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1924 MODELS IN STOCK FOR IMMEDIATE DELIVERY. SHEWAN TOMES & CO. Sole Agents, Tel. C. 781,
THE FAMOUS B.S.A.
B.S.A.
MOTOR CYCLES, generally admitted to bo the finest value-for-monoy machines now on the market, have met with a greater demand than over this toason.
The rango has been extended, detail inprovements have boon incorporated on all models, and the B.S.A. reputation for service and reliability has been greatly enhanced by the results of reliability trials, and the experiences of thousands of private owners, during the part season in the British Tales, on the Continent, and in every part of the world where motor cycling is in yogue.
We shall be pleased to show you models of these famous machines.
Prices from $475.00
Take the lift to the 4th. floor.
SINCERE'S
Sole Agents for the famous B.S.A. Cycles.
The driver of this wrecked car thought he could boat the train to the crossing. He falled like hundreds of others. The picture shows what was left after the collision.
ADJUST THE CARBURETOR.
GETTING MOST OUT OF
THE FUEL.
The best way to get most out of your motor fuel is-adjust the carburator.
Aftor caroful experimentation,
CRANKCASE OIL MUST BE CHANGED OFTEN.
FUELS CAUSE RAPID DILUTION OF ENGINE OIL.
It seems safe to say that not: more than 5 per cent of the automobile enginos in daily use are properly lubricated.
to
A
In which soveral inds of fuol With the prorent low grado wore used with and without the gasolino, crank case oil dilution aid of a "pro-heater" for the air, is a very soriaus matter
The gasoline of the U. S. Bureau of Mines has combat. decided that the simple expedient decade ago was very voluble and of adjusting the carburetor pro-vaporizad easily.
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Specifications and Prices HONGKONG HOTEL GARAGE
perly is the best and easiest way a portion of it is vaporized, the IF NOT A THORNYCROFT-BUY AN ENTIRELY BRITISH LORRY,
to Kot maximum power and rest retaining in liquid form in officioncy from the fuel.
the combustion chamber Under
That this little pointor is of compression, the liquid is forced great importance to the averago by. the platon rings into the motorist is shown by the fact that engine base, whore It no dilutes 30 per cent. of the heat value of the oil as to make it almost the gasoline is wasted by incom-useless as a lubricant in a very ploto combustion.
(short time.
PART TIME USE.
Tosts on this subjact were mado An authority оп gasoline in Pittsburg recently with differ-engine lubrication says that a ont fuels and undor avorage light engine oil will stand on motoring conditions. The idea more than 2 per cent, dilution be- of a pro-heater for air was given fore it reaches the danger zone, a thorough test after which the unlike a medium oll, which will experimenters decided the pre- Joarry 8 por cont. dilution before it heators was useful only with, becomes uselose as & perfect gasoline that mixes best with lubricant. pro-hoated
In cold weather due to the uso air, during cold weather especially or during the of s richer mixture," and the first half hour or so of running. frequent use of the engine primar,
coupled with the tendency of The pre-heater usod in the ex-many drivers to use a lightor oil porimonta was of the kind that in the winter than in the summer, surrounds thó oxhaust pipe so and numerous other conditions, that the oxhaust gasos heat the thin danger zone is reached in a air bofore it enters the carburetor, remarkably short period of run- It was found however, that pro-ning. The same authority pinces- hoated air could be useful at the complete change of enzina low throttle openings or at start-il at 650 milea a summer and 153 You can ing, while the continued flow of miles less in winter this warm air at ligner speed therefore rasi y decide whether after the engine and cool wyour engine is being properly ter and horn warmed up incioased lavicato hther you beling in the fuel mixturo in rich nose, the 5 per cent class or the 93 per
cent. class mentored
In fact, tho tests in Pittsburg showed a 5 per cent inereaza in milenge when the pre-heater was not used.
