the present type of testifies to the growing popular we may suitably forgo our norm-drive-still
CATS and many com- When a subjects allied with practical fow his Woll mounted with big ity of motoring here.
humouring" which overy chassis pneumatic tyres and having com-Chinesa invest in a car it is usual motoring matters, and delve for mereint vehicles. Oh, Motor His-appreciates on occasion. Though fortable seating accommodation, for
Is Wondrous you may find it hard to credit, it them to purchase large the nonce into the realm of that tory, thy name
is none the loss a fact that a the bus is, like the big Whits bus and luxurious looking vehiclas, History and Romance which is Achievement !
be so dim in the past by a com- of the Kowloon Motor Bus Coin and
And in this land of ours, "girt motor-car will always show ap- truthfully can
by the silvor soa"? Can you preciation of knowledgeable pany, more of the pattern one said that the majority of the parative basis, yot so close to the
appreciate that a mere 20 years handling. impox to н00 running on Our higher priced American cars in presont in the more numbering of
Do you hear that little squeak Kowloon roads. Given a regular Hongkong are owned by Chinowe. years. But there has been more or so ago I, and all other motor
making itself mervice of such vehicles, Kow- And the Chinese are bringing a scientific and mechanical da-ists of the Good Old Days, drove that keeps on loon's communications and traffic touch of colour into motoring. velopment in the past 25 years anywhere and everywhere know- manifest? I wonder whether its problem would be much nearer In place of the old fashioned than in the preceding 250 years. ing not the protection of a hood a spigot bearing or a universal If not to-day, you shall anon go or the comfort of a windscreen joint running dry. (which would Solved than at present. The pro-white or uni-coloured sat and
And you shall Had I boon a-writing Motor be damaging) or. merely sunt Ford buses, excellent though back
covors, gaily coloured to Wombley. the engines and chassis may be cretonnes, as flamboyant as the 800 there a magnificunt display Articles" in diebus illis" I would a spring clip-which would not demonstrated the need for are being used. And it must be achieve in
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and however wall they may have most ostentatious would desire, of all that this our Empira can havo instructed you how to put bo damaging ?.
automobile pro on your fur or sheepskin cost. I To queerios such as theso-80
riticism. Kowloon
White is
rainy day.
mochanical in-
motor bus service, are not of the confessed that the affact is fur duction. You shall marvel at would have given you a Minuto often puzzling to the average Lypo desired. The bodies are not from unpleasant. In our own the beauty of llue. An you know
in which to wrap your coat stinct will giva;an answer in- ation is far from ideal and the eretonne or chintz chair covers, mechanicst excellence of that around you and marry its folds stantaneously and with unerring uitable, the seating accommod- homes wo are mostly used to onough, you shall revel in the Explanation of the precies way motorist-the service generally in open to so why not use something similar which is arrayed for your into the waterproof rug, 80 ss to procision,
0 As a consequence, the squeak Д noods
to cover the seats of our motor spection. And so it please you, avoid puddles of water on
whloh is of a damaging nature horoughly co-ordinated sorvies Cars?
notoriously you shall travel back space with f better class vehicles, and it is troublesomno so far as keep me in mental picturing to the
HINTS AND TIPS OF VESTER- immediately receives attention.
YEAR.
The one which will do no harm to be hoped that the Companios ing it in clean condition is days when this vast industry
And on a wet day thoro was if left for a wook-can be left for operating-at-present will be concorned; darker plain covers was born to the days when all induced to invest in them: do not look particularly attrac that is commonplace-to-day in Export Art in rising from your a wook.
tive; the use of a reasonable motoring perfection, was cast in driving seat so that the water did Thora are different types of While on the subject of Kow-pattern meets both objections. If the shadows of early dawn imnot gain-entrance to your innor squeaks-to say nothing of Pip! loon, it is pleasing to note that a wo want to make our cars look perfection, frailty, and lack of Traffic policeman has again beon attractive there's legitimate scope posted on the cornor of Nathon in covore, and colour in covers is and Salisbury Roads. This is a much to be preferred to a lurid, busy spot and with busos proceed- dazzling or offending coloured ing to Yaumati and Kowloon car itself.
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City whilst othors are arriving from both places, it is essential that thero should be control and direction. All rickshas going to the. forry uso. this cornor, and the wonder is that there have not been more accidents. A traffic inan ought to be on duty through-
ut the whole day..
GREATER SALES RECORD.
6,576 DODGE CARS IN A WEEK.
reliability.
900mA
more
raiment. And I would have and Wilfred-and the motorist Given you Tips as to how you who takes an intelligent interest THE BEGINNING OF THINGS. should stand your oushions sojin the mechanical welfare of the Who shall say when motoring that they received the miningum chassis should learn to differen- Not I, for one. The wetting from the rains of Heaven, tiato ono from the other. started? question is too difficult to decide, and an article on How to Arrange If a squeak changes Its notes
to become for first we must have un- your Cap and Puckor Your Eyes and animity of thought as to what "gainst the evils of a driving rain. agonised at each stridont repeti- "motoring" really is. Does it You would also have wanted yat tion, that is the type that demands include the early stoam-drivon other tips "How to Light the immediate attention. If you are road carriages which jogged their Burners of the Tubos in a How-versed in the languago of squeaks weary way along British roade a ling Wind"-vorily an art of you will bear it ory from its in- contury agons? Probably not. much difficulty. And you would normost heart, "For Heaven's That was hardly "motoring" have boon instructed "How to sako give me a drink-a doable, within the moaning of the Act. Wield the Hammar and Chinolj oil for proference,"
Shall wo allocato the in the Raplacing of a Tyro"- When you hear that agonised For the third successivo wook birth of motoring to the first and, perchance, "The Toll-tales ory lot all the humanity of your From the Dragon Company we Dodge Brothers dealers have Heat" engine, or, as wo more Slap-flap of the Tyre that is soul surge to the aid of the squeak in distress. It will speak Its Have recalved several interesting broken all previous retail delivery commonly call it to-day, the Coming Off."
