Tempa
MOTORING
SUPPLEMENT
OF
THE HONGKONG TELEGRAPH.
SATURDAY, 10th. January, 1975,
Being the Oficial Orgun of the Hongkong Automobile Association).-
croase.
LOCAL MOTOR NOTES & NEWS
than at present. The wet season will soon be with us and some thing ought to be done before
14 H.P. WOLSELEY.
A LOCAL CRITIQUE.
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COASTING DANGERS.
MOTOR PROVERBS,
FLIVVER TURNS ΤΟ LUMBERING.
WHAT HAPPENS WHEN THROTTLE IS CLOSED,
The following provorbs for
Those who are watching the
The resistance of the onging motorists, parodied from the growing popularity of British should be used to help the braken original maxina by an enthusias- cara in Hongkong. will when an automobile is descending tic motor owner at Home, ara not be interostod to road the steep grades, but the ignition only amusing but have also a following article, written by a should not be shut off when so local mo or expert, regarding one going, declares Ernest C. Garland, of the latest arrivals-the 14 h.p. tochnical inanager of the Cadillac Wolseley. The writer says
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cortain educative value and will we think, be of some intorest to our readers.
"It's a poor car that won't run fast down hill."
You can turn the crank with the switch off, but you can't make it go."
It's not cars that weigh the most that give most m. p. g.
Be nover in baste at a band.”
The time is not far distant when there will be 1,500 motor vehicles licensed in this Colony. The latest number platos to be then.
"A manufacturer has reached hoi issued by the Traffic Department
Using the motor for braking
*Safety is the best policy," pinnacle of success when the name purposes has becom recognized ara well into the fourteen-
Mossrs. Alex. Ross and Co. of his car has acquired a world-by engineers as correct procedure, "Sparo the brakes and save the hundreds and, according to a Traffic Department official, the are fortunate, in boing able to wide prestige, and there is some- and the application of the practice tyron." rate of registration is on the in-andle the latest product of the thing extremely satisfying in is not limited to automobiles. On "Tis bottor to have spare oil
Indian Motor Cycle Co., the being the owner of a Not only does this apply Indian Prince. It is a new model, which everybody knows. Messra. Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Pank all,"
Car nelectrically driven trans of the lamps than never to get home at to passenger vehicles but more especially to the commercial typo made specially for the overseas Wolseled havo have bad long ex- Railroad, for exampl na down "Fine adjustments mikę fino of motor-truck, lorries, etc. trade and conforms very closely perience in the manufacture andrades the motor is so used for results."
to the host designing practicedasigning of cars and have gained braking. In this caso, it hus an Many building contractors are
of English single cylinder a reputation for the durability added advantage that tho now inaking use of lorries for the conveyance of materials, whilst light weights (a tribute, incident of their products.
motor becomes a dynamɔ, and the the Government is also widely ally, to British designers). The
"The 14 h.p. Wolseley which I power absorbed is transformed adopting the motor method of specification is extremely attract-
was enabled to test in a trip into electricity and put back into ivo-three-speed goar, automatic | transportation. Certain it is that lubrication, handle-bár controlled around the island, through the the line. motoring in all forms is due to Velutch, all-chain drive, electrin Courtesy of its owner, givos Ono
In using the automobile engino lighting and many other desirable feeling of confidence immediately. features. The cycle is one which This is due to the fact that the the faster the engine is driven in on taking over the driver's seat.for braking, it should be clear that A welenmo innovation regard-should gain instant popularity,
stuoring wheel and controls are relation to the speed of the car, ing the motor bas eorvicos in
well. placed in relation to the greater will be the resistance Kowloon is the illuminated routo
the driver's Neat.
Although offered. On gradual dowa grad numbers now in 186. It was
tho car had dono about the resistance offered by the always a difficult matter to dis tinguish the destination signe on the buses, even though a
pro- spective passungor was only a few yards ahead of an on-coming The nnnboring system is u bus. much bettor one and, as, the
increase here on a large scalo.
BODYWORK FINISH,
A REALLY NEEDED
REFORM.
Lindoubtedly the most urgently
LEAVE IGNITION - ON.
thrill of
AUTO REMAINS STILL USEFUL IN LUMBERING
far as the car is concerned, is wholly a matter of ongino control. There is always Achievement in taking a difficult Proof of a life after death. at1 It's a romnant from the old 6000 miles, the selector mo-ongine when the transmission is ill in high." Sometimes this is least in the world of mechanice, brassbound radiator days. Now chanism gripped the selector rod in high gear, or direct drive, may mark of good driving; somos offered the remains of an old
flivver now in use in the cadar it is mounted on a turntable on times otherwise.
