HONGKONG TELEGRAPH MOTORING
THE BEAN "FOURTEEN"
Although introduced to the public only as recently as the Olympia Show of 1923, the BEAN "FOURTEEN"
is not in any sense an untried car.
Actually, two years of time and very nearly 200.000 miles of testing were spent in satisfy- ing the experts that it expressed to the high- est possible degree the ideals of the discriminat- ing Owner-driver. In its finally approved form, the Bean "Fourteen" is a British achievement of more than average interest.
WE SHALL BE PLEASED TO DEMONSTRATE THIS IDEALI FIVE-SEATER TO THOSE INTERESTED.
SOLE AGENTS:
HONGKONG & KOWLOON TAXICAB CO., LTD.
26, Queen's Road Central, Telephone No. C.1036.
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 acar the bend.
Most cars in Hongkong run on under inflated
tyrea 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.
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Lastly-buy MICHELIN tyres from us and follow the
above advice and tyre satisfaction is assured.
EUROPE-ASIA TRADING CO.
Telephone C.3438,
China Building, Ist Floor.
In planning your PICNICS or joy rides,
don't forget K. 226.
Our livery cars give satisfaction.
THE
DURO MOTOR CO.
NATHAN
V
ROAD
A good car merits a good, clean, roomy garage. Only a limited number of cars can now de accommodated.
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NOVICES AND NERVES.
PREVENTION BETTER THAN CURE. Boveral correspondents have latterly, addressed mo
motor writer at Home, regarding the question of," "nerves"—and the aubfoot is not an easy one to deal with from written data” and without knowledge of the person so affected. You'sco, the answer might vary from "try a little more! Hoda with it" to the suspension is Foll
shack wrong. Got absorbors fitted."
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But as the editor won't let ma open a room as a consulting norve specialist, Lwill try to do ittle general diagnosing of symptoms and offor a few gener al prascriptions. You can, of course, forward your guinean just as though there wore a consult- ing room,
The first point is aro tho nervous difficulties portinent to. motoring only, or are they notice. able at other times? If they noticeable at other times, but accentuated by motoring, the caso is differont from associated with motoring only.
ATO
norvos
AIN AT AUTOMATICITY. And then, of course, there are many types of norvas the typo known to the naturally nervous [driver: "jumpy norves"; and ill offoots-auch as sleeplessness- after a drive, Wo will deal with them separately, knowing before- hand that suggestions in ono case may also apply in another.
The person who is just norvous when driving will usually improve with more extended oxperience, Go easily and with abnormal caro until absolutely, accustomed to the car so that any desired move ment of lover or pedal has become automatio.
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BY MOTOR BOAT ACROSS ATLANTIC.
The motor boat "Carrie," 12 foot long with a three-foot beam, and bullt entirely of stool, in which Wm. Oldham Its designer, of Warrington, England, will seek to cross the Atlantic Ocean in 40 days. Ho planned such a trip several years ago but was forbidden to start by the Mayor of Liverpool.
FRENCH IDEAS FOLLOWED.
ENGLISH EXHIBITION SHOWS INFLUENCE. Akoon observer of motor dar matters in England during and following the recent Olympia Show in London ta forced, to the conclusion that our automobille hovo seen tho
If you have to be thinking out as you go along what you will manufactured have to do in any given circum- wisdom and necessity of adopting stances which may arise you many of the mechanical idoan are bound to be a norvous driver, which the French makers hove If any measure of that mental endorsed so onthusiastically and effort is your unhappy lot, the courageously, writes C. S. Bise in only way to care it is so to drive" Vanity Fair." In this, we do not that nothing suddon can be differ matorlally from America. are unquestionably aprung on you"; that is to say! Both of us with extreme caution and avoid-coming to the universal use of ing congested areas so far as four-wheel brakes. The Olympla paracticablo. You must try and Show revealed that twonty of bavo fol- cultivato "that comfortable fool our manufacturers
lowed the lead of France ing." THE IMPORTANCE OF COMFORT. and have installed four-wheel ond or all of their The ideal to aim at is fooling os brakon on comfortable and as "at home" models. Included in this list are when driving, as you do in your manufacturers of some of the old favourite armchair. The first os-est and most expensive English sential on the road to that ideal cars, among which might be men- is to be comfortable in the tioned Rolls-Royce. Lanchester, driving seat and when I say com- Daimler, Croseley, Vauxhall and fortable I mean it to apply from Sunbeam.