Internal Combustion Engine? I They were and instructive pamphlets dealing records.
wondrous days, gratitudo with a silent tonguo, with the "Bointilla" magnoton During the week ending April think that is probably nearer the those glorious days of old. Thore and give you a useful discount One of those enumerates the 5th, 5,694 cars were delivered to mark. And it was only in 1884 was Achievement in driving on your wear and tear running suprising number of successes of purchasors. This was more than that Herr Gottlieb Daimler pro- car 25 years ago. When, with costs.
wook's business in
cars fitted with this magneto in 100 in excess of the greatest duced a small high-speed engine aglow with that glorious Achieve If, on the other hand, the recent trials in various parts of previous the world. It is claimed by the Dodge Brothers history. This on the "Hoat" principle, which mont I hied me to the Old King's squeak remains normal in tone manufacturers that the entirely record, however, was of brief was the forerunner, the "make Head at Coventry and said to mine and volume, it is of the non- different principle of design and duration, as the very next week possible" of the motor industry, host, "I've come from Leaming- dangerous typo, and may be
au wo know it to-day."
Lon without a stop," the 'Godiva treated with rathor less construction embodied in the saw the delivery of 6,106 cars at This engino was really a high-folks-mostly Doubted mysidoration."
But a squeak's a squeak, for a' "Scintilla" creates the finest retail. ignition syetoni onginooring And now it is disclosed by spoed gas engine-gas boing the Veracity: for Leamington is Eight science has over produced. It official figures from the factory fuel in the earliest experiments Miles away. And if reiterated that, and, on general principles would certainly appear from the that the wook ending April 19th but Daimler made it run so fast, roitoration should convince my and for your own comfort, it is results of many trials, that this sots still another and much and with such a compression hearers, then had the flagon to well to silence" ite, slanderous dovan't look after the car propor assertion has boon amply sub-greater record, with 6,576 delivratio, that the beat generated on flow-twas a Festal Day of tongue. It maya, "This driver
was Motoring Achievement. the compression stroke stantiated. The Dragon Company ories to customers.
Bat, perchance, I weary you|ly "—and I'm sure that's a Albel has received stocks and will be In nolther case do those figures sufficient to causo self-ignition.
But at that time he was work-with this Fecundity of Motoring on sil Daily Chronicle, motorists. pleased to show this Intent include care delivered to pur-ing on principles first invented by Anecdote? I must turn off the tap. It ought to be anyhow. product to those interested. chasers in foreign countries.
And so to Wembley-to viow a Frenchman-Lenasiand 'do-
But try to learn to recognise The consistency with which veloped by another Gorman the Motor Cars of Present-day the real mechanical squeak. Dodge Brothors businoas 001- Otto-from whoso gonius we Achievement, with, assuredly. At first you must tinues to mount is cited by the universally adopted just one kindly thought for the observation. In two you will
past-tho Automobilo dovolop instigative knowledge, factory officials as an indication Cycle of Operations to which his historic of the public'e widespread and
Ashos of years recent, yot dim with the Changes of Youthful Ago, emphatio, endorsement of the
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The following buvo joined the Hongkong Automobile Associo- tion since we published the last list:-
Uo Sai-ling
Harry Way
F. E. d'Almada Remedios
M. E. Meunilor
name is attached.
Lua Long-pho
William Galloway
Whits or red autos aro barred
now
The Hongkong Hotel garage!
koon
unusual value in the now line of MODERN CAR'S PROTOTYPE. Dodge Brothers motor cars. Woek! But we may almost say that'
GERMANS ADMITTED.. aftor wook and month after month, the History of Motoring is of
Gorman and other former since the quantity production oven less remote period than that, was attained on the now types, as it was not until 1889 that from the streets of Rio de Janeiro, onamy, drivers will be permitted records bavo beon Daimler had made a controll- except thong belonging to the to enter this year's Italian Grand ostablished..
able" ongino of the type one ofty. The rosson is city anbul Prix 500, mile race to be run on Evory wook in this period has with two cylinders and red-hot anoon, are white and fire depart the Monza track near Milan. has recolved another consign exceeded in volume of business platinum. tube ignition, and not ment cars are rad. Traffic pollen Sept. 7, Last year's race was won mont of the well-known Matchless the corresponding work of any until 1891 that the famous French can easily distinguish these and by Flata Jimaly Murphy came in
third on a Millor, he's motor oyoles this wook and has previous year.
enginoord, Panliard and Levassor, give them clearance.
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CHECKING WEIGHT OF TRUCKS.
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JHIS AS STAHDARK
Illinois special motor cycle police aro kooping trucks from breaking up the highways unduly. Their side cars contain two scales used to weigh trucks and if the truck weighs more than it should, the excess in unloaded and the driver is forced to make two trips.
FIRE FIGHTING IN, BOSTON.
This motor cycle firo apparatus, now being tried out in Boston's narrow and crooked streets, is designed to save minutos when they count most. The outfit carrica 300 foot of chemical bone, fire extingulshors, hose guns, axes, rakes and brooms,
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