Н Thord is so woll that some little effort was be sufficient. Ca stoopor grados it
top of a log truck and is comm required to get out of goar. is best to shift into intermediate tendency among American driv swamps of North Carolina.
The flivver has long ko i abanttod that it can be geared to the avoid shifting goars. to But one soon gets accustomed gear before beginning the descent, ers
drivora, who shift doned as useless for motoring. to this and the gear change On very steep mountain grades, European
what we would call Still, set up on tracks, it-or its rear or front axle of the truck, is found to be remarkably on which one shouli pracoed gears on
pull. to understand this American a the forests,
public get familiar with it, there reunired roform to-day is the eary; so easy, in fact, that thore slowly, it is ad visable to shift even the slightest protoxt, find it hard hantom-is bauling ioga, out of according to which way it is to
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Owners of B.S.A. motor cycles
will be interested to learn that
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will be a great saving of useless introduction of a more service- is no excuse if the driver (even into low gear. stopping on account of an intendable mothod of painting or finish-an unskilled one) makes a noise
In asing the engine to assist titudo. ing passouger stopping theing car body work. Couchmakers in changing goar. The steering the brakes, it is natural to think Some of the highest grade mul
THEY MAY CRY FOR IT.
for auto ongines with koon wrong bus. Thore is only one in the past havo not boon able to is excellent, being comfortable i will help still further to switch tiple-cylinder ongines have A
Lanticipation. But straight castor drawback to the system, roalise that an automobile is un handle
to
and with
can duo off the ignition. This should not great roservo power and
ol has its disadvantages for рал 800 entirely different proposition from
amount of castor actiun to be done, Garland says, Even oxort an enormous amount of it
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commercial genius engines that do not operato and that is that the wrong a grand piano. It has to go out return the wheel without offort when the throttle is "closed," without detriment. Even in some devised a way to comps the world constantly at top hout. Tho number is quite often being used. and take the buffetings of the
anough fuel in siml ted to the of the lighter ors, in which thore to actually cry for castor oil that moorist has known this and liko After turning a corner. Several times has been elements, and is subject to all the
it
The suspension is goou and,[cylinders to drive the engine is a favourite power to weight it detestod, so has the automotiva the youngster who weakens at noticed that a bus proceeding carolossness of treatment inovi- сл the rough road down to t
speed of
300 ratio, good results are also ob- weld now concoc ad a blend of the very mention of castor oil, about proceeding through Hunghom to table with a motor car in constant Shoko when doing about 25 rovolutions per minuto. If this fained. However, in places whore castor oil with mineral oil that he steere cloor. It remained for Kowloon City bears the No. 1 sign,service. And yet a really good miles рог hour. the body fuel is not burned, it oon-deep sand, mud or stoop up will enable the car awnor to sonie.one to work out a Castoria whereas a bus with that numbor car has a finish on which more
moved scareoly
under the donses in the cylinder wall and grades make excessive domanda enjoy the advantages of castor of tho crankcaso-something, ought not to be off the Kow-care and expense has been lavish-repeated blows. Of course, therewashes off the oil by which the upon any engine driven in high oil as મ lubricant without that would have all the virtues loon Forry-Shanshuipo route od than is received by a priceless is side play, but this does not pistons are lubricated. At the gear, waiting too long, and al- its disadvantages when taken of the ideal lubricant, but with Buses must use the right number, piece of furniture, designed to affect the comfort of passengers same time, the power developed lowing the car to lose its momen-straight. Car owners who have certain allowances for the failure else the value of the schome goos stand for over cloistered in an or driver. In traflio, the car is by the burning of this small tum before shifting gears may been privileged to rida bahind of the straight oil to adjust itself entirely by the board.
avenly heated, dust and damp easy to handle, doing its work on amount of fuel is "insignificant make it necessary to resort to engines that were slopping around to the automobile engine. Now proof drawing-room.