TESTED BY GOVERNMENT.
Engineers of the American Bureau of Standards rooontly put a car through all sorts of tásṛe to find ways for improvement and to check up on new inventions, new mathods and other now ideas. This is one of the test cars used by the bureau. It is rigged up with instruments for measuring wind resistance, fuel consumption, oll use, and other details of motoring...
CLEANING OF SPARK PLUG.
The
all angles: physical comfort, The Olympia show was in- good vision, easy reach of con-finitely more an international trols, and so on.
exposition than the Paris Salon. Some of those "knutty" cars One was struck by the groat nam-
with sandpapar or a file, se this (occasionally knuttassed)-inber of comploto cara displayed as Tho proper way to clean spark makes it more likely than before
acoumulato "oarbon. which the driver lolla back and compared with bare chassis. The plugs is take them apart and get to looks through the spaces be-larger becomes the clrole of au-all the black, carbonized oil ant points should be brightened with owners, the smaller dirt away from the junction of emory cloth and the rest of the tween the arms of the steering tombilo wheel are an unwarranted ad- becomes the proportion of me-metal and porcelain. The por plug trasted with gasoline and a
loclain must not be roughened brush. ditional danger to the road-and chanically-minded enthusiasts. should be prohibited.
Another interosting feature of Coming to the question of motoring in England has been "jumpy nerves," you need not the first goneral introduction to consider yourself nervous be the public of balloon or comfort CAURO your heart jumps into tyros. The impetus for this grow- your mouth if a child suddenly ing movement, both in England runs in front of tho car and and France, has, unquestionably, Causos a serious emergency. So come from America, although the long as you do the right thing Michelin Company is making the instantly-you are not nervous grostost strides in the matter on moroly on account of that the Continent. Just now, in Eng- peculiar foeling.
land, balloon tyres are the sub- of controversy among And if you suffer from lack offject stoop and your hands and arms motoriste. If they accomplish have a vibrating or all of a what their makera claim, their dither," fonling after driving, as future is assured. All prices are though you were still on a down. humpy road-it is probable that
the car is not what it ought to be
EIGHT CYLINDER ENGINES.
from the standpoint of good Eight-cylinder engines seem to Buspension and easy stooring.be losing ground in England. unless you are "nervy" in or Whlo four cylinder engines far dinary non-motoring circum- outnumbor all others, the small stances. If things aro all as they six-cylinder machine is making| #hould be, motoring should make considerable progress, supplo you sleep better.
GASOLINE MAY BE RED.
monting the largo sizes already on the market.. I am a little eur- prised that the small six is not in greater evidence, and can only attribute it to the desire to keep prices as low as possible for the greatest output.
The U. S. bureau of mines has surgeated to oil refinere to colour Kasoline rod, to guard its, being;
What must strike Amoricana mistaken for water. koroнone or
as curious and apparently - other colourless liquid products businesslike, is the wide range of A study of the hazards of this models of various powers offered fuel resulted in this suggestion." by, Individual manufactures. The Daimler and the Birminghar
REMOVAL OF CARBON.
A saraper party-knife, or an old Small Arms Company, which are case-knife are the heat tooir to use financially related and combined. for removing car or in the eslin-are the largest producers of leave ders. If the head ta nit remov, valve engines in England, if not in Europe, between them market able-have-the-o-rbon-removod.by.
fifty-seven different model
·Dallant use. the oxven proof**
Lanchister han * added h wood alcohol. "kero-eur, or any other liquid or solid chemical, ameller model to the already They all do more harm than well-known 40 h.p, type, namely, gchd. "If oxygen is used, have the 21 hp. six-cylinder, machine volves ground as soon as the car with overhead valves and front bon is hurned out, The dorreot wheel gear box and right ba d
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DOES YOUR CAR SUFFER
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from
INDIGESTION?
"HETHER your engine stutters and lis
· down on you occasion lly, or whether the case correctly and effect a cure.
Our staff of expert mer hanics takes just as much Interest in your car as would, ilie medicos if you personally were laid up for Repairs,
adjustment of tappete is quite as controle, in place of the eployolic THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO. LTD.
important in the case of a new car gears which have been a famous
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Expert and Jonstant European Superviston..
Jas with one that has seen devoral feature of every model this bis Telephone 0.8950. A. J. Allison, Service Manager.
seasons of corvice...
toric firm bas produced.
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