FOR INVENTORS,
Engine oil is much cheaper than new engine parts and their in-tulation so decide at once, and issue instructions accordingly-
If a pre-loater could be dechango your engine oil, wash out vised which can be tur ad on or off yeur engine bare to remove at will, so that warm air could be every trace supplied only when needed, thinot device might become of botter with oil.
with
of Kasoline, kerosene, but Do this as advised than the kind, propovec by engineers and avoid excE SKIVO nowadays. It is a now idea for engine wear and necessity for! automotivo inventors.
new pistons and rings and rehor-
Use
The experiments also indicated ing of your cyclinders. If your that the carburetor should be re-ongino is worn, have the conditioni adjusted when a change is made corrected, start over and give the from one kind of fuel to another,eagino a chance. especial y to a b. nzol solution, or an anti-carbon-knock
*UTO. Otherwize the mixture may be come a httle river and therefore lower the mileage of the fuel.
The sugestion is made thera fore that the callureter should! be ret slightly leaner whon such a change is made.
A FAKED PICTURE.
C.4758-Car Hire Service For Hongkong.
C,4759-For Motor Showroom, THE HONGKONG & SHANGHAI HOTELS LTD.
SPECIAL DODGE BROTHERS Motor Cars
IN FOUR TYPES,
Four special typos bavo recently been addad to Dodge' Brothora standard line of motor cars→→
A Touring Car, a 'Roadster, a Type-A Sodan, and a 4-Passenger Coupe.
These typos have boon created for that substantial group of motorists who favor individuality in motor car appointment and design.
In fundamental construction they are identical with Dodge Brothers standard product. Their accentuated smartness, however, is strikingly obvious in many elaborations of equipment and refinements of detail. Special 6-ply, bailon-typo tyres. nickel-trimmed radiator ahel on touring car and roadster (optional on closed types) front and rear bumoors, motometer with lock, special blue leather upholstery (for touring car and roadster special body striping, roar view mirror, automatic windshield wiper, scuff platos, cowl lights and steel disa wheels constitute tha more important items of special equinment.---
THE DRAGON MOTOR CAR CO., LTD.
Telephone Central 3950. 33, Wong Nei Chung Road
Happy Valley.
$2,730
.$2,790.
.84,115-
.84,140...
3-passenger special roadster... S-passenger speci‹ touring 4-passenger spec al coupe S-passcoger special "A" sedan
This five-passenger special tyre Dodge Brothers, Touring Car was given an actual road test in Hongkong- th⋅ result baing 73-3 4 miles on one Imperial gallon of Texaco gasoline.
"Yessir-I Know Just Who Can Doctor Up Poor Little Flivver.
"and I know that when the DRAGON MOTOR CAR COMPANY cures a car's aches and pains that car stays cured.
"Another reason why I'm going there is because i won't have to hock the family jewels to pay a big repair bill.
The up-to-date equipment gets the job done quick and saves ine money.
The Dragon Motor Car Co., Ltd.
Eppeot and Constant European Supervision. Telephone Central 3950, A. J. Allison, Service Manager.
This is a faked ploture, but it is being circulated in the Blater to impreso on motorists the slogan “Stop, Look and Listen"
BALLOON SNUBBERS.
BAIATOR LORE.
Shubbers and other surms of Nover put anything in tho Some of NawYork'n., NEZÜ shookes absorbers are being de water to check a look in the signed for use with balloon tyres, radiator. When losks are small The rolling, ar galloping action, an emergency repair can be made It is paid, is eliminated by the use by applying comment around the of these accereDTA.
core on the outside,
When an owner goes into the shop for service, Ee aspects some thing besides paying bie bill.
Good battery service, rendered systematically, makes good bat- terlen better batterice."
TAX HATE LOWERED." have now lowered their faros 10 cents a half mile. This ik drop, within a few date, from cents for the first mile indz cunts for each Buddeeiling tiles
A valve that will a through the valve, guld. own weight la' £68 tigBis