HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING SUPPLEMENT.
SATURDAY,
FAMOUS RACER.
A Millionaire's Hobby.
JUNE 21, 1924.
HARLEY DAVIDSON
731
"Even better than
my former Essex"
Advantages of both Hudson and the former Essex aro combined in the new Essex Couch.
And with finer body and a 6 cylinder motor, built on Hudson patents, its cost is much less than Essex closed enr comforts ever sold for
It continues the famous Essex 'qualities of performance, economy and reliability.
Steering is like guiding a bicycle. Gears shift easily Care of the car calls for little more than keeping it lubricated.
Its economy includes not only exceptional gas, oil and tire mileage, but, a policy of minimum inhintenance cost with Durts prices that will astonish you
ESSEX COACH
S-passenger Touring.
5-passenger Coach
52,375 .52,800
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Latest Mode an View at qershi Roam sud service atra. Come ad 500 Turm Wong N Ching Rd Hapy Vey
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The Famous
... Oozie al $930,
GARNER"
British-built
truck-chassis and passenger-bus.
**
CLIFF DURANT
The world's most expensive! Durant, like all sportsmon who racing car, a speed creation valu-drive racing cars for the thrill of jed at $25,000, was driven in the apood, doesn't worry nearly so International 500-mile race at much about the finish as many Indianapolis, recently, by R. C. other drivers. So long as his car "CHF" Durant, millionaire patron is fast enough to koop him up in of the grant gasoline sport, and front duolling with the loaders he Bon of the famous motor is satisflod. magnato.
During the past nine years. the younger, Durant has spent nearly a half million dollars on racing cars and racing paraphernalia. He has won numerous 'contests on the Pacific coast, his homo and stamping ground.
Durant also is an aviator, playa
a violin, cornet and saxophone, is regarded as a keen business ox- ocutive, and will make a tour to the South Sea Islands in his own, yacht immediately after the In- dianapolis race.
Ho trains as vigorously for Last year he led the furiously racing as a heavyweight fightor' paced Indianapolis race, which working out for a championship was won by Tommy Milton, for bout. Each day he boxes, works several laps, and whon leaping out in the gym, rides horseback, along to a flying record, his car on a bicycle-and practices on his broke down and he was 22 laps musical Instruments, as well as bohind the leaders before he could rides many practice laps on the get it rolling again.
spoodway.
FRONT BRAKES ONLY.ly bracked was
meritorlórious,
OPINION OF LEADING
FRENCH ENGINEERS,
all the moTO
The prime essentials of a brak- ing system are retardation without locking the wheels and adhesion between the tyres and the road. Properly designed brakes provent the former, especially if control- led by some such device as the
There has been a growing movement or the Continent particularly in France-towards abolishing altogether the fitting allot auto-regulator servomotor, of brakes acting directly on the while the natural "piling up rear wheels. Groator security, effect, duo to iomentum, brings it is claimed, results from having a greater portion of the chassis. brakes designed to act directly and body woight on to the front than is carried under! on the front wheels only, the tyres rotation of the rear wheels being normal running conditions, thus retarded by a brake taking effect causing grouter adhesion of the
differential.
.
through the cardan-shaft-and-front wheels. Meanwhile, of
course, the rear wheels are still driving the car, even though the
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MATCHLESS
IN NAME AND REPUTATION
THE MATCHLESS MOTOR CYCLE REPRESENTS THE LATEST AND BEST IN BRITISH MOTOR ENGINEERING
3 h. p. high efficiency Side valve engine.
5 h. p. Low Compression o.h.v. Single cylinder engine
8 h.p. J.A.P. latest type tour- ing side valve go" V twin touring engine.
All the above electrically equipped and complete with full kit of tools.
ORDERS NOW BEING BOOKED FOR --SECOND SHIPMENT.