top gear easily. It is fitted with compared with the power absorb low will learn these two lessons in straight castor oil have soon it has boon dong. Now, who Thore scoms no sonso in it. Yota Solox carburettor which is od
about driving in hilly regiona, touch wonders of performance as knows-bafore, long grown-up the coachmakers are not entirely standard equipment, and tho Switching off the ignition when use the engine for breaking, pur-to "await the day of the com- motoriste, like babies, may be the local agents, Messrs. Sincero to blame. Such a ory goes up acceleration is, therefore, good. coasting, with the car driving the ponce, but not to turn off the mercial possibides of castor oil orying for it. and Co., lavo, during the past from the averago car buyer if his "Up to 30 miles an hour the engine, does not appreciably in-switob, and sense the moment at work, 1000ived a telegram from vobiolo is not delivered in this engine is quiet and smooth. The crease the realstanco, and is at which to shift into lower gears Home, recording the remarkable wonderful, yot delicato, state of critical engine speed is at 32 most suro to have injurious, when climbing, they will be re- succoss of B.R.A, cycles ontored in finish that no car maker dares to miles an hour but this is oasily results, even though the throttle warded by better bruking service tho Styrian Winter Rollability take liberties with tho spit and passod at 34 miles par may be "closed."
with fower brake adjustments,| Trials. The cable records that polish tradition. The irony hour. Boing beyond 30
and longer, life with bottor per- nino B.8 A. cycles started and of tho fact that fivo or miles
por hour the crilical nine finished without the loss of a tan pounds' worth of damage engine speed is rarely folt by the mark. The team gained two may be done by tho care-driver, except for bursts of speed. special awards for morit. Such less scraping of a spannar over The engine has plenty of power,' a record as this proves the ro-an object that is built to stand doing an average of 40 milos overa liability of the mount. Messrs. the racket of travelling at fifty mile stretch with a slight give Sincere have now received a now miles an hour over the worst of and take on the road on account of shipment of the 1925 2 hp roads without the least trouble is inclino. All hills, with the excep.i models, and the price at which not yet fully appreciated. they are boing offored is ex- tremely attractive.
Exporimments are being made, however, in many quartors, and The Brat motor cars to arrive just now considerable intaront is
with boing aroused › Hongkong hydraulic brakes have just boon pyroxolin
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fitted
woro
tion of Pokfulum and Gardon Road, wero successfully taken on top gear and, with the ignition, lover at one-third advance, the car seemed porfoot on hills. When' by the
descending hills, the braking or nitro-cellulose received by the Hongkong and paints. This seems to be a move power of the engine was good,
two brakes Shanghai Hotels Motor Garage knows of the surface hardness also extremely effective. The
in the right directon. Every one whilst the the models being tho latont turned out by the Studo- and comparativo toughness of car is fitted with a B. L. 1. C. baker manufacturers. Not gelluloid, and can realise that if magneto and Luoas lighting sot.
"The Doachwork in woll done' only in the matter of brakes the gonghwork of a car could be
and tho sitting position of covered all over with celluloid or!
the back xylonite sheet of fairly sub-passengers stantial gauge, we should have seat is very comfortable. The
really practical finish at last.
but in many .other ways the cars are improved and are well worthy of inspection by all who contemplate the purchase of
a now gar
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all-weather hood with curtains and roar wind soreon go The difficulties, of course, ariso to make up a very smart and in connection with the application sporty looking car. I had one The work of resurfacing the of such a process, and the present fault to find with the side curtain: Pokfulum Road just past the Un-experiments aro in the direction sooing that it can be made moro ivorsity proceeds but slowly, of overcoming thoso diloulties or loss fixture to the front There is no stretch of roadway by using a form of celluloid as doors it should not have boon in the Colony which is in the base of a paint, which is made of celluloid, which lends worse condition than that prayed over the car in a normal itsoif to' danblouration. which oxtende from
the nanner.
thin shoot of simplix glass might| pumping station, near the Univer Perhaps, therefore, we are. In easily have takon ka place.
ity, to the top of the first riso, sight of the and of the days when A very fine set of tools la; and although work on retaining the flatsh of our motor cars in supplied with the cat and "ind walls is silliio band, some greator rather more delicate than the handbos of instrbotiba for th endeavour should be made to get artificial peach bloom on the owner-driver is "vory full "any 4hla. In a better siste of repair face of a fading beauty... Foamprolentives out of (*
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MATTER OF ENGINE CONTROL.
In climbing hills, good driving, formance from the ongino,
fano thought she was spesific when tie advertised. for the "handsome young man who witnessed" the motor accident at Fifth Avenue and Broadway.'
SHELL for reliability
and reserve power
'VEN with a faultless
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ignition, the modern. high-compression engine. pinka on acceleration — when driven by an inferior spirit.
Shell Motor Spirit
, owing to its high percentage of aromatic hydrocarbons eliminates that alight knock- ing sound termed “pinking"
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