That this is no wild breaking engine is rapidly, decelerating. Tel. 32 HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE Tel. 32
out of a theoretician without and go tend to keep the after part practical knowledge is shown
dinary models, while among rac- arriving on the 6th. July,
The S.S. "Telamon
a consignment of 2 of the famous will bring us
2-ton ** GARNER
truck-chassis, British-built equipped with pneumatic tyres,
and
Bus.
also
The S.S. “Glenshejl” arriving on the 24th. July, will also bring one 24-passenger British-built English pattern, complete with body and equipped with pneumatic tyres.
buying
see us about Before GARNER" truck-chassis and buses.
the
famous
SOLE AGENTS:
by the fact that some of the best-of the chassis following the path of the front whools. With well- known French manufacturore have adopted this system of designed front brakes a front- whool skid is never oxporioncod,
consideration off A further braking us standard for their or
little Importance in appreciable reduction waight which of unsprung at Brooklands was so oquipped.
can be effected. The immonso The eight-cylinder Chenard-brake drums--sometimes 22 in. Walckor, one of the biggest and or so in diameter on high-pow- most dignified French chassis, ored cars, and the shoes and hus no brakes
on the годг wheels, Nor have the 2-litra operating gear bolonging to them, Ballot or Bignan sold in this weigh a great deal, and their romoval will probably enable the back axle and whools without
init cars the 2-litre Bianchi which no
recently lowered certain records the
country.
Actual tests have proved that brake drums to differ in weight way as safe and as officient when equipped with brakes on the
braking on any surface is in avery but little from the front axle
the front whools only are used as whools.
when a checking offort is also applied to the rear whools. As
an instance of this, somo tests carried out on a Rolland-Filain
DON'T FORGET THAT--- on a greasy metalled road may ba
You can't afford to take of interest.
Horsot front-wheel brakes were chancos. There are too many fitted, the brakes. being removed others doing it for your own safo- bodily from the rear hubs, inity as matters stand. order to prevent their being ap Your car can seldom give you plied. Tho front whoele wore the thrills that any spoeding am- braked exclusively in each case. bulance stands ready to give you The first two tests on a slope of any time.
1 in 33 on a straight 'road-gave Motoring is as safe as you the following results At 25 imako it. m.ph. the car was pulled up in
LTD. 188.7 ima, while of 3714 mph Contrary to the old maxim
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courses
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ft. at o.p.h.
test was on a descent of 1 in 72, invariably what does burt him. with a curve of 163 ft. radius; the spood was just in excess of 401 m.p.h. The car pulled up in 68 ft.
3 ins.
The Rolls-Royce plantat Springfold, Mass., reports busi-
In each case the trends of the nose going strong, with the When the gas tank is starting to the next, pumo at a lower tyros, word clearly imprinted in works operating full time and The makers of Vauxhall cars bava a scheme to provide train to go dry and the tourist knows speed. There is an economical the road surface, pioving that the with a full fordo. The Boston ing
for engineering that he has to go five miles or so speed for all cars, and its usually wheels did not lock. There was no branch is reported as making a brake drums, and the passengers in recent months, and the pro- studente which should appeal to before finding a gas station ho, around fifteen to twenty miles an skidding very little heating of the particularly good sales showing
experienced... no folting when spoots in general are said to ber parents at home who desire to Invariably, attempts to solve his hour.
· NOT "ALL ROAD HOGS. The have their boys thoroughly train., problem by driving. fast. ed in any branch of automobile tank is, dangerously low. - We Don't confuse the road hog the brakes were applied. very good.
In addition, the cliasuls was out engineering. The firm is able to mast hurry, he says. And then with the-inexperienced driver, take inora boya up to the standard he stops on the gas. What he warns the American Automobile of truth, the rane shackle of the required for Class 2-that is, does is to use moro gas and run Association. Give the other fellow near-side front spring being 174 Maple, elm, ash and gum are Apprentious to be trained as fitters, a greater risk of being stranded the benefit of the doubt, le the ins, out of place, so that the per- the four principal woods used" în
formance of the car when viciene-¡ auto body construction. than if he would run the distance suggestión, machinists, bodymakem, etc.
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